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Some of all the same disclaimers as the מגן דוד, Magen David, Star of David, ✡ on https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38117417.

The toilet is me, Kaka Farm, because all I create is shit.

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• https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38117417.
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All the same disclaimers as the Juden Tag on https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38116829.

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• You are here - https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38117417.
• https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38117425.

Screenshot. Don't care to remove the mouse. It is part of the fun. Aspect ratio is all mentally challenged - don't care - it is part of the fun.

Learning https://learnopengl.com/.

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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on Thursday handed down an advisory opinion requested in 2023 by Chile and Colombia to clarify state obligations related to the climate crisis.

In a public hearing held at the court’s headquarters in the Costa Rican capital of San José, Judge Nancy Hernández read out the trailblazing decision on climate change, which for the first time in IACHR history stated a clear link between the “climate emergency” and human rights. The opinion also recognises that states and companies have an obligation to mitigate global warming and its impacts.

“The evidence we saw during the hearings and written submissions shows us that there is no more margin for indifference,” said Judge Hernández. “This is a contribution from law, but law alone is not enough. Success depends on what each one of us can do.”

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights holds jurisdiction over 20 Latin American and Caribbean states, where its advisory opinions are binding. But the strongly-worded climate ruling states that it is binding for all signatories of the Organization of American States, including the US and Canada.

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The landmark 230-page ruling mentions for the first time a subcategory of the human right to a healthy environment, by introducing a “right to a healthy climate”. Court judges said that this is defined as a climate system “free of anthropogenic interference dangerous” for nature and people.

According to the court ruling, states are also expected to cooperate to take actions to reduce emissions that are “as ambitious as possible”, and are obliged to prevent harm by carrying out environmental impact studies.

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It’s worth watching; interesting.. insightful. But it’s very disturbing that they concealed the most important fact: how she was caught.

Most printers secretly print a concealed unique code (typically a serial number) on every printed page using small faint yellow dots. The naked eye overlooks them but under magnification they can be seen. Reality Winner printed the classified document from a shared office printer. Then she simply mailed the paper doc to The Intercept.

IIUC, the Intercept was not smart enough to do any further processing. They simply published an exact copy that was high enough quality that the tracker dots were reproduced. (really? Hard to believe). The leak was thus easily tracked to the shared printer used by Winner. Then it was trivial to narrow down to Winner.

The omission in the documentary is disturbing because that is the one fact that touches everyone. It’s a missed opportunity to inform consumers, who buy printers with an expectation that the printer will serve them - the owner. Printer makers have no legal obligation to surreptitiously fingerprint every page printed. They voluntarily decided to conspire against the hand that feeds them, the consumer, whose trust they should have lost.

Initially the EFF was tracking the models of compromised printers. Then they decided one day to end the project stating that so many printers do it that there is insufficient value to keeping track of them.

This is why I will not buy a color printer. No, it’s not paranoia (neither sensible paranoia nor crazy). It’s ethics. I have enough dignity and self-respect to refuse to feed my oppressors and buy something that is designed to deceptively work against me. Omitting the widespread existence of tracker dots from the video strips consumers of information about the insideous extent to which they are buying anti-consumer products.

The documentary itself is another instance of a supplier disservicing the paying consumer, by witholding useful information.

That's how our Dear Leader's economic nonsense translates in people's actual lives. If you watch Ian Davis' videos, you can tell he's furious under his usual friendly and polite demeanor. I would be too.

Liberation Day indeed...

ICEBlock is making incredibly false privacy claims for marketing. They falsely claim it provides complete anonymity when it doesn't. They're ignoring both data kept by Apple and data available to the server but not stored. They're also spreading misinformation about Android:

https://www.iceblock.app/android

Their claims about push notifications on Android compared to iOS are completely false. Both Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) function in a similar way with similar privacy. However, Android does not force using FCM and apps can use other push systems.

iOS forces uses Apple services including getting apps through Apple where they have a record of which apps each person and account has installed and using their push notification service. Both FCM and APNs have tokens. Android doesn't allow apps to access device IDs. Push tokens aren't device IDs.

Apple and Google can identify devices/users based on push tokens obtained by law enforcement from services. Unlike Google, Apple only recently began requiring warrants:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-now-requires-judges-consent-hand-over-push-notification-data-2023-12-12/

ICEBlock's claims about this are highly inaccurate and they haven't acknowledged corrections.