Monthly Archives: June 2020
There’s some crazy internal US politics right now that threatens Open Technology Fund, who funded Let’s Encrypt, Certbot, Tor Project , Guardian Project, Signal, and a lot more.
Looks like a couple proprietary software companies are trying to take over this free software money. Please sign on to the campaign to try to stop it.
Taking down statues and symbols of slavery
Some people in United States have taken down some statues of slave owners in Washington, D.C. and some other cities. I believe there’s no good point in having them statues up. Protesters have set them on fire and I’m really glad this happened as it can be a symbol of people’s anger towards racism and racist people.
I also believe nobody should harm a racist person and the only good way is to talk to them and educate them and if it wasn’t enough, then leaving them alone. If they have no harm, then leaving them is not a bad idea. However, harm is not only physical. If a person harms another person, he should be punished, of course in a proper humane way.
We should respect human liberties no matter if they are offensive to us. Punishment is not against human rights but we should not punish people in a way that it violates their humanly rights.
World Refugee Day
On 2000 December 04, the United Nations General Assembly in Resolution 55/76 decided that, from the year 2000, day of June 20 would be celebrated as World Refugee Day. In this resolution, the General Assembly noted that 2001 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. It is commemorated to honor all refugees, raise awareness and solicit support.
African Refugee Day had been formally celebrated in several countries prior to 2000. The UN noted that the Organization of African Unity (OAU) had agreed to have International Refugee Day coincide with Africa Refugee Day on June 20.
Each year on June 20 the United Nations, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and countless civic groups around the world host World Refugee Day events in order to draw the public’s attention to the millions of refugees and Internally displaced persons worldwide who have been forced to flee their homes due to war, conflict and persecution.
The annual commemoration is marked by a variety of events in more than 100 countries, involving government officials, humanitarian aid workers, celebrities, civilians and the forcibly displaced themselves.
Many countries, specially European countries and Australia, are facing refugees crisis. Instead of helping people, they have decided to get involved in dehumanizing them. They closes their borders and there’s a lot of reports that these countries have left many refugees in distant areas from the countries or keep them homeless to die.
Just in April 2000, five boats carrying approximately 2000 migrants to Europe sank in the Mediterranean Sea, with the combined death toll estimated at more than 1,200 people.
William Faulkner: Fear and Tyranny
What threatens us today is fear.
Not the atom bomb, nor even fear of it, because if the atom bomb fell on Oxford tonight, all it could do would be to kill us, which is nothing, since in doing that, it would have robbed itself of its only power over us — which is fear of it, the being afraid of it.
Our danger is not that. Our danger is in the forces of the world today which are trying to use man’s fear to rob him of his individuality, his soul, trying to reduce him to an unthinking mass by fear and bribery — giving him free food which he has not earned, easy and valueless money which he has not worked for.
That is what we must resist, if we are to change the world for man’s peace and security.
It is not men in the mass who can and will save Man; it is Man himself, created in the image of God so that he shall have the power and the will to choose right from wrong, and so be able to save himself because he is worth saving.
Man, the individual men and women, who will refuse always to be tricked or frightened or bribed into surrendering, not just the right but the duty too, to choose between justice and injustice, courage and cowardice, sacrifice and greed, pity and self — who will believe always not only in the right of man to be free of injustice and rapacity and deception, but the duty and responsibility of man to see that justice and truth and pity and compassion are done.
So never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
If you, not just you in this room tonight but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as but individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
In one generation, all the Napoleons and Hitlers and Caesars and Mussolinis and Stalins, and all the other tyrants who want power and aggrandizement, and all the simple politicians and time-servers who themselves are merely baffled or ignorant or afraid, who have used, or are using, or hope to use, man’s fear and greed for man’s enslavement, will have vanished from the face of it.
About passwords
For years, we have used passwords to protect our security. We used different kinds of passwords. From mechanical locks and keys to digital ones and of course current passwords for our accounts.
Setting passwords helped us to secure our accounts but as we had progress in safe passwords, others made progress to break them. For years, we protected our accounts and goods against humans but what we’re facing now is computers.
We’ve been trained to set passwords hard to remember for humans but easy for computers to find. This should be changed.
Continue readingAbout Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the US South when she was 6 years old.
For her to attend school her first day, federal marshals with guns had to make way through a crowd of grown men and women screaming “nigger”, spitting on her, threatening her life, and waving confederate flags. They even carried a small coffin with a Black baby doll inside, which caused Ruby nightmares at the time.
In her classroom, all her classmates were either withdrawn by angry parents or abandoned the class refusing to sit with the 6-year-old.
Nearly all the teachers abandoned the school except for one. For the entire school year, Ruby went to school to a classroom that was just her and the one teacher that didn’t refuse her.
She refused to eat any food that wasn’t pre-packaged and sealed because they threatened to poison her.
Ruby is only 65 years old today. It wasn’t a long time ago that a lot of racist people were living among us; now many people consider racism a crime. However, we are facing a systematic racism and discrimination everyday and we should fight against it.
We should know that there’s a lot of people like Ruby who we should support to make changes. Our fight continues.
Marshals protecting Ruby Bridges at age six 
Racist white people protesting against Ruby Bridges going to all-white school 
Ruby Bridges
