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Evidence of the surveillance of environmental activists keeps mounting, so we put together a guide on how to limit social media monitoring for those protecting our planet 🌎

https://pvcy.org/climate


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It's time for the best meteor shower of the year: the Geminids. This dependable shower can deliver upwards of 120 meteors per hour in perfect conditions. Unfortunately, this year isn't perfect conditions. The peak of the meteor shower, around December 14th, lines up with the full Moon, which will wash away the faintest meteor trails. But all hope isn't lost. Here's our guide to catching as many meteors as you can.

https://www.universetoday.com/169860/our-strategy-to-catch-the-2024-geminid-meteors/
A brilliant Geminid meteor pierces the Arizona night sky. Credit: Eliot Herman.

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if any other instance donated to trump you'd defederate them immediately

dont give special treatment to the rich and powerful

https://cyberpunk.lol/@FediPact/113640119673222929

Meta donates $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund in latest step to mend relationship


“Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg said during an interview

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/tech/meta-trump-donation-hnk-intl/index.html

#FediPact #meta #threads

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🎉 MAMY STOWARZYSZENIE! 🎉

Z radością ogłaszamy, iż Sąd Rejonowy w Poznaniu właśnie zarejestrował nasze stowarzyszenie! 🥳 Po zaledwie 16 dniach od spotkania założycielskiego, zostaliśmy oficjalnie wpisani do rejestru stowarzyszeń KRS. Dziękujemy wszystkim którzy przyczynili się do finalizacji tego procesu!

#hackerspace #knyfyrtel #poznań #linuxcommunity
cieszymy się niezmiernie z rozrostu społeczności Linuksa!

Może wpadniecie całą ekipą na 19 Sesję Linuksową?

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Amateur Radio Operators Detect Signals from Voyager 1

At the time of its construction in the 1950s, the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory was the largest rotatable telescope in the world with a dish diameter of 25 meters. It was …read more
#hacking #projects
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/11/amateur-radio-operators-detect-signals-from-voyager-1/

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I created this for my own use, but am sharing it here because it might be useful to other people too. This is the style and theres a brief readme.

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Here's a pano photo from my #Astrophotography early morning session at Strathnairn, ACT earlier this year.

https://www.desparoz.com/strathnairn-nights/
Strathnairn Nights Panorama of the Milky Way core

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"It is important to be able to communicate freely", says Jérôme Poisson aka @Goffi in the NGI0 #podcast. He is the main developer of Libervia, a communication ecosystem based on #XMPP.
XMPP is mostly known for chat but Libervia offers many more features such as blogs, fora, events & file sharing. It has gateways to other open protocols like #ActivityPub & email. He talks about Libervia, the political side of technology & offers advise about #NGI0 grants.
https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero/episodes/technology-is-not-neutral-libervia
#FOSS
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Wszyscy się już pochwalili na tych innych platformach i pewnie macie dość😀 , ale my bardziej z podziękowaniem niż samym #SpotifyWrapped.

Dziękujemy Wam za wszystkie odsłuchania i oceny naszego podcastu! My już szykujemy kolejne odcinki Zajawki, tymczasem zapraszamy do sprawdzenia zaległych odcinków i dodania nas do obserwowanych, gdziekolwiek nas słuchacie. Oprócz Spotify jesteśmy na Youtube, Deezer, Soundcloud i oczywiście PeerTube.

✅Zajawka na Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2sUCMiZ7q4hPKHgAiOCF6Q?si=3LVKnYLLQgOvLP5BIspMRg
✅Peertube: https://tube.pol.social/w/p/3AFiwJPmqdtDCnWKuchSNj
✅Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3WN3cwuROn6g2q0ln6GuTG21R9lHh90U
✅Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/pl/show/1001021522
✅Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sie-obywatelska-watchdog/sets/zajawka-podcast-watchdoga?si=b37f6446be6c4690953db5aa2c83c637&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Brakuje nas jeszcze na Apple Podcast i pamiętamy o tych postulatach🙂 , mamy nadzieję, że to tylko kwestia czasu.

Dobrego wieczoru i do usłyszenia! 😉
Średnia ocena podcastu
Czerwone tło z zielonymi elementami graficznymi. Widoczny napis: „Średnia ocena: 5” oraz pięć czarnych gwiazdek symbolizujących maksymalną ocenę podcastu. Na dole znajduje się logo Spotify for Creators oraz hashtag #SpotifyWrapped. Żółte tło z mapą świata w tle. Widoczny napis: „Moi słuchacze pochodzą z: 4 kraje” oraz „Na topie w tym kraju: Polska”. Na górze nazwa „Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska”. Na dole logo Spotify for Creators oraz hashtag #SpotifyWrapped.
Top odcinek podcastu

Czarne tło z grafiką odcinka podcastu Watchdog: „Zajawka. Podcast Watchdoga. Odc. 11. Co powinien wiedzieć radny przed pierwszą sesją?”. Na górze nazwa „Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska” oraz żółty napis „Top odcinek”. Na dole logo Spotify for Creators oraz hashtag #SpotifyWrapped. Osobowość twórcy

Ciemnoczerwone tło z grafiką symbolicznego klejnotu. Widoczny napis: „Osobowość twórcy: Gawędziarz”, wskazujący styl narracji twórcy. Na górze nazwa „Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska”. Na dole logo Spotify for Creators oraz hashtag #SpotifyWrapped.

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słucham podkastu na podcast addict. Dzięki że robicie #podkast dzięki czemu każdy może słuchać za pomocą dowolnego programu nie uzależniając się od wielkich platform.

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We really need to stop buying into the argument that #ClimateActivists are "radical" or "destructive". The opposite is true: the nature of the protests have been peaceful and, on the whole, pretty tame.

The idea that, say, sitting on a road is "radical", "extreme" and "criminal" came from a bunch of #FossilFuel aligned think tanks, parroted by the media.
Reject them.

The framing needs to be: Fossil fuel companies are radical, extreme, criminal.

#ALEC
https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters
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"#Climate and #EnvironmentalJustice groups report a significant increase in draconian, and often arbitrary, charges for peaceful protesters as part of a playbook of tactics to vilify, discredit, intimidate and silence activists.

The Guardian has also found striking similarities in the way governments from Canada and the US to Guatemala and Chile, from India and Tanzania to the UK, Europe and Australia, are cracking down on activists trying to protect the planet."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/how-criminalisation-is-being-used-to-silence-climate-activists-across-the-world
"Lane-Rose has become a prominent young climate activist, and the university student, now 19, faces a charge of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence. She's also been slapped with a violence restraining order, had her home raided and possessions seized and been banned from associating with fellow campaigners."

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/why-australias-answer-to-greta-thunberg-is-facing-years-behind-bars/ionacwx5y
"The documents from the North Dakota security board paint a detailed picture of counterinsurgency-style strategies for defeating opponents of #OilAndGas development, a war-on-terror security firm’s aspirations to replicate its deceptive tactics far beyond the Northern Great Plains, and the cozy relationship between businesses linked to the #FossilFuel industry and one of the largest law enforcement trade associations in the #US"

#DAPL
https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/standing-rock-tigerswan-protests/
“TigerSwan Solutions.”
To keep the #FossilFuel industry safe, #TigerSwan used #counterinsurgency tactics including:
drones,
social media monitoring,
HUMINT (spying)
liaising with law enforcement officials and agencies
local community engagement,
counter-protesters,
building a “pipeline narrative,” and partnering with university oil and gas programs.

“Win the populace, and you win the fight,” the presentation stated.

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/standing-rock-tigerswan-protests/
"#NorthCarolina passed the most draconian of the year. It classifies #trespassing on an energy facility as a# felony punishable with up to two years in prison and attempting to “obstruct, impede, or impair the services of transmissions of an energy facility" as felonies that carry up to 19 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. "

#ALEC
https://www.commondreams.org/news/greenpeace-anti-protest-laws
An acquittal, but:

"The Treasury claimed the cost of the damage was nearly £20,000 and the defendants faced up to ten years in jail each if they had been found guilty."

A bit much for spraying fake blood (washable dye) over the Treasury building.

#UK #ExtinctionRebellion
https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2023/10/30/jury-acquits-extinction-rebellion-for-treasury-fire-engine-action-and-crown-drops-remaining-trials-after-judge-suggests-not-in-public-interest/
The #UK is starting to feel like Russia in its suppression of free speech.

"Government officials have drawn up deeply controversial proposals to broaden the definition of #extremism to include anyone who “undermines” the country’s institutions and its values, according to documents seen by the Observer."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values
Some good news:
French court annuls ban of #climate movement over ‘eco-terrorism’ claims

"Judges temporarily suspended the government’s disbanding order in August, arguing it restricted the activists’ freedom of assembly and that the interior ministry did not provide enough evidence to back up its claim that the climate movement was inciting violence.

Thursday’s ruling upholds this initial decision."

https://www.politico.eu/article/french-court-annuls-ban-of-climate-movement-over-eco-terrorism-claims/
When a disbanding order doesn't make sense:

"The activist group, created in 2021, counts more than 150,000 supporters and is made up of close to 200 local groupings. It has no clear leadership structure and isn’t officially registered as an association or nonprofit organization — making it difficult to disband."

Of course #LesSoulèvementsdelaTerre has staged other protests since August.

https://www.politico.eu/article/french-court-annuls-ban-of-climate-movement-over-eco-terrorism-claims/
"Long sentences handed to two #JustStopOil protesters for scaling the M25 bridge over the Thames are a potential breach of international law and risk silencing public concerns about the environment.

In a strongly worded intervention, Ian Fry, the UN’s rapporteur for #ClimateChange and #HumanRights, said he was “particularly concerned” about the sentences, which were “significantly more severe than previous sentences imposed for this type of offending in the past”."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/just-stop-oil-protesters-jail-terms-potentially-breach-international-law-un-expert-says
"After punitive sentences were handed down to #ClimateActivists, the UN’s rapporteur for climate change and human rights suggested in November that the sentences potentially breached international law.

Climate activists suffer coordinated attempts to portray them as dangerous extremists. Take the Atlas Network, an influential global grouping of rightwing thinktanks: it has helped lead campaigns across the world to demonise climate activists as dangerous extremists."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/2023-governments-climate-crisis-persecute-activists-silenced
"UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders says he is seriously concerned about ‘regressive new laws’

Forst said that during a two-day visit to the #UK earlier this month he uncovered worrying information on the treatment of peaceful protesters.

At Inner London crown court, peaceful protesters have been forbidden by court order from mentioning the climate crisis, fuel poverty or even the US civil rights movement in their statements to the jury."

#ClimateProtest
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/23/un-expert-condemns-uk-crackdown-on-environmental-protest
In September 2023,
"A UN Special Rapporteur has raised concerns about increasingly draconian laws that restrict citizens’ rights to peaceful protest around Australia. "

Australia, heavily dependent on coal exports, can be thought of as a fossil fuel state.

https://www.edo.org.au/2023/09/08/rise-of-draconian-anti-protest-laws-in-australia-is-highlighted-by-un-special-rapporteur/
"National Highways has injunctions covering 4,300 miles of motorways and major A roads. Anyone who breaches this injunction faces imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. Any corporation can apply for a civil injunction, and individuals can be punished without a trial."

The contrast with the treatment of farmer protesters (and their tractors) can hardly be more stark.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/23/five-examples-of-the-uks-crackdown-on-climate-protesters
Why the brutal crackdowns on #climate protesters?

"In many cases, laws are proposed or drafted by corporate-funded lobby groups masquerading as thinktanks, such as Policy Exchange in the UK and the American Legislative Exchange Council in the US. Such groups create legal templates for crushing protest movements, then press for their adoption all over the world. This tactic has been chillingly effective."

#ALEC
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/02/plutocrats-powerful-laws-uk-rich-corporations
"Inequality demands oppression. The more concentrated wealth and power become, the more those who challenge the rich and powerful must be hounded and crushed. In other words, economic inequality is mirrored by inequality before the law. You can dispense with all the other indices of democracy. The best measure of the health of a political system is who gets prosecuted."

The positive spin: the #FossilFuel peeps are scared: The Twilight of Big Oil is coming.
#Öldämmerung

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/02/plutocrats-powerful-laws-uk-rich-corporations
"Forst said that across #Europe the response to peaceful environmental protest was to repress rather than to enable and protect.

He said he had recorded countless examples of #PoliceBrutality.

Several countries are adopting measures for peaceful demonstrators that are also used against organised criminals. These include early morning raids by counter-terrorism units and the use of undercover police to infiltrate groups."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/28/european-nations-must-end-repression-of-peaceful-climate-protest-says-un-expert
"The UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the #Aarhus Convention, Michel Forst, released a position paper on state repression of environmental protest and #CivilDisobedience: a major threat to human rights and democracy.

The paper concludes with five calls for action to States to make a profound change in how they respond to environmental protest, and also urges the human rights community to coordinate their efforts to support this call for action."

https://unece.org/climate-change/press/un-special-rapporteur-environmental-defenders-under-aarhus-convention-releases
"The legal response to protest in the #UK has been transformed at an astonishing pace. Actions have been newly criminalised; locking on, walking slowly in the road. Crippling fines [are now in place] for, say, blocking certain roads or sitting down at oil terminals.

Existing crimes have been escalated, so that what once might have attracted a small fine, such as sitting down in a road, can now lead quickly to prison. Long custodial sentences are becoming normalised."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/13/climate-crisis-protest-activism-repression
#uk
"Priest, 73, among climate activists made to wear GPS tags for years

Just Stop Oil member Tim Hewes has to lead church services with an ankle tag on – despite not yet having faced trial."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/climate-activists-gps-ankle-tag-just-stop-oil-tim-hewes-priest-midnight-mass/

Why? "For helping plan a climate protest on the M25."

(Thanks to @RufflySpawned for the link).
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"The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear #Mckesson v. Doe, [leaving] in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of #Louisiana, #Mississippi, and #Texas.

Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act."

https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter
This ^^ case illustrates why intersectionality is so important, and why climate activists need to support all those who fight for equality and justice in all the spaces. Because the causes are all connected. In this case, a deeply racist court, in its attempt to crush a Black leader, has made protest impossible for anyone.

https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/1/24/24042823/supreme-court-protest-mckesson-doe-fifth-circuit-first-amendment
This is chilling:

"Nearly 300 #AntiProtest bills introduced in state legislatures since 2017, 41 of which passed.

Many of those laws seemed like direct responses to specific protest campaigns.

New York’s bill, introduced by Democratic lawmakers, is perhaps the most extreme, declaring that blocking public roads, bridges or transportation facilities — or even “act[ing] with the intent” to do so — is a form of domestic terrorism."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/war-protest-standing-rock-cop-city-repression-criminalize-dissent-political-rights-first-amendment
"The language of extremism came to permeate the federal government’s characterization of the anti-pipeline movement and has dogged subsequent social justice campaigns.

North Dakota introduced and later passed two laws expanding the definition of criminal trespass and dramatically heightening penalties for so-called riot offenses — an unmistakable response to what had unfolded at Standing Rock.

A Standing Rock-style protest in North Dakota, or many other states, is virtually impossible today."
This article contains the litany of crackdowns on activists of
– Stop Cop City, Atlanta GA:
– Keystone XL;
– Dakota Access pipeline;
– the Women's March, January 2017;
– Black Lives Matter;
– Palestine;
And connects the next dot:

“The movement opposing U.S. policy toward Israel is attracting ​“hundreds of thousands” of new supporters, says Fox, but that’s also coming at ​“a time where the Right is really experimenting and trying to build new tactics and legislative tools of repression.”
This sets the stage for the next phase of repression,” he says.

And what that phase brings will be shaped by what happens this November. Whatever the outcome of the election, mass protest is almost guaranteed."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/war-protest-standing-rock-cop-city-repression-criminalize-dissent-political-rights-first-amendment

Read this article to see the crackdowns on seemingly disparate protests to see the big picture.
"These core elements – grievances, demands, disruption, confrontation and spectacle – are present in nearly all protests.

[But] time and again, #coverage tends to headline the parts of the protest that are sensational and #disruptive.

And this neglects the political substance of the protests."

https://theconversation.com/media-coverage-of-campus-protests-tends-to-focus-on-the-spectacle-rather-than-the-substance-229172

This kind of coverage also plays into the false narrative that protesters are "radicals" or even "terrorists".
It enables that framing.
"The recent history of environmental activism in the U.S. shows that the repressive policies being advanced now will have repercussions far beyond a single social movement — and that they’re likely to hit climate and land defenders particularly hard.

Now, just as happened after the [#BLM and #DAPL] protests, bills are being considered in six states to enhance penalties for blocking roads, with most of them explicitly framed as a response to pro-Palestine protests."

https://drilled.media/news/gaza-standingrock-tigerswan
#blm #dapl
"An assortment of conservative and far-right politicians started using words like "criminal" and "terrorist" to describe the activists, seeking to spark a debate about the line between activism and extremism."

It's effective:
"It was just so smartly all put together that (the crackdown) just slowly suffocated us and didn't punch us off the street.
So we kind of reached a maximum amount of people that are ready to take that risk upon themselves."

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/christian-and-his-friends-have-taken-direct-action-over-climate-change-theyve-been-labelled-criminals/gwhlipga1
#LastGeneration
"Five members of #LetzteGeneration have been charged with “forming a criminal organisation”, ... under section 129 of the German criminal code. It is believed to be the first time the law has been applied to a non-violent protest group.

“This charge is meant for mafia and organised crime. This charge criminalises every act of support towards the group Letzte Generation. This creates an immense chilling effect on all #climate protests in #Germany.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/23/alarm-as-german-climate-activists-charged-with-forming-a-criminal-organisation
"#CopCity is the harbinger of a dark future. Since 2020, similar police-training complexes all reflect a similar attitude toward the protests of 2020. In the wake of that summer’s unprecedented challenge to state brutality, the American political class has declined introspection and instead chosen to rearm itself against the citizenry, including pro-Palestinian student protesters who one day might similarly find themselves being accused of conspiracy and worse."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/atlanta-cop-city-george-floyd-protesters.html
"Conspiracy to cause public nuisance, which the Just Stop Oil five were found guilty of, is a relatively new offence (introduced in 2022) that carries a maximum prison term of ten years. People who feel compelled to take part in disruptive protest due to the existential threat of climate change risk a decade in jail without being able to explain their actions to a jury.

“These are political sentences and climate activists [have] become political prisoners.” "

https://theconversation.com/why-courts-favour-cars-not-the-climate-234535
"Wealthy, democratic countries in the global north are using harsh, vague and punitive measures to crack down on #ClimateProtests at the same time as criticising similar draconian tactics by authorities in the global south, according to a report."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/10/climate-rights-report-draconian-measures-protest
"#FossilFuel lobbyists coordinated with lawmakers behind the scenes and across state lines to push and shape laws that are escalating a crackdown on peaceful protests against oil and gas expansion.

Records obtained by the Guardian show that lobbyists working for major North American oil and gas companies were key architects of anti-protest laws that increase penalties and could lead to non-violent environmental and #ClimateActivists being imprisoned up to 10 years."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby

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UN human rights expert raises concerns about US charges against climate protesters

"At least 22 states have passed anti-protest laws known as critical infrastructure laws punishing civil disobedience with felonies, fines and long jail sentences since the 2016 Indigenous-led non-violent uprising against the Dakota Access oil pipeline on the Standing Rock Indigenous reservation."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/04/un-human-rights-expert-cellist-climate-protester?CMP=share_btn_url

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"Climate activists are sometimes portrayed as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing production of fossil fuels. Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness."
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

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Today, we ordered TikTok to freeze and preserve all data and evidence linked to the Romanian elections.

This follows recent declassified information pointing to foreign interference from Russia.

We are also intensifying contacts with digital and cyber regulators across Europe in light of emerging evidence of systematic inauthentic activity.
A key step to enforce the Digital Services Act.

More: https://europa.eu/!fN4Xt6

#EU #DSA
A visual with eight yellow stars on a purple background and six icons representing notifications, security, search, and ads placed around the stars. At the centre is a magnifying glass with a chart inside. The text at the bottom reads 'DIGITAL SERVICES ACT' and 'TikTok must freeze and preserve all data and evidence linked to the Romanian elections.' The European Commission logo is in the lower right corner.
#eu #dsa

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Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
#gaza

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@ali great time to donate to Amnesty. Deep reporting like this takes money. See if your employer can match your donation.

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Wtyczka do fediwersowych wydarzeń dla wordpressa nie opublikowana bo być może narusza prawa autorskie... ActivityPub


Moderatorzy repozytorium wtyczek wordpress.org nie końca wiedzą czym jest i jak działa kluczowy dla fediwersu protokół ActivityPub, więc prewencyjnie nie pozwolili użyć jego nazwy w nazwie wtyczki, która ma pomóc w publikowaniu wydarzeń bezpośrednio z własnej strony.

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W związku z wdrażaniem w Polsce Europejskiego Aktu Wolności Mediów (#EMFA) zwracamy uwagę na konieczność wzmocnienie niezależności polskich mediów, ochrony dziennikarzy i redakcyjnej integralności.

W liście wysłanym do Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego zaapelowaliśmy o:

1. wzmocnienie gwarancji niezależności redakcyjnej dziennikarzy zatrudnionych w mediach publicznych,

2. prowadzenie wyspecjalizowanego ciała samoregulacyjnego,
#EMFA

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Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy i Twórców Radia Publicznego
Fundacja Panoptykon
Fundacja Media Forum
Prague Civil Society Centre
Towarzystwo Dziennikarskie
SDP zapomniało podpisać? ;P

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My latest video on #solarpunk #urbanism . This will be one of 7 videos on the subject.
https://peertube.stream/w/fYNRk1mjT83UzFCZxvee3w
Peertube is always published early.

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The Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (which is a government institution) published its report about how social media companies refuse to cooperate in the fight with scams and false advertising (because they benefit from it, obviously).

Facebook now blocks posts that link to this report.

https://buff.ly/49d7h7L
@randahl don’t ban 16 year olds, ban the social media 😉
Don't ban social media, ban corpomedia.
Also one other big cybersec profile that had written about it on facebook, got banned
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@Drzewostanna
Konsultować , konsultować!
Żeby znowu nie wyszło, że wszyscy są "za" (spacyfikowaniem myśliwych) a lobby ułamka procenta obywateli nadal urządza istotny kawałek otoczenia wszystkim pozostałym.
Nie zdziwcie się, że link bezpośredni na stronie sejmu do konsultacji ustawy: https://logowanie.sejm.gov.pl/login.jsp?id=SH-020-277/24&redirect_url=https://opiniowanie.sejm.gov.pl/callback prowadzi najpierw do strony gov.pl (trzeba się zautoryzować).
#łowiectwo #myśliwi

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https://citronics.eu/
So cool.

Microcomputers made from repurposed mainboards from smartphones with the possibility to buy in bulk.

#Fairphone #SBC

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X's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with it.

This is why it's incredibly important that people invest in platforms that they own, and move toward federated/decentralized/portable, noncorporate social media as rapidly as possible

https://www.404media.co/xs-objection-to-the-onion-buying-infowars-is-a-reminder-you-do-not-own-your-social-media-accounts/

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From unconstitutional searches, to emotional analysis technologies that have now been banned in the EU - learn more about the disturbing world of surveillance technologies in schools

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5463/studying-under-surveillance-securitisation-learning

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🎧 Software Freedom Podcast: new episode 🎧

In this episode we focus on the 27 million euros cut of funding of the @EC_NGI initiative.

🤔 Wanna know more? Alex and Bonnie shed some light on the history of this European project and share the newest developments in this case.

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-26.en.html

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware
Software Freedom Podcast main image


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Education has naturally changed, and adapted over time. But, in recent years, the adoption of data-intensive technologies within school environments has been rampant. And it’s putting education at risk.

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5456/unavoidable-rise-edtech-educational-spaces

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Last Week in Fediverse – ep 94

Keeping up with links shared on your feeds with Sill, a new open protocol with Leaf, and PeerTube is starting to test their mobile app.

The News


Sill is a new app that aggregates the most popular links that are posted in your network. Sill connects to both your Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, and gives a combined overview of all the networks, as well as the option to filter the links. It not only shows you the links, but also shows you what people you follow have posted about these links, and sends you a daily email update. Creator Tyler Fisher describes Sill as an open-source passion project, and says he wants to make it sustainable, and is thus thinking about potential ways to make revenue. Fisher also says that he is ‘committed to always keeping the basic Sill web client free’.

The Leaf Protocol is a newcomer in the space of decentralised protocols, a peer-to-peer federation protocol. The Leaf protocol is working towards what they call an ‘agentic fediverse’. The Leaf Protocol is developed in tandem with the product named Weird, which provides people with a simple homepage on the internet. Underneath this website is Leaf, which provides the possibility of federation with other versions of Weird, as well as other potential products. The team has written here on how Leaf compares to ActivityPub and ATProto, as well as about capabilities and identity to see how it holds up to Christine Lemmer-Webber’s ‘recipe for making the “Correct Fediverse IMO (TM)”‘.

One of PeerTubes main goals for 2024 is to release a mobile app. PeerTube has now started testing the first versions of the app, available for both Android and iOS. They note that the app is still under active development, with some features missing.

Ghost’s latest update on their work on implementing ActivityPub shows that they are working on two different types of readers: an inbox for long-form content, and a feed for short-form.

The Links

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-94/

Here is your recipe for making the "Correct Fediverse IMO (TM)":

- Integrate ocaps, which is possible because actor model + ocaps compose
- Content addressed storage!
- Decentralized identity (notice the *y*, I did not say DIDs) on top of ~mutable CAS storage
- Petname system UX

(cotd...)

Roof of a building against a blue sky

@Danuzjak
A coś więcej o okolicznościach wykonania tej fotografii? Bo na zdjęcie nocnego nieba to nie wygląda.
@miklo To jest zdjęcie świątecznej dekoracji. Tak wygląda, bo jest zrobione na krótkim czasie, niskiej czułości i bez ludzi ;) Normalnie wygląda tak :)
https://adal.net.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Strona_Realizacje_Forum_Gdansk_03.jpg

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#introduction Czas przestać lurkować, będzie tu pewnie troszkę o muzyce, książkach i tym co mnie wkurza i zachwyca. 😀

O mnie na razie tyle, że mam feministyczne serduszko po lewej stronie i szczerze dość komercyjnych mediów społecznościowych.

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No cześć! 🙂
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3D Space Can Be Tiled With Corner-free Shapes

Tiling a space with a repeated pattern that has no gaps or overlaps (a structure known as a tessellation) is what led mathematician [Gábor Domokos] to ponder a question: how …read more
#hacking #projects
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/3d-space-can-be-tiled-with-corner-free-shapes/

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📢 ZAKŁADAMY STOWARZYSZENIE 📢

Miło nam ogłosić, że już w tę niedziele odbędzie się spotkanie założycielskie poznańskiego hakerspejsu Knyfyrtel. Po miesiącach działania jako nieformalna grupa, w końcu przystępujemy do oficjalnych kroków i składamy wniosek o rejestrację stowarzyszenia w KRS.

📅 KIEDY? 24 listopada 2024 (niedziela), godzina 16:00
📌 GDZIE? Łazienki Rzeczne w Poznaniu (ul. Piastowska 71), sala A

#poznan #hackerspace
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@brie @sumek Ja mam wielki sentyment do tego budynku. Dziadek zawsze wspominał kąpiele w Warcie, regularnie brał mnie tam na spacery. Ale nigdy nie byłem w środku.


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💻 WARSZTATY Z GITa - CZĘŚĆ IV 💻

Przypominamy, że dziś kolejna część warsztatów z Git-a na Politechnice Poznańskiej. Ostatnio nauczyliśmy się pracować na zdalnym repozytorium. Natomiast tym razem zajmiemy się rozwiązywaniem konfliktów. Warsztaty prowadzimy we współpracy z Kołem Naukowym Spektrum. 🙂

📍 GDZIE? Polanka 3, sala 201
⏰ KIEDY? 20.11.2024 (środa), godzina 17:00

#warsztaty #hspoz #knyfyrtel #politechnika #spektrum #hackerspace #gitgud #poznan
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Twitter’s Birdwatch is Fundamentally Flawed


Earlier this week, Twitter announced an initiative to combat misinformation on their platform that they call Birdwatch.

How Birdwatch works: Volunteers sign up (assuming they meet all the requirements) and can add notes to fill in context on misleading tweets. Other users can rate these contextual tweets as helpful or not helpful. All of these “notes” and ratings of notes are completely transparent.

Obrazek/zdjęcieCredit: the Birdwatch website
Obrazek/zdjęcieCredit: the Birdwatch website

At its face, Birdwatch is an attempt to scale up the existing fact-checking capability used during the 2020 U.S. Elections while also crowdsourcing this decision-making.

I will give Twitter credit for two things, and only two things, before I get into the problems with their design.
  • They’re distributing the power to fact-check bad tweets to their users rather than hoarding it for themselves.
  • They correctly emphasized transparency as a goal for this tool.
But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows.

The Fatal Flaw of Birdwatch’s Design


There’s an old essay titled The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security, that immediately identifies two problems with Birdwatch’s design. They also happen to be the first two items on the essay’s list!
  • Default Permit
  • Enumerating Badness
This is best illustrated by way of example.

Let’s assume there are two pathological liars hellbent on spreading misinformation on Twitter. They each tweet unsubstantiated claims about some facet of government or civil service. Birdwatch users catch only one of them, and correctly fact-check their tweet.

What happens to the other liar?

What happens if Birdwatch users can only identify one out of ten liars? One out of a hundred? One out of a thousand?! Et cetera.

2866407(Art by Khia.)

To be clear: The biggest flaw in their product design is simply that their “notes” and “fact-checks” are negative indicators on known-bad tweets.

This will create a dark pattern: If a tweet slips past the Birdwatch users’ radars, it won’t be fact-checked. In turn, users won’t realize it’s misinformation. A popular term for the resulting conduct is coordinated inauthentic behavior.

This already happens to YouTube.

https://youtu.be/1PGm8LslEb4

Hell, this is already happening to Twitter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-1RhQ1uuQ4

How To Fix Birdwatch


I wrote an entire essay on Defeating Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior at Scale in 2019. I highly recommend anyone at Twitter interested in actually solving the misinformation problem to give that a careful consideration.

Soatok Explains it All(Art by Swizz.)

But in a nutshell, the most important fix is to change the state machine underlying Birdwatch from:
  • No notes -> trustworthy
  • Notes -> misinformation
…to something subtly different:
  • No notes -> unvetted / be cautious
  • Notes ->
    • Negative notes -> misinformation
    • Positive notes -> verified by experts
This effectively creates a traffic light signal for users: Tweets start as yellow (exercise caution, which is the default) and may become green (affirmed by notes) or red (experts disagree).

What Would This Change Accomplish?


Malicious actors that accomplish Birdwatch evasion will only manage to encompass their message in caution tape. (Metaphorically speaking, anyway.)

If their goal is to spread misinformation while convincing the recipients of their message that they’re speaking the truth, they’ll have to get a green light–which is ideally more expensive to accomplish.

Bonus Round


I would also recommend some kind of “this smells fishy” button to signal Birdwatch contributors that this tweet needs fact-checking. Users might self-select into filter bubbles that Birdwatch users are totally absent from, and in turn come across things that are completely unvetted and possibly ambiguous.

While I have your attention, here’s a quality of life suggestion, on the house:

Being able to link claims together (e.g. reposted images with a false claim, n.b. like how the minions memes on Facebook) to deduplicate their claims about reality would save a lot of unnecessary headache.

(Anyone who has used Stack Overflow will appreciate the utility of being able to say “this is a duplicate of $otherThing”.)

What If These Fundamental Flaws Remain Unfixed?


Although Birdwatch will probably meet the immediate goal of scaling up the fact-checking efforts beyond what Twitter can provide (and satisfy the public relations requirements of tangibly doing something to combat this problem), propagandists and conspiracy theorists will simply become incentivized to evade Birdwatch contributors’ detection while spreading their lies.

As I said above, coordinated inauthentic behavior is already happening. This isn’t some abstract threat that only academics care about.

To the aid of the malicious, most users will confuse tweets that evaded detection with tweets that didn’t warrant correction. This might even lead to users trusting misinformation more than they would before Birdwatch. This would be a total self-own for the entire Birdwatch project.

#bullshit #computerSecurity #enumeratingBadness #misinformation #SocialMedia #Technology #Twitter
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W Parlamencie Europejskim zakończyły się wysłuchania kandydatek i kandydatów do Komisji Europejskiej. Nadstawiliśmy uszu, żeby wyłapać co tam planują w departamencie big techów i systemów rekomendacyjnych.

Podsumowanie tradycyjnie na:
https://panoptykon.org/wysluchania-kandydatow-do-komisji-europejskiej-platformy

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Brak routingu w WireGuard

Czyli, jak się wpienić na maksa, gdy dotychczasowa konfiguracja działała bez żadnych zastrzeżeń, a system postanowił spaść z rowerka. Dzisiejszemu wpisowi towarzyszy więcej emocji, aniżeli samej treści. Wszakże, wyobraź sobie sytuację, w której nagle po restarcie systemu, coś co działało, przestaje działać. Tak było w przypadku mojej dotychczasowej konfiguracji przygotowanej dla RaspberryPi. Chwaliłem się nawet znajomym, jak to…

https://blog.keepmind.eu/brak-routingu-w-wireguard.html

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fwiw odkomentowanie i ustawienie w /etc/sysctl.conf powinno być wystarczające, chyba, że jakiś plik w /etc/sysctl.d/* ustawia net.ipv4.ip_forward na zero.
@mawhrin
Też było takie podejrzenie, ale w sysctl.d też nic nie ma. Nadal nie wiem dlaczego się to nadpisuje.

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Ruszyła kolejna fala migracji z X/Twittera, więc dziś w #OkoPress przyglądam się alternatywom:
https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych

Co ciekawe, wszystkie – Fediverse, Bluesky, Threads – przynajmniej w jakimś stopniu twierdzą, że są zdecentralizowane. Mówię więc "sprawdzam", razem z @cwebber , @blaine i @ben .

Nie będzie dla nikogo zaskoczeniem, że #Bluesky i Threads mocno naciągają to "zdecentralizowanie." Ale sam fakt, że wszystkie realne alternatywy dla Twittera promują się decentralizacją jest znaczący!
@Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @blaine @Ben Werdmuller @Christine Lemmer-Webber
Znaczące jest, że decentralizacja została przez skurwiałe korporacje skutecznie włączona do zestawu narzędzi, którymi mogą robić "greenwashing" internetu.
Co jeszcze bardziej utrudnia tłumaczenie zwykłym ludziom na czym polega problem.
@miklo ale z drugiej strony, "decentralizacja" przestaje być jakimś magicznym terminem, którego ludzie nie czają i nie wiedzą, czemu jest ważny.

Widzieliśmy to samo z "szyfrowaniem". 10 lat temu powodzenia w tłumaczeniu, o co cho i czemu to ważne. Dziś możemy mieć dyskusję w mediach o niuansach w stylu Telegramowego "encryption-washingu", i ludzie czytają i kumają.

@blaine @ben @cwebber

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Niedziela 12:00, audycja "Magazyn filozofa" na temat aktualnego stanu serwisu #X, gość audycji Dominik Batorski - socjolog internetu, i padają magiczne słowa #fediverse i #mastodon 😊:

"...na pewno takim pierwszym momentem, kiedy część użytkowników zaczęła z Twittera odpływać, był ten moment przejęcia go przez Elona Muska, wtedy no, kilka takich serwisów, platform, też opartych o tzw fediverse, np. Mastodon zrobiło się trochę popularnych, natomiast to było to nie były bardzo duże liczby."
"...mało pewnie osób ten serwis kojarzy, no to też jest bardzo podobna [do X] platforma, aczkolwiek różnica jest taka, że jest to platforma rozproszona, to znaczy każdy może właściwie taki serwis założyć. To nie jest tak, że jest jakaś scentralizowana kontrola i jeden właściciel, który tą kontrolę ma, co też umożliwia komunikację pomiędzy różnymi serwisami, tak w tej chwili np. threads, które meta robi, też mają w tej technologii działać, to znaczy użytkownicy threads będą mogli się komunikować z użytkownikami właśnie innych platform. Czyli nie będzie tego przywiązania do platformy, ale ten odpływ użytkowników z Twittera, chociaż no, był całkiem całkiem spory i też statystyki wykorzystania Twittera ewidentnie się zmniejszały."

Sama audycja #tokfm za #paywall ' em ale można przeczytać transkrypcję: https://audycje.tokfm.pl/podcast/166810,X-dawniej-Twitter-od-poczatku-do-wspolczesnosci-Wkrotce-niszowa-banka-dla-prawicy
#tokfm

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off topic ale jak dac taki dowalony cytat?

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New update from @brewsterkahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks.

🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2024/11/14/learning-from-cyberattacks/

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Meta to seemingly stop pay-or-consent, and offer pay-for-no-ads, or contextual ads. The question is, what exactly is a contextual ad in the eyes of the firm? https://archive.is/WQgDz

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W kwietniu 2024 roku weszła w życie unijna Dyrektywa anty-SLAPPowa, która jest odpowiedzią na zjawisko pozywania dziennikarzy, aktywistów czy naukowców za krytykę osób wpływowych czy nagłaśnianie nadużyć władzy.

Kraje członkowskie, w tym Polska, mają obecnie dwa lata na jej implementację do swoich systemów prawnych. Jednak samo wdrożenie dyrektywy do polskiego prawodawstwa nie wystarczy. My, dziennikarze, wydawcy, przedstawiciele i przedstawicielki organizacji pozarządowych, grup aktywistycznych, środowiska akademickiego i naukowego podkreślamy, że do efektywnego zajęcia się problemem SLAPPów potrzebna jest gruntowna rewizja polskiego prawa i przyjęcie ambitnych rozwiązań, które wykraczają poza minimalne wytyczne Dyrektywy. Nasz apel znajdziecie na
https://siecobywatelska.pl/razem-przeciwko-slapp/
Grafika promocyjna przygotowana przez „Sieć Obywatelską Watchdog” dotycząca przeciwdziałania SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation), czyli pozwom mającym na celu uciszenie obywateli i organizacji.

W centralnej części grafiki znajduje się ilustracja osoby trzymającej na ustach zaklejony żółty kawałek taśmy, symbolizujący próbę uciszenia.

Tekst na grafice brzmi:

„RAZEM PRZECIWKO SLAPP”

Na dole, w czerwonym prostokącie, widnieje informacja:

„Apel społeczeństwa obywatelskiego. Treść na stronie siecobywatelska.pl”

Logo „sieć obywatelska Watchdog” znajduje się w prawym górnym rogu. Całość zachęca do zapoznania się z treścią apelu i wspólnego sprzeciwu wobec działań ograniczających wolność wypowiedzi.
i dość świeży przykład, czemu to ważne:
https://oko.press/newag-hakerzy-dragon-sector-pociagi-impuls
@rysiek Dokładnie, to tego typu sprawa i pokazująca dobrze, czym są SLAPPy i jakim są zagrożeniem.
Btw, będziemy w tym roku na Oh my hack https://siecobywatelska.pl/omh jak znów jakaś spółka będzie sobie życzyła objęcia specjalnym nadzorem uczestników konferencji, to my przyznajemy się zawczasu! 😄

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hey #indieweb folks, as promised I've started to find a way to donate some time, hardware, and expertise to those looking to carve out some space online. To that end I've got a #VM running #yunohost on some mostly-idle hardware in my basement. If anyone would like to use some self-hosted services or perhaps put their own small website up on the internet, let me know and I'll help you out!

#boost if you know someone who needs this

#websites #blogging #smallweb #personalsites #webdev #mutualaid

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✍️ Podpisz ✍️ 💌 List Otwarty 💌 w sprawie "Prawa do instalacji dowolnego oprogramowania na każdym urządzeniu"

"Projektowanie oprogramowania jest kluczowe dla ochrony środowiska i trwałości produktów i sprzętu. Systemy i usługi będące Wolnym Oprogramowaniem pozwalają na ponowne użycie, zmianę przeznaczenia i interoperacyjność urządzeń. Prawo do wyboru systemu operacyjnego, oprogramowania i usług jest niezbędne w tworzeniu bardziej zrównoważonego społeczeństwa cyfrowego."

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.pl.html
Polskie tłumaczenie: @エインドゥロイドゥ

#foss #fsfe