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Comment Re:Relax (Score 2) 248

by jbernardo (#65708724) Attached to: CBS News Was Just Taken Over By a Substack

1 - you're lying or just pretending to be naive. She picked one comment Refaat made on a debunked hoax - https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/06/scandal-israeli-october-7-fabrications/ - fully knowing her followers it would paint a target on his back, as you can see by the death threats made by her followers - https://x.com/itranslate123/status/1719150855021064671.

2 - the only shit-posters are hasbara trolls like you, repeating paid-for lies like the "burned israeli babies" and defending a despicable person like Bari.

Comment The WWF (and Tim) had already "sold out" (Score 4, Informative) 28

by jbernardo (#64836169) Attached to: World Wide Web Foundation is Shutting Down

In 2017, ignoring all criticism and all ongoing negotiations, Tim and the WWF pushed an HTML5 standard with DRM, with zero protections or safeties.

That betrayal of all the principles of the open web, that sellout to the mafiAAAs might have been what killed the WWF, with today just being the closing of the mausoleum.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-controversy-w3c-greenlights-drm-web

Comment Oh, the irony (Score 1) 31

The irony when someone who was accused of being a Microsoft mole for a long time before assuming a public relationship with them, with this work relationship seen by many as a reward for his role in creating dissent in the open source/Linux community, is now referred in /. as "famed software engineer".

Of course, slashvertisements aren't new.

Submission + - Greenland Lost 586 Billions Tons of Ice In 2019 (apnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had been minimal, last summer shattered all records with 586 billion tons (532 billion metric tons) of ice melting, according to satellite measurements reported in a study Thursday. That’s more than 140 trillion gallons (532 trillion liters) of water. That’s far more than the yearly average loss of 259 billion tons (235 billion metric tons) since 2003 and easily surpasses the old record of 511 billion tons (464 billion metric tons) in 2012, said a study in Communications Earth & Environment. The study showed that in the 20th century, there were many years when Greenland gained ice.

“Not only is the Greenland ice sheet melting, but it’s melting at a faster and faster pace,” said study lead author Ingo Sasgen, a geoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany. Last year’s Greenland melt added 0.06 inches (1.5 millimeters) to global sea level rise. That sounds like a tiny amount but “in our world it’s huge, that’s astounding,” said study co-author Alex Gardner, a NASA ice scientist. Add in more water from melting in other ice sheets and glaciers, along with an ocean that expands as it warms — and that translates into slowly rising sea levels, coastal flooding and other problems, he said.

Submission + - Facebook's "independent" fact checks face quiet political, financial pressures (fastcompany.com) 1

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tedlistens writes: Facing questions about a mysterious series of changes to some fact-check labels, Facebook recently wrote to a group of senators with an assurance: its fact checkers can and do label "opinion" content if it crosses the line into falsehood.

What Facebook didn't tell the senators: the company draws that line, and can pressure changes to fact checks & misinformation penalties. And it does. Facebook acknowledged to me that it may ask fact checkers to change their ratings, and that it exercises control over pages' internal misinformation strikes.

In one case—a video containing misinformation about climate change published by PragerU—Facebook downgraded a fact-check label from "false" to "partly false," and removed the page's misinformation strikes.

Was the change warranted? "Let me put it this way," says Scott Johnson, an editor at Climate Feedback, one of Facebook's third-party fact checking organizations. "Our reviewers gave it a -2 rating on our +2 to -2 scale and our summary describes it as 'incorrect and misleading to viewers,' so we had selected the 'false' label accordingly."

In some cases the video now carries no apparent label at all. After an update that Facebook announced last week, the company is using what it calls a "lighter-weight warning label" for "partly false" content in the U.S.: an unobtrusive box below the video under "related articles" that says "fact check," with a link. Meanwhile, older versions of the video appeared to evade labels completely: A handful of other PragerU posts containing the video appear without any labeling, a review by Fast Company found. Versions of the labeled and unlabeled video have now racked up millions of views since April 2016, when it was first published.

Comment Why insist on the 14% lie? (Score 1) 113

by jbernardo (#59812368) Attached to: Could Cows Actually Help Solve the Climate Crisis?

Why is the wrong 14.5% value still being repeated? Cattle is responsible for 5% GHG emissions! The 14.5% is a completely irrelevant and distracting "lifecycle" value, that the authors of FAO's study have already explained is not comparable to anything and should not be compared to anything.

You can read the explanation here: https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/fao-common-flawed-comparisons-greenhouse-gas-emissions-livestock-transport/

Submission + - SPAM: Police Tracked a Terror Suspect—Until His Phone Went Dark After a FB Warn

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schwit1 writes: A team of European law-enforcement officials was hot on the trail of a potential terror plot in October, fearing an attack during Christmas season, when their keyhole into a suspect’s phone went dark.

WhatsApp, Facebook Inc. ’s popular messaging tool, had just notified about 1,400 users—among them the suspected terrorist—that their phones had been hacked by an “advanced cyber actor.” An elite surveillance team was using spyware from NSO Group, an Israeli company, to track the suspect, according to a law-enforcement official overseeing the investigation.

On the day WhatsApp sent its alert, the official overseeing the terror investigation in Western Europe said, he was stuck in traffic on his way to work when a call came in from Israel. “Have you seen the news? We’ve got a problem,” he said he was told. WhatsApp was notifying suspects whom his team was tracking that their phones had been hacked. “No, that can’t be right. Why would they do that?” the official said he asked his contact, thinking it a joke.The official said counterparts in other

Western European countries told him more than 10 of their investigations may have been compromised by the WhatsApp alert. “I talked about it with my colleagues,” the official said. “They also couldn’t believe this was happening. It affected them more because they used this WhatsApp tool more than we did.” The former security official, from a different nation in Western Europe, said several countries there rely on NSO spyware in counterterrorism investigations.

Facebook and other U.S. technology companies often inform users when a government agency is legally requesting their data, unless prohibited by law or if the company believes there are “exceptional circumstances, such as child-exploitation cases,” Facebook says on its website.

NSO’s technology bypasses the traditional legal request process, however, according to Facebook, Citizen Lab and others.
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