Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
It seems to me with people Andrew Tate of a serious double standards in society, on the one hand we 'cancel' a person who 200 years ago was involved in the slave trade, or rename a buiding as it is named after a person who was involved in the slave trade,
I appreciate and understand why this is happening,
The same society just allows Tate and others to spread his hatred, allows people to subject others to racist, transphobic, sexist and other abuse with complete impunity.
We can't change history, we can learn from history by challenging peoples viewpoints ROBUSTLY in the present era.
Meanwhile we also quite rightly go after 90+ year old women who worked at the Nazi death camps during world war 2, holding THEM accountable after 80 + years.
We can't hold people to account unless the whole criminal justice system is behind us, so whos side are they actually on here.
There is a lack of consequences or fear of in the UK now. When I was in year 6 at primary school we still had corporal punishment, my year 6 teachers attitude was, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Point of note, I can't remember anyone crossing the line and getting caned.
Arguments about corporal punishment aside, we KNEW there were consequences. These days people just do stuff knowing they are pretty much untouchable.
Back ground checks for jobs are undertaken by the poilice in part, so no wonder the wrong people get in or slip past those checks.
Actions or misdeeds HAVE to come with consequences that are actually going to have some sort of impact on you the abuser AND for the victim who feels that justice has been served and they and others are now safer.
It seems to me a lot of criminas just cry to the ECHR about being punished breaches their human rights, why cam't victims of CRIME sue the people who target them for human rights abuses.
Indeed, so hopefully the Romanian criminal justice system will actually dish out justice and put him behind bars for a LONG time. Meanwhile, I think the victims could easily have a civil case at least against the Police as their failings led to them being assaulted.
What we now need to worty about is Tates army of followers who think his behaviour is acceptable carrying on, knowing the police, CPS et al won't actually DO anything.
Which of course is the last thing a school wants as it needs to safeguard its students from harm and comply with data protection laws, once the data (depending on what the data is) is out there in the public domain then others can take advantage of that.
I get the impression a lot of people don't understand computers or networking very well, Or perhaps they are told it is complex so they are less confident understanding it.
It is about how we explain things, one way would be to say imagine you can post to Twitter and get a reply from Facebook, or vice versa, now expand that to posting to youtube and replying from twitter all of this happens seemlessly.
@GossiTheDog
What schools lack in money, they possibly make up for in data, imagine getting hold of the details of 1000s of students, past and present, those people are potential targets for fraud, fake calls from your bank etc.
It seems these gangs work together, so one will get the data, sell that data to another gang who then make the calls to say your bank has been compromised.
I know there is a push to get more girls to study computer science, at Code Club I have a mix of boys and girls. I just run a club, so don't do anything special or different. Attendees just work on what they are working on.
What I find frustrating is the lack of help, I tried to contact a company I met at a jobn fair to invite them to a STEM group (that I also run) to talk about opportunities or what they do as a training company, I got no reply.
So if industry wants people it really does need to support grass roots. People at the grass roots level are doing their best, but could do with support. I feel more confident with Sciences than coding.
How can we encourage more girls to take up STEM generally and as coding is a big part of that.
Girls are interested, just a case of reaching out to them and letting them know about contests such as #YH4F, so they have space to code, collaborate etc.
What part can the Fediverse play in this. ?
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I’ll never understand rich people spending big bucks to have a panic room installed in their house
I panic in all my rooms for free
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Just to clarify, I’m not going to #FOSDEM, I’m going to #OFFDEM.
I don’t attend, speak at, or legitimise so-called “free software” (or “human rights”, etc.) conferences that let surveillance capitalists like Google launder their reputations by sponsoring them. I’m only taking part in OFFDEM, which was created in reaction to FOSDEM’s lack of principles and ethical backbone.
#FOSS #surveillanceCapitalism #whiteWashing #reputationLaundering #institutionalCorruption
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University of Minnesota #Chemistry Department looking for a new term faculty Organic Laboratory Director: https://cse.umn.edu/chem/news/chemistry-teaching-faculty-search-2023
#ChemJobs
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After going through 9 separate excruciating rounds in an attempt to land the job, Kevin McCarthy is very close to being on par with the hiring processes for entry level #infosec roles at most large companies
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without exorbitant drug prices, how would drug megacorporations pay for the massive amount of TV ads for their specialized prescription medicine? checkmate liberals
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5 January 1858 | A Hungarian Jew, Yakow Heizler, was born in Apostag. He was a soldier. During the war he lived in Ujpest.
In June 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
One of some 430,000 Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz. Learn about their fate: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Hungary #antisemitism
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Serpent in the Sky Captured with European Southern Observatory Telescope
https://www.eso.org/public/australia/news/eso2301/
Search over 1,000 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories
#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #ESO
Image: ESO/VVVX
Or a list of those that are open and transparent, so we have those as a preferred option to join the list you HAVE to meet strict criteria, to be removed from the list can be just as easy,
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Slack trying to hide their security disclosure? LastPass pulled the same thing recently, but even more blatantly.
We need a searchable index of companies who hide their disclosures like this. It would be extremely valuable when doing vendor assessments.
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#Twitter may lose its #SafeHarbor protection because it's not responding to #takedown notices for repeat #copyright infringers.
https://torrentfreak.com/twitter-hit-with-228-9m-copyright-infringement-repeat-infringer-lawsuit-230104/
The article doesn't say so, but it seems that Twitter isn't responding to the takedown notices as US law requires ("expeditiously") because of the #Musk layoffs.
This is big. #SocialMedia platforms cannot operate in the US without a safe harbor from copyright lawsuits. It's as if Musk sawed off the wings of his plane to save weight.
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I wish Friends of the Earth well. We must end dependence on fossil fuels for the sake of the young and of future generations. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-64165419 #climatecrisis #climatechange
Up above the streets and houses
Rainbow climbing High
Everyone can see it smiling
Over the sky
Paint the whole world with a Rainbow.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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