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📌 Infosecurity.sk prináša prehľad dezinformačných trendov, ktoré boli v posledných dvoch týždňoch na vzostupe:
📍 Odvolávanie Michala Šimečku z pozície podpredsedu parlamentu bolo sprevádzané dlhotrvajúcou diskreditačnou kampaňou a klamlivými naratívmi. Počas uplynulých týždňov pracovali dezinformátori najmä s údajnými dôkazmi o pochybných machináciách pri prideľovaní dotácií ministerstva kultúry a ministerstva spravodlivosti mimovládnym organizáciám, v ktorých pôsobia členovia Šimečkovej rodiny.
📍 Osobitnú pozornosť venovali dezinformátori aktivitám Šimečkovho otca Martina M. Šimečku či jeho partnerky Sone Ferienčíkovej, ktorá mala údajne čerpať neúmerné množstvo financií z Fondu na podporu umenia a obohacovať sa týmto spôsobom.
📍 Snaha zdiskreditovať Šimečku a jeho rodinných príslušníkov cez opakovanie klamstiev o dotáciách opäť smerovalo aj k delegitimizácii opozičných protestov. Tie mali podľa dezinformačných aktérov usilovať o udržanie finančných záujmov „Šimečkovho klanu“.
📌 Uplynulé týždne sa niesli v znamení diskreditačnej kampane namierenej proti predsedovi strany PS a lídrovi opozície Michalovi Šimečkovi.
📌 Ten bol zo strany dezinformačných aktérov napádaný v snahe vyobraziť ho ako vnútorného nepriateľa Slovenska, pričom finálnym cieľom bolo jeho odvolanie z pozície podpredsedu parlamentu. K tomu napokon došlo v utorok 17. septembra 2024.
📌 Popri ad hominem útokoch na Šimečku boli prítomné manipulácie a zavádzanie o členoch jeho rodiny, o ktorých sme informovali už v predchádzajúcom reporte.
📌 Naratívy o údajne podozrivom čerpaní verejných financií prostredníctvom mimovládok boli neskôr doplnené o ďalšie dôvody, pre ktoré mal byť Šimečka odvolaný z funkcie.
📌 Všetky použité argumenty boli postavené na domnienkach, zavádzaní a vyfabrikovaných „dôkazoch“. Napríklad argument o údajnom vplyve Michala Šimečku na Denník N prostredníctvom jeho otca Martina M. Šimečku, ktorý je akcionárom média, stojí na hlinených nohách.
📌 Podiel politikovho otca v médiu totiž neprevyšuje 0,5 % zamestnaneckých akcií. Napriek tomu dochádzalo k mylným interpretáciám a záverom typu, že noviny je možné „nazývať stranícke médium Progresívneho Slovenska“.
📌 Klamlivá rétorika o téme sa pravidelne objavovala v telegramových príspevkoch Ľuboša Blahu, europoslanca za SMER-SSD. V jednom z príspevkov konšpiroval o takzvanej progresívnej mafii, ktorá mala „Šimečkovmu klanu“ umožňovať stotisícové zárobky a krytie bývalej ministerky spravodlivosti Márie Kolíkovej.
📌 Opätovne sa objavovala aj snaha diskreditovať opozičné protesty zvolávané počas letných mesiacov. Tie tlmočili najmä apel na rokovanie o odvolaní ministerky kultúry Martiny Šimkovičovej (SNS) a ministra spravodlivosti Borisa Suska (SMER-SSD).
📌 Napríklad Šutaj Eštok posilňoval klamlivý naratív o tom, že protesty mali byť len nástrojom na udržanie finančných záujmov Šimečkovej rodiny.
📌 Rovnaký naratív šírila vo videu na Facebooku europoslankyňa za SMER-SSD a známa tvár dezinformačnej scény Judita Laššáková. Tá tvrdila, že zvolávanie protestov tesne po tom, ako obe ministerstvá zrušili dotácie pre Nadáciu Milana Šimečku, nemôže byť náhoda.
📌 Skutočnosť, že nadácia nesie len meno Šimečkovho starého otca, ktorý bol disidentom, bola už mnohokrát zdôraznená. Napriek tomu sa aj táto organizácia stala nástrojom ako Šimečku diskreditovať a spájať ho s dlhodobo démonizovanou mimovládnou sférou.
There are no laws limiting how bright a satellite can be ...
... but wow, there really ought to be: gizmodo.com/texas-startup-keep…
I'm heading back home after four incredible days at The Matrix Conference. I'm going home with a sense of belonging and beginning.
Bonding with the community, the individuals and organizations who are all part of a vibrant, organic, and interconnected ecosystem. Being a part of a whole. Being together. This is what this has been all about, and we nailed it.
I'm starting to see where the problem is.
Question time! Let's say I want to make a "family cloud" with synced NAS devices across multiple households, where family members can store and sync photos/files/etc uploaded from their phones. Bonus points if those devices can also be used as media centers for sharing movies etc.
What hardware and software do you recommend to accomplish this?
Goal is to move my whole family off Google Photos and Google Drive using 100% FOSS and for it to be as low-maintenance as possible.
Boosts welcome!
you can accomplish this with @nextcloud and @jellyfin. Use the memories app for photos. Nextcloud also comes with calendar and contacts syncing, you can use @davx5app on android to sync.
Alternatively you can use syncthing and immich, in lieu of nextcloud.
As for low maintainance: I run this on my server, it works fine, but you're still being a hobby sysadmin.
I run this on a self-built server based vaugely on this video from wolfgang: youtube.com/watch?v=N8fWIh1V-Y…
A v podstatě už nemám příště koho volit...
Zase nevolit nikoho, taky není řešení .
thinking about it, i'd go one step further
if you are not actively fighting the hostility B/VI users experience when self-advocating, redirect that energy
i often don't feel safe on fedi crowdsourcing image descriptions because i've been told that i am the reason people leave fedi (despite around 75% of mastodon dot social's images being undescribed), that me expressing frustration at how inaccessible things can be (not even to that person, in general) is the reason they will now no longer provide image descriptions at all, and that my request is amounts to forcing someone to provide labor without compensation and the world would be better off without me.
it doesn't seem to matter how much i tone police myself, how clear i make it that it's not required they do it, no matter how much i wring my hands over it. sometimes it's fine. it goes great. but when it doesn't...
the human system regularly dehumanizes me. expecting B/VI folks to engage with that to get basic needs met is also dehumanizing.
The latest Halide update was rejected because, after seven years, a random reviewer decided our permission prompt wasn't descriptive enough.
I don't know how to explain why a camera app needs camera permissions.
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This was one of those rejections where they're like, "If this is a bug fix, we can accept it for now, but you need to fix this in your next update."
We replied, "Yes, please approve, we'll fix it." 36 hours later, they approved, but we still need to deal with this.
I submitted an update with our permission prompts in iambic pentameter. It was approved.
(We won't release it. I just had to know.)
The Department of Energy Wants You to Know Your Conservation Efforts Are Making a Difference
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This is good
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keby zajtra donesiem ľad v niečom udržiteľnom som boh ale nič preto nemám
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Cuando mi hija era chiquita, en el Mixup les dio una época de vender los DVDs de Studio Ghibli, en paquetes de tres películas dobladas al español.
Una de ellas era El Castillo en el Cielo.
Se la pusimos una sola vez; tendría unos 3 años. Dejaron el nombre de la ciudad intacto, y uno de los diálogos climáticos es "¡Laputa sí existe!".
My favourite talk from this year’s #id24 is How to consider non-native English speakers in UX. They talk about some really good things that also apply for cognitive accessibility and these things are so easy to overlook if you don’t carefully consider the impact language can have on understanding
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It's actually hilarious how many plants we cultivate specifically for their defense mechanisms
Alliums: We have nasty sulfur compounds that turn into literal tear gas when our cell walls are broken! No animals are getting at our sugar stores!
Humans: Mmm tasty sulfur compounds, I'm gonna eat you with everything
Tea and coffee: Haha, bugs die when they try to eat us because we grow our own pesticide!
Humans: Ugh don't talk to me until I've had my pesticide
All manner of herbs and spices: Nice try, critters! But we are filled with volatile oils that are dangerous and offputting!
Humans: Ooo this one is good with my pesticides, this one tastes great with the sulfur compounds, this one makes amazing desserts, oh my god yes.
Spicy peppers: Fucking mammals grinding up our seeds in their gross molars! No more! Only birds can tolerate our heat!
Humans: I'm gonna dry you up, grind you into a powder, and use you as a staple seasoning for entire continents' worth of cuisine
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Martin Owens
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •Printers with smell capabilities, what will they think of next.
No one nose.