Why is Ukraine struggling to mobilise its citizens to fight?
Why is Ukraine struggling to mobilise its citizens to fight?
Many Ukrainians have come to the realisation that their state is distributing the burdens and benefits of war unfairly.Peter Korotaev (Al Jazeera)
My ~$2700 ThinkPad is worth $650 re Lenovo
Let's start with my mistakes:
- I haven't followed LKMS.
- I assumed: Every ThinkPad has - overall - perfect Linux support, so this will as well.
- I did look up support when purchasing but I was still not verifying on the LKMS.
- Edit: I trusted Qualcomm's marketing
So, I wanted a ARM-Linux laptop so bad.
I heared about the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s in 2023 and I looked at marketing promises and (rare!) takes on it.
Then there was the opportunity to buy this laptop fir a good price with the entire stats I would require for my next 10+ years. So I bought it.
In order to bake Linux on it I had to read up upon many things - I run it daily but have to accept some downsizes.
Anyhow, I thought this title would be interessting regarding Lenovo's and Qualcomm's "success" on ARM so that others may be aware that I am looking daily for the LKMS and my model SC8280XP.
There is ONE SINGLE CONTRIBUTOR (there were two; The other joined Lenovo) allowed to have "elected and requested" documents in order to aid support. Despite their intentions (QUALCOMM) to support Linux.
And I furthermore assume it hasn't have changed with the new Snapdragon X processors.
So, thanks to John Hovold and Linaro for doing an awesome job. I wished I could support you.
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Far-Right Leaders Are Forging a Global Alliance
Far-Right Leaders Are Forging a Global Alliance
Donald Trump’s return to power is a morale booster for far-right politicians like Viktor Orbán, Javier Milei, and Giorgia Meloni.jacobin.com
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New World Order formed sometime around 2013 didn’t they? At least that’s when they dropped their self-named album.
Personally, I’m more a fan of New Order.
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Hey I remember how this went last time and ended because I paid attention in fucking school....
Fuck these arrogant fucks for causing so much harm in the world
The thing fascists and authoritarians always forget is that there are more of us than there are of them.
It doesn't mean it's a nice contest or a heroic fight ... it's terribly ugly and horrible when the fighting starts but there are always more socially minded people than ignorant ones. It's been the case for thousands of years and I don't think we'll break that pattern any time soon
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It's happened before! But it cost so much. Humans can really get warped by extremism until they finally get sick of it after many have died.
Debout, les damnés de la terre
Debout, les forçats de la faim
La raison tonne en son cratère,
C'est l'éruption de la faim.
Du passé faisons table rase,
Foule esclave, debout, debout
Le monde va changer de base,
Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout.C'est la lutte finale ;
Groupons nous et demain
L'Internationale
Sera le genre humain.Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes
Ni Dieu, ni César, ni Tribun,
Producteurs, sauvons-nous nous-mêmes
Décrétons le salut commun.
Pour que le voleur rende gorge,
Pour tirer l'esprit du cachot,
Soufflons nous-mêmes notre forge,
Battons le fer tant qu'il est chaud.L'État comprime et la Loi triche,
L'impôt saigne le malheureux ;
Nul devoir ne s'impose au riche ;
Le droit du pauvre est un mot creux
C'est assez languir en tutelle,
L'Égalité veut d'autres lois ;
"Pas de droits sans devoirs, dit-elle
Égaux pas de devoirs sans droits."Hideux dans leur apothéose,
Les rois de la mine et du rail
Ont-ils jamais fait autre chose
Que dévaliser le travail ?
Dans les coffres-forts de la banque
Ce qu'il a crée s'est fondu,
En décrétant qu'on le lui rende,
Le peuple ne veut que son dû.Les rois nous saoulaient de fumée,
Paix entre nous, guerre aux Tyrans
Appliquons la grève aux armées,
Crosse en l'air et rompons les rangs !
S'ils s'obstinent ces cannibales
A faire de nous des héros,
Ils sauront bientôt que nos balles
Sont pour nos propres généraux.Ouvriers, paysans, nous sommes
Le grand parti des travailleurs,
La terre n'appartient qu'aux hommes,
L'oisif ira loger ailleurs.
Combien de nos chairs se repaissent !
Mais si les corbeaux, les vautours,
Un de ces matins disparaissent,
Le soleil brillera toujours.
Really well-put together article. ty for posting it.
More how-the-sausage-is-made info for anyone scrolling:
Proposition de migration sur jlai.lu
Hello,
Désolé pour ce message un peu malvenu. Mais l'idée c'est plutot de connaitre vos opinions sur ce sujet. J'en avais parlé un peu à joelthelion.
Je vous propose de migrer sur jlai.lu si vous le souhaitez. L'idée serait de regrouper les commu francophones sur une instance francophone et si vous avez un compte sur jlai.lu de pouvoir profiter d'un fil local francophone.
C'est le seul avantage de cette migration. Après, c'est juste une proposition pour connaitre vos avis.
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Bonne soirée 😀
Google reportedly worked directly with Israel’s military on AI tools
Google reportedly worked with Israel Defense Forces on AI contracts
The company raced to beat Amazon to sell AI tools to the IDF, while publicly denying its involvement with Israel’s military.Gaby Del Valle (The Verge)
New Poll Recommends Eating the Billionaires
New Poll Recommends Eating the Billionaires
I’ve mentioned a few times that Donald Trump is giving Democrats a big, big opening by so conspicuously surrounding himself and seeking the counsel of almost…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
tl;dr I created an extension for the GNOME desktop on Linux, so that folks can stream and listen to music from The Indie Beat – an online radio station powered by independent musicians sharing music in the Fediverse, via Bandwagon.
Background
Independent musicians, creatives, artists, makers – these are all folk who often struggle to connect with audiences, and where retail and tech platforms tend towards squeezing their ability to make money from their work (see the excellent Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow – essential reading for today’s world and understanding how it systematically squeezes creatives). Over the Christmas period, I finally deleted my Spotify account, after reading about yet more awful ways that company is destroying authentic creativity for their own profit.
Cancelled Spotify. One of those things I'd allowed to roll far too long for no good reason (not paying attention), and the "ghost artists" stuff has made me feel particularly unfriendly towards the platform. harpers.org/archive/2025/01/th…— Andy Piper (@andypiper@macaw.social) 2024-12-23T12:31:01.894Z
I’ve been a huge fan of independent artists for a very long time. Back in the MySpace / MP3 / Napster days I came across folks who I now count as friends, amazing musicians such as Cindy Alexander, and Alex Cornish.
Up until recently there was a wonderful streaming station, RadioFreeFedi, that offered music from artists who had a presence in the Fediverse. Sadly, that has now gone away.
Over the past couple of years I’ve been attending Fediforum, an online conference where people building in the Fediverse gather to share projects and ideas. During the events in 2024, I came across two fantastic people with an interest in making things better for artists and musicians: Ben Pate, builder of the Emissary platform, which has a music-centric edition called Bandwagon; and Kirsten Lambertsen, a multi-talented web creative who runs Patron Hunt, and who spun up an alternative streaming station, The Indie Beat. The Indie Beat builds on Bandwagon, so artists who share their music in the Fediverse via Bandwagon, can also choose to add them to rotation on The Indie Beat.
Some inspirations
I was nerd-sniped, I mean, inspired, to make something with The Indie Beat, in part through a nice blog post shared by Neil Brown (which was apparently prompted by me, so that’s nice and circular!) about how to add the streams from The Indie Beat into Linux music apps such as mpd
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I don’t use mpd
, and to be honest I most often live on Apple platforms (but I do keep a Plex server, which I intend to move to Jellyfin this year as I work on improving my self-hosting and homelab situations). I was pretty sure that I’d seen a taskbar music player for GNOME, though. I usually run GNOME on my Linux systems – the exception being my MNT Pocket Reform, which is Sway with a minimal set of other desktop apps.
The player I was thinking of is the SomaFM internet radio extension, which is a menubar app that lists the SomaFM station streams, and allows the user to choose between them.
The process
The first iteration was a straightforward copy/edit hack of the SomaFM extension, replacing the list of channel streams with the equivalent ones from The Indie Beat. Easy!
I excitedly sent a screenshot to Kirsten to show off!
There were quite a few things that I felt I could do better, though. First of all, the artwork was missing. Also, I knew that the whole point of The Indie Beat was to be a showcase for the artists on Bandwagon, and that there was supposed to be metadata in the stream header that contained their link information.
After a lot of poking at the MP3 stream, I realised that The Indie Beat is built on a streaming server called Azura Cast, which has an API – and The Indie Beat API had that data, and a whole lot more that I could use. In order to use it all though, I had to fully re-think how the extension would work.
So, I started over, from scratch.
- I hand-traced the “catellite” artwork and made a minified icon for the GNOME top bar – the full design was not great at a tiny size.
- I kept a similar look-and-feel to the SomaFM extension – an icon, a player, a list of channels – but, I removed the settings and favourites options from my scope, to keep things simple. I also have the menu expand to fit the channel names, which I don’t love as it means it changes size, but it works.
- a little thing that I’m fond of is that the extension uses the configured accent colour – recently added in GNOME 47 – for some of the text.
- I did a lot of reading and poking around at GNOME Shell and gjs, the JavaScript API that enables extensions to be built. I also learned a lot about GStreamer, the engine that GNOME apps use for access to audio and video media. This was all a long, long way from my past work coding for GNOME, ~20 years ago, back in early Anjuta days! I’m not naturally a JavaScript person at all, so I made a lot of mistakes here.
- huge shout-out to the author of the JustPerfection extension, who carefully and helpfully reviewed my submissions to the GNOME Extensions site. This thing would be a lot more crashy and messy without that oversight!
- the extension contains a small cached implementation of the Azura Cast API, which enables the extension to query the available channels, rather than needing to have a static internal list of streams updated if a channel came along or went away (a concept of “mixtapes” is on the roadmap for The Indie Beat in the future).
- I needed to add a way to access an artist’s page, which comes from a property that’s stored in the now playing data, so building an API layer that sits parallel to the radio stream player seemed to work nicely.
The Indie Beat is evolving – within a few days of starting work on this side project, Kirsten switched the branding from pink to green, so I updated the artwork. She also added a Bonk Wave channel – and the extension seamlessly picked it up! That was a nice win.
OK… so what does it do?
I’ve posted a short video which covers the basic features: choose between channels, play/stop, open the Bandwagon page of the currently playing artist in a web browser, or directly jump to Bandwagon’s Explore page or The Indie Beat main page. I’ve aimed for simple and clean, as befits the GNOME philosophy.
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Where to get it
The extension is available to install here. You can watch the demo video on my MakerTube. You can follow development on GitHub.
If you like it, a comment / review on the GNOME Extensions page would be very welcome. If you have issues or ideas, do leave those on the GitHub project. There is a donation button in the GNOME Extensions page, which is of course entirely optional.
Don’t forget to click over to Bandwagon and check out the artists you hear that you like.
What’s the future?
The world and the internet are kind of bleak right now, but actually – we’ve got the power to make it better.
Watch Molly White’s talk from XOXO and get inspired.
Also, this:
andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/29/the…
There’s a lot of opportunity for creatives in the Fediverse!
Castopod is a great way to self-host a podcast with native ActivityPub federation. Bandwagon exists, where you can create a Fediverse profile for yourself and your music. You can share it through The Indie Beat. I’ve personally got my eye on Libre.FM (like Last.FM, but free, and with a renewed / reinvigorated interest in building new features like ActivityPub and IndieWeb support – here’s my profile). Beyond those, there is also Faircamp, a static site generator that helps musicians self-host their content and avoid enshittification through other channels and platforms. I’m excited! We can work together to make our spaces better for musicians and other artists!
More features for the extension?
This has been a fun side project!
I’ve got a few barely-formed ideas for things I can do with this in the future, as both Bandwagon and The Indie Beat evolve. Stay tuned. 📡
Oh, and through making this extension, I found and purchased an album I’m obsessed with, which has inspired me to do some other new things… so watch this space.
Where do I get those stickers?
Come find me at FOSDEM in Brussels next weekend, I’ll have Bandwagon+The Indie Beat stickers to share 👍🏻
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a book about why creative labor markets are rigged - and how to unrig them Competition is supposed to be fundamental to capitalism.chokepointcapitalism.com
Cancelled Spotify. One of those things I'd allowed to roll far too long for no good reason (not paying attention), and the "ghost artists" stuff has made me feel particularly unfriendly towards the platform. harpers.org/archive/2025/01/th…The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
Spotify’s plot against musiciansLiz Pelly (Harper's Magazine)
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Jellyfin Buffering Slow Torrents
I have been having a few issues recently, and I can't quite figure out what is causing this. My setup:
- gigabit WAN up and down. Run speed tests regularly and get 800+ mbps up and down.
- opnsense router VM (proxmox) running on a lenovo m920x. Installed an intel 2x10gbe card.
- Sodola 10gbe switch
- TrueNAS server (bare metal) w/ 10gbe serving the media files over NFS, stored on a ZFS mirror.
- Jellyfin LXC
- debian LXC running the arr stack w/ qbittorrent
- NVidia Shield w/ ethernet
First issue is extremely slow downloads on qbittorrent. Even if I download an ubuntu iso with hundreds of seeders will sit around 1 mibps. Media downloads with ~10 seeders, I'll sit around 200kibps. Running this through gluetun and protonvpn wireguard with port forwarding enabled and functioning.
Second issue I'm having is if I am downloading anything on qbittorrent, and attempt to play a 4k remux on Jellyfin, it is constantly buffering. If I stop all downloads, immediately the movie plays without issue. 1080 files play without issue all the time.
I tried spinning up a new LXC with qbittorrent, and can download ubuntu isos at 30+ mibps locally and not over NFS.
Any idea what could be causing this? Is this a read/write issue on my TrueNAS server? Networking issuing causing the NFS to be slow? I've run iperf to the TrueNAS and getting 9+gbps.
Troubles with Debian 12 and Beelink s12 pro alder lake n100
Good folks, my searchfu has failed me, ive tried different distros and no change, but want to keep debian for the htpc.
After the install, my graphics driver was not installed and i believe the wifi, not sure how to check how many didn't work. any assistance with getting this working would be appreciated.
Beelink Mini S12 Pro Mini PC,
16GB DDR4 RAM
500GB M.2 SSD
12th Intel Alder Lake-N100
use case is of course mini htpc for plex, docker, emulation etc.
usb installed debian 12 KDE
no sound except line out
Thanks for any advice in advance
Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Update: Statement)
Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Update: Statement) - Android Authority
YouTube ads are getting more frustrating, with some users reporting unskippable ads that are nearly an hour long. Are ad blockers to blame?Aamir Siddiqui (Android Authority)
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While the company stops short of directly saying as much, it sure feels like the preposterously long ads we’re seeing here are an example of one tool in Google’s arsenal for effectively disabling YouTube playback for violators of the site’s ToS.
That makes no sense at all. It isn't like skipping ads results in a black screen for the length of the ad.
People with adblockers aren't going to see hour long ads or black screens when they don't see ads in the first place.
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That's because at a certain point ads become less about direct sales, and more about brand recognition. This is why Coke has a massive advertising budget. You know what Coke is. You're either going to buy a Coke or you're not. But by advertising as heavily as they do, they're reminding you that they exist.
That's why their heaviest advertising season is Christmas. Some of the advertisements don't even show their product. Some do, but some just show Santa flying his sleigh with cheery christmas music. Then their Coke logo gets spelled out in the stars as he passes by.
It's just so you assosiate their brand with good emotions. But it requires an almost constant barrage of ads, and it's direct sales are impossible to measure.
I think Google doesn't care about that at all.
They most likely pay peanuts compared to you for "bandwidth" (which for them is more of an electricity cost and trough-output allocation than a specific numeric value like consumers and smaller companies have). You also cache the video on your own device making the multiple tab thing useless if you don't know what you're doing. And Google can also just block you when they attack their servers, move traffic around, and so much more advanced stuff that protects their infrastructure.
tl;dr: Trying to boycott Google by trying to waste their resources is useless.
As I said it's 100 times more advanced than that.
They can switch IPs, datacenters, regions, whatever they want. They even have access to BGP routing.
They also use some custom switches according to Wikipedia:
The private side of the network is a secret, but a recent disclosure from Google[90] indicate that they use custom built high-radix switch-routers (with a capacity of 128 × 10 Gigabit Ethernet port) for the wide area network. Running no less than two routers per datacenter (for redundancy) we can conclude that the Google network scales in the terabit per second range (with two fully loaded routers the bi-sectional bandwidth amount to 1,280 Gbit/s).
On PC Firefox with the Sponsorblock extension
On Mobile (Android) NewPipe with the Sponsorblock Fork.
The YouTube owner explains that normal non-skippable in-stream ads are limited to just 15 seconds in length.
This is bullshit. I don't use an ad-blocker and often get a full minute of ad. And an extra minute if I happen to pause the stream for like 30 seconds and come back to it.
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This is bullshit. I don't use an ad-blocker
You should be kinder to yourself.
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Hey! Whoa! That's not fair at all!
You can TOTALLY go camping without a tent. Just as long as you don't camp in a mosquitto heavy area.
Just sleep outside.
Using the internet without an ad blocker is like fucking every sex worker in Vegas without a condom.
Practice safe internet.
This message has not been sponsored by Firefox or uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger or Decentral Eyes, but if they want to throw some money my way I would accept.
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I been on the internet since the 90s. I want to know what people are seeing. A commercial here or there keeps me in the loop about what is being pushed.
1 hour unskippable ads tells me a lot about what is going on, unfortunately.
I want to know what's going on in the world.And that includes knowing what advertisers are pushing down our throats.Political ADS ads for products, things like that.How they're going about it.
I care too much and it's beginning a problem in my personal life
This is bullshit. I don’t use an ad-blocker.
You're right. It IS bullshit that you don't use an adblocker. It's kind of like saying "This is bullshit! I don't use oven mitts as I take hot metal trays out of the oven! Why am I the only one getting burned???"
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You’re misunderstanding. They are calling out the claim of 15 seconds explicitly, they aren’t necessarily complaining about the ads.
Don’t hand wave their statement by arguing against something they aren’t talking about.
What?! You are forced to watch an ad if you pause it for too long?!
Jfc i hate this gods damned timeline
No no no.....don't hit them. That leaves a mark. Instead, hold them down, and tickle them for an hour.
Then if they try to go to the police, and say "they tickled me!" the cops will just laugh. And, no marks.
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I don't use ad blockers ..... I've gone back to my old cable TV habits from the 90s .... use the mute button and take a toilet break, get a drink from the kitchen, check your social media feed, knit a sweater, talk to your spouse .... then unmute and keep watching.
The bonus is that if you happen to miss the restart, you can rewind back to what you missed ... we never had that in the 90s. Sure PVR existed but not everyone had one.
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I also find that I'm using Youtube less and less and just watch full professionally made programs, documentaries or shows. I'm getting to the point of wondering why I watch a bunch of mindless junk while being interrupted by even more mindless junk advertising for hours on end.
It's weird because I feel like I'm taking back my time to watch all the shows and stuff I wanted to watch in the 90s over cable TV but never had access. If I cut all the stupid time I use to watch junk on Youtube, now I have time to watch all that stuff I wanted to watch a long time ago.
You aint getting the ads but they still need you to load the trackers mate.
It is for your own safety, taker your pants off, boy
Hour long ads? How come I've never experienced these?
Oh wait, i used ReVanced hahahaha 🤣
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I found this blog post which gets into activitypub location metadata and integrating it with OSM.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebui…
Sound promising actually.
Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap
I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spending …Terence Eden’s Blog
Ads on YouTube? I don't know what ur talking about. If people are getting ads then as far as I'm concerned that's a skill issue.
Ads in the modern world are an idiot tax. And those of us who don't pay that tax need the idiots to keep paying our tab.
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The history of advertising indicates otherwise, as does Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Capitalists will always push the limits, ever seeking to maximize profits.
However upper management appears to want to hold royal court and subjugate their serves (the worker pool), since the goal of profit maximization set by shareholder primacy contraindicates common practices like micromanagement, over-surveillance of the workforce (keylogging, and prohibition of private use of the internet) and crunching, all which reduce workforce efficiency (by a lot) and yet are typical.
In the 1980s, when Reagan deregulated children's programming, a lot of shows that were essentially half-hour-long commercials (say, the entire Transformers franchise) were released and sold a lot of toys. The weird thing is when we oversaturate a generation with commercials, they develop a tolerance to them, and the marketing industry has been losing that battle since the 1950s, when an hour long show would have a thirty-second sponsor spot.
At one point there was a period of time where YouTube was consistently serving me ads in Arabic, a language that I don't speak and from a country I have never been to.
Their algorithm just breaks sometimes.
Edit: not sure why that was in capitals.
I know there was that story about Google knowing about some guy's daughter being pregnant before she'd actually told him.
So maybe I'm just really Arabic and haven't noticed yet.
That wasn't Google, it was Target. Based on the teen's buying habits, that she suddenly started buying certain vitamins, unscented lotion, that sort of stuff with her loyalty card, their system put two and two together and sent her coupons for maternity and baby products, which is how her father learned he was gonna be a grandpa.
Google has similar power to know more about you than your friends and family, though.
It is damn near impossible to hop around between videos trying to find the one you want because of the pre-roll ads on every vid.
On the other hand, with an ad block enabled YouTube is actually quite nice. The engagement algorithm is fucking trash of course but if you know what you're looking for and you go directly to it it's pretty good.
Do you habitually not watch videos all the way through, or am I misunderstanding your comment?
No judgement, you obviously should consume media in the manner you find most enjoyable, but once I start and enjoy a video - YouTube or otherwise - I tend to get invested and want to watch as much as is available.
If you're looking for tutorials or other immediately applicable information, you've often got to skip a LOT of bullshit before even determining if this video is relevant to you.
"Hey everybody it's Mike from Mike's the guy named Mike, it's a snowy day out there, I got my coffee, took my dog for a walk, it's been the morning of a day, and now I'm out here in the garage and I figured I'd make a video about a topic a bunch of you have been asking me about. You guys have been asking me a lot lately "Hey, Mike's the guy named Mike, could you show us how to properly lick a drill press?" Well let's find out.
10 second title screen because Mike thinks he's making TV
"So a lot of you guys have been asking me "Hey, Mike's the guy named Mike, could you show us the right way to lick a drill press?" Before we get into that, be sure to leave a like, drop a comment below and be sure to subscribe. It'll really help me out more than you can think..."
19 minutes into a 21 minute video and there hasn't been a drill press on screen yet.
Three weeks later Mike's the guy named Mike along with his entire family is killed in a rock slide. The UN declares it an international day of celebration.
What was I talking about?
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Brilliant 😄
The way I see it these folks don't respect my time when pulling off shit like this.
19 minutes into a 21 minute video and there hasn't been a drill press on screen yet
And that's intentional. The algorithm rewards them for having people watch more / watch longer, and a 21 min video might have 2 or 3 ad rolls. If someone watches all the way thru, creator gets more money and higher placement in search results.
I like YouTube as a concept but the algorithms are totally enshittifying it.
I remember the early, pre-Google days of Youtube, when it was fail videos, that one particular kind of lyric video, lonelygirl15 and mememolly. It was about the time South park had run that episode where they had all the people who had become internet famous like Tay Zonday and the Star Wars Kid who were sitting around in a waiting room waiting for their "internet money" to make the point that there was no method in place for them to monetize their fame...
If you had asked me then what Youtube would look like in the year 2025 I don't know what I would have said but I wouldn't have guessed correctly. I probably would have said it's not going to last that long. I would not have guessed that fifteen years of Google changing the algorithm, but not letting anyone know what they did or why, so there's this constant game of trying to design video formats around what the software would promote would twist it into what it is...
However often I'm looking for something specific, like how to do something, and a lot more tutorials are now in video form than written (which I don't love but whatever). In that situation I'm usually looking for a specific piece of information which often requires scrubbing around in multiple videos.
Same thing if I'm doing research on a product, while I might watch a review will the way through I'm more often looking for some specific things like video of the interface or does it have some specific setting or can I set it up without needing a phone app or cloud account. That requires scrubbing around in multiple videos to see bits of the setup UI. Unusable if each video has an ad
a lot more tutorials are now in video form than written (which I don't love but whatever)
You're not alone in that, and it seems neither am I
a lot more tutorials are now in video form than written (which I don’t love but whatever)
One of my favorite Youtubers (Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles) has excellent in-depth content mostly about WWII piston-engined aircraft with lots of detailed discussion and reference to original source materials. But it's just him reading a written script while presenting still photos and excerpts from flight manuals and the like. It really would be perfect as a blog or in book form, but he has to turn it into videos in order to have any chance at making decent money from it. It's just such a shame that this is how things are going now.
On the video, which is expensive to create and expensive to host, you can have 30 or 45 seconds of video ads, which pay a lot more.
While the company stops short of directly saying as much, it sure feels like the preposterously long ads we’re seeing here are an example of one tool in Google’s arsenal for effectively disabling YouTube playback for violators of the site’s ToS.
I don't get it. When my adblocker works, I don't get to see this shit. Only if it fails I'llbe confronted with hour-long ads, so the incentive to find a better blocker is even higher?
And all of it could have been avoided if google just audited/policed the ads it served. No sane person minds watching a 5-10 second add every 10-20 minutes to support the platform.
But rather than spend money expanding their ad department to audit and police the adds, they are spending gobs and gobs of money trying to force people to see view virus-delivering ads, racist ads, blatant misinformation, etc.
No one wants to be forced to spend 30 minutes watching a pragerU video on how the black man should be grateful for slavery and all the "good" its brought him
But that seems to be the world that google wants.
No sane person minds watching a 5-10 second add every 10-20 minutes to support the platform.
Fuck that. Ads are cancer. Willing consuming cancer is insanity.
no major company is even making Blu-Ray players anymore
Uh, yes they are. What are you smoking? They even still make DVD's and straight DVD players. They even still make VCR's.
Pardon me, you're correct. Sony and Panasonic are the last two holdouts.
cnet.com/tech/home-entertainme…
Also, those are not VCRs still being manufactured, that's selling off stock.
LG, One of the Last Holdouts, Ceases Production of Blu-ray Players
Most other electronics-makers had already pulled the plug on Blu-ray players, but LG held on longer than most.Omar Gallaga (CNET)
Some Alternatives:
- Firefox + Ublock Origin
- Grayjay App
- Grayjay Desktop
- FreeTube
- NewPipe
Firefox + Ublock Origin
This right here. No longer using chromium-based browsers is a really good start.
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I'm also a Nebula subscriber for the same reason stated above. A lot of my favorite creators are on Nebula and either post their videos a week or two early on Nebula, or post extended versions of their videos on Nebula.
There's no ads or sponsorship segments, so it makes for a pleasant experience. Admittedly, the Nebula "originals" which are exclusive to Nebula, is a fairly small catalogue. But what is there is high quality.
The Nebula subscription is worth it for me to support creators and have a better viewing experience... And to see each Jetlag episode a week early.
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There's definitely good material on it. Was a big fan of "Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend" short film, for instance.
But its also got your garden variety YouTube crap.
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I ended up getting a lifetime subscription, and it's definitely worth it, but it's not a replacement for YT entirely.
Dropout.tv has good comedy videos which is largely lacking from Nebula, but I find it buffers more often for me, which makes it uniquely bad among all the streaming services I've used.
But, I watch plenty of fan compilations / animatics for stuff on YT from my recommendations, and I haven't found them anywhere else either because they don't exist or because they don't get recommended to me. It seems difficult for that kind of stuff to exist without free, easy uploads AND free, easy viewing.
Finally there are some people that primarily do Twitch that I subscribe to on YT. I've tried watching them on Twitch, and I prefer the content after their YT editor has worked their magic.
Tell you the truth, once upon a time I really didn't mind the ads. In fact I was quite happy to support the creators that I like with watching the ads that appeared on their videos. But then YouTube started getting smarmy by blocking my suggestions because I didn't use history on my account. And then there's the problem of the ads getting longer. At which point I got fed up and downloaded the adblock software to stop seeing this garbage. And then this little war broke out over ads on the platform.
Quite frankly, so long as the people who make the software to block ads continue to do that kind of work I will continue to download their software and make Google spend boatloads of their own money to try to block the blockers. Because the blockers aren't going anywhere. Not to mention that the blockers were not quite as popular before Google started this little campaign. And now they have made people so hyper aware of the fact that they can actually go out and find some way to skip these stupid ads that they've basically dug their own grave. Broadcast TV spent decades on this failed quest.
Exactly right. Two 15 second ads in between shows two midstream 15 to 30 second ads, I was perfectly fine with watching those ads.
When they started letting content creators pick the number of ads, and they started letting more than 30 seconds of ads per break, now I have incentive to block them.
Capitalism dictates that they need to make 20% more every year. They cannot continue to get 20% more ad revenue every year without increasing ads substantially.
When a handful of companies owns everything and they can no longer buy new companies up to make more money, They can't make their numbers. All they can do is gut us for the last 20% and then go out of business.
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I was the exact same way. I could justify watching ads to support the people I watched, but then I learned how little compensation a creator actually gets from one view and decided my time was more valuable. Plus I just got too used to never seeing ads and could never go back.
This video sums up the sentiment you're describing nicely.
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Yeah, me too.
I liked watching ads 12 years ago, they were a funny interjection/change.
Nowadays the ads are so extremely obnoxious, it feels as if they're poisoning my mind. No way i'm even gonna watch them for a second.
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The problem is hosting (storage, network) is expensive.
IIRC some platforms (feddit.org, catbox.moe) pays $1000 per month, and that's mostly just static images.
Videos is much more than that. Who pays for that?
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are users willing to put up with that.
No. People are used to stuff being free.
Do you mean the promoted content done by the youtubers themselves? Because there are no YouTube ads when you use Premum.
And Premium recently came out with a feature that makes it really easy to skip the promotional content.
Dude the value google gets out of creators’ videos vastly outstrips the paltry “share” they give them. If you aren’t consistently dropping multiple videos with 5-10,000,000 views a month you can’t make it And in order to hit those numbers you must resort to scummy and clickbait-y tactics. You’re lucky if you don’t burnout from the required output to make it financially viable.
Fuck google, fuck YouTube premium/ads. Freetube all day.
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Damn, lemmy is over here upset that you pay for something you like and use frequently.
YouTube creators have said many times they get a lot more from a premium view compared to a regular one.
Nebula – Indie Streaming
Nebula is smart, thoughtful videos, podcasts, and classes from your favorite creators.Nebula
We’ve launched a global effort to urge viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium for an ad free experience.
By drastically increasing the rates every 6 months. Raising it past the prices of actual production streaming services. And paying the people making the content less and less money, until they have to put their own ads and their own content.
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Youtube is like that bully that asks for your lunch money and when you say no, they slam you into a locker.
When you say no again, they start hitting you until you finally give that lunch money.
Once you do, they will show you the others are being abused harder when they demand more money from you.
I would love to contribute to the end of youtube.
To me, the value of youtube and it's music is far below the €18 it costs to get me and my wife ad free. My internet costs roughly that and offers a lot of possibilites, so why should i pay double for a service that supplies about 1 millionth of what the internet itself has to offer, especially considering my wage has barely changed while i watch my rent and groceries triple in cost.
Y'all need to realize there is an end to my money, you can't keep taking.
I'm laughing at ~~their~~ YouTube's response. Obviously someone used a thesaurus to write it and didn't know that "incalcitrant" is not even the word, no major dictionaries list it. It's like using irregardless instead of regardless The word ~~they~~ YouTube wanted is recalcitrant.
And it's very telling that ~~they~~ YouTube used that word because it shows they think they are King.
Recalicitrant:
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control.Unwilling to obey orders or to do what should be done.
Resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant.
Edit: I'm laughing at YouTube's response. I thought that was clear by context.. I guess people who didn't read the article didn't get that? Maybe it was paywalled to them?
Words matter, and by using the one they did, YouTube is basically saying that they demand people obey them.
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I'm laughing at YouTube's response. I thought that was clear by context.. I guess people who didn't read the article didn't get that? Maybe it was paywalled to them?
Or why are you telling me to STFU?
Youtube is like that bully
Except no one is forcing you to face that bully.
You can simply stay away.
Most people are lazy and not willing to make their life less comfortable. If they were, a lot of problems in big tech would not even exist. That's why people still buy apple, use WhatsApp and microsoft instead of the free alternatives - because its less comfortable.
They want change, but are unwilling to be a factor in causing that change.
It's either this or cable, cable sucks.
So i'd rather adblock the hell out of them.
Look, I don't disagree with you. YouTube has many flaws and they've rapidly enshittified to increase monetization. But YouTube is a far more complex* operation than your ISP. It took a decade to start making a profit on YouTube.
The amount of hardware behind it is insane. The amount of work behind it is insane. A lot of that work is performed by really expensive software engineers in the US and Europe.
It was never sustainable from the get-go. Not with a single pre-watch ad and no premium tier, anyway. They HAD to add more ads and a premium ad-free tier. Where I disagree with them is the amount of ads and the cost of the premium tier.
*The big cloud providers (including Google) have grown so big, they don't use ISPs in the traditional sense to connect their data centers. They run their own subsea cables between continents to improve connectivity. Whether or not you like the companies, they put a LOT of work into keeping you on their platforms. Of course this is for Google Cloud customers, but YouTube basically IS a Google Cloud customer. Just an in-house one.
Learn about Google’s subsea cables
All our posts on Google’s global subsea cable system in one handy location.The Google Cloud content marketing team (Google Cloud)
There's a chance ad blockers are eating up the 'Skip' button while also failing to block the ad.
A CHANCE?
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I am wondering the same, mentioning the specific hardware makes very little sense, when it could just be mentioned as Linux/Windows/PC and Android/GrapheneOS/etc.
It would arguably be more informative too for people looking for alternatives for their device platforms.
Sharing another app suggestion(s) for Android: Tubular [0] or the more up-to-date LastPipeBender [1].
Both apps differ from NewPipe and its variants by integrating with PeerTube along with YouTube, apart from providing features like SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.
I have started using PeerTube much more often as my subscriptions from YouTube and PeerTube are now shown together, which makes for a seamless and superior experience altogether.
[0] github.com/polymorphicshade/Tu…
[1] github.com/MaintainTeam/LastPi…
GitHub - polymorphicshade/Tubular: A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.
A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike. - polymorphicshade/TubularGitHub
GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux
GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux
GNOME 48 Alpha is now available for public testing with various new features and updated components. Here’s what to expect!Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Signal on F-droid Guardian Repo
I just noticed today that Signal (not talking Molly) is now available on F-Droid via the "Guardian" repository.
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up.
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I think they ship prebuilt binaries, i.e. the exact same ones you find on the Signal website
AFAIK this also applies to Tor Browser, Orbot and other third-party apps distributed by Guardian
Edit: I downloaded the files and manually verified the signatures. They are indeed the exact same files.
Because I didn't really know how to grab an APK from the Guardian F-Droid repo, I used their S3 bucket and downloaded the Signal APK. It's named Signal-Android-website-prod-universal-release-7.30.2.apk
, which is the exact same file name as the one of the APK you can get from the Signal website.
I then used keytool
to print the signature certificate fingerprint: (renamed the files to make it less confusing)
keytool -printcert -jarfile signal-website.apk
Signer #1:
Certificate #1:
Owner: CN=Whisper Systems, OU=Research and Development, O=Whisper Systems, L=Pittsburgh, ST=PA, C=US
Issuer: CN=Whisper Systems, OU=Research and Development, O=Whisper Systems, L=Pittsburgh, ST=PA, C=US
Serial number: 4bfbebba
Valid from: Tue May 25 17:24:42 CEST 2010 until: Tue May 16 17:24:42 CEST 2045
Certificate fingerprints:
SHA1: 45:98:9D:C9:AD:87:28:C2:AA:9A:82:FA:55:50:3E:34:A8:87:93:74
SHA256: 29:F3:4E:5F:27:F2:11:B4:24:BC:5B:F9:D6:71:62:C0:EA:FB:A2:DA:35:AF:35:C1:64:16:FC:44:62:76:BA:26
Signature algorithm name: SHA1withRSA (weak)
Subject Public Key Algorithm: 1024-bit RSA key (weak)
Version: 3
keytool -printcert -jarfile signal-guardian.apk
Signer #1:
Certificate #1:
Owner: CN=Whisper Systems, OU=Research and Development, O=Whisper Systems, L=Pittsburgh, ST=PA, C=US
Issuer: CN=Whisper Systems, OU=Research and Development, O=Whisper Systems, L=Pittsburgh, ST=PA, C=US
Serial number: 4bfbebba
Valid from: Tue May 25 17:24:42 CEST 2010 until: Tue May 16 17:24:42 CEST 2045
Certificate fingerprints:
SHA1: 45:98:9D:C9:AD:87:28:C2:AA:9A:82:FA:55:50:3E:34:A8:87:93:74
SHA256: 29:F3:4E:5F:27:F2:11:B4:24:BC:5B:F9:D6:71:62:C0:EA:FB:A2:DA:35:AF:35:C1:64:16:FC:44:62:76:BA:26
Signature algorithm name: SHA1withRSA (weak)
Subject Public Key Algorithm: 1024-bit RSA key (weak)
Version: 3
The fingerprints are identical.
Another edit: I just noticed that Signal even has official instructions for checking the signature on their APK download page. They use apksigner
instead of keytool
, but it's basically the same process.
Signal Android APK
Advanced users with special needs can download the Signal APK directly here.Signal Messenger
Thanks, I mean I used to work as a Java developer before, and I'm quite interested in the Android platform, so I'm familiar with the SDK and build tools, and know how app signatures work
But it's really not that hard to figure out. There are countless guides on the internet, and as I said, Signal even has a quick guide for how to verify the APK signature on the download page
I know, it even says so in the post:
I just noticed today that Signal (not talking Molly) is now available on F-Droid via the "Guardian" repository.
No, it's not a special "FOSS" version, it's just the official binary distributed through the Guardian Project repo (as I have proven: lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16230…). If you want a FOSS variant, check out Signal-FOSS or Molly, they also offer a FOSS variant. You can either download it from their custom F-Droid repo, pull the APK from GitHub using Obtainium or get it from Accrescent.
I think they ship prebuilt binaries, i.e. the exact same ones you find on the Signal websiteAFAIK this also applies to Tor Browser, Orbot and other third-party apps distributed by Guardian
Edit: I downloaded the files and manually verified the signatures. They are indeed the exact same files.
Because I didn't really know how to grab an APK from the Guardian F-Droid repo, I used their S3 bucket and downloaded the Signal APK. It's named
Signal-Android-website-prod-universal-release-7.30.2.apk
, which is the exact same file name as the one of the APK you can get from the Signal website.I then used
keytool
to print the signature certificate fingerprint: (renamed the files to make it less confusing)
keytool -printcert -jarfile signal-website.apk
Signer #1: Certificate #1: Owner: CN=Whisper Systems, OU=Research and Development, O=Whisper Systems, L=Pittsburgh, ST=PA, C=US Issuer: CN=Whisper Systems, OU=Research and Development, O=Whisper Systems, L=Pittsburgh, ST=PA, C=US Serial number: 4bfbebba Valid from: Tue May 25 17:24:42 CEST 2010 until: Tue May 16 17:24:42 CEST 2045 Certificate fingerprints: SHA1: 45:98:9D:C9:AD:87:28:C2:AA:9A:82:FA:55:50:3E:34:A8:87:93:74 SHA256: 29:F3:4E:5F:27:F2:11:B4:24:BC:5B:F9:D6:71:62:C0:EA:FB:A2:DA:35:AF:35:C1:64:16:FC:44:62:76:BA:26 Signature algorithm name: SHA1withRSA (weak) Subject Public Key Algorithm: 1024-bit RSA key (weak) Version: 3
keytool -printcert -jarfile signal-guardian.apk
Signer #1: Certificate #1: Owner: CN=Whisper Systems, OU=Research and Development, O=Whisper Systems, L=Pittsburgh, ST=PA, C=US Issuer: CN=Whisper Systems, OU=Research and Development, O=Whisper Systems, L=Pittsburgh, ST=PA, C=US Serial number: 4bfbebba Valid from: Tue May 25 17:24:42 CEST 2010 until: Tue May 16 17:24:42 CEST 2045 Certificate fingerprints: SHA1: 45:98:9D:C9:AD:87:28:C2:AA:9A:82:FA:55:50:3E:34:A8:87:93:74 SHA256: 29:F3:4E:5F:27:F2:11:B4:24:BC:5B:F9:D6:71:62:C0:EA:FB:A2:DA:35:AF:35:C1:64:16:FC:44:62:76:BA:26 Signature algorithm name: SHA1withRSA (weak) Subject Public Key Algorithm: 1024-bit RSA key (weak) Version: 3
The fingerprints are identical.Another edit: I just noticed that Signal even has official instructions for checking the signature on their APK download page. They use
apksigner
instead ofkeytool
, but it's basically the same process.Signal Android APK
Advanced users with special needs can download the Signal APK directly here.Signal Messenger
That is interesting. Thanks to you and the others.
Does the use of the google play services allow google to sort of…listen in or be privy to your app usage in any way?
Google cannot see any message content of Signal notifications through FCM. It's more like a "heads up" to the Signal app, telling it "hey, there are new messsges. wake up and check what they are.". The Signal app then checks for messages and does all the decrypting and whatnot itself.
While it's possible that the timing of FCM telling the app to check for notifications could be used to correlate activity, that's an edge case that if you are concerned about can be easily avoided by just using the background WebSocket or a fork of Signal like Molly that allows you to use a third-party UnifiedPush provider to check for messages in the background, instead of FCM.
I have a tangential question. Would it not make sense for an OS, in this case Android, to have some proper mechanism for installing apps (in this case APKs) directly from a website (as lots of people have been doing fastidiously from signal.org by necessity)?
After all, this is all about trust. With software, assuming that you trust the developer, the goal is to be sure that nobody interfered with the developer's compiled software - and who better to guarantee that than the developer themself, at their own domain? DNS resolution is already based on the "web of trust" principle, which is why you can trust your bank's website. Arguably F-Droid performs a valuable role as a curator and selector of good software, but is there any good technical need for it to actually distribute the software?
GitHub - ImranR98/Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.
Get Android app updates straight from the source. Contribute to ImranR98/Obtainium development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Yes true! Forgot about Obtainium. ~~Personally I'm not much tempted because all it does is swap out F-Droid for Github (i.e. Microsoft) as the middleman.~~ But I agree that it's definitely a win for convenience.
PS: Turns out Obtainium is source-agnostic. Good news.
Yep and that's exactly what we doing with Signal to avoid the Play Store. It's a bit of a PITA and it's the same on desktop. It's because they don't want third parties maintaining their packages.
My crazy utopian idea is for some kind of protocol (or equivalent) that would allow native package managers (mobile or desktop) to "plug in" to the website repos of authors, directly.
Iirc Molly in F-droid still using FCM and the google maps API. If you want Molly-Foss, you have to use Obtanium to pull APKs from their git releases.
Edit: I was wrong, you can get it off their F-Droid repository.
Molly-FOSS is awesome and it now has UnifiedPush support built-in!
Get it with Obtainium
GitHub - mollyim/mollyim-android: Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.
Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal. Contribute to mollyim/mollyim-android development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Just make sure to set up UnifiedPush if you want to receive notifications while your Molly database is locked. I recommend the new Sunup UP distributor. I wanted to make a post about it in !unifiedpush@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but never got around to do it.
For Mollysocket, there are a few public instances. molly.adminforge.de is one of them. You can also set up your own on Fly.io, check out this repo: github.com/pcrockett/mollysock…
Or you can obviously self-host it on any VPS or hardware that you own
I have my own mollysocket and ntfy, both on tailscale domains with funnel. You can restrict your mollysocket to only your ID.
What makes Sunup different from ntfy? Is it better?
You can also install directly from Signal via Obtainium. apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/
{"id":"org.thoughtcrime.securesms","url":"https://updates.signal.org/android/latest.json","author":"Signal","name":"Signal","preferredApkIndex":0,"additionalSettings":"{\"intermediateLink\":[],\"customLinkFilterRegex\":\"\",\"filterByLinkText\":false,\"skipSort\":false,\"reverseSort\":false,\"sortByLastLinkSegment\":false,\"versionExtractWholePage\":false,\"requestHeader\":[{\"requestHeader\":\"User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36\"}],\"defaultPseudoVersioningMethod\":\"partialAPKHash\",\"trackOnly\":false,\"versionExtractionRegEx\":\"\\\\d+.\\\\d+.\\\\d+\",\"matchGroupToUse\":\"\",\"versionDetection\":true,\"useVersionCodeAsOSVersion\":false,\"apkFilterRegEx\":\"\",\"invertAPKFilter\":false,\"autoApkFilterByArch\":true,\"appName\":\"\",\"shizukuPretendToBeGooglePlay\":false,\"allowInsecure\":false,\"exemptFromBackgroundUpdates\":false,\"skipUpdateNotifications\":false,\"about\":\"Signal is an open-source end to end encrypted messaging app.\"}","overrideSource":null}
[QUESTION] pfBlockerNG requires log for ASN lookup? What about privacy
Once I register are they going to start collecting data every time pfSense querries their ASN database?
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Reliance plans world's biggest AI data center in India, report says
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is planning to build what could become the world’s largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a capacity of 3 gigawatts to capitalize on surging AI demand.
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Mukesh Ambani's Reliance is planning to build what could become the world's largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a capacity of 3 gigawatts to Mukesh Ambani's Reliance is planning to build what could become the world's largest data center in I…Manish Singh (TechCrunch)
The U.S. just pledged hundreds of billions to protect its AI leadership. A Chinese startup with a ‘joke of a budget‘ may have already undercut those hopes
The U.S. just pledged hundreds of billions to protect its AI leadership. A Chinese startup with a ‘joke of a budget’ may have already undercut those hopes
Hangzhou-based DeepSeek has released several open-source AI models that match OpenAI’s performance—with more efficiency and at lower cost.Nicholas Gordon (Fortune)
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Its good for the consumer. If companies like deepseek weren't just tossing them out there for anyone to use, Microsoft and Google would currently have a monopoly and it would all be subscription type services.
It also greatly reduces whatever chance the copyright shills have of legislating against it.
It's not good consumers at all, at least no explicitly. There are already open and free LLM models out there anyone can use that are just as good as OpenAI, for example.
What this is: a pretty simple deathblow to completely collapse the bullshit AI bubble in the US that was created by a bunch of wealthy idiots trying to fleece people out of money. Plain and simple.
While I'm happy that this pretty much destroys the business of OpenAI and the others, this bullshit funding by executive order is a bailout for those people, right out in the open. It's a classic Trump scam. Nobody will ever see where the money is going, and it's taxpayer dollars going right back into the banks of millionaires billionaires who were about lose the their asses for investing in this stupid shit in the first place.
I don't really follow. Open source is still a net benefit regardless of the goverments investment in closed source, especially for the consumer.
I agree it's highly likely there's a scam going on but healthy competition will probably force them to actually use some of the fund. If they had a monopoly, it would be easier to give us a minimal viable product and call it a sound investment. They can't be too blatant about it after all.
Well to be fair, American companies did that too. They expand their services internationally "for free" and then get other countries hooked on it.
China is just taking a page from that playbook.
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A free, powerful Chinese AI model just dropped — but don’t ask it about Tiananmen Square
Those who train the AI models get to decide what the truth is.Jon Keegan (Sherwood News)
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I've been running the llama based and qwen based local versions, and they will talk openly about tiananmen square. I haven't tried all the other versions available.
The article you linked starts by talking about their online hosted version, which is censored. They later say that the local models are also somewhat censored, but I haven't experienced that at all. My experience is that the local models don't have any CCP-specific censorship (they still won't talk about how to build a bomb/etc, but no issues with 1989/Tiananmen/Winnie the Pooh/Taiwan/etc).
Edit: so I reran the "what happened in 1989" prompt a few times in the llama model, and it actually did refuse to talk on it once, just saying it was sensitive. It seemed like if I asked any other questions before that prompt it would always answer, but if that was the very first prompt in a conversation it would sometimes refuse. The longer a conversation had been going before I asked, the more explicit the bot is about how many people were killed and details like that. Pretty strange.
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Yeah all the info is there and something switches it over to the generic response.
So fucked.
I trust these fake news 🤡
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hell, i could live my 'best' life off of musk's 'sofa cushion' money:
$2.5m is more than enough for me to live on just using investment proceeds--in perpetuity.
$2.5m to him (with ~ $436b) is the equivalent of fifty-seven cents to someone with $100k (in the bank, investments, retirement, home equity, etc). now, i don't have $100k, not even close. just using it as an example here. my equivalent would be more like half a cent.
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They're mentally ill IMO. Like that old person hoarding vacuum cleaners, diapers, dogfood, etc.
The most infuriating thing is that for them it's just a number, for society it stifles innovation and wellbeing.
Well, I suspect that most of the money will be used to acquire or costume natural resources, like water and power.
Individuals become enriched because their share holdings are worth more.
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China has a huge advantage in AI models because of how lax they are on intellectual property rights. US companies are fighting over API licensing costs, while china is just going to scrape everything and use it for free.
The US has a lead now, but I don't think they can maintain it without giving up on ethical training. Then again it may not matter if the US models are ethical if everyone will eventually just uses the superior unethically trained chinese models instead.
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China has a huge advantage in AI models because of how lax they are on intellectual property rights. US companies are fighting over API licensing costs, while china is just going to scrape everything and use it for free.
lolwat
did corporate provide you with these talking points?
I doubt any of these US government and oligarch backed companies are gonna get any trouble. They essentially robbed the commons and got away with it. But sure Sam Altman has to pay spezz some money for my shitposts... the horror, what a hurdle!
Quickly give them more taxpayer money so they can compete with china!
OpenAI is like a goose that laid a golden egg, they need to fuck up really really badly to face any consequences.
The US companies already scraped the data while they could. If anything, data scraping is far far more difficult now for everyone due to technical reasons.
Most of the new models are trained on synthetic data or higher quality of data or with RLHF. The reason deepseek is able to perform is likely because LLMs are very very new things, there are many low hanging fruits. Its no longer just about the data we already hit that limit for quite some time.
Honestly, even from the beginning it's pretty obvious scraped data is going to have a ton of issues. There's too much nonsense out there, both from misinformation and people just not able to communicate.
That's before you get into the ethical aspects of stealing other people's content and the way these things are being misused.
It is beautiful how the US is never short on cash for state aid to enrich some owners.
But god forbid plebs ask for a good train, that's communism!
Explain how good trains will help our precious CEOs?
Unless you mean a private train line paid with government funds. Now we're talking!
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Socialism for giant corporations: 😎🦅🇺🇸
Socialism for common people: 😡🚫🤷♂️
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Socialism for giant corporations: Freedumb™️
Socialism for common people: communism, thus the devil!
Late stage capitalism has now created mega corporations that no longer profit off their innovation and quality, but merely off manipulation and exploitation of their mind-boggling amounts of capital. They now must crush all competition using authoritarian means because competition is now their biggest weakness.
Capitalism is well and truely dead, and corporations and conservatives are the ones who killed it. They want to remove the ladder of success that got them there.
I very much see what is happening in the US as the groundwork for them becoming an authoritarian state just like China and Russia. They still have "capitalism" and "democracy" too!
My only hope is that the people of the US realize what is happening before it's too late, and that the rest of the world can hold out in the mean time.
Guys listen up, every deepseek model comes with a dedicated chinese spy, who will log all your data and send it back to CCP who will use it to plot the destruction of the western civilization.
Instead we should use Freedom© models from OpenAI (side note if deepseek is so "open" how come they don't have open in their name huh?) even if OpenAI don't show their reasoning, they only do this cuz they want to protect us and they stand for our values.
They cost 100x more only because they are fighting for our Freedom and Freedom doesn't come cheap, Freedom doesn't have a price, Freedom requires our sacrifice.
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use it to plot the destruction of the western civilization
Peaks around at the state of Western Civilization
Boots up another copy of DeepSeek
Father-in-law is a die-hard Libertarian. Loves Trump shutting down all the civilian bureaucracies. Can't understand why college kids are so Woke and anti-Semetic. Thinks public school is a racket and should be abolished. Etc, etc.
He visited Hong Kong, Beijing, and Huaibei recently. Absolutely flabbergasted. Could not understand how clean, safe, and well-managed these cities had become. His biggest complaint was how dismissive they were of tourism - you could get by in English, there was plenty of stuff to visit and do, but everything was very clearly tailored towards the convenience of the locals first and foremost.
If that's the future "the hands of the Chinese" have to offer, you're going to have a very hard time convincing even the most far-right Americans to turn it down once its in easy reach. Just a few months ago, we saw the entire liberal government tossed to the wayside because of the price of eggs.
every deepseek model comes with a dedicated chinese spy, who will log all your data and send it back to CCP who will use it to plot the destruction of the western civilization
there's no need, western civilization is collapsing by itself
Yeah obviously we've completely lost the plot a long time ago. Nobody even remembers when tech was bands of ragtag nerds making something out of nothing. Now they are the rich whose only purpose to is extract more wealth. Tech what? Who even knows anymore.
That includes the average tech workers. If that angers you then you're lost too.
Nobody has noticed that there's more bragging about compensation than accomplishments. It used to be the other way around. Nerds eagerly showing off to anyone who will listen about whatever thing they cooked up. It's been this way for the past long time long before this LLM AI era.
Yeah, give me a /technology/ sub that speaks about technology (have you heard about the esp-8266? Did you know a A4988 can steer a NEMA from a Raspberry pi? And even The 6 gen SSD can move X GB/s, what is the fastest quad core under 100$?) and not about funding and drama.
Or am I out of touch with reality 😀 ?
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Yeah but why you even using AI for stuff like that? If we got to have AI then we should use it for actually useful stuff and not pointless activities that no one will care about in 10 years.
Remember when Bluetooth came out and they had to stick Bluetooth in everything, even if it was completely pointless, currently AI is being treated like that.
Yeah, I have an issue of detail and such and I've had a dnd/tabletop world I want to flesh out and eventually dm, but suck at some details or linking things I want to do together.
Been slowly making a base of material for it and plan to eventually use various LLMs to link things and flesh out the world, taking whatever it gives me as a base to work off of for those parts.
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
What you're likely seeing here is innovation similar to the early tech sector. The hardware limitation (no Nvidia chips) means different (usually more complex) solutions are needed.
These solutions usually require a deep understanding of a specific area of mathematics, and expertise in coding. The person making it normally has to be heavily invested, since it still eats a lot of hours.
I often joke, the mathematician who finds a faster algorithm for matrix operations is sitting on a billion dollar idea.
There's an exclusive choice between UBI or genocide. AI/Automation as a tool for prosperity whose profits are shared/redistributed, vs. continued power concentration with extermination of an unnecessary slave class. AI developers finding more profit in assisting military complex for war supremacy, and political power over oppressing people who are made tolerant of war priorities, makes betting on genocide and robocop slums a heavy favorite.
Trump's focus, with KSA and Massasan investments, is fossil fuel consuming datacenters. It is possible that focus on preventing China access to tech may take a back seat to China helping enrich US tech companies through imports (Taiwan made hardware)/purchases.
Datacenters in US doesn't stop Chinese ones, or make it a good idea for anyone the US threatens (everyone) to use their data hosting services. Furthermore, US energy policy is shifting more strongly towards extortionist climate terrorism. Energy will be cheaper outside of US, and then so will datacenter costs.
helped conservatives funnel trillion of dollars in public assets to the 1% for decades. It was under Bill Clinton that the internet, which was publically funded and publicly built, was given to the 1%.
Do you have any proof, or is it just conspiracy theory?
So you want to say that liberals who oppose wealth inequality themselves support that same billionaires? What a BS.
P.S. It seems that democratic party in US is more right-wing than "social democratists" as in the EU, looking at their policies.
The person you're replying to may be much further to the left than you give them credit for.
The lesser of two evils is still evil and deserves to be called such. The US is not a benevolent nation.
That user is saying it in a more conspiracy sounding way, but isn't factually wrong as long as you replace "given" with "sold".
The publicly built and operated Internet infrastructure was cut up and sold off in 94 by Clinton to telephone companies at very friendly rates.
Governments send money to their fellow top people, by accident if not design.
The Actually Existing Internet: The Disappearing Internet (1991–2010) - The Autonomy Institute
Liam Mullally's third blog turns to the expansion of the internet from the 1990s as the web entered people's homes, and growing privatisation was cloaked under ostensible 'immateriality'.The Autonomy Institute
And making starving artists’ lives even more unlivable. And taking human creativity and joy from humans.
While destroying the environment. It’s so efficient.
Venture capitalists using the US gov as their new marketing platform is a joke in it self.
What's next? Is the next White House briefing gonna be in a stadium, with laser show, motivational music and some ponce going on stage to hype people up?
Griftonomics has reached the upper levels, y'all.
there still isn’t even a real use-case for it
There are several real use cases for it, it's just that they're worth like ten bucks a month to me all together and OpenAI is running at a loss while charging... *checks notes* 200 dollars per month for their top tier model?
And? China is ahead of us in a lot of areas, especially military drone tech. They got shit we’re still trying to get to work, and they just launched their first drone aircraft carrier. As an added bonus, when the US Navy tried war games against drone swarms, they found they were only able to stop the attack from destroying ships half the time.
People need to start taking China seriously when it comes to tech, because they haven’t been fooling around. When it finally comes around to us fighting them, we’re gonna have a lot of nasty surprises to deal with.
The CCP engages in currency manipulation amongst other nefarious actions to prop up its interests.
Yeah? So does the US. Didn't make OpenAI cheaper, did it?
It was likely created from stolen data
Just like ChatGPT was created with stolen content.
heavily propped up by the government
Still only 6 million. Keep coping tho lol
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They're clearly just weird parents awkwardly waving at their children.
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In that image, they are making a home for children.
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everyone should read goebbels's role model eddie bernays's (the "father" of public relations) book propaganda written in the 20s
bernays wrote in favor of propaganda as a good and necessary thing--it's not; not even debatable--then the nazis took those methods and you know the rest
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Tracking 12 Years of Netflix Premium Price Increases (+108%)
CPI taken from bls.gov/data/inflation_calcula…
I fudged the CPI calculation a bit because I didn't do the compounding monthly, but I ensured that based on the CPI calculator, the starting value of $11.99 -> $16.43 from January 2013 -> December 2024.
To be fair, I think CPI is somewhat bullshit, but it was the easiest .gov source for inflation data that I knew about.
Data:
Year | Basic | Standard with Ads | Standard | Premium | Premium Following CPI | CPI Inflation % |
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2011 | $7.99 | - | - | – | - | - |
2012 | $7.99 | - | - | – | - | - |
2013 | $7.99 | - | $9.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 | 1.58% |
2014 | $7.99 | - | $10.99 | $13.99 | $12.19 | -0.89% |
2015 | $7.99 | - | $11.99 | $14.99 | $12.09 | 1.37% |
2016 | $7.99 | - | $11.99 | $14.99 | $12.26 | 2.50% |
2017 | $7.99 | - | $12.99 | $15.99 | $12.57 | 2.07% |
2018 | $7.99 | - | $12.99 | $15.99 | $12.84 | 1.55% |
2019 | $8.99 | - | $13.99 | $16.99 | $13.05 | 2.49% |
2020 | $8.99 | - | $14.99 | $18.99 | $13.38 | 1.40% |
2021 | $8.99 | - | $14.99 | $18.99 | $13.58 | 7.48% |
2022 | $9.99 | - | $15.49 | $19.99 | $14.60 | 6.41% |
2023 | Phased Out | $6.99 | $15.49 | $19.99 | $15.55 | 3.09% |
2024 | – | $6.99 | $15.49 | $22.99 | $16.04 | 2.33% |
2025 | – | $7.99 | $17.99 | $24.99 | $16.43 | - |
edit: fixed a calculation mistake (accidentally was using 2012->2025 inflation not 2013->2025)
edit 2: zeroed y axis
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Also doesn't take into account the sharing account purge. I would guess that's easily a +50% increase if we assume half of everyone using Netflix was sharing an account that then couldn't. Could be higher.
Could probably base a rough figure for that on subscriber count change after the restrictions were put into place.
This is the way that it should be IMHO - the rich pay more, and get more in return. Like, hasn't the feature set of Premium increased? 4k, multiple household multiple screen whatever whatever. Anyway if they can afford it and want to, then that helps everyone out for them to support the entire platform.
More troubling to me (than whatever is going on with Premium that is way above most of our heads) is the recent uptick for Standard. Like the blue line is remarkably flat, and red was too until 2025. But iirc there are "details" there like that is only for people outside the USA, not that that one fact alone isn't high relevant, but that it's one example of a detail (and there may be several others along with it) that complicates interpretation of just these raw numbers. Like at that point I'd want to know the reason why the price went up only outside but not inside the USA - pure corporate greed? (Certainly that's one of the factors:-P, but is it the only one?) Laws passed in the other countries affected that makes it more expensive to operate there? A bit of both?
I like paying for Netflix, bc it's a superb player that handles network congestion and such very well and it signals content creators which content I want to see more of. I don't restrict myself to "only" what I can pay for, but if a show is on Netflix then I enjoy the convenience that it offers. The situation is nothing like what it used to be let's say 5 years ago, and I worry about how that will continue to evolve in a year or two, but for now it halfway works - and I'm not signing up for Disney or Paramount or Hulu or whatever so Netflix it is then. As long as I can afford it.
I think 4k was always the offering for premium. And yes, multiple screens, but then it became ONLY in the same household, so that isn't tracked here as well (features removed -- or disallowed)
The removal of basic and replacing it with a slightly cheaper ad free supported tier was all done to push people to purchase standard, which I agree, has started to rise at a faster pace recently as well.
I can assure you, any features they've added, have not accounted for what they've removed and the price increase.
I think 4k started to get added in 2014. Originally the premium plan was required for 4 screens vs the regular 2 screens.
"Netflix has been on a roll, driven by subscriber growth and price hikes. For the fourth quarter of 2024, the company reported net revenue of $10.2 billion, up from $8.8 billion in the year-ago period, while net income more than doubled to $1.9 billion. Netflix shares have soared 102% over the last 12 months as the company widens the gap with competitors. "
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- Netflix annual net income for 2023 was $5.408B, a 20.39% increase from 2022.
- Netflix annual net income for 2022 was $4.492B, a 12.
the way that it should be
From each according to his wealth, to each according to his payment.
I said: eat the rich
Your response: money shouldn't exist
Okay... maybe, but this is what we have now.
That's on me, I explained myself horribly there.😁
Also I was speaking to my ignorance, and that never comes across well - like I was saying that I don't know what other features the Premium plan even offers, above the others. Hypothetically, if more were offered, then the price increase might make more sense?
I've never had nor will ever have the Premium plan though, so in the end I don't really care what its price is, except that if it keeps the company fed and allows the lower plans to stay cheaper then good for it?
I care WAY more about that tiny little blip, just one year's spike in the standard plan over the last year, then everything else that increased. And the blue did not increase, much.
So if the rich have to pay more now, boo hoo? While the blue remains the same = good? And, prior to 2025, which I don't really understand, the red / Standard likewise?
But your title focuses entirely on the increase in the Premium plan. Which, if that's what you want to do is your call, and yet I felt like there was a lack of explanation as to why (not that you have to go do it, just saying that would be the next step, in order to interpret these raw numbers), and a whole story about the blue and red lines that runs counter to the story for the (particularly yellow) Premium plan(s).
Lol all good and fair points.
I just focused on premium because that's what I had prior to cancelling. So totally just focused on what directly impacted me. I should have included both and called out the removal of 'basic' and forcing users to either pay more for standard or accept ads
Frankly, across the board it's just standard enshitification.
I think my other thought is I don't think you should have to be rich to be able to stream a higher bitrate. Sure maybe it costs more storage / bandwidth but I don't think it should be something only rich people can afford.
Yes and I spoke directly to that:
red was too until 2025. But iirc there are "details" there like that... complicates interpretation of just these raw numbers.
Tbh I don't understand the recent blip in the red, but indeed that alone would justify me leaving Netflix, if it happened to me - and I suppose I will face that fact soon, so I should begin to brush up on my sailing skills, which I have mostly neglected bc the 123s are so great and low-effort, when they work, but they often do not.
This worries me greatly, and I apologize if I sounded insensitive that it's already happening to others as well. I wanted clarification as to what these numbers MEAN, but I should search and read rather than speak that out I guess.
Yep. It's def a trend of, take over and then price gouge everyone.
In a word, enshitification. I'm currently on a de-googling journey and it feels so good every service I cut.
the first unlimited streaming-only was $7.99 in jan 2011. it had no ads and was literally 'unlimited'.
"should be" $11.45 today (dec 2024, acc to bis.gov).
but wait, they now charge extra for streaming outside the 'household', so better knock that down by at least one-third.
hey look, we're right back at $7.99.
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I'll turn this into a corporate selling point!
"Hey look, we decreased the price of premium by 17% over a 12 year period. (as compared to our standard plan)"
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In principle it's just "slimmer ARM". RISC-V is also extremely dedicated to using memory mapped IO rather than older style IO x86_64 supports.
Think lots of registers, a fun zero register that is always zero, and memory mapped IO.
I for one think we need a register for each unsigned integer, why is zero so special? 😛
Or if we can't get that, at least every power of 2 and power of 2 minus 1.
Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣
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No need! You can make your own custom extension! If the silicon doesn't support it, then you can provide firmware to emulate it.
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We have 38h in Belgium, but if you work 40, you get 12 extra full days of holiday during the year (what I do).
A 32 hour work week with no salary cut will never happen, but that would be a dream
It may happen through union development, and free software development, i.e. whatever form of permanent democracy you prefer.
25% of any population being able to democratically vote for a strike and fully enforce it will de facto become the main political force in the country.
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lol. I searched “nvidia 570 Linux” less than a week ago and nada. Just did it again based on you comment and it looks like it was released 2 days ago.
You’re an absolute legend! Thanks for the heads up.
The Solid protocol specification or anything similar (it doesn't have to be that specific protocol).
For example, registering to a website or service actually creates a local secure database/bucket/pod where that website/service organizes/sort/manipulates our data and stores all generated modified data/metadata within our local personnal server, every time we interact with that same external website/service it gets access to the database/bucket previously created. (Ideally) no personnal data should be stored on external servers/machines outside our control and without our explicit consent.
My money is on IPFS, because it's so simple (like, in principle, obviously it's complex under the hood).
It's not fancy, it's basically a better version of torrent and only handles static data, but it does that really fucking well.
It takes any data you add to your node, splits it into small blocks, does a fancy hash of those blocks, and then builds a tree of pointers that point to pointers that point to the constituent blocks. This means that any identical blocks have the same address, and thus only need to be sent once! And the same goes for anything that ends up being identical in structure, it has the same address and only needs sending once, and if for example two people rip a copy of the same obscure DVD and host it on a node, they will both provide the data to downloaders despite never having interacted with each other at all!
This is of course massively boner-inducing for anyone who cares about archiving stuff.
In effect it does the same thing that HTTP or FTP or whatever does, but in a modern and fundamentally decentralized way. You don't care where the data comes from, you just request the ID from whatever nodes you can see, if they don't have it they forward the request to those they can see etc etc, if anyone has it they reply to you and start sending the data, and then you do some fancy math to verify that it's correct.
I want ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) to finally take off. support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/f…
Implementation is still lacking unfortunately.
Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) - Frequently asked questions | Firefox Help
Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is a security feature in major Web browsers, available in Firefox 118 and enabled by default in Firefox 119. Learn more.support.mozilla.org
i may be wrong here, but if i remember correctly, in ech, essentially our first communication is done with some central server (which as of now is mostly cloudflare) and then they make some connection with target server, and then a channel is established between us and target. my google-fu brought me this , which is basically this only
cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/z… (blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-…)
I am unfamiliar with QUIC, and quick search basically tells it is kinda like multilane highway for udp.
If I have to compare, (not a network engineer or a person who has studied networking, to me anything beyond the simple protocols seems magic), QUIC seems like a techt which is only used after you have made connection with target, so its implementation is google independent (they seem to be lead developers for this). Whereas in ECH, cloudflare are the primary devs, but also the holder for the public keys (someone else can also be the holder, but i dont know of any other provider currently, maybe my lack of knowledge here)
Essentially just an extension of your point that implementation is lacking
Good-bye ESNI, hello ECH!
A deep dive into the Encrypted Client Hello, a standard that encrypts privacy-sensitive parameters sent by the client, as part of the TLS handshake.The Cloudflare Blog
essentially our first communication is done with some central server
No, the first communication is made with your DNS server to fetch the key for encryption from an HTTPS record. If a record with key is found it is used to encrypt the Client Hello, otherwise it falls back to the unencrypted variant.
Cloudflare is not involved, unless you are hosting your domain through Cloudflare of course.
I am unfamiliar with QUIC, and quick search basically tells it is kinda like multilane highway for udp.
QUIC is primarily used for HTTP/3. The protocol was engineered and proposed by Google, same as with ECH and Cloudflare.
ECH is intended for privacy, not for circumventing censorship.
If the next TLS version enforces ECH, plaintext SNI will die out at some point on its own.
If you block any connections that use ECH (by blocking cloudflare-ech for example) users will have no choice but to fallback to unencrypted CH.
IndieWeb in general and the h-entry and WebMentions specifically.
Collectively they promise a highly personalised web experience that maintains ownership of your own content while encouraging socialisation across platforms, while avoiding the sustainability and scale limitations of activitypub.
I also want to see XMPP/OMEMO have a comeback.
What is "it"? Webmentions? Webmentions can be sent from anywhere, not just places you're actively monitoring. They can be used for example to create a comments section on your blog which amalgamates comments from various syndication points.
That is, you post to your blog, you post a link to your blog post to twitter/Facebook/lemmy etc, and comments or replies from any of those can show up on your blog itself if you so choose.
Alright, that's pretty cool, sorry – I thought it was a list of links automatically inserted in lieu of comments.
I've been trying to get into the IndieWeb for years, but I've been struggling to implement it. Doesn't it rely on a central server too? Can we use it in a fully e.g. decentralized or federated way – would it even make sense, or could we easily switch to another flagship server, as we did with the Freenode takeover?
Please feel no pressure to reply, I can do my own research \^_\^
JPEG-XL (someone already mentioned it as .jxl below) image files.
- competitive with AVIF compression levels
- not recycling video compression, so you get benefits like
- JPEG transcoding - can take existing JPEG files (so much of the existing images online) and shrink their size by ~20% with literally no change to the presented image, and this is easily reverable. The amount of data this would shrink without risk of altering the data is HUGE.
There are a ton of other benefits but those are the three I'm most excited about.
Basically everything from protocol.ai/work, bar the blockchain stuff which i can only assume they're doing to milk investors to fund the actually good projects.
libp2p abstracts away networking so you can simply point to a peer ID and the computer figures out how to connect to it (though you can of course specify how to connect if you wish), and it preserves connections across different networks among other stuff.
IPFS is basically just torrent but better in every way, foremost in that you can just slap some data onto an IPFS node and if anyone else happens to be serving the same data then you'll both automatically be valid providers, despite never having talked to each other in any way. No more needing to search out a magnet link, just seed whatever data you want and anyone requesting the data from the network will automatically find you.
An Act of Resistance – reading the declaration of human rights
An Act of Resistance – reading the declaration of human rights
A circle of voices rose beneath Newcastle Civic Centre's dome on 20 Jan, as 30 people read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in resistance to TrumpJulie Ward (North East Bylines)
Recommendations: Internal Certificate Authority w/ CRL and/or OCSP
Title says it - I want a simple CA that doesn't overcomplicate things (looking at you, EJBCA). I need it to serve at least CRLs or better OCSP automatically for the certs it manages. If it comes with a Web GUI, all the better, but doesn't need to. Docker deployment would be sweet.
Currently handling this on an OPNSense I happen to be running, but that thing is also serving stuff to the public 'net, so I'd rather not have my crown jewels on there.
Some U.S. COVID-19 data are down amid “pause” to federal health communications
Some U.S. COVID-19 data are down amid “pause” to federal health communications - The Sick Times
The U.S. government has stopped updating some of its public COVID-19 data, as part of a “pause” to public federal health communications under President Donald Trump.Betsy Ladyzhets (The Sick Times)
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On reddit I gert a preview of the text for each post. It enables me to read some of the content to see if it is worth reading the whole and comments.
Is there a way to get this on lemm.ee?
How do you find the compromise between privacy and daily phone usage?
I have degoogled my phone few years ago it really hit me how much the phones depend on Google services. Few examples from of my daily usage when I compromised:
- Communication
I'm in students group, people there have own group chat on facebook messenger. They share info regarding tests, deadlines etc. Basically standard uni messaging. Unless I had fake Facebook account to be there I would have to collect all info by myself. The alternative is a discord server, which in privacy terms is questionable choice too.
At least I have few friends who use Signal or Element, but it's minority.
What do you usually use and offer when people ask you for contact?
- Banking app
Banking app I used has blocked me from app after few years of using it when they realized I have it from "unofficial" source - Aurora store. That motivated to switch the bank and app, which doesn't really on Google Play services. The easiest way to do that was browsing Huawei app store and finding the most suitable app. Do you use baking apps?
- Taxi/Transport
Of course theres no way to use Bolt/Uber for transport on degoogled device. What's your way of transport after having few beers in pub? Do you use taxi via calling it directly or use that weird Telegram taxi addon?
- Map directions
Is there a way to convert google map pins to open source solutions and vice versa? What's your recommended software for directions? What do you use for driving?
- Fitness
Do you track fitness activities?
- Phone
Do you have good phone recommendations? I know that GrapheneOS+Pixel is one, but what about others?
I had very similar experiences around 2015. Before that, it was reasonably easy to use a fully FOSS system, but things have gotten worse over the years. Sure, there’s more FOSS for mobile hardware than ever before, but the world surrounding the phone has moved in the exact opposite direction. Being compatible with the world around you is the problem here.
Back then, I couldn’t find a satisfactory solution. One extreme is to go full on FOSS, and cut at least 50% of the entire world from your life, while the other is to sacrifice your privacy at altar of corporate greed. Between the two there are numerous dissatisfying compromises, and you need to do some soul searching to figure out where you want to draw the line.
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- I tell people to contact me on signal or SimpleX, and if they don't, then I don't talk to them.
- My banks app ran fine, but I wanted to use the website instead of having the app and the website did not support all functionality, so I switched banks entirely to an older style bank, not one of these new Neo fintech banks. Think Wells Fargo instead of chime.
- At least at the moment, you can still use m.uber.com.
- Use gps-coordinates.net, put in the address you wish to go to, and then copy the latitude and longitude given into OpenStreetmaps OSMAnd (f-droid).
- No, i dont
- The combination you mentioned is definitely the easiest. Otherwise, you have to look at lineage OS. And that doesn't have as many security protections.
„Geo Share“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Open Google Maps in other map apps and create geo: linksIzzyOnDroid App Repo
For OsmAnd+, there is another option for addresses. OpenSuperMaps joins national address registries with openstreetmaps. For American maps, it enables OsmAnd to make sense of American style address searches.
It is phenomenal.
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For communication I just tell them I have signal or other close apps or they can text me. Rather have regular texts than Messenger.
Banking apps works fine for me even if they complain about the lack of google.
I use Organicmaps but I really wish they could make it so it could accept gmap links without me having to use another app as a medium.
I'm trying to find the best apps for fitness. I have a wear watch with Fitbit that I use, but I would like to integrate the Fitbit stats with a calorie tracker and an exercise app.
Right now I have all apps on a separate profile on my GrapheneOS. Except Waistline but that can't integrate, so I'm looking for alternatives.
energize for calories -
gymroutines for logging exercise -
trale for bodyweight log -
gadgetbridge for storing tracker information
I will check out the others.
What I am looking for is privacy respecting app that can integrate with each other so I can track my calories in with my calories out by exercising.
- Element or SMS.
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- Yeah, manually. Osmand, Organic Maps (both have public transport now)
- No
- OnePlus line sucks in hardware (digitizer & fingerprint are shit, no jack or SD). Get something else.
edit: fuck auto-ordering lists.
As for other devices than the Google Pixels, it is pretty bleak since the end of DivestOS a month ago now. One basically has to decide the ROM you want to run, then see what it supports. None of the other ROMs will be as locked down as GrapheneOS and maybe not as compatible. Other ROMs to look at include CalyxOS, /e/, IodeOS, LineageOS, and crDroid. I have no personal experience with these others and not all of them have a privacy focus, but the ones I listed seem to be fairly popular. You might find this comparison of ROMs helpful: eylenburg.github.io/android_co… .
Hardware. I find the Fairphone interesting. Maybe some of the Moto's since they are so common and inexpensive. One has to decide to what extent you want a Chinese phone considering the current geo-politics and your personal situation. I personally just upgraded to a new Pixel 8a and GrapheneOS myself. You can find my previous post beehaw.org/post/17618967 . Feel free to ask me anything.
As you and others have said, privacy is just much harder on mobile than on desktop. Mobile hardware and software is generally closed-source and locked down. On a tiny screen web apps are also at a genuine UX disadvantage to native apps, which offer much weaker privacy protection.
The pragmatic not-quite solution is to do roughly what you're doing already. NB: maps are actually pretty easy - many people find that OsmAnd and Organic Maps are superior to the corporate options.
But the optimal solution is to move some of your computing back to desktop, i.e. probably to a laptop. This way you get more control over the hardware and software. And it's already some kind of privacy win just because the thing is not in your pocket all day. It's really not that hard and you might even find you appreciate the change! I did.
IMO the big sticking points are the messengers and transport tools - these are where you get genuine convenience from corporate spyware in your pocket. For all the rest, I'm not convinced, personally. For mapping and fitness etc, there are F-Droid apps which work great offline. For everything else including banking, just do it in your web browser while seated comfortably at home. As far as I know, no bank except Revolut insists that you use its app. If you want to do NFC payments, that may require a locked-down OS but not an app and it can be done in airplane mode (I do it regularly).
There are ways to get better privacy on mobile but nothing approaches the benefits of just using your mobile less and your laptop more.
Regarding de-googling. Keep in mind it does not have to be all or nothing. At least on Graphene you can just install Google Play and Google Play Services in either the Private Space or in one of the other Profiles (that is one of the other User or Work Profiles). When you close those down that space Google Play and the remaining apps you cannot de-google are locked up. For me, I installed Google Play into my Private Space along with the few apps that I actually needed which was really only Lyft, and Uber. Other apps that I found needed Play and Play Services included GoodRx, Google Maps, PlutoTV, and TubiTV. and Home (for Chomecast) plus any app you want to Chromecast but there are other alternatives for these.
My banking app would just not run on my new phone even with Play installed and so I just left it on my old phone even though it no longer has cell. Primarily I need the banking app to deposit checks. Everything else can be done via the web. Google Wallet at least for payments probably does not run either so I plan on playing with Venmo at some point. That should work though I do not know if it needs Play or not.
Some of this is changing patterns too. A good way to de-google is to use the web more and/or use PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) if they are offered. Native Alpha is also an interesting tool to get a PWA like experience for sites that don't have PWAs. Some sites heavily promote their Apps to the point that they do not work well without using the Desktop site explicitly. User-Agent Switcher plugin in Firefox can set this by site. Other useful Firefox plugins may include uBlock Origin, NoScript, and Cookie AutoDelete which allow a lot of per site configuration.
Another useful strategy for de-googling is to avoid the Play store where you can and focus on your ROMs App Store (Graphene for example), F-Droid, Accrescent, and Obtainium sources. Then fetch the rest (mostly a few remaining commercial apps) via the Aurora Store with anonymous login.
Edit: Another problematic app is the UPS app. Never got that to work even with Google Play. One can just use the website for this though.
For which ROM to use, I believe any ROM based on AOSP will suffice because even that will fully eliminate all Google tracking, I think LineageOS is the worst one. I do recommend Pixel since you can lock the bootloader after flashing it. You could try CalyxOS.
For privacy, I only use phone for communication, I don't use cell data service so no internet when I'm outside, no messaging, until I connect to wi-fi again. In F-Droid I turn off all anti-features in settings, and everything I install is from F-Droid. No social media and no Aurora store to use Play Store
I think it's a lot to do with developing a threat model that works for you, and understanding that, unless you're trying to be Jason Bourne, there's always going to be SOME compromise - the level of compromise again, depends on you.
A couple years ago when I started down this rabbit hole, I was doing EVERYTHING that I read on every privacy blog: I started using GrapheneOS, completely degoogled my phone, didn't use any non-FOSS apps, no location apps, the whole 9 yards.
I soon came to realize I had to find a compromise. I now follow a threat model that best works for me... Naturally there are weaknesses in it, but it's things I'm willing to risk.
- I use Element with anyone willing to use it with me. I use QKSMS with anyone else.
- I created a separate profile on my phone with Graphene that only has my banking apps. It still uses Aurora store and sandboxed Google services.
- I don't live in an area where things like Uber are available so that ones not a problem for me. I just call for a taxi oldschool.
- OSMand+. I won't turn it on (or location) until I'm away from my house and already on the way. You can also manually download apps for offline and use it like an old school paper map.
- Kind of unrelated but, I use Obsidian for almost everything I keep track of in my life. I document my fitness exploits on Obsidian.
- I use a Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS. I use my phone calls as per normal but usually try and text (see #1 above) my phone also has a record button when you call someone - I'll generally record every conversation I have with anyone from any company, etc., which has already saved me some headaches in a few cases where service providers promised something and then didn't follow through and I could go back in the recording and prove they said a certain thing.
A few extras:
- I also have an audio recorder on my phone with a shortcut that turns it on when I double tap my screen. I use this whenever I go somewhere strange/alone like a Kijiji meet up or something, get pulled over by the cops, etc. - just for safety/contingency.
- I use Kmeet for video chat with family, friends.
- I use Pipepipe, Newpipe, etc. for videos and most music.
- Proton for VPN
- Proton/Tuta for email.
- Ente for photos.
That's just my little process... I know some of these aren't directly related to common phone usage but it's how I use my phone daily, so hopefully some of it is interesting to you.
Banking has luckily not affected me after degoogling, however Revolut (which I've used maybe once a year) is a notable exception where I can't get it to work
Taxi - Bolt works, just make sure you have microG correctly set up
Phone - avoid Exynos/Mediatek devices as those are less likely to work correctly once degoogled or you change it's ROM. I used to have an Xperia 5 III with LineageOS on it, everything worked on it including VoLTE and Sony's stock camera apps.
1) I keep my options open. I default to signal or matrix if that’s available, then my fall back is iMessage which I run on a macOS vm, and finally id relent to proprietary services like discord, groupme, etc. I minimize my communications on unencrypted and non-private channels, and only talk about benign things there if I have to use them. But I don’t let my commitment to privacy completely isolate me, I know my threat model and change behaviors depending on the environment.
2) My banking and money transfer apps all work under grapheneos in a user account with Google play services installed. I mostly manage these things on my computer though to minimize tracking and remove the need for safetycheck compatibility before it ever comes up.
3) I never use these services but pretty sure they also work on Graphene with sandboxed Google play services installed
4) Other users have posted programs to convert these coordinates on the fly, I have never needed those personally. When I need GPS I usually go for Organic Maps but thinking of switching to OSMAnd+ soon
5) Yes and this is an area where I need to improve my privacy more. I just use the garmin connect app with a garmin fitness tracker I got for cheap. I think it partially supports gadgetbridge so I might look into that but haven’t had the time to investigate.
6) Pixel+Graphene is really the gold standard for privacy, security, and compatibility. I’ve heard ok stuff about CalyxOS so that’s worth checking out. Also FairPhone devices tend to have good support for custom ROMs like Calyx and /e/os which are degoogled, but I don’t have personal experience with those so definitely research those topics before making any decisions
- I'm a minimalist, I only use Signal to make others switch to it. Also use Session but its rare.
- I use banking. Still works on GrapheneOS. Just that it pops up that it might not work as it always scans for google play store.
- Luckily for me, I have a car. I don't need other transports.
- I use OSMand. Predownload a map and you don't need an internet connection to use it. If you need directions while driving, separate it from your phone and use a GPS in your car or buy an external GPS.
- No, no tracking of fitness
- Never used, but look into Pine64. Have hardware switches. Careful as some people have waited like a year, two or three to get their phone. Waiting time seems to be their bottleneck.
- The fear of missing out was something that made me double think deleting my facebook. It turned out to be unfounded fear, as none of the hypothetical "missing out" scenarios have proven to be an actual problem.
If the study group is very important to you, and the study group is on Facebook, then just have a Facebook. Deadlines and test info are not critical information that you need to receive in your pocket as soon as it is shared. You can check your anonymous Facebook account once a week through a VPN in a desktop computer and you will likely be well informed enough. If you have a friend that is both in Signal and that Facebook group, you can tell them about this and ask as a favor that they forward any critical time-sensitive info.
As for my response, mostly I use XMPP. I turn on my WhatsApp phone on every few weeks. People can message me via XMPP, e-mail, or Signal.
- I have a little scanner. I can use the phone's browser and log-in, using the scanner for the 2FA. But it is very rare that I use banking through the phone, as I do most of my banking via a desktop computer.
- Bike, public transport, walking, and planning ahead.
- On the desktop I do use Google Maps as it is quite efficient. Usually I plan ahead if I am biking somewhere new. I will often draw a path, write some street names at turns/crossings to remember, and pick some landmarks. Usually I am moving near places I know, so this is not task that comes up often.
- At different points in time I have kept multiple fitness and nutrition logs (on websites and notebooks), but I rarely looked back at them. Now days I track rest times, hear rate, and running parameters while exercising, so I have a garmin watch and look at the output logs at the end of the exercise on the watch itself. It is not connected to any apps.
- I make use of three devices:
I. A Pixel phone running GrapheneOS has no SIM card. I have my apps, music, etc in this phone, and I use it as a mini tablet. It needs WiFi to get internet.
II. A PinePhone. I bought a large stack of the cheapest pre-paid SIM cards a while ago, and put in a new one whenever a SIM card runs out. I wrote a hook that, when I power down the device, a random IMEI is generated and written to the LTE modem. So, if I turn it off, swap the SIM, and turn it back on, I have a phone with a completely new mobile identity. This phone I can use to make calls and to share data with the GrapheneOS, but it does not have a static phone number. Usually it is off.
III. A Raspberry Pi 5 with a 4G LTE hat. This hat takes in a SIM card that is stable. So, this device is associated with a phone number and a persistent identifier, but it does not move. This is my phone number. SMS messages get sent to me via XMPP. If I am called, my XMPP also lets me know. I don't have VoIP, so I do need to call back if I choose to. However, it is so so rare that I make a phone call that I have not bothered to implement VoIP.
What do you usually use and offer when people ask you for contact?
Ask your family/partner/friends to use signal, it is idiot proof enough for most people. You can provide your email and phone number for acquaintances who you don't speak with enough to justify installing signal.
I'm not in any student groups, but you can make a dummy Facebook account and only login using their website from behind a VPN.
Banking app I used has blocked me from app after few years of using it when they realized I have it from "unofficial" source - Aurora store.
Just use their website and carry a physical credit card in the back of your phone case.
What's your way of transport after having few beers in pub? Do you use taxi via calling it directly or use that weird Telegram taxi addon?
We literally just drive drunk here. Is public transit an option? Again, you can sandbox these apps or use their respective websites.
Is there a way to convert google map pins to open source solutions and vice versa? What's your recommended software for directions? What do you use for driving?
Organic maps is good if you have an address and only need directions. If you need complete records of where local businesses are and traffic info, google maps is your only option. I'd set it up in a sandboxes container though, at the very least.
Do you track fitness activities?
No, and I'd argue that nobody other than serious athletes need to. That being said, you can get a tracker that does not connect to your phone or the internet.
Do you have good phone recommendations? I know that GrapheneOS+Pixel is one, but what about others?
Graphene+pixel is head and shoulders the best option, especially in places like the US where you have to worry about illegal searches. Privacy requires security. That being said, there are alternatives if you cannot afford a new device: eylenburg.github.io/android_co…
you can make a dummy Facebook account and only login using their website from behind a VPN.
After a couple days Facebook will say you are suspicious and demand that you upload a government ID (and/or take a "video selife" or something similar.)
The alternative is a discord server, which in privacy terms is questionable choice too.
I use a Discord-Matrix bridge to communicate with some groups that are only on Discord. Of course it still all goes over Discord's servers so the messaging itself isn't private, but you at least don't have to use Discord's proprietary client, and the only data Discord will have is the data you send it from the Matrix bridge (plus identifying data on the Matrix server you're using).
What do you usually use and offer when people ask you for contact?
Signal as a preference—not because I think it's the best chat app (I dislike its centralised nature; not being able to self-host is a near-on dealbreaker if not for the fact that everyone I know is on Signal; and it requiring a phone number to sign up is also bad for privacy)—but because it's the one the most people have. All my friends are on it luckily, by nature of my friends largely being communists or young queer people (or both). I also offer SMS and email. If someone asks a pretty open-ended "how can I contact you", I might also mention Matrix and Simplex as options in case they have those.
Do you use ba[n]king apps?
No, and I really don't understand why people do unless your bank requires it and there isn't another appropriate bank that doesn't require it. I've tried my bank's app (which works fine on GOS luckily) and found it didn't offer anything the web UI didn't offer, other than the option to use the app as 2FA for banking stuff, but I just get SMS 2FA from my bank.
What’s your way of transport after having few beers in pub? Do you use taxi via calling it directly or use that weird Telegram taxi addon?
I don't use taxis; I use public transport. But if I had to get a taxi, I would probably either use my GPlay profile on my GOS phone to install Uber, or I would probably just ring a taxi company over the phone.
Is there a way to convert google map pins to open source solutions and vice versa?
I'm not aware of a way. I've just told people to either give me an address or coordinates, because I don't have google maps.
What’s your recommended software for directions? What do you use for driving?
Organic Maps has been my go-to for a while. It's wonderful. Works well for driving too. I use RHVoice for text-to-speech, which iirc was recommended to me by a fellow lemming.
I don't track fitness activities, and I use GOS+Pixel.
but I just get SMS 2FA from my bank.
How do you feel about the claims of SMS 2FA not being safe? Does that bother you? Or is it a risk you're willing to take? Genuinely asking because my banking app does the same and I'm not sure how much of a real 'threat' SMS 2FA is.
SMS 2FA is not secure, and I don't particularly care about the security of my bank account. I have a state threat model as a political organiser, a very real one given the arrests, raids, imprisonment, etc I and my comrades have faced, meanwhile I'm not aware of any rando civilians hellbent on stealing my money. And frankly I don't have that much money to steal anyway. If you're determined to get my sim card to log into my meagre bank account you probably need the money more than me.
I guess if you're that worried about SMS security you could get an esim and rely on device encryption to protect it. Wouldn't be the most secure thing in the world but at least it provides some protection, and if you buy an esim anonymously (e.g. with silent.link/) an attacker can't impersonate you to try get your sim card.
My compromise is to just to minimize big tech tracking.
I mean, 90% of data is because people use corporate social media with real names and real IPs. I don't use "social media" like everyone else, and that is just cutting away 90% of mass surveillance. I only occasionally look at reddit over VPN (without loggining in and never posting anything), I use Lemmy over Tor. Use Fennec (aka: firefox, but from F-Droid) + uBlock Origin + VPN, for everything else (like watching youtube videos)
I usually only have Fennec and Tor (amongst a few other things) through VPN, everything else is going to clearnet. My though is, if I put the entire traffic over VPN, Google would see my VPN IP attached to my device serial number.
If there is some university thing, I'd just begrudgingly use it. Use browser if possible, but if app is required, probably put it in a "work profile" (the Shelter app from F-Droid can do that) to separate it from everything else, and prevent any such app from seeing my files. Also give as few permissions as possible. And never installing any "profiles" or "certificates" they give you for access to their wifi. They should have a "guest wifi" without such requirements so just use that instead. (Or get a second phone with the "Share Wifi Connection" ability and use that as your "router" and connect your main phone to it.) Or just use mobile data if you can afford it.
For banking, put the app in the "work profile" or use browser if whatever you need to do doen't require the app.
For uber/lyft/taxi, probably use the browser, or if that doesn't work, again, put the app in work profile, don't give permissions until I'm ready to use it, and its getting deleted the moment my ride is done.
For maps, unfortunately I still have to use Google Maps, because I value being alive and not getting lost in some sketchy neighborhood over the privacy... 😓
I feel like Graphene OS is too much of a hassle for me, I'll have to get a Pixel, which does not have a microSD slot, and that's a dealbreaker for me.
Edit: some frp locked are currently on ebay (if you enjoy getting scammed).
I have trust issues with used phones tbh. It goes beyons the FRP.
Like... who knows if the previous owner is a drug dealer or something, then the authorities got the IMEI, then if I use that phone, the cops assume that I am that drug dealer.
Imagine they got an agency like the United State's DEA involved, and you happened to be using that phone that used to belong to a drug dealer, the authorities just send a pegasus, upload all your stuff, activate cameras microphones. Then eventually raid your house.
I don't like the thought of that.
Sometimes for work trips I’ll user uber in a vanadium web browser. I think they also have a number you can call to order one. Primarily for old people but works well in this case.
Using uber is its own question but you got to find the most private set up that works for you. Anything is better than nothing.
Seems that everyone else has said the same as what I mostly already do, but I'll just make a couple comments on the student communication topic:
My university already created a Microsoft 365 account for my university user, which included Teams. For my threat profile, I don't consider Teams a terrible option if I'm only using it for study purposes, so I've communicated over that for assignments before (web UI only).
Otherwise like others have suggested, some students are open to something like Signal (a fellow student got me onto it years ago) if you kindly ask and mention upfront that it just requires a phone number. I did an assignment over Signal with two other students, so it's very doable.
Some food for thought:
Absence of information is its own sort of information. You may find it worthwhile in your search for an acceptable compromise to place some kind of value on “looking normal”.
In my personal life and in communicating with family, there are few compromises. Most of my compromises come from work.
Phone: Pixel with GrapheneOS and FOSS apps only as my primary. Old Pixel 4a with GrapheneOS as my secondary, with the main profile as testing grounds for various apps and a second profile holding work apps. Whatsapp seems to be the lowest common denominator for practical communication with colleagues.
My workplace is BYOD, with MDM only for software licensing. Alongside my customary X230, I carry my lightweight, secondhand X1 Nano, where I have Windows, software licensed alongside said MDM, and Firefox logged into my work Google account.
Key aspect for me is having work and personal life on separate devices. Not completely airtight, but as good as I can get it without making work any harder than it needs to be.
Banking: Fortunately everything my bank has to offer can be done through a browser. My plan if a mobile app with play integrity ever becomes necessary is to buy a regular Android with a removable battery just to host that app.
Transport: If I'm on a business trip without access to my car (no spyware, it's from the 90s) and there is no public transport, I'll get a friend or colleague to call an Uber for me. I haven't gone out drinking at night since college and I'm not inclined to do so in the future.
Maps: Usually Organic Maps suffices, I generally commit routes to memory before going out. For the occasional satellite map, Google Maps in a browser. I have gotten my family to use Magic Earth though.
Fitness: no actual stats, just a handwritten entry in my daily journal as to whether I followed through with my exercise routine.
- At school lots of students use Discord. So I just use Discord along with them. I don't give Discord phone number and I expect all metadata, DMs, and server messages to be publicly available.
- I don't use a banking app, even though it does work on my phone (graphene)
- I don't use taxi/transport app so I actually haven't come across this yet. I guess I could try calling an old fashioned taxi.
- Man, this is a toughie. I've tried Osmand, Organic Maps, and Magic Earth. None of them work flawlessly. Recently I've succumbed to using Waze with no account.
- I don't, I kinda just try to be as healthy as possible. Although, if I had to, I would look into Garmin watches. I'm not sure about privacy but it seems they're one of the few that don't require a subscription.
- Graphene is the best choice for privacy and security. You could try out Linux phones but it's very developmental. Calyx is an option but it's not security focused.
- email, everybody has that, if they can't use it, well up to them to offer an alternative but anyway with DeltaChat I can get notified instantly.
- Web. Sure the app does provide some convenience but most banks do have a working website that do not need an app as usually SMS 2FA works.
- Real taxis do have phone numbers... but they also have apps and most do not required Google Services AFAIK
- OpenStreetMap and CityMapper and (I know I'm going to sound nuts) but actually road signs or asking people
- No but same, plenty of apps on F-Droid that don't require Google Services, otherwise... a .txt file? .ods spreadsheet with visual? Same on NextCloud so you can share with others even though nobody cares? (sorry)
- PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, Purism Librem, and (ahem...) Apple iPhone if you want a compromise between privacy and still convenience?
Linux durchbricht 40-Millionen-Zeilen-Marke
Linux durchbricht 40-Millionen-Zeilen-Marke
Die Kernel-Quellen wachsen ungebrochen weiter. Rauswurf von Treibern für schlankeren Code wird eher nicht klappen.Thorsten Leemhuis (heise online)
Taildrop is very convenient for sharing files between servers/devices
Someone mentioned it in a comment and I genuinely didn't know what I was setting up, but its basically airdrop but to all your devices/servers so if you have an iphone like me you can goto any photo/file click share, taildrop, then pick the device, its a prettty fast transfer. It shows up in the downloads folder on my pc by default.
I no longer have to upload to icloud files to grab my files, it is very convenient and seems to be free forever for personal use up to 100 devices? I had no idea what I was even setting up til I saw the guide afterwards, I thought it was for monitoring server health, but it's made sharing files between devices/servers very convenient. (this was likely obvious, just wanted to share with others who didn't know)
One of the only legal streaming sites for anime was hacked (again), and companies wonder why people resort to piracy?
Crunchyroll Premium Login Details Leaked; Users At High Risk - Animehunch
On Jan 23, 2025, an account on X published a list of login details for multiple Crunchyroll Premium accounts.Animehunch
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Who logs into a pirate site, though? Who gives them their financial information?
As a crunchyroll subscriber, this fucking sucks. They are not doing their jobs.
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It’s really not that bad. Who actually has 10 different streaming services? Hyperbole doesn’t help your argument.
Again, piracy is piracy. There is no moral high ground to take. At the end of the day, it’s still piracy.
Netflix, HBO max, Hulu, peacock, YouTube TV, crunchyroll, Amazon prime video, Disney plus, apple TV plus, paramount plus.
I have had all of those and a couple more. Personally, I've only had up to 8 at once, but if you're asking that other person to prove it, it's not outside the realm of likelihood.
All of those have exclusives. (especially for sports these days. I have to have 3 services just for football, I'm sure there's ESPN plus or some shit for people really into sports) Needing all of those just to watch the handful of exclusives you want isn't uncommon.
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That’s excessive. How much would that be per month? YouTube TV alone is overpriced. Perhaps because I don’t care about live TV, I don’t see the need for so many services.
Just own the fact that you are a pirate. It’s ok, we’re discussing this in a piracy related community! I just can’t stand people’s terrible arguments trying to justify their high seas activities.
Folks pirate because it is easy, and best of all, free.
I never didn't own that I was a pirate. That's not in question here. What's in question is that the reason I am a pirate is I was tired of paying for and dealing with all of those streaming services, and the believability of having so many streaming services. Just because you don't see the need doesn't mean other people don't.
And you are right, it is excessive. Several hundred dollars per month excessive. But that's what a large portion of people do. Most people don't know how to pirate.
Like you said, folks pirate because it is easy. Easier than the alternative. When Netflix was easier than piracy and it was the only streaming service around, I didn't pirate (except anime but that's another thing entirely). And when steam came onto the scene, piracy plummeted as well. When companies offer truly convenient options, piracy goes down. That's not justification, that's the reason.
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I saw a link on Lemmy to a “GoG” clone on which you can download all games for free.
Like of all the places not to pirate I would assume the company that enforces no DRM, direct downloads that you can save indefinitely and that makes older games work on newer hardware, would be on the top of that list.
Since those are such common complaints on why to pirate.
Next to that they have deals often where the prices are already really low.
Competing with free is near impossible.
Netflix was convenient, so was worth the cost. A 4K account with a few friends was just a few euros a month and had almost everything.
Now it's more expensive, can't share and I still need to download 75% of the things I want, so now arr + jellyseer is more convenient.
I was on this train. I paid for Netflix for a handful of years. Really my only complaint is that I couldn't share screenshots because of the DRM (you don't want free advertising?). But then the selection went downhill, new seasons of shows I was watching started appearing on other services. The UI got worse and slow. I eventually started getting pissed off and was wondering why I was paying for a frustrating service.
I had a very similar arc for YouTube Premium a few years after that one, I must have been a subscriber for 5 years at least. But then it got worse and worse.
Unclear whether they were hacked. A followup says:
We [Crunchyroll] have […] investigated the situation, and determined that there is no evidence that Crunchyroll’s systems have been compromised
They may have been fished.
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I used to use this app back in the days.
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(SECUSO) Counts your steps in the background. Customize daily goals.f-droid.org
US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal.
US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal.
Trump seeks to "paralyze" the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (PCLOB). A key element of the EU-US data transfer deal ("TADPF") that allows EU-US data flows.noyb.eu
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Congress has no issue providing endless corporate welfare or aid to Israel...
They are only in grid lock when it comes to issues the pedons need fixed.
Also EU countries aren’t that better than US when it comes to state issued privacy violations; we just don’t do dragnet bullshit (yet) but plenty of requests are served as requested…
and plenty of use cases perform fine by anonymising their data
Short of aggregating it to get rid of the individual records completely, "anonymizing data" isn't actually a thing.
Anyway assuming correct classification there are techniques that changes classification enough to allow exportation of data to shit countries.
illegal in the EU*
When I first read the title I thought it was some clickbait claiming that US cloud providers themselves would all be found to be illegal and cease to exist at all, which is of course, preposterous. Some clarification in the title would have helped.
Jammu mysterious disease deaths: Probe on, doctors’ winter vacations cancelled
After 477 days in Gaza, captive IDF lookouts back on Israeli soil | Live
Red Cross informs Israeli authorities all 4 lookouts—Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev and Liri Albag— in 'good condition'; parents will reunite with them at border
The IDF and Shin Bet announced Saturday that four freed hostages—Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev and Liri Albag—have been handed over to Israeli forces in Gaza and crossed the border into Israel.
“The returning soldiers, accompanied by IDF and Shin Bet forces, crossed into Israeli territory a short time ago and are now en route to an initial reception center in the Gaza border area, where they will reunite with their parents," the agencies said in a joint statement.
After 477 days in Gaza, captive IDF lookouts back on Israeli soil | Live
Red Cross informs Israeli authorities all 4 lookouts—Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev and Liri Albag— in 'good condition'; parents will reunite with them at border before being taken to hospitalYnet correspondents (ynet news)
Red Cross informs Israeli authorities all 4 lookouts—Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev and Liri Albag— in ‘good condition’; parents will reunite with them at border
They better not wave any white flags when they go to meet their parents.
Slain Israeli hostages were shirtless, waving white flag: Reports
The killings have sparked protests across Israel, with demands the government find a truce with Hamas in order to bring home the remaining hostages alive.Carlo Boffa (POLITICO)
They're literally criminals in a terror regime actively engaged in illegally stealing land and ethnic cleansing...
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To be a Palestinian child, trying to survive Israeli jail
From beatings, to illness and hunger, freed Palestinian children say abuse rampant in Israeli jails after October 7.Farah Najjar (Al Jazeera)
20 Arunachal Pradesh elephants being transported to Anant Ambani’s private zoo
The state of GFX virtualization using virglrenderer
The state of GFX virtualization using virglrenderer
With VirGL, Venus, and vDRM, virglrenderer offers three different approaches to obtain access to accelerated GFX in a virtual machine.Collabora | Open Source Consulting
Is it possible to filter specific keyboard shortcuts in Spice?
I was wondering if somewhere in Spice configuration I can set like "ignore ctrl+alt+whatever" so that it will always captured by the host.
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With the ceasefire in Gaza comes a gruesome challenge: Counting and collecting the dead
These bodies, dug up as a ceasefire took hold this week, are Gaza’s “missing,” the uncounted dead haunting families scattered by the war. For the Gaza Health Ministry, they were reduced to a bullet-point caveat beneath every daily death toll: “A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, and cannot be accessed.”
On Sunday, as a deal between Israel and Hamas paused the deadliest war in a century of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, families across the enclave scrambled to reunite with their loved ones — the living, the dead and the missing.
Palestinians crowded the ruins that were once their homes, watching anxiously as civil defense teams hacked at the rubble in search of missing bodies. Each day of the ceasefire, the ministry has logged 50 to 120 recovered corpses.
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the ~47,000 dead number is so outdated at this point, I think the actual number will be at least twice that all told (assuming Israel will let anyone continue to count).
Tragic, disgustingly tragic and it makes me deeply ashamed of the US (where I live).
Wang tells Rubio leaders have set tone and direction of US-China ties
- First call between top diplomats in new Trump administration
- Wang tells Rubio 'I hope you would conduct yourself well'
- Says heads of state have 'pointed out the direction' of ties
- Rubio called China gravest threat to US at nomination hearing
- Rubio says Trump China policy will focus of US interests
Israel will not withdraw troops from Lebanon by deadline, Netanyahu says
Israel will not withdraw troops from Lebanon by deadline, Netanyahu says
PM says Lebanon has not fully met conditions for Israeli withdrawal under ceasefire dealPeter Beaumont (The Guardian)
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What you gonna do about it? They're backed by almost all of the wests political class and oligarchies, along with the entire trillion dollar global MIC. Most countries refuse to even call Israel the fascist ethnostate it has always been, or their actions genocide.
I'm kinda glad we're gonna destroy the planet and ourselves this century. We don't deserve to explore the stars after what we've done to the planet and each other.
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The IDF’s withdrawal process is conditional on the Lebanese army deploying in southern Lebanon and fully and effectively enforcing the agreement, while Hezbollah withdraws beyond the Litani.
This is the money quote. I don't think the Lebanese army will be strong enough to fulfil it's part of the deal within the next few years. So that will be nearly permanent.
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What was? Hezbollah has been shooting rockets at Israel since October 7th
Genuinely asking as someone from the other side, what do you think it should have done instead?
Holy crap! No way!
Oh sorry, I just found some loose change someone dropped. The headline... Isn't surprising.
TeamCity Is Now Available on AWS Marketplace
TeamCity is officially listed on AWS Marketplace! This milestone makes it even easier for teams to integrate the power of TeamCity into their CI/CD pipelines while leveraging the scalability and flexibility of Amazon Web Services (AWS). TeamCity interface Whether you’re already an AWS user or exploring AWS for your next project, TeamCity on AWS Marketplace […]
TeamCity is officially listed on AWS Marketplace! This milestone makes it even easier for teams to integrate the power of TeamCity into their CI/CD pipelines while leveraging the scalability and flexibility of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
TeamCity interface
Whether you’re already an AWS user or exploring AWS for your next project, TeamCity on AWS Marketplace simplifies access to one of the most robust CI/CD platforms in the industry.
Advantages for DevOps teams
The TeamCity listing on AWS Marketplace brings several key benefits that streamline and enhance CI/CD workflows. Here’s how it’s helpful.
Simplified procurement
TeamCity seamlessly integrates with your existing AWS subscription, streamlining billing and management into a unified process. With funds already allocated or billing pre-configured in your AWS account, procurement becomes faster and simpler – no need to navigate lengthy approval processes, request additional quotas, or handle complex purchase orders.
Faster deployment
Pre-configured solutions optimized for the AWS environment let you get up and running with TeamCity in just a few clicks.
Effortless scalability
Leverage AWS’s cloud capabilities to effortlessly scale your CI/CD infrastructure, ensuring it keeps pace with the demands of your growing projects.
Why choose TeamCity for AWS?
TeamCity is a robust and flexible CI/CD platform that seamlessly integrates with AWS’s scalable and reliable infrastructure. It equips teams with powerful tools to:
- Accelerate development – Run parallel builds and tests to receive faster feedback and iterate quickly.
- Streamline workflows – Optimize complex pipelines with intelligent configuration assistance and automation.
- Strengthen security – Leverage built-in features such as access management and audit logging to safeguard your CI/CD processes.
- Gain valuable insights – Access detailed build and test reports to make informed decisions and improve software quality.
By combining TeamCity’s capabilities with AWS, you can build, test, and deploy with greater efficiency and confidence. Learn more about the TeamCity and AWS integration on our website.
TeamCity AWS CI/CD Integration
Make your CI/CD faster, more scalable, and reliable with the TeamCity and AWS integration.JetBrains
JetBrains Academy: Top Courses and Projects of 2024
This International Day of Education, we’re celebrating that in 2024 over 340,000 new coders joined JetBrains Academy, making our community almost 1.5 million members strong. To mark this impressive milestone, we’re looking back at the most popular JetBrains Academy offerings of 2024 – including JetBrains IDE courses (designed exclusively for IDEs) and Hyperskill projects (available […]
This International Day of Education, we’re celebrating that in 2024 over 340,000 new coders joined JetBrains Academy, making our community almost 1.5 million members strong.
To mark this impressive milestone, we’re looking back at the most popular JetBrains Academy offerings of 2024 – including JetBrains IDE courses (designed exclusively for IDEs) and Hyperskill projects (available both in-browser and in-IDE).
Let’s dive in!
Python
Python was a favorite topic among JetBrains Academy learners in 2024, and it’s no wonder why! The language is beginner-friendly and widely used in everything from web development to data science.
Introduction to Python (In-IDE course)
One of JetBrains Academy’s most loved offerings, this course is designed for absolute beginners wanting to learn Python from scratch. With easy-to-follow lessons, you’ll build a solid foundation in coding, understand core concepts, and gain the confidence to explore more advanced Python projects.
100 Days of Code – The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp (In-IDE course)
This course by Angela Yu offers a practical way to learn Python by building 100 projects in 100 days. From web apps to automation tools, you’ll gain hands-on experience and develop the skills needed to code professionally.
Hyperskill projects
For those looking to build their developer portfolio with real-world projects from Hyperskill, these were the top picks in 2024, each of which was designed to make learning interactive and fun:
- My First Project with Python – For mastering the basics.
- Simple Chat Bot – For sharpening logical thinking skills.
- Zookeeper – For practicing data management.
For more advanced learners, the Password Hacker with Python project was a favorite, helping learners practice the skills needed for technical interviews at top tech companies.
Java
Hyperskill projects
Java projects in 2024 were all about having fun, overcoming challenges, and building practical skills to kickstart a developer career. Beginners started with My First Project with Java, Simple Chat Bot with Java, and Simple Tic-Tac-Toe.
To get a taste of Java, advanced learners programmed a virtual barista with Coffee Machine Simulator with Java.
Data Science
Hyperskill projects
Data science continues to be a top choice for our learners, blending analytical thinking with hands-on coding. Explore why our learners love this topic by trying out these projects: Nobel Laureates and House Classification.
Kotlin
AtomicKotlin (In-IDE-course)
Designed for both beginners and experienced programmers, this course contains exercises that accompany the Atomic Kotlin book. You can read an “atom” of information in the book and lock in your understanding of the material by completing the exercises in the course.
Kotlin Koans (In-IDE-course)
This is an interactive course that helps you practice and understand Kotlin’s syntax, idioms, and core features. If you prefer hands-on problem-solving over lectures, this one’s for you.
Hyperskill projects
To update your developer portfolio and to have some fun learning Kotlin, try these popular projects:
- Build a virtual animal caretaker in Zookeeper.
- Create your own interactive game with Simple Tic-Tac-Toe.
Frontend
Hyperskill project
The Color Guess Game was a hit among frontend enthusiasts. This project is a good opportunity to enhance the skills needed to create an engaging web interface while practicing DOM manipulations, managing user interactions, and controlling game flow with loops and conditions.
Rust
Learn Rust (In-IDE-course)
Last but not least, this Rust course was at the top of our list. Its hands-on exercises help beginners learn quickly to read and write Rust programs.
All in-IDE courses are free of charge, and, as a student, you can get a free license for any JetBrains IDE!
Interested in learning more? Check out our full course catalog. With over 90 hands-on courses, JetBrains Academy helps you improve your CV, build a standout portfolio, and ace IT interviews.
Happy learning!
The JetBrains Academy team
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Is there a way to override automatic URL previews somehow?
When creating a post with a URL, Lemmy generates a thumbnail with the og:image and a text summary with the og:description. And sure enough, sleazebags use the description field to plug products.
Case in point: this Youtube video. The description should be something like Man creates a pair of glasses in titanium damascus - part 2 but instead it says This Valentine’s Day good things come in big packages at MeUndies. Score huge sitewide savings at https://[redacted] and use promo code forge.DISCORD...
It's really aggravating. I don't want to pollute Lemmy with crappy advertising.
Is there some way to override or suppress the text description?
Open Graph protocol
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.ogp.me
Thoughts on pmedia?
Was looking at music torrents and noticed alot of them was uploaded by pmedia, sometimes i get music from them but was wondering y'alls thoughts on them, their stuff does sound high quality but i couldn't really tell
hope this isn't a dumb question, was just asking out of curiosity, thanks.
(Also wow.. it has been forever since i used lemmy, i think i'll use it again since i do miss using it)
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How do services like Mastohost work on a fundamental level?
This is all basically hypothetical, but it's something I want a better idea about to improve my concept of networking, service providing, and etc. Additionally, I think services like Mastohost are healthy for the growth of the fediverse as it eases concerns for business use, enterprise use or even broader "community" use. I think it will be important for the future of a federated internet that many of these types of services exist.
Let's get the obvious out of the way: You'd probably need a lot of hardware to achieve this type of service. We're talking about either having a micro datacenter or renting a datacenter from someone else. You're probably not going to get away with doing this on a bog-standard VPS regardless of how much storage you buy (though, if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.)
I understand how virtualization via proxmox works (kind of, on a surface level) and I imagine that it would work similarly to that but with a preconfigured docker image, but how exactly does someone integrate virtual machine creation with client requests?
Normally I think about services running in a docker which would communicate with other docker containers or the host server -- so, for example, you can configure your Jellyfin to be visible to other containers that might be interested in sharing data between the two. But when it comes to requests for hosting new docker images that need persistent space, how would you manage such a task? Additionally, if we're talking about a multi-computer environment, how do you funnel a request for a new instance to one-of-many machines?
This seems like a basic, fundamental server hosting question and may not be appropriate for "self hosting" as it's probably beyond the scale of what most of us are willing to do -- but humor a man who simply wants to understand a bit more about modern enterprise compute problems.
Feel free to share any literature or online documentation that talks about solving these types of tasks.
Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting
Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.Masto.host
European Medicines Agency ditches Elon Musk’s X in favor of Bluesky
European Medicines Agency ditches Elon Musk’s X in favor of Bluesky
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the regulator for vaccines and medicine in the European Union (EU), has stopped using the social media platform X.NL Times
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Basically, Bluesky is not functionally decentralized, so it's just another platform destined for either failure or enshittification.
Is Bluesky decentralized? It's complicated
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote at The Torment Nexus about whether Bluesky could become the new Twitter, and whether that would be a good thing or not.Mathew Ingram (The Torment Nexus)
So moving from a platform run by a far right, nazi saluting Jackass, to a platform that is building it's user base at X's expense is a step backwards?
Also, Bluesky is run mostly by former Twitter employees, so they know exactly what will happen if they follow in their footsteps.
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Given how many social media companies have collapsed over the years because they made their service worse, and their user base migrated en masse to other platforms, I don't think it's inevitable at all. Senior execs will be well aware of the consequences of that type of behaviour.
Don't forget, Bluesky is rising out of the ashes of Twitter, which is a spectacular example of what not to do, and something shareholders will be terrified of.
To which I would respond:
Given how many social media companies have collapsed over the years...
...it doesn't seem that "senior execs" are capable of learning the necessary lessons. Quite the contrary, the "senior execs" and most of the (early) shareholders of all these failed companies seem to be doing quite well for themselves, long after the companies have gone belly up.
Even if they are capable of learning, they don't seem to care.
No, not worse. It's just not decentralized in a meaningful sense, so it suffers from the same enshittification problems that have killed Twitter, Reddit, BoingBoing, Digg, Slashdot...
Fundamentally, it's not any worse, but it's not any better either.
You don't get to decide how language works.
It implies going from a bad situation to a worse one, and has from the moment it existed.
Fine. It's not the right idiom to express the point.
Point is still valid, even if I initially expressed it poorly.
I think you, and a large number of people on this site, need to accept that the vast majority of people don't give a shit about FOSS, and many actively view it as a bad thing.
Especially a government agency.
You're being a pedant, all while missing the point.
The point is most people don't care.
Especially a government agency.
Bill requiring US agencies to share custom source code with each other becomes law
President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan legislation into law Dec. 23.Madison Alder (FedScoop)
Agencies will have to share custom-developed code amongst each other in an effort to prevent duplicative software development contracts under a new bill signed into law by President Joe Biden.
That's not what open source means.
it suffers from the same enshittification problems that have killed Twitter, Reddit, BoingBoing, Digg, Slashdot
I'll easily agree that these platforms are bad, but saying anything "killed" them is very, VERY generous. Reddit and slashdot are very much still a thing, and they don't look like they're slowing down, despite the supposedly insurmountable issues. Keep in mind that the goal of a "social network" (for lack of a better word) is having an audience. Reddit literally shat on its user base, AND on the people that kept the site usable, and communities are still thriving there.
Twitter was spiraling long before Musk bought them. He is accelerating its demise, of course, but he wasn't the cause.
The cause is the basic concept.
Twitter was the default way for any famous individual to address their fan base, and government agencies around the world to communicate to the public.
Train delays, road closures, states of emergency, it was all done through Twitter. They weren't spiralling anywhere.
My dear sweet child, governments use private companies to communicate to their citizens all the time.
They advertise on TV, they have ads on bus shelters, they give interviews on commercial radio and TV stations. Even systems like emergency broadcast systems use cellular networks and TV and radio stations run by private companies.
Even government websites are seldom hosted on their own servers.
Using a third party website specifically set up to communicate short, sharp, and to the point messaging as one way of getting information out is just sensible.
I agree that it sucked, and I didn't use it, but a huge number of people did.
Post Musk, their userbase is collapsing.
The Twitter format was good for precisely one thing:
Come see our band perform live at the Megadome Thursday at 6:00 PM! Tickets on sale now!
It's THE worst way to express, like, your opinions, man.
Disappointing.
They could have followed the EC’s example
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Mastodon instance managed by the European Commission.Mastodon hosted on ec.social-network.europa.eu
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.. I don't know. It's frustrating.
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Because there hasn't been much billionaire behind bluesky for a long time now, and "spinning up a mastodon instance" is the exact reason the general people are avoiding mastodon in the first place.
The goal is to reach people, not to promote a pure solution that's repulsive to the masses.
Wikipedia says "direct messages are offered though a central service". If that's was/still is correct then you're correct, it's centralized.
Nuance is the friend of truth - pedantic.
In the worst case where every user has their own server, one message per recipient is sent. Adding another recipient on their own server means one more message being sent and so forth.
From boiling water into water that happens to be in a switched-on kettle. Huge improvement.
When the enshittification comes (when, not if, they'll have to drag their feet to move somewhere else again. All their followers will have to follow them again. Had they moved to a proper open solution, they could've stayed there indefinitely.
It's not just about Bluesky" not being the proper and pure solution", it's about this being a temporary measure at best, and people don't seem to realize that.
From boiling water into water that happens to be in a switched-on kettle. Huge improvement.
It IS a huge improvement.
People go to the platform that's easy, attractive and works, instead of the very beautiful, finely crafted, exquisite solution that requires days of reading followed by fiddling every other day to barely get the same immediate result, assorted with hidden surprises like hidden moderation and silent failure situation that leads to fragmentation of the whole network. What a surprise.
Also, "don't get pedantic with me" does not sit well with the current goals of bluesky. Sure, right now, they focused on making something that works and is usable by everyone. Whoop fucking doo, that's exactly what mastodon/lemmy/most activitypub services skipped. And that's why the general public look at them with contempt. I can't see the future (maybe you can, lucky you), but for now, bluesky works, and the plan they're still following up to now is aimed toward a decentralized solution.
For the love of god wake up people, do you know what little percent of people know about fedi? Services like these jump to where the public is, not drags public behind it. Bluesky made huge jump publicity wise, and that's when it was already more widely known than fedi. Moaning about it doesn't help.
In perfect world, we'd have country-specific instances with all national news and announcments centralised in there, to which people could easily subscribe to. But that even sounds complex to average person, compared to "Hey, Bluesky? Yeah twitter but better".
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End users didn't know how email or the world wide web worked once upon a time. There's that clip of Katie Couric asking her producer "Can you explain what internet is?"
In the years since, they figured it out.
And as I pointed out recently, people figured out how to play WoW even if you have to pick a server before you can start playing. My understanding is different servers have different modes, like there might be one where PvP is enabled, etc. so there's a clear reason expressed why you might pick one over the other. I've noticed Fediverse instances are really shit at that.
I signed up for Pixelfed recently, and the Join Pixelfed website's page where you pick an instance had a bunch of tiles that read something like this:
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| Pixelfed is an image sha...
Fist of all the description for the instance started out trying to explain what Pixelfed as a whole was, and then it was truncated to about a quarter of a tweet with no way to expand it right there.
I'll take this opportunity to bang on once again about everyone wanting to make general purpose instances with no attempt at finding a niche. I've been saying this since joining; every instance decides it needs a c/funny or a c/linux or a c/cats or a c/games and so then there ends up being 40 of each and the one on .world or .ml ends up being the de facto one everyone uses. Then you get a page where you have to pick from lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemm.ee, lemmy.ca each one giving the first fifty characters of the definition of Lemmy as their description, yeah no one's going to open another browser tab and end up doing something else when confronted with that, huh?
I'm surprised that the norm isn't to do many of them, that someone hasn't written some software package that just "aggregates" multiple platforms on the client side.
I mean, if I were running a business and wanted to have a social media presence, that's probably what I'd want to have.
I'd have no problem with them making Bluesky account, but why not both that and spinning up a Mastodon server?
It's just short-sighted
Well, to keep profile on Bluesky they essentially keept the same social media presence guy and just tell him to switch. To add to it Mastodon, they suddenly need to extend infrastructure to add a server, need to have someone manage that server and on top of that make that social media presence guy also take care of posting there. If they even have that guy and it's not simply something Monica from HR is doing.
And all that for what, maybe 500k people using it? Accounting for people not hearing about it, not being in EU, not caring about it etc. etc.
For comparision, Bluesky has 3 times Mastodon's users and it's growing quicker than Mastodon, being seen as viable alternative to twitter/x.
Hiring one extra person, for an agency that covers hundreds of millions of people? I'm gonna go out there and say yes, that is reasonable to expect. Sure, uptake is low now, but network effect is responsible for that, now when people are moving from Twitter is the exact time to encourage people to change to something better.
The European Commission has its head on straight, that they are being a first mover on Mastodon, because putting critical communication infrastructure in the hands of a private company is silly long term.
I'm not doubting your reasoning as to why this agency hasn't bothered, but it's not convincing that it's reasonable.
Man, everyone bitching about Bluesky but very few cheering the long overdue departure from twitter.
Anywhere is better than twitter.
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Ah yes anywhere is better than twitter let me go switch to threads.
Jumping from one central controlled platform to another changes absolutely nothing. People switching to Blue sky instead of the fediverse are braindead
Eventually Earth will be consumed by the sun.
All movement away from Twitter is a positive. Fuck fElon and fuck him right now.
Threads and twitter are both worse than bsky. I like Mastodon even more but bsky is at least a departure from open right extremist rhetorics.
I could debate the braindead assertion, but I don't feel like it, and in any case a braindead not-Nazi is a net improvement over a Nazi (which are braindead anyway) or a Neo-Nazi (who do a damn good job at imitating that).
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You can download it over http and check the SHA256SUMS.
Or better yet torrent it and check the same sha256
I can't remember if it was always like that or not, but all the apt repos are the same. No SSL and verification via signing.
It seems like an odd choice if it's not a mistake to put it on the first page and it's not just a HTTP warning it's an SSL warning that appears quite scary on Chromium browsers.
But cool to know that apt repos don't use SSL i knew they verified via signature but fought they had both.
Torrent programs already do checking hash checksums to determine if you got it 100%
thats also the only reason to check your download with a provided hash checksum from a website... to check the intigrity of the download and not for safety reasons
That doesn't mean the data that was used to create the torrent was correct. In this case I suggested downloading via torrent (because of http) and then checking the sha from the website to verify everything matches. If it does they you've got a good iso!
I see this too and it’s caused by the actual server not having a certificate belonging to the domain. It’s likely a configuration problem (and okay) but I don’t like to take chances.
If they offer a torrent, perhaps it’s better to use that for now.
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It seems like it's fixed now, but if possible use one of the mirrors, so everyone's not hitting that one server all that hard, it's usually faster too.
Or even better, use the torrent.
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I'm curious. How's your opinion on this?
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L'osceno disegno di legge finanziato dalla destra evangelica statunitense, che avrebbe reso illegale l'omosessualità, è definitivamente naufragato.Gayburg
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What shall we name the Lemmy/PieFed equivalent to a "Multireddit"?
We’re working on a multireddit feature which will let people join or leave large groups of related Communities with a single click, and see all the posts from those communities in a single list. These groups will be crowd-sourced, so anyone can create or share collections of Communities around their interests. Basically the same as piefed.social/topics except crowd-sourced (and federated?).
We’re stuck on what to call this feature, though, and your creativity could really help us out! Here are some ideas we’ve been tossing around:
- Bundles
- Community Packs
- PieSlices
- Stacks
- QuickJoin Packs
- Collections (kbin called it this)
- Topics (we call them this now but they're all maintained by the instance admin)
Which of these do you like best? Do you have any suggestions of your own? We're aiming for something that’s easy to understand, catchy, and fits the PieFed ethos. I'll copy those suggestions into individual comments on this post so people can upvote what resonates with them.
The problem I have with ideas like "Collections" or "Topics" is those concepts have no relation to "Communities" which increases the learning new users need to do while getting comfortable. Something more intuitive like "Towns" is more obviously a larger or group of "Communities", for example.
Please throw your ideas into the comments below and vote on what you see!
A few Lemmy.world users have been complaining that the website is slow for them, what is your experience?
Most recent examples, seems like Americans users are mostly impacted.
the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of “click the image then do something else while it loads,” which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I’ve stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won’t.
Additional example
It also doesn’t help that it’s slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried.Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?
Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don’t know if it’s because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it’s a very significant difference.
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So slow unfortunately
Well, it took me 2 page load attempts and 60 solid seconds to get as far as being able to leave this comment, so… Yeah, sometimes it is slow as dirt.
Images have been fine for me, I’ve given up on videos
Note: if this post seems familiar, it's because it was originally posted on !asklemmy@lemmy.world . It has since then been removed as a "support question". Not sure why asking people if they've been impacted about the instance that hosts 30% of the whole Lemmy userbase is a support question, but I'll revisit that tomorrow.
I'm a fediverse supporter (obviously, that's why I'm here), however what you're looking for requires a critical mass of users that the fediverse (at least the Lemmy side of it) will never achieve as long as two very critical problems persist:1) sign up is confusing. People are used to clicking "create an account," inputting a user name, password, and maybe an email, and then BAM they're a user. I realize the whole instance thing is the entire point, but no one wants nor expects to have to do significant research and make a decision about how they want to interact with a social media site before they've even started using it.
2) the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of "click the image then do something else while it loads," which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I've stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won't.
And no, these aren't "features not bugs" unless you want to keep the site small and homogenous.
I have them on my version of the post, but it's a bit cumbersome to copy paste them here.
And yes, frustrating indeed...
I have repeatedly had this issue and clearing l.w cookies always seems to solve it. I don’t get what is going on.
No real issues with speed, it seems fine.
I do have a bit of downtime but nothing unreasonable, maybe 2-3 times a week I won’t be able to access it at all for maybe 10 min max but it’s not often enough to be a real problem and it could be something on my end.Being unable to post from behind a VPN is annoying though, I don’t necessarily want my employer to know what I’m doing with my phone on the company Wi-Fi in my downtime.
I can't post comments for the last couple days.
Edit: looks like it was related to VPN use and some flagging of my session/connection, maybe cloudflare on lemmy.world
why won't Lemmy let me comment or post unless Idisconnecte from my vpn
That's it, I get an error message whenever I try to post or comment if I'm connected to my VPN, butnot trouble if I just get disconnected.
Does not fit the idea of decentralized social media I had, but overall I'm mainly curious as to the reason why it is so.
From my lemmy.world account. I cant post comments from that account at all.
Edit: looks like it was related to VPN use and some flagging of my session/connection, maybe cloudflare on lemmy.world
why won't Lemmy let me comment or post unless Idisconnecte from my vpn
That's it, I get an error message whenever I try to post or comment if I'm connected to my VPN, butnot trouble if I just get disconnected.
Does not fit the idea of decentralized social media I had, but overall I'm mainly curious as to the reason why it is so.
When I click to post the comment, I get a loading circle gif that just spins forever. Tried waiting it out for a few minutes but nothing happens.
And to my knowledge lemmy doesnt do shadow bans so I would at keast know if I had been banned there.
Edit: previously I cleared cache, tried different browsers and devices, logged out and in again, nothing worked. I also just tested and I can't create posts from lemmy.world account either.
Edit2: looks like it was related to VPN use and some flagging of my session/connection, maybe cloudflare on lemmy.world
why won't Lemmy let me comment or post unless Idisconnecte from my vpn
That's it, I get an error message whenever I try to post or comment if I'm connected to my VPN, butnot trouble if I just get disconnected.
Does not fit the idea of decentralized social media I had, but overall I'm mainly curious as to the reason why it is so.
That could indeed be the VPN use.
You could maybe consider
- discuss.online/ for an instance based in the USA that defederates lemmygrad and hexbear, similar to what Lemmy.world does
- sopuli.xyz/ for an instance based in Europe that also defederates lemmygrad and hexbear
- lemmy.today/ for an instance based in the USA that does not defederate anyone (their blocklist is literally empty)
- lemm.ee/ for an instance based in Europe that has a very short defederation list (like 4 entries: lemm.ee/instances)
- discuss.online/ for an instance that defederates lemmygrad and hexbear, similar to what Lemmy.world does
- lemmy.today/ for an instance that does not defederate anyone (their blocklist is literally empty)
It's ok, it's really not putting me off of my Lemmy experience.
After being on reddit for over 10 years, in the grand scheme of things video only recently became functional before the entire site became unusable
I'm here for the long haul with the understanding that things will inevitably get better over time
I'm using Sync, so I cannot rule out that these problems originate there
- discuss.online/ for an instance that defederates lemmygrad and hexbear, similar to what Lemmy.world does
- lemmy.today/ for an instance that does not defederate anyone (their blocklist is literally empty)
Zero issues, everything works exactly as I expect
Not to say no issues exist, but I have encountered none, and that is data
.ml has been loading slowly, and then the image thumbnails take even longer.
Is the whole network under a DDoS or something?
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This is a problem with all instances and has been only recently mitigated against. I deleted 2.7gb site cache for our instance.
Once LW finally upgrades they definitly need to inform their longer time users to wipe the site cache in their browsers.
NA here. It's loading perfectly fine for me right now on the desktop site. Pages I've never opened before are loading in like 1/10th of a second for me.
I'm also not signed in from this computer, though (can't remember my LW password and haven't bothered to check). Not sure if that's making any difference, but figured I'd provide my perspective from a logged-out user.
I did notice some slowdown fetching new posts last week in the all page from my instance, but locally it was fine.
Its seems to have gotten better since 2 or 3 days ago.
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