Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@thejapantimes

A slow step in the right direction.

@ChrisMayLA6

If there were proper channels to apply for asylum in safe countries, there would be less need to risk everything to get to a safe country. Once in a safe country you can either stay or get temporary stay visa while you apply for a visa in a 3rd country. Sadly this system seems to have been eroded, people traffikers now fill the voice once held by consulates etc. (or how ever people used to apply to go to other countries)

@foone @clayote

Held on with magnets of course :)

@verge

Lets see it gets pre-installed on PCs and MS are making it increasingly difficult to login without a MS account or install alternative OS,. you need to login to disable certain features such as bit locker.

September 21st is Software Freedom day, we have an opportunity to try and change that or at least raise awareness of alternatives.

https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd
https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/

https://app.element.io/#/room/#digitalfreedoms:matrix.org

@dff

@katiefenn

The daily fail is hardly known for good journalism.

@fulelo

The people of Israel have a massive window of opportunity to send a message to both their government and this court, that they have had enough, want a change in direction and the release of all hostages (ideally ALIVE). What can this court do if the strikes / protests continue? Arrest everyone !! Hardly a viable option when you have people who work within essential infrastructure on the streets.

@mrtuxa

I will boost and tag in @jobsfordevelopers to see if they can help and if anyone else can help, hopefully your situation will improve.

@GuerillaOntologist

Good question, however if we go off at a slight tangent, this appears to be part of human nature, Look at the BBC and Jimmy Saville, a respected person, raised millionsfor charity, respected presenter etc. All the while he was abusing children, using his status to gain access. People had suspicions, and there was gossip etc, but no one did anything BECAUSE of who it was, so pretty much untouchable.

Oddly the BBC have had reports and probably documentaries on sex offenders so they know how they operate, and get away with it, then learn nothing from their own programming research.

So facebook is the same, it is Facebook, people use it, like using it so the idea that it can't be trusted / abuses information is lost on them, they are blind to what is actually happening as facebook can also control what in in your feed.

I guess it could be a case of unless it happens to you personally then let it carry on. Look at Trump at Arlington, he has made many comments on a range of things (mostly offensive to at least some groups) but when those comments are aimed at veterans the veterans speak up, but stay silent. I made a comment to this effect.

This was posted to fedi today

Social media: Why algorithms show violence to boys - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdqzxypdzo

Granted this is social media in general, but people are almost entralled. I just remembered who it was i could not find the name of earlier, Cambridge Analytica despite what happened with them and facebook nothing really changed.

This will just carry on, you can bring up the topic of what fb are doing spying on conversations (or it seems get third parties to do, so they can maintain we don't do this ploy) all you do is go round in circles with people, when it happens to them personally, just say I have told you this was happening, but you would not listen, I use fedi anyway so not a problem for me.