Notices by Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)

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»The Rockbox project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Rockbox 4.0. This marks our first release since November 2019, and since then we've been busy adding features and fixing bugs to give you the best Rockbox experience yet.«

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes400

#rockbox

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Casual reminder of the times we live in: Israel's leaders have an arrest warrant from the International Court of Justice and meanwhile Western countries (maybe yours?) support and enable huge and ongoing crimes against humanity.

Here's the news from *Israeli media*.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-expose-arbitrary-killings-and-rampant-lawlessness-in-gazas-netzarim-corridor/00000193-da7f-de86-a9f3-fefff2e50000

@aral hehe, nothing is so bad it isn't good for anything https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/113676012209507491

@cheeaun @tanghus exactly -- when it's the first time that your instance sees the link, there's no preview. But the moment that you post the link, you'll see that the preview card shows up after a reload. I think most instances just need like a second to have generated it.

This could be you. Think about it. This is what our countries are supporting when they say "Israel has a right to defend itself": Killing innocent people who are seeking safety and treatment in a fucking hospital tent.

»A 20-year-old Palestinian man who was confined to a hospital bed and connected to an IV drip burned to death after an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital courtyard where displaced people had been seeking shelter.«

We need to protest until this stops.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/15/palestinian-man-burned-alive-after-israeli-strike-on-hospital-courtyard

@aral Oh interesting that it used to be open source and isn't anymore. I've seen other open source 1-person sideprojects developing their business side to a worrying degree. Of course, the person doing it needs an income... but changing the license and selling it is not it.

@aral here's an alternative with an Open Source license: https://dgrm.net/ (I've tried it for a few small things and it's great)

Western leaders should have taken a timeout to think before sending all their auto-responses in support of Israeli aggression:

Israel doesn't have the right to *indiscriminately bomb civilians*.

The bombings of Gaza are collective punishment, and it's spelled out directly by Netanyahu. To him, all 2.3 million people in Gaza are enemies that "will pay an unprecedented price".

Everything about this is horrifying.

Guterres waited and spoke wisely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZfbzDH1NU

The UN Security Council vote on ceasefire has been postponed *again*. The Brazilian text was supposed to have been resolved Monday but is now delayed until later today (Wednesday).

The US doesn't want to vote until Biden has concluded his visit in Israel:

> It was unclear if the United States, a veto-power who traditionally shields its ally Israel from any Security Council action, would allow the resolution to pass.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-vote-wednesday-israel-gaza-conflict-2023-10-17/

In a social media post, Israel Katz said no "electrical switch will be turned on, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter" until the "abductees" are free.

Israel has now taken the entire population of Gaza as hostage. This includes everyone, also the Israeli hostages.

To me, it seems like a completely irrational and blind revenge. A true friend of Israel would tell them to stop.

https://journa.host/@fulelo/111220941415465904

The US has vetoed the UN Security Council's text on ceasefire.

12 of 15 members voted in favour of the Brazilian text, one (US) voted against, and two (Russia, and the United Kingdom) abstained.

(...)

> China's U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun accused the United States of leading council members to believe the resolution could be adopted after it did not express opposition during negotiations. He described the vote as "nothing short of unbelievable."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-vetoes-un-security-council-action-israel-gaza-2023-10-18/

Israel has shown (once again) that "defending" themselves includes war crimes and mass-murder.

Not calling for an immediate ceasefire puts blood on Western leaders' hands. Western leaders should do what they can to stop this, instead they were busy handing out encouragements of shear impunity to Israel.

Voting down the Russian text in the UN Security Council was also ice-cold geopolitics.

We'll see what the next 24h hold 😢

Full details with each country's statement about the Russian ceasefire proposal from yesterday: https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/4-members-favour-5-against-security-council-rejects-russian-federations-resolution-calling-immediate-humanitarian-ceasefire-israel-palestine-crisis

There's a Brazilian text which will hopefully be adopted by the UN security council today (Tuesday).

Antonio Guterres made another appearance: This time at the border crossing at Rafah (Egypt).

Even if the speech was improvised, the fact that he addressed the whole world right at the Rafah crossing is really saying for how horrific the situation is.

A prison of 2 million people detained without food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity.

Look at the truck lines that are supposed to get in 😢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbwEHoJPv7E

Imagine working in the Gaza hospitals.

1) No supplies, improvise all the time, everything is on the brink of collapse.

2) Too many patients, many in critical condition, constant prioritization, constant stress.

3) Then add the stress from being hit by an airstrike since hospitals are bombed and frequently warned that they will be bombed.

Tonight, hundreds more were killed and injured despite the health system collapsing.

This is Israel defending itself.

Spain’s Social Rights Minister Ione Belarra: “I believe that Europe will pay very dearly for this hypocrisy.”

The whole interview is very clear 🎯

(worth transcribing)

Yesterday's speech by Antonio Guterres was historic. And congratulations with the United Nations Day, 78 years.

Today's world hasn't deserved such a good leader figure, but we certainly need one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSQMYsQEg4

(not surprisingly, Israel's nutcase response to this reveals exactly why the speech is so good and powerful)

»EU staffers criticise von der Leyen’s ‘uncontrolled’ support of Israel: More than 800 EU staff and global diplomats sign a letter to the EU chief, saying the bloc’s position is enabling more violence.«

Exactly this. If EU and US leaders had been critical of Israel's actions from the beginning, thousands of civilian lives would have been saved.

The kind of friend that Israel needs is someone who can say "no" and "stop".

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/20/eu-staffers-criticise-von-der-leyens-uncontrolled-support-of-israel