Matthias' Bla: 2024-10-07

Meine Güte, was für'n Blah!

82 Suchtreffer

2020-06-29

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@Apple #Charger #Computer #Smartphone

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#StopHateForProfit

#Advertising @Facebook #Free_Speech #Hate

2020-06-28

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How language gets changed to promote a world view

#Gender @George_Orwell #Ideology #Language #Sex #Transgender

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How the trans-religion tries to silence critics

@Allison_Bailey #Gender #Health #Ideology #Mutilation @Stonewall #Transgender #Women

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One Bad Algorithm? Advocates Say Facial Recognition Reveals Systemic Racism in AI Technology

#AI #Algorithm #Computer #Discrimination #Facial_Recognition #Racism #Software

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@Jonathan_Pie about WOKE Utopia

#Antisemitism #Free_Speech @Great_Britain @Israel @Keir_Starmer #Racism

2020-06-27

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Wenn man die billigen Arbeitskräfte nicht mehr zu sich kommen lassen will, geht man halt zu den billigen Arbeitskräften.

#Capitalism @Germany @PR_China @Tönnies

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Rassismus in Gesellschaft und Sprache

@Germany #Language #Police #Racism

2020-06-26

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Perception

#Fake_News #Journalism #Truth

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#Fake_News @Germany #Journalism #Social_Media

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#Corona @Germany #Journalism #Science

2020-06-25

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#Capitalism @Deutsche_Wohnen @Germany #Rent

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Wie die Bankenaufsicht gegen die Aufdeckung von Betrug vorgeht

#Fraud @Germany #Journalism @Wirecard

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Upload-Filter werden nun in Deutschland gesetzlich vorgeschrieben.

@Germany #Uploadfilter #Zensurheberrecht

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@Jonathan_Pie about Glastonbury & The Arts: Cancelled!

#Corona #Culture @Glastonbury @Great_Britain

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CDU, CSU, SPD bleiben unverbesserlich: Stramm den Schnüffelstaat ausbauen.

@CDU @CSU @Germany #Privacy @SPD #Surveillance #Vorratsdatenspeicherung

2020-06-24

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Seehofer und seine Strategie, Amthor und Rassismus aus den Schlagzeilen zu verdrängen

#Corruption @CSU #Free_Speech @Horst_Seehofer @Philipp_Amthor #Police #Racism

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@Christian_Lindner #Corruption @Germany @Hermann_Otto_Solms #Parliament @Peter_Ramsauer @Rüdiger_Kruse @Rudolf_Henke @Sebastian_Brehm @Sigmar_Gabriel @Thomas_de_Maizière @Ulla_Schmidt @Volker_Kauder

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#Corona @India #Narendra_Modi @PR_China

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#Encryption #facial_recognition #Privacy #Racism @Signal

2020-06-23

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#Fraud @Germany #Poverty @Wirecard

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@Germany @Horst_Seehofer @Margarete_Stokowski #Police #Racism @TAZ

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Dämpfer für die Datenkrake? – „(Es) wird sich nichts ändern“.

@BGH #Data_Protection #eCommerce @Facebook @Germany #Privacy

2020-06-22

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The Trump campaign excused it as a “joke” … (but Trump said he doesn’t joke)

#Corona @Donald_Trump

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#Capitalism #Corona #Corruption @Germany

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“Innocent until proven guilty” apparently doesn’t apply in Modi’s India

@Delhi @India #Islamophobia #Narendra_Modi #Police @Safoora_Zargar #Women

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#Corruption @Germany @Philipp_Amthor @Wolfgang_Schäuble

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Ein weiterer Schritt zur Bevormundung und Einschränkung der Willensfreiheit.

#Freedom @Germany #Oppression #Paternalism #Suicide

2020-06-21

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@Germany #Police @TAZ #Waste

2020-06-20

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Election campaign in the USA

#Election @USA

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Install Kali Linux 2020.1 – A Step-by-Step walkthrough

#Computer #Hacking #Internet @Kali_Linux

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Trojaner für alle! – Dank der Spezialdemokratie

@BND @BVerfG @CCC @CDU @Christine_Lambrecht @CSU @Germany @Horst_Seehofer @MAD @Saskia_Esken @SPD #Surveillance #Trojan_Horse @Verfassungsschutz

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Über Meinungsäußerungen und Beleidigungen

@BVerfG #Defamation #Free_Speech @Germany #Hate

2020-06-18

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Anläßlich der 20 Mio.€ Industrie-Förderung

#Corona @Germany #Health #Pandemic #Phone

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Another (20th) reprint of the book was just published.

#Fascism @India #Islamophobia @Narendra_Modi

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Der Entwurf der NetzDG-Reform führt zu Konflikten.

#Censorship #Internet @Germany #NetzDG #Social_Media

2020-06-17

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#Corona @Germany #Prostitution #Sexuality

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Die AfD hat einen neuen Skandal erfunden. Er basiert komplett auf einer Täuschung.

@Germany #Migration #Propaganda

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#Corona #Fraud #Internet #Tracing

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@John_Oliver about Facial Recognition

#Computer #facial_recognition #Privacy #Surveillance @USA

2020-06-16

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Wasser ist eine Resource, die weltweit knapper wird.

@Costa_Rica #Human_Rights #Water

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Na sowas!

#Corruption @Germany #Lobbyism @Philipp_Amthor

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@Germany #Police #Waste

2020-06-15

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Aufklärungs-Verhinderung durch die Polizei

@Germany #Police #Terror

2020-06-13

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“Master” branch and racism

For some time there are discussions about terms like “master” and “slave” in IT. The terms were used there e.g. to describe the roles of hard-disks quite some time ago and “master” is used by git to name the default branch of a software project. While the former is outdated due to technical progress the latter it still in wide use – including my own projects.

The current racism debate was a good enough reason to change that. While I don’t think that the term master is inherently racist and in fact predates slavery and is used even now in many other contexts – like master/apprentice, or master in the sense of a original (book, movie, audio-track etc.), or master in terms of accomplishments, or master in context of devotion etc. – it’s not worth the time to argue about some word that might make feel some people uncomfortable. So I wrote a small shell script to automate the process as far as possible (with some help):

#!/bin/sh
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# Change git `master` branch to `main`.
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# 2020-06-12  Matthias Watermann  <support@mwat.de>
#-------------------------------------------------------

git branch -m master main || exit
git push -u origin main || exit
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main || exit
#
echo "
See the web-page shown above and change the default branch on GitHub to 'main'"
read -p "press <RETURN> when done." REPLY
#
git branch -d master 2>/dev/null
git push origin --delete master
git push -u origin main --tags
echo

# _EoF_

After running that script in all my private and public repositories I was finally un-mastered …

Since I didn’t find a way to programmatically change the default branch on ‘GitHub’ the script above pauses for a while until I manually changed the default branch there from master to main.

After running this script in all my git projects there was a single problem remaining: How to make sure that a new git project would start with main as its default branch?

Well, for the locally created git repositories the easiest way I found is setting a command alias:

git config --global alias.init '!git init && git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main'

Lamentably that doesn’t work. Apparently one can not ‘rename’ an already existing git command. So try it with a new command:

git config --global alias.new '!git init && git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main'

Now it works and a new git repository gets created with main as its default branch.

Now, what remains is configuring GitHub to use main as the default branch’s name. As far as I see, however, that’s not possible at the moment. Whenever a new GitHub repository is created the default branch is named master. Which means that after creating the new repository one has to create some file (e.g. .gitignore) to make sure that the branch is actually in use and only then change the default branch’s name to something else, e.g. main. – A few days later Microsoft (the now owner of GitHub) declared that they will change the master name.

As a side note: Much more important than to get rid of master branches in software development I feel it necessary to replace terms like blacklist and whitelist which clearly have a racist connotation: black==bad and white==good. However, since I personally don’t use those terms in my development there’s nothing I can do about (apart from talking to others about it).

#Computer #Git @GitHub #Language #Programming #Racism

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Ein zynischer Kommentar zur Zusammenarbeit mit staatlichen Repressionsorganen.

#Capitalism #Censorship #Internet @PR_China @Zoom

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@Germany #Language

2020-06-11

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#Abuse #Gender #Hate @JK_Rowling #LGB #Sex

2020-06-10

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“Human eggs release chemicals called chemoattractants, which leave a sort of chemical breadcrumb trail that sperm use to find unfertilized eggs (…) What we didn’t know until this study is those chemical breadcrumbs act differently on sperm from different males, in effect choosing which sperm is successful.” (John Fitzpatrick)

#Science #Sexuality #Women

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Hacking-as-a-service: remarkable business model.

#Capitalism #Hacking

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Frauenfeindlichkeit in der deutschen Rechtsgebung.

#Discrimination @Germany #Justice @Margarete_Stokowski #Prostitution #Women

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@Jonathan_Pie about Black Lives Matter

#BlackLivesMatter @Great_Britain #Protest #Racism

2020-06-09

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#Imperialism @Israel @Palestine #Racism

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Australien als Vorreiter staatlich erzwungener Hintertüren für die Ausforschung der Bevölkerung: Vorbild für die EU

@Australia @EU #Internet #Privacy #Surveillance

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@BND @BVerfG @Germany #Privacy #Surveillance

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CDU/CSU/SPD unternehmen einen weiteren Schritt zum Ausbau des Überwachungsstaates

@CDU @CSU @Germany #Privacy @SPD #Surveillance

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@Bolivia #Democracy #Election @Evo_Morales #Media #Propaganda #Putsch #Regime_Change

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#Free_Speech #Hate #Internet

2020-06-08

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@John_Oliver about the Police

#Police @USA #Violence

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Nice …

@Minneapolis #Police #Violence @USA

2020-06-06

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Alltäglicher Rassismus in Deutschland

#Corona @Germany @Göttingen #Racism #Roma

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@Donald_Trump @Germany @USA #War

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A look at the rise of the trans-industry

@Great_Britain #Ideology #Industry @Martine_Rothblatt #Religion #Sex #Transgender @USA

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Zur Ähnlichkeit von Polizei-Arbeit und Corona-Apps

#Corona #Police @Minnesota #Surveillance @USA

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Na, das ist doch mal ‘was! Fünfzig Jahre, nachdem auf deutschen Straßen „Amis Go Home!“ skandiert wurde, und dreißig Jahre, nachdem der Besatzungs-Zustand formal beendet wurde, will das US-Regime anscheinend seine Militär-Präsenz hier verringern. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass es sich nicht nur um einen PR-Gag handelt und die US-Amerikaner zügig aus Deutschland verschwinden, so dass das Kriegs-Zentrum Rammstein bald abgerissen werden kann.

@Donald_Trump @Germany @USA #War

2020-06-05

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Ein kleiner Schlag gegen die Freunde der Video-Überwachung

@Germany #Nazis #Surveillance

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#Privacy @Signal #Surveillance

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Canada’s Prime Minister about the US President

@Canada @Donald_Trump #Racism @USA #Violence

2020-06-04

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Trump’s memory

@Donald_Trump @Iran #Oppression @USA

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Die USA auf dem Weg zum Staatsstreich

#Authoritarians @Donald_Trump @USA

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Trump and the Tiananmen massacre.

#Authoritarians @Beijing @Donald_Trump #Oppression @PR_China #Protest

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The Tank Man

@Beijing #Oppression @PR_China #Protest

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Mehr Profite für die Wirtschaft dank Corona

#Capitalism @CDU @CSU #Corruption #Economy @Germany #Subsidies

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‘Negging’ is when predatory men insult women to lower their self-esteem in order to manipulate them. Has this been happening on the scale of a movement?