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Extinction rebellion

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

* Extinction Rebellion is planning to step up its campaign against the banking system with a series of direct action protests and debt strikes*

Assault weapons ban

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

*Can an assault weapons ban reduce killings if firearms last 100 years?*

Perhaps the clips don't last as long as the guns.

Support for human rights abuses

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

Western governments need to end their support for human rights abuses and authoritarianism in order to be able to exert effective pressure on China.

Smart spy

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

*Your 'smart home' is watching — and possibly [sending] your data [to] the police.*

I am glad to see that awareness of this threat to everyone's freedom is spreading, but it continues to be associated with an inadequate proposed solution: laws to "protect privacy" by limiting how companies use the data that they accumulate about the public. This would reduce the abuse of people's accumulated personal data but not stop it.

Please don't use the word "sharing" to describe propagation of surveillance data.

The police are plural, so the pronoun "they" fits them — but "roommate" ought to be plural as well.

Before my freshman year of college, I stated my preference for a roommate that was invisible, inaudible and intangible (if I couldn't have a room of my own). I forgot to add deaf and blind.

Imitating API

mercredi 7 avril 2021 à 02:00

The US Supreme Court ruled that imitating the API of Java was fair use of the text of the API description.

The other decision would have been disaster.