Amir Sarabadani @ladsgroup@mastodon.technology

A tale of two IRC networks:

#Freenode: kicked us out of our channels, harassed one of our ops on their home page, made supposedly "draft" policy changes to permit hate speech

#LiberaChat: participated in *our* forum to address questions about governance and non-profit structure and asked for feedback on improvements: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&type=revision&diff=21500928&oldid=21500771>

Hmm 🤔

#Mailman3 for #Wikimedia is ready for testing, see the announcement from @ladsgroup and myself: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-March/094382.html

Hopefully a step forward in making Wikimedia mailing lists more accessible.

What a week, huh?

Every time the US has a change of administration, EFF staffers - lawyers, policy analysts, activists - create a "transition memo": a series of one-page briefings on the tech policy issues the new admin should take up. The Biden memo is *great*.

https://www.eff.org/wp/eff-transition-memo-incoming-biden-administration

It opens with a section on surveillance, with three subsections:

I. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

II. Facial Recognition Technology

III. Border Search and Immigration Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/wp/eff-transition-memo-incoming-biden-administration#_Toc57064015

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How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state

https://labs.detectify.com/2021/01/15/how-i-hijacked-the-top-level-domain-of-a-sovereign-state/

He registered an expired domain used by the .cd ccTLD. Great report.