Basically in a course I am taking, I have to find global challenges and implications of a digital topic. So we turned to piracy in the end because it has been here for a while (and lets face it, I was biased and its my favorite topic.) and has its qualities and some drawbacks which need to be discussed in a topic like that. With the rise of streaming services and enshitification of most things we know of, Piracy has crawled out of the shadows and become less niche and more a valid option.
I would love if you all can give my some of your opinions on it. Any documentations, reads or articles and some valid points to help to discuss with my group (they are not all tech nerds ...)
OFC we will discuss the issues of services today, why piracy has slowed with the rise of streaming services (and back up ahahah). We will discuss that piracy helps in a way to preserve data, culture etc. The good and the bad of it. Impact of piracy in the creative goods sector in sciences. What governments do to counter piracy...
So really any stat that is justified of course, any reasons to do so (is it more convenient?? Is it due to censorship in your country or limited access to information?? DRM ?? Monopoly no other alternatives??...)
I am open to all info and articles And thanks for your time too!
Immediately go for the jugular and question the very existence of intellectual property as a concept.
"You are given this magical horn of plenty. It can feed any person anywhere in the world at any time! Do you not use it, avoiding the inevitable collapse of the global food production and distribution sector or do you use it so... you know, nobody will ever be hungry again? Is there a right and a wrong decision here?
You are also given the magical ability to copy and distribute any digital information infinitely and at no added cost..."
that is a very cool idea! but then how to counter the fact that money is needed to produce these things such as art, books etc Like dont we pay artists ? directly?
while digital property is really debated even believed that copyright for physical goods being copied to digital is no fair
so i could dig into digital intellectual property i will see what i can find
It is important and fair to cover the cost of production and also have some gains on top of that.
But at some point it switches to bringing ongoing profit for no ongoing work or effort.
Where that point lies axactly is open to discussion. But after it has been reached, it is surely not morally wrong to distribute that media freely. Ideally it would be legally required to turn it to public domain, which would increase competition, quality and creativity of the whole landscape.
tbf that is a great point I just now need to find a paper discussing that system ur describing. I never thought about that like that tbf but some issues arise like what is the production cost?? who determines that or moderates it? but again great idea i hope i can find some papers taking ur point to a more practical point (if it is employed somewhere or if u might have an example of such system that has been studied)
Here in the UK (and elsewhere I'm sure) there is public funding for the arts. It's recognised as being good for culture but that it also stimulates the broader econony. In that way it is treated as a public investment with expected public (and private) returns.
Minor point, there's energy, maintenance and hosting costs of on-going digital services as well as costs for continued development and improvement. For most digital goods though you're right
Artificial scarcity is a crime against humanity. Piracy is the first aid. The solution would be a system that pays for the value produced anywhere in society, including when a copy is used to have fun or make profit. Movie makers would get paid more if they received good ratings from consumers. News Corp would get fined for destroying value.
That would be a great systeme tbf. Everyone wants that. But idk if in practice it can work. For news corps for example usually click baity reads earn more than genuine journalism which is sad abviously.
The system you propose for movies should be doable. More views, more reviews = more earnings. It is more like cinemas in a sense viewers pay with their money. But as comments said there should also be a limit of how much you earn. It should not be an awful pay but here is where more research is needed. And should become public after a while or whenever it fully covered costs and some revenue for whoever did it.
My only concern is that is this limit going to discourage people to produce movies, music etc?
that is a very cool idea! but then how to counter the fact that money is needed to produce these things such as art, books etc Like dont we pay artists ? directly?
while digital property is really debated even believed that copyright for physical goods being copied to digital is no fair
so i could dig into digital intellectual property i will see what i can find
Excellent thinking! You can of course directly transition into discussions about things like basic income and the requirements of society to cater to the basic needs of all its members before anything like economic growth can even be allowed, but it might be more useful to ask the following questions:
If we removed all art - all paintings, all books, all music, all movies, all games, all installations, that were not commercially produced or commercially produced at a loss - from existence, wouldn't that still leave more than could ever be consumed in hundreds of human lifetimes? And if so, why do we even need commercial art?
Or more nuanced: How much commercial art does the world need?
Because once you answer that question you know roughly how much public funds to allocate to art production. Depending on who you ask the answer might even be zero or close to zero.
If you need some historical context, look up the recording industry anti-piracy panic that began when cassette recorders came onto the consumer market (early 80s?). Similarly the VHS panic when video could suddenly be recorded.
I haven’t kept any sources, but I recall a few studies over the years that showed the industry concerns were comically overblown and didn’t impact their bottom lines.
oooo that is actually a cool thing to look at actually i will see what i can find i did read something similar but for books and how publishers hated the numeration of books because they couldn't control the copies of it !
Piracy was never NOT mainstream. Sure, there's been niche markets that only folks in those folds have exploited, but with respect to common proprietary, closed sourced, copy-protected or keyed software, There's never been a time, except for perhaps 0day, when there weren't cracking schemes to thwart the sovereignty of a respective company's copyright and licensing; and that has always been seen primarily a good thing - within reason, and in moderation.
Case in point. wp51.exe The most prolific word processing application at one time (for a very, very long time) - something that Microsoft couldn't seem to crack, and never really did, or would have, had it not been for Word Perfect Corporation spelling their own demise with the introduction of a version aimed at competing with Microsoft Word in the GUI itself... something that they needn't have bothered with, did bother with, and put all of their chickens in that basket that eventually spelled their own demise.
You see, this is but one example of a program that forced the attention of every corporate CFO in the Fortune 1000 and beyond; especially in SOHO's, where there litterally has never been a training budget.
Word Perfect dominated the legal community and that of medical transcription as well. It was fast, it was precisely unambiguous in its display space and unlike Microsoft word, forcefully encouraged the user to forgo using that mouse-thingy. If a typist approaches 100 wpm, yet has to constantly remove one of their hands from the keyboard to interact with the program in someway, that translates into hundreds of thousands of dollars per year that a company has to spend in lost productivity.
But although that fact was the defining factor on why Word Perfect eventually eclipsed Wordstar and Microsoft Word never got a foothold in the professional market where anyone typing >=40wpm was in demand as an office employee, the real reason it reigned supreme was the avoidance of training expenses for newhires.
You see, what you purchase for software to run your business is to a very great degree, driven by the marketplace, and when you decided on whether to standardize on Microsoft Word or Word Perfect in your company, a quick survey of job applicants would reveal that (due to easy to use software piracy cracks) an overwhelming majority of those applicants were already proficient in using Word Perfect 4 or 5.
Now it deserves mention that this piracy wasn't occuring in the business world, but rather, the personal, private spaces of the people applying for those jobs. A demographic very dificult to track down at the time, and even more dificult to prosecute with anything but a Pyrrhic victory in mind. It costs money to prosecute, and you can't get blood from a turnip, as they say.
A simple exe could crack Word Perfect and it was also traded about through BBSes as an already cracked product. As expected, the low hanging fruit is what deer, and people, reach for. Word Perfect had always hung at eye level, and the market that pirated their software wasn't going to buy it regardless, so they've effectively lost nothing, but gained everything - because the mass majority of typists were proficient in it's operation, and if a company standardized on Word Perfect, newhires could hit the ground running with zero, or minimal training expense.
Lotus 123 and others had a similar story. SuperCalc, Dbase II, etc., were in use in peoples homes because tiny little programs distributed over public BBSes like COPY2PC could diskdup the system floppy and you could make as many copies of it that you liked, and give it to your friends. So much money has been spent on anti-piracy measures over the decades with not much thanks from software publishers, sort of; they will acknowledge the fueling of adoption of their products in the business marketplace due to the decisions of the bean counters who bowed to standardizing on software that most job applicants would be likely to already be proficient in.
There's a whole culture, or perhaps, sub-culture of people who will buy DRM encoded books, strip the encoding, and then share those works in places like LibGenesis or priviate torrent trackers - just because they find DRM abhorrent!
The inverse is not true. Reasearch studies have shown time and time again that even if you charge for an ebook, if you make a big deal out of declaring that nothing you sell is DRM encoded, and ask that people respect the trust you have endowed them with, they'll tell their friends to go and buy the book more often than not, when someone asks them to give them a pirated copy.
Go figure.
There's something to be said for the honor system, but moreover, why pay someone that you would never trust in the first place for the privilege of having a license to use their software - their proprietary, closed source software product? Why, you could just use #FOSS instead, products like:
LibreOffice GIMP Inkscape FrontAccounting NextCloud MariaDB PostgreSQL Nginx Apache Proxmox VE KeePassXC or VaultWarden Thunderbird Firefox VLC Okular KdenLive/OpenShot OBS Did I mention Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or NetBSD?
Something I've always done with my customers, when unleashed to erradicate proprietary, closed source software from their premises, is to first acquire an internal audit of all of the costs involved in licensing such software in an ongoing model. Then, present those numbers, and after specifying that all things considered, labor costs will be the same not matter what (I'll make the same amount anyway), but that they'll never have to pay for another license again...
Then, require a firm agreement that each year the company contribute monetarily to most or all of the FOSS projects that produced the software they use. I actually leave just how much up to them, typically stating, "A dollar or a thousand dollars per year, I'm going to leave that to your conscience, but each year, look at this sheet of paper showing how much you would spend with that proprietary software that you could never really trust your privacy or company's secrets to anyway, and then break out your checkbook in good faith."
I leave the rest of that story to the honor system.
What a nice read I never heard of word perfect but that is in a way very precise example Tbf alternatives to ms word are hard to come by. Not saying ms word is perfect it actually pretty bad if u think abt it but no alts are at the level of it as of now. Tried libre didn't like the cluttered Ui. I did like OnlyOffice but had several bugs that crashed the app and removed saves. While it is true that a more pirated copy makes more people use a software taking ur example. But whenever there is a monopoly, it is hard not to pirate or buy the software (looking at adobe). Though alternatives are quite good sometimes. I really loved Gimp and it could replace photoshop imo.
For the Drm on books it is also very true. Why use a book that is only openable in a proprietary software (looking at you adobe) that last for 3 days when u can find it in a shadow library or remove DRM. It reminds me of how awful it is compared to physical libraries. These are free or have a membership but u could in theory have a book as long as u need and find it there again (unless destroyed)
Though the honor system while in a way true in practice i do not know if numbers add up. If a service is good people abviously buy it (like winRar strategy) But does it work overall?? I do need to dig into that. If u have any reliable info on it. It would be great. I did hear a study that found that people who pirate tend to spend or recommend more on creative works (Bandcam or direct donations...) Its a release of creative content Australia u can check it too..
As you also well said it is always better to go to foss software. But sometimes there are compromises people are willing to take or not. Yes there is also the issue with data with proprietary software (looking at you adobe) An example would be VLC. True it is great but it lacks customizability and ui that looks outdated. Or Linux. Personal experience was great but its still not quite there, due to many apps only able to run on windows out of the box (yes there is compatibility layers but still)
I think the most "pirated" software ever would be WinRar. EVERYONE broke the terms of service by using it more than 30 days, and then simply closing the popup when it opened (and even if you found it annoying, there's a simple licence file floating around that you can effortly use to get rid of the nag). Milions used it without paying the licence they should have, but WinRar didn't care, because they are (were) ubiquitous and companies probably happily paid those licences for a software eveybody knew how to use.
You may just be right about that. I swore by PKZ204G.EXE for years until someone mentioned WinZip to me. I thought, "What is this trash?" and never gave it a second thought until I stumbled across WinRar - "Oh this might make rar'ing stuffs up to send to the priv tracker really easy!" It did! but.... It also handled unzipping gzipped tarballs too which was nice when I wanted to checkout stuffs on a Windows box. I think I started running WinRar back with wYnd0z3 XP, or maybe NT 4. I honestly can't remember, but I quickly learned that by simply right clicking on archives and using the context menu that you don't get the nag, so that's typically how I used it.
I don't use wYnd0z3 anymore, or at least I should say, that professionally, I keep abreast, but here's a horror story I should probably share here; it's privacy related, not so much having to do with copyright and licensing issues, but rather.... Well, more than just the ownership of your data. You, are the product, and your very identities are I believe, at risk, more and more each day. Here goes:
So I wanted to replace my old lappy, the WiFi radio was quite obsolete, couldn't connect to many new WiFi networks - especially many new or newly remodelled Starbucks and it's easy to move Slackware to a new box, but I insisted on having a 17" monitor - I just like the real estate; and I could get a good refurbed Xeon powered Dell with a boatload of memory for a reasonable price.
I didn't mind that my new lappy arrived with Win 11 pro pre-installed, I needed to beat on that OS a little bit, not too much though, since it wasn't too dissimilar to Win 10 and I soon kinda shelved it, taking time to decide upon whether to install Proxmox VE on it, move my still quite snappy, warm and fuzzy Slackware -current install over to it, or re-purpose it as a Debian Forkey platform. I had spent only a few weeks with it here and there, and aside from seriously intrusionary particulars that I really detested, like being even worse than that of Win 10 was at resetting defaults that really pissed me off, there's nothing new that it offered me to learn that I couldn't get from launching a VM of it anyway.
So it sat... and sat... maybe three months or so? I was busy and in no hurry to retire a laptop running Slackware that still screamed after being moved from three previous machines in the past decade. One day I decided to go to a Starbucks where I knew my laptop couldn't negotiate the WiFi encryption and didn't want to bring my portable WiFi Puck with me so I grabbed the Xeon. It was truly a dream after all.
I had some simple stuff to do, mostly reading and writing up some reports and the last couple of times I fired it up I had been asked to install updates, but I, like so many others when there's no critical reason apparent, procrastinated.
So I ordered my coffee, took a sip, sat down, and fired up the Xeon beast. WTF? Bitlocker lolwut? No! No bitlocker! I don't use that crap. I do my own encryption. Wait! WTF? Key? There's no key God Dammit, I've never activated Bitlocker! Oh, I can sign in to my mAcR0sFot account and recover.... Well, that's just fricken' great to know but I've always known better than to do anything but a local or domain account - NEVER a mAcR0sFot account!!!
Okay, I guess that's kinda like the bad ending of an old film noir flick from the 40's that you wished had spent just three minutes of treatment developing the tragedy or happily ever after, instead of just abruptly saying, "The End" right before the lights in the theater come on. But not in my story.
Homey don't play dat! There wasn't anything that wasn't already on my NextCloud server that was even remotely important to me, except perhaps having to reinstall Thunderbird and waiting for my IMAP server to sync to my new MUA.
Debian it is. I still love my #Slackware lappy the way it is and I don't need a mobile #Proxmox box when I can just use stuff already built in or install #VirtualBox. So I whacked the mirrored SSDs and wiped the smaller one, switched from RAID to AHCI and other adjustments in the BIOS, installed #Debian Testing from a netinst.iso on USB with #KDE #Plasma and #Xfce, and Boom Shakalaka BOOM! 💥 Mic Drop! 🎤
I am truly going to miss WinRar, but I'm not going to miss #Windows at all. I'll still have to see it and fix it several times a week and continue to convince people to ditch it, but yeah, I've been really perturbed with Microsoft ever since they had the audacity to release Win 95a on my birthday, with yet more trash to come for the next 30 years, and if there's anyone out there who is even slightly entertaining the thought of suggesting, "Well, it was something you did - you know it. Windows wouldn't just do that".... It's actually well documented that it really will do that to you, and what's coming down the line is even worse, but I think they're saving the truly abominable stuff for after their campaign to recycle (destroy) 100 million perfectly good PCs and laptops.
I do believe it's time to ditch Microsoft Windows, truly, and I made half a career on it teaching the MCSE program for them and building large scale enterprises in Fortune 500's with Microsoft products. The #Linux and #BSD desktop is mature enough and straight-forward enough to install that it's actually much easier than installing Windows nowadays, and #FOSS applications abound that are bundled in with distributions that are are intuitive and familiar enough for anyone to use out of the box. But I'm just talking here, right?
Watch This Video that actually references #Bitlocker actually activating itself (Going back to 24h2 and June 2024, especially on 'pro', but also affected 'home' variants too).
Oh, yeah, #WinRar - handles .zip, tar.gz, .rar, arj, etc., etc., yeah it probably is the most pirated product ever, lolz. And the main point is that the publisher (devs) don't really make much of a fuss over it because it drives corporate sales of licenses, lolz - Thanks for bringing that up!
I think the documentary "How Music Got Free" takes anyone that was around back then right back to the days of scene races, FTP top sites, and IRC bots. And the documentary is about music, but it was the same for most all other media also (movies/games/etc.).
In 2009 Pollock did the math and concluded that optimal copyright length for artists to recoup investment in developing the art balanced with making art available in the public domain was about 16 years.
This paper's math isn't easy to grok if you're not an economist, but it's a good resource that balances the need for copyright with the need for public domain knowledge and art.
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide,...
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Iranian state media reported that they received lengthy first-instance jail sentences, without naming them. The only two French nationals known to be held in Iran, Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, were detained in 2022.
Khallet al-Daba, occupied West Bank – At nine o’clock on a Monday morning in May, the quiet of Khallet al-Daba was shattered by the sound of bulldozers and other demolition vehicles approaching. Accompanying them were Israeli soldiers pouring into the village, forcing families out of their homes and driving livestock into the open.
Dozens of military vehicles, armoured carriers and jeeps sealed off the village as the demolitions took place in May, according to locals. Women carrying infants, men still dazed from being forced suddenly from their homes, and children screaming in fear stood under the burning sun for six hours. Behind them, the walls of their houses were turned into rubble.
Among those who were forced to watch their homes collapse this spring was 65-year-old Samiha Muhammad al-Dababseh, a mother of eight who has lived in the village her whole life. Her weathered face carries the strain of decades of hardship.
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Here's an idea: How about giving everyone the opportunity to have a fulfilling life?
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Earlier this year, a band called The Velvet Sundown racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify with retro-pop tracks, generating a million monthly listeners on Spotify.
But the band wasn’t real. Every song, image, and even its back story, had been generated by someone using generative AI.
For some, it was a clever experiment. For others, it revealed a troubling lack of transparency in music creation, even though the band’s Spotify descriptor was later updated to acknowledge it is composed with AI.
In September 2025, Spotify announced it is “helping develop and will support the new industry standard for AI disclosures in music credits developed through DDEX.” DDEX is a not-for-profit membership organization focused on the creation of digital music value chain standards.
The company also says it’s focusing work on improved enforcement of impersonation violations and a new spam-filtering system, and that updates are “the latest in a series of changes we’re making to support a more trustworthy music ecosystem for artists, for rights-holders and for listeners.”
As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces. Disclosure is essential not just for accountability, but to give listeners transparent and user-friendly choices in the artists they support.
Disclosing AI use on music platforms shouldn’t give streaming platforms a free pass to flood catalogues with AI content. Listeners deserve clear and transparent labelling.
When I have read anything Android phone related on Lemmy, I often see comments talking about how they switch to Linux phone or tell people to swap Android with Linux ASAP.
What's the general experience like using Linux as your phone and is it any good? I remember watching video couple years about it and hearing about it and the lack of apps (at least that is made for mobile in mind) and wonder if that has changed or is it just good enough.
I wouldn't consider any Linux phone ecosystem developed enough to consider a "daily driver" phone yet. If you need a phone to be functional at pretty much all times as a phone, but you don't want to give into smartphones, I honestly would suggest a VOIP landline (that you potentially roll out and serve yourself, depending on your level of technical ability and available resources).
I daily drive Ubuntu touch and like it very much, but I can see how that would be hard in certain situations. Keep doing some research, and pick one that seems to fit your needs to try it out! Only you can decide if it is good enough for your particular circumstances.
Why I love it: * I love the UI. Quick, intuitive and good looking. * Basic functions are good. The phone works well as a phone, with calls (including VoLTE for a number of newer models now), SMS, MMS, wifi hotspot ++ working * The amount of native apps is pleasing to me. Of course, you won't get the usual proprietary big tech developed apps, but other basics are there. * The flexibility is awesome. You can install apps from the Open Store built especially for UT, Snaps (not all of which are meant for small screens with touch input, but you get to try it and decide for yourself if you can make it work), nix packages, installing stuff in libertine containers, AND Android apps in a Waydroid container. * The community is extremely helpful and diverse. * The two previous points, community + flexibility, helps whenever you miss one of the larger apps. Miss Telegram? Meet the native app Teleports! Miss Signal? The community can give you several options. WhatsApp? Of course some generous soul has made a UT adapted web app that you can use in stead. * I finally feel free. I own my device, and the software I run on it doesn't feel invading or dishonest.
What is sometimes difficult: * I need to be honest about the browser situation. The default browser has a nice UI, but it is very outdated. There is a lot of improvements going on behind the scenes, but the new version is not ready for launch yet. The alternatives are UT adapted versions of Librewolf and Firefox, but they are both in an alpha state. * VoLTE only works for some of the supported phones, and it is still considered experimental. * Banking and ID verification apps have almost no UT native solutions, and running them in Waydroid is very hit and miss. * General stability. There are more bugs and crashes here than in Android/iOS.
How do you mean running stuff in waydroid is hit and miss. Stuff just doesn't work? And you mentioned signal not working and needing alternatives? Signal is my main chat app...
Does it feel cool to use it? Or is it still more troublesome than cool? 😎
The Waydroid container runs Lineage, a degoogled android based os. Many apps require Google play services to run, or they do other checks that fail in that environement. Most stuff from F-droid will run.
Signal does not have a native UT app at the moment, but some use Matrix bridges to send and receive messages. Others run it in Waydroid, or do experiments with the cli version. The first works very well, but you need to find/make a bridge host that you trust.
Oh, it feels very nice to use! Most of my troubles these days stem from me experimenting and running the devel version of the os. I can go days between serious issues, and the issues that do appear are never deal breakers as they don't tend to affect basic phone functionality. It feels great and it is way too much fun.
I would like to interject for a moment. This statement is technically true but disingenuous and facetious.
While it's true that Linux is just the kernel, what most people refer to as Linux is actually the Operating System GNU/Linux, or, as RMS would now call it, GNU plus Linux, or sometimes, a less GNU depended, but mostly GNU/Linux compatible OS, or, as I have literally just now come to call it */Linux.
Moreover, a modern */Linux system is expected to be based on SystemD, unless explicitly avoiding it due to some technical constraint or some desired feature of another init system. One could come to call this SystemD/Linux.
And lastly, this kind of use case would be the perfect match for a Wayland shell, as opposed to an X11 shell. Which would be more efficient, and would give the shell more freedom in the management of windows.
As a result, when asking about a Linux phone, we could expect one is talking about a phone running a SystemD+Wayland/Linux OS, or at least a mobile-focused */Linux OS.
The Android kernel is a, largely downstream, fork of the Linux kernel, but the Android OS is in almost no way compatible with any */Linux OS, and it's instead its own completely different OS.
I put PostmarketOS on a spare device recently. PostmarketOS describes itself as currently being in a state suitable for Linux enthusiasts to try out, not for wider use. That seems about right to me.
On the fun side, it's proper desktop-style Linux. I can SSH to it from my laptop. I can compile software on it. I can run programs that have no business running on a phone. On the not so fun side, the cameras barely work, data over USB doesn't work at all, and battery life is not good. Desktop Firefox on a phone screen is pretty bad. Rumor has it there's some support for Android apps, but I've been looking at Waydroid's splash screen for a long time now with no progress.
PostmarketOS makes no claim that it is ready to be a daily driver, Linux phones are pretty experimental right now. That's why there is so much tension over the custom ROMs that manage to function on such locked-down hardware
The closest to a daily driver you can get to is Sailfish OS on a supported phone. There's a lot if amazing work in the linux phone space as the bar for daily driver is fairly high.
I had a pine phone for a while and it was sufficiently developed to use it as a daily driver… if you could put up with dropped calls, and texts, and burning thru ur whole battery in one hour cuz sleep didn’t work.
LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.
Few weeks ago I saw a really cool presentation about the history and current state of Linux phone. It is unfortunately in German, slides in English though: youtu.be/JeFoRE72Gu0
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The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter – a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall …
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter – a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall …
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter – a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall …
De politieke voorstanders van kernenergie in Nederland willen daar steeds minder geld aan uitgeven, blijkt uit debatten en doorrekeningen. Dat maakt uitvoering van de plannen zo goed als onmogelijk. In Den Haag kwamen maandagavond vertegenwoordigers van zes politieke partijen samen voor een stevig inhoudelijk debat over de toekomst van de Nederlandse energietransitie. Onder de titel Door met Duurzaam gingen GroenLinks-PvdA, VVD, Volt, SP, Partij voor de Dieren, en BIJ1 met elkaar in gesprek over hoe Nederland koers houdt richting een schoon, eerlijk en betaalbaar energiesysteem. Het debat werd georganiseerd door Fossielvrij NL en WISE Nederland. “Vooral de stelling over kernenergie was interessant omdat de twee voorstanders – Volt en de VVD – een stuk minder positief waren dan verwacht”, zegt Lisanne Boersma, directeur van WISE.
In case you haven’t received an email from Google (or you haven’t noticed an ugly notification “reCAPTCHA terms are changing” on all of your widgets), reCAPTCHA
The Creator Program wasn’t just a feature, it was a full blown movement that rocked Reddit, on the blockchain no less. You all built communities. You created art. Your art became memes. You put a cone on it. You even got paid (a first!). At the end of the day, you all made magic.
Lemmy (and Piefed) have avatars and bio, and Piefed also has the custom fields thing that Mastodon has, but not all clients show this stuff. Voyager is probably the best Lemmy/Piefed client that basically has no support for profile details.
One of the things that bug me about Fediverse is that the amount of profile features varies so much between the services and it's kinda inconsistent too.
I feel like I joined Reddit so long ago that I can't really remember the sign up process but I do dimly seem to remember that I had to unsubscribe from a bunch of stuff your default subscribe to because it was all garbage.
So probably what happened is they only advertised it in the stupid subs like that one where they still think lol catz is peak humour.
Honestly they're leaving money on the table by not doing this. They have a horde of mindless whales that are physically unable to stop themselves from buying the Golden LaSnooSnoo and posting about making it "moon", the place is crypto bro idiot headquarters
Reddit already got on my bad side when they got rid of their Public Access TV thing, the only good idea they've had in years; removing 3rd party apps was the last straw for me.
Blows my mind that more people didn't leave over that. I was expecting a mass exodus, a la Digg.
I wasn't expecting say, a mass exodus. But I was certainly surprised at how few people made the jump. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the best content creators and bot defenders didn't continue using reddit, so the quality dropped like a stone.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) joins Meet the Press to respond to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ words about him in her new book — questioning whether he had been tested on the national stage — and weighs in on whether she should run for president a…
Our steadfast people, this stage represents an opportunity to enhance social solidarity within the Gaza Strip by supporting affected families, securing the necessities of daily life and activating frameworks of cooperation between factions, society and relevant local and international institutions, creating a resilient and unified environment capable of facing all challenges and preserving our people’s steadfastness.
We renew the call for unity and national responsibility, to embark on a unified national political path with all powers and factions. We are working in cooperation with gracious Egyptian efforts to hold an urgent and comprehensive national meeting for the next step after the ceasefire to unify the Palestinian position, formulate a comprehensive national strategy and rebuild our national institutions on the foundations of partnership, credibility and transparency.
We also stress our categorical rejection of any foreign guardianship and affirm that determining the form of governance for the Gaza Strip and the foundations of its institutions’ work is an internal Palestinian matter to be jointly decided by the national components of our people. We are prepared to benefit from Arab and international participation in the areas of reconstruction, recovery and development support, in a way that promotes a dignified life for our people and preserves their rights to their land.
In conclusion, at this decisive historical moment, we renew our loyalty to the martyrs, prisoners, wounded and resistance fighters. We affirm our unwavering adherence to our people’s rights to their land, homeland, holy sites and dignity and our insistence on continuing the resistance in all its forms until all our rights are achieved, foremost among them the removal of the occupation, self-determination and the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — the three powers — issued a joint statement on Oct. 10, 2025, posted by Resistance News Network.
this week’s fediverse news:
- a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both activitypub and atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to t
this week's fediverse news: - a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both activitypub and atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to their bluesky network - Loops is getting closer to joining the fediverse
WeDistribute has published an extensive overview and review of Wafrn, the Tumblr-like platform that is both on the fediverse as well as on ATProto. Wafrn is a unique platform in the open social web, and it is the first and only platform that fully integrates both protocols. The name Wafrn explains the tone of the project well: it stands for ‘We Allow Female Representing Nipples’, which is a reference to the language Tumblr used when they banned porn. Because Wafrn natively integrates both protocols, there is no bridging involved like there is with Bridgy Fed, and a Wafrn account connects with all accounts on both networks, although the ATProto features are somewhat limited and not all implemented. Wafrn also recently released a new feature to migrate your Bluesky account to a Wafrn server. This gives another option for people who are looking to move away from Bluesky and are interested in the fediverse, without having to give up their connection to the rest of the Bluesky network.
Short-form video platform Loops has announced it is joining the fediverse. In an announcement post, creator Daniel Supernault explains that Loops has now implemented support for ActivityPub. The marketing on Loops and the fediverse was always a bit fuzzy, while it was advertised as a fediverse platform, the actual fediverse integration was still in development. With this update, Loops is now using ActivityPub. However, this does not go for the main Loops server, Loops.video, just yet, as Supernault says that he is “working on an updated app build that supports the new APIs and other servers besides just the hardcoded loops.video server!” Supernault says that this will happen ‘this week’, although the project has missed deadlines before. Still, for those people who are self-hosting a Loops server, the code for federation is now indeed available.
In the update, Supernault also talks about some of the technical design choices that he’s made for federation with Loops. Loops servers use the ‘Note’ content type to send out the videos. This means that a Loops video is effectively quite similar to a microblog made on a platform like Mastodon or Misskey, which also use the ‘Note’ type. Most platforms indeed use ‘Note’, as this allows for compatibility with Mastodon. ActivityPub allows for a wide variety of content types (called Activities, which is where the protocol gets its name from), but in practice most platforms fall back to ‘Note’, even when other types (like ‘video’ for Loops) would make more sense. It indicates one of the challenges of the open-ended nature of how ActivityPub works: the protocol allows for a diverse set of Activities, but in practice it is more beneficial for most platforms to fall back to a single type, that all other platforms also use.
An excellent overview of last week’s FediForum by Richard MacManus for The New Stack. MacManus covers the keynote speech, as well as some of the products that were demoed at the event: alternative app store AltStore, how you can now move your Mastodon account to Bluesky with Bounce, as well as two platforms currently in development that are getting close to release: the privacy-focused photo sharing app Frequency, and the monetisation platform CrowdBucks.
Pandacap is a single-user artwork gallery and feed reading platform, that supports a wide range of protocols. It supports ActivityPub, ATProto, RSS. It also has the option to crosspost your image posts and text posts to attached DeviantArt, Fur Affinity, or Weasyl accounts. Pandacap does not have a timeline like most platform, instead opting for a design that centers around an inbox, similar to feed reading apps for RSS. Pandacap has been around for a bit, but I had completely missed it and don’t think I had ever covered it before.
PeerTube is now officially recognised as a Digital Public Good. A digital public good recognized by the Digital Public Goods Alliance is an open-source resource that uses approved open licenses and demonstrably supports at least one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). For PeerTube this means that it contributes to SDG 9, which aims to “significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries. PeerTube also contributes to the SDG for developing “effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels” and ensuring “responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.”
Fedify, the ActivityPub server framework that secured two sources of funding last week, has a major new update, with security enhancements, improved DX, and expanded framework support.
An extensive interview with the creators of event planning app Mobilizon. Mobilizon got created by Framasoft, the organisation who also builds PeerTube. Framasoft saw the project as completed, and handed the further development over to Kaihuri, a small French organisation who also runs one of the most active Mobilizon instances. The Project Libres podcast interviews Alexandra, one of the two people behind Kaihuri, in French, but a transcript in English is available.
The Solo Instance Problem – a PeerTube video by FediHost in which they talk about some of the challenges for self-hosting a solo instance for the fediverse.
The Social Web Foundation talks with Ghost CEO John O’Nolan about Ghost 6 and ActivityPub.
DiscoverFedi.app is a new site that lets you explore other instance’s timelines in various manners, with an accompanying blog post explaining the project.
Yes, I’ve still got four tracks left to construct for my next album that’ll be releasing here in a few weeks. Don’t worry! I feel like I can get it done.
L'articolo spiega il rischio nell'utilizzo dei social network tradizionali, e come il Fediverso costituisca un'alternativa etica sempre più necessaria.
Un viaggio nel FEDIVERSO: la soluzione al problema dei social
In questo articolo parlo di social network, un argomento non direttamente collegato al viaggio, ma comunque molto importante se pensiamo a tutti i contenuti di viaggio che transitano sulle pagine social e le nostre interazioni con altre persone attraverso i social, ma anche a quante ore trascorriamo davanti agli schermi “grazie” ad essi.
Sui social ormai ci siamo tutti, ci si parla di tutto, e sappiamo bene che tutti passiamo molte ore al giorno davanti alle pagine social, ma possiamo dire anche, più in generale, utilizzando servizi on line “gratuiti”. Spesso è su quelle pagine che scopriamo cosa succede nel mondo, gli ultimi eventi su un certo argomento, i risultati elettorali.
È un dato di fatto che al giorno d’oggi tutti i grandi social siano nelle mani di aziende, ma non aziende qualunque: veri e propri colossi dell’informatica, che investono cifre da capogiro per capire come tenerci incollati alle alle loro piattaforme per un tempo sempre maggiore. Quel tempo lo togliamo ai nostri cari, alle nostre attività, ad altre cose che amiamo, e più in generale alla nostra presenza nel mondo.
Un altro grande problema di tutto questo è che quelle piattaforme vendono ad altri ciò che scriviamo, le nostre abitudini e preferenze di ogni tipo, affinché questi “altri” possano farne ciò che vogliono, compreso analizzarci per capire sempre meglio come indurci ad acquistare di tutto.
Di più: chi possiede il social network e quindi i dati che hanno origine da noi, può sapere chi siamo meglio di noi stessi a volte, e può usare queste informazioni per plasmare le nostre idee.
Cosa c’entra il Fediverso in tutto questo? Ci sto arrivando. 🙂
Se quello che ti ho descritto ti sembra una teoria del complotto, purtroppo ti stai sbagliando. Tutto questo è reale, e basta fare una ricerca in line per trovare le conferme di ciò che dico.
D’altra parte, nel mondo dell’informatica e del web, c’è un detto: se un servizio è gratuito, allora il prodotto in vendita sei tu.
Nelle piattaforme social come Facebook, Instagram, TikTok o similari, i proprietari hanno investito miliardi di dollari. Si potrebbe pensare che i costi sostenuti siano in gran parte per l’infrastruttura, ma la parte più impegnativa di un social network è la messa a punto e il mantenimento dell’algoritmo, ossia quell’insieme di meccanismi che sulla base di una serie di eventi (i nostri comportamenti on line), decidono cosa farci vedere, e di conseguenza cosa nasconderci.
Per fare un esempio pratico, supponiamo che un utente abbia un vago interesse per un argomento spinoso come l’immigrazione. Gli algoritmi intercetteranno alla perfezione questo interesse (sono lì apposta del resto, anche se l’utente non li vede; possiamo dire che il social stesso è un algoritmo molto complesso).
Una volta compreso il nostro interesse, verrà deciso quale sarà il prossimo articolo o il prossimo video che vedremo scorrendo verso il basso, o a quale notifica dare la priorità, quale annuncio pubblicitario farci vedere prima, eccetera. Negli ultimi anni gli algoritmi social sono diventanti anche esperti nel creare curiosità che non abbiamo.
Badate bene che l’interesse della piattaforma non è quello di darci un’idea chiara, equilibrata ed imparziale su un argomento, ma di trattenerci sull piattaforma il più possibile affinché continuiamo a vedere gli annunci pubblicitari.
E qual è il metodo migliore per raggiungere questo obiettivo? La paura, o la rabbia, o entrambe.
L’algoritmo comincerà a proporci video in cui si dice che i nostri problemi derivano dagli immigrati, e che se non facciamo qualcosa “ci rimpiazzeranno” (ti suona familiare?).
Ci è appena stata instillata la paura, più o meno conscia, che qualcuno voglia portarci via qualcosa, che il nostro stile di vita è in pericolo, che non è colpa nostra se la vita non ci riesce proprio come vorremmo, ma anzi è colpa di una persona disperata che è morta attraversando il Mediterraneo su un pezzo di legno scadente. Donne, uomini, bambini, neonati, non importa: tutti ugualmente destabilizzanti per le nostre vite.
La frittata è fatta. Vorremo saperne di più, staremo lì ancora e ancora per cercare qualcosa che ci tranquillizzi, che ci tolga quella paura; ma quel qualcosa non arriverà. Anzi, l’idea di base, la paura, verrà sempre più rinforzata, video dopo video, articolo dopo articolo.
Pur essendo un grande utilizzatore di questi social (lo ammetto, io trovo sconcertante che esistano aziende dal potere – enorme – di decidere cosa dobbiamo guardare, e di conseguenza cosa dobbiamo pensare, che idee dobbiamo farci. Se a fare tutto questo fosse un Governo, diremmo che si tratta di una dittatura. Perché non ci scuote l’idea che possa farlo un privato?
È proprio per tutte queste ragioni che sempre più persone riconoscono che questo sistema di cose è una grande anomalia per le democrazie.
Rifiutare questo sistema è un atto rivoluzionario.
Ma come fare? Rinunciare per sempre alla propria vita on line? È qui che entra in gioco il Fediverso.
Cos’è? Può sembrare qualcosa di complesso ma in realtà è qualcosa di molto semplice.
Immagina di vivere nell’appartamento di un condominio. Quando vuoi parlare con qualcuno, o sapere di cosa si parla nel condominio, puoi uscire dal tuo appartamento e incontrare i tuoi vicini di casa. Puoi parlare con loro privatamente, ma anche in uno spazio comune, come il pianerottolo, dove puoi parlare a tutti gli altri inquilini che stanno sul pianerottolo insieme a te.
In questo esempio, è come se il condominio fosse un social network.
Esistono persone nel mondo che hanno creato diversi social network (condominii) che sono liberi dalle logiche di cui parlavamo sopra.
Queste persone hanno creato il codice d social network del tutto nuovi, e lo hanno messo a disposizione di chiunque lo voglia usare, a patto che lo distribuisca di nuovo in quella forma. Può sembrare una cosa da poco, ma non la è: chiunque abbia sufficienti competenze può prendere questo codice e costruire un nuovo condominio (una istanza del social network), dove le persone possono “abitare”, digitalmente parlando. Inoltre, è anche possibile verificare che i “mattoni” che costituiscono questi nuovi condominii non contengano algoritmi poco desiderabili, come quelli dei social di cui parlavamo prima: Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok e tutti gli altri. Se anche dovessero all’improvviso contenerli, la licenza adottata consentirebbe di rimuoverli e redistribuire di nuovo il codice (ma chi vorrebbe mai usarlo senza modifiche, a quel punto?).
I programmatori dei nuovi social liberi non si sono fermati qui, ma hanno fatto qualcosa di ancora più utile e straordinario: hanno messo in comunicazione tra loro i condominii.
Restando nella metafora dei condominii, hanno fatto in modo che gli inquilini di un condominio possano parlare con le persone che si trovano negli spazi comuni di un altro condominio, e viceversa. Hanno fatto in modo che gli abitanti di un condominio possano parlare con gli abitanti di una villette a schiera, o di uno chalet di montagna.
In sostanza, non è più necessario abitare lo stesso tipo di casa per potersi parlarsi.
Questa è una delle enormi differenze tra i social vecchi e i nuovi social network liberi. Se hai un account Facebook, da Facebook non potrai vedere i video che vengono pubblicati su YouTube: al limite potrai seguire un collegamento che ti porta là, abbandonando quindi Facebook. Poi dovrai aprire un altro account, regalare i tuoi dati personali anche a TikTok, e allora potrai vedere i video ma i due mondi resteranno separati.
Nei social liberi non è così. Ne esistono di diversi tipi, e sono TUTTI interconnessi l’uno all’altro.
Questo è il Fediverso, un social network fatto da tantissimi social network più piccoli, collegati tra loro. Una città formata da tante abitazioni diverse, siano esse condominii, villette indipendenti o casette a schiera.
Le “case” che compongono la grande città del Fediverso (le ho chiamate istanze) sono fabbricate usando il codice di cui parlavamo prima da chiunque lo voglia, e di conseguenza si assomigliano tra loro per gruppi omogenei.
In sostanza è una federazione di social network, ed ecco perché viene chiamata “Fediverso”.
Quali sono i social network che compongono il Fediverso?
Ne esistono tanti, ma vediamo brevemente i più popolari: – Mastodon: adatto per il microblogging, cioè testi molto brevi. E’ il social più popolare nel Fediverso, anche in Italia. A prima vista può somigliare a X (ex Twitter), BlueSky o Threads. – Friendica: più adatto ai testi lunghi, e quindi più simile a Facebook (anche nell’interfaccia). Il primo approccio però può essere meno semplice rispetto a Mastodon. – Pixelfed: nasce per la condivisione di Foto, ed è quindi paragonabile ad Instagram. – PeerTube: nasce come piattaforma di condivisione di video, similmente a quanto fa Youtube o TikTok. – Lemmy: in grado di dare vita ad una piattaforma di aggregazione dei contenuti, similmente a Reddit.
In nessuno di questi nuovi social ci sono algoritmi che decidono cosa tu debba vedere. Le pubblicazioni sono – e rimangono – sempre in ordine cronologico: i contenuti si scoprono seguendo i tag degli argomenti che ci interessando, o ricercandoli tramite la funzione di ricerca. All’interno delle istanze, ad ora, non c’è pubblicità. Cosa non da poco, i nostri dati personali non vengono venduti o ceduti a nessuno.
Per i motivi di cui sopra, quando ci si iscrive ad una delle istanze dei social network che ho citato, si può rimanere un po’ spaesati e spiazzati, e ci si può sentire un po’ soli. Questo non deve bloccarci, ma anzi è la prova che la piattaforma non ci “spinge” a vedere ciò che lei desidera (a chi gioverebbe?).
Ci sono molte organizzazioni, aziende e persino privati nel mondo che gestiscono attivamente istanze di questi social. Tra tutti, credo che i privati siano quelli che più di tutti hanno bisogno del nostro supporto come utenti finali, perché…sì, mantenere questi social costa. Ci vogliono server che li ospitano, tempo da dedicarvi per l’installazione, gli aggiornamenti e la moderazione dei contenuti, quando qualche utente viola le regole richieste per la permanenza sulla piattaforma (le regole sono semplici, ben chiare ed evidenti al momento dell’iscrizione). L’accesso alle istanze generalmente è gratuito, ma non sorprendetevi se i gestori – giustamente – pubblicheranno di tanto in tanto qualche invito alla donazione. Il mio suggerimento è di trovare un’istanza che ci piace, “sposarla” e sostenerla economicamente con un piccolo obolo mensile, anche pochi euro, che possono fare la differenza. Per quanto mi riguarda li investo molto volentieri in questo tipo di supporto.
Io ho diversi account nel Fediverso perché pubblico molti contenuti, ma ribadisco che da “spettatori” può bastarne anche soltanto uno.
Sono iscritto e sostengo economicamente l’istanza Mastodon.uno (mastodon.uno), dove mi trovate come @simonperry.
Sono iscritto a Pixelfed.uno, (pixelfed.uno) dove condivido gli scatti dei miei viaggi che ritengo più interessanti. Lì potete trovarmi come @Perry77
I miei 3 podcas sono tutti ospidati su castopod.it, una piattaforma di podcasting federata con il Fediverso. Il mio ultimo podcast Verso Casa, ad esempio, può essere seguito dando il follow al profilo @versocasa da qualunque account del Fediverso.
Il sito che stai leggendo, ospitato su wordpress, è associato ad un account nel Fediverso, cosicché ogni articolo che pubblico qui viene automaticamente condiviso nel fediverso. Il profilo che si può seguire da qualsiasi social del Fediverso, per vedere gli articoli che pubblico, è @simoneviaggiatore.wordpress.com@simoneviaggiatore.wordpress.com
Tutti i nomi account che ho riportato, se ci fai caso, sono costruiti con [nome dell’account] + [nome dell’istanza su cui è registrato quell’account]
Il Fediverso, per ora, è un posto magico per me; senza pubblicità, ben moderato da esseri umani (non certo da algoritmi) e ogni volta che ci entro per me è come ritrovare quella pace che si ritrova in un bosco. Parliamo sempre di social newtork, ma non c’è confusione: solo contenuti.
Per restare in questo modo, il Fediverso ha bisogno di più iscritti che capiscano il valore di quanto hanno tra le mani, e di qualche donazione in più.
Date una chance al Fediverso, iscrivetevi ad una delle istanze.
Non sentitevi spaesati, ma apprezzate il silenzio. Potrete dare maggior valore alle interazioni, che saranno reali e non forzate dagli algoritmi che fomentano il litigio.
[Nota: ogni litigio nel Fediverso, che comunque capita, saprete che è autentico].
Per qualsiasi dubbio io possa chiarire, sono disponibile!
Dal 2019 è la comunità Mastodon più grande d’Italia, con i suoi 77.000 iscritti è fra le 10 istanze più attive al mondo ed è parte dall'associazione italiana noprofit Fedimedia Italia APS.
Mi auguro che questo articolo possa essere diffuso il più possibile, e magari utilizzato come una piccola guida per fare capire quanto è prezioso il Fediverso a chi ancora non lo conosce o non ci è ancora entrato.
#fediday2025 Andy Piper - For Freedom and Sovereignty (EN)
Andy Piper @[url=https://macaw.social/users/andypiper]Andy Piper[/url] ist bei @[url=https://mastodon.uno/users/mastodon]Mastodon.Uno Italia[/url] Head of Communications und kümmert sich um die Communities im Fediverse. Andy arbeitet seit vielen Jahren in der Technologiebranche und lebt in UK.
Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training set quality, as shown by extensive research and experimentation across…
@francina1909 @snow Eccomi anch'io. Dopo un po' di assestamento agli orari e dopo qualche corsa sospesa per problemi tecnici, adesso il trenino arriva puntuale! ❤️
- ai 'vecchi' thread e' stato aggiunto l'indirizzo del trenino - ho messo il follow all'indirizzo del trenino - mi aspettavo di ricevere da quel momento in poi due copie, una dal thread, una dal trenino - non mi sembra - a quel punto avrei chiesto la rimozione del mio indirizzo dalla catena, e le avrei lette solo dal trenino.
- il senso, per come l'avevo capito io, era di togliere i propri indirizzi personali, regalando più caratteri per scrivere agli altri.
Ma forse funziona solo per i thread nuovi ?
Il che vuol dire che se tutti non fanno esaurire i thread vecchi non scrivendo per un paio di giorni, abbiamo peggiorato le cose
Ma non l'hanno capito, ho provato a spiegarlo. Ho anche provato a fare partire un thread di buongiorno io (mettendo in copia esplicita tutti gli altri).
Nessuno fa partire un thread nuovo ricordandosi tutti gli indirizzi, fanno tutti reply a quello che ha fatto partire Ciube tot anni fa.
Se non ti coordini con Luca per azzerare quelli, non ci si può togliere dall'altro
🤦 non *deve* usarlo, deve semplicemente fare esaurire il thread attuale (perche' basterebbe un giorno) e farne partire uno nuovo con tutte le persone in copia, gruppo incluso
@LasolitaLaura Boosto qualunque thread mi citi nel suo primo post. Quando Mastodon diventerà compatibile, per essere boostato automaticamente bisognerà per forza seguirmi e avere ricevuto il follow back, dopo di che boosterò i thread in cui verrò citato, con visibilità limitata a chi mi segue.
Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).
Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS. - Garuda (Arch-based) - Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason) - Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based) - CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?) - Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)
I'm a fedora user, so I would recommend Bazzite/Nobara, but all of these are good (Except Windows 7, it's not officially supported anymore and I'm pretty sure it doesn't even get security updates). I think you can try them before installing thanks to live USB, so you can just see which one you like more.
Amichai Chikli, Diaspora Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, has invited Tommy Robinson, the fascist anti-Muslim demagogue who recently mobilized the largest far-right demonstration in British history, on an expenses paid, five-day visit to Israel.
Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.
While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife[1]. Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.
Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.
While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife[1]. Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.
But just three states — Arkansas, Idaho and Virginia — enacted laws this session that establish or amend rules for law enforcement agencies using the high-tech camera systems and the manner in which license plate data should be stored. And this month, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have restricted use of such data.
Russian forces struck a United Nations aid convoy in the partially occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukrainian and UN officials said, though no one was reported injured or killed in the incident.
The United Nations said the convoy, consisting of four marked vehicles, came under attack from Russian drones and artillery while delivering humanitarian aid to the frontline town of Bilozerka.
"Such attacks are utterly unacceptable. Aid workers are protected by international humanitarian law and should never be attacked," said Matthias Schmale, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine.
Two trucks operated by the World Food Program were damaged in the strike, while two others were unharmed, he said. The UN Population Fund said the convoy was carrying 800 packages containing essential items for elderly people, women and girls.
"The area has a very high proportion of older people, many of whom are unable to relocate due to drones and shelling and rely on humanitarian assistance for survival," said Jacqueline Mahon, UNFPA's representative in Ukraine.
splendoruranium
in reply to SBS1313 • • •Immediately go for the jugular and question the very existence of intellectual property as a concept.
"You are given this magical horn of plenty. It can feed any person anywhere in the world at any time! Do you not use it, avoiding the inevitable collapse of the global food production and distribution sector or do you use it so... you know, nobody will ever be hungry again? Is there a right and a wrong decision here?
You are also given the magical ability to copy and distribute any digital information infinitely and at no added cost..."
SBS1313
in reply to splendoruranium • • •that is a very cool idea!
but then how to counter the fact that money is needed to produce these things such as art, books etc Like dont we pay artists ? directly?
while digital property is really debated even believed that copyright for physical goods being copied to digital is no fair
so i could dig into digital intellectual property i will see what i can find
HelloRoot
in reply to SBS1313 • • •The production is a fixed one time cost.
Once that cost is covered, the rest is profit.
It is important and fair to cover the cost of production and also have some gains on top of that.
But at some point it switches to bringing ongoing profit for no ongoing work or effort.
Where that point lies axactly is open to discussion. But after it has been reached, it is surely not morally wrong to distribute that media freely. Ideally it would be legally required to turn it to public domain, which would increase competition, quality and creativity of the whole landscape.
SBS1313
in reply to HelloRoot • • •I just now need to find a paper discussing that system ur describing.
I never thought about that like that tbf
but some issues arise like what is the production cost?? who determines that or moderates it?
but again great idea i hope i can find some papers taking ur point to a more practical point (if it is employed somewhere or if u might have an example of such system that has been studied)
Da Oeuf
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in reply to Da Oeuf • • •HelloRoot
in reply to SBS1313 • • •Some interesring reads that are related and could be a starting point:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-riv…
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/o…
cs.rutgers.edu/~rmartin/teachi…
economic good that has more total value when shared
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)SBS1313
in reply to HelloRoot • • •Cyberspark
in reply to HelloRoot • • •Tehdastehdas
in reply to SBS1313 • • •SBS1313
in reply to Tehdastehdas • • •That would be a great systeme tbf. Everyone wants that. But idk if in practice it can work.
For news corps for example usually click baity reads earn more than genuine journalism which is sad abviously.
The system you propose for movies should be doable. More views, more reviews = more earnings. It is more like cinemas in a sense viewers pay with their money. But as comments said there should also be a limit of how much you earn. It should not be an awful pay but here is where more research is needed. And should become public after a while or whenever it fully covered costs and some revenue for whoever did it.
My only concern is that is this limit going to discourage people to produce movies, music etc?
Tehdastehdas
in reply to SBS1313 • • •It would require replacing the money system with a value production estimation and reward system.
I don't support an upper limit for income. I want wealth tax and inheritance tax to prevent excessive accumulation.
splendoruranium
in reply to SBS1313 • • •Excellent thinking! You can of course directly transition into discussions about things like basic income and the requirements of society to cater to the basic needs of all its members before anything like economic growth can even be allowed, but it might be more useful to ask the following questions:
Because once you answer that question you know roughly how much public funds to allocate to art production. Depending on who you ask the answer might even be zero or close to zero.
i_stole_ur_taco
in reply to SBS1313 • • •If you need some historical context, look up the recording industry anti-piracy panic that began when cassette recorders came onto the consumer market (early 80s?). Similarly the VHS panic when video could suddenly be recorded.
I haven’t kept any sources, but I recall a few studies over the years that showed the industry concerns were comically overblown and didn’t impact their bottom lines.
SBS1313
in reply to i_stole_ur_taco • • •i will see what i can find
i did read something similar but for books and how publishers hated the numeration of books because they couldn't control the copies of it !
paf
in reply to SBS1313 • • •SBS1313
in reply to paf • • •ik there is a book that a read a bit called walled culture (abt intellectual property)
will do that thx!
tallship
in reply to SBS1313 • • •@piracy
Piracy was never NOT mainstream. Sure, there's been niche markets that only folks in those folds have exploited, but with respect to common proprietary, closed sourced, copy-protected or keyed software, There's never been a time, except for perhaps 0day, when there weren't cracking schemes to thwart the sovereignty of a respective company's copyright and licensing; and that has always been seen primarily a good thing - within reason, and in moderation.
Case in point. wp51.exe The most prolific word processing application at one time (for a very, very long time) - something that Microsoft couldn't seem to crack, and never really did, or would have, had it not been for Word Perfect Corporation spelling their own demise with the introduction of a version aimed at competing with Microsoft Word in the GUI itself... something that they needn't have bothered with, did bother with, and put all of their chickens in that basket that eventually spelled their own demise.
You see, this is but one example of a program that forced the attention of every corporate CFO in the Fortune 1000 and beyond; especially in SOHO's, where there litterally has never been a training budget.
Word Perfect dominated the legal community and that of medical transcription as well. It was fast, it was precisely unambiguous in its display space and unlike Microsoft word, forcefully encouraged the user to forgo using that mouse-thingy. If a typist approaches 100 wpm, yet has to constantly remove one of their hands from the keyboard to interact with the program in someway, that translates into hundreds of thousands of dollars per year that a company has to spend in lost productivity.
But although that fact was the defining factor on why Word Perfect eventually eclipsed Wordstar and Microsoft Word never got a foothold in the professional market where anyone typing >=40wpm was in demand as an office employee, the real reason it reigned supreme was the avoidance of training expenses for newhires.
You see, what you purchase for software to run your business is to a very great degree, driven by the marketplace, and when you decided on whether to standardize on Microsoft Word or Word Perfect in your company, a quick survey of job applicants would reveal that (due to easy to use software piracy cracks) an overwhelming majority of those applicants were already proficient in using Word Perfect 4 or 5.
Now it deserves mention that this piracy wasn't occuring in the business world, but rather, the personal, private spaces of the people applying for those jobs. A demographic very dificult to track down at the time, and even more dificult to prosecute with anything but a Pyrrhic victory in mind. It costs money to prosecute, and you can't get blood from a turnip, as they say.
A simple exe could crack Word Perfect and it was also traded about through BBSes as an already cracked product. As expected, the low hanging fruit is what deer, and people, reach for. Word Perfect had always hung at eye level, and the market that pirated their software wasn't going to buy it regardless, so they've effectively lost nothing, but gained everything - because the mass majority of typists were proficient in it's operation, and if a company standardized on Word Perfect, newhires could hit the ground running with zero, or minimal training expense.
Lotus 123 and others had a similar story. SuperCalc, Dbase II, etc., were in use in peoples homes because tiny little programs distributed over public BBSes like COPY2PC could diskdup the system floppy and you could make as many copies of it that you liked, and give it to your friends. So much money has been spent on anti-piracy measures over the decades with not much thanks from software publishers, sort of; they will acknowledge the fueling of adoption of their products in the business marketplace due to the decisions of the bean counters who bowed to standardizing on software that most job applicants would be likely to already be proficient in.
There's a whole culture, or perhaps, sub-culture of people who will buy DRM encoded books, strip the encoding, and then share those works in places like LibGenesis or priviate torrent trackers - just because they find DRM abhorrent!
The inverse is not true. Reasearch studies have shown time and time again that even if you charge for an ebook, if you make a big deal out of declaring that nothing you sell is DRM encoded, and ask that people respect the trust you have endowed them with, they'll tell their friends to go and buy the book more often than not, when someone asks them to give them a pirated copy.
Go figure.
There's something to be said for the honor system, but moreover, why pay someone that you would never trust in the first place for the privilege of having a license to use their software - their proprietary, closed source software product? Why, you could just use #FOSS instead, products like:
LibreOffice
GIMP
Inkscape
FrontAccounting
NextCloud
MariaDB
PostgreSQL
Nginx
Apache
Proxmox VE
KeePassXC or VaultWarden
Thunderbird
Firefox
VLC
Okular
KdenLive/OpenShot
OBS
Did I mention Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or NetBSD?
Something I've always done with my customers, when unleashed to erradicate proprietary, closed source software from their premises, is to first acquire an internal audit of all of the costs involved in licensing such software in an ongoing model. Then, present those numbers, and after specifying that all things considered, labor costs will be the same not matter what (I'll make the same amount anyway), but that they'll never have to pay for another license again...
Then, require a firm agreement that each year the company contribute monetarily to most or all of the FOSS projects that produced the software they use. I actually leave just how much up to them, typically stating, "A dollar or a thousand dollars per year, I'm going to leave that to your conscience, but each year, look at this sheet of paper showing how much you would spend with that proprietary software that you could never really trust your privacy or company's secrets to anyway, and then break out your checkbook in good faith."
I leave the rest of that story to the honor system.
#tallship #FOSS #Software_Piracy
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SBS1313
in reply to tallship • • •What a nice read
I never heard of word perfect but that is in a way very precise example
Tbf alternatives to ms word are hard to come by.
Not saying ms word is perfect it actually pretty bad if u think abt it but no alts are at the level of it as of now. Tried libre didn't like the cluttered Ui. I did like OnlyOffice but had several bugs that crashed the app and removed saves.
While it is true that a more pirated copy makes more people use a software taking ur example. But whenever there is a monopoly, it is hard not to pirate or buy the software (looking at adobe). Though alternatives are quite good sometimes. I really loved Gimp and it could replace photoshop imo.
For the Drm on books it is also very true. Why use a book that is only openable in a proprietary software (looking at you adobe) that last for 3 days when u can find it in a shadow library or remove DRM. It reminds me of how awful it is compared to physical libraries. These are free or have a membership but u could in theory have a book as long as u need and find it there again (unless destroyed)
Though the honor system while in a way true in practice i do not know if numbers add up.
If a service is good people abviously buy it (like winRar strategy)
But does it work overall?? I do need to dig into that. If u have any reliable info on it. It would be great. I did hear a study that found that people who pirate tend to spend or recommend more on creative works (Bandcam or direct donations...)
Its a release of creative content Australia u can check it too..
As you also well said it is always better to go to foss software. But sometimes there are compromises people are willing to take or not.
Yes there is also the issue with data with proprietary software (looking at you adobe)
An example would be VLC. True it is great but it lacks customizability and ui that looks outdated.
Or Linux. Personal experience was great but its still not quite there, due to many apps only able to run on windows out of the box (yes there is compatibility layers but still)
Bobo The Great
in reply to tallship • • •tallship
in reply to Bobo The Great • • •@piracy
You may just be right about that. I swore by PKZ204G.EXE for years until someone mentioned WinZip to me. I thought, "What is this trash?" and never gave it a second thought until I stumbled across WinRar - "Oh this might make rar'ing stuffs up to send to the priv tracker really easy!" It did! but.... It also handled unzipping gzipped tarballs too which was nice when I wanted to checkout stuffs on a Windows box. I think I started running WinRar back with wYnd0z3 XP, or maybe NT 4. I honestly can't remember, but I quickly learned that by simply right clicking on archives and using the context menu that you don't get the nag, so that's typically how I used it.
I don't use wYnd0z3 anymore, or at least I should say, that professionally, I keep abreast, but here's a horror story I should probably share here; it's privacy related, not so much having to do with copyright and licensing issues, but rather.... Well, more than just the ownership of your data. You, are the product, and your very identities are I believe, at risk, more and more each day. Here goes:
So I wanted to replace my old lappy, the WiFi radio was quite obsolete, couldn't connect to many new WiFi networks - especially many new or newly remodelled Starbucks and it's easy to move Slackware to a new box, but I insisted on having a 17" monitor - I just like the real estate; and I could get a good refurbed Xeon powered Dell with a boatload of memory for a reasonable price.
I didn't mind that my new lappy arrived with Win 11 pro pre-installed, I needed to beat on that OS a little bit, not too much though, since it wasn't too dissimilar to Win 10 and I soon kinda shelved it, taking time to decide upon whether to install Proxmox VE on it, move my still quite snappy, warm and fuzzy Slackware -current install over to it, or re-purpose it as a Debian Forkey platform. I had spent only a few weeks with it here and there, and aside from seriously intrusionary particulars that I really detested, like being even worse than that of Win 10 was at resetting defaults that really pissed me off, there's nothing new that it offered me to learn that I couldn't get from launching a VM of it anyway.
So it sat... and sat... maybe three months or so? I was busy and in no hurry to retire a laptop running Slackware that still screamed after being moved from three previous machines in the past decade. One day I decided to go to a Starbucks where I knew my laptop couldn't negotiate the WiFi encryption and didn't want to bring my portable WiFi Puck with me so I grabbed the Xeon. It was truly a dream after all.
I had some simple stuff to do, mostly reading and writing up some reports and the last couple of times I fired it up I had been asked to install updates, but I, like so many others when there's no critical reason apparent, procrastinated.
So I ordered my coffee, took a sip, sat down, and fired up the Xeon beast. WTF? Bitlocker lolwut? No! No bitlocker! I don't use that crap. I do my own encryption. Wait! WTF? Key? There's no key God Dammit, I've never activated Bitlocker! Oh, I can sign in to my mAcR0sFot account and recover.... Well, that's just fricken' great to know but I've always known better than to do anything but a local or domain account - NEVER a mAcR0sFot account!!!
Okay, I guess that's kinda like the bad ending of an old film noir flick from the 40's that you wished had spent just three minutes of treatment developing the tragedy or happily ever after, instead of just abruptly saying, "The End" right before the lights in the theater come on. But not in my story.
Homey don't play dat! There wasn't anything that wasn't already on my NextCloud server that was even remotely important to me, except perhaps having to reinstall Thunderbird and waiting for my IMAP server to sync to my new MUA.
Debian it is. I still love my #Slackware lappy the way it is and I don't need a mobile #Proxmox box when I can just use stuff already built in or install #VirtualBox. So I whacked the mirrored SSDs and wiped the smaller one, switched from RAID to AHCI and other adjustments in the BIOS, installed #Debian Testing from a netinst.iso on USB with #KDE #Plasma and #Xfce, and Boom Shakalaka BOOM! 💥 Mic Drop! 🎤
I am truly going to miss WinRar, but I'm not going to miss #Windows at all. I'll still have to see it and fix it several times a week and continue to convince people to ditch it, but yeah, I've been really perturbed with Microsoft ever since they had the audacity to release Win 95a on my birthday, with yet more trash to come for the next 30 years, and if there's anyone out there who is even slightly entertaining the thought of suggesting, "Well, it was something you did - you know it. Windows wouldn't just do that".... It's actually well documented that it really will do that to you, and what's coming down the line is even worse, but I think they're saving the truly abominable stuff for after their campaign to recycle (destroy) 100 million perfectly good PCs and laptops.
I do believe it's time to ditch Microsoft Windows, truly, and I made half a career on it teaching the MCSE program for them and building large scale enterprises in Fortune 500's with Microsoft products. The #Linux and #BSD desktop is mature enough and straight-forward enough to install that it's actually much easier than installing Windows nowadays, and #FOSS applications abound that are bundled in with distributions that are are intuitive and familiar enough for anyone to use out of the box. But I'm just talking here, right?
Watch This Video that actually references #Bitlocker actually activating itself (Going back to 24h2 and June 2024, especially on 'pro', but also affected 'home' variants too).
Oh, yeah, #WinRar - handles .zip, tar.gz, .rar, arj, etc., etc., yeah it probably is the most pirated product ever, lolz. And the main point is that the publisher (devs) don't really make much of a fuss over it because it drives corporate sales of licenses, lolz - Thanks for bringing that up!
#tallship
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in reply to SBS1313 • • •Snot Flickerman
in reply to SBS1313 • • •papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
This paper used to be available on Rufus Pollock's own website but today returns a 404.
rufuspollock.com/papers/optima…
In 2009 Pollock did the math and concluded that optimal copyright length for artists to recoup investment in developing the art balanced with making art available in the public domain was about 16 years.
This paper's math isn't easy to grok if you're not an economist, but it's a good resource that balances the need for copyright with the need for public domain knowledge and art.
SBS1313
in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •RGB
in reply to SBS1313 • • •Maybe this book will help
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
by Martin Paul Eve
archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9…
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy : Martin Paul Eve : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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in reply to RGB • • •I will give it a read and try to find interesting info in it !