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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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baldur, to random
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One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

boud,
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@JasonPunyon @baldur

Looks like 16.9 GiB for stackoverflow.com.sqlite.br (16.9GiB) and roughly 6 GiB for the rest. Maybe people running instances could add searches on data dumps like these?

brume, to random French
@brume@piaille.fr avatar

Leçon de journalisme pour les médias français.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx82s-yWkPE

Le porte-parole d'Israël piégé par Piers Morgan.

Cela fait vraiment bizarre, vu de France, de voir un journaliste de télévision faire son travail, c'est-à-dire ne pas accepter les digressions de son invité et le mettre face à ses contradictions et ses mensonges.

"Comment pouvez- vous n'avoir aucune idée du nombre de civils tués par l'armée israelienne, vous qui êtes le porte-parole du gouvernement ? Alors que vous êtes certain du nombre de combattants du Hamas tués."


boud,
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@christophe_guinet @brume

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=dx82s-yWkPE

razem, to random Polish
@razem@partiarazem.pl avatar

⚛️TAK dla elektrowni atomowej w Polsce!
🚆TAK dla rozwoju kolei!
🏗️TAK dla budowy mieszkań na tani wynajem!

! Tak dla odważnych, państwowych inwestycji! Bez przeciągania terminów! Bez rozmydlania!

boud,
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@razem

TAK dla Doramadu!

TAK dla DDT!


https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doramad

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

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodifenylotrichloroetan

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

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

Utterly ridiculous from the Pulitzer Prize committee today.

This Pulitzer citation supposedly honoring 🇵🇸 journos doesn't actually do so.

"Journalists & media workers covering the war in Gaza" includes everyone, Palestinian or otherwise.

The citation fails to mention the nationality of the journalists who "died" (euphemism which downplays the worst recorded journo slaughter), or the identity of their killers, the Israeli army.

Please compare with the 2022 citation for 🇺🇦 journalists.

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Special Citations and Awards Journalists and Media Workers Covering the War in Gaza In recent years the Pulitzer Board has issued citations honoring journalists covering wars in Ukraine and Afghanistan. This year, the Board recognizes the courageous work of journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza. Under horrific conditions, an extraordinary number of journalists have died in the effort to tell the stories of Palestinians and others in Gaza. This war has also claimed the lives of poets and writers among the casualties. As the Pulitzer Prizes honor categories of journalism, arts, and letters, we mark the loss of invaluable records of the human experience.

boud,
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@ZekuZelalem

You're absolutely right. This is pure racism. Per the Pulitzer Prize committee, Ukrainian journalists exist, but Palestinian journalists don't. Palestinians are an object, not a subject.

"The Journalists of Ukraine" ... "deaths in their ranks"

versus

"Journalists ... Covering the War in Gaza" ... "died in the effort to tell the stories of Palestinians"

So how is the US going to save the Filipinos?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden

boud, to random
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Twelve US Senators, including , , risk having arrest warrants issued against them under Article 70 of the [1], since they have made threats against the [2]. The Senators risk (in principle) prison terms in The Hague of up to five years [1].

Time to fund the ICC properly - it needs much more than 150 MEUR/year.

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rome_Statute_of_the_International_Criminal_Court#Article_70:_Offences_against_the_administration_of_justice

[2] https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-you-have-been-warned-republican

thomasfuchs, (edited ) to random
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Germany is banning the rector of the University of Glasgow from entering the EU. Because he’s a witness to genocide (as a surgeon who among other things repairs blown off faces of children) who was to speak at the French senate.

Germany has completely lost it.

boud,
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@thomasfuchs

Philsturgeon, to random
@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green avatar

The people of England have spoken, and with a powerful and undeniable voice we have said:

Fuck off Tories.

boud,
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@paulcox @Philsturgeon

Will these local election results the UK parliamentary election give any chance for setting in a long-term shift to democracy by replacing (FPTP) by either a two-round [1] (like in e.g. France, Poland), ranked method [2] (like in e.g. Australia) or rated method [3]?

The Labor and LibDem parties would have to accept a shift to coalitions instead of winner-take-all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system

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

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

boud,
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@nf3xn @kgoetz @paulcox @Philsturgeon

I don't think I heard about that. The Polling section shows that over 12 months, opinion changed from a big majority in favour to a big majority against:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum#Polling

That was a decade ago.

I really can't understand how anyone can think an election in which someone getting, say, 25% of the vote is a fair representative of the whole population (because the others got 24%, 22%, 15%, 10%, 4%).

Up to UK people to decide whether to try again.

webmink, to medical
@webmink@meshed.cloud avatar

The @EU_Commission has launched a public consultation on the rules defining the European system (aka regulation 1025). The top-line for me is it completely ignores while making both engagement in standardisation and use of standards very hard for open source community members.

Unsurprisingly, the consultation's survey makes it extremely hard to tell them this! I think @osi will be attaching a letter to its input! The deadline is July 25.

https://discuss.opensource.org/t/time-to-fix-the-rules-about-european-standards/284?u=webmink

boud,
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@webmink

Do you have some sources for your range of estimates "Today, open source is between 80% and 99% of all software"? There was a Fediverse thread on this question some time ago, without any solid answers, if I remember right. I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing proper (preferably peer-reviewed research papers) detailing their methods of data collection and of "counting software" and presenting their results.

boud,
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@webmink

Thanks! I checked through those searching for an answer the question of "How much of 'all' software is FOSS or depends on FOSS?", but I could only find one study, not a range of studies - Synopsys - whose full report requires email registration (and it's not a peer-reviewed research paper):
https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/open-source-trends-ossra-report.html

The Fraunhofer/OFE report is solid, but doesn't seem to answer this particular question:
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/79021

Do you know of any other study than the Synopsys one?

boud, to random
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Per the :

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]

[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

boud,
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The Guardian claims that some Western diplomats have attempted :

"Diplomats from the G7 industrialised nations have urged officials at the international criminal court not to announce excessively harsh responses charges against Israel or Hamas officials, ..."

on the absurd basis that it could disrupt negotiations for a ceasefire.

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/29/icc-possible-war-crimes-charges-israel-hamas-g7

simon, to random
@simon@simonwillison.net avatar

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 [3][4] and its role in the [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

LesRepliques, to random French
@LesRepliques@mastodon.social avatar

"On a vu les cadavres, l'odeur" : la communauté internationale réclame de nouveaux comptes à Israël après la découverte de plusieurs fosses communes dans les hôpitaux d'al-Nasser et al-Chifa. La France par la voix de France Diplomatie "appelle à faire toute la lumière" sur cette nouvelle macabre découverte à Gaza.

boud,
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@LesRepliques

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charniers_d%C3%A9couverts_dans_la_bande_de_Gaza

boud, to Israel
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It seems like the 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 from issuing warrants against Netanyahu and others on war crimes charges [1].


[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
@timnitGebru@dair-community.social avatar

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 #UnitedNations organization away from #Microsoft.

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

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. #Protonmail.

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

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 @tsedale would be good.

Currently

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

is missing an entry for Ethiopia.

libreleah, to random
@libreleah@mas.to avatar

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 s in are nothing terribly new, but the "good" thing about is that Reuters did an investigation [1] and the 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
@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social avatar

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!

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