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| schestowitz[TR] | <li> | Jan 29 04:53 |
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| schestowitz[TR] | <h5><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvajx/how-to-read-leaked-datasets-like-a-journalist">How to Read Leaked Datasets Like a Journalist</a></h5> | Jan 29 04:53 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <blockquote> | Jan 29 04:53 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <p>Micah Lee is the director of information security for The Intercept and he’s on Cyber today to talk about his new book: Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations. The book is a manual for people who want to learn how to parse and organize hacked datasets. It also contains stories of how Lee and others handled famous cases such as Blueleaks, neo-Nazi Discord chat rooms, and the Parler leak. If you’re not in | Jan 29 04:53 |
| schestowitz[TR] | terested in diving into corporate or government secrets, you might learn something about how to protect your own data.</p> | Jan 29 04:53 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </blockquote> | Jan 29 04:53 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </li> | Jan 29 04:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.vice.com | How to Read Leaked Datasets Like a Journalist | Jan 29 04:53 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | <li> | Jan 29 05:04 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <h5><a href="https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/china-music-student-convicted-in-us-for-harassing-democracy-activist/"> China music student convicted in US for harassing democracy activist </a></h5> | Jan 29 05:04 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <blockquote> | Jan 29 05:04 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <p>The incident leading to Wu’s arrest began on October 22, 2022, when the victim posted fliers saying, “We want freedom, we want food on our tables, we want to breathe, we want art, we want democracy, we want to love, stand with Chinese people.” From October 22 to October 24, 2022, Wu sent communications to the individual who posted the fliers, not only threatening the victim with physical viol | Jan 29 05:04 |
| schestowitz[TR] | ence but also potential harm to their family. Wu informed the victim that he had reported their activities to the public security agency in China, suggesting that the victim’s family could face serious repercussions from state authorities. Furthermore, Wu released the victim’s personal information online, intending to incite further harassment.</p> | Jan 29 05:04 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </blockquote> | Jan 29 05:04 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </li> | Jan 29 05:04 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Jan 29 05:04 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.jurist.org | China music student convicted in US for harassing democracy activist - JURIST - News | Jan 29 05:04 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | " | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Once again (or still?) the Free Software Movement is under attack, as | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | a contender attempts to disqualify and overthrow the leader. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | The founder and lead champion, a neurodivergent who stands for clarity | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | in discourse, avoidance of manipulative language, and progressive | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | agency for teenagers towards adulthood, and who perceives sex as a | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | mutually pleasant activity between consenting parties, is falsely | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | accused of defending sexual offenders because he dares denounce | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | manipulative language that purports to make the offense seem even | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | worse than it is. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | The contender, a neurotypical quite adept at verbal manipulation, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | fabricates a narrative by threading select quotes in which the | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | champion denounces such manipulative language, presenting them in a | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | way that suggests to me that contender misperceives his target as an | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | offender. The narrative comes across to me as if the contender were | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | only able to perceive sex as giving pleasure to exploiters, which is | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | very sad. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | One who denies teenagers any agency whatsoever, even as to the healthy | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | development of their sexual life, is not protecting them from harm, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | but rather inflicting them harm. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Damaging someone's life through sexual abuse is horrible, but so is | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | damaging someone's life by arresting development, by denying autonomy, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | and even by censorship and ostracism attained through word twisting | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | and false narratives. All of these are reproachable forms of | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | violence, and they make a lot more victims than ever could any | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | imaginary sexual misconduct falsely attributed to someone. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | The chilling effect of interdicting academic and political debate on | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | such topics as teenage agency and sexuality, by means of twisting, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | misrepresenting, selectively quoting and suppressing intellectual | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | discourse, and of threats of censorship and of ostracism, just to | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | mention a few common means of coercion, amounts to violence not only | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | on potential debaters, but on everyone with an interest in the topics. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | ---- | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | The contender admits to not knowing much about neurodivergents, but | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | engages in and doubles down on what my daughter calls neurotypism, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | namely, interpreting a neurodivergent's behavior and communication as | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | if it came from a neurotypical. That's a common form of prejudice | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | that results in [discrimination, stigmatization, dehumanization and | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | marginalization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem) | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | that we neurodivergents frequently suffer, that makes it even harder | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | to overcome the communication barriers due to differences in the ways | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | our minds work and in which we express ourselves. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | We think differently from neurotypicals, to the point that we often | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | feel like aliens left behind in a strange world. But it's not like | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | we're all aliens from the same world, we're somewhat different among | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | ourselves, and the lead champion seems to have a particularly unusual | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | mind even among the neurodivergent. Some of our key features and | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | bugs, recent research suggests, arises from an imbalance of | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | intelligences, so we may be gifted in some aspects while handicapped | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | in others; hypersensitive to some inputs and thoughts, which may lead | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | to [meltdowns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistic_meltdown), while | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | hyposensitive to others. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | The lead champion is well known for his precision in wording (a common | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | neurodiverse trait), and for strenuous objection to certain loaded, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | confusing, and dangerous terms. Use them and get a lecture gratis! | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | What critics don't seem to realize is that this lecture is not in the | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | context of the original conversation, it's more like a recorded | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | parenthesized message. For those versed in low-level programming, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | it's as if the term triggered a page fault and forced a context | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | switch. But the lecture is often interpreted as if it were in the | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | context of the original conversation, as if it implied a stance in | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | that conversation. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | In my experience, it had better be interpreted as a response to | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | malformed input, that prevents the message from being understood by | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | him as long as the triggering term is present. A kind of | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | hypersensitivy that causes a meltdown, if you will. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Understanding such lectures as out-of-context messages, which they | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | are, removes a lot of the presumptions of support for sexual offenders | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | that may arise from interpreting them as if in context. When he calls | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | out the use of the term children to refer to teenagers, or of the term | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | assault for a situation that doesn't involve any use of force, it is a | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | fallacious mistake to assume that his objection to the terms implies | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | his condonement for the actions. The objection is to the terms, and | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | that is how it should be understood. The actions are in an entirely | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | different context of discourse, and neurotypicals seem to often have | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | difficulty to distinguish them, which leads to severe | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | misunderstandings. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | ---- | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | The contender ends one of the latest attack by claiming the lead | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | champion does not understand power dynamics. Ironically, power | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | dynamics is the very core driver for the Free Software Movement the | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | lead champion founded and leads: users have autonomy and freedom only | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | as long as they don't give others power to control them through their | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | computing. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | This fundamental power dynamics is conspicuously absent from a | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | website, endorsed (maintained?) by the contender, that misrepresents | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | the Free Software Movement as meant for "building the world's best | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | software" rather than resisting and eliminating the injustice of user | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | subjugation through software. Programs that serve users, rather than | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | control them, are best indeed, for this very reason, but the website's | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | wording is misleading for people who don't grasp that concept yet, and | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | who have been misled into accepting user-subjugating software and into | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | valuing more immediate and superficial features than freedom, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | autonomy, and sovereignty. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Understanding this power dynamics should be essential for anyone who | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | wishes to play any significant role in the Free Software Movement. It | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | comes across to me as quite suspicious when someone, who seems to | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | neither grasp nor deeply about such dynamics, attempts to overthrow | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | the person who first called it out, and has done it better than anyone | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | else ever has. Resorting to making up false narratives that twist | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | stances against manipulation and for agency and freedom into the | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | monstering of a kind, caring, and respectful person and makes it even | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | worse. What a shame! | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | If you hear or read from such skillful manipulators, be mindful of the | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | famous quote attributed to Cardinal Richelieu (and also to Voltaire): | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | "Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, [and] I | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | will find something in them which will hang him". Do wonder why (as | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | in, cui bono?) someone would set out to so persistently demand you to | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | hang the most honest man. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | injustice, but very few check the facts, the stories, the contexts, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | the history. Different perceptions of context and verbal triggers | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | affect neurodivergents and neurotypicals, and even specific | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | individuals, in different ways. Don't mistake a web search that hits | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | the same false accusations, repeated over a thousand times, for | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | checking the facts. Realize that, if you allow yourself to be | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | manipulated into hanging the most honest man, you become an accomplice | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | to the very injustice you wished to fight against. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | ---- | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Remember the lead champion was first canceled for objecting solely to | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | the manipulative inflation of the accusation against a late MIT | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | professor. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | The professor was presumed to have had sex with a too-young sex slave | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | that, at a sex trafficker's orders, offered herself to the professor. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | It turned out that caution was more than called for, because the | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | accusation was false: the professor declined the offer. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Even the allegation that she was below age of consent was false, in | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | that jurisdiction, at the time of the events. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Age of consent is hardly relevant given that she was a slave, but the | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | accusation was false nevertheless, and instead of admitting to it, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | manipulators will double down on it and even misrepresent her age to | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | further reinforce their manipulative narrative. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | They wish you to respond emotionally with condemnation, and for their | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | manipulative language to go unchallenged, rather than for you to seek, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | find and think through the facts. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | They seemingly wish to infantilize teenagers and even adults, by | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | interdicting the academic and political debate of such important and | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | diverse social norms as on age of consent, adulthood, and autonomy, | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | with regards to sexual and also to digital lives. | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | For the sake of justice, civilization, and kindness, we ought to | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | strive to resist that pressure, and to listen to the various sides | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | before judging, to avoid committing irreparable harm and leading to | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | such tragic endings as that of the worldwide-celebrated masterpiece | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | (spoiler alert) "Romeo and Juliet." | Jan 29 05:15 |
| schestowitz[TR] | " | Jan 29 05:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Double empathy problem - Wikipedia | Jan 29 05:16 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Autistic meltdown - Wikipedia | Jan 29 05:17 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | <li> | Jan 29 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <h5><a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/01/26/this-week-in-kde-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-edition/">This week in KDE: everything everywhere all at once edition</a></h5> | Jan 29 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <blockquote> | Jan 29 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <p>This week we’ve got quite a bit of everything! Mega-release UI improvements and bug-fixes, new features for post-mega-release software, more bugfixes for KF5 software, performance improvements, better internal documentation, and impactful ecosystem improvements. Let’s dive in!</p> | Jan 29 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </blockquote> | Jan 29 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </li> | Jan 29 05:28 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pointieststick.com | This week in KDE: everything everywhere all at once edition – Adventures in Linux and KDE | Jan 29 05:28 | |
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| schestowitz[TR] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1qNHdKm9#replies | Jan 29 13:28 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thelayoff.com | Recent Microsoft Layoffs Casts Doubt on Future of Call of Duty - post regarding Microsoft Corp. layoffs | Jan 29 13:28 | |
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| schestowitz[TR] | This is not true | Jan 29 13:29 |
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