Posts by Voline@kolektiva.social
(DIR) Post #AV3zGFxGZGB5eOlt1U by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-04-26T01:46:43Z
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Computers that belonged to the Saskatoon police were repeatedly used to scrub Wikipedia of any reference to their “starlight tours”.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths
(DIR) Post #AWN5rWtclk6E8ackiG by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-06-01T22:41:01Z
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An interesting overview of Bluesky, it’s political-economic relations and technical design by @micahflee . A lot is hanging on the design of the ATProtocol and the ease and completeness of account portability. We won’t know about that until some outside the company try their hand at building their own ATProtocol compliant server software and the ATP version of federation is tested.https://theintercept.com/2023/06/01/bluesky-owner-twitter-elon-musk/
(DIR) Post #AWN5rZWgzSXSIKuysy by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-06-02T00:14:47Z
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@micahflee @rubicon Well, what of this $13 million that Bluesky “has received … to ensure we have the freedom and independence to get started on R&D.” according to their Tweet?Is that a grant? With no strings attached? Is it a loan that must be repaid at interest? Or does it guarantee Twitter or Dorsey a weighted vote on the board? It’s not really clear. It’s stated in the passive voice and no reciprocal requirements are mentioned — if they exist.
(DIR) Post #AWN5rauppBRcbVDm9g by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-06-02T00:32:00Z
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@micahflee @rubicon Now *that’s* clear. 👍🏼
(DIR) Post #AWwsPvElWs7hSMWWci by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-06-21T19:21:17Z
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Leaded gasoline. They’ve been using leaded gasoline at the Portland raceway. Guardian | Revealed: a toxic metal is in a US city’s air – and may be harming children’s brains https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/lead-emissions-racetracks-portland-international-raceway
(DIR) Post #AY6tBEC14DxLxgyEF6 by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-07-26T23:36:05Z
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I think it’s difficult for us in North America to appreciate how shocking, rebellious, and frankly prophetic Sinéad O’Connor was in an Irish context. I lived there briefly in 1985, and so saw the place and time she was from. It was a bit of a culture shock. I was 19 and not in school. I got a work permit and flew over to Dublin. I only spoke English at the time so it was kind of a toss up between London and Dublin. I didn’t think there’d be much of a difference it was all “Western Europe” as far as I was concerned — Denmark, France, Ireland, … all pretty similar right? Hahahaha. Unlike today, Ireland in 1985 was a poor country. Deprivation had forced generations of people to emigrate to have a better life. There were 4 million people in the Republic, but in 1845 there had been 8 million. The only country in Europe whose population declined over that period. 1995 was the first time in 300 years Ireland did not have negative net migration.And it was pious. Sinéad called it “a theocracy”. There were no state schools. All education was in the hands of religious schools — overwhelmingly Catholic. Two years before, in 1983, the Republic had put a ban on abortion into their constitution. Condoms were illegal when I got there. In 1980 Bob Geldof had summed up his home town as “police and priests”. It seemed a bit more patriarchal than the US in the Reagan years. But I didn’t know the half of it. It wasn’t until years later that I learned about the Magdalene Laundries where “troubled” girls were imprisoned in workhouses operated by orders of nuns, the Mother and Baby homes where women who were pregnant out of wedlock were kept out of sight to have their babies in secret, who were then taken from them and sold to American Catholic couples — and underneath it all the decades-long, quietly suppressed crime of the clergy sexually abusing boys and girls.This stuff was not talked about in 1980s Ireland. But Sinéad did. She would not shut up. She would not stay in her place. She made original, passionate music. But if you think she caused an uproar in the US when she tore up a photo of the Pope on SNL … well, in Ireland in 1992 it was incendiary. It was only later, in the late 1990 and 2000s that the scandals broke, and everyone could see that the crazy woman who would not shut up was right. She had been right all along.The 2022 biographical film Nothing Compares is good. If you want to get the flavor of what she means to people in Ireland, go scroll through the expressions of grief pouring out on mastodon.ie The woman was a giant.#Sinead #SineadOConnor
(DIR) Post #AY6tBFrsq32Z9pZB8i by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-07-27T00:56:14Z
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Sources:Wikipedia. "The Celtic Tiger" period of 1990shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_TigerConor Pope and Glen Murphy. "Census 2022 results"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/05/30/census-2022-results-all-the-data-on-irelands-latest-demographics-as-it-happens/Simon Hattenstone. "Sinéad O’Connor: The Angelic Skinhead for Whom Love, Intelligence and Madness Were Inseparable”https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-oconnor-mental-health-struggles-parental-abuseEARS. "Ireland: A Strong Religious Presence in the Education System"https://europeanacademyofreligionandsociety.com/news/ireland-a-strong-religious-presence-in-the-education-system/ Ivana Bacik. "Ireland Has Changed Utterly: The Cruel Eighth Amendment Is History"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/26/ireland-has-changed-utterly-the-cruel-eighth-amendment-is-historyBBC. Eighth Amendment Repealed as Irish President Signs Bill Into Lawhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45568094Máiréad Enright & Emilie Cloatre. "Transformative Illegality: How Condoms ‘Became Legal’ in Ireland, 1991–1993"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10691-018-9392-1Pete Briquette and Bob Geldof "Banana Republic" (1980)https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/The-Boomtown-Rats/Banana-RepublicWikipedia. "Magdalene Laundries in Ireland"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Laundries_in_Ireland Rory Carroll. "Ireland Publishes Report on 'Appalling' Abuse at Mother and Baby Homes"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/ireland-report-appalling-abuse-mother-baby-homes Cate McCurry. "Summary of Clerical Sex Abuse Scandals in Ireland"https://www.irishnews.com/news/popevisit/2018/08/24/news/summary-of-clerical-sex-abuse-scandals-in-ireland-1415362/Henry McDonald. "Irish Church and Police Covered Up Child Sex Abuse, Says Report"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/26/ireland-church-sex-abuse*Nothing Compares* Kathryn Ferguson's 2022 filmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Compares_(film)Mastodon.ie https://mastodon.ie/explore
(DIR) Post #AYJBSMR1DIxEyP1vbU by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-08-02T02:35:42Z
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Ars Technica | Connected car data privacy under investigation by California regulator"Modern vehicles are effectively connected computers on wheels. They're able to collect a wealth of information via built-in apps, sensors, and cameras, which can monitor people both inside and near the vehicle," said Ashkan Soltani, CPPA's executive director.Well, *automobiles* are. Bicycles are not. Thwart Big Brother: Cycle! 🚲 https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/connected-car-data-privacy-under-investigation-by-california-regulator/
(DIR) Post #AYKsaX1IEUZHJ26Etc by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-08-02T23:40:03Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @mwl Michael Lucas contains multitudes.
(DIR) Post #AYT0J56psaFtVEvbWq by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-08-06T21:14:22Z
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Speaking of the “Tragedy of the Commons" … Enclosure is the process whereby wealthy and powerful take what belongs to everyone, archetypically common lands, and make it their own exclusive property. Now Google wants to get together with other powerful interests to enclose the digital commons — the World Wide Web.'As one GitHub user commented, "This raises a red flag for the open nature of the web, potentially paving the way for a digital hierarchy dominated by a few tech giants.”’https://stackdiary.com/web-environment-integrity/
(DIR) Post #AYnbmAEMClSEOFUYvg by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-08-16T18:46:58Z
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Chief Gideon Cody's troubles are just beginning.”All electronic devices seized by police will be returned to the Marion County Record, said Bernie Rhodes, a Kansas City-based attorney for the Record who also represents The Star."'We have stopped the hemorrhaging,' Rhodes told The Star. 'But it does nothing about taking care of the damage that has already occurred from the violation of the First Amendment in the first place.'""Marion County [Prosecutor] Joel Ensey said he concluded that 'insufficient evidence' existed to establish a 'legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized.'"https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article278300178.html
(DIR) Post #AYnbmBVPSqgmLQTh9E by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-08-16T19:14:54Z
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The front page of the Kansas City Star site is quite something today. Everything above the fold is a nightmare for the dime store stormtroopers in Marion County.
(DIR) Post #AYnbmBfKrwd2qD7ccS by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-08-16T18:57:09Z
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Oh Marion County Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, Ask not for whom the bell tolls.“The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence.”https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html
(DIR) Post #AYnbmBs66UpxTn5oVk by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-08-16T19:25:48Z
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This paragraph from the story about Magistrate Judge Laura Viar is … something. While she was serving as prosecutor for Morris County, Kansas:“She was not supposed to be driving because her driver’s license was suspended in the Coffey County case, court records show. She reportedly drove off-road and crashed into a school building next to Council Grove’s football field while driving then-8th District Magistrate Judge Thomas Ball’s vehicle.”
(DIR) Post #AZdM4vGSLR9OZ6F4rI by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-09-10T19:27:04Z
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@Wolven @mhoye That’s the problem with big corporations these days, they’re too woke.
(DIR) Post #AalDeB8ZiNW7dbhrQ8 by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-10-13T09:23:09Z
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Martyn Turner in the Irish Times
(DIR) Post #AbJ0NVyVfMUarZl0C0 by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-10-30T19:34:08Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @mwl Kolektiva is on it. Already blocked.
(DIR) Post #AbPfmGlnfOKcqMJEbA by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-11-03T00:46:23Z
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@tek @mwl Maybe they’re not more clever, but the judge and prosecutor will make you stop dancing around and answer the question.
(DIR) Post #Abg7KoXaQ7wmidiTjM by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-11-10T22:30:05Z
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Brothers and sisters, friends of the Revolution, please do not use Telegram for any text that you would not want to see on the side of a building. Don't take my word for it, listen to these folks.Here's Dan Goodin (@dangoodin) in Ars Technica summarizing an exploit discovered by Ahmed Hassan: "Using readily available software and a rooted Android device, he’s able to spoof the location his device reports to Telegram servers. By using just three different locations and measuring the corresponding distance reported by People Nearby, he is able to pinpoint a user’s precise location."https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/telegram-feature-exposes-your-precise-address-to-hackers/Independent security researcher The Grugq (@thegrugq) on Telegram's many problems:"In summary, Telegram is error prone, has wonky homebrew encryption, leaks voluminous metadata, steals the address book, and is now known as a terrorist hangout. I couldn’t possibly think of a worse combination for a safe messenger."https://grugq.tumblr.com/post/133453305233/operational-telegram Former maintainer of the Golang cryptographic libraries Filippo Valsorda (@filippo) on a bug in Telegram's cryptographic protocol:"To this day, itʼs the most backdoor-looking bug Iʼve ever seen."https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cryptography-dispatches-the-most-backdoor-looking/Prof of cryptography Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) on Telegram's custom encryption: "Like seriously. Wtf is even going on here."https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/582249709286326272And finally, Bruce Schneier:"Don't Use Telegram."https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/06/comparing_messa.html
(DIR) Post #Acxh0SZAcXo6KxtkDg by Voline@kolektiva.social
2023-12-17T14:40:31Z
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@mikemathia And you could do it because, regardless of how hard you did it, there was no way you were going to break this thing.