mkulima
7 months ago
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These kind of work makes me realize we need to do more to own our ‘newspapers’ by going more local and vernacular.
www.theeastafrican.co.ke
> “Despite political and economic challenges, 2023 saw air cargo markets regain ground lost in 2022 after the extraordinary Covid peak in 2021. Although full-year demand was shy of pre-Covid levels by 3.6 percent, the significant strengthening in the past quarter is a sign that markets are stabilising towards more normal demand patterns,”
mkulima
9 months ago
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A big one is when an advert is made to look and feel like organic content. The “Ad” flag (legally required) is in faint small font like someone forced them to have it there.
World News
Tunnels once connected Egypt and Gaza. Here's what they looked like 10 years ago
mkulima
9 months ago
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From the article, they seem to have figured out temperature control. So Mole people might be less agitated than a Vancouver wild-fire neighbor :)
World News
Tunnels once connected Egypt and Gaza. Here's what they looked like 10 years ago
mkulima
9 months ago
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The internet sees censorship as failure and routes around it. People treat censorship and surveillance as failure and tunnel around them.
mkulima
9 months ago
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And even if you ‘exit’ to the woods, you’ll be easy to note, just by your absence (When the majority of the population are present, it is easier to note who is absent).
But we have to keep pushing back about these absurdities.
Asklemmy
mkulima
10 months ago
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The refrigeration sounds like a great idea! Do you do this as part of its preparation or is it just economies of time and scale?
mkulima
11 months ago
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If you can’t own your seeds, how can you own your food?
I am looking at Gaza and the lives whose loss we are witnessing every hour and thinking how this will directly shape the US election. The traditional US camps are pro-Israel as usual, and I don’t expect any of them to relent on that position else they lose the “numbers at the polls”. We saw in 2020 how COVID response was constrained by the general election in the US. Even when it was clear why public policy should have saved more lives, the assumptions in Republican strategy limited clear action on the biological threat. In 2024, we are faced with a similar scenario where clear decisions on saving lives and avoiding genocide in Gaza — and easily avoiding an unpredictable war — is constrained by the upcoming 2024 elections. Fuel prices will blow up, inflation always lurks behind fuel prices, social dislocation, and perhaps more authoritarian rules emerging around the world as they justify increased (in)security measures to ward off terrorism. We are staring at a dark phase.
World News
Massive flooding in Eastern Libya claims over 8,000 lives
mkulima
1 year ago
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Horrible! The dam’s structures could not be maintained as required due to the extended political dysfunction in Libya. Just messy!
World News
BRICS invites six countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran to be new members
mkulima
1 year ago
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Hilarious, funny stranger.
ABC…S to catch ‘em all :)
Technology
The World’s Last Internet Cafes
mkulima
1 year ago
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That sounds like something gamers will add to their “tourist destination”.
Technology
The World’s Last Internet Cafes
mkulima
1 year ago
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Fascinating! Never seen anything like this before.
Do they charge by the minutes spent there + extras or is this a membership thing?
mkulima
1 year ago
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Their seniority allow(ed) them free passes on details or precision.
mkulima
1 year ago
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My grandma, having to call for help but doesn’t know who of the many kids are around: hey, hey human who was named
Translation takes away from it.
mkulima
1 year ago
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Oh yes, this is the path to giving up.
Lemmy
mkulima
1 year ago
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Then it should be the responsibility of the EU people to avoid joining the fediverse. I do not see a practical way to align with GDPR. The effort is non-trivial and the rewards are extremely minimal.
From your perspective, what should be the way out?
mkulima
2 years ago
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This is why Lemmy exists -- to grown community. If you check around, there are a lot of questions with excellent answers. Most people here are very supportive.
mkulima
2 years ago
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@nutomic@lemmy.ml Worth checking.
apnews.com
> Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, who has been detained since Dec. 28, was charged with two counts of “offensive communication” for his alleged efforts on Twitter to “disturb the peace” of President Yoweri Museveni and his son, Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who commands the East African country’s infantry forces.
www.centerforfoodsafety.org
> First, the lawsuit challenges USDA's unprecedented allowance of electronic or digital disclosure on packaging, also known as "QR code" or "smartphone" labeling, without requiring additional on-package labeling. Second, CFS is challenging USDA's labeling language restrictions. When on-package text is used, the rules limit it to only "bioengineered," despite the law allowing use of similar terms. But for 25 years, every aspect of the issue—science, policy, and marketplace—has used genetically engineered (GE) or genetically modified organism (GMO). Lastly, the USDA rules prohibit grocers from providing more and better labeling, in violation of their First Amendment rights.
seedfreedom.info
solar.lowtechmagazine.com
> According to Alex Lewin, author of Real Food Fermentation and Kombucha, Kefir, and Beyond, fermenting is the opposite: ‘It’s unlike canning—with canning you kill all of the microbes and seal it hermetically. With fermentation you invite the microbes you want and don’t let in the ones you don’t. Fermentation is diplomacy and canning is a massacre. Canning is a high-tech food technology.’
www.thecitizen.co.tz
www.dabangasudan.org
> The border area has been the source of frequent clashes over the last two years. Reportedly, 700,000 acres of Sudanese agricultural land has been illegally appropriated by Ethiopian farmers since the 1960s.
> The pomegranate tree was also the source of life-giving waters in Mesopotamian religion (Muthmann 1982: 13–14), and Neoassyrian seals often depicted pomegranate, the “tree of life” (Avigad 1990: 165). Scholars have suggested that the Tree of Life from the book of Genesis was a pomegranate because of this symbolic history, though of course many fruit-bearing trees have auditioned for this role.
mkulima
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This is AMAZING. As someone whose history is a stateless society, I found this very relevant. Importantly, its focus on decentralized structure is even more powerful as a basis of challenging both former African empires that took from the peasants to sustain hereditary lineages + colonial invaders who forced states on stateless societies. Really liked this video.
www.businessdailyafrica.com
cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/7986 > > “While the introduction of a cashless payment system is laudable in view of containment of the spread of Covid-19, KFS’ refusal to accept cash or any other cashless payment system save for M-Pesa is discriminative, oppressive, unfair and unjust,” Muhuri says in its petition. > >
www.businessdailyafrica.com
> “While the introduction of a cashless payment system is laudable in view of containment of the spread of Covid-19, KFS’ refusal to accept cash or any other cashless payment system save for M-Pesa is discriminative, oppressive, unfair and unjust,” Muhuri says in its petition.
www.reuters.com
> His campaign said on Monday he was joining troops on the frontline after rebels based across the northern frontier in Libya advanced hundreds of km (miles) south toward the capital N'Djamena. > > His death is a blow to France, which had based its Sahel counter-terrorism operations in the Chadian capital, N'Djamena.
nation.africa
> “Elephants eat vast amounts of food each day, 200-250kg, from many different types of plants, so it is not surprising that people have found numerous uses for the stuff that comes out of the other end,” adds Ole Reyia.
www.youtube.com
Lots of talk of state-on-state warfare since last Fall brought this tune back to mind.
nation.africa
> Thus, by possessing the most virulent strain of rinderpest, and which had been kept safely and alive in the Muguga laboratory, Kenya was sitting on two things: a biological warfare agent or the answer to rinderpest control. > > Scientists had designated this strain as “Kabete O”. It is still one of the oldest laboratory strains of any virus in existence.
Privacy
If you want full privacy your only real hope is going decentralised federation or peer-to-peer networks
mkulima
3 years ago
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I was reading this US-centric, China-fear paper which saw dependency as the major threat countries face. But in retrospect, centralization is in my opinion far greater a threat than dependency: Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion.
mkulima
3 years ago
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There was effort initially to work with Tor project for IP obfuscation but it seems they went for a simplified anonymousID and verifying the accusations from their backend instead of depending on verifiableID for credibility.
www.youtube.com
Legends come in all types. Sam Mangwana is one living with us.
Privacy
Which email clients would you recommend for someone coming from Thunderbird on Mac (which is great but a huge resource hog)?
mkulima
4 years ago
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I like TD a lot. But the resource hog no matter how I tweak may perhaps mean I upgrade my hardware.
canadiandimension.com
> Analyses of the relationship between intelligence services and sport point to a deliberate omission from mainstream security and sports discourse. These nascent examinations suggest a fully developed relationship between the two that has become inseparable (and deliberately kept in the shadows) in the wake of 9/11, and a process by which civilian and securitized life have become intertwined
Privacy
Which email clients would you recommend for someone coming from Thunderbird on Mac (which is great but a huge resource hog)?
mkulima
4 years ago
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Switching to Linux from OSX and it seems between Claws and Thunderbird, I might keep TB and see how it fares on RAM.
Privacy
Which email clients would you recommend for someone coming from Thunderbird on Mac (which is great but a huge resource hog)?
mkulima
4 years ago
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Neat. Seems claws is a popular choice.
Privacy
Which email clients would you recommend for someone coming from Thunderbird on Mac (which is great but a huge resource hog)?
mkulima
4 years ago
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Thanks for the link.
Perhaps this is a Mac thing but Thunderbird on Mac was hitting ~45% on the CPU. Does it clog up on linux?
mkulima
4 years ago
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This is a great project.
www.aljazeera.com
> Fernandez told the crowd that the electoral turmoil in Bolivia reminded all Latin Americans about the need for regional solidarity. “We are part of a large nation,” he said. “We don’t want countries for some, we want countries for all. It is the duty of all of us to stand up for threatened peoples.”