marc0s @marc0s@librem.one

Declaren als jutjats del Prat dos guàrdies civils que varen vexar un ciutadà estranger que parlava el català però no el castellà.

El dijous dia 2 de setembre van declarar davant els jutjats del Prat de Llobregat dos guàrdies civils investigats per un possible delicte contra la integritat moral. Els fets van tenir lloc el 9 de desembre de 2019 a l’aeroport del Prat. Els guàrdies civils varen retenir Kris Charlier, ciutadà belga d’origen flamenc, en notar que duia alguna cosa sota la roba. Els policies no varen entendre les explicacions de Charlier, que sap parlar el català però no el castellà, i el van obligar a abaixar-se els pantalons en públic i mostrar la bossa que porta enganxada al cos a causa d’un càncer de colon.

Kris Charlier va presentar una denúncia contra els dos guàrdies civils ja que es va considerar maltractat i ell no té cap obligació de parlar el castellà i va utilitzar el català en un territori on aquesta llengua és oficial.

Els guàrdies civils, que s’han negat a respondre a les preguntes de l’acusació, han manifestat que van seguir en tot moment el protocol i un d’ells ha posat de manifest la dificultat que té per entendre el català, malgrat estar destinat a Catalunya. De fet, van denunciar per desobediència al ciutadà flamenc, denúncia que va quedar lògicament arxivada. Les imatges gravades de l’incident ja són al jutjat del Prat. La Plataforma per la Llengua ha ajudat a l’afectat en els tràmits judicials.

No és la primera vegada que la manca de coneixement del català per part de policies de l’Estat destinats a Catalunya porta problemes. A la frontera de la Jonquera diversos ciutadans francesos de la Catalunya Nord han estat retinguts per la policia en algunes ocasions per expressar-se només en francès i en català. Sembla que hi ha qui no pot concebre que algú que parla català no sàpiga també el castellà.

https://www.elbaix.cat/2021/09/05/declaren-als-jutjats-del-prat-dos-guardies-civils-que-varen-vexar-un-ciutada-estranger-que-parlava-el-catala-pero-no-el-castella/

Stories 2.0

- Federation support
- Video support
- Story Polls
- Story Reactions (optional)
- Story Replies (optional)
- See who viewed your stories

Now available!

Special thanks to @NGIZero for funding this feature milestone! 🎉 #pixelfed #stories

Though Surveillance Capitalism is a global phenomenon and a universal term, it is interpreted differently by people from different regions.

Americans see this mostly as a monopoly/anti-trust problem.

Europeans are calling it digital feudalism.

The once-colonized global south sees it as digital colonialism.

All of these interpretations are not only simultaneously true but also demonstrate that this issue is multi-faceted.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #DigitalColonialism #DigitalFeudalism

“… you give us more information about you, about your friends … We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less now what you’re thinking about.”

– Eric Schmidt, Google CEO in 2010

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googles-ceo-the-laws-are-written-by-lobbyists/63908/

Giving kids Chromebooks in schools is like serving them candy for lunch. It’s something you’d do if you were either clueless or hated their guts.

What I’m trying to say is stop normalising surveillance in schools, you absolute muppets.

#motd

🎉 Our iOS app is finally public! 🎉
https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-ios-public-release/

This is a huge milestone for the project, and proof of what we can accomplish when a community comes together around a purpose.

The app link will automatically appear in the next Snikket server update (along with some other app-related fixes), but the post has manual instructions for admins who just can't wait 🙂

#xmpp #ios #snikket

Work in many companies ...

The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
https://stevenvanbael.com/open-calendar-task-space-is-a-mess

(submitted by quaintdev)

At the root of our disposability culture is the belief that our stuff depreciates as soon as we touch it.

Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces

The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.

#xmpp #chat #foss

https://gajim.org/post/2021-08-27-workspaces/

Majas

@aral
As someone who just got back into academia, I agree with this.
The amount of obstacles to publishing research from "industrial partners"(in the UK, you jst say "customers"), and the ability of industry to determine what is researched at, has grown like crazy in the last 20 years, and based on older colleagues' stories, at least since the early 1990's.

Incentives for "relevant" research are not per se bad but it's been going too far for quite some time now.

You want people to trust science? Remove the profit motive. Decouple science from capitalism. Do away with patents. Do away with closed silos. Ensure 100% transparency and openness. Create and share in the open for the common good.

Network effect let Facebook attract billions of users who joined to talk to people who were already there. Switching costs turned those users into hostages - blocking interoperability means users have to choose between friends and fleeing the platform.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better
https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/08/recent-and-not-so-recent-changes-in.html

(submitted by elchief)

Phoenix 1.6.0-RC.0 Released
https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.6-released

(submitted by thibaut_barrere)

Stop using Excel to process important business and scientific data.

"Researchers in data-intensive fields (particularly in the life sciences) need better computer skills. Initiatives such as Software Carpentry offer workshops to researchers, but universities should also focus more on giving undergraduates the advanced analytical skills they will need."

https://theconversation.com/excel-autocorrect-errors-still-plague-genetic-research-raising-concerns-over-scientific-rigour-166554

#Excel #DataScience

Scrollbars are now terrible in GTK. Let's make them not terrible.

# Make this part of your environment, however you do that:
export GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
# For things that start as services:
systemctl --user import-environment GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING || true

Also, clicking in the trough should page, not warp:

$ cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=0

Shift-click will still do a warp

#TeamBringBackVisibleScrollbars

When the scientific community changes gene name abbreviations to accommodate the quirks of the dominant Microsoft Excel:

"Autocorrect errors in Excel still
creating genomics headache"
– Dyani Lewis, for Nature

Paywalled, so here's the PDF: https://nuage.liiib.re/s/ge3PsEMkrEr3Bd5

#science