@davidallengreen on attempts to 'reform' the European Convention of Human Rights:
'some political leaders appear to see limiting rights as a way of combatting the rise of illiberal politics. The response should instead be to promote & defend fundamental rights.... Sometimes one has to defend rather than appease. The framers of the ECHR knew this in 1950 & it remains true 75 years later'!
You don't defend human rights by watering them down!
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The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakenedwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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What could possibly go wrong indeed!
Internet based on massive constellations of satellites you say?
What could possibly go wrong?theverge@[url=https://c.im/actor]c.im[/url] - Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided last week thever.ge/VMJt #Science #SpaceX #Space #News
Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided last week
SpaceX says a newly launched Chinese came within 200 meters of a Starlink satellite last week because the operator didn’t share location data.Thomas Ricker (The Verge)
„Linux auf dem Desktop? Die EU, die lieber streitet als handelt? Und die USA, die jetzt 5 Jahre Social-Media-Historie für die Einreise wollen? 😳
Dazu: Warum Jugendliche TikTok verlassen. All das in 60 Sekunden – mit einer Prise Humor und viel Wahrheit!
#60Sekunden #Wochenschau #Digitalisierung #USA #Linux #EU #SocialMedia #Reise #Tech #Satire“
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European leaders expected to cement support for Ukraine amid US pressure to accept peace deal
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New York, Ed van der Elsken, 1960
#NewYork #EdvanderElsken #second #fotografie #photography #EdVanDerElsken #EdvanderElsken
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I've added a few poor souls to my cyberpals collection
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In Parlamento europeo si fa il punto della situazione, e i conti non tornano: si sa che sono circa 8mila, ma mancano una definizione chiara e terapie. La ricerca la chiave per la cura, necessaria per malati in un aumento
Malattie rare, ora colpiscono 36 milioni di persone. Nell'UE avanzano, con l'Europa ferma al palo
Il Parlamento Ue fa il punto della situazione sulle malattie rare: si sa che sono circa 8mila, e poco più. La ricerca la chiave per curare 36 milioni di personeEmanuele Bonini emanuelebonini (Eunews)
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The myth of traditional Italian cuisine has seduced the world. The truth is very different.
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The myth of traditional Italian cuisine has seduced the world. The truth is very different
The comforting tourist-brochure idea of what Italian food looks like obscures a story shaped by hunger, migration and innovation, says Alberto Grandi, author and professor of food historyAlberto Grandi (The Guardian)
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# Emergency disinfection procedure
sudo pkg install bleach holy-water
doas vm stop win11dev
doas zfs destroy -r zroot/bhyve/win11dev
doas rm -rf /zroot/bhyve/win11dev/tpm/*
Hope that is enough. Don't want to do an exorthism on that laptop again. Last time, he needed 3 month of therapy after that ..
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CWG Live: In the icebox today and tonight, then a gradual thaw
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My reaction at the end was: "Oh my god".
Impressive talent.
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L'oleandro assassino! - Gazzetta del Cadavere
Scena di un delitto: una tranquilla domenica mattina (8 dicembre 2025) nel padovano, gli uccellini cinguettano, il sole splende, ed all'improvvisoharvey lomax (Gazzetta del Cadavere)
Valor Sentimental: tudo sobre o filme cotado ao Oscar 2026
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- Wipe all smartphones out of existence (26%, 4 votes)
- Wipe all genai from existence (73%, 11 votes)
wipe all "smart" and "intelligent" tech out of existence. All devices and apps that patronize their users. All tech that takes decisions, learning and skills from us. Plus all surveillance tech and techbro shenanigans that only exist as life-extending measures for the fossil industry by eating up all the energy for no reason.
Hell, if you ask me, just get rid of all computers, all microchips, all hightech - except for medical devices, inclusivity tech and some stuff used for science.
Lets go back to the age of face-to-face conversations and human connection. I miss people.
Palpites para Pittsburgh Steelers x Miami Dolphins: Análises e Onde Assistir (15/12/2025)
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"The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone, and the bare branches silently speak of a new year, slowly advancing to its buds, its foliage, and fruit... The delicacy of the outer boughs of the great trees visible against the dark background of cloud is as beautiful in its own way as the massed foliage of summer."
The Life of the Fields
#PhotoMonday #trees #TreesOfMastodon #treestodon
Taylor Swift regala 197 milioni di dollari alla troupe dell'Eras Tour: «Abbiamo sentito la mancanza delle famiglie»
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Taylor Swift regala 197 milioni di dollari alla troupe dell'Eras Tour: «Abbiamo sentito la mancanza delle famiglie»
Il maxi–bonus dell’Eras Tour premia tecnici, autisti e lavoratori dietro le quinte e cambia il modo di raccontare il successo nella musica.Luca Guarneri (Cosmopolitan)
Wec, Valentino Rossi assente nella line-up dei piloti Bmw per il 2026 - Mondo Motori - Ansa.it
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Wec, Valentino Rossi assente nella line-up dei piloti Bmw per il 2026 - Mondo Motori - Ansa.it
Nella stagione 2026 del Wec, World Endurance Championship, per il momento non è stata comunicata la presenza di Valentino Rossi, che ha corso nel campionato terminato di recente con la Bmw M4 del team Wrt in classe LMGT3. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
RE: mastodon.bsd.cafe/@82mhz/11572…
In my experience, 95% of the situations I follow could transition to totally open-source solutions without major problems. Some others could do so by implementing a progressive plan.
The limitation is almost always human: people accustomed to working in a certain way for years, and a lack of willingness and commitment to change, even minimal change. If in private sectors, this happens under the "threat" of a drop in productivity. If in public sectors, under the threat of severe inefficiencies.
I saw a local election won (in part) thanks to a promise not to change anything.
Inertia, at times, causes incalculable damage.
#IT #SysAdmin #OpenSource
My home state of Bavaria is planning to spend 1 billion Euros in the next five years on Microsoft products. One fucking billion Euros!
Meanwhile, the state of Schleswig Holstein has been transitioning to open source software and estimates that it will save them around 15 million Euros a year.Maybe it's time to move. People up North seem to be smarter.
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Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is significantly cheaper.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
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Unfortunately it's the public perception that is a significant barrier to mass open source adoption.
Case in point: In my last job I was a sysadmin for a US Government agency. My team was responsible for central IT operations and predominantly a Microsoft shop with the exception of DNS, SFTP, and some web development platforms which were RHEL and Solaris, respectively.
The federal IT manager who oversaw my team, along with the other federal IT managers, were anti-open source for fear of massive cyber attacks. Their rationale was (and I am not kidding), "If it's open source, that means the Chinese and Russians have access to the source code!"
So, instead they ran Windows on servers and desktops, and defaulted to Chrome as the standard browser.
With the exception of specific applications which *required* Windows everything could have *easily* been replaced by RHEL, including the security configurations and smart card authentication.
This backwards thinking was also the reason for why Red Hat Kickstart and any configuration management was banned. I had to manually install and hand-configure everything.
Come recuperare dati con #TestDisk e #PhotoRec su GNU/Linux
#UnoLinux #linux #Recuperodati #opensource #UnoOpensource #tutorial
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Come recuperare dati con TestDisk e PhotoRec su GNU/Linux
Può capitare a tutti: un disco che smette di avviarsi, una partizione che scompare, oppure una formattazione fatta per errore.OpenSalerno
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Canadian Home Prices Dip as Momentum Stalls Heading to Year-End
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Svelate le prime immagini di smart #2 nei test di validazione - Mondo Motori - Ansa.it
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Svelate le prime immagini di smart #2 nei test di validazione - Mondo Motori - Ansa.it
Il progetto di smart #2 prosegue secondo i piani e il costruttore ha diffuso le prime immagini che ritraggono la city car durante i test di validazione. La première mondiale è confermata per il 2026. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Suzuki con il Festival di Sanremo anche nel 2026 - Mondo Motori - Ansa.it
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Suzuki con il Festival di Sanremo anche nel 2026 - Mondo Motori - Ansa.it
Suzuki sarà l'Auto ufficiale del 76° Festival di Sanremo, in programma dal 24 al 28 febbraio 2026, con Carlo Conti alla conduzione e direzione artistica. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Kalbfell direttore marketing di Genesis Motor Europe in vista arrivo anche in Italia - I protagonisti - Ansa.it
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Kalbfell direttore marketing di Genesis Motor Europe in vista arrivo anche in Italia - I protagonisti - Ansa.it
Maximilian Kalbfell è il nuovo direttore del marketing di Genesis Motor Europe, il brand premium di Hyundai che nel nostro continente è già attiva nel Regno Unito, in Germania e in Svizzera e che si appresta a debuttare nei primi mesi del 2026.Agenzia ANSA
📊Análisis| Un fantasma recorre España: ¿Qué hacemos?
✍️Joan Pedro-Carañana y Toby Miller
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Un fantasma recorre España: ¿qué hacemos?
La Inteligencia Artificial es la materialización de un fantasma contra el que hay que unirse para ponerlo en vereda, aprovechar su potencial y minimizar su impacto negativo. Se llama regulación mediante políticas públicas.Joan Pedro-Carañana (El Salto Diario)
Le Nike Air Max Plus Premium sono la versione lussuosa delle sneaker regine dello streetwear
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Le Nike Air Max Plus Premium sono la versione lussuosa delle sneaker regine dello streetwear
Le Nike Air Max Plus Premium tornano in un’edizione Black/Metallic Rose Gold che porta l’icona dello streetwear a un livello di lusso inaspettatoNéstor Parrondo (GQ Italia)
Tech whistleblowers face million-dollar debts, job loss and isolation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/15/big-tech-whistleblowers-speak-out/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Sardegna, l’ampliamento della fabbrica di armi divide il campo largo: Todde dà l’ok, Avs contraria
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Sardegna, l’ampliamento della fabbrica di armi divide il campo largo: Todde dà l’ok, Avs contraria
I rossoverdi locali voteranno contro la delibera sulla Rwn del Gruppo Rheinmetall. “E il parere degli uffici – ha spiegato nei giorni scorsi la presidente, di …Matteo Pucciarelli (la Repubblica)
Roberto von Archimboldi
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •I think that it is easy to overplay the establishment's commitment to liberalism. One of the main motivations behind the ECHR was the 'threat' of communist parties coming to power in Western Europe. Having a supranational, quasi-constitutional mechanism to enforce liberalism was seen as a bulwark against a communist party coming to power and rewriting the national constitution. Now that the threat of communism is long gone, it doesn't seem odd to me that Europe's ruling classes are comfortable undoing protections against authoritarian governments.
This is not to disagree with David Allen Green. We need to stand up for the protection of rights. I also think that we need to acknowledge that the ruling class share the racism and authoritarianism of the far right. The threat they see from populism is its tendency to be isolationist or anti-Atlanticist and its tendency to be anti-austerity. Once, like Meloni or Farage, the far right comes into line on those two issues, the ruling class is more than happy to get behind them
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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Defending basic human rights is important, but it's also worth noting that the rise of far-right political movements have not arisen in spite of the ECHR, but well within its the accepted bounds, particularly with regard to freedom of speech and expression and the freedom of political and religious belief.
To @RobertoArchimboldi point below, C20 liberalism was a holding position rather than an end in itself, and many of the C19 problems have duly returned.
@davidallengreen
Reg
in reply to Reg • • •To DAT's point "No law made on date [x] is necessarily right for date [y]", it may be worth looking at what the ECHR was originally for and what its modern equivalent might look like in order to retain and improve on the social mitigations of the last century.
The problem is not communism tearing up age-old Establishment hierarchies, but fascism and religious nationalism threatening to take us back to a time when repression was commonplace.
@RobertoArchimboldi @davidallengreen
Reg
in reply to Reg • • •....I suppose that the most contentious conclusion would be that liberalism is not really a political position in its own right so much as an anti-reform agenda that permitted a minimum standard of social protections as a means of avoiding wholesale social and economic reform.
In other words, liberals may have to choose a side.
@RobertoArchimboldi @davidallengreen
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Reg • • •Yes, we might want to locate British liberalism in the having-cake-and-eating-it political tendency so dreadfully exemplified by Boris Johnson
Reg
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Very true. Boris Johnson is the liberal that ought to make liberals think twice about their liberalism.
@RobertoArchimboldi @davidallengreen
Benoît Jones
in reply to Reg • • •Johnson was not a liberal by any stretch of the imagination, he was a populist who had no ideology. I think you are using the word carelessly to mean any roughly centrist politician, but liberalism is not centrism and nor is it capitalism. It is about valuing the rights and freedoms of individuals. So yes, the ECHR is a liberal project, I don't understand why you think human rights are a bad thing?
Benoît Jones
in reply to Benoît Jones • • •Roberto von Archimboldi
in reply to Benoît Jones • • •@huxley @ReggieHere I am fairly in favour of the ECHR, but look at Article 1 of protocol 1. It is a fairly strong protection of private property and would, for example, probably prevent a future left wing government from nationalising Thames Water by appropriating it. It also just doesn't protect classically liberal rights, like for example, freedom of movement, despite the wording of Article 8. It allows a great deal of state intervention in the affairs of the people within its jurisdiction.
It is not that I am against liberalism. I think two things: 1. The British establishment is not now and has not been liberal for a very long time. 2. The ECHR is not such a liberal document. It was conceived to protect western European states from a very particular threat. They have always chaffed at its constraints.
Some of the early cases are really interesting. You have the UK shocked to discover that human rights might apply in the colonies (Cyprus in particular). Note that the court did not uphold the complaint. They went the other way with a complaint against Greece under the colonels. Both were about whether derogation from the treaty was legitimate.