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XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation
- For Android: Conversations is excellent, also on F-Droid if you don't want to use the Google store.
- For iOS/MacOS: Siskin or iOS/MacOS: Monal.
- For Linux/Windows: Gajim or Linux: Dino.
"Protocol fragmentation" is not a valid complaint about XMPP -- it's like complaining that ActivityPub is fragmented; but that's not a problem: you use the services (Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, etc) built with it which suit your needs, mostly interacting with that sector of the federation (eg, Lemmy+Kbin), but get a little interoperability with other sectors as a bonus (eg, Lemmy+Mastodon).
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When human shields are used, the attacking party must take into account the risk to civilians. 191 Indiscriminate or disproportionate harm to civilians remains unlawful and the civilian population can never be targeted.
So, from this I understand that every time Israel makes an accusation of "human shields", it's a direct admission of guilt of war crimes in that they are knowingly targeting civilians.
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The HK company's brandingdesign/branding was licensed to a manufacturer nominally based in Europe.
Edit: many sources, but here's one: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trail-mystery-woman-whose-company-licensed-exploding-pagers-2024-09-20/
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Don't do it. Alkalines are all shit now and will leak all over your electronics.
Get some decent NiMH.
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Yeah, X11 forwarding is only fine on a campus wide network, maybe city-wide at most, if the wan is fast enough.
Sshfs would also be painful for operations processing a lot of data (grepping gigs of log files or even creating thumbnails of images to browse).
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remote access
To be fair, X11 forwarding is a straightforward thing, bearing in mind any security/performance/administrative restrictions which may apply to your situation.
Alternatively, SSHFS can be used to mount a remote directory locally.
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Should one sympathise with car-supremacists?
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Reader mode exposes a much better headline:
Scientists testing deadly heat limits on humans show thresholds may be much lower than first thought
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Most
people^1^, even in this very thread, clearly don't [...]
- Signal shill-bot personas.
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One-Term Tony II
(Although the last one was more like "half-term tony".)
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Yet another moment since Labor's re-election where I think "Ooh, Albo's going mask-off!".
Please let's have minority governments, our electoral and political system is ideal for it!
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Oh, I agree. I don't think it's a particularly useful reference page -- more of a biased agglomeration on a substrate of preconceived opinion, but the initial pile-on of downvotes without comments felt a bit like the usual Mozilla-fanaticism.
I tend to upvote posts not because I agree with them, but because I'm interested in people's responses to the ideas within them.
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So many downvotes..
I'm only about 10% in (and just skimming), and it's a rant but it's coherent and well-reasoned.
Starts off as a dive into Mozilla's rank hypocrisy and doublespeak around privacy.
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ß or β?
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MP Bob Katter would disagree that crocodiles are non-political: https://youtu.be/_ih1EuMLspY
www.smh.com.au
Tip of the iceberg when it comes to examining the corruption of land ownership in Australia. It's hardly talked about. The linked article doesn't even talk about it. The public as a whole (and traditional owners) should be the only financial beneficiaries of rezoning. I suspect private maximisation of rezoning profits is the reason behind why urban developments here are almost universally that awful single-story no-greenspace roof-to-roof packed suburban hellscape.
www.commondreams.org
>[...] The 92-page document compiled by the legal team lays out a number of specific ways Albanese and other Australian officials have acted as an accessory to genocide, including: > > - Freezing $6 million in funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East amid a humanitarian crisis based on unsubstantiated claims by Israel; > - Providing military aid and approving defenee exports to Israel, which could be used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the course of the prima facie commission of genocide and crimes against humanity; > - Ambiguously deploying an Australian military contingent to the region, where its location and exact role have not been disclosed; and > - Permitting Australians, either explicitly or implicitly, to travel to Israel to join the IDF and take part in its attacks on Gaza. > >"The Rome Statute provides four modes of individual criminal responsibility, two of which are accessorial," [attorney] Omeri explained in a statement. [...] See also: Birchgrove Legal's [media release](https://birchgrovelegal.com.au/2024/03/01/birchgrove-legal-files-case-for-complicity-to-genocide-to-the-hague-international-criminal-court-media-release/) and [communiqué to ICC](https://birchgrovelegal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ICC-Referral-Australian-Government-Ministers-and-Opposition-Leader-04032024_BLG.pdf)
www.youtube.com
>The Australien Government has made an ad about its Whistleblower Protection Laws, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. > >Take action: droptheprosecutions.org.au https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ad-whistleblower-protection-laws/
Don't use Firefox, use Lynx. Better yet, boycott http etc entirely. Gopher or die. Why are you still using a backlit display? Pipe your terminal into a passive character LCD and go to bed when the sun goes down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOaahWFfug Alt-ASCIIart image for those already on a 20x4 display (modified to fit in a 20x4 display): ``` text ╔══════════════════╗ ║Debian GNU/Linux ║ ║ttyACM0 Login: █ ║ ╚══════════════════╝ ``` This is your life now. Modern computing has revealed itself to be mostly unreasonable. Go outside; potatoes need harvesting, the birds are eating your tomatoes, and the chickens haven't been fed yet.
[@daniel@gultsch.social](https://gultsch.social/users/daniel) [wrote](https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111929678072451151) > Appealing the removal didn’t yield any result. Google just repeated the same statement "the app was removed because it uploads the contact list" without even acknowledging any of the arguments I made in the appeal. > > I understand that most of my audience here on Mastodon is more ideology aligned with F-Droid but the app sales on Google Play store have contributed significantly to me working (almost) full time on #Conversations_im. > > Without the revenue from Google Play I can’t afford this.
www.theguardian.com
Archived version: https://archive.ph/uKaZc Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231219210750/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/20/us-officials-monitored-pro-assange-protests-in-australia-for-anti-us-sentiment-documents-reveal
[Panquake](https://lemmy.ml/post/139820) have released some source code. Not for Panquake itself, but for a link shortening service. I suppose it's a brand-exposure exercise. https://talkliberation.substack.com/p/panquake-early-release-pnqk-now-available
Transcript: > [showerthoughtsofficial]: > When medication says "do not operate heavy machinery" they're probably mainly referring to cars, but my mind always goes to forklift. > > [sauntervaguelydownward]: > It has honestly never occured to me that this warning was about cars and not construction equipment
www.reuters.com
Meanwhile India's incredible train network suffers continuing decades of neglect resulting in poor performance and tragic rail disasters. We need a fuckplanes community to complement [!fuck_cars@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/fuck_cars).
> ActivityPub-enabled microblogs are gaining popularity as a replacement for Twitter, but ActivityPub is for more than just microblogging. Many other popular services also have open-source alternatives that speak ActivityPub. Proprietary services operated by commercial interests usually deliberately limit interoperability, but users of any ActivityPub-enabled service should be able to communicate with each other, even if they are using different services. This promise of interoperability is often limited in practice, though; while ActivityPub specifies how multiple types of content can be published, the kinds of content that can be displayed or interacted with vary from project to project.
peoplesworld.org
> JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)—Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously passed a long-expected revision of the country’s penal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside of marriage for citizens as well as foreigners, prohibits promotion of contraception, forbids progressive political thought, and bans defamation of the president and state institutions. > > The amended code also expands an existing blasphemy law and maintains a five-year prison term for deviations from the central tenets of Indonesia’s six recognized religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. > > Citizens can face a 10-year prison term for associating with organizations that follow Marxist-Leninist ideology and a four-year sentence for spreading communism. Anti-communism has long been a tenet of the Indonesian state. > [...] -- December 6, 2022; By Niniek Karmini
Description: - Fortune magazine headline "Europe's energy crisis sets its sights on another victim: Car manufacturing" (2022-10-12) - Jeremy Clarkson 2-panel "Oh no!", "Anyway." meme.
Excellent documentary on farmed and wild-caught fish regarding the effects of pollution, contamination, industrialisation, fraud, corruption, etc. Focuses mostly on human health issues, but touches on the relevant environmental and other issues too. TL;DW: Don't consume farmed fish. Don't consume big fish. Eat small fish. Alternative links: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=RYYf8cLUV5E