Notices by Gabriele Svelto (gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org)

The whole "Roman salute" thing needs some clarification. There's no such thing as a "Roman salute". It was made up by fascists in Italy and then copied by the nazi regime. Only fascists use it. End of story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute

Thousands of people drown in the Mediterranean every year, looking for a better life, and nobody cares.

Now a few extremely rich people go down with their luxurious boat and we have to hear about it from every single news outlet, several times a day for several days over.

Fuck this society that has nothing but disdain for the poor and empathizes with the rich.

I'd like to clarify the origin of the accusations against #ImaneKhelif because I don't think most people realize where they came from. The vitriolic mix of of misogynist, transphobic and racist insults against the Algerian athlete started days before the match, largely on Italian papers belonging to far-right politicians and businessmen. Here's a few examples from late July (English translation of the titles is in the alt text). 1/8

I couldn't have imagined a world where significant political action would be needed in order to uninstall programs from my computer. But here we are: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/europeans-can-soon-strip-bing-edge-other-microsoft-cruft-from-windows-11/

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@m0xee let's say that compared to the blue site it's really, really hard for me to find an inauthentic post, while a lot of my interactions I received were from obvious bots, trolls, paid shills and the like

I've been thinking that one of the most important issues in the modern internet is trust: is this e-mail really from who the sender claims to be? Was this text written by a human? If it was, is it propaganda? SEO filler? Written by a troll farm? Is this product what it claims to be? Is this review true?

I think the #fediverse is doing a much better job than other mediums on this front, largely thanks to tight moderation ensuring all my interactions here are with actual people.

Sad to hear about the mass #layoffs in large tech companies. I don't know if it can help, but if you're affected we have several openings at Mozilla: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/