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Cake day: June 5th, 2025

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  • Tldr: they don’t know the official reason, the article is just speculation. But they think it was an error, it wasn’t intended againt telegram

    OFAC published a Recent Actions entry dated July 13, 2026, the same day the serverHold status appeared, titled “Cyber-related Designations; Cuba Designations; Issuance of Cuba-related Frequently Asked Question.” […] Buried in that same entity list is the actual connection: FIRST VPN SERVICE, also known as 1VPNS or FVPNS, a Dnipro-based operation OFAC designated under the CYBER4 program. The SDN entry lists its identifying infrastructure, including several standalone websites (1vpns.com, 1vpns.net, 1vpns.org, 1jabber.com) and one more entry alongside them: an alternate website listed as t.me/FirstVPNService. […] To be clear about where the evidence stops: OFAC’s own filing does not mention t.me, the serverHold status, or Telegram at all. Nobody at Treasury, Identity Digital, doMEn, or Telegram has confirmed this is the actual trigger.





  • I don’t see why it’s a mistake. People simplify stuff, and those who care about such things (mostly us) will know the difference. If I explain what is mastodon to regular people, I just say “a twitter clone”. People don’t care about how this things work under the hood, it’s just a minute detail.












  • It’s an HDR image, so not exactly how you see it, the blue is exaggerated, but it’s there actually. Similar photo from nasa, with explanation:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250325.html

    What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week’s lunar eclipse, however – taken from Norman, Oklahoma (USA) – has been digitally processed to exaggerate the colors. The gray color on the upper right of the top lunar image is the Moon’s natural color, directly illuminated by sunlight. The lower parts of the Moon on all three images are not directly lit by the Sun since it is being eclipsed – it is in the Earth’s shadow. It is faintly lit, though, by sunlight that has passed deep through Earth’s atmosphere. This part of the Moon is red – and called a blood Moon – for the same reason that Earth’s sunsets are red: because air scatters away more blue light than red. The unusual purple-blue band visible on the upper right of the top and middle images is different – its color is augmented by sunlight that has passed high through Earth’s atmosphere, where red light is better absorbed by ozone than blue.