Indigenous parents push for birth registries to allow their languages' special characters, accents
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    ThunderSky is one of a growing chorus of Indigenous parents demanding provincial and territorial authorities allow them to bestow Indigenous names on their children — with all the special characters, syllabics, accents, numeric or other non-English or French symbols used by some Indigenous languages.

    Who knew typography and font choices would one day have this effect.

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  • Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop | Time
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    This is what "Ease of doing business" leads to.

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  • This is a "3rd level" federation test post.
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    Before I make the changes, what does that mean in practice? I have an account on Mastodon and it sees posts from baraza communities. I am on lemmy0.14.3 if that helps. Was this nginx config a requirement when updating? I did not see it in the docs, unless it was baked in during the updates.

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  • This is a "3rd level" federation test post.
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    Did you try to follow Baraza communities via Mastodon? I did see that "Cancel Follow Request" sporadically and now it seems resolved (displaying "Unfollow"). The mastodon federation is still at the community level. I will check in with @nutomic@lemmy.ml on what that means exactly. Is there a role for the remote Mastodon admin to play so that "Cancel Follow Request" move to full "Unfollow".

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  • This is a "3rd level" federation test post.
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    Update after 18 hours or so:

    This post did not federate to c/Africa on Baraza even though it appears like so on Lemmy.ml. I updated the install from 0.14.1 to 0.14.3 and new posts made from lemmy to baraza did federate. Proximate cause for non-federation could then be different lemmy installations. But I was getting content on Baraza from lemmy, just not posts made directly to communities there.

    Even after updating, a post to Baraza from Lemmy is not federating:

    I will observe this issue and probably make a proper issue on Github.

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  • www.eventbrite.co.uk

    Important speakers and theme, even though Eventbrite is a privacy-eroding application.

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    africanarguments.org

    > For the investigation, we listed 209 office holders we deemed to be among the most senior in the country. We then attempted to determine their ethnic identities which, in Rwanda, is passed down through the father. Of the 205 senior figures whose backgrounds we could confidently ascertain, 166 were Tutsi and 38 were Hutu.

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    GLOBALink | Experiencing digital RMB at China's first consumer products expo
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    Welcome but please post the Microsoft link to other communities that are interested in those kind of things. This community is about central bank digital currencies.

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  • baraza - 0.14.1 lemmy.ml - 0.14.3 I am posting from [@halo@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/halo) to [!africa@baraza.africa](https://baraza.africa/c/africa). Baraza is also federating with mastodon.social. A mastodon account, [@mbiruiru@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/users/mbiruiru) follows baraza.africa/c/africa community. When the mastodon account replies to the post made by the lemmy account on baraza community, the reply goes to lemmy only and is not propagated to baraza. will comment on this post with observed changes.

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    Why lawns must die
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    Roundup, a common plant killer, has also been at the centre of dozens of health related lawsuits. Bayer (and Monsanto previously) have had to pay billions in fines: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882949098/bayer-to-pay-more-than-10-billion-to-resolve-roundup-cancer-lawsuits

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  • The Topography of Africa
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    Ethiopian highlands (the source of Abaye/Blue Nile) are panoramic. I didn’t know it is one of the highest zones in Africa.

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  • GLOBALink | Experiencing digital RMB at China's first consumer products expo
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    Interesting stuff, which is why there is a new community on central bank digital currencies on baraza: https://baraza.africa/post/9173

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  • Turtles all the way down. Decentralized networks for decentralized society.
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    Under assumptions, what is the motivation to participate in social activity? Is motivation assumed to be an ontological primitive?

    This is an interesting post.

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  • www.cdc.gov

    > current knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 transmission and reformatted to be more concise. > that airborne virus can be inhaled even when one is more than six feet away from an infected individual. > Although how we understand transmission occurs has shifted, the ways to prevent infection with this virus have not.

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    nation.africa

    > The genesis and evolution of the war in Tigray have been anything but law enforcement operations. The full force of Ethiopia’s army, with all its ground and Air Force assets, was involved alongside militia forces of neighbouring regional states, not to mention the introduction of drone warfare supplied, arguably, by a non-Africa country.

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    nation.africa

    > Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced this on Friday, saying at least 200,000 doses remained unused across the country. > > "We are going to take back vaccines that are lying idle in counties due to slow uptake and distribution. We cannot afford to have the jabs expire in our stores," he said, adding they will be dispatched to other counties.

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    Canada online content censorship on steroids
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    Comment sections are the best/worst parts of the Internet :)

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  • Canada online content censorship on steroids
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    I do not know its status but this is the link: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c10.html

    Bill C-10.

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  • Cellebrite Vulnerabilities
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    Just awesome.

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  • Cellebrite Vulnerabilities
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    They are well paid pirates. 🏴‍☠️

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  • *Permanently Deleted*
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    Is this Transno structure the ‘relational notes’ approach, like a wiki or Zettelkestein something something?

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  • A meta-proposal for Twitter's bluesky project
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    When Jack posted that idea, I remember seeing Christopher Lemmer Webber & Evan Prodromou mention ActivityPub to Jack right there. Oh how this world works :(

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  • A meta-proposal for Twitter's bluesky project
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    I agree. It is hard to see how a centralized powerful entity would cede that power to a decentralized system if their aim is not to turn decentralized communities into name-only but centralized in practice.

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  • A meta-proposal for Twitter's bluesky project
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    Obligatory XKCD

    I like the publicity this gives to fediverse. I do not think ignoring existing protocols right from the start inspires hope in as much as Twitter and Harvard do not explicitly mention existing options. I hope I am wrong in the long run.

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  • A meta-proposal for Twitter's bluesky project
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    Twitter (at least their CEO) claimed they were interested in a decentralized form to allow more communities. ActivityPub, Matrix, Status etc were mentioned. But it seems these harvard people would like to build a new one instead of joining and improving the existing.

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  • https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3816729

    > Over the course of the last month, members of the Berkman Klein community, representing academics, activists, lawyers and technologists, came together to discuss the Twitter BlueSky project. The discussions culminated in this “meta-proposal” for the BlueSky team and community, which presents suggestions on how to go about considering proposals and building out BlueSky.

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    https://luxexumbra.blogspot.com/2021/03/spy-agencies-covid-19-and-parking-lots.html

    PARKINT: > For this blog post I analyzed satellite photos of the parking lots at CSE headquarters, CSIS headquarters, Canadian Forces Station Leitrim, NSA Fort Meade, and GCHQ Cheltenham. With the exception of CSE (which uses a parking garage for most of its parking), roughly the same pattern can be seen at all of these sites: a sharp reduction in parking lot use around late March 2020 as the first wave of the pandemic struck, greater but still reduced occupancy in May and June 2020, and a return to full lots by the end of the summer of 2020. There is very little evidence of reduced parking lot use during the winter 2020/2021 wave of the pandemic.

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearLE
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    Baraza
    https://baraza.africa/

    `baraza` is a public square as imagined in Bantu philosophy. All are welcome, but you may note it leans more on African stuff.

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    www.youtube.com

    > The ancient tradition of using personalised ink stamps for everything from official documents to receipts is under threat in Japan. The government is planning reforms that will end the use of stamps and digitise paperwork instead.

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