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Fournir sa photographie et ses empreintes quand on demande son passeport ou sa carte d’identité est plus lourd de conséquence que ce qu’on imagine.La Quadrature du Net
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C'EST PAS DE L'IA Quand on entend parler d'intelligence artificielle, c'est l'histoire d'un mythe moderne qui nous est racontée. Celui d'une IA miraculeuse qui doit sauver le monde, ou d'une IA douée de volonté qui voudrait le détruire.La Quadrature du Net
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à.chaque.fois.
à croire que quel que soit le fichier, c'est pas un bug mais une fonctionnalité.
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@bohwaz De souvenir, on peut demander via un formulaire à ce que nos données soient effacées du fichier un certain temps après avoir renouvelé sa carte CNIe, et qu'elles ne soient stockées plus qu'au format papier.
J'avais fait la démarche en espérant justement que cela limiterait un usage abusif, en rendant plus pénible l'obtention et la consultation de mes données personnelles.
À confirmer pas La Quadrature du net (et à voir si cela couvre toutes les données personnelles ou non), et à vérifier si ce droit est bien toujours respecté.
@Miigrateur
En fait c'est l'inverse tu ne peux pas supprimer une fois que c'est dedans (ce qui me semble incompatible avec le rgpd mais bref) mais tu peux refuser que les empreintes y soient stockées : europe1.fr/technologies/fichie…
Je l'avais fait en 2019. Déjà normalement on est censé te demander ton accord et ça n'a évidemment pas été le cas et quand j'ai demandé on m'a fait comprendre que je faisais chier, qu'il fallait aller dans le bureau à côté pour chercher la procédure papier.
@LaQuadrature
Chaque demandeur de carte d'identité peut désormais demander à ce que ses empreintes digitales ne soient pas versées au fichier TES.Grégoire Martinez (europe1.fr)
@Miigrateur
La CNIL semble dire que ce n'est plus possible : Lors de l’enregistrement, il n’est plus possible pour la personne concernée de refuser la numérisation de ses empreintes digitales pour la délivrance d’une carte d’identité.
En revanche, il est possible pour la personne concernée de demander à ce que l’image numérisée de ses empreintes ne soit pas conservée dans le traitement au-delà d’un délai de quatre-vingt-dix jours.....
cnil.fr/fr/le-fichier-des-titr…
Une copie papier est conservée.
Entre le 15 mars et le 2 août 2021, une carte nationale d’identité électronique (CNIe) va être mise en place progressivement dans un certain nombre de départements pilotes.www.cnil.fr
Quand on constate en #France les mêmes pratiques que dans les #USA de M. #Trump , on peut dire qu'on a un (très) sérieux problème :
> « US states give some federal agencies unlimited access to their drivers license records - and now these agencies may be using them for facial recognition, disregarding laws and human rights »
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techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/lawm…US states give some federal agencies unlimited access to their drivers license records - and now these agencies may be using them for facial recognition, disregarding laws and human rights.
Lawmakers warn Democratic governors that states are sharing drivers' data with ICE | TechCrunch
A group of Democratic lawmakers asked governors in California, Colorado, and other states to block ICE from accessing their residents’ driver’s license data without their knowledge.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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oh my! You just became my favourite potter! I was so fascinated to look at the massive variety of whorls displayed at historic museums in danmark of viking and bronze age. And I knew I could make some, but I'm not equipped for pottery.
What you and your neighbour did, is just so beautiful.
And you got the seeds from a community garden. This little post of yours just gives me so much happiness.
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I see the photo first and think, "hooray, more beautiful pots from Osa!"
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Given the current temperature in Glasgow, I figured it's worth posting this plaque I came across on Westbank Quadrant about the origins of Lord Kelvin's ground-breaking research into absolute zero while he was a professor at Glasgow University. None of it is remotely true, but it's an amusing tale nonetheless, and with the current cold snap, it feels quite plausible!
#glasgow #glasgowtoday #keepglasgowweird #lordkelvin #absolutezero #sciencefriday #glasgowhumour
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Victorian scientists struggle to reach and understand the vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly cold universe at Absolute Zero.Alan Bellows (Damn Interesting)
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Site officiel du Festival BD Colomiers. Pour tout savoir sur le festival : dates, animations, infos pratiques, etc.www.bdcolomiers.com
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A poll of US children found that they would rather see other children in physical presence, without constant adult monitoring, and it's because that is not allowed that they talk via online dis-services instead.
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Today's a perfect day to post some beautiful blue glass!
A gorgeous #Roman flask in the form of a shell, mold-blown from dark blue glass. It was used to hold perfume. Dating 1st century AD.
On display at British Museum.
📷 me
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I still use RSS daily.
Email is my primary work communication medium.
I still host blogs and microbloging software.
Some would say I live in the past, but I'm enjoying myself.
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+1.
There's something like 30k people signed into Libera at any moment - and all the old names like EFNet, DALnet, etc are still there.
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Yeah! 👍
The old web is still there.
I use RSS with fluent-reader
I use email with #deltachat
I use a blog with own domain
You just have to ignore the commercial Social Media and advertising with f.e. uBlock, then you'll see it 🙂
Usenet news groups stayed on topic!
They were organized by topic.
I keep wondering why we abandoned that idea.
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(Well yes, it's still there and one can still use it. But so much of it has been taken over by robots pushing spam. 😢 )
@jamesb192
As a moderator I always said,
"If you can explain how that helps a person do 'refactoring - improving the structure of code without changing its function' then I'll allow it, ruling it 'on-topic' for this group. Otherwise, you're 'off-topic.' And banned."
And well, …
It was *always* the banned thing. 🙄
is it really the old web? What's the new Web then?
I'd argue that the same proponents that label these technologies old, are the same ones trying to break the Web and other open standards. RSS, Email, blogs and other internet technologies are still the current open internet. We never had successors to them.
Hi everyone 😊
Please post your top-3 RSS feeds as a reply to this comment 👍
Yes, this! This is why I stopped writing on Medium and started focusing on my own blog, on my own domain. Email is also my preferred way of communication. Email, however, could probably benefit from a more modernised protocol.
I can't confirm this, but I do get a sense people are "moving back" to their own spaces on the web. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I actually much rather read and follow your blog on your domain than follow you on a big platform.
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one of my sayings of late is
"We used to make our own web pages...!"
no tracking on RSS? You wish!
Aside from obvious tracking pixels there are somewhat smart ways: When hitting the subscribe URL do a 301 "Moved Permanently" redirect to a feed URL containing a custom ID, a "good" feed reader will then store that URL and then all links and media references can contain the ID to track. This won't track when exactly you read the feed content, but will track when embedded d images are loaded (smart people block that) or click on a link (to full article?)
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wonder — when will we see a new kind of Internet?
One where the citizens control the servers, free from GAFAM and global powers, built to ensure open sharing for society and our democracies — even if it's imperfect.
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.Meaningness
I first came on Internet in my youth when, in France, the famous Skyblogs were declining and seen as "has been".
For years, I thought it was not worth having a blog: what could I say on there to keep readers engaged?
Well, when I finally set up my blog, I decided I wouldn't care about readers' engagement. Heck, I don't even have analytics (well I do, but I have to skim through Nginx's logs). I write what I feel like writing about, when I feel like writing.
Truly liberating.
Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by state police while protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois. He writes for Religion News Service about why he continues to show up at Broadview, the atmosphere at protests there, and religious leaders' obligation to resist tyranny. "It is important for my neighbors who were abducted to know that we will not stop fighting for their release," he writes. "By my estimation, our country is somewhere in 1930s Germany. Fascism is growing in power, but we still have opportunities to resist."
#Religion #Christianity #Immigration #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #ICE #Illinois #Evanston
(RNS) — For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church.Michael Woolf (RNS)
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unlike 1930s Germany people in the USA got the tools legally to get rid of fascism!
#USpol #2A #NotLegalAdvice #sarcasm #shitpost
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Here is the original #clay. We found it in a construction site in Venice, just south of us. They were digging a retention pond beside a new road. The construction is now complete and the pond is filled with water, but for a moment the site was kind of like a playground for fossil hunters and clay diggers.
I've had a pretty difficult time working with this clay and incorporating it into my work, so I'm glad it could successfully serve another purpose. #wildclay #Florida
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Your work is so cool! Every time I talk to ceramics people, it's so cool to listen to them talk about the physics and chemistry of various things that go into clay and glazes.
You add a geographical and cultural aspect to it too, and the sum of the parts are incredible. I love seeing what you make and the story behind it.
Thank you for sharing!
Might be worth chatting with Jane Sidell and Fiona Haughey, as their work on Neolithic pottery techniques on the Thames claybeds would match with this. 😁
You can find Jane Sidell iva CoLAT:
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#Raytracing avec #Povray de la famille #Hexacone, voici le #commit du matin.
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HexaCone - Projet POVray de l'hiver 2024/2025 : un objet hexaconal, prenant en compte les divergences d'opinion.Tetalab Git Service
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Shame Fraser Shame, we all cried
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.thewhitlamsofficial (YouTube)
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Wear ‘It’s time’ proudly throughout the 50 th Anniversary of the Whitlam Government. We hope to see you at Whitlam Institute events in this! This product has been sourced from an accredited company using sustainable and ethical manufacturing.Whitlam Institute
@SeaFury the font is technically only slightly different but somehow the original reads as much more wild.
I think it's in the difference between the slender and wide parts of the letters, in the old one it's more dramatic.
@SeaFury the only use I can see a full stop having in a slogan is to add or change meaning.
A graphic designer doesn't get artistic license to add/change meaning of historical political slogans.
@SeaFury on closer inspection I suspect you're right, the full stop wasn't added by a graphic designer, it was by a copyright lawyer.
Just a wild guess: I reckon they couldn't get the exclusivity rights over it without the full stop.
[It's time] is possibly too universal, while [It's time.©️] just scrapes through.
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Une sage-femme exerçant en libéral dans l'Aisne a vu ses comptes Instagram et Facebook supprimés après avoir partagé un reportage de France 3 Picardie dans lequel elle s'exprimait sur l'IVG. Elle soupçonne un signalement...Romane Idres (France 3 Hauts-de-France)
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En même tps, passée la sidération, il faut faire le deuil de ces plateformes et aller contribuer à d'autres plus respectueuses. C'est possible. C'est un choix entre résister ou collaborer. Il n'est pas possible de dire "on ne savait pas".
Je suis sérieux et mesuré dans mon propos. On ne se plaint pas de ses turpitudes. Êtres sur ces plateformes, c'est contribuer à la puissance des fachos qui les contrôlent (sérieux et mesuré je vous dis ... je peux argumenter plus si besoin.) ✊🏻
il y a des lustres de ça, je disais :
"Occupe-toi de l'Informatique avant qu'elle ne s'occupe de toi"
Nous sommes typiquement dans la dérive attendue... Donc, je ne vois pas où est le problème, si ce n'est qu'il est à la source de cette dérive 🙄
Tout comme on ne signe pas nos mails avec #PGP , on a toujours des claviers AZERTY, on doit payer des abonnements aux médias alternatifs, alors qu'on n'en a plus les moyens, et #FLATTR qui permettait à tout un chacun de participer a disparu, etc, etc, etc
Finalement, la "société" obtient ce qu'elle a voulu...
Pauline Dens-Arsène, sage-femme dans l'Aisne, avait vu ses comptes Facebook et Instagram supprimés après avoir partagé un reportage de France 3 Picardie sur les difficultés d'accès à l'IVG en Thiérache. Une affaire qui est...Romane Idres (France 3 Hauts-de-France)
La chronique de Waly Dia. « Si les prisons sont dans cet état, c’est parce que nos dirigeants n’avaient pas prévu d’y aller »
Dans sa chronique enregistrée sur scène samedi 1er novembre à Mennecy (Essonne), Waly Dia revient sur l’incarcération de Nicolas Sarkozy, le cessez-le-feu rompu à Gaza et la taxe Zucman.
Par Waly Dia › mediapart.fr/journal/culture-e…
Dans sa chronique enregistrée sur scène samedi 1er novembre à Mennecy (Essonne), Waly Dia revient sur l’incarcération de Nicolas Sarkozy, le cessez-le-feu rompu à Gaza et la taxe Zucman.Waly Dia (Mediapart)
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Vous demandez un mail pour avoir accès aux vidéos en accès libre alors qu'elles sont sur YouTube ???
(heureusement qu'avec Noscript je ne vois pas ça)
@nohamux
C'est une extension Firefox
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Mediapart (YouTube)
Salut #WalyDia ⬆️ @mediapart !
Tu taggerais #WalyDia les posts de tes chroniques ?
Vidéo en direct de UTube : youtube.com/watch?v=DyC0bNMDnN…
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Mediapart (YouTube)
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@theron29
18,000 children dead in this war and now an engineered famine, which is a war crime.
> Feel free to block me now
Aren't you too old to be a troll?
@TomSwirly You misunderstand...
1. This is not a try to justify Israeli genocide.
I'm just trying to scratch my extremely frustrating itch of nobody pointing a finger to the real problem: Hamas...
Noone else dares to do it, so here I am pointing out the (for me) obvious...
2. I'm still waiting for others to start whining about the fact it is actually Hamas and their brave hero-soldiers hiding behind all those Palestinians and their civil. infrastructure thus using THEM hostage...
Hamas would not exist without the occupation. If the population there could live normal lives, people would have no reason to act in such extreme ways.
I don't see what Hamas did as blameless, but I can confidently put most/all the blame on Israel's actions in the past decades and believe that things could be solved, partially at least, by letting people live their own lives.
@arh @theron29 @TomSwirly
Problem with your argument is that Hamas actually came to power after Israel ended the occupation of Gaza, killing the PA.
And the current war was started by a genocidal attack by Hamas.
So yeah, the role of Hamas in this mess not as negligible as you purport.
Sticking to your logic: Would you fight to keep as much international money out of Gaza as possible because of them? Or might hurting people because of their government be a bad thing?
@billiglarper @arh @theron29
Yes, Hamas is also bad: Hamas terrorists should also be caught, tried, and jailed, preferably in the same jail with the much more successful and numerous Israeli terrorists.
To kill tens of thousands of civilians and starve a million others *is a war crime*.
I might add that almost all the power lies with Israel in this matter, which is why they are able to inflict casualty rates of twenty to one and higher.
@billiglarper @arh @theron29
> the folks working at Sabra?
I'm kind of more concerned, to be honest, with the 60,000 dead folk in Palestine, the starving child folk, all the hospitals destroyed with folks in them.
Boycotts are a time-proven method for changing public policy.
More, we simply don't have any other method left.
It's not just that the members of the ICC have been personally attacked and had their lives crippled simply for questioning this war.
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@TomSwirly @arh @theron29
So you think Netanjahu cares about Sabra? Heck, the war in Gaza is costing more and doing more damage to Israeli budget and economy than these stickers ever will.
Which he needs as a big chunk of Israelis are mobilizing against him.
So do such actions help them? Do they weeken Netanjahu? No. If anything, they reinforce the "us vs them" narrative Netanjahu and other nationalists and racists rely on.
@TomSwirly @arh @theron29
But thanks for confirming that these actions are not done to achieve something, but to lash out.
What's next? Injecting mercury into Israeli oranges again? Killing Israeli athletes for being Israeli? "No other method left" and so on?
Plus, these actions make folks around the world feel targeted and less safe. If the aim is for folks and capital to stay in Israel or to move there, then such indiscriminate actions are doing a great job! (sarkasm)
@billiglarper @arh @theron29
Boycotts are a proven method to change public policy. You offer no alternative whatsoever. In fact, you offer nothing except rudeness and poor spelling.
> Injecting mercury into Israeli oranges again? Killing Israeli athletes for being Israeli?
No, poisoning and murder are not in any way equivalent to refusing to buy a product.
Seek therapy.
I don't get what you are trying to say here.
The PA cut the payments to Gaza after Hamas drove Fatah out of Gaza with violence.
Qatar stepped in to pay salaries of civil servants and keep families from starving. In coordination with Israel, with a rather elaborate scheme to make sure the money actually reached the recipients.
Hamas probably "taxed" quite a bit of it. Which is the dilemma when a militarized mafia runs a region. So you would have prefered to let Gazans starve?
@billiglarper
I didn't know some of those details, thank you. However the only reason Hamas exists is because of the multi generational suppression of Palestinian existence.
As someone who has all the personal trauma of being bombed, mortored, and (from a long distance) gun fired at variously by Hezbollah and the IRA both of which who I support their aims if not methods I always wonder about those who don't understand struggle.
Not sure there is ever an only reason for anything. This seems especially true for militant groups.
It's a bit like saying "The only reason IDF exists because of multi generational attemps of Arabs to genozide the Jewish population in Israel and Palestine". It's not leading anywhere.
And in Gaza, Hamas was even more unpopular than Israel. Also a way bigger factor of suppression of Palestinians in Gaza than Israel. Nor was Oct 7 aimed at achieving anything for Palestinians.
It was just one big attrocity aimed at hindering the peace process between Israel and other states.
And that's the thing: It's not "one war from 1948 to 2025". It's multiple. There have continously been off-ramps. The question "violence or not" is coming up constantly - and often enough, violence gets chosen. Just like the Israeli government decided on strategic bombing, the invasion of Gaza and on starving the population.
All of these were decisions, none of that was automatic.
And no, I won't solve this conflict as an outsider in a few posts. I'm not that arrogant.
But I don't think that lashing out and adding more hate is part of the solution.
Yes, it's utterly frustrating. But I don't think there's much outside leverage for everyday citizens on Hamas or Netanjahu & Co.
In the end it comes down to:
- Putting pressure on governments tointervene against Netanjahu
- Supporting their anti-fascist opposition
- Helping the folks in Gaza as good as possbible
@theron29
> the real problem: Hamas...
This statement is false.
This conflict started in 1948; Hamas dates from 1987.
Israel and Palestine have been in a war since 1948. And Palestine has steadily lost every single year.
For each casualty that Palestine inflicts, Israel inflicts at least ten. This is official Israeli policy! Now the ratio is 30 to 1 and climbing.
Roughly, for each hostage killed by Hamas, the IDF has killed 10 men, ten women and ten children.
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@theron29 All food, water, electricity, medical supplies, electronics, building materials, books, paper, clothing - all things coming into Gaza are controlled by Israel and now they are using starvation as a weapon, which is a war crime under Protocols I and II of the Geneva convention.
Gaza has been reduced to rubble. Every single hospital has been completely destroyed.
And many senior Likud members have openly stated that genocide is the stated goal.
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@theron29
When you assign 100% blame to Hamas for this situation, what you are saying is this: it's perfectly acceptable to perform massive reprisals on a civilian population in revenge for terrorist attacks by a small number of individuals.
But it isn't. It's a war crime.
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@Shadedlady
You can’t really expect the occupation to exterminate the indigenous people without murdering every single one of them? That’s unreasonable! How else can you achieve your goals of genocide and ethnic cleansing to make Lebensraum for the herrenvolk?
@Sarahw
I’ve only seen it in the store I use regularly and keep an eye out for further incidents both there and in other of their stores I use.
In due course I can see Starmer making country of origin labelling illegal in order to bamboozle those of us who don’t fancy Chlorination Chicken, Hormone Beef or produce grown on stolen Palestinian land.
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Same approach as this?
spellingmistakescostlives.com/…
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Anti-apartheid supermarket price tags for products covered by the BDS boycott (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions).Darren Cullen (SPELLING MISTAKES COST LIVES)
@Sarahw
To be honest I responded to the request before I noticed that the image had alt text. Now I look at it I feel like the alt text doesn't describe the visual parts well, though I did miss drawing a comparison to the short dated stickers. Using a lone lowercase a instead of describing the barcode seems a bit deficient. I wonder if it was automatically generated and not proof read with care
don't forget #SodaStream.
Although you cannot compare the quality, I deliberately purchased Aarke instead of a SodaStream.
The 1948 Nakba was literally the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs, including terrorism, massacres, and biological warfare conducted by Israeli forces, the violent expulsion of over half a million Arabs from they're homes, and the suppression of they're identity, culture, and basic rights.
But sure, from the Zionist/genocide apologist perspective, its "antisemitic" to oppose this. SMH
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Because several people asked, I did the work for them and found where the stickers are sold:
picclick.co.uk/Boycott-Israeli…
etsy.com/au/listing/4297516420…
BOYCOTT ISRAELI APARTHEID Stickers | 25 - 1000 🍉 BDS - £4.50. FOR SALE! A set of high-quality stickers emphasising the boycott Israeli products campaigns worldwide. Stickers are 2.25” x 1.PicClick UK
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It's an amazing study in the way the antisemite thinks, isn't it?
They believe that a Jew in Manchester is responsible for actions in other countries, leading them to smack these kind of messages on American products.
It's quite the sickness that folks like this have, terrorizing innocent people. We know it's certainly not about change... If they wanted to change things, they'd go after politicians, or a large population. Jews only account for 0.5% of the UK population.
And of course as we know, there are Jewish products that are *only* produced in Israel (not this one, it's American!), which means Jews have no choice but to buy from Israel, meaning they (and only they, not Christians or Muslims) are forced to be subjected to this.
You have to be a pretty sick person to do this to innocent people, and a pretty sick person to think that it's "genius".
ooops.
I had no idea, I'm sorry about that then.
Apparently it's made in Lohamei Hagheta’ot.
So yeah, boycotting them might hurt some people in Israel's north financially.
Not convinced it's hitting the right people though 🤷♂️.
I will apply the same logic to all groups or peoples.
E.g. if someone labelled Kunafa from Nablus as supporting violent acts done by Hamas, I would ask if it really hurts the right people financially.
Thought by whom? (Even at its peak, only 25% of Britains said they were boycotting produce from South Africa. Which is massive for an action, but small on an economic scale.)
Stopping a war by sanctions seems even harder. There's a lot of economic pressure applied to Russia to stop fighting in Ukraine, to little result so far. Even if they work, sanctions take a long time.
So means and supposed goals don't seem to match in this case. This action doesn't save lives.
The other point with actions and pressure in general is that it works best if there's a clear direction to it. "Do this and it will stop". (Otherwise it will be seen as just an attack and an attempt at destruction.)
This action, and #BDS in general, doesn't do that. What's the aim? "Retreat from Gaza", "end apartheid and settler violence in the West-Bank", "destroy Israel and drive the jews into the sea" - which is it? And the 1948 reference points to the later. Again.
Of course I absolutely do not support the genocide. What did you read? 🤔
My original comment was directed to:
@Lassielmr that in no way contradicts that the hate which drives Hamas is inherited from Nazi propaganda.
Radio Zeesen and the mufti are the ones who e.g. weaponized the "Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him" hadith that Hamas uses in their Covenant to call for the murder of all Jews.
@Mogleg@mastodon.scot @Shadedlady @theron29
@Mogleg Nazi-Ideology is what drives Hamas.
Their hate against Jews and their wish to murder all Jews¹ is inherited from the propaganda the Nazis spread with Radio Zeesen in the Arab world:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-…
¹ just read the covenant of Hamas: irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/88…
@saxnot@chaos.social @Shadedlady @theron29 @ideogram@social.coop
@saxnot
Exactly! I get the impression we in the west have invested so much in the fairy tale of the settler colony being the only democracy etc were plain refusing to acknowledge what’s happening before our eyes. It’s cope on a national level.
People are waking up to this fact but we’re still lagging development by some decades. Extremely frustrating.
@Mogleg @Shadedlady @theron29 unironically exactly how israel thinks + operates.
It's nazi ideology (the original early 19xx stuff) and they never made a big secret about it. Now they're committing genocide and suddenly we're all shocked that isreal is not the free and democratic bastion it never proclaimed or pretended to be
@Shadedlady No need to call that sarcasm. It won’t.
But having a Jew-free area in Gaza for 18 years sure did not change their minds either. Oct. 7th proved that.
As taking hostages doesn’t change the minds of extremists in Israel.
What can change their respective minds?
(if you just think about things that do not, please refrain from answering until you find something that could)
@Lassielmr @theron29
@Shadedlady Israel tried a two state solution and threw their own extremists out of Gaza.
Back then Gaza could have been the start of an independent, peaceful state but Hamas turned it into a training ground and equipment source for terrorists.
How to make sure that a second try does not end the same way?
For a one-state solution that’s even harder and more important.
How do you get Hamas and PLO (and Hezbollah) to stop trying to annihilate Israel and kill all Jews?
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...Python Software Foundation Blog
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I have been subjected to this kind of contractual violence on a personal level too.
It's shocking and upsetting to see people abuse positions of privilege to exert power and control over other people in this way - but sadly this cancer exists in humanity!
It's not even a choice, you would be stupid as all fuck to agree to these motherless dog shits' terms and conditions.
Well done for standing your ground - long live PSF💪
DEATH TO FASCISM 💀
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@jay You think the right answer to receiving money on the condition of being fascist to to pretend to be fascist? That is.... Painfully short sighted. It would drive away contributors and make the terms and conditions seem acceptable to organisations. Plus the foundation would eventually lose the money anyway due to the clawback clause. Better that everyone turn down the money and show themselves to be better people.
There are more important things than money.
The clawback clause is *nuclear* too. Not only would they lose 1.5million they already spent if they did the "take the money and do it anyway" plan, they could actually lose the money they got from every OTHER government grant they ever took before signing that thing.
You don't play stupid games with the US government, even this one. They can make sure you win VERY stupid prizes.
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@Nentuaby @distrowatch @jay
There also exists the likelihood that the US government in its present state would make up a reason to trigger that clawback clause -- and it doesn't have to be a good one. The $1.5m offered is tied to a leash and collar, and that collar is rather noose-shaped.
Even setting aside the Python Foundation's commitment to what these clowns call 'DEI' and the rest of us call 'human fucking rights', from an organizational perspective, it's better not to give any political organization, but particularly the current US federal government, the ability to simply wipe the group off the map at a whim.
@jay They're not giving up, they're sticking to their governing principles.
Taking your approach is dishonest and breaks trust with their community.
Also, I'm guessing you're not familiar with legal matters. If the organization was found to be intentionally breaking contract, they'd not only need to pay back the money, they'd also have legal fees and possible penalties, and interest to pay back too. They'd be further behind financially than they are now.
It isn't breaking a contract if it's a loophole, but if nobody is even going to try to find one, well, that's a shame.
P.S. - I just checked. Any interest from a grant must be remitted back to the US gov't 👎
in one hand, is sad because we know how many great things is done using this money....
But i agree with this positiion, stay strong
Thank you for holding back our great community

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Thank you!
Could you also please ask Deb or someone else to get back to @Teckids concerning the parts of the community currently locked out from PyPI after being cancelled by the adultist terms in the PSF's new terms of use?
thank you for doing the right thing PSF
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thank you for standing for the community!!! 🥰
Next steps: Getting PyConUS out of America, into a place like Canada
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The Funding and Tenders Portal is the single entry point (the Single Electronic Data Interchange Area) for applicants, contractors and experts in funding programmes and procurements managed by the European Commission.ec.europa.eu
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Thank you.
I dearly wish this wasn't noteworthy, but it is, so you get kudos for it.
the PSF should stick to Python and software and value people solely on merit and our shared humanity. They should NOT discriminate against *anyone* based on gender, sexuality or race/ethnicity. DEI programs unfortunately often seem to do that.
MLK made clear in his "I Have A Dream" speech he wanted his kids to grow up in a world where they were judged by the content of their character not by the color of their skin. He literally said that and we should take him at his word. I do. So should you. But regardless of whether you agree with MLK or not the PSF should stay *out* of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity/color and stay out of politics. Stick to Python. This should be obvious, I think.
Thankfully I've moved on from the Python community. Too much immature self-inflicted drama. Software *engineering*, folks -- focus on that.
@synlogic4242 Community health, and therefore things that some would call politics, is an inseperable part of open source. You're asking the PSF to "stay out of" these things, when that is exactly what opens the doors to bigotry and discrimination. In fact, this "should avoid politics" argument is often used exactly by bigots, with the hope that they'll be allowed to be bigoted in more communities.
This has become so crystal clear to me that, in the absence of very strong anti-discrimination rules, i mentally translate "no politics" policies to actually mean "queerphobes and racists welcome".
I can't know whether you are aware of this, but i hope this was ignorance, not malice.
Not talking about politics is extremely political. Not caring about oppression and discrimination is extremely political. It's high time the technical people leave their bubble and take a look at the real world, beyond their little individuality
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hey Ruby, this is how you do it.
There's far too many open source foundations and maintainers that should learn from this. Thanks for doing the right thing PSF!
On organization standing up for their (good) values?! Donation made.
I encourage other people making bigtech salaries to do the same if you use Python. The work the PSF does helps me make a good living, I can throw some back to them! If you can match at your employer, even better.
Also, you should be a member, too.
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"discriminatory equity ideology"
George Orwell, your time has come!
It would be great if you can provide an additional donation option for European people (or even better a European association or via an European Association, such as alasca.cloud/en/). Europe has a very efficient high-speed (less than 10 seconds you have it) bank transfer system (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_E…) at much lower costs than credit cards/paypal.
With a European entity you could also apply to @sovtechfund for grants without sacrifying your values.
"promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology"
That is some "creative" re-framing they got going on there...
Doing the right thing you “lost out on this large funding source.” But know that people doing the right thing never lose anything. For them it is a win-win because it is the right thing to do especially because it is the right time to do the right thing!
The upside is that we as part of the PSF community, we appreciate your bravery and will support you however we can!
My company is pretty much built on #Python.
We just made a significant donation to the PSF in recognition to their great work on the language, of which a small but important part is their commitment to fairness (or "DEI" as USians call it).
If you can, you can donate any amount at psfmember.org/civicrm/contribu….
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thanks.
more power to you all.
Donated.
I'd be inclined to interpret this provision as saying that you can't run any DEI programmes that break the law and then insist that your programs don't break the law, but with that clawback provision it's just not safe. You could even have them review and OK your programmes, but you could never trust them not to blackmail you later.
It requires the intake of a significant amount of drugs to understand, how promoting diversity, equity and inclusion is violating an anti-discrimination law for being considered some discriminatory equity ideology.
Understanding #fascist and #populist rhetoric requires oneself to ignore the established meaning of words making communication useless and solely focus on the sounds they make. It's like apes grunting at each other.
I would really love to support you.
But currently I cannot, because you share my PII with the US authorities which will have a negative on me and every supporter who might want to enter the US going forward.
Sorry
Pour obtenir cette somme, la fondation devait s’engager à ne mener aucune action en faveur de la diversité, l’égalité ou l’inclusion (DEI), une des exigences politiques de l’administration Trump.Thierry Noisette (ZDNET)
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This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.
In this case the warning was quite literal.
The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.
What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.
Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.
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Update: This post seems to have struck a nerve and went very wide. As I will not be able to answer every comment, I want to add a few points:
Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough.Harishankar (Small World)
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@briankrebs My vacuum cleaner is very dumb, but it still works. It was built around 1960, and I inherited it from my grandmother.
An Electrolux, if you want to know.
@c_merriweather @briankrebs Mine is dumb too. A Hoover PAWS Wind tunnel purchased in 2008.
My parents gave us their off-brand Roomba thingy from 2018ish. No camera, and we can't get it to work right. It just goes back and forth in a weird diamond pattern and won't do anything else. 😆
@courtcan @briankrebs I am surprised that someone has not some has not put an RC controller on a "roomba" so it can be operated with a joystick.
Just sittin' there on the Lay-z-Boy, feet up, directing the vacuum cleaner around the room.
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@briankrebs My smart home is isolated from the Internet and when I test new devices the "Who do they talk to" is an important part of the evaluation.
But alas, the days have become dark and difficult. Everything wants to talk to the world.
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Smart home tech (or any) shouldn’t require manufacturer apps, internet connection or accounts to work. If a product mandates anything like that, that’s just a hidden fee, paid with data. There are enough products using industry standards that work offline, across apps and hubs (if needed).
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I'm starting to play with HomeAssistant and smart devices that don't call home aren't that easy to find.
Try devices that use either Zigbee or Matter over Thread. They will work offline, are interoperable between manufacturers and work with HomeAssistant.
Some might require an app and internet for firmware updates, but those are optional. No need to use them or even keep them installed in daily use.
Popular brands include IKEA Tradfri, Philips Hue, Eve Home, Sonoff, Aqara or Xiaomi, but there are a myriad of companies in this field.
"I'm sorry Martin, that brand of bread is not authorised in this toaster. Would you like to upgrade your bread subscription details?"
And if you liked that, then you really should read Cory Doctorow's compilation called _Radicalized_. Four short-ish stories, and the very first one is called "Unauthorised Bread". And the third one is kind of predicting Luigi Mangioni, but on steroids.
Have a nice evening!
why use slop for illustration on a technical article?
Also I'm pretty sure this whole article is also slop.
It is an absolute slop fest. Horribly obvious ChatGPT writing including the classic "This isn't X; it's Y" all over the place and a claim that ADB was open... on a Linux based device?
It's a shame too because it's a genuinely interesting situation, but the AI slop writing is horrible to get through and makes the story look much more involved and long than it actually is.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)
@luupies @lies_das Laughably naive. Inform yourself about the work of DOGE, Palantir and ICE and the purchases of data by the US govt which is doing exactly what you accuse the Chinese govt of doing.
The US has, of course, a history of overthrowing democratically elected governments it doesn't like as well as a long history of assassinating people and committing war crimes. See eg, the book Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill. Micah Lee's Defcon 33 talk on YouTube about bombing Yemen etc etc
When we were looking at vacuum robots I said I didn't want anything that needed to connect to WiFi to do its job because I remembered the babymonitors that used WiFi and griefers had "hacked" to terrify toddlers. So we got an Ecovacs Deebot and it'll go around in a frustratingly random way and not "see" things just next to it, but it gets the job done.
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Remember how, back in September 2015, researchers revealed that virtually every "smart" baby-monitor they tested was riddled with security vulnerabilities that let strangers seize control over it, spying on you…Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing)
@nazokiyoubinbou @lbnvds I think the image at the top is most likely AI generated. AI may have been used to work on the text, but it doesn’t seem prompt generated.
I think the story behind it is true and that is the most important point in my book.
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there's sooo much nope in that article, holy fucking shit, to run the entirety of Google Cartographer on a full Linux machine, sending all of that back, receiving remote kill commands when the telemetry stops, this is all beyond insane
And I also see a lot of opportunity for lawyers to step in, because if that's running a full linux distro, people are entitled to the sourcecode for one. And the entire telemetry crap seems like something a GDPR lawyer would have an absolute field day with
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Stopped reading after seeing the AI slop that is the head image.
Ms. Dadmin wanted one of those as well. I refused and told her that she already has the smartest vacuum in the world:
Me! 😁
*Kissed* 😘
On the unmodified device, if the kill switch requires a remote command to be sent, blocking ALL networking (no open wifi and not giving in the passphrase) should block the command from being received. This won't work if a timeout on communications with the robot's true master is also included.
I would expect most users who block networking to block ALL of it, especially given the long history of updates that are downgrades (such as new DRM antifeatures and lockouts) in commercial devices of all types.
ANY device you cut off from the vendor needs to be cut all the way off including firmware updates. Hard for a 3ed party to exploit an offline device, so should be safe to stay with a "known good snapshot" firmware.
Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵
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This was super interesting. A glimpse into the life of a stranger, very candid. A little sad.
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Ohhhh…
An oversharer, who failed to live up to his potential.
What an interesting man, & sad story.
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🤩 Beautiful work!
Forgive me, but I've been replaying the Myst game series and these look very "Rivenese" to me at the moment! I'm sure they referenced the same cultural motifs when they were doing art for the game.
Anyway, I love the form of that tea pot and the patterns and colors here are fantastic.
Those pieces are wonderful! Just looking at them makes me feel calm and happy. My fingers are imagining the textures.
I will check out your website.
I notice that the website said that you have a solar powered studio. How much power do you need to do that? (I imagine an electric kiln can draw a fair amount of power.)
@karlauerbach Thank you for taking a look. The teapot is still available, but not much else. I hope to have more by late November.
Honestly, kiln firing doesn’t make much of a difference to our monthly bill/power usage. It runs for a finite amount of time and I only fire a couple of times a month. What makes the biggest difference is HVAC especially during our very hot summers.
I can understand why you are selling-out, your work is really nice.
I noted that tea pot - the handle made me think of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. I particularly liked that "earth tone vase". I've spent some time over the last couple of years in the hills west of Sedona, Arizona, so those colors look familiar.
I look forward to what you create next. I may buy some.
As a kid I tried ceramics - but I wasn't any good. More recently I put my hand to a fireplace using arts-and-crafts tiles. Here's a link to a photo...
I've recently discovered the Japanese practice of Kintsugi ('golden repair') and am saving up to be able to preserve a vase beloved by my late mother.
I love your designs, colour choices, and clean decorative lines by the way!
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Nous soutenons l'initiative de l'APRIL #AdieuWindows qui organise et rassemble les personnes souhaitant quitter Windows à l'occasion de la fin du support de Windows 10.
C'est le moment de passer à Linux en étant soutenu et bien entouré!🐧
Trouvez de l'aideprès de chez vous pour installer un système d'exploitation libre !Adieu Windows, bonjour le Libre !
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Vous avez peut-être entendu parler de la fin du support de Windows 10 sans forcément y prêter attention, ou vous vous demandez si ça vous concerne. Faisons le point. De quoi est-il question ?...Framablog
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When Alice Gooblar-Perovic, Aahana Gupta, and Lydia Cruce were freshmen at Iowa City West High School, they learned that thousands of books, including "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Nineteen Minutes," were going to be pulled from classrooms across their state. This was in order to comply with Senate File 496, which said books and school materials must be "age appropriate." So they started a Banned Book Club. Two years later, the club is still going and growing, and the law is in trouble — the part of it that affected school libraries was temporarily blocked by a federal judge, while enforcement of book restrictions remains frozen under a second temporary injunction. @npr's Iowa Public Radio spoke with the three girls, who are now juniors, about how their goals have changed, and the community they've built.
#Books @bookstodon #BookBans #Iowa #TheKidsAreAlright #HighSchool #Children
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023.Josie Fischels (Iowa Public Radio)
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I love the detail in the petals and leaves, and especially the wavy opening!
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Let us post #JohnOliver being sexy pics. I heard it worked somewhere for something ^_^J
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Okay, he could have dedicated a bit more airtime to those alternatives and also drop Bluesky from that list 😅.
And especially stress that those Alternatives (not Bluesky ofc) are completely different BY DESIGN.
It’s like comparing autocracy with democracy.
That hasn‘t sunk in yet with large parts of the mainstream and would have very much been worth mentioning imho 😅
"Not as desperate to fall in line with trump..."
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Still warm from the kiln, covered in warm earth tones—I’m so relieved this piece came out successfully on the other side of firing. I worked on it over the course of a month and remembered to document moments of process which I think I’ll share in a thread.
The most important thing to know is that I consider this pot a collaboration. I coordinated the colors, but I didn’t choose them. Each clay tone was a surprise and a gift, and that’s where my excitement about this piece lies. #pottery
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This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing,
I think I love the extra detail of the dots/bumps and the lovely orange textures.
This is what it looked like before it was fired. At this point, I’d let it dry completely (we call that bone dry) and then I painted it with dirt water (we call that terra sig.) I love this soft, pastel stage and I also love the color shifting alchemy that happens in a hot kiln. The yellow to dark purple is especially wild.
After this I bisque fire, then apply glaze, then fire again. I work in batches so I was making other pots while I made this. #pottery #clay #ceramics #WIP #artprocess
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