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axx

@axx@mstdn.fr

“Don't misdirect your rage” 🎶

Reasonably nice human being. Not here to subjugate or serve. Defending Freedoms on/& the Internet with https://mamot.fr/@LaQuadrature. Enjoys decentralising things.
Ⓥ :antifa:

Enjoys wheels (smaller skate ones, bigger bicycle ones), nerding out and with free and open source stuff, climbing, learning and the gentle art 🥋.
Unrepentant ska fan.

Formerly @element
Views personal, in case you needed to be sure.

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axx, to random
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"In fact, the solidarity encampments on campuses are student-organized and led, with Palestinian students at front and center, and a disproportionately large presence of Jewish students too. It is students, over 1,000 of them, who have faced arrest."

We should all be proud of these kids.

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

John_Livingston, to random French
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La classe !
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/280424/droits-voisins-mediapart-lance-la-bataille-de-la-transparence-contre-google

axx,
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@John_Livingston ça existe déjà, un Twitch open source et fonctionnel: https://owncast.online/

Y a t'il une raison de mettre des efforts pour en créer un autre plutôt que d'améliorer celui qui existe ? :)

axx, to random
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Très bon fil sur le racisme anti-tsigane et gens du voyage, en milieu médical ici, sur l'autre site :
https://twitter.com/Dr_Zoe_/status/1783355832106725630

axx, to random
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Well done. Facebook (sorry, "Meta"): "Reality Labs has now lost more than $45 billion since the end of 2020, when Meta first began reporting the business segment separately."

Yes, billion with a B.

That's an insane amount of money. I don't even want to go into the whole "think how many hospitals could have been funded with that money".

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

On the upside, they are consistent in their idiocy and i was wrong to say they'd quietly stopped investing in it. Nope, still going.

axx,
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Quick reminder that @element built a metaverse that works better than anything Facebook has shown, for a fraction of the investment, and built entirely on free and open source technology including @matrix : https://thirdroom.io/

axx, to random
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I thought that recent Europol press release on was a bit off, so i tried to improve it.

cf. https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/european-police-chiefs-call-for-industry-and-governments-to-take-action-against-end-to-end-encryption-roll-out

(real) screenshot from Europol website: European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out

axx, to random
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Purée, Qovery / Romaric Philogene qui force Anaïs Urlichs à faire des excuses publiques, via lettre d'avocat, pour avoir fait des tweets sarcastiques sur le manque de diversité dans la tech suite à une photo d'une tablée où on ne voit que des mecs blancs, c'est magnifique.

Apparemment les égos fragiles, c'est pas terminé et ça se traduit par de la bonne menace juridique à la papa, qui fait pendre au nez « compensation pr les dommages subis » etc.

https://next.ink/135147/inclusion-dans-la-tech-critique-le-ceo-de-qovery-menace-une-internaute-de-poursuites/ pour plus de contexte.

axx,
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@taziden Tintin et les 7…

axx, to random
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Mais en fait, en France, la politique c'est un concours à la « hold my beer » où chaque premier ministre ou ministre de l'intérieur essaye de prouver qu'il peut faire et être pire que le ou la précédente ?

axx, to random
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"Please wrap lines in your email at 72 columns."

Really? It's 2024, i'm pretty sure this is a behaviour that should be enforced by your mail reader rather than me artificially breaking
lines just
to
fit an ancient
custom.

Also, how many pixels wide is your screen? I mean, it's up to you if you want to read text on the visual equivalent of a pocket pack of tissues at the end of the day i suppose.

thibaultamartin, to random
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Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

axx,
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@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome We need a legal obligation to release of all relevant code and schematics for all chipsets that are no longer supported by the manufacturer.

I'm still on an old Pixel 2, running an "ancient"¹ GrapheneOS. I replaced the battery, but it works fine.

It's also a security risk, which i'm well aware of. This shouldn't be the case.

  1. I hate how the Internet distorts our relationship to time, i should probably write something about that one of these days.
axx, to random
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Musk is a fool who doesn't understand the technology he hypes (and profits from). What's new?

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-worst-predictions-and-broken-promises-1851398745

axx, to GNOME
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Location services in are eerily precise. As in, to a few metres. Even when tunnelling all traffic through a Wireguard VPN exiting in a different country.

As someone still a bit scarred by Enemy of the State even 25 years later, that freaks me out.

And a cursory search has not reassured me much. It uses Mozilla location services, that much is clear, but how does it still provide such a precise location when traffic is tunnelled?

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/privacy-location.html.en provides no info or explanation.

mike, to random
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Automattic bought Beeper. lmao
https://automattic.com/2024/04/09/automattic-acquires-beeper/

axx,
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@cory @mike Isn't that exactly what @matrix is?

axx, to random
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@organicmaps hello! Did the button to remove a POI get removed? It feels like every other time i look for it (tap POI, expand bottom drawer) it's gone. It drives me a bit mad.

axx,
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@organicmaps Yes, i mean edit place. It's just not there when i tap a POI. (I am logged in to OSM). This is on Android, latest from F-Droid.

axx,
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@organicmaps I can see that 2024.03.31-8 is not yet on F-Droid, where 2024.03.05-4-FDroid is the latest. But so you can confirm the Edit Place is gone in 2024.03.05-4-FDroid?

axx, to random
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"Funny": the only "feature" of Amazon's supermarkets, Amazon Fresh, was that you could "just walk out" and all their clever magic AI would charge you for what you picked from the shelves.

Huge surprise, it relied on over a 1000 people in India. And it was of course the digital equivalent of having a bouncer follow you around the store taking notes of everything you pick up and put down. Lovely stuff.

Yet again, AI snakeoil and –really– microworkers making it possible.

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

PrincessConnasse, to random French
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Il a vraiment parlé d' "open bar" pour la santé, l'obsédé de la rondelle, ou j'ai mal compris ?

Non parce que, là, entre les restes charges, les retenues forfaitaires sur les consultations, les médicaments et les 450 balles pas pris en charge pour l'opération à venir du mois d'avril, l'open bar commence à me coûter cher, je trouve.

😑

axx,
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@morayner @Qi2Navet @LegalizeBrain @PrincessConnasse @BergereGuerriere Le souci c'est aussi qu'on a un système éléctoral qui fait semblant d'être pluraliste avec son premier tour, mais qui en suite met tout ça à la poubelle avec un bon vieux choix binaire.

On en fait des tonnes sur « 15 candidats à la présidentielle ! » mais on a en pratique un scrutin uninominal majoritaire à un tour ("first-past-the-post, en Anglais), système électoral qui est foncièrement de la merde.

pluralistic, to DaftPunk
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"Enshittification" isn't just a way of describing the symptoms of platform decay: it's also a theory of the mechanism of decay - the means by which platforms get shittier and shittier until they are a giant pile of shit.

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/26/glitchbread/#electronic-shelf-tags

1/

axx,
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@dalias @DavidM_yeg @pluralistic All very neat stuff.

Also, "boom and bust" is – shock, horror – part of the capitalist playbook. I remember being a bit aghast when during the 2008 financial crisis @CrimethInc were the only folks vocally reminding people that seeing companies fail was, in fact, part of capitalism. When you need anarchists to remind you of basic tenets of capitalism, you know something is very wrong.

axx,
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@DavidM_yeg @dalias @pluralistic @CrimethInc This conversation has just bought back to mind this line i read many moons ago, and must try and find the origin of: "I'll believe corporations are people the day Texas executes one".

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"We know that you are waiting to speak to an agent and will put you through as soon as we can."

The level of disrepair of (yes, that is a serious official name), the UK unemployment agency is maddening and depressing.

Their automated phone system is, of course, unclear and at least half designed to make people give up before they reach what they need.

I've currently been on hold for over 30 min just to be able to talk to someone and update them about my situation.

axx, to random
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So, VMWare, a company that powers the IT of many organisations via its virtualisation products was acquired by Broadcom in November 2023.

Turns out this was not a seamless transition: Broadcom quickly upended VMWare's pricing model, trying to force loads of customers into much more expensive deals (100 to 300% price increase!). VMWare users are, understandably, furious.

But this may well backfire, as people are now looking at alternatives, and of course free and open source ones. We'll see.

axx, to random
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In 2009, the NHS bought thousands of expensive hardware-encrypted USB drives, "SafeSticks", from a company called BlockMaster.
https://www.theregister.com/2009/06/16/review_storage_usb_blockmaster_safestick/

How surprised would you be to hear that the BlockMaster website and Twitter account look like they were all but abandoned in 2011?

Ah, and the promised Linux version of the OS-side software needed to decrypt the drives never materialised, from what i can tell.

I wonder how many of the 250 000 drives the NHS bought are still in use.

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    @Camille_Poulsard Ah oui, j'aurais pu simplement lire ton profil et m'épargner le message avec l''analogie :)

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