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About Us - Open Food Network (openfoodnetwork.org)
 

The Open Food Network is a global network of people and organisations working together to build a new food system. Together, we develop open and shared resources, knowledge and software to support a better food system.

Some far-right activists and conspiracy theories are advocating against card-payments and for cash, and it's pissing me off in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there reasonably okay options to paying digitally without the surveillance part (or at least less of it as compared to credit cards?) Blockchain is a nonstarter due to the practical limitations in sustaining proof of work and stake.

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Ghana’s process for adding banking to its biometric card is a flawed one (archive.md)
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Xiaomi has Patented a Full-Screen Fingerprint Reader (xiaomiui.net)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/143207

Xiaomi has patented a new fingerprint scanning technology that allows the user to use the fingerprint sensor by touching any part of their screen. Now you don’t have to try anymore to turn on your phone or place your finger on the finger reader, because you can do this by touching anywhere on the phone’s screen. This is a very privacy issue.

It will have a set of infrared LED light transmitters under the capacitive touch screen layer and above the usual AMOLED display.

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UNESCO Lists Congolese rumba as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (ich.unesco.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/28510

Congolese rumba is a musical genre and a dance common in urban areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. Generally danced by a male-female couple, it is a multicultural form of expression originating from an ancient dance called nkumba (meaning ‘waist’ in Kikongo).

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Jomo Kenyatta, post-war Labour Party, strikes and the pass system - Makhan Singh (libcom.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/22603

While Makhan Singh does not state it explicitly (possibly due to writing the history in post-colonial Kenya under Jomo Kenyatta's presidency in 1969, and in the midst of political assassinations of Kenyatta's left wing opponents) he makes clear that the demand of the KAU for complete abolition of the pass system was significantly watered down by Kenyatta, who was happy to accept a formally non-racial pass system in its place.

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Face Recognition Technology: Commonly Used Terms (www.eff.org)
We evaluated 26 of the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telecommunications companies on their disclosed policies and practices affecting people’s rights to freedom of expression and privacy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I have a very tough time decoupling these lists from their market-led and sponsored base.

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WHO approves emergency use of China’s Sinopharm vaccine (www.aljazeera.com)
 

“This afternoon, WHO gave emergency use listing to sign off on Beijing’s COVID-19 vaccine, making it the sixth vaccine to receive WHO validation for safety, efficacy and quality,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhahom Ghebreyesus said.

Brainstorm time: Why do non-West country users have less participation on discussion forums? (Read text for context) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

As someone who grew up in an African country and spent sometime in North America, I would say there are various reasons one can point to [language, economic conditions, nature of available technology etc]. Most conversations in my growing up were ephemeral + oral. Mobile phones started changing the landscape. Facebook and Messaging apps like Telegram, Viber, and WhatsApp changed a lot of conversations from peer-to-peer to 'mediated' ones. I would say that most African-based folks are every social and active in discussions. They are just not in the platforms Westerns frequent, and increasingly so with closed-messaging platforms like WhatsApp groups.

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Questions/Free Talk/Chat (baraza.africa)
 

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