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boud

@boud@framapiaf.org

cosmologiste; en faveur de l'accès ouvert au savoir et des prises de décisions publiques structurées, libres et informées

#LogicielLibre #FreeSoftware #Debian #Mobian #cosmology #OpenScience #HumanRights (#fedi22)

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boud, to random
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Per the #NewYorkTimes:

What's another word for a war crime, a crime against humanity or an act of genocide?

  • "an excessively harsh response" [1]

What do you call an arrest warrant for war crimes/crimes against humanity/genocide?

  • "a humbling moral rebuke" [1]

Why should you be bothered by an arrest warrant against you for war crimes/crimes ag. humanity/genocide? Because it:

  • "can pose obstacles to travel" [1]

#Newspeak #NYTspeak #EuphemismsForWarCrimes

[1] https://archive.today/2024.04.29-192408/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/world/middleeast/netanyahu-icc-arrest-warrants-israel-hamas.html

boud,
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For a list of excessively harsh responses that "have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907", see [2].

"Excessively harsh responses were formally defined as crimes during international trials such as the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials, in which Austrian, German and Japanese leaders were prosecuted for excessively harsh responses which were committed during World War II." [2]

NYT authors will have to fix Wikipedia.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_crimes

simon, to random
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I find the etiquette of Calendly (and other appointment booking things) really interesting

I've heard some people are offended by the suggestion that they use that to book a slot rather than doing a back-and-forth to find the right time for both parties

I see it as respectful of my time when someone suggests Calendly rather than having us back-and-forth over several cycles

I'd love to understand this dynamic more

boud,
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@asolove

I don't understand "Calendly itself is neutral". It seems to be non-FOSS hosted on servers that are not community controlled, so mostly likely are non-GDPR-compliant. How can non-FOSS be neutral?

I wouldn't see someone requiring me to use non-FOSS as being respectful. The power dynamic seems to be "give power to a non-transparent undemocratic corporation".

The current community recommendations are Framadate, Cryptpad, and Nextcloud polls [1].

@simon

[1] https://switching.software/replace/doodle

EU_Commission, to random
@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu avatar

Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

We are working on a solution to ensure our continued presence on your feeds, taking full advantage of Mastodon's identity portability.

And we are even growing the team behind our Mastodon presence, increasing efforts to engage with your comments on our posts.

We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse.

Interested in our next steps? Follow us as we take on this new chapter.

boud,
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@darnell

This is a side issue, but when there's a conversation between a human and a media team of humans, it's interesting to at least get some feeling for who might be "hiding" in the team. In the case of @EU_Commission my guess is the people here tagged 'social media':

https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/contact/press-services/press-contacts/commissions-spokespersons-service_en

are the team behind the @. The profile itself says nothing specific about who manages the messages, how their content is decided (e.g. on an internal wiki, on a cryptpad, or on a git repository).

boud,
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@EU_Commission Please clarify that by "Fediverse" your team means the Fediverse itself and that you do not mean Meta/FB's "Threads".

It is unacceptable for the EU Commission to provide support for Meta/FB's role in hate speech [1] [2], its role in the #RohingyaGenocide [3][4] and its role in the #TigrayGenocide [5][6].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/technology/facebook-india-misinformation.html

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-local-partners-say-hate-speech-stays-on-the-platform-2023-4

[3] https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/facebook-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya

[4] https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

[5] https://archive.today/2023.11.16-132321/https://www.amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ethiopia-metas-failures-contributed-to-abuses-against-tigrayan-community-during-conflict-in-northern-ethiopia

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20230105140852/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-meta-accused-in-lawsuit-of-allowing-posts-that-inflamed-ethiopia

boud, to Israel
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It seems like the #Israeli government has made a decision [1] to pervert the course of justice [2] and to involve some European governments in the perversion of the course of justice: according to Channel 12 the Israeli government aims to prevent the #InternationalCriminalCourt from issuing warrants against Netanyahu and others on war crimes charges [1].

#PervertingTheCourseOfJustice
#ICCPalestine

[1] https://archive.today/2024.04.24-220516/https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-office-hosts-emergency-talks-on-feared-icc-warrants-for-pm-ministers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverting_the_course_of_justice

timnitGebru, to random
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It is truly heartbreaking to hear what is happening to the Eritrean refugees who protested in Germany. They escape unimaginable horror only to face repression at their destination for which they had to give up everything and endure horrible torture to get to. Then you have various German police collaborating with Eritrean regime agents to target these people. People on whom investigations have been opened have their family reunification plans halted.

boud,
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@timnitGebru

For followers of this thread who know little about Eritrea, the TL;DR is "Eritrea is the North Korea of Africa".

More in-depth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Concern_Eritrea

https://hrc-eritrea.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awate

https://awate.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Eritrea

downey, to microsoft
@downey@floss.social avatar

:microsoft: ➡️ :matrix: It's a Big Freaking Deal when we can move any organization away from .

The system-wide IT shop UNICC has announced its move to :

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security

boud,
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@furbyonsteroids @downey

Mostly sounds very positive!

But:

"... these organizations have replaced all their email ... with the Element app ... Element to secure our communications with partners, replacing email, ... "

Unless Element is running an email server for UNICC, that sounds like UNICC will try to convince UN staff/volunteers to stop using email. If they're currently using MS Outlook, that's understandable, but better would be to also get secure email e.g. .

EU_Commission, to random
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We are a Union of 27 countries and 450 million people sharing one future.

Diversity is what defines, unites us.
Diversity is also what makes us love the Fediverse.

As we mark two years on Mastodon, thank you for enlivening the conversation with insightful comments and content.

Love does not increase after the first day, but it deepens.

Let's make this journey even more engaging!

What topics did you like the most and would like to see more often 👇

boud,
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@Nickname @mihira

I do not see any link to the Fediverse on https://commission.europa.eu/index_en , including in the "More share options" pop-up.

I do see a link to "Mastodon" at

https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/social-media-channels_en

@EU_Commission If you really want to convince us of your deepening love for us and your engagement, then please place a link to your Fediverse account in a much more prominent position.

Giving more publicity to hate-speech-supporting social networks than to the Fediverse is hate, not love.

ZekuZelalem, to random
@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social avatar

Ethiopian government Facebook troll farm exposed.

Today, the BBC published a long form investigation in Amharic that I hope is made available in English for non Ethiopian audiences soon.

A 3 month investigation revealed that Ethiopian ruling party institutions have swarmed Facebook with inauthentic pro government accounts which like, comment and share content favorable to the party, and spread disinformation and hate speech that targets opponents.

https://www.bbc.com/amharic/articles/cp6gnd20675o

boud,
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@ZekuZelalem

An English version of that would be useful. Some other media attention such as from #AddisStandard @tsedale would be good.

Currently

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Misinformation

is missing an entry for Ethiopia.

libreleah, to random
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Fun fact: countries have the right to retaliate when they are attacked by a foreign state or to otherwise defend themselves from attack.

People everywhere deserve the right to life, happiness and civil liberty. Being alive and healthy is a prerequisite to that.

Your government has the moral authority to provide the strongest possible deterrent to attack/invasion.

Ukraine, Palestine and Iran all have the right to respond to attacks on their sovereignty. But our media says the latter two don't.

boud,
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@libreleah

Which international treaty [1] gives a state the right of revenge (retaliation)?

That sounds like a myth to me, not a fact.

Revenge is not defence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_humanitarian_law

boud, to random
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Seems like #DeathSquad s in #Ethiopia are nothing terribly new, but the "good" thing about #KoreeNageenyaa is that Reuters did an investigation [1] and the #EthiopianHumanRightsCommission reacted quickly to it, and it seems to have become part of public debate in Ethiopia [2][3].

[1] http://archive.today/2024.04.15-195351/https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ethiopia-violence-committee

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koree_Nageenyaa

[3] https://addisstandard.com/news-reuters-investigation-reveals-secretive-security-committee-tasked-with-crushing-dissent-in-oromia-region

ZekuZelalem, to random
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BATTLE FOR THE HORN:
Just here to provide some updates on the geopolitical skirmishing that has involved a number of major players in a race for control and influence of Somalia's coastal frontiers off the Gulf of Aden...which borders the Red Sea and the lucrative Bab El Mandeb strait. That strait has a huge impact on global oil shipments, and has been explored as a possible Israel weapons delivery portal.

boud,
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@ZekuZelalem
@guenther

Great overview!

ZekuZelalem, to random
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Loved watching Christiane Amanpour growing up. But she got this all wrong. Brutal erasure to say that there are no independent journos in Gaza (because 🇵🇸 journalists apparently can't be independent).

The Middle East Eye (this clip is their's btw) & Al Jazeera have award winning teams in Gaza composed of locals closer to the story than any westerner could be. But go ahead & waltz into Gaza, claim to be the eyes/ears of the world while totally lost without the Palestinian fixers flanking you.

video/mp4

boud,
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@ZekuZelalem @msquebanh

"They" don't count?

Funny that one of "them" is now the Rector of Glasgow University [1]. But is he "us" or "them"?

As for "unprecedented", glad to know that "our" journalists were on-site after 28/29 November 2020 in Axum when Eritrean forces massacred 300 to 800 civilians [2]. See [3][4][5][6] for "our" CNN/BBC extensive reports from early Dec 2020 on this crime against humanity.

[1] https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/dr-ghassan-abu-sittah-tomorrow-is-a-palestinian-day/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axum_massacre#Reporting_and_evidence

[3] ?

[4] ?

[5] ?

[6] ?

stfn, to random Polish
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Bezpieczny zestaw do aborcji zamówisz na http://womenhelp.org

Jeśli potrzebujesz wsparcia zadzwoń na nr #aborcjabezgranic
222 922 597, 7 dni w tygodniu, 8-20

boud,
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@stfn

Context for people not following the Polish return to democracy:

  • #KatarzynaKotula is the Minister for Equality [1]

  • four abortion-legalisation-related bills (law proposals) started debate in the Polish parliament today [2]

  • abortion in Poland overview [3]

  • Kotula gave instructions today in parliament and on the birdsite how to use #mifepristone + #misoprostol

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarzyna_Kotula

[2] https://oko.press/co-wynika-z-debaty-o-aborcji-w-sejmie

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Poland

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifepristone

Winston_Churchill, to random French

«La majorité de cette masse humaine[…] est constituée d'une armada de travailleurs anonymes éclatée à travers le monde, du Venezuela à Madagascar en passant par des camps de réfugiés au Liban et des prisons finlandaises. Des petites mains qui construisent le futur clic après clic, souvent dans un secret et une précarité bien gardés.»

Derrière le boom des intelligences artificielles génératives, le travail caché des petites mains de l'IA https://www.francetvinfo.fr/internet/intelligence-artificielle/ils-profitent-de-notre-pauvrete-derriere-le-boom-des-intelligences-artificielles-generatives-le-travail-cache-des-petites-mains-de-l-ia_6466742.html#xtor=CS2-765-%5Bautres%5D-

boud,
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@Winston_Churchill

#TechworkerCommunityAfrica
https://techworkercommunityafrica.org

timnitGebru, to random
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"the...aftermath of their assault continued to plague all three victims. Semret’s heart-wrenching account took a grim turn as she disclosed that they had been diagnosed with HIV & uterine cancer. While the...adult women...followed their prescribed medication regimen, the 15-year-old girl bore the brunt of her afflictions, unable to attend school due to a constant & unrelenting leakage of an unknown fluid from her uterus."

Victims of #TigrayGenocide suffering in silence.

https://www.thereporterethiopia.com/39511/#google_vignette

boud,
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@timnitGebru

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_the_Tigray_War

boud, to random
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#TheDebunkingHandbook2020 Lewandowsky+2020 = consensus document summarising research on how to debunk #misinformation [1][2].

Key points:

  • "misinformation can do damage"
  • "misinformation can be sticky!"
  • "prevent misinformation from sticking if you can"
  • "debunk often and properly"

Most people on Fedi are well aware of the first two points. This overview of the research may be helpful.

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/debunking-handbook-2020-downloads-translations.html

[2] https://skepticalscience.com/docs/DebunkingHandbook2020.pdf

#DebunkingMisinformation #Disinformation

DenisMeuthen, to conservative

I'm happy to announce today that I was elected as the newest outstanding new PI by a worldwide group of more than 2500 assistant professors. My interview can be found here https://newpislack.wordpress.com/outstanding-new-pis/.


@academicchatter

boud,
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@DenisMeuthen @academicchatter

Contrary to popular belief, #TINA = #ThereIsNoAlternative is not supported by the evidence.

Ethical alternatives to #Slack include the #MatrixProtocol or #Mattermost . No need to centralise on a single server or depend on non-free software.

#DebunkingMisinformation
#OpenScience

jricole, to random

Israel’s Lavender Murderbot is Programmed to Kill up to a Third of all Palestinian Civilians in Gaza http://dlvr.it/T52h47

boud,
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@jricole

The hidden URL (cleaned from tracking parameters) is:

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/murderbot-programmed-palestinian.html

q3k, to random
@q3k@hackerspace.pl avatar

I have managed to extract a list of encoded strings within the liblzma/xz backdoor payload (5.6.1):

https://gist.github.com/q3k/af3d93b6a1f399de28fe194add452d01

The code has a dictionary of strings that are encoded as a prefix trie, which helps to keep things stealthy. This is eg. then used to look up symbols, eg. bd_elf_lookup_hash(..., 0x2b0, ...) means bd_elf_lookup_hash(..., "__libc_stack_end", ...). This is also why it's slow :).

This should bring us one step closer to knowing what the binary payload does.

boud,
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@robryk

My guess is that they want to use the killswitch when they want to use the real sshd rather than their replacement one. Especially in case their replacement one is ... buggy.

@q3k @zeno

drewdevault, (edited ) to random
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Quick FOSS legal literacy quiz

Imagine the following situation: your project is MIT licensed. Someone takes the whole project and white-labels it (changes the name), then sells it commercially without providing the source code or sharing any of the sales revenue with you. They include "Copyright <your name>" and a copy of the MIT license in the "about" page of the software.

Is this allowed?

boud,
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@drewdevault Where is the obligation in gccgo to include the Go 2009 non-free licence?

@ch0ccyra1n
Same question. The Debian source for 'gccgo' is the overall 'gcc-defaults' package [1]. An install on Debian/bookworm showed the new packages and dependencies [2]. I see nothing in the 'copyright' file beyond GPL-2+ (and the netbsd 4-clause licence for the c89 and c99 man pages) [3].

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gcc-defaults

[2] gccgo gccgo-12{a} libgo-12-dev{a} libgo21{a}

[3] /usr/share/doc/gccgo/copyright

thecontinent, to random
@thecontinent@mas.to avatar

Senegal: The election everyone’s been waiting for

Getting to this point has been a long, dangerous and demoralising road for a country that – with good reason – considers itself to be a paragon of West African democracy. https://bit.ly/3Pyjf3m

boud,
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@thecontinent

It's safer for your followers if you put the original URL (link), not a shortened link. Shortened URLs can redirect to sites without the person clicking being able to judge the safety of the link before clicking.

A URL in Mastodon counts for 23 characters no matter how long it is.

Here's the actual URL:

https://continent.substack.com/p/senegal-the-election-everyones-been

sarahc, to aitools
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' ProPublica reviewed thousands of pages of emails and memos by U.S. officials, letters to foreign ministries, correspondence from industry groups and academic research [and] interviewed health experts and government leaders in nearly two dozen countries ...

[Our] reporting shows the U.S. government repeatedly used its muscle to advance the interests of multinational baby formula companies ... '

#BabyFormula #InfantHealth #advertising #regulation #USGovernment

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-america-waged-global-campaign-against-baby-formula-regulation-thailand

boud,
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@sarahc

The citizens' campaigns to constrain the we-must-be-allowed-to-damage-babies'-health-if-it-makes-a-buck industry have been ongoing for more than 50 years.

The initial was in 1977. was created in 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Nestl%C3%A9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Baby_Food_Action_Network

JorisMeys, to academia
@JorisMeys@mstdn.social avatar

I said it before and I'll say it again: scientific journals have hardly any relevance any more, except for academic careers.

AI is just speeding up this evolution. We urgently need to rethink scientific communication!

@academicchatter
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-exponential-enshittification

boud,
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@firefly I don't know if @academicchatter can set blocks, but with only 1 right out of 4, your post does sound rather off-topic:

[1] known fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

[2] generally accepted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_%28Australopithecus%29

[3] #FredHoyle and #LeeSpetner suspected forgery, but the palaeontologists' consensus is that it's real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx#Authenticity

[4] generally accepted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus

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