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Mwalimu

@ mwalimu @baraza.africa

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  • LinkedIn problems

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  • The horror! I detest that website with my all. It was one of the earliest places I saw a nasty dark pattern. They would bait you to pay to see who viewed your profile, preying on job seekers desperate for a signal that something may come their way. Nasty evil people those!

  • Hey capitalists how's it going?

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  • Got it via their website jumping over walls. From October 2023, not that that diminishes it's sting.

  • Hey capitalists how's it going?

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  • Is that top right image from a real Economist post or it is edited? I did not find it by simple search (search is so sloppy of late).

    Edit: Link to article.

    Europe had been moving towards the slaughterhouse for years, and by 1914 a conflict was all but inevitable—that, at least, is the argument often made in hindsight. Yet at the time, as Niall Ferguson, a historian, noted in a paper published in 2008, it did not feel that way to investors. For them, the first world war came as a shock. Until the week before it erupted, prices in the bond, currency and money markets barely budged. Then all hell broke loose. “The City has seen in a flash the meaning of war,” wrote this newspaper on August 1st 1914.

    Could financial markets once again be underpricing the risk of a global conflict? In the nightmare scenario, the descent into a third world war began two years ago, as Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border. Today Israel’s battle against Hamas has the frightening potential to spill across its borders. American military support is crucial to both Ukraine and Israel, and in Iraq and Syria the superpower’s bases have come under fire, probably from proxies of Iran. Should China decide it is time to take advantage of a distracted superpower and invade Taiwan, America could all too easily end up being drawn into three wars at once. The rest of the world risks those wars interlocking and turning into something even more devastating.

  • Plex now want to SELL your personal data

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  • It is as if it is a general rule at this point that centralization breeds corruption. No matter how many statements people make early on in social engagements, centralization leads them to screw people depending on these systems. When making long term commitment to anything, check if it is centralized or how easy it is to unshackle yourself from it.

  • New app allows you to track the number of fucks you have given over time

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  • No fucking roots shall hold.

  • New app allows you to track the number of fucks you have given over time

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  • A classic!

  • Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

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  • Choice sounds like something people should not be fighting over :)

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say

    www.theguardian.com /technology/article/2024/jul/20/cash-global-it-outage-cashless-society-dangers-payment-choice-alliance

  • What are your favorite bands from more obscure, lesser known countries?

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  • May I have the honor of introducing you to African Rhumba: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3BexfHBTIg

    That is a favorite one. The album is by two of the greatest in African music: Franco Luambo (of TPOK Jazz) and Tabu Ley (of Afrisa International). They did this album to cool down rumours that they were fighting and don’t see eye to eye. They called it Lisanga ya Banganga (Congress of the Wizards).

    This specific song I share is solemn, as they are mourning the death of their mentor, Kabaselle.

    Check their respective Wikipedia entries. It is a whole new world you are peeking into.

  • The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning.

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  • How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement)

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  • It would be more complex if the US didn’t believe in 13th floor story and UK did. Even though both would have 14th floor on the same level from the ground, there is a lot that would be missed if you only elevated straight from the parking basement to your 14th floor.

  • JellyBox - Music player for Jellyfin

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  • How often had I overlooked women's contributions ?

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  • Swahili. If you want to translate “she/he went to the river”, you say “Alienda mtoni” which collapses she/he into the subject A- (Alienda) to mean “the person”. You always need context to use a gendered word (like mwanamke for woman) otherwise general conversation does not foreground it. There is literally no word for he/she in Swahili, as far as I know.

  • How often had I overlooked women's contributions ?

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  • Same here. My native langauge is not gendered and I rarely associate “man” in academic spaces with “gender” category. I usually need more info to tilt to gender in discussions.

  • Ethiopia @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    In Ethiopia, a secret committee orders killings and arrests to crush rebels

    www.reuters.com /investigates/special-report/ethiopia-violence-committee/

  • Lemmy the software will be 5 years soon (Feb 14)

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  • The unsang heroes who brought in wisdom and competency! 🤟

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Lemmy the software will be 5 years soon (Feb 14)

    github.com /LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/8ece275d22f9f8edfce5ee3b1a867bea7363f4b9

  • Which software was ahead of its time?

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  • Avafind.

    Searching for almost anything was so much easy. Such a powerful tool that disappeared. Its performance 20 years ago was better than Finder is today. At least from my experience.

  • Which software was ahead of its time?

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  • Used to be the first thing we installed on phones and PCs. Opera was blazing fast on basic phones as far back as 2008sh.

  • The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance

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  • Sadly, yes. One would hope the more core sectors use it, the more the general population would use such tools. But alas!

  • The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance

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  • Cold plain metrics can easily hide social complexity.

    Assume 10 investigative journalists use modded privacy-friendly Firefox for year long investigation. Then their report is read by 10 million average news reader on stock browsers like Chrome. Network logics tell us that Firefox browser has asymmetrical value in the ecosystem than plain usage metrics can ever reveal.

    The obsession with numbers (the more the better) is a major blinding effect in societies driven by hierarchical cultures.

  • What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

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  • That sucks! As long as a device can decode the signals, I don’t see why they should phase it out just to be compatible with DAB+ (especially when infrastructural costs are not a major factor).

  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    UK Rwanda migrant scheme declared unlawful

    caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk /uksc/2023/42
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Whose interest does the Kenyan seeds law protect?

    conservationatheart.wordpress.com /2022/08/02/whose-interest-does-the-kenyan-seeds-law-protect/
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Israel-Gaza war: Why is Africa divided on supporting Palestine?

    www.aljazeera.com /features/2023/10/14/israel-hamas-war-why-is-africa-divided-on-supporting-palestine
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Senegal cracks down on Europe refugee boats: Will others follow?

    www.aljazeera.com /features/2023/10/5/senegal-cracks-down-on-europe-refugee-boats-will-others-follow
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Haitians Denounce U.N. Vote to Deploy U.S.-Backed Kenyan-Led Troops

    www.democracynow.org /2023/10/4/haiti_united_nations_forces
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    An Ethiopian Month Packed with Holidays: Mawlid, Meskel and Irreecha

    press.et /herald/
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Building the South-South Feminist Archive: An Interview with Ghiwa Sayegh of Kohl Journal

    africanarguments.org /2023/09/building-the-south-south-feminist-archive-an-interview-with-ghiwa-sayegh-of-kohl-journal/
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Breaking the silence on NGOs in Africa – a review

    roape.net /2023/09/07/breaking-the-silence-on-ngos-in-africa-a-review/
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Can Kenya Bring Order to Haiti? Doubts Are Swirling.

    www.nytimes.com /2023/09/05/world/americas/haiti-kenya-force-gangs.html
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Levin, Ben Gvir said to suggest moving Eritrean migrants to tony north Tel Aviv

    www.timesofisrael.com /levin-ben-gvir-said-to-suggest-forcibly-moving-eritrean-migrants-to-north-tel-aviv/
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Lagos, Glimpsed from Seven Vantages

    www.newyorker.com /culture/photo-booth/lagos-glimpsed-from-seven-vantages
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Gabon military officers claim power, say election lacked credibility

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2023/8/30/gabon-military-officers-claim-power-say-election-lacked-credibility
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa wins second term, opposition rejects result

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2023/8/27/zimbabwes-president-mnangagwa-wins-second-term-opposition-rejects-result
  • Africa @baraza.africa
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Anxious Zimbabwe electorate waits results after voting extended in some areas

    www.newsday.co.zw /local-news/article/200015742/anxious-electorate-waits-results-after-voting-extended-in-some-areas
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Mwalimu @baraza.africa

    Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds

    privacyinternational.org /news-analysis/4290/heres-how-well-connected-security-company-quietly-building-mass-biometric