Israeli legislative elections are set to take place on October 27. In the first elections since October 7, 2023, all major Israeli candidates oppose Palestinian statehood, with varying degrees of explicit endorsement of genocide, annexation, and apartheid.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
RT: @SaulStaniforth "The purpose of the genocide convention is to prevent genocide.."
Navi Pillay with a message for everyone who says countries don't need to act because a court hasn't found Israel guilty of genocide
RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117449597659658548
Idly remembering Italy's Polo Strategico Nazionale (the State's cloud infrastructure) runs on Google, AWS and Microsoft Azure
Palestinian olive trees torched as settler pogroms escalate during harvest https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/16/palestinian-olive-trees-torched-as-settler-pogroms-escalate-during-harvest?traffic_source=rss #ShowTypes
“The order to restrict Ukraine’s military-grade Starshield satellite communications system came directly from inside the White House, according to a Reuters investigation published Thursday, Oct. 15, revealing that Washington moved to limit technology essential to Ukraine’s battlefield operations and defense against Russian drones.”
We’re hiding in the hallway behind two walls right now because there are explosions nearby. We’re under attack by drones.
We remain incredibly grateful to Sally Rooney for writing an afterword for ‘The Gaza Tribunal: Britain’s Complicity in Genocide.’
Well done Sally for standing with the Palestinian people. Your political courage is an inspiration to us all.
NEW: Governments are abusing online ads to infect people's phones and computers with zero-click spyware, per Citizen Lab. Al Jazeera had ~45 devices hacked this way, simply by visiting a website that displayed a malicious ad. Researchers say it's tip of the iceberg.
Ad-block bypass: https://archive.is/Smm3d
The recording of my #AllSystemsGo 2026 talk is up: “Immutable, Fully-Confined Debian Server Images, Even on a Raspberry Pi 3”.
A minimal Debian server built with mkosi and apparmor.d: UKI, A/B updates, dm-verity, a whole-system #AppArmor policy and an immutable /etc from signed confext images. Same image on x86-64 and a Pi 3, with different attacker models.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kft4nlDKR8
Slides: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2026/talk/KJNYQ8/
We’re moving towards establishing a tribunal to prosecute #Russia’s crime of aggression against #Ukraine. It is essential that countries around the world indicate their support for this tribunal, which is established by the Council of Europe. States must also show their support for the International Criminal Court. In the face of the current challenges facing the @intlcrimcourt, due to pushback from the United States and others, the importance of this institution has never been more evident.
The group "StopAntisemitism" launches an attack and incites against a nurse at UCLA's Ronald Reagan ER, simply for having a water bottle sticker that reads "Bombing kids is not self-defense," alongside another nurse wearing a keffiyeh scrunchie.
The group framed basic humanitarian opposition to killing children as unacceptable "political advocacy," further criminalizing even the simplest human truths when it comes to Palestine.
Quote of the Week. Polanski to Burnham:
“I'm the only Jewish leader of a political party. I'm a victim of antisemitism every day and I've made it clear Jewish people are welcome in my party. You're a Prime Minister who arms a genocide and locks pensioners up for opposing it.."
As Fernando Quintana (Guardian letters) says:
'A country that cannot afford to lose its billionaires should ask itself why it can apparently afford to impoverish everyone else'!
A little girl draws her dream of leaving Gaza. Not because she doesn't love her homeland, but because the place that should have given her safety has become a source of fear and suffering. 💔
How heartbreaking that leaving becomes a child's dream, staying becomes a pain, and the homeland we love becomes the source of our suffering.
#Gaza #SaveGazaChildren #Palestine #RightToLive
https://chuffed.org/project/161851-help-aya-go-to-uni-and-survive-in-gaza
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/14/us-tech-giants-warn-europe-that-ditching-us-tech-giants-could-cost-115b/5303031
Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans.
So Europeans switching to European tech could cost US tech giants €115B? That's a great result...
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@ciaranmak/117438698166365017
So, if you’re looking to enact useful regulation, @EUCommission, instead of eroding our fundamental freedoms though chat control, etc., regulate to make this sort of thing illegal (the game, not the reverse engineering – sadly, I do have to point that out as they’re not the brightest bulbs in the batch.)
Everyone needs to see this and also acknowledge why reverse engineering is a super power.
Credit to https://instagram.com/ayoships
Guy reverses the dark patterns of mobile apps and publishes it, absolutely love it!
#GazaVerified campaigns tracker status
Most of the campaigns at https://gaza.onl/campaigns/accounts are unfortunately stuck at $0.
This is because of two distinct issues:
Chuffed: they have become more aggressive at allowing requests only from real browsers. For a while I could get around their limitations by using a pool of proxies for the scrapers’ requests. Now they are simply issuing JS Cloudflare challenges to clients to prevent scraping. This is unfortunately quite tricky for me to solve without adding invasive solutions like FlareSolverr to resolve the Cloudflare challenges (and even in that case mileage may vary a lot). If anyone has contacts at Chuffed, the best thing to do is to forward them to me. I can explain what we’re doing and why we need to do that, and hopefully they can whitelist the archive’s IP.
GoFundMe: at least since today short-format GoFundMe URLs (https://gofund.me/{id}) are mostly broken - the gofund.me Web server is either timing out or returning HTTP 502. I have implemented a workaround on the archive (namely, it caches the resolved full URLs from GoFundMe so we won’t have to hit that brittle URL-shortener again), but it will only work once gofund.me is operational again and the archive can start caching resolved URLs on the db.
Until these issues are fixed (and they’re both addressed upstream, rather than with more hacks from my side), I’m afraid that most of the campaigns will remain at $0.
A turning point, finally? Will this maybe inspire other European “leaders” to at least start searching their basements for their spines?
RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/117439862966338004
“Democracy”