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markhughes

@markhughes@mastodon.social

Boatperson, computer wizard, qualified counsellor, stick twizzler, father, and self enquirer.

Helping those building democratising technology to reverse the corporate capture of online spaces. Ex: #SafeNetwork

Techy self: https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg

Techy blog: https://dweb.happybeing.com

#nobridge

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StableGeniusLib, to random
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"the case is notable because Fox Corporation—the parent company of Fox News— is directly paying the family of a Supreme Court justice, which neither Barrett nor her husband are required to disclose."

The rot in the court is a feature of the Federalist Society, not a bug. As long as there is a pipeline for FedSoc to put right wing activists into the court, you'll have this corruption.


https://newrepublic.com/post/182040/amy-coney-barrett-husband-new-client-fox-lawsuit

edri, to humanrights
@edri@eupolicy.social avatar

1/3 New "solution" from the @eu2024be on fails on all counts!

We're looking at:
🔸Forced consent
🔸Mass scanning of private messages
🔸Undermining encryption
🔸Punishing privacy-enhancing services & rewarding those that violate people’s privacy

Read more: https://edri.org/our-work/be-scanned-or-get-banned/

edri,
@edri@eupolicy.social avatar

3/3 🚨 There is NO magical solution to child sexual abuse.

The mass scanning of people's private chats leaves people VULNERABLE to malicious security attacks.

We need multi-faceted societal-level and political solutions. Alternative approaches exist: https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EDRi-Position-Paper-CSAR.pdf

COVID19_DISEASE, to random
@COVID19_DISEASE@mastodon.social avatar

COVID can cause new health problems to appear years after infection, according to a study of more than 130,000 patients

https://fortune.com/well/article/covid-cause-new-health-problems-years-after-infection/

cherold, to random
@cherold@zirk.us avatar

Justice Alito can apparently make decisions for every single woman in the country except his wife.

cyberlyra, to google
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io avatar

Massive leak at confirms what we have all known for years, just how much is tracked, stored, and monetized.

Even clearer now how Chrome tracks and reports EVERYTHING you do. For heavens' sake delete it now and move to Firefox

Also they've outright lied for years about their data collection and search practices.

Looks like 'Don't be evil' wasn't enough. ;)

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

Just, get off Google products already!

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

adfichter, to random German
@adfichter@chaos.social avatar

🔥 🔥 🔥 New story out: Wenn ein Schweizer Medienhaus unter anderem mit Cookies & Analytics des russischen Big Tech-Riesen Geld verdient...liefert es seine Leserschaft direkt an den Kreml, FSB & russische Ransomware-Hacker aus.

Seit der Aufsplittung gehört der russische Yandex-Teil mehr oder weniger dem russischen Staat. Darunter fällt der ganze -Teil.

17 Schweizer Lokalmedien (La Gruyère, Reussbote, Wohler Anzeiger etc) haben genau dies getan.

https://www.republik.ch/2024/05/30/datenexpress-richtung-kreml

fulelo, to Ukraine
@fulelo@journa.host avatar

- allowed to hit some targets in with weapons - reports
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy770l9llnzo

safenetwork, to random
@safenetwork@mastodon.social avatar

Update 30 May

Bux is in Texas right now at the Consensus conference waiting to wow the audience. Go @bux!

Currently we're beavering away to get another testnet out of the door, building on the successes of ThisIsNotBetaRewardsNet and knocking off a few rough edges.

We’re particularly keen to get discord bot fully integrated this time round to automate the calculation of nanos for those running nodes.

https://forum.autonomi.community/t/update-30th-may-2024/39849

hanse_mina, to TeslaMotors
@hanse_mina@mastodon.social avatar

Donald is considering tapping billionaire as a policy adviser if the Republican presidential candidate reclaims the White House in November's election, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The WSJ also said Musk informed Trump about his ongoing influence campaign aimed at convincing powerful business leaders not to support Democratic President Joe , who beat Trump in the 2020 election and is seeking a second term.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-could-become-policy-adviser-if-trump-wins-election-wsj-reports-2024-05-29/

glynmoody, to Israel
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

Israeli journalist describes threats over reporting on spy chief and - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/journalist-threatened-over-reporting-on-spy-chief-and-icc-israeli-newspaper-says "Haaretz journalist was warned of ‘consequences’ if he reported on attempts by chief to intimidate ex-prosecutor"

jaysen, to random
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Extreme long shots but interesting: 7 Dyson sphere candidates

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/531/1/695/7665761

koteisaev, to random
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These stories when #State installs various #spyware such as #pegasus give me not just creepy/eerie feeling.
Such stories questions suitability usage of any electronic device, let it be a linux desktop/laptop or any smartphone, even suc as e/OS equipped, not speaking about standard iOS/Android devices.
And it pushes down motivation for developing any #p2p software as well, just because if your risk model includes government spyware installation on your devices, this is beyond their usage scope.

happyborg,
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@koteisaev
I'm hopeful, even confident that #p2p can and will help with device level surveillance such as #Pegasus #spyware one day.

For example, it has been discussed and mitigations proposed on the #Autonomi forum, though not recently. Ideas such as booting from the network using any device, using the secure services it provides and then logging off without leaving traces.

Easier said than done, but something worth assuming for.

hanse_mina, to Russia
@hanse_mina@mastodon.social avatar

#Russia is beating western capitals in securing artillery supplies on international markets, the #Czech government has said, warning that delayed payments to arms companies could lead to millions of ammunition rounds being sent to #Moscow instead of #Kyiv.

The Czechoslovak Group, warned that rising prices and poor quality meant that half the shells it had received could not be sent to #Ukraine’s battlefields as quickly as planned.

https://www.ft.com/content/028c4115-4f7e-4663-949a-7cd7ffa7fa56

#EU

glynmoody, to Israel
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

in effective control of entire land border after taking Philadelphi Corridor in south - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/israel-idf-philadelphi-corridor-rafah-gaza-control-palestine-war-hamas and already the flow of food supplies has fallen...

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

Israeli campaign against may be ‘crimes against justice’, say legal experts - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/israel-icc-criminal-offences-espionage-legal-experts "International lawyers believe conduct of Israeli intelligence service should be investigated by prosecutor in The Hague"

davidpnice, to random
@davidpnice@mastodon.online avatar

From Al Jazeera's live feed:

'The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has recovered the bodies of two of its paramedics who were killed in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan area last night...

' “The Israeli occupation forces deliberately bombed the ambulance vehicle despite it bearing the internationally protected Red Crescent emblem,” PRCS said in a post on X.'

Since October 7, 19 PRCS medics have been killed in Gaza while on the job, according to the organisation

18+ fulelo, (edited ) to random
@fulelo@journa.host avatar

V WaPo:
'In the name of God'

For decades, Catholic priests, brothers and sisters raped or molested Native American children who were taken from their homes by the U.S. government and forced to live at remote boarding schools, a Post investigation found.

https://wapo.st/3R5v5mo

hanse_mina, to hungary
@hanse_mina@mastodon.social avatar

#Hungary’s top diplomat visited #Belarus on Wednesday for talks on expanding ties despite the #EUs sanctions against the country.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter #Szijjártó declared that “our position is clear: the fewer sanctions, the more cooperation!”

While saying that “sanctions don’t work,” Szijjártó noted, however, that Hungary was “increasing economic cooperation with Belarus in areas not affected by sanctions.”

https://apnews.com/article/belarus-hungary-foreign-minister-peter-szijjarto-eu-fb299cb255074bf4f711059fb66c5d3a

hugo, to random
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well what do you know. enforced masking on long-haul flights stops SARS-CoV-2 transmission.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240528/Study-shows-enforced-masking-on-long-flights-prevents-SARS-CoV-2-transmission.aspx

glynmoody, to DuaLipa
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

denounces ‘Israeli genocide’ in Instagram post - https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/29/dua-lipa-denounces-israeli-genocide-in-instagram-post "Singer calls for 88 million followers to ‘show your solidarity with ’ following Israeli attack on Rafah"

hanse_mina, to Russia
@hanse_mina@mastodon.social avatar

Chinese multinational , the owner of the online shopping portal , has stopped accepting payments in rubles and no longer allows the delivery of orders to , Russian business newspaper Kommersant reported.

Kommersant referred to a Russian economic expert, who "linked Alibaba's decision to fears of secondary sanctions, which have caused other problems with Russian payments in ."

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-media-alibaba-stops-accepting-rubles-shipping-to-russia/

randahl, to random
@randahl@mastodon.social avatar

Status on whether countries allow Ukraine to use their weapons against Russian territory:

✅ UK
✅ Sweden
✅ Poland
✅ Denmark
✅ France
✅ Germany

Your move Joe Biden.

randahl, to random
@randahl@mastodon.social avatar

President Zelenskyy is going to love this message from the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen:

"[Ukraine] can use the weapons we have donated — also outside Ukrainian territory, as long as this happens in accordance with international law."

This suddenly puts many Russian military positions near Belgorod city in firing range, using the 19 donated Danish Caesar howitzers.

These artillery systems have a maximum range of 47 km, using M982 Excalibur guided artillery shells.

Map of the frontline north of Kharkiv, showing the range of Caesar howitzers with Excalibur shells, courtesy of Deepstatemap.
M982 Excalibur guided shell.

w7voa, to random
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Politico - A pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, even among officeholders and strategists who had previously expressed confidence about the coming battle with Donald Trump. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/democrats-freakout-over-biden-00160047?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=c00999ed-95f4-4bf4-ac82-11dc95f6dc6a&nlid=630318

Npars01,
@Npars01@mstdn.social avatar

@w7voa

The richest people on the planet are funding the end of American democracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/28/trump-wealthy-donors-fundraising/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/18/donald-trump-megadonor-campaign-republican

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-begging-for-campaign-donations-by-personally-promising-rich-megadonors-tax-cuts/

Republican megadonors are convinced a psychotic dictator is what Americans deserve.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-donors-2668393354/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/

https://whowhatwhy.org/justice/donald-trump-and-the-dictators-doom-loop/

CelloMomOnCars, to TeslaMotors
@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social avatar

"The head of the IPCC has compared the rollout of carbon capture and storage (#CCS) to "trying to push water uphill," questioning a technology that the oil and gas industry has long touted as integral to net-zero emission plans.

The International Energy Agency has previously called for the oil and gas industry to let go of the "illusion" that carbon capture is a solution to climate change, pushing instead for energy majors to ramp up investments in clean energy."

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/big-oils-favorite-climate-solution-is-like-trying-to-push-water-uphill-climate-chief-says/5176733/

CelloMomOnCars,
@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social avatar

shareholders choose profit over planet.

"Investors voted in line with all board recommendations at the virtual meeting. An average of 95% backed the re-election of 12 Exxon directors while proposals for reports on gender and race, plastics and social impact were rejected."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-29/exxon-shareholders-vote-with-board-on-all-proxy-proposals

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