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Labour Party won't allow Corbyn to run again

dimanche 26 juin 2022 à 02:35

The Labour Party won't allow Corbyn to run again for Parliament as a Labour candidate. It demands he apologize for a false accusation.

He may run as an independent instead.

Apple developing software to assure Cloudflare the user is not a robot

dimanche 26 juin 2022 à 02:35

Apple is developing software to assure Cloudflare that the user is not a robot. I suspect this is nonfree software that communicates via a secret protocol that no one else will be able to implement.

I fear that this is a step towards a secret web protocol that will exclude everyone that uses a computer whose browser isn't endorsed by Apple or Google.

Suit filed to overturn the Energy Charter Treaty

dimanche 26 juin 2022 à 02:35

Young-ish Europeans have filed a suit in the European Court of Human Rights calling for overturning the Energy Charter Treaty.

That is a business-supremacy treaty which makes governments pay billions to cease promoting fossil fuels.

The lawsuit is a long shot, but I don't know of any other method that could destroy that treaty.

Soldiers spied on by app

dimanche 26 juin 2022 à 02:35

Yet again, an app used by soldiers makes it possible to spy on them.

This was due to an unnoticed weakness in a "social" feature designed to increase user engagement by enabling a kind of interaction between users. But, at a deeper level, it was caused by using an app designed to snoop on its users, who are habituated to being snooped on and not in the habit of asking whether an app can do so.

Basically, if society is set up to track people in myriad ways, it will track secret agents, and abortion patients, in myriad ways.

Tories plan to weaken European Court of Human Rights' authority

dimanche 26 juin 2022 à 02:35

The Tories plan to weaken the authority of the European Court of Human Rights to protect people in Britain and they are rushing to enact this.

They call it the "Bill of Rights", but "Bill of Less Rights" would fit it better.