> The Open Food Network is a global network of people and organisations working together to build a new food system. Together, we develop open and shared resources, knowledge and software to support a better food system.
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Are there reasonably okay options to paying digitally without the surveillance part (or at least less of it as compared to credit cards?) Blockchain is a nonstarter due to the practical limitations in sustaining proof of work and stake.
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What a great thing it is, to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting it.
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The UCI has not yet responded to a request for comment, but a Home Office spokesperson said: “We do not routinely comment on individual cases. All visa applications are carefully considered on their individual merits in line with the immigration rules,” adding: “We have been working closely with organisers to ensure that participants of this event are clear on the visa application process and timelines.”
Give them Visas on arrival. They sure will cycle/arrive early. That is if they need visas.
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Hello. The horrible loss of life in this crisis is clear for all to see. Even though there is so much confusion on what is coming out of Ukraine, I wonder what is really the situation of government control like. Is the Ukrainian government controlling major areas or is the Russian army having an upper hand?
> The many existing decentralized social networks that currently make up the ecosystem can be categorized into federated and p2p architectures. Our approach will be to combine the best of both worlds by integrating the portability of self-certifying protocols with the user-friendliness of delegated hosting, so users don’t have to run their own infrastructure and developers can build performant apps. Moderation is an important part of any online social forum, which is why we will proactively build tooling for reputation and moderation systems that are transparent, opt-in, and multi-layered, as well as create frameworks for others to build such tooling. We’re building on existing protocols and technologies but are not committed to any stack in its entirety. We see use cases for blockchains, but Bluesky is not a blockchain, and we believe the adoption of social web protocols should be independent of any blockchain. > > Our current focus is on building and releasing a prototype that illustrates our approach.
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A perspective about NSO that I find important but not usually covered is how their success is related to centralized mobile phone operating software. One vulnerability exposes billions of devices. Perhaps if we had FOSS mobile OS options as mainstream installations, it would not be as easy for these companies to hack almost anybody at once.
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For now, paying for a VPS is relatively affordable. But as was noted elsewhere, moderation is the real cost. Last week's terrible antisemitism and racist trolling and spam is a case in point. It led me to raise signup effort (registration application etc). That has kind of eliminated local-instance spam by 99% and the random ones are from existing users, who we kick out as they post spam stuff.
The main problem now is in federating with instances that can be hijacked by such trolls and have their content propagated all over. Nothing we can do about that in so far as we want to maintain existing federation bonds. The moderation cost is still significant as we have to take them down manually.
In the end, I think this is an ideal set up for our instance. We are not after numbers. In fact, we want to have a small number of users as a sustainable path, and hopefully support other individuals and organizations spin up their instances.
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After upgrading to 0.15.1, I activated the signup form. I haven’t had to deal with the daily trolls. Not ideal but it helps.
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Last night, Burkina Faso defence minister denies rumours President Kabore has been detained
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I like the app. Good work on the tutorials and it feels overall like a well done package.
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I have been to two cities in West Africa: Lagos and Dakar. My experience was no different from other parts like SouthErn Africa and The Horn.
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On to financing the project. They need to find $1B to get the project done and I wonder whether this was a tactical move to build confidence on their credibility while fundraising.
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Question 1 - yes, ansible is run on your local machine.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/143207 > Xiaomi has patented a new fingerprint scanning technology that allows the user to use the fingerprint sensor by touching any part of their screen. Now you don’t have to try anymore to turn on your phone or place your finger on the finger reader, because you can do this by touching anywhere on the phone’s screen. This is a very privacy issue. > > It will have a set of infrared LED light transmitters under the capacitive touch screen layer and above the usual AMOLED display. > > ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4387e3dd-63e3-41d4-acc5-157a1c6269fa.png)
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Hey - just checking in. How is this "news"? Is it because Ukraine is in the news?
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This is very interesting. Now I wonder if my mind thinks best about code in native language or the language I first encountered code in.
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Lemmy. Fairly obvious why.
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Very interesting read. Supplement this with James Scott's State Simplifications: Nature, Space and People
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9760.1995.tb00035.x
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Real name policy (goverment issued ID and such stuff).
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Real name policy (goverment issued ID and such stuff).
> Nonetheless, questions remain on how and where agreement on international law and cyber norms at the regional level can be achieved.
cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/22603 > > While Makhan Singh does not state it explicitly (possibly due to writing the history in post-colonial Kenya under Jomo Kenyatta's presidency in 1969, and in the midst of political assassinations of Kenyatta's left wing opponents) he makes clear that the demand of the KAU for complete abolition of the pass system was significantly watered down by Kenyatta, who was happy to accept a formally non-racial pass system in its place.
> While Makhan Singh does not state it explicitly (possibly due to writing the history in post-colonial Kenya under Jomo Kenyatta's presidency in 1969, and in the midst of political assassinations of Kenyatta's left wing opponents) he makes clear that the demand of the KAU for complete abolition of the pass system was significantly watered down by Kenyatta, who was happy to accept a formally non-racial pass system in its place.
> France became the latest country to tell its citizens to get out of Ethiopia, while the UN has ordered the immediate evacuation of family members of international staff
mtumishi
publictech@ baraza.africaA centralized web ain't worth fighting for.