MCP___ @mcp_@qoto.org

Layoff content moderators and get hate speech. Layoff security staff and get hacked. #fafo. Thanks, Elon.

Massive #Twitter data breach was far worse than reported, reveal security researchers
https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/25/massive-twitter-data-breach/

The world's most central newspapers have joined to declare that going after Julian Assange with the Espionage Act "threatens to undermine America’s First Amendment and the freedom of the press," and that it's time “to end the prosecution of Julian Assange.”

Right on both counts.

https://twitter.com/NicholsUprising/status/1597630236853575680

Interessante: la lobby USA del cloud si muove per attaccare la certificazione di sicurezza #ENISA che mira a sostenere un #cloud europeo sovrano, mitigando le interferenze delle giurisdizioni straniere sui dati degli Europei. L'appello dell'industria americana ci fa intendere che ENISA sta facendo bene https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-chamber-commerce-warns-against-draft-eu-plan-exclude-non-eu-cloud-vendors-2022-12-01/

"La Russia è uno stato terrorista" sembra una bella dichiarazione finché non realizzi che per coerenza devi ammettere che anche il tuo stato è terrorista visto il sangue versato in Iraq e Afghanistan, e quindi sei terrorista anche tu. Poi capisci che ogni guerra è terrorismo legalizzato, e che le guerre non le fanno gli stati, ma i governi e gli eserciti, arrivando alla conclusione che l'imperialismo russo, come quello atlantico, esprime da decenni governi responsabili di guerre terroriste.

Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842&lang=en

The fall of social media giants easily explained by @pluralistic

“[N]etwork effects cut both ways. If a system gets more valuable as it attracts more users, it also gets less valuable as it sheds users. The less valuable a system is to you, the easier it is to leave.”

https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456

The Key to Scientific Breakthroughs? Improving Access to Open Source Software https://buff.ly/3OtCQ2S
#opensource #OpenScience

There's an ugly storm brewing in EU software security legislation that could seriously impact open source software development. Those of you in the EU should read this article and do some lobbying. The goals of the legislation aren't unreasonable, but the conformance-testing burden would totally overwhelm the OSS community. The legislators need to rethink how they approach the burden and responsibility of auditing. https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-resilience-act/

Mastodon has more than seven thousands Instances, each with its own personal rules that must be evaluated one by one.

But in fact there are not more than seven thousand different regulations: many are identical to each other or differ only in a few points.

I think users, moderators, and admins would find it very convenient if Instances could choose to adopt some basic set of common regulations: something like GPL or Creative Commons licenses.

If you see that Instance X has adopted the Type "A" License you already know what it is without having to read the various points and so on.

And if Istance Y has adopted the same license but added few points, you need to read only those.

#InstaceRules #Moderation #Regulations #Rules #bansuggestion

President of Colombia meets with representative of WikiLeaks and calls for release of Julian Assange who is being charged "just for telling the truth" #FreeAssangeNOW @petrogustavo https://t.co/gSLsmN3aKu

📜 "We demand a world in which technology is created to protect and empower those who are impacted by it. Our technology must respect the rights and freedoms of those users. We need to take control for the purpose of collectively building a better world in which technology works in service to the good of human kind, protecting our rights and digital autonomy as individuals."

Please read then boost the Declaration of Digital Autonomy, version 0.2.

https://techautonomy.org/

"I fuggitivi ucraini sono accolti abraccia aperte, ma non i siriani, gli afghani, i libici, gli iracheni che scappa-no da Stati falliti in seguito a guerre diregime changeda noi scatenate".
Da leggere #BarbaraSpinelli #fattoquotidiano: https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2022/11/18/le-colpe-condivisemacron-meloni/6877261/

se oggi l'ultradestra taglia il #RedditoDiCittadinanza ai poveri estremi è grazie all'assist del 90% del giornalismo italiano. Una delle pagine più vergognose del giornalismo italiano:
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2022/11/18/covid-e-navigator-le-interpellanze-urgenti-alla-camera-al-ministro-schillaci-e-al-sottosegretario-durigon-la-diretta/6877550/?pl_id=1&pl_type=category

"This is a time for universities, funders, learned societies and publishers to show leadership by supporting, funding and coordinating the transition towards a multifaceted, reliable and fit for purpose social infrastructure for scholarship." #TwitterMigration #academicchatter

🔗 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/11/19/requiem-for-a-tweet-is-there-a-future-for-the-academic-social-capital-held-on-the-platform/