a passport is not enough ...
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https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/05/ryanair-forcing-south-africans-to-do-afrikaans-tests-16769245/ 2022-06-05
-- Ryanair forcing South Africans to do Afrikaans tests
It comes after government officials were arrested for allegedly running an illegal operation to sell fake passports for £258 (R5,000).
Afrikaans is just one of the country’s 11 official languages and is spoken daily by about 14% of the population.
https://www.ad.nl/reizen/ryanair-dwingt-zuid-afrikanen-test-te-doen-in-afrikaans-om-nationaliteit-te-bewijzen~a8cc53ca/
-- Ryanair dwingt Zuid-Afrikanen test te doen in Afrikaans om nationaliteit te bewijzen
De vragen gaan onder meer over wat de hoofdstad is van Zuid-Afrika, welke munteenheid er wordt gebruikt, wat de hoogste berg is en aan welke kant van de weg er wordt gereden.
Catherine Bronze (49) en haar 11-jarige zoon Kolby vertellen aan het Britse Metro dat ze werden geweigerd op een vlucht van Ierland naar Engeland, omdat ze fouten had gemaakt in de test.
Ze spreekt geen Afrikaans, maar kreeg te horen ‘dat ze haar best moest doen’.
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Afrikaans : Jim Reeves - Verre Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xgWVDxtigw
Kom terug / La Paloma - Leonore Veenemans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLO7RY9HFK4
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DRM /
John Deere tractor hacks ukrainian and American Farmers / and wheelchairs ... etc
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/when-drm-comes-your-wheelchair
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/eff-court-fair-use-right-congress-cannot-cast-aside
-- EFF to Court: Fair Use is a Right Congress Cannot Cast Aside | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Copyright law and free expression have always been in tension, with the courts protecting speech from overzealous copyright claims using legal doctrines such as fair use.
But in 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and since then courts have interpreted its “anti-circumvention” provision to give rightsholders
the unprecedented power to block even fair uses of their works, whenever that use requires bypassing an access control like encryption or DRM.
...
This disastrous law has interfered with creativity, research, and innovation for far too long.
We hope the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agrees and restores the traditional balance between rightsholders and subsequent speakers.
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/john-deere-tractor-hacks-ukrainian/
-- Farmers Upset with John Deere Use Ukrainian Firmware Hacks
-- Why are John Deere tractors kill-switched in the first place?
-- Here’s a hint: the technology was not invented to thwart Russian looters.
-- No, it was invented to thwart American farmers.
An unexpected market for hacked software appears to be thriving.
--American farmers who own John Deere tractors are getting around what they view as an overly restrictive software licensing agreement they were required sign in October, according to Motherboard.
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