Notices by Boud (boud@framapiaf.org)

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Key hypothesis more or less stated at today's #Decidim Association #bbb meeting [1]:

Hypothesis: Much of the power of the #TrumpMuskRegime + recently elected neo-fascist parties comes from #ImplicitFeudalism in online governance [2], related to the #TyrannyOfStructurelessness [3][4]. Exceptions in #FOSS are #Debian + #Wikipedia [2].

@debian has stopped using its Twitter account [1]. I like the comment from Andreas Tille [2]:

"I believe it is crucial for us to be the first major Linux distribution to move away from X, rather than the last to follow others. This is particularly important for #Debian to maintain its leadership in addressing ethical questions."

#HelloQuitX #HelloQuitteX #DebianSocialContract

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2025/01/msg00067.html

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2025/01/msg00033.html

@element It would make sense to try coordinating with @edri for looking for EU-level or EU-national-member-level financing. The case for supporting matrix software development is strong, but administrative-political coordination is needed. EDRI should have some good ideas and practical knowledge.
@nemobis @ilumium

@element @nemobis 5 MEUR/yr for 5 years sounds small on the EU scale. One possibility would be to convince one of the ERICs, arguing that EU-scale-FOSS-Synapse is crucial to EU research infrastructure [1]. Another would be to convince EOSC that EU-scale-FOSS-Synapse satisfies "seamless access" and #FAIR in supporting research and justifies a 25 MEUR/5 yrs budget [2].

[1] https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-research-and-innovation/our-digital-future/european-research-infrastructures/eric/eric-landscape_en

[2] https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-research-and-innovation/our-digital-future/open-science/european-open-science-cloud-eosc_en

The #RegisterOfDamageForUkraine #RD4U [1][2] is an excellent initiative. While Palestine and Israel are not in the #CouncilOfEurope , CoE states are implicated; it would be good to also set up #RD4P [3] + #RD4I [4], so that Palestinians + Israelis can be compensated by a future mechanism too. The database for #RD4P will have to be bigger e.g. 60 Tb for #RD4P vs 1 Tb for #RD4I.

[1] https://www.rd4u.coe.int/en

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_of_Damage_for_Ukraine

[3] https://www.rd4p.coe.int/en

[4] https://www.rd4i.coe.int/en

@nemobis PL legal scholars seem to be unanimous that Chapter 66e of PL Criminal Procedure Law [4] would have to be followed. An international treaty is legally higher than a Cabinet resolution. Articles 611g–611s define the ICC cooperation procedures (Minister of Justice/prosecutor/detention/local court/transfer). The Min of Justice #AdamBodnar has a good reputation for independence and restoring the #RuleOfLaw is his main mission [5].

[4] https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=wdu19970890555

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bodnar

The Polish president is trying get govt agreement to allow #Netanyahu to visit PL on 27 Jan 2025 [1] for the 80th anniversary of the #LiberationOfAuschwitz [2] without being arrested; the govt made a formal resolution hinting it would allow the visit without an arrest - but without naming Netanyahu or stating immunity explicitly. The #ICC reminded PL of its legal obligations [3].

#GazaGenocide

[1] https://archive.today/2025.01.10-171943/https://oko.press/uchwala-rzadu-podkopuje-porzadek-miedzynarodowy-netanjahu-powinien-byc-aresztowany

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Auschwitz_concentration_camp

[3] (scroll down) https://archive.today/2025.01.10-172053/https://oko.press/na-zywo/na-zywo-relacja/diecezja-ma-zaplacic-400-tys-za-wykorzystywanie-seksualne-final-sprawy-janusza-szymika

@nemobis @inganomads

It's true that "new role at Mastodon" is misleading - distinguishing Mastodon-the-network vs Mastodon gGmbH (DE) vs Mastodon Inc (US) is crucial for healthy decentralisation.

The givebutter page [1] really *does* say:

"... centrally operated out of the U.S., backed by venture capital"

Do people making donations earn shares in the #VentureCapital? Or are these just donations to empower billionaire investors to make them feel safe?

[1] https://archive.today/2024.12.01-141103/https://givebutter.com/givingmastodon

@ZekuZelalem

"But this was merely a symbolic measure."

That sounds like you're refusing to give agency to an African woman judge. Are you sure that those are quite the right words?

Objectively, it was with Bensouda as prosecutor that the Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan cases each progressed significantly (each in different ways).

Bringing the annual ICC budget [3] up to 1500 MEUR/year (factor of ten higher) would be cheap compared to the benefits: lawyers aren't cheap.

#ICCBudget

@EUCommission We can presume that you are a media team working for the EC, and that you discuss and decide secretly.

All the same, in your report to the EC hierarchy about "social network opinion", please read all the comments in this thread seriously and *do your homework* . Ideally, you should post your draft report on a public, ethical, GDPR-respecting server, e.g. a #cryptpad [1] so that everyone (e.g. all the participants of this thread) can edit it.

@urlyman

[1] https://switching.software/replace/google-drive

@echo_pbreyer

This is completely unacceptable behaviour by @EUCommission .

@EUCommission : you are *violating* the basic principles of the EU. Please immediately withdraw Case T-262/24 (C/2024/3925) and *stop* using Microsoft. You are wasting EU funds with this action. We are not the Russian Federation, we are the EU. We are supposed to accept facts about the real world. Microsoft has an atrocious track record of privacy. Withdraw Case T-262/24 now!

@EU_Commission Please clarify that by "Fediverse" your team means the Fediverse itself and that you do *not* mean Meta/FB's "Threads".

It is unacceptable for the EU Commission to provide support for Meta/FB's role in hate speech [1] [2], its role in the #RohingyaGenocide [3][4] and its role in the #TigrayGenocide [5][6].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/technology/facebook-india-misinformation.html

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-local-partners-say-hate-speech-stays-on-the-platform-2023-4

[3] https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/facebook-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya

[4] https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

[5] https://archive.today/2023.11.16-132321/https://www.amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ethiopia-metas-failures-contributed-to-abuses-against-tigrayan-community-during-conflict-in-northern-ethiopia

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20230105140852/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-meta-accused-in-lawsuit-of-allowing-posts-that-inflamed-ethiopia

@darnell

This is a side issue, but when there's a conversation between a human and a media team of humans, it's interesting to at least get some feeling for who might be "hiding" in the team. In the case of @EU_Commission my guess is the people here tagged 'social media':

https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/contact/press-services/press-contacts/commissions-spokespersons-service_en

are the team behind the @. The profile itself says nothing specific about who manages the messages, how their content is decided (e.g. on an internal wiki, on a cryptpad, or on a git repository).

@aral

The bug is yours: non-ascii apostrophes.

wget https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/raw/branch/parameter-objects/examples/markdown-preview/index.page.js

grep -E "Interestingly|updates while|sends a" index.page.js |od -c

0000040 342 200 231 s v a l u e h a s n
...
0000140 w , I 342 200 231 m g o i n g t
...
0000300 w e d o n 342 200 231 t w a n t

En.Wikipedia doesn 342 200 231 t want non-ascii apostrophes either [1] ;).

@Codeberg

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:%27

@jeffcliff @academicchatter @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice @aeryn_thrace @lonnibesancon

https://switching.software/replace/zoom

@aral

This appears to be related to a DDOS against #SourceHut:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240112094452/https://outage.sr.ht

@Di4na The 2016 Eghbal report [1] is very good; pp 120+121 are interesting about GitHub before the MS #EEE.

@forgefed #ForgeFed [2] - could you remind us of a good URL on ForgeFed funding (NLNet?) as a real-world example of funding FOSS?

@khinsen @civodul might have some good links on the current status of other EU-based initiatives towards sustainable incomes for FOSS developers/maintainers.

[1] https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-reports/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure (pdf archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20221225103314/https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf)

[2] https://forgefed.org

@aral

Don't think so. It's a citizens' association registered in Vienna:

https://noyb.eu/en/our-detailed-concept

https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2020-03/NOYB_Statute_DE_EN_0.pdf

@noybeu

@menica

Not just FOSS: Mobilizon is part of the Fediverse: https://mobilizon.org/en

@timnitGebru @MayInToronto

Armenia ratifying the #RomeStatute [1] is excellent news for humanity (124 states are now party to the #RomeStatute that establishes the #InternationalCriminalCourt) but bad news for Putin, Maria Lvova-Belova, Joseph Kony, Alfred Yekatom, David Sanakoev, Omar al-Bashir, Charles Blé Goudé, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi [2][3] and quite likely Ismail Haniyeh and Benjamin Netanyahu [4].

[1] https://kyivindependent.com/armenian-president-ratifies-iccs-rome-statute

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_indicted_in_the_International_Criminal_Court

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ICC_indictees_%28NavBox%29

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_investigation_in_Palestine