Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?
Building on some initial reports coming from the FediPact account and Dropsite news, we dive into potential measures admins can take for their instances.
Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?
A new report from Dropsite News makes the claim that Meta is allegedly scraping a large amount of independent sites for content to train their AI. What’s worse is that this scraping operation appears to completely disregardrobots.txt, a control list used to tell crawlers, search engines, and bots which parts of a site should be accessed, and which parts should be avoided. It’s worth mentioning that the efficacy of such lists depend on the consuming software to honor this, and not every piece of software does.Meta Denies All Wrongdoing
Andy Stone, a communications representative for Meta, has gone on record by claiming that the list is bogus, and the story is incorrect. Unfortunately, the spread of Dropsite’s story is relatively small, and there haven’t been any other public statements about the list at this time. This makes it difficult to adequately critique the initial story, but the concept is nevertheless a wakeup call.However, it’s worth acknowledging Meta’s ongoing efforts to scrape data from many different sources. This includes user data, vast amounts of published books, and independent websites not part of Meta’s sprawling online infrastructure. Given that the Fediverse is very much a public network, it’s not surprising to see instances getting caught in Meta’s net.
Purportedly Affected Instances
The FediPact account has dug in to the leaked PDF, and a considerable amount of Fediverse instances appear on the list. The document itself is 1,659 pages of URLs, so we were able to filter down a number of matches based on keywords. Please keep in mind that these only account for sites that use a platform’s name in the domain:
- Mastodon: 46 matches
- Lemmy: 6 matches
- PeerTube: 46 matches
There are likely considerably more unique domain matches in the list for a variety of platforms. Admins are advised to review whether their own instances are documented there. Even if your instance’s domain isn’t on the list, consider whether your instance is federating with something on the list. Due to the way federation works, cached copies of posts from other parts of the network can still show up on an instance that’s been crawled.
Access the Leaked List
We are mirroring this document for posterity, in case the original article is taken offline.Protective Measures to Take
Regardless of the accuracy of the Dropsite News article, there’s an open question as to what admins can do to protect their instances from being scraped. Due to the nature of the situation, there is likely no singular silver bullet to solve these problems, but there are a few different measures that admins can take:
- Establish Community Terms of Service – Establish a Terms of Service for your instance that explicitly calls out scraping for the purposes of data collection and LLM training specifically. While it may have little to no effect on Meta’s own scraping efforts, it at least establishes precedence and a paper trail for your own server community’s expectations and consent.
- Request Data Removal – Meta has a form buried within the Facebook Privacy Center that could be used to submit a formal complaint regarding instance data and posts being part of their AI training data. Whether or not Meta does anything is a matter of debate, but it’s nevertheless an option.
- (EU-Only) Send a GDPR Form – Similar to the above step, but try to get the request in front of Meta’s GDPR representatives that have to deal with compliance.
- Establish Blocking Measures Anyway: Even if private companies can still choose to disregard things like
robots.txtand HTTP Headers such asX-Robots-Tag: noindex, you can still reduce the attack surface of your site from AI agents that do actually honor those things.- Set Up a Firewall: one popular software package that’s seeing a lot of recent adoption for blocking AI traffic is Anubis, which has configurable policies that you can adjust as needed to handle different kinds of traffic.
- Use Zip Bombs: When all else fails, take measures into your own hands. On the server side, use an Nginx or Apache configuration to detect specific User Agents associated with AI, and serve them ever-expanding compressed archives to slow them down.
In all reality, fighting against AI scraping is still a relatively new problem that’s complicated by lack of clear regulation, and companies deciding to do whatever they want. The best we can do for our communities is to adopt protective measures and stay informed of new developments in the space.
Block AI Bots, Scrapers And Crawlers - A Simple Overview - WebLynx
When it comes to blocking AI bots, scrapers and crawlers, you have a few different options, depending on your web platform and how aggressive you wish to beJimmy Julajak (WebLynx)
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Azerbaijan | Aliyev approves $2 million energy aid to Kyiv following Russian strikes on Azeri-linked sites in Ukraine
The allocated funds will be used to purchase and ship Azerbaijani-made electrical equipment from the president's 2025 reserve fund.
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Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs
Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs
Judge tossed claim but said UK must not “significantly impede” Wikipedia operations.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Here's one way to fix this that might even overturn the law. Turn off Wikipedia in the UK. Put a big banner up on the homepage that says, we have turned off Wikipedia in your country because of your government. Here's how to use a VPN to access our content.
Edit: Make it apologetic and conciliatory. Like, we're sorry, we've had to disable Wikipedia in your region because of your government's draconian policies. If you would like to visit our content, please use a VPN. If you need help learning to use a VPN and then link to a here's how page
I read from another comment somewhere that the law or whatever said that they should not promote a VPN, not that they could not promote a VPN. Those are two totally different words.
However, your way is probably safer and not reliant on language.
Correct, as it has to. In addition to behavior, CheckUsers use IP addresses to help identify sockpuppets. If you could bypass the exemption by just saying "here's a new account; pls exempt", it would quickly become common knowledge among sockmasters that all they need is to quickly ask and be accepted days later.
At that point, the block on proxy editing near-completely fails at one of its main functions.
I'd disagree with the notion "it has to". The chilling effect on a large number of new wiki contributors could be considered more detrimental than weakening sock puppet protection. (IE if a huge country suddenly started jailing people who make edits not considered state-approved)
I suspect there are plenty of ways to allow new accounts to make edits on a smaller subset of articles until they have passed some threshold of trust which could minimize the sock puppet abuse.
Point is everything is a give and take.
I don't know where you live, but I have never seen a library having age verification for consulting anything.
Only age verification was for a membership card, which is rarely mandatory to consult.
I live in reality and actually pay attention to the shit around me. I also look shit up when people are talking out thwir ass and it obvious they never set foot in a library.
- Brent Council – Library Conditions of Use
brent.gov.uk/libraries-arts-an… - University of Edinburgh – Child Access to the Library
library.ed.ac.uk/using-library… - Bristol City Council – Library Regulations
bristol.gov.uk/files/documents… - Merton Libraries – Terms and Conditions
libraries.merton.gov.uk/digita… - Hillingdon Council – Child Safeguarding Procedures in Our Libraries
hillingdon.gov.uk/article/4100… - Surrey County Council – Provision of Public Access Terminals and Wi-Fi in Libraries Policy
surreycc.gov.uk/libraries/your… - Milton Keynes Council – Library Parental Consent
milton-keynes.gov.uk/libraries… - Waltham Forest Council – Libraries Terms and Conditions
walthamforest.gov.uk/libraries…
Policy for child access to the University Library | Library | Library
This policy is intended to enable parents and carers accompanied by children to access the University Library and to ensure the safety of children.Library
Did you even read the conversation you're replying to???
Only the Surrey County Council indicates anything about restricting access to the library on the basis of age, and that is on the basis of not allowing unaccompanied children under 11 into the library
No other link mentions anything about restricting access to nonfiction materials because of age...
So this is the level of edication and reading comprehension in here. Pathetic
brent.gov.uk/libraries-arts-an…
If you are under 16, you will need your parent or guardian to sign a membership form for you.
Books and other materials may be borrowed by:
anyone aged 16 and over.
children and young people under the age of 16 on the recommendation of a parent or guardian.
parents or carers of children aged 12 – 15 will need to sign a consent form before they can borrow
DVDs.
library.ed.ac.uk/using-library…
• Risk assessments have been carried for children under 16. For the safety of children, the University Regulations do not permit a child to use any library equipment, including computing equipment, nor to use any device on the University wireless network.
• School pupils aged 14 to 16 may, under special circumstances and by arrangement with the library, obtain a Library Reference Card allowing independent access. Young persons aged 16 over are entitled to obtain a Library Reference Card by meeting the registration requirements.
bristol.gov.uk/files/documents…
Subject to the General Provisions of these Regulations books may be borrowed by any person of the
age of 14 years or over who completes and signs the appropriate form of application provided by the
Library Authority and who furnishes such proof of identity as the Librarian may require. Books may be
borrowed by children aged 13 years and below on completion of the appropriate form of application
signed by the parent or guardian.
- Any person over the age of 14 and such others as the Librarian may permit, may enter the Reference
Library or Reading Room and when so required shall sign the book provided for the purpose.
libraries.merton.gov.uk/digita…
A parent or guardian must counter-sign the membership card for new members that are under the age of 16.
All children under the age of 15 must be accompanied by an adult.Please note children aged 11-15 may enter Libraries Plus unaccompanied but with parental consent.
A parent or guardian must supervise any child under the age of 11. Parents and/or guardians are required to take responsibility for the materials used and borrowed by members under the age of 16.
(straight up call the law on your ass)
Library staff will not take responsibility for children of any age left unattended in the library. Staff may contact Children’s Social Care if a child under eleven is left alone or if there are concerns over a child’s wellbeing.
Adult restrictions:
Adults are not permitted to work or be situated in the children’s library if they are not utilising the children’s services or looking after a child/young person. Lone adults will be directed by staff to alternative seating and facilities in the main library.
hillingdon.gov.uk/article/4100…
Under-16s must bring a valid membership card each time they visit a library if they want to use a computer.
Children's computers are available at all libraries and can be used by children aged 11 and under with a valid membership library card.
Under-11s cannot use our express PC express service.
Under-11s may only use the internet under the adult supervision of a parent or guardian.
Our library service offers free wifi to anyone aged 11 and over.
Under-11s attending an event in the library will need to be accompanied by a parent/carer (unless otherwise stated).
Under-5s must never be left unsupervised at any time.
Children need to be at least 14-years-old in order to look after children ages 8 and over.
Children under 8 must be with a parent or responsible adult (aged 18 or over).
We try our best to make our libraries safe and welcoming. However, as a public service, we can never fully guarantee child safety. Therefore, no child under the age of 11 can visit without parent/carer supervision.
If a child under the age of 11 visits the library unsupervised, staff will follow the relevant safeguarding procedures, which include contacting the parent/carer, and alerting the police, social services or their school.
(the only one you were able to comprehend and it's the LEAST restrictive, misdirection much)
surreycc.gov.uk/libraries/your…
If you are under 16 years of age you will need the written permission of your parent or guardian to use library computers.
milton-keynes.gov.uk/libraries…
In order to access the IT facilities, children and young people under the age of 16 must be registered library members.
A parent or legal guardian must be present for children under 16 to join the library and by joining a child to the library they agree to the child having access to IT facilities including the Internet.
Children and young people under the age of 16 will have access to the computers in our libraries with their library card.
walthamforest.gov.uk/libraries…
A parent or guardian must counter-sign the membership card for new members that are under the age of 16.
Children under the age of 8 must be supervised at all times by their parent or guardian who must also monitor any use by children of public access computers.
Parents and/or guardians are required to be responsible for the materials used and borrowed by members under the age of 16.
Deleting the truth wont make it go away.
Policy for child access to the University Library | Library | Library
This policy is intended to enable parents and carers accompanied by children to access the University Library and to ensure the safety of children.Library
are you dumb?
none of the links you posted talk about restrictions on certain materials within libraries, e.g. all of them allow you access any information at any time.
ALL of the links you posted talk about restrictions on the membership registration process, not what you can and can't borrow from the library.
this isn't about censorship, it's just about establishing who you call when a kid misbehaves on library grounds or damages something the library owns.
that's why a guardian is required to co-sign memberships: kids break shit. like, all the time!
Yes every single one of them does. do you not know how access fucking works. You cant even be in there until certain ages. Youre not allowed to access material until a registered known adult approves. Theyre not allowed on computers without approval or oversight. Tjeyre not allowed into certain areas of the libraries without approval and access.
If this is the reading comorehension level over there they really need to reconsider some these.
The EU approach to age verification
The European Commission is working towards an EU-harmonised approach to age verification.Shaping Europe’s digital future
I'm generally more annoyed at how the early enthusiasm of participation on the site has died out in the face of paranoia and moderator mania. There are so many gaps in both the modern and historical backlog of citations and categorizations. But do I want to invest dozens of hours contributing to a site where a few admins are just going to tear all my work back out again on a bureaucratic technicality?
It is a site that's alternatively being strangled to death by admins fearful of malicious actors and tore apart by wave after wave of sinister propagandists and hostile agents.
And yet I’m sure you read it pretty regularly, and it’s a net good in your life. It’s easy to focus on the negatives and miss what an absolute treasure it still is.
Edit: and it seems it’s been a while since you were a young student and have forgotten what that experience is like. You know many things now, but you didn’t start that way.
I’m sure you read it pretty regularly
I've found it less and less capable of keeping up with current events. Enshittification truly comes for us all.
It’s easy to focus on the negatives and miss what an absolute treasure it still is.
As a historical artifact and a demonstration of the potential for open-sourced editing, it's a milestone. But we're clearly in the twilight of the Wikipedia era.
However the vast majority of human knowledge isn’t current events.
Broadly speaking, everything was a current event at some point. As Wikipedia calcifies, it loses the ability to capture and collate new information as it is produced.
Even if Wikipedia were to never get updated again it is still extremely useful.
In the same way as any dated encyclopedia, sure. I've got a copy of my dad's childhood encyclopedia, dated to 1954. Lots of interesting factoids in there, assuming your interest in the world is satisfied by an English speaking editor's ability to consolidate the information available to his firm at their publishing deadline.
On its face... maybe? Until the Foundation falls into the hands of malicious management, anyway.
But do I trust that a public website can't have their security breached by malicious actors? Of course not.
But with the need of an ID to access the fucking Wikipedia, UK is on the best way to emulate NC in the near future.
KOREA CENTRAL TV (LIVESTREAM) | KCNA Watch
Watch Korea Central TV live from Pyongyang using the below player. This service, which is for the purpose of research and private study, is provided free of charge. Schedule Information: News broadcasts take place at 5.00pm, 8pm and 10.KCNA Watch
The west is literally helping identify and kill journalists who are reporting on their genocide.
And it’s not even a new thing. Julian Assange was targeted by the US for exposing their assassination of journalists. No consequences for the assassins. And the UK & EU enthusiastically participated in helping the US in this.
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Wtf are you being downvoted, you're absolutely right.
The fact that people are so powerless that only corps can fight this shit is maddening.
I've said it before, the UK populace has lost all privileges to make fun of Americans, they are as batshit as the trumpets here.
You mean Wikipedia will bow down to a Western government and obey their every command?
Do you think Wikipedia would make special exceptions for China or Russia?
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Wikipedia doesn't have to do shit.
Let them break their internet until they fix it.
In India, Trump's tariffs spark calls to boycott American goods
From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to Amazon and Apple, U.S.-based multinationals are facing calls for a boycott in India as business executives and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's supporters stoke anti-American sentiment to protest against U.S. tariffs.
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EU to channel $1.7 billion from frozen Russian assets to repay Ukraine's loans
This marks the third such transfer, covering income generated in the first half of 2025. Previous tranches were disbursed in July 2024 and April 2025.
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Australia to recognise Palestinian state in September
It follows similar moves by the UK, France and Canada.
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Just got a new GPU, why is it so hard to use it?
Hey all, just got a Geforce 5070 to replace my 2070 from years ago. Ubuntu's been pretty smooth sailing for me until now, and I'm not exactly the best at navigating this stuff.
When Ubuntu starts to boot, the GPU stops outputting display to my monitor. As though it doesn't detect the new GPU. I tried putting the 2070 back in and downloading the 570 drivers but it didn't change anything. I found a tutorial for what seemed to be my issue that asked me to change the kernel, but halfway through the tutorial, commands that worked on their machine started failing on mine. I wish I'd documented what the error messages were because when I went to poke around more today, I got a message about kernel panic and can't even boot with the 2070. Where do I go from here?
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Mon Aug 11 19:17:03 2025
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| NVIDIA-SMI 570.158.01 Driver Version: 570.158.01 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 ... Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 37C P8 18W / 235W | 481MiB / 8192MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2099 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 143MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2358 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 105MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2950 G ...exec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 10MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 5684 G .../6565/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 167MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8244 G /usr/bin/nautilus 13MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8333 G ...tcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher 20MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Well the driver is loaded, and you have processes engaged with it, so it's functional.
If you're losing output, maybe you have a conflict with the nouveau driver. Have you blacklisted it?
Honestly I haven't even heard of a nouveau driver. I sure haven't blacklisted it.
To be clear I got this output with my old GPU. Not sure how I would get to the command terminal with the new one.
You need to run these commands on the machine having the problem. Giving output from another machine doesn't help solve anything.
If you're getting dead output on your 5070, it means the driver is more than likely NOT loaded, so the output will be different.
Boot the 5070, and when you get a black screen, hit ALT+F2 to drop to a console shell. Login, and run 'nvidia-smi', and you should get something that confirms it's loaded, or something that says it is not loaded.
If it's not loaded, it means you haven't installed the drivers (you sure you did?). Check your packages, make sure the driver is properly installed, then do this to blacklist the nouveau driver which may be in conflict.
Reboot. See if it works.
If you have at least Ubuntu 24.10 and the NVIDIA 570.133.07 driver installed with the 2070, it should be plug and play with the new card.
If you put the 2070 in are you able to get a working system?
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released with Bug Fixes and Security Updates
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS is now officially available, powered by Linux kernel 6.14, and featuring critical security updates and bug fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Can you run nvidia-smi and confirm you're on the 570 driver?
Also after you do a failed boot with the 5070 put the 2070 back in and try run this command journalctl -b -1 -p 0..2
to check the log from the previous boot and filter for only high priority issues. This should give some insight on whats failing when you try and boot with the 5070.
Another dumb check but have you got the display cables plugged into the gpu?
Nvidia-smi output:
Mon Aug 11 19:17:03 2025
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| NVIDIA-SMI 570.158.01 Driver Version: 570.158.01 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 ... Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 37C P8 18W / 235W | 481MiB / 8192MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2099 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 143MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2358 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 105MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2950 G ...exec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 10MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 5684 G .../6565/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 167MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8244 G /usr/bin/nautilus 13MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8333 G ...tcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher 20MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I hate to be the jerk but it's because you got Nvidia. Intel and AMD cards enjoy significantly better graphics card support.
I would also try a different distribution that's known for having more recent kernels and faster development. Something like Manjaro is actually a pretty good fit for this situation.
I hate to be the jerk but it’s because you got Nvidia
No its not. The nvidia 5070 works on linux and has for a while now.
I would also try a different distribution that’s known for having more recent kernels and faster development. Something like Manjaro is actually a pretty good fit for this situation.
We really need to avoid just suggesting a different distro as the solution. In this case it makes no sense, they're running kernel 6.14 and the Nvidia driver is out of kernel. Phoronix benchmarked the 5070 running an older version of ubuntu and still got good performance and it worked well. That means their version of ubuntu which is new enough to support it. Im not sure what the issue is but I think switching distro's is a last resort once you've tried everything else.
Great but it's not working out of the box and clearly that was the expectation.
AMD has built in support so no extra steps needed.
Ubuntu has a history of not having the latest kernels and having spotty support for new hardware.
Sure you can fix it but again the out of the box expectation.
We can agree that it should work and can work and I don't disagree that always suggestions a different distribution is not generally helpful but watching people suffer trying to get Ubuntu working is a sore spot for me.
Its not an out of the box installation. He has an existing ubuntu installation and is upgrading the GPU. We can always be like oh you ran into a single issue, just get rid of your hardware and swap to an entirely new distro. Thats a worst case solution to the problem.
AMD has built in support so no extra steps needed.
Doesnt matter, he isnt asking about an AMD card.
Ubuntu has a history of not having the latest kernels and having spotty support for new hardware.
Its actually the opposite, ubuntu generally has very good hardware support. Cannonical work with vendors to test hardware works on their platform. The 5070 phronix benchmarks were done on ubuntu. Suggesting its a distro issue is ignoring the problem
In this case, a different distro is the exact thing to be suggested. They are looking for out of the box support functionally speaking.
Which case if they want something that is newer than they really should be on a distro that is focused on newer support. Such as Arch or Fedora. Ubuntu, mint and other distros based on Debian all share the same problem of depending on where you are in the release cycle, you can be wildly out of date. Even if you have a newer colonel, there can be weird. Incompatibility and funky problems that occur.
Generally speaking, there is a very good reason why every single distribution that is focused specifically on video card support, gaming modern hardware is Arch or fedora based.
Frankly, for a lot of normal users who aren't used to Linux or just want things to work out of the box with no fiddling and good documentation. Then they really should just be avoiding Debian and Ubuntu base distributions.
They're great if you have newish but a couple years old hardware and you just want something that is Rock solid out of the box and you don't plan to ever fiddle with it.
But for someone running a 5080 and likely is gaming, they should just be on cachy or bazzite. We're installing your drivers setting up proton setting up steam, setting up everything. A gamer or someone trying to do any sort of advanced graphical s*** is quite literally a one-button process. With the dev team working on the distribution explicitly going out of their way to make sure the support for new hardware is as seamless and stupid proof as possible.
Would suggest cachy over Manjaro if you are explicitly looking for video card support since it's focused very heavily on making sure gaming is supported.
I've run into a lot of cases where things that get kind of iffy on endeavor or Manjaro work just fine on cachy because of their extra work they put in for this use case.
I find with multiple video ports, its best to plug in all of them till you figure out which ones work.
Nvidia is not well supported, and most video cards have problems in Linux. Generally, if you have to use a proprietary driver, it will have specific issues. The free drivers will just be buggy.
Best is to see what cards are known to work well. There are maintained, well there used to be, lists of hardware that works well.
If you installed proprietary drivers, they are often difficult to remove. There is not always instructions on how to uninstall. So part of your problems might be the drivers.
My 2080 has issues and cuts off part of the screen on Linux mint. My 6700xt and amd setup would never. I switched and tried every driver. I've never used nvidia. Anyone have advice?
Edit: it was some stupid AI scaler on the SmArT TV. What joke.
cuts off part of the screen
this happens to me if i use nouveau. i solve this by installing the driver and setting the correct refresh rate.
what are the system logs saying about it? have you tested the card on another machine/os?
did you delete the nvidia config files between reinstalls?
alright go back to nouveau then try a complete purge with sudo apt purge *nvidia* && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt autoclean
and delete all the leftover nvidia files you can find. namely the .nvidia-settings-rc on your home directory, but check xorg.conf for any weirdness. then reinstall the latest driver.
beyond that changing to x11 or vice versa can help. i know the cinnamon de in mint has issues with nvidia sometimes, testing it out on gnome or kde is a good idea too.
not to mention using an ssd from a previous computer complicates stuff a bit further, doing a clean install might prove useful too.
in any case, here's a resource for debugging it further: docs.lambda.ai/education/linux…
wish you luck. nvidia mostly works well with the major des nowadays, but can still be annoying as fuck when it has issues. if nothing works, hit me up again and i'll see what i can do to help.
Using the nvidia-bug-report.log file to troubleshoot your system - Lambda Docs
Lambda GPU Cloud documentationdocs.lambda.ai
return to stock kernel, uninstall and completely purge the old drivers through another TTY. make sure to delete nvidia configs and files from your home directory, then install the new ones with ubuntu-drivers install.
this usually does it for me when it comes to nvidia weirdness.
You fucked up by buying Nvidia first off. But you have to use the open source drivers Nvidia doesn't officially fully support their newest cards on the closed source ones.
Should be a simple switch over and your good to go.
In the future never buy Nvidia if you are going to use their newest generation they always lag a full generation behind for proper support. It's absurd.
Your second fuck up is using Ubuntu. If you want to use the most recent generation of hardware your option is basically arch or get fucked over to some degree.
Ubuntu lags behind by sometimes over two years in hardware support. This is true of every Debian and Ubuntu based os. Mint and popos and some fedora distros have the same problem. Tho fedora tends to be far better with this. They just are all over the place with how fast they push things. So very case by case basis.
You basically need to be on bleeding edge kernel and packages for proper support.
This is the biggest reason gaming focused distros are all arch with the expections of bazzite which is at least based on fedora which also tends to push things really fast.
Simply put. You want nice hardware support for new harder? Pick arch and stick to AMD. Or at least go with fedora.
Stay away from Debian/Ubuntu/mint/popos. They are great till you want hardware support for anything newer then 1 to 2 years old depending on where in the release cycle you are.
I mean, there are quite a few others than Arch+family that package a very recent kernel too. Fedora as you mentioned, but also NixOS, openSUSE Tumbleweed and even Gentoo if you're that kind of a person. I bet I missed some.
But yeah Ubuntu is not necessarily one of them
A few things in this post are not accurate. The 5070 is supported by the nVidia Linux drivers since version 570.124.04. There's also absolutely nothing wrong with using Ubuntu. They have a PPA for the newer nVidia drivers, which work fine with the current LTS release.
OP doesn't say what kernel they're running, or what version of Ubuntu. That would be useful information to have.
Is self-hosted OpenVPN on a vps safe enough for p2p?
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Use WireGuard, not OpenVPN: faster, leaner, modern crypto.
No compression, full-tunnel + DNS leak protection, firewall to block non-VPN traffic, minimal logs.
If host’s fine with P2P, you’re set.
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Someone else asked “safe from what?” And that’s the real question.
In lieu of an answer to that though, no. It isn’t. The whole point of using a vpn to do p2p is to accomplish three things: traffic anonymization, legal protection and encrypted data transfer.
A vpn on a vps doesn’t anonymize your traffic because the vps is in your name. The vps provider is likely in compliance with kyc laws and will happily give you up to the law the moment they come knocking. If you’re using a domain with it it’s even easier to check that it’s you by looking at the whois records. On the off chance you’re getting a vps with enough storage and transfer included to act as your seedbox without kyc using cash or monero or something you’re likely paying more than the 2-3$ a month that the p2p vpns tend to charge.
A vpn on a vps most likely doesn’t provide you any legal protection either! Generally speaking, privacy focused vpn providers use nonpersistent systems where the secrets that can be subject to lawful intercept by the authorities are not stored on the systems hard drive and have protections against being read out of ram. Not only are almost all vpses generally held to be vulnerable to having their ram contents read by the provider, it is extremely unlikely that you set up openvpn without a configuration file on disk that contains your secret. This is just one example of a well documented vector of legal attack against a vpn, there are many. Paying an expert in legal attacks takes the onus off you.
A vpn on a vps doesn’t even accomplish encrypted data transfer, since the tunnel is between your pc and your vps, not whatever the vps connects to. Encryption keeps untrustworthy devices upstream of you from reading the data you send and receive. You might have prevented your untrustworthy isp devices from viewing your data, but you didn’t prevent untrustworthy vps provider devices from viewing your data. Even if your vps is trustworthy, the infrastructure it uses is the same infrastructure whose built in lawful intercept backdoors were compromised last year with no firm resolution. This wouldn’t matter nearly as much if your traffic were anonymized or had the shield of a crew of computer security experts running the system you use as a vpn, but as outlined above, you don’t.
Running your own vpn on a vps is cool, and I’m glad you have that ability, but it’s a lot like building your own car from scratch. It is possible, and a phenomenal learning experience, but not the suggested route for anyone.
Use a p2p vpn service instead. It’s much cheaper and better in almost every way.
Thanks for the info, very useful. I'm generally trying to hide my traffic from my ISP, when I'm torrenting some movies. I'm not doing a ton of p2p stuff. Not enough to need a seedbox. I'll share/seed some stuff from my local hard drive. Nothing sits in my vps.
I understand that although the IP addresses I connect to can be hidden from my ISP by my own instance of openvpn, it doesn't hide that my vps is connecting to those IP addresses. I think I'm okay with that. I'm not connecting to super sketchy sites. Generally, I'm trying to avoid getting some copyright warning letter from my ISP. Although that's never been an issue, I just thought I'd be safe.
My vps has a domain name, but it does have privacy protection where my name won't show up on a whois lookup. Not sure how much that helps, but I thought it was good to have.
In terms of a good p2p vpn services, it seems like a lot of the usual ones being advertised on podcasts and youtube are bad about privacy, and it seems like Proton may be the only one that I know of that seems good. Any recommendations for good vpns are welcome. I may just go that route if Openvpn isn't good enough.
The isp generally doesn’t care if you’re doing p2p. Some use it as a sales tactic to get you to move up to their top tier bandwidth plans though. They handle complaints about your p2p that have been investigated by some group contracted by the rights holders who usually say they have the file or want the file and take note of the ip that offers or accepts the file and then send that information to the group responsible for that ip.
In the case of your home ip, your isp receives the letter and sends you a letter in kind complying with all the laws they’re subject to. This usually has the threat of legal action and termination of service.
In the case of your vps ip, the vps provider complies to the full extent of the law. In some places with a three strikes or similar style of enforcement they may just forward it to you. They may use it as an excuse to ditch you if you’re a problem customer for them. It’s completely within the realm of possibility that they happily provide all the information they have on you, but that usually only when the police get involved.
In the case of your p2p vpn service they often have the ability to say “we don’t know which of our customers we’re connecting from that ip and have no way of finding out”. It’s a dead end for them.
Air has worked well for me. Proton is fine as long as you’re careful about what metadata you give them. Both do port forwarding.
In general, it would be a bad idea to use the same vpn account or service for p2p that you use for browsing or whatever. So maybe don’t do that.
Your VPS provider will likely just forward copyright infringement letters to you, same as your ISP would, or they'll suspend your account.
It will hide your ISP IP from torrent peers, but the VPS provider still knows exactly who you are.
but how hard is it for the vps traffic to be traced back to me?
Very easy by the VPS provider, as the VPS has a static IP assigned to you.
The Sick World of Prison Tycoon Games
The Sick World of Prison Tycoon Games
Only a deeply broken society would create a mobile game like “Lands of Jail.”Stephen Prager (Current Affairs Inc)
The Social Media Trend Machine Is Spitting Out Weirder and Weirder Results
TikTok Trends Are Driving Random Consumer Spending Spikes
Trends always have an element of randomness, but our algorithmic feeds have made them unintelligible.Amanda Mull (Bloomberg)
This reads like "old man yells at clouds"
Like on one hand, sure, tiktok has accelerated the amount of info/media kids are latching onto. But also, remember street sharks? Remember pogs? Or floam? Like.. shits always been like this.
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Gate keeping the API thinking it'll help with making some bigshot LLM some day lol
We are sliding rapidly into Idiocracy.
Buddy, we are already there. “Ow, my balls!” Would be high-brow tv these days.
Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine. Even if you can figure out who asked the right question and when, you have to trawl through a sea of inane garbled chat to get to the developer/expert response.
Specialised topic forums really need to make a resurgence but I doubt they will.
Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine.
Seeing this happen has been one of the saddest most desperate parts about watching the internet dying.
It was obvious what was going to happen years ago, that didn't stop people from acting like I was a reactionary foolish cynic when I voiced concern about this though.
Seriously FUCK Discord (and Reddit).
Weren't Reddit complaining a couple of years ago that too many AI bots crawls were stressing their servers.
Doesn't the internet archive relieve that stress?
Doesn't the internet archive relieve that stress?
I think that was probably the real reason for the block, the Internet Archive is too functional, scalable and accessible of a service for reddit's lame excuses about needing to gatekeep access to the community created content on their website to not make reddit look totally stupid unless they came up with an excuse to block the Internet Archive.
Reddit warned my account ( first warn in 10 years ) and deleted the comment when I told a American he can strike peacefully to show the government they are against it.
I got a warn for recommending violence by an ai , the human that checked it agreed and didn't remove the warn haha.
Reddit is just feared that their censorship goes public.
Not that reddit isn't hot garbage right now, and has been for a while actually, but there's a lot of people here who have glazed over the reason why reddit instituted this policy.
AI companies are scraping the Wayback Machine. This is something that should concern all of us.
And what do I care about Reddit getting paid?
If the IA doesn't complain about being used, then it's fine for me. The ideal outcome would be, if the archive can make some arrangement where they scrape the data and provide it to everyone. That way, sites only get scraped once and not constantly hammered.
Lenovo Webcams Can Be Turned into Persistent Attack Platforms
Lenovo Webcams Can Be Turned into Persistent Attack Platforms
Linux USB webcams from Lenovo can be turned into persistent “BadUSB” devices to inject keystrokes, drop payloads, and surve system reinstallsBill Mann (CyberInsider)
Vuoto a perdere 06: o mio o di nessun altro!
MONDO REALE: Freddie Mercury non ha mai avuto dei figli ma Mary Austin, la donna che lui ha amato, sì.
Il frontman dei Queen però era appassionato di gatti e per questo ha scritto una canzone per la sua preferita. Delilah.
FANTASIA: Mark Wilson scopre un segreto molto personale su Freddie intercettando alcune lettere a lui indirizzate, e la decisione è presa: Freddie, di quella corrispondenza, non saprà mai; è un’arma troppo potente nelle mani di Mark!
Racconto aggiornato dopo la pubblicazione iniziale (2021)
Vuoto a perdere: o mio, o di nessun altro!
Per giorni il mio defunto compagno Andrew continuò a ripetermelo nel sogno: “Dissangua il mio gifter, porta la sua anima da me!”
Dalla sera in cui Freddie si era tagliato un dito durante una cena, l’idea di ottenere il suo sangue diventò un’ossessione e più passava il tempo, più la determinazione si tramutò in rabbia.
“Se Freddie non sarà mio, nessun altro lo avrà!” dicevo tra me, ogni volta che mi alzavo dal letto e mi guardavo nello specchio.
Non riuscii mai però ad avvicinarlo davvero: lo vedevo girare insieme al suo staff, sorridere, parlare con l’assistente Melania ma era impossibile avere un’occasione per stare da solo con lui.
Non restò altro che studiare un piano per tendergli una trappola che l’avrebbe potuto dissanguare ma sfortunatamente, documentandomi grazie ai pochi mezzi di informazione disponibili, capii quanto il virus HIV fosse debole: la trasmissione non avviene senza contatto diretto col sangue del malato!
Il piano del dissanguatore
La sola speranza per me era stare lì mentre accadeva, e raccogliere il prezioso fluido in velocità: Ogni qual volta pulivo la sua stanza, cercavo di escogitare un sistema per sabotare un lampadario, una finestra, qualsiasi altro oggetto di vetro che potesse infrangersi su di lui mentre dormiva e io sarei corso ad aiutarlo, guarda caso mi sarei tagliato e poi…
No, alla fine decisi che non valeva la pena; troppo rischioso per la mia reputazione, mi avrebbero accusato di omicidio facendomi finire come Mark David Chapman, l’uomo che nel 1980 sparò a John Lennon. Povero idiota, quando John venne portato via rimase lì a leggersi Il Giovane Holden aspettando gli eventi, ma non ebbe alcun legame col proprio mito.
Io invece, facendo le cose per bene, potevo essere unito a Freddie per sempre e, soprattutto, diffondere il virus consentendo al mio idolo di vivere per l’eternità. E pazienza se per il mondo sarei stato l’ennesimo criminale! Mi sentivo coperto, nella mia falsa identità di William Karson.
Buone notizie?
Assorto nei miei pensieri non mi accorsi immediatamente di qualcuno che bussava alla porta della mia stanza; “Karson, c’è bisogno di te!” Mi disse Jim, il compagno di Freddie, quando aprii.
Stringeva in mano una busta. “Questa l’hanno mandata un paio di giorni fa destinata a Freddie, e appena ho letto da dove arriva mi sei venuto in mente subito.”
Allora era vero, hanno letto il mio curriculum prima di assumermi! Presi la lettera fra le dita e mi lasciai andare a un sospiro di malinconia, quando lessi la provenienza del mittente: Bugliano, culla e tomba per i miei sogni di scienziato.
Ricordai immediatamente il mio passato da studente di medicina, quando la speranza di sconfiggere l’AIDS con le mie sole forze, mi aveva indotto persino a fare pace con chi mi aveva sempre bullizzato. Raymond Still, che quando mi bocciarono, diede un colpo di spugna alla nostra inaspettata amicizia e mi umiliò il doppio.
Promozioni e fallimenti
“Mark Wilson, Lei può solo pulire i gabinetti”, mi disse impietoso l’insegnante quando provai a contestare il risultato finale; e Ray Still non mosse un dito per difendermi, anzi mi voltò le spalle per godersi la sua promozione con tutti gli onori!
Soltanto pochi mesi dopo aver accettato il lavoro a casa di Freddie Mercury, scoprii che mentre io facevo le pulizie Raymond Still aveva fatto carriera e avviato un’importante ricerca su HIV, con tanto di annuncio: “Sto cercando una celebrità risultata positiva al virus per sperimentare il mio nuovo studio. L’HIV, opportunamente modificato, può trasmettere emozioni e talento da una persona all’altra!”
Quale occasione migliore per fargli sapere di Freddie?
Stringendo ancora fra le mani la busta consegnatami da Jim, ripensai alla mia lettera appena spedita a Raymond in risposta al suo annuncio; gli avevo raccontato per filo e per segno la positività di Freddie ma anche dopo giorni dall’invio della missiva, non ricevetti alcun riscontro.
E se la busta in mano mia contenesse proprio la risposta di Ray, che da Bugliano voleva parlare direttamente con Freddie?
Non mi feci alcuno scrupolo e me la misi in tasca: “Mai paura, Jim! La porto io al capo, il messaggio è in buone mani.”
Inizio di un inganno
Alla svelta, chiusi la porta della mia stanza e tirata fuori la lettera, iniziai a leggere quel foglio scritto a penna:
Sono incinta, amore della mia vita. Aspettiamo una bambina, il nostro miracolo ma anche la mia più grande paura.Il mondo è un posto crudele e sento di non essere capace di proteggerla abbastanza perché sono in Russia, sposata con un violento.
“Che cosa? Freddie ha una figlia in Russia, o a Bugliano? Dove? Poco importa”, pensai. Se è vero non lo saprà mai! Richiusi la busta come nulla fosse e la nascosi nella mia borsa. Sarei stato l’unico a conoscere il segreto, avrei girato il mondo per trovare quella presunta bambina, dopodiché Freddie sarebbe stato mio, e solo mio!
Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer
Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer
Charlie Falconer calls on party colleagues to rediscover energy and not risk losing credit for big achievementsJessica Elgot (The Guardian)
Program alternative SCRU
Before I fully make the switch to Linux I'm looking for options to replace an old Windows program called SCRU. You set a folder to watch, and an output folder and it automatically copies specified extensions or extracts rar into the output folder.
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to do this in terminal and haven't dug into scripts yet, just want to know of it's possible.
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How to monitor a complete directory tree for changes in Linux?
How can I monitor a whole directory tree for changes in Linux (ext3 file system)? Currently the directory contains about half a million files in about 3,000 subdirectories, organized in three dire...Stack Overflow
ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool
ShellCheck finds bugs in your shell scriptswww.shellcheck.net
You can throw stuff like that into perplexity.ai as a starting point (it's free):
perplexity.ai/search/before-i-…
You can then continue to ask about stuff you want to understand. It's a great learning tool.
While I know extracting files is not difficult in Linux, there are a lot of different compressed file types. Most have some Linux alternative.
Linux is different from windows, in that most things that require a separate program to be installed, are usually default operations. Most file managers offer to compress or extract in the right click menu.
Try a live distro for a few days. It will blow your mind.
Its a command called crontab. Unix is all about doing things automatically. Takes a bit of time to set up, but then it does what you want, when you want it.
Your going to love it once you use it.
Edit: spelling
The Linux way:
- write a script: you can use the find command to find for example rars in a folder. find ~/thatfolder -iname '*.rar' -exec uncompresscommand. Read 'man find' for specifics. Script's first line is #!/bin/bash. Say 'chmod u+x script' to make it executable.
- set up a systemd timer unit that calls a service unit that runs your script at intervals.
- you can use something like for file in ~/thatfolder/* ; do sed trick that extracts the file extension and puts it in a variable ; case $variable in ; bunch of cases for different extensions. Variable $file will hold the source file name. Read up on bash scripting to figure it out.
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Is it possible to use plugins if I have Illustrator from M0nkrus or Genp?
Note: I am not requesting a link, source, nor a how-to, but rather I am curious if it is possible to use plugins if I have Illustrator from M0nkrus or Genp, because then I will know that continuing to search for one won’t be in vain, and that I am not just being foolishly optimistic.
Thank you.
Yes.
I assume so because PS, Pr, Ae all do.
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Mi riferisco al decreto che modifica il codice della strada, in relazione all'abbandono di rifiuti oppure oggetti lanciati dal finestrino dell'auto.
Era ora!
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Dal 9 agosto chi getta rifiuti dal veicolo rischia multe record e arresto. Le telecamere ora sono prova: ecco cosa cambiaRiccardo Liguori (GreenMe.it)
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Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.Chris Vallance (BBC News)
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Google Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
Google May Be Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
There are numerous reports that Google may be using a more generic and undocumented Googlebot, Google crawler. The crawler user agent is just named "Google," and it is not listed in any of the documenBarry Schwartz (Search Engine Roundtable)
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A Plea From Gaza: You’re My Only Hope
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5783600
My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
I share these words with honesty and hope, hoping they reach a kind heart — someone who can help, or even simply share my story with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign:
👉 gofund.me/da782c66
Every share, every kind word, every small donation could be a lifeline for us.From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL, an internet pioneer that brought millions of Americans online for the first time, is discontinuing its dial-up service next month.Gabriel Sama (The Mercury News)
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
AI wearables are quietly recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?Zara Stone (The San Francisco Standard)
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And I'm saying that in many states your lack of consent doesn't matter (legally speaking). Your consent is not required if someone else decides to record with their device.
I don't like it. Just stating that you declining to consent does nothing if someone else records you and gives the recordings to the police. That's not a search of you or your possessions, that's a search of someone else's recording that did not require your consent to be made.
None of this is new, just increasingly insidious and ubiquitous.
BRB. Building a wearable that sends out an ultrasonic screech to blow out nearby microphones.
Going to call it "Blow Me."
Edit: looks like they already exist: newscientist.com/article/23286…
Also, paper with more detail: arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08490v1
Voice jammer stops anyone from recording you speak
An artificial intelligence voice jammer can unobtrusively block microphones recording a single voice in an area, avoiding causing wider disruption that might tip people offMatthew Sparkes (New Scientist)
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GitHub - mcore1976/antispy-jammer: Simplest ultrasonic ANTISPY voice recording jammer based on ATTINY13 / ATTINY85/45/25 / ARDUINO with PAM8403 / TPA3116D2 module driving piezo ultrasonic transducers (and optionally AD8933 signal generator)
Simplest ultrasonic ANTISPY voice recording jammer based on ATTINY13 / ATTINY85/45/25 / ARDUINO with PAM8403 / TPA3116D2 module driving piezo ultrasonic transducers (and optionally AD8933 signal g...GitHub
Come rinunciare a calendario e contatti Google ed avere tutti i dati sul proprio server Linux usando come client delle APP open source
Questo articolo non vuol essere la guida unica possibile allo scopo, così è come ho fatto io, sicuramente vi sono altri modi, ma questa è una soluzione testata e funzionante. Se vi fossero omissioni o errori, non esitate a rispondere a questo post o contattarmi.
Installare sul proprio server Linux il programma server chiamato NextCloud con YunoHost è semplicissimo. Nelle impostazioni di installazione, lasciare aperta l'applicazione ai "visitatori" (ovvero agli utenti non autenticati che potranno autenticarsi) dall'apposito menu a tendina.
Da nextCloud -> Applicazioni -> ufficio e testo -> cercare "Calendar", installarla e abilitarla se già non è stato fatto. Ora in alto nella barra aparirà un'icona Calendario.
Da nextCloud -> Applicazioni -> ufficio e testo -> cercare "Contacts", installarla e abilitarla se già non è stato fatto. Ora in alto nella barra apparirà un'icona Contatti.
Da smartphone android installare l'APP DAVX5 ( davx5.com/ ) che si trova disponibile gratuitamente sullo store F-Droid ( f-droid.org/it/ ), mentre sul PlayStore costa € 5 circa. Piccola nota: le applicazioni android scaricate da F-Droid sono open source e ricevono aggiornamenti.
Installare l'APP DAVX5 dando i permessi richiesti. Cliccare sul tasto + presente nella pagina principale dell'APP ed inserire l'url di NextCloud e negli appositi campi anche l'user e la password con cui accedete (di default l'unico utente presente è l'amministratore di YunoHost).
Per avere un calendario open source e visualizzare gli eventi di NextCloud senza usare Google calendar: installare dallo store F-Droid l'APP gratuita "Etar" ( f-droid.org/it/packages/ws.xso… ) che di default mostrerà tutti i calendari che ha trovato tra cui quello configurato da noi. Da impostazioni sarà possibile disattivare il calendario Google e verificare che l'account NextCloud sia attivo. Etar dispone anche di un bel widget.
Per visualizzare i contatti si può utilizzare l'APP contatti di google. Qualora si desideri un'alternativa open source, Fossify mette a disposizione l'APP telefono, messaggi, contatti e molte altre ( search.f-droid.org/?q=fossify&… ) che potremo sincronizzare col nostro server grazie a DAVX5 senza che nessuno metta il naso nei nostri contatti, telefonate ed SMS.
Come configurare i contatti NextCloud su thunderbird da PC: dall'APP DAVX5 su android cliccare sull'account creato nella pagina principale, spostarsi in cardDAV e cliccare sulla rubrica NextCloud. Copiare "indirizzo URL", spostarsi in thunderbird sul proprio PC, cliccare su rubrica e poi su nuova rubrica che è l'icona in alto a sinistra e scegliere "Aggiungi rubrica cardDAV", scrivere il nome utente ed incollare l'url copiato da android, successivamente verrà chiesta la password.
Come configurare il calendario NextCloud su thunderbird da PC:dall'APP DAVX5 su android cliccare sull'account creato nella pagina principale, spostarsi in calDAV e cliccare sul calendario. Copiare "indirizzo URL", spostarsi in thunderbird sul proprio PC, nella barra di destra cliccare l'icona "Calendario" e poi in basso o sui tre puntini, cliccare su "Nuovo Calendario". Selezionare l'opzione "sulla rete", immettere lo stesso username della rubrica ed incollare l'url copiato da android su DAVX5, successivamente immettere la password e confermare.
Una nota: da NextCloud web, che è visualizzabile da qualunque browser, si possono leggere e modificare sia i contatti che gli eventi del calendario.
F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
F-Droid è un catalogo di applicazioni FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) per la piattaforma Android. Il client offre un modo semplice per navigare il catalogo, installare le app e aggiornarle direttamente sul tuo dispositivo.f-droid.org
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Io veramente faccio quello che posso, in questo caso ho remato un giorno provando tante soluzioni. Questa era abbastanza pulita e si ricollegava all'articolo di YunoHost già pubblicato! Spero di essere utile!
Does a cracked version of Astute Graphics plugins exist?
Note: I am not requesting for a link nor a source, but rather I am just curious if this actually does exist, because then I will know that continuing to search for it won't be in vain, and that I am not just being foolishly optimistic.
Thank you.
There is no such thing as perfect security. There's always the possibility that something malicious is there. The real point it to take every caution that is reasonable and mitigate any possible damages.
If you're truly paranoid, you could choose to only ever run it in a VM that doesn't have any personal information and make backups of anything you don't want to loose.
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
Microsoft is bringing GitHub into its AI engineering team. It’s part of an AI shakeup, following the GitHub CEO resigning.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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These comment make me curious. How many of you have read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland?
I'm sure most of you haven't, but just curious if anyone has
I'm finding this kind of Pikachu surprised face meme worthy, really.
We all know and knew that GitHub is Microsoft's. We all know that Microsoft is fucking evil, yet everyone and their mother have their main repo management with GitHub.
W.T.F.
what did you expect would happen, sooner rather than later?
Well technically nothing has happened yet, but you can imagine the fun that is coming
I honestly don't understand why Github hasn't been abandoned by users at this point. If I were a company, I'd either go to the competition, who is just as good if not better, or host in-house if the means are there.
I'm just a freelancer and I gave up on github 3 years ago
Our company runs everything on Azure. We use windows PCs, Visual Studio Professional, C# .Net, outlook, teams, etc.
We make enterprise software and I am happy really. I wasn’t at the start but as time goes on I don’t care, I do my job and go home.
The company I worked at got acquired by a big tech company. We're switching from Google suite to Microsoft, Mac to Windows, Slack to Teams, etc. It's pretty painful as transitions go, and if not for golden handcuffs I'd be gone.
I'm not sure if I'll ever be happy with Visual Studio though, so I use Jetbrains Rider.
So your company either works with Microsoft or has a weird idea of security. Teams does not work without taking home to Microsoft. My company tried everything but couldn’t make it work, so they extended their Skype for business service for some years.
I hope they switch to Linux when this is over.
Been in business 20 years with regular pen testing and had no complaints and have some pretty large clients.
.Net is popular in the UK for enterprise.
Might do you well to make less assumptions.
don't use the equality (==) operator, use strict equality instead (===)
crypto bros === AI bros
Can VSCode GUI
So, you're going to ditch GitHub because of Microsoft, but you're trying to keep using VSCode, which is also Microsoft?
It's not just GitHub. People are also using VSCode, despite it slowly suffocating the non-MS dev ecosystem.
Microsoft switched from the really aggressive "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" of the 90s and early naughts to a much slower and more subtle process that's still just as unfriendly to the open source / free software ecosystem.
I hate VSCode. So. Much. I honestly can't see how anyone gets anything done wiþ it.
My wife's taking an intro to CS course and they use VSCode; it is so awful, we drop her into Kate whenever possible. Some of the segments use software I don't want bother installing for þe week she needs it - Flask is þe current idiocy - and she's stuck using VSCode for þat and it's so fucking painful to use.
Honestly, how are people using VSCode for work? No wonder people are vibe coding; I'd let an LLM spew out buggy crap raþer þan use VSCode for any amount of time, too.
Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my 'status' when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.
Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!
I stopped sending updates to it and host my own gitlab now.
won't ever look back.
yes. I have a rack in my basement and host gitlab out of one of my servers.
it's available over LAN or VPN.
nightly backups to a nas and weekly syncs to S3.
S3 seems like a really expensive way to backup personal data. Are you doing it to achieve the offsite backup?
I currently dont have an offsite and im weighing up having a NAS at my parents place.
S3 is within my budget, but it can get expensive. and yes it's my off site.
if I had someplace else I could trust like you mentioned I might do that but it's just too much data to send.
my gitlab backups are around 80gb.
It is laughably easy to fake those green squares that for a while, ages ago, I had some commit counts like 14000 or so... every single day.
There are so many tools to also fake human like commit counts for those pretty green squares that if I came to know of my senior engineers hiring on that basis, their estimation as interviewers in my eyes would take a nosedive.
There's plenty alternatives.
- Sourcehut sr.ht (possibly other instances)
- Various gitlab instances, e.g. framagit.org
- not to mention git's own web ui which runs under so many domains; some of them might even be open to signups.
AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley
TLDR: Techbros in SF are wearing AI pins that record everything everyone says around them.
“My general sense is that we should assume we are being recorded at all times,” said Clara Brenner, a partner at venture capital firm Urban Innovation Fund. “Of course, this is a horrible way to live your life.”
Damn right it is. Every day one step closer to dystopia. Fuck this shit.
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
AI wearables are quietly recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?Zara Stone (The San Francisco Standard)
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This being illegal will prevent people from showing the recordings publicly, but if they record for private use, no one would prevent them, or even know...
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In a techno utopia, it would be nice to use something like this to have perfect memory. Assuming it was private, self-hosted and open source.
In reality, these are likely vendor locked hardware attached to cloud services awaiting their first massive security breach. A privacy nightmare that will just become more e-waste
Would it?
A chatlog of what everyone has ever said to you? Every misspeak, miscommunication, he-said-she-said, emotional comment? What problem would it solve?
It might solve some problems, and introduce a shit ton of new ones. As technology always does.
Given that a lot of people communicate via social media, that record already exists but we don't have access to it most of it.
I communicate with a lot of my friends via IMs and so there's a perfect history of our conversations in the chat logs. It is useful to be able to search to find a previous conversation. I'm not a masochist so I don't go back and dwell on arguments or things said in anger.
There are people with medical conditions that would benefit from having an augmented memory. People with early Alzheimer's, or Traumatic Brain Injury could recall previous conversations confidently.
People with high functioning autism could use the record to handle social confusion. Often they'll have difficulty in social situations without understanding what went wrong, so their memory of the encounter will be incomplete/unreliable. Having an objective record could let a trusted third party help them learn/understand what happened.
I could imagine people wouldn't mind leaving their memories to their children after they die. Or victims/witnesses of crime using their augmented memory to accurately identify the perpetrator.
Sure, I can easily think of downsides as well. But, it does seem likely that these kinds of devices that are always recording will become more common as prices for storage and hardware keep dropping.
Seems we are talking about different things here. By "perfect" I assumed you meant "complete", as opposed to an IM-log, e-mail, letters or other async communications.
For people with medical conditions such as dementia, of course, this could solve real problems. I'm not saying we should pull the brakes in every case. My only point is that more data doesn't equal "better" in every case.
Forgetting things are an underappreciated part of being human. Of course accumulating knowledge with science etc is what drives humanity forward. But when living our day to day lives, forgetting stuff is not just a bug, it's a feature. It enables us to move on, letting go, and revisit memories more organically and qualitatively.
For example the rush of nostalgia that hits you when you randomly hear a song from your childhood. Compare this to prompting your local AI with "give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood".
For example it's interesting to listen to accounts from savants with near perfect memories who talk about the struggles of remembering everything.
I'm not saying use technology to extend a person's biological memory. I'm saying use technology to keep a record of a person's life (obviously I know the privacy implications of doing this in actual practice in the year 2025, which is why I prefaced my comment with "In a techno utopia").
You, personally, will still forget things and be capable of nostalgia.
I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say that people like to have pictures. They collect pictures of vacations that they enjoyed, pictures of their children when they were X age, pictures of dead relatives and pictures of themselves with friends. Because people enjoy revisiting memories. When video cameras became more ubiquitous, people took videos of vacations they enjoyed, videos of their children's first steps, videos of themselves. There are entire markets for services which let you store and retrieve every picture that you've ever taken.
At the same time everyone has a story where they wish they had recorded some event. For example, a baby's first steps that a spouse missed because they were at work or some unexpected spectacular event. Or even mundane things like 'Where did I leave my phone?'. Having the ability to keep a record of memories, in video or in some hypothetical full-sensory recording, of every moment is something that people would be interested in.
Compare this to prompting your local AI with “give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood”.
Perhaps this is just a matter of taste, because I would absolutely do this.
People with high functioning autism could use the record to handle social confusion. Often they’ll have difficulty in social situations without understanding what went wrong, so their memory of the encounter will be incomplete/unreliable. Having an objective record could let a trusted third party help them learn/understand what happened.
As one of those people, I have to be clear: this is not how things would shake out. The vast majority of the time, the misunderstanding comes from tone, not from the words used. Providing a transcript showing that one’s words are inoffensive has done little to improve the situations where I’ve been able to provide them - NTs often double-down that their emotional interpretation of your tone still matters more than the specific words you chose.
Even in a tech utopia something like this existing would make it not a utopia to me, since I don't see a similarity between regular voluntary posted texts and social media submissions and a persistent recording device.
Like the social situation automatically means people who come in contact with them are being recorded against their will. When it comes to IMs in your example people can choose to participate or not, but this tech is not the case.
Unless there is some Black Mirror type built in privacy block of people showing up as glitched out avatars if they haven't opted in.
Unless there is some Black Mirror type built in privacy block of people showing up as glitched out avatars if they haven’t opted in.
It looks like you've thought of an idea to solve the problem that you stated.
In my tech utopia there wouldn't be Orwellian surveillance to begin with. Anyone entering with those type of devices would find it not working.
It would be a haven from the other districts where big brother is always watching and citizens are always watching each other.
I think of it like a memory. I can remember seeing people, they don't have to consent to my having a memory of them.
I think it is the same if the memory is stored on electronic storage. Though, I would not trust something so private to a cloud service. It would have to be a secure storage that only I physically control and have the ability to decrypt.
Black Mirror did an episode about this, if you haven't seen it. It's called "The Entire History of You". Obviously, since it is Black Mirror, they present a dystopian take.
Humans have been extending and improving on our biological capabilities using technology since before recorded history. Improving our memory seems like it will eventually happen also.
I do completely understand why this would be a nightmare in practice. Governments would claim that they had the right to search it and it could still be stolen or accessed by unauthorized bad people.
Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Tought these fuckers nothing
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarban…
Corporations and c-staff lie cheat and steal, They come up with a legal ideas and tell people to act on them. The last thing they need is something storing information about what they're actually saying and is set around them. These spy pins and the VR boardroom note takers are just generating documentation to get these assholes hold off to prison, when we start caring about that start again
You don't keep those emails, you don't keep those records, you don't keep audio or video past a predetermined period of time someone discovery comes for you , You're not caught shredding evidence.
Sauce for pic on the right. NOW!
Never mind, it says right there it's from an official artwork. I'm stupid.
Heydey ho folks, anybody I know a decent search engine with a lite interface?
I've been a DDG Stan for years but after doing some research on freeBSD kernel modification I've realized just how bad the AI SLOP articles have become, and they're doing nothing to filter them out. Lately it seems every result is either a nuked reddit thread, or an LLM produced static page that almost is convincing enough to be a real person (if it weren't confidently producing advice for Linux on a page claiming to be for freeBSD).
I do most of my browsing in Links and Offpunk, so HTML only is highly preferred, no JavaScript, as it is non-functional in my browsers of choice.
The engines don't necessarily need to be clearweb, I'm down to clown with Gemini, Gopher, i2p... I'd prefer against TOR but if its the only place to find a decent web browser I'll use it.
programmiamo in Python
Diceva di essere Mengoni, ma non era vero. Scopriamo insieme perchè.
Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc.
Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.
Quando seguite questi cantanti su messanger si può stabilire un contatto col cantante ed io l’ho fatto. Convinta che fosse veramente Marco Mengoni gli ho dato il mio numero di telefono per continuare le nostre conversazioni su telegram, fino a quando una sera Marco ha detto di amarmi e mi ha chiesto dei soldi. Chiaramente non poteva essere ed ho iniziato ad insospettirmi fino a quando il mio sguardo è caduto sul numero di telefono di Marco.
E’ stato allora che ho capito che non era il vero Marco Mengoni, ma
Faceva credere di essere Mengoni: sgamato! - sgamiamoli
Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc. Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.raffaella papaccioli (sgamiamoli)
After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
Honestly not sure what to say except INSANITY!!!!
Three months later, the man showed up at his local emergency room. His neighbor, he said, was trying to poison him. Though extremely thirsty, the man was paranoid about accepting the water that the hospital offered him, telling doctors that he had begun distilling his own water at home and that he was on an extremely restrictive vegetarian diet. He did not mention the sodium bromide or the ChatGPT discussions.
After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
Literal “hallucinations” were the result.Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)
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India: Opposition Leader detained by police in protests against suspected voting fraud
Thirty members of the Indian parliament, including Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi, were detained by police following a protest against suspected voter fraud in recent state elections. Rahul Gandhi's Indian National Congress party had found fake and duplicate voters in the electoral rolls, and accused the election commission of colluding with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The Election Commission rejected his claims, following which digital rolls were briefly unavailable from the EC website.
The protest also focused on a 'special revision' of voter rolls in the state of Bihar, where elections are scheduled later this year. The requirements for inclusion were criticised as being unreasonably complicated, and likely to disproportionately affect the poor, illiterate, and migrant labourers.
Hm I wish there was some more info or research into the credibility of the opposition leaders' claim. This article reads a little bit like he said she said without telling us any of the facts.
Thanks for posting, News from this part of the world is so important we don't read enough of it
The opposition leader showed examples of duplicate votes, as well as obviously fake votes (one had parent's name as 'asdfg' or something like that). The question is how common these are, and whether they are being used to swing elections a certain way.
Honestly, if the Election Commission had been more transparent and admitted the mistake instead of trying to hide the rolls, this might have been a non-event.
[Resolved] How to cross post?
Hi all, I just posted in one community and now I want to cross post that into another.
Is there a right way to do that? I'm not seeing any ui elements for this.
I'm on the default piefed.social web mobile UI, if that helps. Thanks!
Any way to remove voice-over?
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Depends on how its done.
First check the audio tracks and see if there is one with a voice over and one with regular audio - if so, easy! Reencode and drop the unneeded track.
If not.... Youre going to have a rough time, you'd be better off trying to find just the audio and aligning it.
Edit: or another copy of the show obviously.
The handy bit would be if you could find a crappy quality version, you can still pull the audio from there and align it with your copy. It may not be great audio and still require some degree of effort to sync properly with the video, but it would be a much more realistic effort than trying to remove speech from the same track.
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Oh. You just want to turn off the polish part of the audio!
Okay that's a much bigger task.
Mandatory age verification online in the EU - Amendment 186
EU parliament accepted a last minute amendment, mandating age verification for pornographic (whatever that is) content online, punishable with up to one year prison sentence.
This was rolled into a directive concerning CSAM. Because adults accessing porn need to be de-anonymised to avoid child exploitation?
Some press releases: (1), (2), (3)
PRESS RELEASE I European Parliament votes to force pornographic websites to use effective age-verification tools to protect minors - FAFCE
Strasbourg, 18 June 2025 The Federation of Catholic Family Association in Europe (FAFCE) welcomes the decision of the European Parliament to force pornographic websites to put in place "robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prev…admin (FAFCE)
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In 2023 I was thinking how stupid puritan the Texan politician were. The EU commission and parliament had different ideas.
Turns out the incumbents in EU are very scared as politicians from outside the traditional political families are getting popular votes. And instead of looking into to mirror as to why that is happening, they blame "the internet" and go authoritarian.
Thus joining in the creation of the machinery for mass surveillance and supression.
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That's just how power works. It is up to the working people to keep the regime in check but it seems boomers abdicated their duty and we are now facing consequences of it.
We don't have any infrastructure to fight back in any meaningful pay. The best tool left is direct action but the normie is too docile to change his consumption habits. God forbid he has to do something
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I think the overarching theme is that the EU wants more and more power and control.
In the case you describe: it's by taking away freedom from software providers. In the case of this law, it's by taking away freedom from their citizens.
Less agency and freedom for others, more control for and subjugation to them, is what motivates both - Fun when they do it to others, less fun now they're doing it to you too.
Especially considering the backhanded way this amendmend was last-minute shoehorned onto unrelated legislation. They know it's against general will and good.
"Do you want children to be exploited? No? Then do as I say"
I think the joining theme is that the EU wants more and more power and control.
Ofc. People who push this are in composition 10% moral crusaders and 90% those afraid for their own power and status quo in the coming years. With these pushes toward age verification and message scanning; It's not just they want to scan everything and watch everybody, they want to test the waters and people to to think they are always being watched and self censor and not do anything against powers that be. They know better than anybody how shaky things have gotten in Europe and how unpopular they really are. It's pure attempt at population control.
The only problem is that with current people in power they really can't help themselves, but to make things worse for the average people. So the fire will rise anyway.
Are there any issues with a system where the website in question (let's say, a porn site) doesn't get your ID, but just a confirmation from your government that yes, you are of age?
~~It has a name but I can't find it right now.~~ But it would protect your privacy from their website you're visiting, and the website can uphold the rules.
It's called double blind: biometricupdate.com/202504/dou…
Double blind age assurance requirement for porn sites takes effect in France
Double-blind age assurance is a discreet engagement indeed, and VerifyMy and IDxLAB have launched a strategic partnership to address the need.Joel R. McConvey (BiometricUpdate.com)
Yes. Anyone that can request both the logs of this third party and the website fully deanonymises the users.
Who could have this access? The same people that last minute added this amendment to unrelated legislation. It's even easier this way: they have to strongarm only a few "age verification providers", then follow the tokens.
Additionally, the amendment is a stepping stone to outlaw other privacy techniques such as VPNs.
Foreign websites still don't comply? We have no choice but to build the great firewall of EU. For the children.
the problem is that people are being verifiably linked to their 'adult' preferences. this is data that is being generated, in bad faith, and handled by multiple parties. your legal identity should not need to be tied to this information. this information can be used against you both now and in the future.
we've already seen in the US where there is a push for information about gender and basic sexual education being labelled as 'adult'. when i was in school, information about countries like Cuba, Afghanistan or China was considered 'too mature' (or marked as 'terrorism-related' by the school firewall) for children; i could see this thus extending to require age verification before you can access 'subversive' information, on the basis of 'protecting children' from 'political extremism'.
Double blind means that the age provider doesn't know why your age is requested, and the service (website) doesn't know you, they only know that the age provider says "yes" or "no".
How does one "follow the tokens" then?
the provider knows who's asking because of the IP address and API key of the requester. if it uses a form with a redirect, they even know your IP and what page you were on, tied to your legal identity. if the provider makes any API requests to a government registry, now that knows the when, the how, and (categorically) the what. short of a statement of 'no logs' and an audit to confirm as such, there is definitely logs. hackers love this information. data brokers love this information.
the problem is not the service knowing. it's anyone knowing. the provider deänonymised you the moment you gave your id. the precise implementation details are important here.
How does one "follow the tokens" then?
We don't know what they do with the information, as it's closed source.
Assuming it's based on this EU prototype:
They don't know why it was requested, but do know who, where and when.
So they gather the logs of A, the token provider. Is the target present? They have his token. They also see where and when the token was used. Did you have a fun time yesterday evening, on your phone at home, on websites B, C and D?
Next up, if they want even more detail, gather the logs of B, look for the token. That way they can pinpoint the exact search terms, categories, watch time, etc
In summary: centralizing the de-anonymisation this way makes mass surveillance easier than if it were decentralized, in sometimes foreign jurisdictions.
It also shifts the conversation away from the best solution: don't deanonymise in the first place.
av-doc-technical-specification/docs/architecture-and-technical-specifications.md at main · eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification
European Age Verification solution documentation. Contribute to eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Either the site gets your ID or the government issues a confirmation, which puts you on the porn viewer list.
I believe the idea (in an ideal world) is that Website A requests data from Service B, which then asks about you to government C. So Government C doesn't know what you're asking about, and the Website A doesn't know who you are. That does mean Service B would have to be trusted / vetted, which might relocate the problem but it would be easier to verify (FOSS for example) than trusting your government to not put you on a list.
There's no need for the middleman in this scheme. Instead, a much simpler solution would be:
- Website A gives you a randomly generated
$TOKEN - You go to Government and ask it to sign something like
The person with $TOKEN is of legal age. You have to provide your ID or whatever here, but the government doesn't know who made the token. - You go back to website A, it checks the signature of the message and lets you through
This can be automated in some way; maybe with a browser extension or some referrer-less redirect sort of thing.
It's still fundamentally shitty though, because now the government pretty much knows that you want to watch adult stuff, it just doesn't know which adult stuff exactly.
A better (but almost impossible to implement) solution would be for the government to issue everyone a smartcard as an identity document (many countries already do, but without the following features). On that smartcard is a private key, with the corresponding public key signed by the government. The smartcard can then sign any $TOKEN with true statements about you, e.g. The person with $TOKEN is of legal age, or The person with $TOKEN is called $NAME, or The person with $TOKEN has a driving license, etc. You have to connect it to your computer in some way so the website can talk to it, but it should be trivially doable with almost any modern smartphone. This way, everyone has the ability to attest stuff about them without the government being directly involved.
The reason this won't work is because it would be quite expensive to do and would take a long while to implement.
a digital wallet with ZKP could resolve 'are you old enough?' without the query ever needing to leave your device.
without a digital wallet, it could be done with fully homomorphic encryption.
both of these would be innovations which i feel require guided development. innovation counter to the goal of the legislation, which is surveillance. innovation driven by the self-proclaimed purpose of 'protecting children'; innovation driven by the impetus to make it harder for people to masturbate.
since the general attitude right now has been 'require agegates and just leave it up to The Market™', then the solution in practise will probably be a private third party that brokers this information, probably with a natural monopoly, that will charge exorbitantly for their API, have Google Analytics running on every page, leaks like a sieve, leaves logs everywhere, and will probably get caught selling data, which will incur a one-time fee equal to 80% the size of the company's rainy day fund, and maybe the CEO will be asked to step down, shielding the rest of the C-suite from consequences (and allowing them to just do it again). they'll work closely with law enforcement, they'll be breached in the first year, and probably have a huge leak 4 years later.
in that time, due to real changes in the law or jurisprudence, or companies just 'playing it safe', age verification will come to encompass queer identity, sexual education and health, war coverage, counterculture and even history. more online regulation just means more barriers to entry which means a larger monopoly for multinational corporations.
i think there are better uses for this technology than controlling pornography.
Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout
Now that the Online Safety Act has gone into effect, countless problems have begun to reveal themselves, and the absurd, disastrous outcome illustrates why we must work to avoid this age-verified future at all costs.Electronic Frontier Foundation
France is getting harder on online porn.
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So basically a Swiss (PrivadoVPN, ProtonVPN), American (Hotspot Shield, IPVanish), Canadian (Tunnelbear, Windscribe), British (PureVPN), Israeli (ExpressVPN, PIA) one.
Not a lot of great options outside the EU. Canada and Britain have age verification laws, America and Israel cannot be trusted, and the Swiss government is constantly threatening to take steps against privacy.
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"The Federation of Catholic Family Association in Europe (FAFCE) welcomes the decision of the European Parliament"
Of course, it's the Catholics, protecting the children from sexual exploitation. HM
They are mocking us.
Catholic churcu is the largest and most well known pedophile organization in history. They got caught and they got away. They raped children and likely still doinngit.
Now they can make these snide comments to adults trying to jerk off and feel morally superior about it.
I guess peasants accept it, why shouldn't elites rape children and reduce your freedoms and privacy.
Reading the attached article, this seems to be a directive, rather than a law. We don't know what shape the law will take, or whether it will actually be implemented... No?
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Not too familiar with this stuff.
There's still time to push back, I would guess.
Yes it's a directive. Currently it passed the EU commission (it's their proposal) and parliament. It still needs to pass council.
After that, each member country of the EU must implement it in their respective country laws.
It's already questionable if it becomes a law, due to several security and privacy concerns. It will be a search of tecnical solutions which respect the EU privacy law, which isn't so easy, wil say, it will not be in near dates until it is generally implrmented, depending also on each country. We'll see. I asked Andi:
The European Commission is developing an age verification app, set to launch in July 2025, that will allow EU users to prove they are old enough to access age-restricted online content without revealing personal information12. The app, known as the "mini-wallet," is built on the same technical specifications as the European Digital Identity Wallets planned for 20263.
Key features of the age verification solution include:
- Privacy-preserving verification using Zero Knowledge Proofs (though implementation remains optional)1
- Four verification methods: national eID schemes, physical ID cards, institutional verification (banks/notaries), and third-party apps1
- Open-source implementation with customization options for Member States4
- Integration with the EU Digital Identity Wallet framework3
However, critics highlight potential accessibility issues, noting that marginalized groups like refugees, unhoused people, and those without government IDs may be excluded1. The Electronic Frontier Foundation also warns about privacy risks and the need for stronger regulations on which services can request age verification1.
The initiative supports compliance with the Digital Services Act, which requires online platforms to implement robust age verification policies2. The Commission has already begun enforcement, launching investigations into four adult content websites in May 2025 over inadequate age verification measures5.
- EFF - Age Verification in the European Union: The Commission's Age Verification App ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- European Commission - Call for tenders: Development, consultancy and support for an age verification solution ↩︎ ↩︎
- European Commission - The EU approach to age verification ↩︎ ↩︎
- EU Age Verification Solution ↩︎
- PYMNTS - EU to Launch Age Verification App for Online Use in July ↩︎
EU to Launch Age Verification App for Online Use in July
The European Union plans to introduce an age verification app in July and may introduce rules requiring online platforms to protect minors.PYMNTS (PYMNTS.com)
This is misleading. It will keep your information private from the website you’re accessing (supposedly), but the EU authorities will know full well which websites you’re visiting and surveilling.
And of course, they will apply the non-compliance claims to absolutely anything they want to censor.
I know very well that it is known which pages I visit, when authorities pretend it.
I'm normally not a friend of AI, but despite of this I use Andisearch as my main search engine since almost 3 years, because with it, I don't have even the need to access most of the pages, I can read these in the own reader mode in the search results and summarize the content, sandboxed and with random proxie. The search concepts don't even appears in the browser history only that I searched with Andi, but not what, I can watch YT videos also direct in the search results. It's one of the most private search engine which I know, and I know almost all also thanks to an user. Free, no limits, no logs, no ads, no cookies, anonymous, own independent LLM.
Andi - AI Search for the Next Generation
Andi is AI search for the next generation. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like chatting with a smart friend.andisearch.com
What Does Palantir Actually Do?
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.Palantir sends its employees to work inside client organizations essentially as consultants, helping to customize their data pipelines, troubleshoot problems, and fix bugs. It calls these workers “forward deployed software engineers,” a term that appears to be inspired by the concept of forward-deployed troops, who are stationed in adversarial regions to deter nearby enemies from attacking.
Crucially, Palantir doesn’t reorganize a company's bins and pipes, so to speak, meaning it doesn’t change how data is collected or how it moves through the guts of an organization. Instead, its software sits on top of a customer’s messy systems and allows them to integrate and analyze data without needing to fix the underlying architecture. In some ways, it’s a technical band-aid. In theory, this makes Palantir particularly well suited for government agencies that may use state-of-the-art software cobbled together with programming languages dating back to the 1960s.
Palantir’s software is designed with nontechnical users in mind. Rather than relying on specialized technical teams to parse and analyze data, Palantir allows people across an organization to get insights, sometimes without writing a single line of code. All they need to do is log into one of Palantir’s two primary platforms: Foundry, for commercial users, or Gotham, for law enforcement and government users.
Foundry focuses on helping businesses use data to do things like manage inventory, monitor factory lines, and track orders. Gotham, meanwhile, is an investigative tool specifically for police and government clients, designed to connect people, places, and events of interest to law enforcement. There’s also Apollo, which is like a control panel for shipping automatic software updates to Foundry or Gotham, and the Artificial Intelligence Platform, a suite of AI-powered tools that can be integrated into Gotham or Foundry.
Foundry and Gotham are similar: Both ingest data and give people a neat platform to work with it. The main difference between them is what data they’re ingesting. Gotham takes any data that government or law enforcement customers may have, including things like crime reports, booking logs, or information they collected by subpoenaing a social media company. Gotham then extracts every person, place, and detail that might be relevant. Customers need to already have the data they want to work with—Palantir itself does not provide any.
Foundry and Gotham are similar: Both ingest data and give people a neat platform to work with it. The main difference between them is what data they’re ingesting. Gotham takes any data that government or law enforcement customers may have, including things like crime reports, booking logs, or information they collected by subpoenaing a social media company. Gotham then extracts every person, place, and detail that might be relevant. Customers need to already have the data they want to work with—Palantir itself does not provide any.
Since leaving Palantir, Pinto says he’s spent a lot of time reflecting on the company’s ability to parse and connect vast amounts of data. He’s now deeply worried that an authoritarian state could use this power to “tell any narrative they want” about, say, immigrants or dissidents it may be seeking to arrest or deport. He says that software like Palantir’s doesn’t eliminate human bias.
People are the ones that choose how to work with data, what questions to ask about it, and what conclusions to draw. Their choices could have positive outcomes, like ensuring enough Covid-19 vaccines are delivered to vulnerable areas. They could also have devastating ones, like launching a deadly airstrike, or deporting someone.
In some ways, Palantir can be seen as an amplifier of people’s intentions and biases. It helps them make evermore precise and intentional decisions, for better or for worse. But this may not always be obvious to Palantir’s users. They may only experience a sophisticated platform, sold to them using the vocabulary of warfare and hegemony. It may feel as if objective conclusions are flowing naturally from the data. When Gotham users connect disparate pieces of information about a person, it could seem like they are reading their whole life story, rather than just a slice of it.
"amplifying human bias" seems like a very soft way to put it. One should enquire whether if Palantir itself has any form of temporary access to the data from the companies they consult and whether or not they are allowed to analyse it themselves, even if not store it.
If, yes then we are looking at government enabled Cambridge analytica (in many fields not just politics though) all over again. If they can for instance analyse the data from NHS, insurance companies will be drooling millions over that analysis so that they can maximise their profits by getting a very precise understanding of healthcare need trends.
Fear Peter Thiel and his gangbuster crew of excel homies and consultants 😂
Don't get me wrong, they're enablers of authoritarianists, but let's not give them too much credit. Magic? 🫧🧐🪠
recensione alberghiaca con sorprese megapazzurde e stasi ottimalizzata!
A grandissimissima richiesta (…di ben 1 persona), quasi urgeva una recensione dell’albergo dove sono stata per poco più di metà della settimana scorsa… utile a non si sa chi o cosa, data la solita mia necessaria precauzionale omissione di dettagli altrimenti fondamentali, ma il piacere della storiella (o, come dice il caro Piero Angela, il […]
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recensione alberghiaca con sorprese megapazzurde e stasi ottimalizzata!
A grandissimissima richiesta (…di ben 1 persona), quasi urgeva una recensione dell’albergo dove sono stata per poco più di metà della settimana scorsa… utile a non si sa chi o cosa, data la solita mia necessaria precauzionale omissione di dettagli altrimenti fondamentali, ma il piacere della storiella (o, come dice il caro Piero Angela, il piacere della scop..ta) è sempre altamente importante e necessario a non sprofondare ogni giorno sempre di più in quello stato dell’essere che ci (mi) vede... vabbè, scusate, basta cazzate. 🙁Vediamo prima le cose strane, così togliamo il dente bizzarro e via il dolore causato dalla morbosa curiosità. A parte il non proprio spassoso incidente dell’ultima sera, che fa testo a sé, di cose curiose ce n’erano un bel po’ in questo hotel; queste altre, per fortuna, non avvilenti. La cosa che forse più colpiva, complessivamente e continuamente, è che… proprio all’ingresso, affianco alla reception, aveva un bar… che operava da normale bar, essendo in centro. In 4 giorni non ho visto nessuno andarci, però oh: per chi ha interesse, ci sta il bar. Anzi, ci sono due bar: c’era una sala interrata, che fungeva da sala colazione (e solo colazione, il resto del tempo era chiusa), e aveva un altro bancone/postazione bar. Addirittura, le pareti di questa erano affrescate con un tema apposta per l’hotel… ma non ho fotine mie ora, quindi ops. 👻
Passando alla camera… Altre cose strane sono che il rubinetto del lavandino si chiamava Cristina(e si, le marche delle robe idrauliche sono sempre stranamente assurde, maCristina non l’avevo mai vista)… mentre, la marca dell’area lavandino proprio, è un altro nome mai sentito, TECHNOVA, ma la cosa che mi ha lasciata confusa è che il font sembra uscito tipo da un anime… queste lettere un po’ rotonde con la O che è una stellina, insomma… E poi ancora, nell’armadio appendiabiti (non in bagno ovviamente), c’era il quadro elettrico della stanza, con un cartello che diceva tipo di non aprire se non autorizzati… ma la porticina di plastica era di suo mezza aperta, quindi il cartello nel contesto sembra una presa in giro. Boh, roba proprio strana si trova, mi sa, andando in giro con l’occhio clinico ben aperto. 👁️
Temo di non essere proprio bbona a fare le recensioni dei posti, però, perché i tratti positivi di forte impatto che riesco a dire solo solo 2… però oh, son roba tosta. Come già detto, con la stanza solo per me le faville sono state sensibili: anzitutto perché il letto era a due posti, ma c’ero appunto soltanto io, quindi ho dormito alla grande, senza sentire i rumori molesti dei miei genitori — altrimenti succede puntualmente che loro fanno il roleplay della Russia (russano e invadono il mio sonno) e io quindi dell’Ucraina (sigh) — e perdendomi ampiamente in questo letto, gigante per i miei standard (0.5 posti più grande del mio solito, wow), stabilendo insomma per bene anche in trasferta il mio stato da principessa femcel marcia… ma poi, perché avevo il bagno solo per me… 😈E il bagno, anche se era più piccolo di quello dei miei genitori — che, al contrario, avevano la parte principale della stanza più piccola di me, ops — era stellare… da gaming, oserei dire. E il gaming è infatti avvenuto alla grande, la sera che avevo un po’ di tempo (si, proprio quella dell’incidente) e ho quindi deciso di provare la doccia che c’era. Il design era molto strano a prima vista, e certamente mi aspettavo qualcosa di insolito nel suo uso… ma non immaginavo che avesse letteralmente i LED blu (primo colore del gaming!!!) e dei display numerici per indicare la temperatura corrente dell’acqua e il tempo trascorso con essa accesa!!! In confronto alla roba normalissima che posso permettermi io a casa, questa doccia è stata super premium… tanto che, trasportata dal gaming, ho deciso di farmi anche lo shampoo, nonostante inizialmente volessi solo sciacquarmi. (Poi vabbè, lo shampoo ha causato altri problemi, ma quella è una condanna mia personale.) 😻
Ecco, del bagno in realtà non mi è assolutamente piaciuto che il sapone per le mani fosse in un dispenser automatico (non solo da me, anche dai miei era così)… A parte che si mimetizzava col muro, quindi inizialmente non lo notavo e mi chiedevo dove straminchia fosse il sapone per le mani, non essendoci saponette in giro, ma solo il flaconcino per la doccia… è semplicemente terribile il fatto che si attivi con un sensore di prossimità: se si appoggia qualcosa lì sotto per sbaglio, ecco che questa verrà sburrata immediatamente dal macchinario, senza se e senza ma… e anche banalmente per prendere il sapone, è scomodo, non si capisce mai come bisogna mettere e togliere la mano, e quindi ogni tanto va a cadere, sporcando la superficie attorno al lavandino. 😭Però… in un certo senso, questo contrasto tra elementi di lusso e oggetti che vanno bene solo in un bagno pubblico ha una sua personalità… E quindi, comunque, tutto sommato, nice albergo da 3 stelle in provincia di Roma; non costato troppissimissimo, considerato che il totale con le due stanze è stato 800€ per 4 notti. Ci sarebbero ora foto da salvare riguardo il viaggio, ma, tra questo blog, il sito delle foto, Pixelfed, la BBS, ora anche Sharkey, oltre pure al semplice Pignio, non so manco dove mettere cosa, e allora zzz, circolare, non c’è null’altro da vedere qui… 🥴
#albergo #curiosità #hotel #recensione #stranezze #vacanza
Disproven
[old scientist, pointing at some data]
After decades of research, thousands of experiments, a massive amount of peer reviewing, we can finally confidently conclude...
[smug dude with a ridiculous hairstyle]
Uh yeah, but this TikTok by PatriotEagle1776 says your research is wrong
thebad.website/comic/disproven
bsky.app/profile/thebad.websit…
I feel like a large reason for the distrust is because Governments have given every incentive to the population to distrust Big Pharma.
For example the recent Pfizergate corruption scandal with EU head Ursula Von Der Leyen
politico.eu/article/commission…
EU executive reviewed von der Leyen’s Pfizergate texts — then let them disappear
Document sheds new light on controversies over a multibillion deal to obtain Covid-19 vaccines.Mari Eccles (POLITICO)
Of course not.
I remember when I first moved to the US and saw the broadband and cell phone prices. Corruption american style.
Mangoholic
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Ziggurat
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Does the GPL apply to content published on the fediverse? If yes we're getting a great open source model for free.
Also obligatory fuck META
Sean Tilley
in reply to Ziggurat • • •Zerush
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Meta's Threads has launched a beta allowing users in some countries to share posts to ActivityPub-compliant Fediverse servers. ActivityPub is a protocol enabling interoperability between social networks, allowing posts to flow between networks regardless of ownership. Key points: * Threads users can opt-in to share posts to the Fediverse. * Replies to Threads posts on the Fediverse won't appear in Threads itself initially. * Meta plans further integrations, including allowing Threads users to see and engage with replies from other servers and follow users on other Fediverse servers. * Future Threads profiles will consolidate followers from both Threads and other Fediverse servers. * Challenges exist due to the lack of standardized features like quote posts in ActivityPub. * Meta aims to provide a fully interoperable experience, reaching new audiences and fostering community. * Interoperability allows Meta to better understand user behavior across different platforms for monetization purposes.
theregister.com/2024/03/22/met…
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse
Simon Sharwood (The Register)