Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
On here, there is a simple tick box, to hide images, that along side a good description and tags of said image and, of course, alt-text should provide enough information so that if you decide to click to reveal image, you know what to expect.
To me, we are fully covered.
I think the Hacker Manifesto sums it up nicely, hackers are criminals for being curious, those saying hackers are criminals start wars etc, discriminate and treat others badly etc
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@zleap age verification mandated by government outsourced to the lowest bidder to protect the poor minors (the first people on the network without age verification are now 45) will have no exemption for anybody
Doesn't change anything regardless of platform
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Guerilla shelving by the booksellers at Waterstones 😂
LOL, but very true.
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It's so nice to see people wearing the Fediverse Shirt at Fediday. The colour fits you well @andypiper
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Having been locked out of other platforms, #Palestinians are turning to #Mastodon and #Fedi to communicate with the outside world.
Gaza Verified is an initiative to verify that the accounts are genuine, by having a video conversation with the families on Signal. Take a look and consider following one or more of these accounts.
A good reason to use open platforms that only collect the bare minimum of data.
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Solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla
The ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla have been violently intercepted by Israeli forces. 42 boats, with more than 400 activists from across the world, had set sail to try to break the illegal siege on Gaza and to deliver aid to a population deliberately starved. Their act placed humanity, international solidarity and civil disobedience above borders.
Systematic destruction of Palestinian life, enforced through famine, bombardments, and displacement, is genocide.
The very same European governments who let people die while crossing the Mediterranean are complicit in these crimes. Financing the siege, arming Israel and hiding behind empty statements. But millions around the world are refusing to look away: demonstrating, striking and rising up in solidarity.
We demand the immediate release of the flotilla’s.
From the central Mediterranean to Palestine.
For a free Gaza. For a free Palestine.
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Brilliant point well made by David Osland.
We're told pensions are 'unsustainable’, the Post Office is ‘unsustainable’ and now that the NHS is 'unsustainable'. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector.
Recommended intake is 5 portions of fruit or veg a day.
It is not as if we can just pick and choose what parts of the ECHR we can comply with, saying that Trump seems to be doing a good job of picking and choosing what parts of the constitution he can follow, with total impunity.
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@zleap Craig Dalzell likes to ask those who oppose the ECHR, which of their human rights they PERSONALLY are okay with giving up.
"Hey, Keir Starmer - are you okay with losing your right to not be tortured?"
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Politics & more BBC bias
How the BBC works hard to keep the public misinformed about what the Scottish Government is doing. Bias by omission.
#Politics #Media #Scotland
A tale of BBC Scotland’s response to Scottish Government press releases – how widespread, how blatant is bias by omission becoming? https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/03/a-tale-of-bbc-scotlands-response-to-scottish-government-press-releases-how-widespread-how-blatant-is-bias-by-omission-becoming/
Kemi Badenoch wants to take us out of the ECHR, I am posting a link to this so people know what is contained within.
https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Convention_ENG
It may help with putting discussions in to some context, oddly I am sure our obligations with regard to asylum and refugees are covered more in the UN conventions than the ECHR in which case leaving the ECHR probably won't make any difference. It will make the UK less attractive to come to, but that could end up applying to a lot more people.
The ECHR also covers freedom of expression, freedom to assemble etc, the right to a trial, a fair trial and a lot more. SO the consequences will be far ranging for UK citizens. Scotland and N Ireland who voted to stay in the UK will NOT be happy about us leaving the ECHR and are likely to demand referendums on leaving the UK.
LinkedIn have changed their TOS, so that they can use posts to train their own AI system, I think that kicks in either October or November. Which is why one reason I have dumped LinkedIn,
Seems they are all at it, it is fine as long as they are doing it.
WRT this, Don't MicroSoft OWN LinkedIn?
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Microsoft steals content for their AI training data but doesn't want others to do the same thing. Odd.
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Another small victory today.
A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a "nerd" who doesn't understand how the world works.
I was happy to be a nerd, if necessary, to explain the pros and cons of the solution to the client.
The result? The salesperson was politely thanked and "sent home", and I'm now evaluating some details of the new mail server, which, by the client's choice, will be based on OpenBSD.
Because people need explanations, not brochures.
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Ok (hopefully) last interview of the week done for a small province-wide radio station that I think someone here recommended to me. Thanks, fediverse!
One last shot at getting the word out to farmers who might find Starlink debris in their fields. Next week, I'll shift my focus to teaching lots of people about all the terrible environmental and safety consequences of "sunlight as a service"
@Independent @news-uk-Independent
Or in one case, police negligence.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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