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[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 1 points 2 years ago

At the most basic, Facebook (they changed to Meta as a PR thingy, mostly) thrives on being a closed broker extracting from the open world. It is not that I predict they will break things here, it is that they have consistently demonstrated that is their only way of making profits. It all starts nice and smooth. Until it isn’t.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is the obsession with numbers? Centralization mentality is the problem. The idea that unless 5 Billion people are on a network will it be “successful” denies the joys of effective and sustainable networks. I really honestly wouldn’t want to see a fediverse server with more than 100K daily active users. I would rather have 10 instances of 10K active users.

Meta and those billionaire centrists can go fuck themselves.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 3 points 2 years ago

The article itself focuses on a Palestinian who has gon ethrough the whole wringer for decades. It is not a distraction, at least that is not the intention. It is a deeper look into history to locate what today feels like new stuff for the world yet this is how "Gaza breathes", away from Hamas and ISIS and Israel.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 6 points 2 years ago

Me, deep in the night, reading about modem signals and off the hook. I love forum threads. They have taught me more than I can imagine.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 7 points 2 years ago

One of those hidden features that make this app quite neat. My most used feature on Apollo iOS back in the days. In future iterations, I hope the watermark can include a timestamp and instance too. When cool images are shared from here, Voyager watermark + time + instance et al will be silent ambassadors :)

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Your use case matters here. Perhaps there are other specialized tools for what you want to achieve.

Why is LibreOffice “meh”? I have used it for the last 10 years and would like to know what it is you find off with it.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Judgement conclusion: For the reasons we have explained in our discussion of Issues 2 and 3, at paras 42-105 above, we conclude that the Court of Appeal was correct to reverse the decision of the Divisional Court, and was entitled to find that there are substantial grounds for believing that the removal of the claimants to Rwanda would expose them to a real risk of ill-treatment by reason of refoulement. It was accordingly correct to hold that the Secretary of State’s policy is unlawful. The Secretary of State’s appeal is therefore dismissed. For the reasons explained in our discussion of Issue 4, at paras 107-148 above, the cross-appeal by ASM is also dismissed.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 2 points 2 years ago

I find the diaspora conflicts irritating. Most of them fan killings back in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan then create such a bitter environment in the communities hosting them (like Calgary or Sweden or Germany). Tell these people to go and fight in the Ethiopian fronts and they coil back. But they want the kids of poor farmers to go and die for their abstract ideas (sometimes genuine, but mostly misdirected at the wrong people).

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That article is in my opinion a promotional item emphasising the shoplifting almost bankrupting retail stores and glorifying the capacities of facial recognition and data sharing.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 9 points 2 years ago

Interesting seen this way.

Word of note though. Salaries are quiet spread out. The people likely to buy new iPhones are likely people earning top 1% of salaries in most countries in Africa.

If this viz is focusing on average salary, then it is a general description and should not be compared to other countries with different income spreads (min-max). It can be quite deceptive. Upper middle class in a place like Kenya or Myanmar live a far more better life overall than say lower middle class folk in the US.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 1 points 2 years ago

Yes. The linked article points to Apple’s release notes.

CVE-2023-41064: The Citizen Lab at The University of Torontoʼs Munk School

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 14 points 2 years ago

Which government? Don’t assume the US to be THE universal government. 😀

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