Το γεγονός ότι για πρώτη φορά η Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή αποκτά ακροδεξιό αντιπρόεδρο, τον σύμμαχο της Μελόνι, Ραφαέλε Φίττο, επιβεβαιώνει με τον χειρότερο τρόπο ότι η ευρωπαϊκή ηγεσία θα συνεχίσει τον εναγκαλισμό με την ακροδεξιά, όπως με ανησυχία παρατηρούμε αυτές τις μέρες στην Γερμανία και τη Γαλλία, και θα αδιαφορεί για τα πραγματικά προβλήματα των Ευρωπαίων πολιτών.
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With membership at new lows and no electoral wins to their name, it’s time for the Greens to ditch the malignant narcissist who’s presided over its decline.
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-- 🤬 🤬 🤬 Israel caused hundreds of handheld pagers to explode near simultaneously across Lebanon and in parts of Syria on Tuesday, wounding the Iranian ambassador and dozens of Syrians.
... sophisticated, remote attack
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The national news agency described the explosions as an attack by Israeli forces."
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I will not share those forward. Don't look for them. You do not need to see children like that. No, you really don't.
I will not go into further detail.
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"The blasts were relatively contained, according to footage reviewed by Reuters", their live-reporting currently says.
Well, "relatively" is of course subjective I suppose:
npasyria.com/en/116941/
In the same wave of terror-attacks very probably committed by Israel more widely hitting people in Lebanon resulting in now at least 2800 people injured and 9 dead.
The huge wave of pagers/beepers exploding in Lebanon and Syria yesterday, very probably by Israel, can be called a major war crime or an act of mass-terrorism, but it certainly seems to me that it can not be considered as compliant with the laws of war.
Rule 15. In the conduct of military operations, constant care must be taken to spare the civilian population, civilians and civilian objects. All feasible precautions must be taken to avoid, and in any event to minimize, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects.
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Rule 71. The use of weapons which are by nature indiscriminate is prohibited
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Rule 19. Each party to the conflict must do everything feasible to cancel or suspend an attack if it becomes apparent that [...] the attack may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians [...] which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated
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Note that those "rules" are summaries of all customary international humanitarian law (non-voluntary global laws of war) by ICRC, responsible for maintenance of e.g. Geneva Conventions, while the underlying conventions and practices are cited on each page for further reference.
"It is prohibited to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects which are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material.",
etc, etc
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Seems pretty clear to me.
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#Facebook owner bans Russian state #media networks
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Facebook owner Meta says it is banning several Russian state media networks, alleging they use deceptive tactics to conduct influence operations and avoid detection on its platforms.
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Listen to the 'other sides' perspective is good and needed, but politicians like a single minded narrative that they control for their public. So we love censorship!
The US has imposed sanctions on yet another Israeli spyware firm, Intellexa, citing the “threats” that it poses to national security.
The move comes in the wake of the ongoing global scandal surrounding Israeli spyware companies, most notably NSO Group, which has been accused of selling espionage technology to some of the world’s most repressive regimes to target journalists, critics and human rights activists.
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Vets helping Ukraine worry Trump assassination attempt suspect will hurt their cause
U.S. military veterans who support Ukraine worry about political blowback since the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has connections to their movement.
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He was deported to Auschwitz from Beaune la Rolande on 5 August 1942. He did not survive.
The Palestinian Permanent Mission to the UN submitted a first draft resolution Tuesday to the General Assembly demanding Israel end its presence in the occupied Palestinian territories within 12 months.
An emergency session was held at the 79th UN General Assembly on the legal consequences of Israel's activities in occupied Palestinian territories.
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Mozilla Social FAQ | Firefox Help
Mozilla.social will shut down on Dec 17, 2024. Download your data and migrate before then.support.mozilla.org
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Is there a direct reason why?
Is it too costly to run the server? Is - as I suspect - the community found more on Bluesky in particular, not here?
yo: a why would be nice?
Oh, shit… going away from public spaces…
Job posting for ads… and ai…
So you’re looking to harvest user data to sell to ai/ads to stay afloat?
Have you lived long enough to see yourself turn into the villain? Fuck, Mozilla, can you please do better?
How did that look-aid taste? Cause, you know, it seems like it contains poison… it says AI on the bottle: I don’t know what you don’t get?!?!
This decision sucks. You make @Vivaldi the only browser hosting a Mastodon server for its users, and thereby you give up a major feature-wise advantage of your ecosystem.
Do less VPN and AI. Focus on your original, true mission: Open platforms and protocols are what the Internet currently needs most urgently.
The moment another FOSS browser (engine) reaches feature parity with Firefox and Chrome you guys are fucking screwed.
The main reason you still exist despite a majority of people in the FOSS community heavily disliking you is a lack of proper alternatives. Once it exists… k thx bye.
Falkon - based on the QT Web engine.
falkon.org/about/
(current version is 24.08.1 through Linux Flathub)
I pay for my me.dm account why not charge to maintain the service?
Maybe run a kickstarter if you are not sure if there is sufficient support.
When you expect nothing, really *nothing* from a company that has been getting worse and worse for years - and you are still disappointed.
<Insert Trevor Noah voice here> Byeeeee!
Yes. Latest stable version came out on August 22, in the KDE Gear 22.08 release:
@FirefoxDevTools @FirefoxPerf sad to see you go. You are my source for Firefox webdev infos and I finally felt informed. I could even get some of the info to colleagues at work.
@mozilla it would be nice to state not just that it was a "hard decision", but rather *why* you’re shutting down mozilla.social
For years Mozilla manages to surprise me with decisions directly in the opposite direction if what I call reasonable.
The only sad thing is Firefox, which is still the only viable option for a working browser.
If it wouldn't be for Firefox, I wouldn't miss Mozilla if it would cease to exist tomorrow.
How can a once beloved foundation go down the drain so badly?
what's the reasoning for this? do you simply not have enough money to maintain it? well then, i guess you should make your products have value, and maybe people will be willing to invest.
your wording it as an "experiment" might imply you have something of your own planned afterward...
Nice move Mozilla! Yet again and as usual.
Instead of doing something good, you're doing another bunch of crap things and shooting yourself directly in the knees. Bravo you! 👍👏
First you embrace AI, despite nobody wanting it, now you're turning your back on the fediverse.
I'm old enough to remember when you had values.
I can understand Mozilla not wanting to moderate a Mastodon instance and focusing their efforts elsewhere.
I cannot understand the way this is communicated though. Yet another communication failure.
And leaving the #Fediverse altogether in favor of X/Twitter and the likes, would be just plain wrong.
❓ Can we expect Mozilla to communicate through another Mastodon instance?
For those criticizing Mozilla's #AI experiments: if they wouldn't integrate at least some AI features in their browser (e.g. the AI sidebar in Firefox Labs and the summarize/simplify function), Firefox would quickly become irrelevant against browsers that do offer tighter integration with AI (Edge, Chrome).
You don't need to like AI. But don't pretend nobody's interested in AI features.
You misspelled "asinine."
If you're unhappy with mastodon.social, that's on you. They're running beta code. You could have run your own server, AS I DO. You could have modified the code there to suit AS I DO. It costs next to nothing to host a server. You don't need a rack.
Even ratemybody dot com ran on a Windows server front-end and a Windows server db back-end on a SHARED gigabit line. It isn't the bandwidth. I have more for my server IN MY LIVING ROOM.
Have you no programmers or sysadmins left?
Who shuts down nearly free advertising?
Leave if you want to. Stay if you want to. But please don't patronize us with this "hard decision" bs. It's insulting.
And consider hiring people not afraid to disagree with your divas. Contrarians save many companies from the stupidity of their masters.
Bye, free advertising. Hello, unneeded black eye.
Get lost with your AI fad.
The people using this instance were mostly closely connected to #Mozilla. Moving is easy in the fediverse. But these accounts will lose their place of origin, their roots connected to your company.
Not a good decision. It could have been a long-term platform for your own people. Invaluable for this little amount of money.
Wow. This sucks. Do you guys even believe in open standards?
At least you announce it 3 months in advance and give instructions on how to migrate.
But why?! If you can't afford the one server I'll buy one for you.
Masto had it's.
Nostr is where decentralized social is now at anyways.
On Nostr your account isn't bound to any instance.
You really don't even know what people actually want despite them screaming into your dumb faces.
In the words of 2Pac
"Die slow, motherfucker"
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Shutdown mastodon but pushing ads. I hope you enjoy your continued decline - the last of us holders on failed to hold you accountable well enough before this.
No idea why I should recommend FF over Chrome anymore. Not a goddamn whit.
And I hope you just fail completely. It's over. We lost. You capitulated on DRM, Manifest instead of XUL, and now Ads
To the believers still working there?Get out, it's not worth the death of your soul while self-deluding.
you compromised your most important values and alienated the people you needed most. i only hope firefox can be recovered from the ashes of your org.
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As Israel continues its brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip, the new corridors it is building as part of its policy of dividing Gaza are changing the geographical structure and fabric of Palestinian lands.
Israel has built military roads such as the Netzarim Corridor, the Philadelphi Corridor and the David Corridor, separating the cities from each other in order to divide the Gaza Strip, confiscate Palestinian lands and turn them into projects.
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