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Default search engine keeps changing


I'm updated through the AUR, and said update pushed just a few hours ago.

My default search engine (a custom Searx instance) keeps being overridden to DuckDuckGo when I reopen my browser. I deleted the line in the about:config about 5 times now, to no avail. Anyone else having this problem?



Tron: Ares | Official Trailer


Ok, this new trailer actually explains the plot and I'm intrigued. It also features a which I certainly won't say no to.
in reply to Hammerjack

I really hope it won't be a disappointment.



Privacy, Consent, and National Security After the 23andMe Bankruptcy




Better captive than dead: Qassam’s message to 'Israeli' soldiers in Gaza


The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a new video message on Thursday directed at 'Israeli' soldiers operating in Gaza, urging them to surrender rather than face death in combat.

Published via the group's military media channel on Telegram, the video delivers a direct warning: "To the Israeli Nazi soldiers in Gaza, our fighters will inevitably reach you. If you choose not to fight and wish to save your life, do this: drop your weapon, raise your hands, and follow field instructions."

The message continues, emphasizing that captivity is a better alternative than death, assuring: "We promise to keep you alive and protect you until the nearest deal."



Keep display output when monitor "Disconnected"


I am using a laptop, with a cheaper monitor that only has one hdmi input. I have two devices that I want to use on this monitor, My laptop and my xbox series, so I got an hdmi switcher.

The xbox handles switching to and from it's input without a hitch, but my laptop can takes up to a minute to recognize the switch and display to the monitor, sometimes not recognizing it at all.

I was thinking that having the laptop continue to output the display whether or not it recognizes the monitor as disconnected would help make switching between them more seamless. Is there a way to achieve this?

I am using KDE and I have the "Do Nothing" option selected under close lid in power options.



Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone


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The man accused of fraud became the first Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine


in reply to jackeroni

This account is ran by Russian propaganda lmao


Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters


Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim
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Merz calls for UK, Germany and France to align on migration and defence


Merz said the returns agreement signed by the UK and France last week should be expanded into a three-way pact with Germany to mount a more coordinated response to irregular migration. “The cooperation between the United Kingdom and France … has to be complemented by an agreement that we aim to achieve between the three of us: UK, Germany, France,” he said via a translator.

Merz’s call for a trilateral agreement comes as pressure grows from the far-right Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, where migration and defence spending have become politically volatile. Critics have accused his Christian Democratic Union party of lacking a clear alternative to populist rhetoric, even as Merz tries to position himself as a stabilising force in Europe.



Deepfakes and the Digital Wild West




The Sandman - 2° Stagione


Chi la sta seguendo? A me la prima stagione è piaciuta tantissimo :hearts: E la sesta puntata della seconda stagione è wow! :sob: [img=https://citiverse.it/assets/uploads/files/1752786784627-1000126825.png]1000126825.png[/img] #mastoserie #serietv #netf

Chi la sta seguendo? A me la prima stagione è piaciuta tantissimo :hearts: E la sesta puntata della seconda stagione è wow! :sob:

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#mastoserie #serietv #netflix #morfeo #serietvfilm #cinema serietv #tvshows #tvseries #mastotv #mastotvseries #mastomovies #UnoSerie #unoserietv

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TikTok Germany moderators raise alarm over layoff plans


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Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide


The biggest ride-hailing companies globally are struggling to keep their electric vehicle promises.

In 2020, Uber, the world’s largest ride-hailing company, set a target for all its rides and deliveries to be zero-emission by 2040. As of 2025, only a few hundred thousand out of its 7.1 million drivers have adopted green rides.

Grab, Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing company, is targeting carbon neutrality by 2040. Last year, 7% of all Grab rides and deliveries used low- or zero-emission modes of transport, including electric and hybrid vehicles, cyclists, and walkers.

While Uber, Lyft, and Grab don’t disclose the precise number of EVs in their fleets, each platform has less than 1% EVs globally, research and advisory firm Gartner estimates.

“Even though we have seen immense growth in EV adoption by these companies, it is highly unlikely they will achieve 100% EV adoption in the next decade,” Shivani Palepu, transport tech analyst at Gartner, told Rest of World. Palepu expects the shift to electric to vary “drastically” by region.



[Dune: Awakening] freezes after some time of playing


I've been experiencing freezes after ~1h of playing. Those are hard freezes when even switching workspace doesn't work. Restarting the game helps for another hour

I've tried what few options from protondb but haven't noticed much change

Am I the only one?

  • GPU: Radeon 5700 xt
  • CPU: AMD
  • 48 GB RAM
  • SSD

https://www.protondb.com/app/1172710

in reply to INeedMana

Had no issues myself but I've got a different specs machine to yours


trying to dual boot laptop


I decided to go with Linux mint for my laptop. After installing it alongside windows 10, it won't boot into either. If I reboot from my USB stick, it says that maybe it's too far away from the start of the drive to be detected. But I believe there is some intel /hp stuff that includes some kind of boot that might also be interfering. Does anyone have a good way forward from here?

Link from boot repair: paste.ubuntu.com/p/GJcsXfRkrj/

in reply to ImminentOrbit

Could be you need to set boot partition EFI in BIOS, or could be a recovery partition messing things up for you


Pirate Site Blockades Get Judicial Scrutiny in Germany, But No Transparency?


Germany's voluntary pirate site blocking regime has undergone a fundamental change, now requiring judicial oversight for all blocking actions. The participants will rely on court orders going forward, instead of their own recommendations. While the change ensures a proper review of blocking requests, it does not necessarily make the blockades more transparent for the public.


Proposal: Integrate a Human+AI Hybrid Mental Health Support Plan into ChatGPT (Co-created with ChatGPT 🤖)


Hi everyone,

I’d like to share an idea I refined together with ChatGPT, combining AI’s strengths with human expertise to create something truly impactful.


🌿 Proposal Summary


“ChatGPT Mental Health Plan” – a new subscription tier or add-on offering hybrid mental health support:
1. AI-powered emotional support and journaling tools
2. Guided pattern-recognition for stress, anxiety, and burnout
3. Optional upgrade to connect with licensed counselors or therapists (e.g. 1–2 virtual sessions/month)
4. Collaboration with trained psychology professionals
5. Privacy-first design with full user consent


🧩 Why this matters:


  • Mental health is a growing global crisis, especially among teens and young adults
  • Traditional therapy often has access barriers (cost, time, stigma)
  • ChatGPT already provides comfort, but combining it with real counselors could offer life-changing support

💡 Benefits:


  • AI scales emotional support affordably
  • Human professionals provide clinical depth when needed
  • Potentially life-saving early intervention for those who otherwise wouldn’t seek help

This post was drafted with assistance from ChatGPT — proof that AI-human collaboration can fuel real-world ideas.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions on how to make this proposal even stronger or more feasible.

Thanks for reading!




Boffins detail new algorithms that boost AI perf up to 2.8x


We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Intel Labs, and d-Matrix could significantly reduce the cost of serving up your favorite large language model (LLM) with just a few lines of code.

Presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning this week and detailed in this paper, the algorithms offer a new spin on speculative decoding that they say can boost token generation rates by as much as 2.8x while also eliminating the need for specialized draft models.

Speculative decoding, if you're not familiar, isn't a new concept. It works by using a small "draft" model ("drafter" for short) to predict the outputs of larger, slower, but higher quality "target" models.

If the draft model can successfully predict, say, the next four tokens in the sequence, that's four tokens the bigger model doesn't have to generate, and so we get a speed-up. If it's wrong, the larger model discards the draft tokens and generates new ones itself. That last bit is important as it means the entire process is lossless — there's no trade-off in quality required to get that speed-up.




We Deserve Better: A New Social Media Bill of Rights


I believe that the time has come for a new Social Media Bill of Digital Rights. Just as the original Bill of Rights protected individual freedoms from government overreach, we need fundamental protections for our digital communities from corporate control and surveillance capitalism.

So what could such a Social Media Bill of Rights include?

  • The right to privacy & security: The ability to communicate and organize without fear of surveillance or exploitation.
  • The right to own and control your identity: People and their communities must own their digital identities, connections and data. And, as the owner of an account, you can exercise the right to be forgotten.
  • The right to choose and understand algorithms (transparency): Choosing the algorithms that shape your interactions: no more black box systems optimizing for engagement at the expense of community well-being.
    The right to community self-governance: Crucially, communities of users need the right to self govern, setting their own rules for behavior which are contextually relevant to their community. (Note: this does not preclude developer governance.)
  • The right to full portability – the right to exit: The freedom to port your community in its entirety, to another app without losing your connections and content.


ActivityPub is of course mentioned.


in reply to crankyrebel

The tail doesn't wag the dog. AIPAC and Israel have some level of counterinfluence over the US, but the US Empire is the hegemon, and Israel its vassel. Trying to paint the US as under the control of Israel is mostly an actually antisemetic dogwhistle, and plays into the idea that a Jewish cabal is controlling the world's Empire.

I know you probably aren't intending it that way, but it's important to correctly criticize the genocidal entity "Israel." Mis-analyzing the dynamics at play weakens our chances of rectifying them.

in reply to crankyrebel

except maybe there about 50+ or more guns at his back


Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US


For the first time ever, Linux has clawed its way past the five per cent desktop market share barrier in the United States so maybe 2025 is finally the much predicted year of Linux on the desktop.

StatCounter’s latest figures for June 2025 show Linux holding 5.03 per cent of the US desktop market. That might sound modest, but it is a massive milestone for the open-source faithful who have been banging on for decades that Linux would one day break through. Even more satisfying, Linux has now overtaken the “Unknown” category in the stats, a small but symbolic victory that shows the growth is no longer being ignored or misattributed.

It took a grinding eight years for Linux to crawl from one to two per cent by April 2021. Another 2.2 years were needed to hit three per cent in June 2023. From there it snowballed, taking only 0.7 years to cross four per cent in February 2024 and just four months later Linux is through five per cent.

Analysts say AI workloads, the backlash against surveillance-heavy proprietary platforms, and the never-ending trainwrecks of Apple have made Linux a more attractive option for ordinary users. Microsoft’s increasingly locked-down Windows 11, with its forced online accounts and hardware restrictions, has not helped either.


I guess Apple and MS are finally finding out.



Sectarian tension, Israeli intervention: What led to the violence in Syria?


The recent violence in Suwayda began after Bedouin armed groups kidnapped a Druze trader on the road to Damascus on July 11, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a United Kingdom-based monitor.

The abduction quickly turned into more widespread violence between the two communities – which have a longstanding rivalry due to land disputes – eventually dragging in Syrian government forces.

Syria’s new government has been attempting to impose its authority after a 14-year civil war and the end of half a century of al-Assad family rule. However, it has found it difficult to do so in Suwayda, partly because of Israel’s repeated threats against the presence of any government forces in the province, which borders the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.



in reply to crankyrebel

Isn't that the guy that's worked hard to eradicate disease from poorer nations
in reply to Melvin_Ferd

You mean this Bill Gates?

GATES, GMOs & GEOENGINEERING

In 2006, the BMGF (Bill and Melinda Gate's Foundation) donated $100 million and formed an alliance with the Rockefeller Foundation to help spur a “green revolution” in Africa, with a major focus being to encourage the use of pesticides and “advanced” (i.e. GMO) seeds.

In 2010, the BMGF purchased 500,000 shares in Monsanto, the world’s largest producer of GMO food as well as pesticides like glyphosate (Roundup), making it abundantly clear that this so-called benevolent charity is up to something other than eradicating disease and feeding the world’s poor.

Since 2015, the BMGF has donated a total of $15 million to two global campaigns aimed at “ending world hunger” by encouraging small farmers around the world to use GMOs.

Interestingly, while the BMGF is heavily promoting GMO to farmers, at the same time it’s investing in the ‘Doomsday Crop Diversity Vault,’ a seed bank located in Norway. Other investors include the Norwegian government, the Rockefeller Foundation, and major GMO seed and agrichemical companies.

Food for thought … Why is the BMGF pushing GMO seeds (which destroy the plant seed varieties) while at the same time investing tens of millions of dollars to preserve every seed variety known in a bomb-proof doomsday vault near the remote Arctic Circle “so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future”? Think about it.

Since 2007, Gates has been personally funding and closely involved in the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER), based at Harvard University, which carries out research into the possibility of blocking the sun in order to mitigate global warming, using chemicals or particles of metals such as aluminum.

In 2012 FICER announced their intention to spray sun-reflecting sulphate particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, and they also contemplated using aluminum for the same purpose.

That’s right, it’s no longer a “conspiracy theory” folks. Those ‘criss cross’ lines in the sky aren’t funny shaped clouds and they aren’t normal exhaust from planes. They are chemical trails (aka “chemtrails“) being intentionally sprayed into the atmosphere. Heck, there are actually multiple patents on this technology.

Source

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in reply to crankyrebel

Oh cool, we’re schizoposting again

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in reply to crankyrebel

I would Capitalism one of these for myself, I swear.

in reply to Melatonin

Ninety minutes a day online doing what?

Goose starts chasing you

ONLINE DOING WHAT, MOTHERF*****

in reply to Melatonin

I spend 90 minutes online before I even get out of the bed.


A Stoccolma la scomparsa dei contanti ha creato vari problemi


la rapida digitalizzazione svedese ha colpito soprattutto chi si trovava già in una posizione di fragilità. Per descrivere questo processo, Petersén e Halldenius hanno coniato il concetto di incompetenza generata, cioè «una forma di esclusione che non nasce dalla mancanza di capacità o conoscenze, ma dal fatto che la società ha cambiato radicalmente le proprie regole di funzionamento senza offrire alternative a chi non era pronto a seguirle»
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Subaru Telescope Discovers "Fossil" of the Early Solar System


The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.

The object officially designated 2023 KQ~14,~ was found as part of the survey project FOSSIL (Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy), which takes advantage of the Subaru Telescope's wide field of view. The object was discovered through observations taken in March, May, and August 2023 using the Subaru Telescope.

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Microsoft saved $500 million using AI — after slashing over 15,000 jobs in 2025




Dutch MPs want citizens to own the copyright to their faces


A majority of Dutch MPs are backing a proposal to give citizens the copyright to their body, facial features, and voice to prevent people from creating AI-generated deepfakes and putting them online.

Denmark has already announced it will extend copyright law to ensure people maintain the right to their own person and GroenLinks-PvdA, VVD, NSC and D66 MPS now want to follow suit.

They have also called for action against big tech companies that do not act against the dissemination of deepfakes on their platforms.

Obando said any case against big tech companies would be a “challenge” and may turn into a battle of “David against Goliath”. “An individual would have to take on an often anonymous perpetrator or a big tech platform,” he said.

Privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) is calling on people who are the victims of sexually suggestive deepfakes to report them so it can impose fines and other measures.

Duursma and Obando both warned that the new legislation could compromise freedom of expression. However, parody and satire using deepfakes would still be allowed under the proposed rules.



bug: missing cache invalidation when renaming community


steps to reproduce:
1. create a community
2. change its name
3. load own user profile

expected results:
* community's new name is displayed both in the "Moderates" and "Subscribed" boxes

actual results:
* new community name is displayed in the "Moderates" box
* community's old name is still displayed in the "Subscribed" box

additional notes:
* the renamed community's new name becomes visible after subscribing to some other community
* sorry for posting this here, but, i don't want to give microsoft my telephone/ID/firstborn/etc which is required to open an issue on github these days

in reply to Nutomic

oh, i assumed this is a function of the software, but you think it is a configuration issue on this instance?

ping @ticoombs@reddthat.com

in reply to Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

I too think it's possibly a software bug rather than a cache issue. We don't cache anything if you are signed in, and if it was a cache issue it would show both of the old names on the page rather than only one changing.
in reply to Tiff

while i've got you here... i noticed another related issue: i changed my display name and bio a while ago, and the change has not propagated to other instances. compare:
* reddthat.com/u/al_gore_rhythm
* lemmy.ml/u/al_gore_rhythm@redd…
* lemmy.world/u/al_gore_rhythm@r…
* feddit.org/u/al_gore_rhythm@re…

(currently all remote instances show my old name...)

edit: ... and another issue: the link parsing of those URLs is overzealous, hijacking the parts that match (i'm guessing, approximately) the regex u/\w+@\w+\.\w+

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps


Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.




A case for an Immich Flatpak


Jellyfin Server has a flatpak (and other packing formats too) version that you can easily install without docker directly on your PC. Would it make sense for Immich to do the same? In my mind it would be super useful, I could sync my photos when my PC is on and when is off rely on my local photos only since my main goal is having a backup of them.

Am I crazy or it makes sense?

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in reply to Luca

My understanding is that Flatpaks are generally reserved for GUI applications and not command-line tools or servers. I’m not sure it’s the ideal format for Immich.

That said—and I’m probably going to get hate for this—there is an Immich snap package that does just what you’re looking for.

in reply to Irdial

Thanks man, I'm gonna try it asap


The hidden attack on people living analog lifestyles: they just ignore you. US and Europe compared; Europe has a fix for this, but the fix is broken.


I write a lot of snail-mail paper letters. Why? Two primary drivers:
- Enshitification. If the digital path has CAPTCHAs or dark patterns, I refuse to serve as an enabler. I don’t do CAPTCHAs.
- Boycotts. I boycott both Microsoft and Google. When a recipient’s email provider is one of them, an honest boycott entails not feeding data to those surveillance advertisers who profit from the data.

Government offices sometimes just ignore the letters -- letters which require a response.

:::spoiler The problem in the US
Gov agencies have some “public access” databases such as courts that let you search past cases and state secretary’s business registries. But then they impose a CAPTCHA on queries. How does an offline analog person get the info? They put their request for info in writing, which is then simply ignored. You don’t even get enough dignity for an acknowledgement.
:::

:::spoiler The problem in Europe
As the “digital transformation” movement is shoved down people’s throats, they cattle-herd folks toward their enshitified web portals and their Microsoft-hosted email addresses. Regulators have an obligation to process complaints. E.g. when a transport carrier breaks a transport law or a telecom supplier breaks a telecom law, there is a national authority who must treat your complaint. But if the complaint comes by mail, they sometimes just ignore it.
:::

The insideous nature of being ignored is you are also naturally blocked from knowing why you were ignored. Maybe the mail was trully lost - you don’t know. Or maybe they are ignoring paper letters because young workers (born with Internet) don’t know how to write paper letters, or can’t be bothered. Ignoring letters is common in the US because there is usually no oversight. That is, there is no easy escalation option when a state secretary ignores a request. You’re simply fucked unless you’re willing to sue them (and likely lose, but at least you’ll have a chance at getting an answer on why you were ignored).

Europe is structurally more competent. Most¹ NEBs² and other gov agencies have an oversight authority like an ombudsman, where you can complain that your complaint was ignored. Sometimes I strangely find that my complaint actually was being silently treated or investigated, but the agency was just not competent enough to acknowledge the complaint. Other times, they simply ignore. Nonetheless, it’s a shit-show. There is rarely an ultimate answer and the original non-compliance you were reporting goes uncorrected. You don’t even get an apology, generally.

European agencies and ombudsmen are competent as far as keeping stats on the data they process. Complaints get categorised, counted, and stats reported annually. But there is no stat on the number of submissions that get ignored.

We need a federal agency to simply take reports of ignored correspondence, and investigate why it was ignored.

:::spoiler The fix in the US (nothing practical)
If the orignal reason for writing was to request public info, you can package your request as an official “Freedom of Information Act” request (FOIA), and they cannot ignore that. But it’s not gratis. You must pay them per page for their costs and effort.

Perhaps a FOIA solves your problem. But for me, it does not because my reason for using analog correspondence is often to punish them for enshitifying the digital platform or for trying to force me to expose info to the surveillance capitalist who handles their email. Paying them for analog info defeats that purpose because it compensates them more than your CAPTCHA-fiddling time is worth. Nevermind the human rights that forced GUI captcha puzzles violate.

If your original request was not for information but for action, then you’re fucked anyway unless you are happy to go to court with confidence in a successful lawsuit in a country where you do not have a right to an analog life.
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:::spoiler The hack of a fix in Europe (and why it’s broken)
The GDPR gives us a theoretically useful fix to being ignored: Article 15. You have a right to access your personal data and to know how your personal data was processed. When you hand-sign a paper letter, that signature satisfies the definition of “personal data” (EDPB confirms this fact). So when they ignore your letter, you can then send them a GDPR Art.15 request asking how your previous letter was processed. They then have a legal obligation to answer you as soon as possible and no later than 30 days later.

Why this fails: data controllers always ignore the Art.15 request asking how the previous letter was processed. Yes, they bluntly violate the GDPR because the GDPR is mostly just a prop to comfort people during the forced digital transformation. The GDPR is not enforced in most cases.

Sure, you can file an Art.77 complaint with the DPA. The DPA will not “ignore” it, per se. They will acknowledge the complaint, assign a case number, and then they will ignore the case which gets moth-balled (neglected) because all DPAs are severely under-staffed and buried in cases. Your attempt to use Art.15 as a hack for purposes it was not intended will have the absolute lowest of priorities and will never get treated. It will just rot.

Nonetheless, file it anyway so at least there is a record of the problem somewhere.
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¹ Exceptionally, there is no effective oversight above the data protection authorities. You have no recourse when they ignore you. Same problem with federal ombudsmen.
² NEB: National Enforcement Body

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in reply to FRYD

It’s quite costly, particularly in Europe (~€10). But yes, I’m sure it helps.

When the recipient is an org or company in my local area, I hand-deliver the letter and require a signature on my ad hoc form attesting to the delivery.

When the recipient is far, the postage disparity between registered letter and simple mail is big enough that I try simple mail first. If they ignore, I consider sending a registered letter if I have confidence that it will serve me well enough to justify the cost. But alternatively, if a simple letter is ignored I complain to an ombudsman or regulator, which costs nothing. Then the case they open results in a signal that does not get ignored. So this is a cheap way to get a 3rd party witness on the matter. Of course, the ombudsman will sometimes ignore the letter as well, and I’m back at the original problem.

in reply to activistPnk

Oh yeah in countries where the government ostensibly gives a damn that works. Complaining to politician or bureaucrat here is a waste of time. I don’t know if there’s a distinction with your postal service, but here there’s a difference between certified and registered mail. Certified letters cost something like $5 the last I checked and only requires a signature from any recipient at the address. Registered mail requires a signature from a specific recipient and does cost more although I’m not sure how much.
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Liberating clients from servers, without throwing out baby with bathwater


"With targeted FEPs and pioneering implementations like Flowz, the Fediverse can break free of proprietary client APIs and monolithic client/server implementations and empower a new wave of social web innovation."

@stevebate

stevebate.net/activitypub-clie…

This is such a valuable insight! There are 2 extremes in decentralised social app dev, one where an app is just a dumb terminal for a particular server, and then the inverse, pure P2P apps with no server. But there is a middle ground. Apps can be a focus of UX development, and access different servers as needed to provide functionality that's impractical (if not impossible) to do with pure P2P networks.

in reply to Danyl Strype

I may bring an additional more top-down design perspective into consideration and to ideate on, but please let me know if that is better addressed in a separate topic.

What if we "Liberate people from clients, apps and servers"?

If the "fediverse facilitates online communication and social interaction between people", then the ActivityPub protocol specifies how to implement an abstraction on top of servers and clients in order to provide "a distributed network of addressible actors for the exchange of social activities". This abstraction no longer relies on the notion of servers and clients, though for certain social networking use cases you may opt to re-introduce them (.. but then they live as concepts in this higher level of abstraction).

Though conceptually the ActivityPub spec didn't prescribe this, the dominant abstraction for "joining the fediverse" in the present day involves "select an app, select a server that hosts your app of choice, and use a client that supports that app, to access it". In other words, currently fediverse offers a predominantly app-centric view of the world. But this need not be the only view that is supported, and I advocate a shift towards having a fediverse of mixed apps & services, and elaborate a service-oriented view e.g. as a compliant AP protocol extension.

In the service-oriented view - and in a paradigm shift towards app-free computing - there wouldn't necessarily be "Instances" as we have today, but parties that are positioned as fediverse access providers. You can compare this to the telecom sector, providing the plug in your house to deliver TV, phone and internet services at your doorstep.

When relating that to a good software with ActivityPub C2S support, I can envision that people after gaining access and becoming fedizens, can easily discover, obtain and wire services together in interesting ways that support their social networking use cases and needs. And dynamic UI/UX that supports that, based on service configuration and protocol (control) data exchange.

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in reply to Danyl Strype

Yea. Magic is in having well-defined API's that allow seamless exploration of our social web.



Thursday, July 17, 2025


Putin unfazed by Trump’s threats, plans to fight on in Ukraine — Ukraine’s new ground drones are hitting the battlefield in ever-increasing numbers — Russia drops 500-kg bomb on shopping center in Donetsk Oblast — We are doubling the Ukraine Facility: EU

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Standing with workers before they install a new flag pole on the South Lawn, U.S. President Donald Trump talks with journalists outside the White House on June 18, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
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Ukraine’s parliament dismisses prime minister and his cabinet. The move comes after President Volodymyr Zelensky tapped First Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko to replace Shmyhal after he had held the office for more than five years.

Zelensky unveils new cabinet nominees in major government reshuffle. “Today, I have already signed documents to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine regarding Denys Shmyhal as the new defense minister,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Patriot missiles bound for Ukraine already being shipped, Trump says. “They’re already being shipped,” U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters when asked about Patriot missiles and other weaponry. “And in all cases, the United States gets paid back in full.”

Putin unfazed by Trump’s threats, plans to fight on in Ukraine, Reuters reports. According to Reuters, Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no reason to back down. Instead, the undisclosed sources say the Russian leader is confident that Russia’s military and economy can withstand additional Western pressure.

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France, Italy reportedly opt out of US-NATO arms deal for Ukraine. France declined to join the plan because of President Emmanuel Macron’s push for European nations to strengthen their own defense industries by purchasing domestically produced arms, Politico reported, citing French officials.

‘We are doubling the Ukraine Facility’ — EU proposes 100 billion euros for Ukraine aid fund in 2028–2034 budget. The proposed package doubles the current Ukraine Facility budget of 50 billion euros, which was approved in February 2024 and runs through 2027.

‘No one has been briefed’ — Europe blindsided by Trump’s Ukraine weapons deal. U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed weapons deal for Ukraine caught NATO allies off guard, with European diplomats saying they weren’t consulted ahead of the announcement, Reuters reported on July 16.

After rejecting ceasefire, Russia calls on West to ‘pressure’ Ukraine toward negotiations. “Many statements have been made, many words of disappointment have been spoken, but we want to hope that pressure is being exerted on the Ukrainian side,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.

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Explosions rocked Ukrainian cities overnight on July 16 as Russia once again launched waves of drones and missiles across the country.

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Ukraine’s new ground drones are hitting the battlefield in ever-increasing numbers

Ukraine’s use of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) has accelerated in recent months, a development experts say could help ease pressure on infantry as Kyiv struggles with ongoing recruitment problems and losses.

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Azov is where you can learn to defend your homeland from Russia

Today, the International Battalion of the Azov Brigade is the best place for foreign citizens to gain firsthand experience and learn the rules of modern warfare.

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Human cost of Russia’s war


Russia drops 500-kg bomb on shopping center in Donetsk Oblast — killing 2, injuring 28. Russian forces dropped a 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) aerial bomb on a shopping center in Donetsk Oblast, killing at least two people and injuring 27 others, regional officials reported July 16.

Latvian mayor injured in Russian strike while delivering aid in Ukraine. The mayor of the Latvian town of Ogre, Egils Helmanis was injured while delivering vehicles and other support to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Russian double-tap attack injures 5, including emergency workers, in Nikopol. Russian first-person-view (FPV) drones initially struck a cargo truck, causing a fire and injuring two civilians. Soon after, as emergency workers were working on site, another Russian drone targeted the scene, injuring three emergency workers, the State Emergency Service said.

Missing Russian Mi-8 helicopter found crashed in Far East, all 5 onboard dead. The aircraft, operated by the airline Vzlyot, disappeared on July 14 during a flight from the remote settlement of Okhotsk to the city of Magadan, according to the state news agency TASS.

US-founded extremist group claims killing of Ukrainian security service colonel in Kyiv. In a statement, the local affiliate — known as White Phoenix — praised its “comrades” for the July 10 killing of the colonel. Sources in the counter-terrorism field consider the group’s claim credible, the Guardian reported.

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International response


‘Unbearable’ — EU’s Kallas raises alarm over Russia’s escalating chemical warfare in Ukraine. “Again, it shows that Russia wants to cause as much pain and suffering as possible so that Ukraine would surrender,” top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas said at a press conference during a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. “It is really unbearable,” she added.”

US State Department fires Russia and Ukraine analysts in recent layoffs, NYT reports. It remains unclear how many analysts of the department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) were fired, and the arm retains employees who specialize in Russia and Ukraine, the NYT reported.

‘Call the Ayatollah’ — Senator Graham warns Putin as he backs Trump’s 50-day Russia ultimatum. “If (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and others are wondering what happens on day 51, I would suggest they call the Ayatollah,” Senator Lindsey Graham wrote on X.

EU slaps new sanctions on Russia over hybrid threats, disinformation. The new restrictive measures target actors involved in what the EU described as “Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference” (FIMI), a term encompassing activities such as cyberattacks, disinformation, and manipulation of infrastructure and public opinion.

German Quantum Systems takes 10% ownership in Ukrainian defense robotics firm Frontline. German-Ukrainian defense technology company Quantum Systems has acquired a 10% stake in Frontline, a Ukrainian defense robotics firm, Quantum Systems announced in a press release on July 16.

Russian authorities call for urgent tax increase to save national budget. Moscow needs to urgently raise more money as shrinking oil and gas revenues and a worsening economic outlook continue to strain the federal budget, a senior Russian lawmaker warned on July 16.

In other news


Home of deceased Ukrainian pilot ‘Juice’ searched over anti-corruption activist’s case, media reports. Lilia Averianova, the mother of late MiG-29 pilot Andrii “Juice” Pilshchykov, told Suspilne that investigators came to the Kharkiv apartment on July 11 and demanded entry, threatening to break down the door.

4 Ukrainians make Forbes’ ranking of wealthiest immigrants in US. Ukraine entered the top ten countries by the number of billionaire immigrants, with four Ukrainians securing spots on Forbes’ ranking of America’s wealthiest immigrants and their combined fortunes totaling $25.3 billion, Forbes Ukraine reported on July 15.

Ukraine parliament backs nearly $10 billion defense budget increase in first reading. Ukraine’s parliament approved a Hr 412.4 billion ($9.8 billion) increase in defense spending in the first reading, Ukraine’s Finance Ministry announced in a press release on July 16.

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