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Women's refuge movement (and the Refuge organisation), started by a woman who is appalled at what feminists have done with it, because most of the women sheltered turn out to be violent themselves (and often more so than the men).
Maybe the rest of the family of kids who women bludgeoned to death, burnt alive, cut into pieces, stuffed down drains etc (all recent cases here). Maybe also the guys who've been stabbed a few too many times, hit in the back of the head with frying pans, etc.
p.s. Hospital record audits show extremely similar injuries for both genders from DV in Australia, with the exception that men present with more lacerations (because women use weapons more) and women present with slightly more bruising (because men rarely present unless life threatening). The only likely exception to that is Aboriginal communities, with somewhat different traditional gender roles (women at significantly higher risk) than the wider population and more commonly impacted by poverty, drugs & alcohol etc.
Maybe a few more women should be focusing on what THEY can do to reduce their contribution to violence too, rather than just expecting men to do that for them.
If you want to know what women actually did to get DV shelters off the ground, then I highly recommend you do some research on who Erin Pizzey is (who founded the whole movement) and what she thinks of the situation.
I wouldn't pin too much hope on having a high quality PR written and integrated back to Signal soon. It doesn't look like a top priority for them. OWS also like the telemetry that Play gives them for diagnostics and have stated they won't be looking at FDroid unless someone can replace that.
Mortality rates are still far worse for men than women though. But particularly, that poverty affects male mortality far more than poverty affects female mortality. E.g. Mortality rates for financially disadvantaged white males is still very significantly worse than for black women (where as black male mortality is still worse than for either - but dramatically less worse compared to white males than it was a couple of decades ago).
http://voxeu.org/article/mortality-inequality-good-news-coun...
DV has become massively politicised, and if you can't recognise that, when a $30M media campaign is announced within 24 hours of a Federal election, then you're not paying attention. The DV agenda in Australia is far more about helping Turnbull look different to Abbott, because LNP was (rightfully) hemorrhaging in female voter polls. Every other party to the Left has just been trying to out-do him on that since.
If you're genuinely interested in reducing harm against women, then I recommend taking into account data like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854883/.
Australia is not PNG. Our DV problem is not caused by gender pay inequality etc. Neither is that the cause in most advanced economies (look at Scandinavian countries with up to 50% of women reporting DV, which having the highest rates of gender equality in pay, opportunities, etc in the world).
I agree first-wave feminism had a lot to fight for. I agree there's still issues for gender equality in Australia. But we're also completely ignoring other gender inequalities, like that 20% more women are graduating from universities today than men, while the overwhelming number of gender-based scholarships here still exclusively support women.
Australia has a long way to go before it starts truly understanding what being anti gender discrimination actually means. "The standard you want past is the standard you accept", should also imply a single standard. When we talk about violence being cause by a lack of respect in relationships, we should be dealing with that by building mutual respect, not just building more gender divides. There's no discussion at all of the impact of psychological abuse in DV relationships against men, despite there being more male suicides every week than all the women killed in DV here each year. Nor is there of plenty of other issues related to DV.
I'm aware this is particularly sensitive topic in IT, because I know discrimination against women still exists in a lot of companies. I've witnessed it more in private companies than public ones, but can attest that it varies WIDELY between companies. There's times when I've even sought to hire women over men, for the sole reason that some environments were severely unbalanced, that it was harming performance. There's also cases though where it goes the other way, including that women are generally paid more than males upon graduation in this industry (maybe the ones who make it through are better, but who knows).
Anyway, I just think the whole discussion needs to be FAR more nuanced than what we've seen across media and government.
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"not related to any warrant for user data, which we have not received"
You can't use it without installing closed-source Google Apps (Play Services for GCM at minimum), and means you agree to hand over your phone metadata to Google (per the OP's top-thread). Moxie has stated he is open to consider high quality PR's to add Websocket functionality. (Removing close-source binary blobs would be a prerequisite to distributing on anything other than Google Play to though, which Moxie's also said isn't on the roadmap - I assume primarily because of resources).
In the meantime, Conversations.IM has OMEMO and Vector.IM has Olm/MegOlm.
There's not a lot of good voice options. Vector.IM's just added WebRTC, which is meant to be DTLS secured. CSipSimple does ZRTP, but it hasn't been updated in a long time.
None of the apps mentioned above has been audited and scrutinised to the extent Signal has.
If you really need privacy & security, CopperheadOS is the only Android distro AFAIAA that fits the bill at the moment.
Recommend moving the project.
ME & AMT have become common on consumer gear, laptops, etc. and Intel chip, chipset & nics are a common combination.
The attack surface is also huge for anyone intent on compromising it.
Open-toolchain FPGAs
Blob-free operation
- Fully libre (open-source) IBM OPAL primary firmware w/ PetitBoot interface
- Fully libre (open-source) OpenBMC secondary (IPMI / OoBM) firmware
NO signing keys preventing firmware modificationIt requires signature spoofing.
(i.e. security to be broken in various ways. Opens it up to all sorts of other attacks, plus to even install, forces rooting the device, or running Xposed, or applying dodgy kernel hacks and prevents using verified boot, which is a sensible security requirement).
https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki
https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki...
It's all that and more. Not only does it have the basic features of XMPP+IRC (and others), but it also federates/bridges with those existing open standards! Plus supports WebRTC signalling and of course end-to-end 1:1 & group encryption (Olm/MegOlm).
There's a range of client, server and library options. Vector.IM (with web, iOS and Android clients) is a good place for many to start and you can try on an existing service. Then if you want, just fire up your own server and it'll federate with the rest.
If you only needed pure XMPP, Conversations.IM is superb too.
Suggesting it was meerly stated as a preference though, is not how a reasonable person would read "you're not entitled to use" and "we are not letting other people use our name in their products".
Perhaps it wasn't your intent, but the implication was clear and additionally the law follows the letter first. They "were threatened legal action with if they did" and even if you didn't actually intend to open that risk to them from yourself (as it was understood), they were still after that, at threat from others.
Let's cut to the chase. Were they legally free to continue, or not? No. Were they at risk of Aaron Swartz style incarceration if the did? Possibly, since that community also includes among it public interest defenders, political dissidents, journalists, whistleblowers, etc. and we've seen it all before. 50 years imprisonment and $1 million for Aaron Swartz (for a download), a hellish trial he couldn't afford against Goliaths, or plee bargain guilty to a minimum 6 months imprisonment and lifetime exclusion from any political life (which he'd planned) - DESPITE MIT & JSTOR declining to proceed
Was LibreSignal technically doing something wrong in the first place? Debatable. I haven't read that part of Signal's ToS, but it had been implied to be an open community (and certainly they immediately ceased and desisted on request). Was it ethically wrong? Hardly "because what they did was illegal" as you put it, a major crime and DEFINITELY not the equivalent of hitting someone.
The implication that OWS had directly threatened explicit legal action, was too strongly stated and I'm happy to withdraw that (I had another case in mind). Nevertheless, the end result hasn't been all that different for practical purposes.