Notices by Kit 🔻 (onrust@infosec.exchange)

Does your code kill Palestinians?

A letter from Hasan Ibraheem, a former Google software engineer, to current workers at Google, Amazon and Microsoft: https://hasanibraheem.substack.com/p/does-my-code-kill

No Tech for Apartheid statement on Google's acquisition of zionist cloud security company Wiz:

"Google acquires isra*li start-up Wiz, Signals its continued invesstment in israeli apartheid & its commitment to genocide profiteering.

Yesterday, mere hours after Israel escalated its violations of the ceasefire and unilaterally broke the agreement in full force, bombing Gaza and murdering over 400 Palestinians, Google formally announced its acquisition of Wiz. Wiz is an Israeli cloud security startup founded by former members of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s infamous clandestine intelligence unit.

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#NoTechForApartheid #Google #Wiz #TechWorkers #Palestine

Some google workers aren't happy that Google tech can now officially be used to build weapons, surveillance tools, or "technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm" https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-slam-company-after-it-ditches-ai-weapons-pledge-2025-2 #Google #AI #TechWorkers

Tech workers get a mention too! Tante:

If you care about liberation, don't make things shittier for the workers

Try to build in a way that allows a community to build autonomy and agency

#fluconf #TechWorkers

Another luddite insight:

Embrace disorder

It's really not necessary that everything needs to stick to a single big standard imposed upon the world

Allow weird divergence & idiosyncracy

#fluconf

@tante on a neo-luddite approach:

Learn the power of NO.

Just because big tech is doing something (AI shite, notifications, data scraping etc), doesn't mean you need to do it too

session details: https://fluconf.online/sessions/a-luddist-criticism-of-open-source-/

#fluconf

Question: Can the fediverse replace X/Insta/FB?

(surprising, paraphrased 😄) Answer from tante:

Well ... maybe it shouldn't?

Because then you're still stuck in this logic of there having to be this thing that everybody's on

For example, instagram sucks. Everyone is stylized and successful and beautiful. It makes me feel bad. Should we then build an open source version of something that makes people feel bad?

Try rethink things and what works for your community. And that may be something super small, instead of the one-to-one replacement of such a big platform

#fediverse #fluconf #SocialMedia

And tante closes their talk with two book recommendations:

• Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine
• Jathan Sadowski, The mechanic and the luddite

#fluconf #books #liberations

@MediaActivist hey so sorry I somehow missed this earlier! Personally I don't have any experience using Disroot, but if you do decide to move over there would love to know your experience :blobhappy:

@joenepraat @MediaActivist ugh whyyyyy

thnx for pointing that out

How many “r” in strawberry

#AIIsGoingGreat

Is a ceasefire really a ceasefire if the zionists keep on killing?

The major of Amsterdam has banned all demonstrations and protests in the city until Thursday.

Do you think this, well, sucks?

Tough luck.

The people of Amsterdam who disagree with city policies (or any other matter, such as an ongoing genocide) currently have no way to express their discontent together with others in public space.

But there's always creative ways. A handful of people gathered together on Dam Square with empty banners and placards to bring out the absurdity of the situation.

#Amsterdam #Netherlands #ProtestBan

Summary of the case starts.

The US is delivering F-35 parts, which in the Netherlands are held at Woensdrecht, and which NL is exporting to 'Israel'. There's a general export permit without an expiry date

A Dutch court will rule today on whether it's OK for the Netherlands to export F-35 parts to an occupying force that's using these to commit genocide.

Follow it live (in Dutch) here from 10:00 CET: https://streams.nfgd.nl/uitspraak-over-uitvoer-van-f-35-onderdelen-naar-israel

#Netherlands #WarCrimes #StopGenocideNow

Oxfam-Novib, the charity, and other partners who have brought this case object to Dutch exports of F-35 parts, because of the war crimes the zionist occupation is committing using these

Demands that export of F-35 parts to 'Israel' ceases immediately

First mention of khamasss!

Waymo driverless car set on fire, destroyed by San Francisco crowd https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/san-francisco-waymo-car-incinerated-18661419.php

UK Home Office wants to criminalize people looking after their health (by masking up 😷) and personally identifying information (by masking up :blackblob:)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/08/masked-protesters-could-soon-face-arrest-says-home-office #RightToProtest #RightToHealth #WearAMask

stop doing offices ... they have played us for absolute fools