• #Pensez_sauvage

    Pensez sauvage vous propose des graines cousues main, faites dans le respect de l’environnement et du vivant. Des graines de ferme certifiées biologiques, reproductibles et qui sont produites artisanalement.
    Des semis aux sachets, tout est fabriqué à la main et sur la ferme.

    https://pensezsauvage.org
    #graines #catalogue #achat #graines #semences #tomates #fleurs #légumes

  • Cyberattaque, soyez vigilants ! |France Travail
    https://www.francetravail.fr/candidat/soyez-vigilants/cyberattaque-soyez-vigilants.html

    Suite à une cyberattaque dont France Travail et Cap emploi ont été victimes, des informations personnelles concernant les demandeurs d’emploi actuellement inscrits à France Travail, les personnes précédemment inscrites au cours des 20 dernières années ainsi que les personnes non inscrites sur la liste des demandeurs d’emploi mais ayant un espace candidat sur francetravail.fr sont susceptibles d’être divulguées et d’être exploitées de manière illégale.

    Compte tenu des investigations techniques menées, les données personnelles exposées sont les suivantes : nom et prénom, numéro de sécurité sociale, date de naissance, identifiant France Travail, adresses mail et postales et numéros de téléphone.

    (...)

  • Un projet de registrar coopératif en France

    Notamment suite à l’horrible rachat de Gandi et les prix capitalistes x 10.

    Arthur Vuillard : « Il y a un peu plus d’un an, je… » - Framapiaf
    https://framapiaf.org/@arthru/112082374307495622

    Explication :
    https://hashbang.coop/blog/appel-a-interet-pour-un-bureau-denregistrement-cooperatif

    Quel est le problème des registrars actuels ?

    Les registraires actuels sont des entreprises commerciales à but lucratif. Cela signifie que les personnes détenant ces entreprises décident des tarifs appliquées, des services proposés et du support, le marché guidant leurs décisions.

    Lorsque j’ai publié le sondage, c’était en réaction à l’annonce de la vente de Gandi à Total Webhosting Solutions. Des craintes avaient alors été publiées à propos de la hausse des prix et de la baisse de qualité qui pourraient avoir lieu chez Gandi suite à ce rachat, ce qui aurait déjà été constaté suite à d’autres rachats de la part de Total Webhosting Solutions.

    Je n’ai pas personnellement constaté de baisse de qualité, mais il y a bien eu une hausse des prix : des boites mails précédemment inclues avec l’achat du nom de domaine ne l’étaient plus, et ont maintenant un tarif qu’on peut juger élevé.

    EDIT : j’ai participé à un comité de pilotage informatique du Groupement Régional Alimentaire de Proximité où nous avons parlé ½h des problèmes de disponibilité et de délivrabilité de Gandi Mail...

    Cette situation illustre la problématique : un registrar peut changer de politique du jour au lendemain sans prendre en considération ses usagers et usagères.

    Sondage :
    https://hashbang.coop/formulaire-dinteret-pour-un-bureau-denregistrement-cooperatif

  • Je me connecte subrepticement sur seenthis pour partager la triste nouvelle du décès de Rémi Gendarme-Cerquetti qui autrefois contribuait ici, réalisateur émérite, notamment de « Fils de Garches », petit bijou de documentaire. Désolé d’être le porteur de mauvaises nouvelles.

    Amicalement

  • Tiens, un grand projet débile à Toulouse évidemment validé par la cour administrative.

    « La cour … a écarté l’ensemble des moyens des requérants...elle a également retenu le caractère proportionné de l’étude d’impact aux différents enjeux environnementaux ».

    Le machin prévu fait 150 mètres de haut :/

    Les associations ont été déboutées une nouvelle fois après le rejet de leur recours initial par le tribunal administratif en juin 2022. En novembre 2023, la cour d’appel avait de nouveau rejeté le recours des opposants. Ce recours portait sur la modification du Plan local d’urbanisme autorisant le promoteur à ne pas construire de logements sociaux dans la tour.

    https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/haute-garonne/toulouse/la-tour-occitanie-devrait-voir-le-jour-la-cour-administ

    #justice #promoteurs_immobilier #grands_projets_inutiles

  • Les entrepôts logistiques, le Far West du marché de l’immobilier
    https://reporterre.net/Entrepots-logistiques-un-etalement-en-toute-opacite

    Investi par des sociétés financières et internationales, le marché de l’entrepôt logistique français prospère. Il reçoit des milliards d’euros d’investissement chaque année, dans une certaine opacité.

    J’ai fait cette carte pour l’article de Reporterre mais ce dernier préfère des photos moyennement intéressantes

  • Covid-19 : un traitement de classe de la prévention ? - Paris-luttes.info
    https://paris-luttes.info/covid-19-un-traitement-de-classe-17859

    Alors que la crise sanitaire est officiellement terminée, les mesures de prévention du Covid-19 sont devenues un privilège de plus des riches. Pour nous autres, les gueux, des infections à répétition accroissent le risque de Covid long et les mesures de précaution sont inexistantes. Au nom de quoi devrions-nous subir un traitement de classe de la maladie ?

  • Un papyrus d’Herculanum carbonisé lors de l’éruption du Vésuve a été déchiffré
    https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/un-papyrus-d-herculanum-carbonise-lors-de-l-eruption-du-vesuve-a-ete-dechif


    Un rouleau de papyrus d’Herculanum carbonisé lors de l’éruption du Vésuve, et conservé à l’Institut de France, est en cours de numérisation par des rayons X.
    Image courtesy of the Digital Restoration initiative/University of Kentucky

    RÉCIT - Grâce à un concours international, de jeunes chercheurs sont parvenus à lire un texte vieux de 2000 ans.

    C’est un texte qui parle de musique, de plaisir et de câpres ! Ce rouleau de papyrus avait littéralement cuit il y a 2000 ans à plus de 320 °C, quand les torrents de boue et de matières volcaniques sont descendus du Vésuve pour recouvrir les villes d’Herculanum et de Pompéi (79 apr. J.-C.). Les pages sont soudées et son contenu était, pensait-on, perdu à jamais. Mais un concours international a permis de réussir l’immense exploit de déchiffrer et de lire des centaines de mots qui s’étalent sur plus de 15 colonnes.

    Découvert entre 1752 et 1754, avec plusieurs centaines d’autres manuscrits, dans une somptueuse villa romaine d’Herculanum appartenant à Calpurnius Pison Caesoninus, le beau-père de Jules César, et appelée depuis « Villa des papyrus », le rouleau de papyrus était depuis conservé dans les bibliothèques de l’Institut de France à Paris. Il avait été offert, avec cinq autres rouleaux, par Napoléon Bonaparte qui les avait reçus en 1802 en cadeau du roi de Naples. Le manuscrit…

  • How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
    https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/02/1082798/tiny-pacific-island-global-capital-cybercrime

    2.11.2023 by Jacob Juda - Despite having a population of just 1,400, until recently, Tokelau’s .tk domain had more users than any other country. Here’s why.

    Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997.

    Just three years later, the islands received a fax with an unlikely business proposal that would change everything.
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    It was from an early internet entrepreneur from Amsterdam, named Joost Zuurbier. He wanted to manage Tokelau’s country-code top-level domain, or ccTLD—the short string of characters that is tacked onto the end of a URL.

    Up until that moment, Tokelau, formally a territory of New Zealand, didn’t even know it had been assigned a ccTLD. “We discovered the .tk,” remembered Aukusitino Vitale, who at the time was general manager of Teletok, Tokelau’s sole telecom operator.

    Zuurbier said “that he would pay Tokelau a certain amount of money and that Tokelau would allow the domain for his use,” remembers Vitale. It was all a bit of a surprise—but striking a deal with Zuurbier felt like a win-win for Tokelau, which lacked the resources to run its own domain. In the model pioneered by Zuurbier and his company, now named Freenom, users could register a free domain name for a year, in exchange for having advertisements hosted on their websites. If they wanted to get rid of ads, or to keep their website active in the long term, they could pay a fee.

    In the succeeding years, tiny Tokelau became an unlikely internet giant—but not in the way it may have hoped. Until recently, its .tk domain had more users than any other country’s: a staggering 25 million. But there has been and still is only one website actually from Tokelau that is registered with the domain: the page for Teletok. Nearly all the others that have used .tk have been spammers, phishers, and cybercriminals.

    Everyone online has come across a .tk––even if they didn’t realize it. Because .tk addresses were offered for free, unlike most others, Tokelau quickly became the unwitting host to the dark underworld by providing a never-ending supply of domain names that could be weaponized against internet users. Scammers began using .tk websites to do everything from harvesting passwords and payment information to displaying pop-up ads or delivering malware.
    a proliferation of .Tk emails with faces crying exclamation point tears

    Many experts say that this was inevitable. “The model of giving out free domains just doesn’t work,” says John Levine, a leading expert on cybercrime. “Criminals will take the free ones, throw it away, and take more free ones.”

    Tokelau, which for years was at best only vaguely aware of what was going on with .tk, has ended up tarnished. In tech-savvy circles, many painted Tokelauans with the same brush as their domain’s users or suggested that they were earning handsomely from the .tk disaster. It is hard to quantify the long-term damage to Tokelau, but reputations have an outsize effect for tiny island nations, where even a few thousand dollars’ worth of investment can go far. Now the territory is desperately trying to shake its reputation as the global capital of spam and to finally clean up .tk. Its international standing, and even its sovereignty, may depend on it.
    Meeting modernity

    To understand how we got here, you have to go back to the chaotic early years of the internet. In the late ’90s, Tokelau became the second-smallest place to be assigned a domain by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, a group tasked with maintaining the global internet.

    These domains are the address books that make the internet navigable to its users. While you can create a website without registering a domain name for it, it would be like building a house without an easily findable postal address. Many domains are familiar. The UK has .uk, France .fr, and New Zealand .nz. There are also domains that are not tied to specific countries, such as .com and .net.

    Most countries’ domains are run by low-profile foundations, government agencies, or domestic telecom companies, which usually charge a few dollars to register a domain name. They usually also require some information about who is registering and keep tabs to prevent abuse.

    But Tokelau, with just 1,400 inhabitants, had a problem: it simply didn’t have the money or know-how to run its own domain, explains Tealofi Enosa, who was the head of Teletok for a decade before stepping down in July 2023. “It would not be easy for Tokelau to try and manage or build the local infrastructure,” Enosa says. “The best arrangement is for someone else from outside to manage it, trade it, and bring in money from it.”

    This is precisely what Zuurbier, the businessman from Amsterdam, wanted to do.

    Zuurbier had come across Tokelau while chasing the internet’s next big idea. He was convinced that just as people had adopted free email addresses by the millions, the natural next step was for them to have their own free websites. Zuurbier intended to put advertisements on those sites, which could be removed for a small fee. All he needed to turn this billion-dollar idea into reality was a place with a ccTLD that had not yet found a registrar.

    Tokelau—the last corner of the British Empire to be informed about the outbreak of World War I, where regular shortwave radio wasn’t available until the ’70s and most people were yet to even see a website—was the perfect partner.

    Representatives from Tokelau and Zuurbier met in Hawaii in 2001 and put pen to paper on a deal. Quickly, .tk domain names began to pop up as people took advantage of the opportunity to create websites for free. He still had to convince ICANN, which oversees the domain name system, that Tokelau couldn’t host its own servers—one of the criteria for ccTLDs. But Tokelau—which switched off its power at midnight—would still need a reliable internet connection to keep in touch. In 2003 Zuurbier took a grueling 36-hour boat ride from Samoa to Tokelau to install internet routers that he had bought for $50 on eBay.

    Gone was the unreliable dial-up. Tokelau had met modernity. “He provided all the equipment, got all the three atolls connected up, and then he also provided some funding which I used to share with the community,” says Vitale, who established internet cafés that could be used for free by anybody from Tokelau’s four hamlets.

    For the first time, thousands of Tokelauans in New Zealand were able to easily connect with home. “What was important for Tokelau was that we were getting some money that could help the villages,” says Vitale. Many of the initial sign-ups on .tk were completely innocuous individuals wanting to blog about thoughts and holidays, as well as gaming communities and small businesses.

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    Zuurbier sent Teletok regular reports about .tk’s growth, and they indicated that the free-domain model was working better than anybody expected. Tiny Tokelau, which was being paid a small cut of the profits Zuurbier was making, was going global.

    “We were hearing how successful .tk was. We were bigger than China,” says Vitale. “We were surprised, but we didn’t know what it meant for Tokelau. What was more meaningful at the time was that we were getting money to help the villages. We didn’t know about the other side of it then.”

    As the decade wore on, however, it looked to Vitale as if things were beginning to blow off course. “We went in blind,” he says. “We didn’t know how popular it would be.”
    Things fall apart

    It took until the late 2000s for Vitale to realize that something had gone badly wrong. After problems first arose, Zuurbier invited ministers and advisors from Tokelau to the Netherlands, paid for their flights, and explained the business’s nuts and bolts in an effort to reassure them. They went to watch Samoa play at the Rugby World Cup in France.

    “He [Zuurbier] appeared to be a really nice person,” Vitale remembers. “There was all this nice stuff that felt homely, warm fuzzies.” .Tk had hit the milestone of 1 million domain users.

    But soon after this trip, he says, Zuurbier started falling behind on scheduled payments to Tokelau worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. (MIT Technology Review requested an interview with Zuurbier. He initially accepted but subsequently did not answer the phone or respond to messages.)

    Meanwhile, Vitale had begun receiving complaints from concerned members of the “internet community.” He and his peers started to become aware that criminals and other questionable figures had cottoned onto the benefits that registering free domains could bring—providing an almost unlimited supply of websites that could be registered with virtual anonymity.

    “It was obvious from the start that this was not going to turn out well,” says Levine, coauthor of The Internet for Dummies. “The only people who want those domains are crooks.”

    Levine says that .tk had started attracting unsavory characters almost immediately. “The cost of the domain name is tiny compared to everything else that you need to do [to set up a website], so unless you’re doing something weird that actually needs lots of domains—which usually means criminals—then the actual value in free domains is insignificant,” he says.

    What started as techies complaining to Vitale about spamming, malware, and phishing on .tk domains soon turned into more worrisome complaints from the New Zealand administrator tasked with overseeing Tokelau, asking him whether he was aware of who .tk’s users were. Allegations surfaced that .tk websites were being used for pornography. Researchers had found jihadists and the Ku Klux Klan registering .tk websites to promote extremism. Chinese state-backed hackers had been found using .tk websites for espionage campaigns.

    “Satanic stuff” is how Vitale describes it: “There were some activities that were not really aligned with our culture and our Christianity, so that didn’t work very well for Tokelau.” With Zuurbier not replying to worried emails, Vitale moved to unplug him. He opened negotiations with Internet NZ, the registry that runs New Zealand’s squeaky-clean domain, about how Tokelau might be able to wiggle out of its arrangement. He didn’t manage to get an answer before he moved on from Teletok.

    His successor, Enosa, tried to set the relationship on a new footing and signed new deals with Zuurbier on the understanding that he would clean up .tk. However, that never happened. One of Enosa’s final acts as general manager at Teletok, in the summer of 2023, was to reopen negotiations with Internet NZ about how Tokelau might be able to extricate itself from the deal once and for all.

    Meanwhile, most of Tokelau’s residents weren’t even aware of what was happening. Elena Pasilio, a journalist, saw firsthand how much this was hurting her home. When she was studying in New Zealand a few years ago, people—knowing that she was Tokelauan—started to tag her on social media posts complaining about .tk.

    At first, she felt confused; it took time before she even realized that .tk meant Tokelau. “I was really surprised by how many users it had, but then I realized that a lot of people were using .tk to make dodgy websites, and then I felt embarrassed. I was embarrassed because it had our name on it,” Pasilio explains. “It has got our name tangled up there with crimes that people here would not even begin to understand.”

    There is a sense from both Vitale and Enosa that Zuurbier cared little as Tokelau’s reputation was dragged through the mud. “I would argue with Joost,” Enosa says, adding that he would remind him he was the custodian for a legal asset that belonged to Tokelau alone. According to Enosa, he would shoot back: “I built this infrastructure from my own pocket. I spent millions of dollars building it. Do you think that was easy? Do you think that Tokelau can build this kind of infrastructure itself?”
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    “I said: ‘Okay. Understood,’” Enosa recalls. “I understood how a white man looks at it. You know? This is how white men look at things. I understand that.”
    Digital colonialism

    What has happened to Tokelau is not unique. The domains of small islands across the Pacific are cited in numerous stories either celebrating dumb luck or complaining of massive abuse.

    Tuvalu has managed to turn .tv into approximately 10% of its annual GDP. Micronesia’s .fm has been pushed heavily at radio stations and podcasters. Tonga’s .to has been favored by torrent and illegal streaming websites. Anguilla, in the Caribbean, is heavily marketing its .ai at technology startups.

    But these success stories seem to be the exception. In 2016, the Anti-Phishing Working Group found that alongside .tk and .com, the Australian Cocos Islands (.cc) and Palau (.pw) together represented 75% of all malicious domain registrations. They had been flooded by phishers attacking Chinese financial institutions. The Cocos Islands made headlines in Australia when websites allegedly hosting child sexual abuse images were recently found on its domain.

    Those domains whose names—by linguistic luck—seemed to mean something tended to attract better managers. Sharks seem to have circled around those that did not, or had a market that was less clear.

    While the abuse of Pacific Islands’ domains has waxed and waned over the years, the islands’ tiny size means that even small associations with crime can have damaging consequences.

    “There is a problem in Polynesia,” says Pär Brumark, a Swede who represents the Pacific island of Niue abroad. “You had these internet cowboys running around taking domains everywhere.”

    Niue lost control over the domain .nu after it was “stolen” by an American in the late 1990s, Brumark says. Its management was given to the Swedish Internet Foundation—which manages Sweden’s native .se—in a “shady deal” in 2013, he claims. .Nu has been wildly popular in Sweden, as it translates directly to “now.” Niue, which is also linked to New Zealand, is now fighting a David-versus-Goliath battle in the Swedish courts. It is seeking as much as $20 million in lost revenue—almost one year’s worth of Niue’s annual GDP.
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    “Digital colonialism,” claims Brumark. “They exploit resources from another country without giving anything back. They have never spoken to the government. They have no permissions. They exploit. Colonialism to me is if you take resources from a country that you do not have the permission to take.”

    But now there may finally be some accountability—at least in the case of Zuurbier.

    In December 2022, courts in the Netherlands found in favor of an investor suing Freenom, the company that managed .tk and four other domains—those of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, and Mali—that were subsequently added to the model it pioneered. The courts found that Freenom had fallen foul of various reporting rules and appointed a supervisory director.
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    And in March of this year, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, also sued Freenom for damages, claiming that sites hosted on .tk and the four African domains were engaging in cybersquatting, phishing, and trademark infringement. Meta provided examples of websites that appeared to be registered at .tk with the express purpose of deceiving users, such as faceb00k.tk, whatsaap.tk, Instaqram.tk.

    In an interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC, Zuurbier denied Meta’s allegations about the “proliferation of cybercrime.” But the Cybercrime Information Center recently reported that “in past years Freenom domains were used for 14% of all phishing attacks worldwide, and Freenom was responsible for 60% of the phishing domains reported in all the ccTLDs in November 2022.” Zuurbier says that Freenom distributed to over 90 trusted organizations, including Meta, an API that allowed them to take down offending sites and that Meta itself failed to continue using it. But many in the tech industry resent what they see as Freenom shifting the cost of policing its domains onto others.

    As of January 2023, it is no longer possible to register a .tk domain. All four African countries—many thousands of times larger than Tokelau—have broken ties with Freenom. Tokelau, which did not seem aware that there were other countries in the same boat, is still trying to figure out what to do next.

    It now looks as if Freenom is essentially finished as a company. But Enosa doesn’t believe that’ll stop Zuurbier from pursuing more shady schemes. “Joost always wins,” he says.
    Shifting tactics

    Without access to the unlimited pool of free domain names that were available through .tk and the four other Freenom ccTLDs, many cybercrime groups that relied on them are being forced to adapt. Certain scattergun approaches to spamming and phishing are likely to go out of fashion. “Spammers are fairly rational,” explains Levine, the spam expert. “If the spam is cheap and the domains are free, they can afford to send out a lot of spam even though the likelihood of response is lower. If they actually have to pay for the domains, then they are likely to make it a lot more targeted.”
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    “Bad things online require a domain name at some point,” says Carel Bitter, head of data at the Spamhaus Project, which tracks malicious activities online. “You need people to go somewhere to fill in their account details. If you can’t get domains for free, you will have to get them somewhere else.” Analysts have noted upticks in malicious use of cheap “new” generic TLDs such as .xyz, .top, and .live, whose reputations have been wrecked by dodgy dealers.

    While other domains may only cost $1, a drop in the ocean for the largest gangs, the fact that they now need to be purchased may limit the damage, says Bitter: “Any cybercrime business that relies on domain names will have some sort of natural limit that determines how much they can spend on domain names.” Others, though, may seek to compromise existing websites with low security.

    It is likely that “basement” operations—so-called “ankle-biters”—will feel the biggest pinch. “What is possible is that the guys that are just doing it as a dabble won’t want to put the money up, but the professionals are not going away,” says Dave Piscitello, director of research activity at the Cybercrime Information Center. “They will go elsewhere. If you are staging a revolution and the cost of a Kalashnikov goes from $150 to $250, you aren’t going to say ‘Forget it.’ It is the business.”
    An existential issue

    The media sometimes reports that Tokelau makes millions from the use of .tk. Zuurbier himself claims on his LinkedIn that his relationship with Tokelau adds over 10% to the atolls’ GDP.

    “Bullshit,” says Enosa when asked. “That’s a lie.”

    Enosa claims that .tk provided a “very small” proportion of Teletok’s income: “It doesn’t give us good money. .Tk was nothing to my revenue.”

    While the arrival of the internet on Tokelau promised to zip information across the Pacific instantaneously, the islands have remained isolated. Even while I was reporting this story, it took weeks to get in touch with Pasilio and other sources there. Interviews were repeatedly delayed because of the price of data packages. Internet in Tokelau is among the most expensive in the world, and NZ$100 (US$60) worth of data can sometimes last only 24 hours at a time. Phone calls to Tokelau from Europe did not connect.

    “I feel sorry for our Tokelau,” Pasilio says. “We have been taken advantage of. I think people would be shocked if they knew what had been going on with .Tk.”
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    Even many Tokelau elders had not fully understood the problem, at least until recently.

    There are other, arguably more existential problems the islands need to deal with, including climate change, emigration, and the atolls’ future relationship with New Zealand. “Our islands are already shrinking as it is, with the sea levels rising,” says Pasilio. She says her father tells her about reefs and sand banks that have sunk beneath the Pacific. “They would rather worry about things that they can see physically and that they know more about, rather than fighting back on this .Tk thing,” she says.

    But the issue of the abused .tk domain was recently raised in the General Fono, or Parliament, indicating that the issue had finally broken out of its technical niche and into the wider public.

    Those existential issues facing the islands are not wholly unrelated to .tk. Questions over the future of the domain have arisen at the same time that a debate over Tokelau’s political future has been revived.

    Tokelau is classified by the United Nations as a “non-self-governing territory” under the oversight of the Special Committee on Decolonization. In 2006 and 2007, referenda on whether Tokelau would enter “free association” with New Zealand—a possible stepping stone toward eventual independence—was approved, but not enough of Tokelau’s population voted to meet the turnout threshold. In May 2022, it was decided that another referendum on Tokelau’s future would be held ahead of the centenary of New Zealand rule in 2025.

    Repairing Tokelau’s devastated international reputation by cleaning up .tk will be a necessity if the atolls are to make any serious bid for sovereignty. Vitale is now the general manager of Tokelau’s government and wants to see its internet domain make a triumphant return to make it clear that the islands are turning a new page.

    “We are building nationhood here,” he explains. “We are on a pathway toward self-determination. We want to use the .tk as a catalyst to promote our nationhood and be proud of it—our domain name and our identity among the internet community.”

    All of Tokelau’s email and website addresses are currently hosted on New Zealand’s .nz. “What does that mean to people? It means that we are in New Zealand,” says Vitale with a sigh. “We should be selling ourselves as being in Tokelau, because .tk is the domain—the identity—for Tokelau.”

    “When you have people coming to knock on your door with attractive packages,” he adds, “you see it as an opportunity you hook onto—not realizing what the consequences will be further down the road.”

    Correction: This story has been updated post-publication as the previous version incorrectly stated that Antigua was the Carribean island with the .ai domain. It is in fact Anguilla. Our apologies.

    #Tokelau #Pays-Bas #Nouvelle-Zélande #internet

  • CrimethInc. : There’s No Such Thing as a Free Helicopter Ride : On the Death of Sebastián Piñera
    https://fr.crimethinc.com/2024/02/08/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-free-helicopter-ride-on-the-death-of-sebast

    That Sebastián Piñera should die in a helicopter is a case of unsurpassable poetic justice.

    “Free helicopter rides” has long been a meme among fascists inspired by the extrajudicial murders of leftists that the Argentine and Chilean governments carried out. The personal helicopter pilot of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet openly admitted that he repeatedly murdered prisoners by throwing them into the ocean from his helicopter. As head of state, Piñera inherited and perpetuated Pinochet’s legacy, forcing capitalism on the Chilean population despite brave and widespread resistance.

    This is not the first time that we have outlived our oppressors—and it will not be the last. Below, we share a statement from our dear comrades in Chile on this historic occasion.

    #chili

  • Allemagne : le Bundestag vote une loi réduisant de 100% les allocations sociales pour quelques personnes.
    https://harald-thome.de/newsletter/archiv/thome-newsletter-05-2024-vom-04-02-2024.html

    La sanction est prévue pour à partir de la deuxième sanction pour refus d’un travail ou non-collaboration avec le Jobcenter . Le loyer des bénéficiaires continue à être payé et ils ne perdent pas leur assurance maladie mais ne touchent plus d’argent pour se nourrir et les autres dépenses essentielles (Bedarf).

    La mesure touche d’abord les personnes en crise, les malades psy, les handicapé mentaux, analphabètes, bref les plus vulnérables qui ne sont souvent pas capables de « collaborer » avec le Jobcenter, cad de fournir des document en bonne et due forme et de se rendre aux rendez-vous imposés par l’administration.

    Le nombre de cas est assez réduite pour empêcher le nouveau règlement de permettre des économies sur budget social de l’état mais assez élevé pour empirer les situations de crise dans un nombre de cas qui va se faire sentir pour tout le monde. Bonjour les nouveaux mendiant, SDF et patients placés en institution.

    Thomé Newsletter 05/2024 vom 04.02.2024 - Harald Thomé

    1. Verschärftes 100 % - Sanktionsrecht vom Bundestag verabschiedet / „Neue Richtervereinigung“ hat gravierende verfassungsrechtliche Bedenken
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    Der Bundestag hat den Bundeshaushalt 2024 beschlossen, Teil des Haushaltsgesetz 2024 waren die verschärften 100 % - Sanktionen. Details hier nachzulesen: https://t1p.de/dfhy9

    Die Neue Richtervereinigung macht diesbezüglich auf gravierende verfassungsrechtliche Bedenken gegen die beabsichtigte Einführung einer den gesamten Regelbedarf umfassenden Leistungsminderung (vormals: Sanktion) und die drohende Zweckverfehlung des Vorschlages aufmerksam. Sie sieht eine Gefahr, “denn auflaufende Stromschulden und Zahlungsprobleme bei Ausgaben für Kommunikation, Verkehr und Gesundheitskosten (Zuzahlungen und verschreibungsfreie Medikamente) werden regelmäßig entstehen und nach dem Vorschlag nicht durch Sachleistungen aufgefangen. Sie belasten die Betroffenen nicht nur in besonderer Weise, sondern behindern sie in der Wahrnehmung von Aktivitäten zur Arbeitsaufnahme.” Die Stellungnahme zum Nachlesen: https://t1p.de/cr1s7

    Auch die Diakonie kritisiert die Wiedereinführung der 100%-Sanktionierung deutlich. Sie meldet ebenfalls verfassungsrechtliche Bedenken an und erklärt, dass Sanktionen in erster Linie Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen, Leseschwierigkeiten, mangelnden Sprachkenntnissen, persönlichen Krisen oder Suchtkrankheiten trifft. Aus der Praxis der Beratung ist bekannt, dass Sanktionierungen die Lage Betroffener verschärfen und nicht zur Lösung ihrer individuellen Problemlagen beitragen. Hier geht’s zur Stellungnahme des DW: https://t1p.de/zmh3f
    ...

    #Allemagne #allocations_sociales #Bürgergeld #sanctions

  • JO 2024 : de nombreux propriétaires donnent congé à leurs locataires dans Paris à l’approche de la compétition - France Bleu
    https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/economie-social/jo-2024-de-nombreux-proprietaires-donnent-conge-a-leurs-locataires-dans-p


    De nombreux locataires craignent d’avoir été mis dehors pour que leur appartement soit loué à des touristes. © Radio France - Philippe Boccara

    De nombreux locataires parisiens voient leurs baux soudainement résiliés à l’approche des Jeux Olympiques. Si la plupart des congés sont donnés en respectant les règles, les #locataires mis à la porte soupçonnent une volonté de louer le bien à prix fort pendant la compétition.

    « C’est la douche froide », « le ciel m’est tombé sur la tête ». Plusieurs locataires font ces dernières semaines l’amère expérience d’une #résiliation_de_bail inattendue à #Paris ou en banlieue proche, alors que les Jeux Olympiques se rapprochent, et avec la compétition une flambée délirante des prix des nuits en location dans la capitale.

    « On a reçu un appel début janvier, de notre propriétaire, qui nous disait ’bonne année, au fait je vais récupérer l’appartement’ », explique Tanguy. Le jeune homme vivait dans un bel appartement du 15e arrondissement avec sa compagne, qu’il a fallu quitter précipitamment, officiellement car la propriétaire souhaite y loger sa fille .

    Difficile à vérifier

    « On ne peut pas savoir, mais le karma fait les choses comme il faut. Si c’est pour louer à prix d’or l’appartement à des touristes à prix d’or pendant les Jeux Olympiques, tant pis », estime Tanguy. Sa compagne et lui se sont relogés depuis, mais face à la difficulté de trouver un appartement en location à Paris, ils se sont résolus à emménager à Saint-Ouen.
    Selon la plateforme SeLoger, le nombre d’appartement à la location publiées sur leur site a en effet baissé de moitié en un an à Paris.

    Jacques connait la même déconvenue, lui qui loue un #meublé dans le centre de Paris près de la Seine, en meublé . « Je m’y attendais un peu, car j’ai une date d’anniversaire tous les ans à laquelle le propriétaire peut me donner congé », commence ce père de deux enfants.

    Locataires sceptiques

    Il doit partir en juin, « cela laisse pile quelques semaines pour rafraîchir l’appartement, et le louer à prix d’or pendant les Jeux Olympiques », estime-t-il. Les appartements similaires au sein se louent en effet à plus de 700 euros la nuit sur les plateformes de location courte durée.

    Même chose pour Zoé, qui vit en colocation à Montreuil depuis l’été dernier. Elle doit quitter en juillet les lieux, car sa propriétaire dit vouloir vendre. « Cela peut être arrangeant pour elle qu’on quitte l’appartement 10 jours avant la cérémonie d’ouverture des Jeux. Ce sera assez facile de le louer, c’est un meublé, plutôt bien placé », explique la jeune femme de 24 ans.

    #JO #logement #touristification

  • Ça doit pas être triste, le moment où tu essaies d’expliquer à ton client que son site Web vient d’être attaqué par une armée de brosses à dents.

    Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages
    https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-a

    According to a recent report published by the Aargauer Zeitung (h/t Golem.de), around three million smart toothbrushes have been infected by hackers and enslaved into botnets. The source report says this sizable army of connected dental cleansing tools was used in a DDoS attack on a Swiss company’s website. The firm’s site collapsed under the strain of the attack, reportedly resulting in the loss of millions of Euros of business.

    In this particular case, the toothbrush botnet was thought to have been vulnerable due to its Java-based OS. No particular toothbrush brand was mentioned in the source report. Normally, the toothbrushes would have used their connectivity for tracking and improving user oral hygiene habits, but after a malware infection, these toothbrushes were press-ganged into a botnet.

  • Représenter la mondialisation par des flux, le rôle de la distance cartographique perçue
    http://journals.openedition.org/mappemonde/7558


    Figure 5. (Carto)graphie de flux mondiaux de marchandises — projection de Mollweide

    Résumé
    La cartographie de la mondialisation par des flux est soumise aux spécificités du niveau Monde, parmi lesquelles le rôle de l’espace qui impacte fortement la vision qui en est donnée. Cette spécificité est renforcée par la thématique des flux qui induit le choix du signe, sa sémiologie et sa sémantique. Si la construction cartographique du flux est invariante du thème, le niveau mondial induit des effets (carto)graphiques dont il faut tenir compte pour garantir le caractère informatif de la carte. Leur prise en compte conduit à interroger le rôle de l’espace géographique via la perception de la distance cartographique. Le propos est illustré par un exercice de multi-représentation de flux/mouvements commerciaux mondiaux d’origine asiatique.


    Figure 12. Cartographie de mouvements mondiaux estimés de marchandises : projection polaire — métrique empirique approximée

  • The Messenger Was Built To Fail, And Did | Defector
    https://defector.com/the-messenger-was-built-to-fail-and-did

    The Messenger brought a bunch of good journalists together into a long-shot endeavor, let only a tiny handful of them do good work, buried that good work under an endless torrent of SEO garbage, and finally, when it did the only thing it was ever capable of doing and exploded, the company threw everyone out onto the street with nothing at all to show for their work. What an incredible waste.

    #startup #journalisme #fail

  • Réactionnaire ? Ce que l’intelligence artificielle dit des discours d’Emmanuel Macron
    https://theconversation.com/reactionnaire-ce-que-lintelligence-artificielle-dit-des-discours-de

    Parler « le Macron »

    Nos algorithmes ont appris – par comparaison – à parler le « de Gaulle », le « Pompidou », le « Giscard », le « Mitterrand », le « Chirac », le « Sarkozy », le « Hollande » et le « Macron ». Et ils sont susceptibles de dire, sans se tromper, les mots préférés des uns et les phrases favorites des autres, les expressions privilégiées par Charles de Gaulle ou par François Mitterrand, la composition grammaticale des discours de Valéry Giscard d’Estaing ou de François Hollande, la tonalité idéologique des discours de Nicolas Sarkozy ou de ceux d’Emmanuel Macron.

    .../...

    REtrouver, REcouvrer, REdonner, REfaire, REconstruire, REstaurer, REinventer, REfonder… Les verbes en re- mettent constamment en marche arrière le discours d’Emmanuel Macron qui entend REproduire un passé idéalisé. REstauration, REarmement, REfondation, REvision, REnovation… Les noms en re- renvoient inlassablement les auditeurs à la grandeur éternelle d’une France passée qu’il s’agirait de REconquérir. L’approche quantitative est formelle, et elle chiffre précisément la lame de fond des re- dans la prose d’Emmanuel Macron à hauteur d’un écart réduit de +12,6.

    #Macronie

    • Et à propos de « Hyperbase », le logiciel dont les algorithmes ont permis de révéler la teneur réactionnaire de la « pensée » Macron :

      Hyperbase combine deux types de fonctions, documentaires et statistiques, qui permettent à l’analyste de décrire, caractériser, classer et interpréter les textes.

      Fonctions documentaires
      Retour au texte plein ou lemmatisé pour une lecture naturelle du corpus
      Navigation hypertextuelle dans le corpus par mots-clefs
      Recherche et tri des contextes et des concordances d’une unité
      Index et dictionnaires des formes, des lemmes, des codes et des fréquences

      Hyperbase (graphe de distribution).

      Fonctions statistiques
      Calcul des spécificités et graphes de distribution des unités linguistiques du corpus
      Indices de richesse lexicale et d’accroissement du vocabulaire
      Traitement et représentation factoriels de matrices lexicales ou grammaticales complexes dans la lignée des travaux de Jean-Paul Benzécri
      Calcul de distances entre textes, classification et représentation arborées
      Extraction des phrases typiques et des segments répétés
      Calcul et représentations des cooccurrences et réseaux thématiques
      Comparaison statistique avec le Trésor de la langue française, GoogleBooks, le British National Corpus

      https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cart_type

      https://hyperbase.unice.fr

  • The Complex But Awesome CSS border-image Property
    https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/01/css-border-image-property

    #css #border-image

    Did you know border-image property was such a powerful — and flexible — CSS property? Despite the challenge it takes to understand the syntax, there are ways to keep the code clean and simple. Plus, there is often more than one “right” way to get the same result. It’s a complicated and robust CSS feature.

    via la-grange.net

  • Meta Rejected Efforts to Improve Children’s Safety, Documents Show - The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/technology/meta-childrens-safety-documents.html

    Hours before Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, was set to testify on Wednesday about child safety online, lawmakers released internal documents showing how his company had rejected calls to bulk up on resources to combat the problem.

    In 90 pages of internal emails from fall 2021, top officials at Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, debated the addition of dozens of engineers and other employees to focus on children’s well-being and safety. One proposal to Mr. Zuckerberg for 45 new staff members was declined.

    The documents, which are being released in full for the first time, were cited in a lawsuit last year by 33 state attorneys general who accused Meta of getting young users hooked on its apps. They contradict statements from company executives, including the head of global safety and the head of Instagram, who testified in congressional hearings on child safety during that period that they prioritized the well-being of their youngest users and would work harder to combat harmful content on their platform.

    Mr. Zuckerberg, who will be testifying before Congress on Wednesday for the eighth time, is in the hot seat to defend Meta’s lack of investment in child safety amid rising complaints of toxic and harmful content online, said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, who released the emails with Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee.

    “The hypocrisy is mind-boggling,” Mr. Blumenthal said in an interview. “We’ve heard time and time again how much they care and are working on this but the documents show a very different picture.”

    Ce passage est vraiment fun. L’irresponsabilité élevée comme mode d’existence.

    A major line of questioning on Wednesday is expected to focus on how apps verify users’ ages, since the company bars users younger than 13.

    At the hearing, Mr. Zuckerberg plans to suggest that Apple bear the responsibility for verifying ages via its App Store, according to his prepared remarks. He also plans to encourage legislation that will require teenagers to seek parental approval for downloading apps.

    #Facebook #Enfants #Toxicité

  • Taxi Berlin - Hier spricht Tiffany Taxi - Programm 88,4 MHz
    https://fr-bb.org/programm/sendung/60948.html#Taxi%20Berlin-Hier%20spricht%20Tiffany%20Taxi

    «Taxi Berlin» Hier spricht Tiffany Taxi: Taxifilmfest #92
    Donnerstag, 01. Feb 2024, 19:00 bis 20:00 Uhr
    Übers Taxifahren in Berlin und seine Nebenwirkungen. Taxi Berlin

    Geschichten und Informationen aus dem Taxi, über das Taxi und um das Taxi herum. Mit Tiffany und Gästen, mit Musik zum Taxifahren.
    88,4 MHz - Pi Radio

    https://www.txsl.de/taxifilmfest-piradio.html

    Sendetermin
    Donnerstag, 01. Feb 2024, 19:00 bis 20:00 Uhr
    88,4 MHz in Berlin
    90,7 MHz in Potsdam
    DAB+ Kanale 7D in Berlin
    DAB+ Kanale 12D in Brandenburg
    Stream : 192 kbit/s, 128 kbit/s http://ice.rosebud-media.de:8000/88vier

    #Taxi #Kultur #Film #Kino #Berlin #Mitte #Potsdamer_Straße #Eichhornstraße #TaxiFilmFest #Berlinale #Boulevard_der_Stars #Journalismus #Presse #TaxiFilmFest #Medienecho

  • Militariser les frontières et entraver l’accès au territoire européen : L’exemple de Ceuta

    En somme, à Ceuta, les exilé·e·s n’ont pas d’autres moyens que d’entrer dans l’#enclave espagnole par des postes frontières non-habilités, et cela au péril de leur vie.

    https://www.canva.com/design/DAF0FmOmnU8/A2tAC7ccKWfyFVbhi0AXGA/edit

    #infographie #visualisation #Ceuta #Espagne #Maroc #frontières #militarisation_des_frontières #cartographie