Eric Platon

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Eric Platon4d ago
John Mark Ockerbloom5d ago

From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

Medium
Eric Platon5d ago
Molly White5d ago
my last name has wound up on some campaign database without my first name, so i keep hitting unsubscribe pages that ask "Not white? Please don't use this form"
Eric Platon6d ago
Electronic Frontier Foundation6d ago
With Rayhunter, we can find out how cell site simulators are being used, and protect ourselves and our communities from this form of surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Eric PlatonMay 5
TIL for some butterfly species, blood type can be understood with wing patterns.
Show threadEric PlatonMay 4
Recent link on “paper planes”: https://www.404media.co/japan-cardboard-drones-air-kamuy/
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.

404 Media
Show threadEric PlatonMay 3

Ironically Japan may manage to sell paper planes as defence solutions.

A startup here presented drones made of what looks like carbon boxes. Not checked what kind of payload, but made the news here.

Eric PlatonMay 3

The JP government announced changes that will authorise selling weapons. So long pacifism.

But I can’t help thinking that selling weapons is also—or more—an economic move. 30 years of sluggish economy addressed only via macroeconomic maneuvers a la quantitative easing, and typical neoliberal recipes like privatisations. When out of ideas, fall back to selling weapons.