Notices by Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)

"The French Human Rights League (LDH) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (#CNRS) cofounded the collective “#HelloQuitteX,” which is now supported by a group of 86 unions and organisations that pledge to no longer post any content on X because the algorithms “favour the proliferation of hateful content and conspiracy theories,” according to a press release on theirwebsite. "

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/01/15/french-group-encourages-mass-departure-from-elon-musks-x-platform-on-us-inauguration-day

#Xodus

@CelloMomOnCars

Rather ironic that this is the reason TikTok is being banned in the US, Data collection and yet Meta products do this all the time.

Man Utd, Man City and Scotland legend Law dies aged 84

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckgvny01x9go

NB I have amended the headline of this post to include Manchester city

@xtaldave @broadwaybabyto

In the UK they would be required to wear PPE provided by the employer and that PPE must be fit for purpose. As for handwashing for the population it would be normal during the covid pandemic to have hand gel in every shop for example, now less so, so the risk is there.

I still carry some with me, and use, Other than useful for my job, it is just good hygiene.

People are going back to their lax, complacent mindset the further covid slips in to history.

@xtaldave @broadwaybabyto

So a lot more contagious then made out then. As we get the impression you need direct contact with birds. So how do you mitigate these risks, clearly walking around in hamzat suits is not practical, maybe it will be down to regular hand washing, which should happen anyway.

@broadwaybabyto

How long can bird flu survive outside of a host?
Can you pick up bird flu from touching a surface that may have had bird droppings on it.?

Just asking as part of this conversation

@Sibshops @evacide

We just need to promote the fedi as an alternative, I guess @loops is close to TikTok for short videos, and pixelfed can also do video.

So first we should work out how people are finding the replacement services, I guess tiktok users are being directed to rednote by other tiktok users or from other central social media sites where they can advertise.

@Sibshops @evacide

We just need to promote the fedi as an alternative, I guess @loops is close to TikTok for short videos, and pixelfed can also do video.

@MisuseCase @kneoghau @GossiTheDog

We know who was invovled, it was the fact that social services, the police didn't want take action as they were scared of being called racist. They blamed victims, which statutory guidence says NOT to do. It was a total screw up from top to bottom and noone was held accountable.

@MisuseCase @kneoghau @GossiTheDog

The GDPR should protect people against misuse of data, as for lack of security and data breaches, the GDPR covers that, but it is too late if there is a data breach.

I can see it being a recipe for disaster given how lax security is or can be.

@MisuseCase @kneoghau @GossiTheDog

Or in the case of Grooming gangs, hold endless inquiries that will conclude with the bleeding obvions that most normal people could tell them in a few minutes.

@TheSpaceshipper

I think the default Slackware hostname is darkstar, is this playing homage to the movie?

@MisuseCase @kneoghau @GossiTheDog

Indeed, in fact I think back in 2023, there was a company who sued the government as they spent a lot of money developing a solution that was no longer needed, due to the way the government handles things (as in badly).

'Porn block' companies seek £3m in damages
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51235675

@MisuseCase @kneoghau @GossiTheDog

Kids have had access to porn for decades, not like we didn't have top shelf mags at school or some floating around usually, we still had page 3 of the sun.

I have read before that naturist magazines such as health and efficiency did the rounds at school.

I still think it is about education, perhaps if we had more and not less naturism, our attitude towards sex and nudity would be different.

@MisuseCase @kneoghau @GossiTheDog

hmm, it will be interesting how this will be enforced by OfCOM.

Given that, with water and sewage
Government has broken the law on sewage, says watchdog

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g38drwmrlo

Unless Ofcom enforce the rules properly and robustly then there won't be the same level of fear as there is in the US.

@MisuseCase @kneoghau @GossiTheDog

Good poimt, I think it will be interesting to see what happens with this too.

All porn sites must 'robustly' verify UK user ages by July

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye3qw7gv7o

We perhaps need to go back to some basics of teaching respect for self and also others.

@kneoghau @GossiTheDog

I think in China they value education, parents value education and teach their kids to do the same, they also teach their kids respect.

Perhaps one of the reasons China brought in controls to limit how long kids can do gaming or social media for, to the west this is because china is seen as oppressive, but maybe the Chinese government also recognise how gaming and social media impact heath and education etc.

This is just an idea, so needs some sort of citations etc.

@geco_de

Ah no problem

@geco_de

Will do, we are there on the 4th Saturday. so if you are or know anyone who may be interested, they are welcome.

@stellarsarah @MisuseCase @GossiTheDog

There was an interview with someone the other day about Musk on BBC news, one of the things that was pointed out, is tht Musk owns SpaceX which has done some good things with rockets, and Tesla.

A response to that could be that Jimmy Saville raised millions for charity, he did, BUT after he died and people found out he was a paedophile, all that fundraising became irelavent

e.g 2
JK Rowling wrote the Huge popular Harry Potter books, sure true statement, but she has also been outspoken on Trans people, result is that even the actors from the films have distanced themselves from JK Rowling.

So, now that Musk has donated to Trump, and tried to interfere in British Politics, is trying to help the AfD win in Germany, and is trying to perhaps help reform win in the Uk, how long before people wake up and just decide Musk is no longer needed, regardless of what Space X and Tesla achieve. Once trumps policies kick in and people start to suffer they will put 1+1 together.

To some extent the same goes for Mark Zukerberg allowing trans hate on his platform under the guise of 'free speech' there has to be a point where people say enough is enough.

There HAS to be a point were people snap.