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Democracy & climate advocates, listen up! 🌍 On "You Are Not So Smart," Erica Chenoweth discusses the 3.5% Rule: nonviolent change with just 3.5% participation. Powerful insights for planet & people. #Democracy #ClimateAction #DigitalGov

youarenotsosmart.com/2025/05/1…


YANSS 313 – Why the number of people needed to make a protest movement successful is much lower than you might assume

If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can change the national status quo, you don’t need half the country to join, you only need 3.5 p…
You Are Not So Smart
#democracy #climateaction #digitalgov

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Don't miss Marcy Jacobs, Maryland's Chief Digital Experience Officer, on The #CXTippingPoint podcast!

She shares insights on building user-centered digital government, from her work at USDS/VA to Maryland's new Digital Service team. It's all about designing services around people.

Listen now: dorrisconsulting.com/thecxtipp…

#GovTech #CX #CustomerExperience #DigitalGov


The CX Tipping Point Podcast | Dorris Consulting International

The CX Tipping Point Podcast, hosted by Martha Dorris, is the only podcast focused on improving the experience that citizens, businesses and governments have when interacting, engaging and transacting with the government.
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#digitalgov #govtech #cx #cxtippingpoint #customerexperience

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Canadians, pay attention: Bill C-2 is a quiet threat to your privacy and civil liberties.

With so much happening around the world, it’s easy to miss what’s going on in our own backyard. But Bill C-2, now in the House of Commons, deserves your attention.

It lowers the threshold for law enforcement to access your private data—without a warrant. All it takes is "reasonable suspicion."

What kind of data?

* Internet and cellphone metadata

* Your location and activity logs

* Information shared across borders with foreign agencies

All accessed more easily under vague “exigent circumstances”

As a person who’s been accosted based on “reasonable suspicion” due to…. existing, I’m concerned that this bill expands surveillance powers and erodes due process protections that Canadians have long relied on.

I keep seeing arguments like, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”

Let me be clear: that’s not how rights work.

Free societies are built on the principle that the law protects the innocent—not that we must prove we have nothing to hide.

If you're concerned (and you should be), reach out to your Member of Parliament. Let them know you oppose C-2 and support real protections for Canadian privacy and civil rights.

You can read the full bill here:

parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1…

Let’s not sleepwalk into surveillance. We deserve better.

PS The Citizen Lab has an excellent write up citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-prelim…

PPS If you're a Canadian resident, find your Member of Parliament here: ourcommons.ca/members/en

#PrivacyMatters #BillC2 #Canada


Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations

On June 3, 2025, the Canadian government tabled Bill C-2, omnibus legislation that, if passed, would introduce a wide array of new federal agency and law enforcement powers, and would significantly reform substantive and due process laws in Canada fo…
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#canada #privacymatters #billc2
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Wow. Solid majorities in the Liberals (60%), NDP (69%) & the Bloc (78%) all oppose Mark Carney using #BillC5 to override environmental regulations for fast-tracked projects.

angusreid.org/bill-c5-carney-i…

#CDNPoli #Canada


Bill C-5: Canadians support fast-tracking projects, but conflicted over individual elements of the legislation -

Half still want proper ecological assessments; two-in-five in Quebec demand provincial input June 26, 2025 – The fast track on projects deemed in the national interest is well on the way to being paved.
David Korzinski (Angus Reid Institute)
#canada #cdnpoli #billc5

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I. P. Pavlova je speciální místo ve vesmíru, kde se lidé rozhodli vyzkoušet, jaké to je, když zkusí dát dálniční křižovatku do blokové městské zástavby, mezi chodce, obchody a tramvaje. Bohužel jsem nenašel nikde informaci, kdy má tenhle experiment oficiálně končit, určitě je to jen něco jako Zažít město jinak, že se to udělá na chvíli a pak to zmizí, žejo?

#praha

Dálniční křižovatka
#praha
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Jiří Eischmann

@bycx my se k veřejnému prostoru pořád chováme jako k parkovišti. Před panelákem v Luhačovicích, kde jsem bydlel, byla pěkná tráva. Jenže pak si někteří řekli, že je to super místo na parkování, aspoň to budou mít ke vchodu pár kroků. Rozjezdili tu trávu do bahna. Řešení? Ne, že by se tam daly zábrany nebo se ti lidi pokutovali. Vysypalo se to štěrkem, aby nemuseli vystupovat z auta do bahna. V zájmu pohodlného parkování jsou lidi ochotní obětovat cokoliv.
@🔩 Adam Štrauch
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🔩 Adam Štrauch

@sesivany My jsme dřív bydleli v bytovce a měli jsme jedno vyhrazené parkovací místo. V okolí postupně narůstal počet aut až jsme se dostali do stavu, že auta parkovala kde se jen dalo. Pak tam postavili malou bytovku s obchody v přízemí a několika parkovacími místy, na které dal ale majitel zákaz a tak vzniklo parkoviště z odbočovacího pruhu. Od té doby stála auta jejich zákazníků pravidelně i na našem vyhrazeném místě, které bylo zase za naším zákazem.
@Jiří Eischmann
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Jiří Eischmann

@bycx Trochu jsme to @honzajavorek unesli, ale taky musím poslat screenshot té naší nadmíru výtečné situace. :)
Dřív, když se ještě hrálo na nějaký civilizovaný veřejný prostor, byla u těch popelnic značka "zákaz vjezdu". Ta hromada aut vzadu, z nichž polovina je schovaná za křovím, stojí na dnes již bývalém trávníku, kde jsme si jako děcka hráli. Dívám se, že vpravo před vchodem jako mnoho let před tím i nadále parkuje pán ve svém vylítaném Audi 80, takže ti, kteří si jen chtějí vyložit těžké věci, a pak jet zaparkovat někde legálně, nemůžou. A takhle my si tu žijeme. Od Prahy až po malé lázeňské město.
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In case people didn't know, Creative Commons has been on the side of "screw your rights and livelihood, it's fair use" regarding GenAI training since at least 2021.

creativecommons.org/2021/03/04…

The new "AI" license 'signals' are interesting as a development (assuming anyone honours them when companies mass pirated commercial creative works!) but not a surprise (and apparently don't include a "no" option, because that's elsewhere in a spec and this is for granularity of yes)

#Copyright #CreativeCommons


Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends. - Creative Commons

While we generally support broad access to content to train AI, we also aim to increase our understanding of the ethical concerns.
Creative Commons
#copyright #creativecommons
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Oh, and the EFF leans the same way on "screw your creativity, big tech is right on GenAI".

eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-…

Which probably shouldn't be surprising given some of their previous "screw the humans, let's be absolutist" stances on other legal arguments.

#Copyright #EFF


How We Think About Copyright and AI Art

Artists are understandably concerned about the possibility that automatic image generators like Stable Diffusion will undercut the market for their work.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
#eff #copyright

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What's not to love about third-party software injecting itself into Firefox and causing crashes in the Rust standard library?

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remove_dir_all implementation on Windows is incompatible with some third-party hooks for NtOpenFile, leading to Firefox crashes

Third-party software can inject a DLL into firefox.exe that detours calls to NtOpenFile to monitor the use of this system call. Some of these third-party DLLs can assume that in any NtOpenFile call...
yjugl (GitHub)

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DeepSeek droht Rauswurf aus deutschen App-Stores

Der chinesische KI-Chatbot DeepSeek hat die Tech-Welt aufgemischt. Doch die Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragte sagt jetzt, die App sei rechtswidrig. DeepSeek soll aus den Stores von Apple und Google fliegen.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/deepseek-…

#DeepSeek #Datenschutz #China


DeepSeek droht Rauswurf aus deutschen App-Stores

tagesschau.de
#datenschutz #china #deepseek

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"Flaws in any (#curl) script or compiled artifact which isn't installed by default is not considered to be security vulnerabilities."

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1776…


VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY: exclude not installed software by danielgustafsson · Pull Request #17761 · curl/curl

Flaws in any script or compiled artifact which isn't installed by default is not considered to be security vulnerabilities.
GitHub
#curl

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Purism is leading the charge with Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Security-ready devices built on:

Finalized NIST PQC standards

Liberty Phones with Made in
USA electronics

Full control over your encryption keys

Verifiable open-source software

A secure, trusted supply chain

Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/rip-rsa-aes-the-…


RIP RSA AES: The Immediate Need of Quantum-Resistant Cryptography – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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Europe’s at a digital crossroads.

Big Tech’s “Sovereign Clouds” are a Trojan Horse - servers in the EU, but still under US law (CLOUD Act, FISA): tuta.com/blog/sovereign-washin…

True digital sovereignty means European tech.

Together with @ecosia #Wire #MeisterTask and @Mastodon we want to empower businesses, governments and administrations to choose technology that protects Europe’s future.

#DigitalSovereignty is just #oneclickaway 👇

"Sovereign cloud" or "sovereign washing"? A Trojan Horse at Europe's digital gates. | Tuta

AWS, Microsoft, Google - they all launched "sovereign clouds" recently. But the truth is, all US companies are subject to US data sharing legislation. Let's explore whether it's safe to use US clouds or whether it's just "sovereign washing".
Tuta
#digitalsovereignty #wire #meistertask #oneclickaway @Mastodon @Ecosia

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fireborn wrote an excellent series of posts about how badly accessibility is broken under #Linux. They include workarounds used, patches applied, patches submitted, and depressingly with things that worked a decade ago.

Naturally somebody volunteered to not read the series and reply with "first of all, it's GNU/Linux" as their opener.

*This* post is a line-by-line response to that comment.

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog
#linux
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You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine, 20250625,
by @fireborn,
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

… via lobste.rs/s/nwvary/you_don_t_o…

> Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt […]

>> GNU/Linux is about you owning your machine.

> Then why do I have to reassert that ownership every time a package breaks accessibility?

#linux #accessibility #gatekeeping


You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine

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#Accessibility #linux #gatekeeping @aaron
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Do you love the idea of Free & Open Source Software, and Linux in particular? I certainly do. But until recently, I didn't think too much about what "freedom" means beyond licensing. If you're like me, this blog post by @fireborn could border on heartbreaking. But it may also be a call to action, not only for developers, but for the entire F/OSS community. I hope it is.

Excerpt: »Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt. It’s not freedom if it requires you to be perfect, sighted, fluent in C, and emotionally bulletproof.«

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

found via @Natanox at chaos.social/@Natanox/11474988…

#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #Gatekeeping

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

2025-06-26 13:24:00

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THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.

If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility


You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

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#Accessibility #linux #foss #gatekeeping @Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @aaron
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Make this End of Financial Year special with an #EOFY donation to NV Access, or as we call it, #NEOFY!

Your gift helps keep the NVDA screen reader free for blind people around the world, helping give EVERYONE access to technology!

Donations over $2 are #tax deductible in Australia.

nvaccess.org/support-us/

#Donation #Technology #Blind #GoodCause #Cause #Philanthropy

Image which looks like a numberplate with the text "NVEOFY" in purple where the O is the NV Access sunburst logo. Outline in orange with "Empowering lives through" above and "non-visual access to technology" below. Dark, blurry shadows of the entire design above and below to make a square image overall

NV Access | Support Us

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#blind #technology #tax #donation #philanthropy #eofy #GoodCause #neofy #cause
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[CZ] tož jsem skončila na titulce roota 🙈 … root.cz/clanky/zaucovani-junio…

[EN] ended up in a czech linux online magazine, as a main today's article; machine translation of the interview actually looks quite well so go ahead and read it


Zaučování juniorů trvá roky, ale stojí to za to, říká Maria Matějka z projektu BIRD

Maria je vedoucí týmu BIRD u CZ.NIC a v poslední době se hodně zabývá vedením lidí a rozšiřováním týmu. Proč je těžké sehnat schopné lidi na technickou podporu? V čem selhává české vysoké školství?
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"When the author of a book states that all sales of those books will contribute to an anti-trans fund, the only way we can choose not to participate is by not selling the books any longer. "

- #SanFrancisco bookstore #Booksmith on why they've stopped selling titles by #transphobic author #JKRowling.

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San Francisco bookstore stops selling J.K. Rowling titles due to 'Harry Potter' author's anti-trans views

A bookstore in San Francisco announced earlier this month that it will no longer sell titles by J.K.
Jo Yurcaba (NBC News)
#sanfrancisco #jkrowling #booksmith #transphobic

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The NFB Virtual Exhibitor Preview is tonight starting at 8 Eastern. Rapid-fire, 60 seconds per exhibitor. Here's the link to listen. nfb-org.zoom.us/j/93874458797

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems.
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Hi @fireborn ! Is this your blogpost?

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

If so, I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I love #linux and always have. I have literally made my career with it ever since I first booted the H.J. Lu boot/root floppy set on my 486 DX2/66, but I'm partially #blind, and my vision is getting worse as I age.

And at times the amount of negativity and crap I get when I say that I generally run #WSL on Windows or a Mac? It's huge, pointless, and speaks to some ways in which parts of the Linux community are its own worst enemy.

When screen zoom broke for 2 years in #ubuntu and many of us kept signposting how important this is to us, over and over, and one of the Canonical engineers wrote in the issue saying that, due simply to the very limited number of engineering hours available, this was a low priority fix? That was a wake up call for me.

There's no malice there. It's not that anyone in the Linux community is doing an evil laugh and thrilling to the number of disabled users who can't reliably enjoy Linux on the desktop, it's about the reality that a tiny, rag tag group of engineers working for a handful of companies are doing the vast majority of the work keeping the Linux desktop world moving, and they BARELY have the bandwidth to keep development going at all much less catering to the myriad accessibility needs folks like us (Not comparing the nature of our didabilities, mind you. Everyone's different!).

But people like the guy your post responds to can make us feel not smart enough, not good enough, or not motivated enough to thrive in an environment that throws up HUGE obstacles, and that's just not right.

Pardon the length, I have Strong Feelings about this stuff as you can see, and thanks again for posting!

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog
#linux #blind #ubuntu #wsl @aaron

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This live version of All I need by Jacob Collier and Mahalia is just insane. Love this dude, as a Jazz player myself this just makes me happy in the best way. youtu.be/eBmJZiF3YAo

Jacob Collier - All I Need ft. Mahalia (Jimmy Fallon Performance)

Mahalia and I performed “All I Need” for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon! Every instrument was recorded live, and shot from multiple angles. I had so ...
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State Broadcast News - Voice of America’s chief national correspondent, Steve Herman, is fighting back against efforts by the Trump administration to close the 83-year-old news and cultural broadcasting hub that has fed unbiased objective reporting of news about the United States to authoritarian countries around the world since the early days of World War II. statebroadcastnews.com/2025/06…

SBN Newsmakers: VOA's Chief National Correspondent, Steve Herman, fights for free press -

Steve Herman, chief national correspondent for the Voice of America, in an exclusive interview with SBN's Steve Lubetkin, discusses the fight against Trump administration attempts to shutter the organization.
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My department (computer science and technology, cambridge university) is recruiting a system administrator! Details at jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47810/ — to quote our infrastructure lead, “Primarily Linux, with some involvement in network infrastructure, datacentres, storage, and of course supporting researchers to build interesting things :-)”

IT Specialist - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

IT Specialist in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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