Airports in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle and elsewhere cite laws barring partisan political content at TSA checkpoints
Several major international US airports, including Phoenix Sky Harbor , Harry Reid international in Las Vegas, Seattle–Tacoma and Charlotte Douglas airport in North Carolina, are opting to block a video from the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, that blames Democrats for the ongoing federal government shutdown from airing at their checkpoints.
Airport authorities in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Charlotte and Westchester county, New York, have refused to display the footage at security checkpoints, saying the overtly political messaging potentially violates state and federal law, including the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from partisan political activity.
In the video, obtained first by Fox News, Noem tells travelers: “Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, many of our operations are impacted, and most of our TSA [Transportation Security Administration] employees are working without pay.”
Bondi alleged that a "wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs." She added that the DOJ "will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement."
When contacted by Ars, Facebook owner Meta said the group "was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm." Meta didn't describe any specific violation but directed us to a policy against "coordinating harm and promoting crime," which includes a prohibition against "outing the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel."
The statement was sent by Francis Brennan, a former Trump campaign advisor who was hired by Meta in January.
Do you have a source I could look into about this? What I've seen so far suggests the call came from inside the house, since the people doing the coup are the same ones who installed Andry Rajoelina in the first place after a previous coup.
Yes. They’re watching from their cozy rooms, on their expensive iPhones, eating their yummy snacks. Gonna take A LOT more for Americans to react like Nepal or Madagascar.
Yeah, I don't think we should be placing a lot of hope in American Gen Z.
They're busy getting cucked by right wing manosphere grifters or punishing the Democrat party over a single issue while holding the door open for fascists.
We need to be learning from this what happens when you topple a regime without a plan for what comes next. People who do have a plan are going to step in and take advantage, and the people who did all the work will have wasted their efforts making way for another tyrannical regime. It may have worked out (so far) for Nepal, but it's not common for military leadership to relinquish power after they have it like they did there.
I wonder what the similarities are between Nepal and the Romanian revolution. That’s the only other one that comes to mind in which, as I understand it, the military defected to the side of the revolutionaries and then ceded power to a new regime
You could make that case for the boomers, but with the advent of the Internet it's not really limited to specific countries anymore. Gen z just describes people who grew up with some access to the internet, but not to the extent of alpha. A large part of these recent revolts were caused or accelerated by social media. Gen Z is more specific than young people, and in this case also more culturally relevant.
Doesn't matter anyway, even if you think Gen Z isn't real you know what age range the article is talking about.
historically it's always young people and minorities (of any age) that go out to fuck things up. they are the ones who get the most fucked after all. no need to make generational divides out of it though, it's not just them getting the short end of the stick.
and not just genz grew up with internet, it's just that they are the young ones still. shitty fucking propaganda tbh.
No term will ever satisfy everyone. And everyone knows who "gen z" refers to. I'll not let your semantic wars ruin my day... which is so xennial of me 👓
not ancient. propagandizing younger generations to weaponize juvenoia is a very recent thing, if you were born in the last 50 years you can remember it, as i do.
we can be better and not help further this suspicious ass agenda.
I find myself inspired to create a bingo style card, put he name of random countries under the days of the week and let his tariff threats fill in the board.
Throw a couple free spaces on Tuesday for TACO night...
Amazingly, all of these tariffs are still completely illegal and outside his authority, and no one will even make an attempt at stopping him, or even talk about the fact that he has zero authority to be implementing tariffs.
I didn’t know the tariffs were illegal and outside his authority, thanks, TIL! Could you elaborate, or direct me to some sources? I would like to learn more
If you accept his bullshit that we are at war, then it’s legal. Since his bullshit is, in fact, bullshit, then only congress has tariff authority for 90% of the types of tariffs that he is levying.
Pete Hegseth‘s Defense Department has threatened to revoke press credentials of news organization that do not agree to restrictive new coverage rules — and says it may bar journalists who don’t agree to abide by the rules from physical access to the Pentagon’s grounds. But more than three dozen news orgs have said they are refusing to sign on to the requirements.
On Tuesday, in a joint statement five major TV news outlets — ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News — said they were not agreeing to the new rules. The Pentagon has told reporters they must sign an agreement for the new rules by Tuesday or turn in their press passes by Wednesday.
According to the Defense Department’s press office, which outlined the new rules last month, reporters covering the Pentagon must sign a pledge not to obtain or use unauthorized material (even if the information is unclassified). If they do not, they will potentially be barred from the Pentagon.
“Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues,” the networks said in the statement. “The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press.”
The five networks join a number of other news orgs that have already said they won’t agree to the new rules being imposed by Hegseth, a former Fox News host. Those include the New York Times, AP, Reuters, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, NewsNation and the Hill, along with conservative-leaning outlets like Newsmax and the Washington Examiner.
At press time, only one outlet has said it plans to sign on to the new rules announced by the Pentagon, which the Trump administration now calls the “U.S. Department of War”: pro-Trump network One America News Network (OANN).
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Here’s the current full list of news outlets that have refused to sign the Pentagon’s new rules, as compiled by the Washington Post:
ABC News
AL-Monitor
Associated Press
The Atlantic
Aviation Week
Axios
Bloomberg News
Breaking Defense
C4ISRNET
CBS News
CNN
Defense Daily
Defense News
Defense One
The Economist
Federal Times
The Financial Times
Fox News
The Guardian
The Hill
HuffPost
Military Times
MSNBC
NBC News
The New York Times
Newsmax
NewsNation
NPR
PBS NewsHour
Politico
RealClearPolitics
Reuters
Task & Purpose
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Examiner
The Washington Post
The Washington Times
WTOP
Pete Hegseth's Defense Department has threatened to revoke press credentials of news organization that do not agree to restrictive new coverage rules -- and bar them from physical access to the Pentagon's grounds.
... Last paragraph before I cut off the article for the summary in the post, and then jump to the big list.
So yeah, literally only the cultiest MAGA network is onboard, as far as I can tell, literally all other US journalism outlets possibly relevant to military reporting have refused it, there's a slew of defense oriented publications on there, a good deal of other pretty conservative outlets on the noncompliance list too.
On Tuesday, in a joint statement five major TV news outlets — ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News — said they were not agreeing to the new rules.
They signed this statement:
"Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues,” the networks said in the statement. “The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press.”
... this is all in the parts I excerpted, in the post.
The person I am responding to used the verb 'sign', alone, which could refer to signing the joint refusal statement, or, it could be referring to signing on to the new requirements from the DoW.
Regardless, it seems you have the correct factual understanding, regardless of phrasing, so, all good, I was just trying to make sure nobody had a factual misunderstanding.
EDIT: ok, I'm dumb.
I've posted this in like 5 different news comms and am losing track of which replies are in which thread and have what context.
Pete Hegseth‘s Defense Department has threatened to revoke press credentials of news organization that do not agree to restrictive new coverage rules — and says it may bar journalists who don’t agree to abide by the rules from physical access to the Pentagon’s grounds. But more than three dozen news orgs have said they are refusing to sign on to the requirements.
On Tuesday, in a joint statement five major TV news outlets — ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News — said they were not agreeing to the new rules. The Pentagon has told reporters they must sign an agreement for the new rules by Tuesday or turn in their press passes by Wednesday.
According to the Defense Department’s press office, which outlined the new rules last month, reporters covering the Pentagon must sign a pledge not to obtain or use unauthorized material (even if the information is unclassified). If they do not, they will potentially be barred from the Pentagon.
“Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues,” the networks said in the statement. “The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press.”
The five networks join a number of other news orgs that have already said they won’t agree to the new rules being imposed by Hegseth, a former Fox News host. Those include the New York Times, AP, Reuters, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, NewsNation and the Hill, along with conservative-leaning outlets like Newsmax and the Washington Examiner.
At press time, only one outlet has said it plans to sign on to the new rules announced by the Pentagon, which the Trump administration now calls the “U.S. Department of War”: pro-Trump network One America News Network (OANN).
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Here’s the current full list of news outlets that have refused to sign the Pentagon’s new rules, as compiled by the Washington Post:
ABC News
AL-Monitor
Associated Press
The Atlantic
Aviation Week
Axios
Bloomberg News
Breaking Defense
C4ISRNET
CBS News
CNN
Defense Daily
Defense News
Defense One
The Economist
Federal Times
The Financial Times
Fox News
The Guardian
The Hill
HuffPost
Military Times
MSNBC
NBC News
The New York Times
Newsmax
NewsNation
NPR
PBS NewsHour
Politico
RealClearPolitics
Reuters
Task & Purpose
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Examiner
The Washington Post
The Washington Times
WTOP
Pete Hegseth's Defense Department has threatened to revoke press credentials of news organization that do not agree to restrictive new coverage rules -- and bar them from physical access to the Pentagon's grounds.
OAN, One America News, are the only press org that has agreed to it.
Also, that joint statement.
As in, everyone who issued that, stands by every word of it.
That is Fox News saying:
"The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press.”
Thats maybe kind of a really big deal, for Fox to literally turn against their own literal ex-coworker, and against the Frail King In Orange that harshly as well.
I think it would've been more impactful if instead of mentioning the lone org that will comply in the text, they made a list like the other one to show how outnumbered they were visually....🤔
Well, I know which outlets I will at least read news from (even if the information contained in their reporting may be dubious -- like Faux News or NewsMarx).
My guess is that the administration backs down. Maybe they could lose some of those, but if they can't even get Fox News and Newsmax onboard, they're just basically shutting down their media coverage.
EDIT: Also, I'm amazed that the administration managed to dick things up to that degree. I don't have a very high opinion of Hegseth, but if there's one thing that you'd think that his experience would be relevant for, you'd think that he'd at least be able to handle media relations with Fox News. The guy spent the last decade there.
The son answered the door and, while he permitted the agents to search his home, claiming he had nothing to hide, he asked if they could wait first while he put the family dog, Chop, a Rottweiler, away in the bathroom before they walked in, as the dog could be aggressive... According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home and, as a result, ended up shooting the dog.
The family stressed that the agents knew-- the son had told them-- that Chop was put in the bathroom for their safety and that the agents opened the door, let Chop out and shot him.
Furthermore, the family said none of the Border Patrol agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to the dog, which bled to death on the kitchen floor.
The family added that when they confronted agents, Border Patrol reportedly told them they were working from an anonymous tip tied to the previous owners of the home, who lived there two years ago.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...
Maitlis reacted in an interview for British radio station LBC in which she also predicted more careers would be ruined by the Epstein story: "I mean, the number of people that have ended up lying for Epstein, whose careers have ended up in absolute tatters because of their connection to him. I think we're at the tip of the iceberg, I genuinely do."
Yet a couple of months later, in February 2011, we now know he emailed Epstein to say: "I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!"
The message came the day after the first interview with his accuser Virginia Giuffre, published in The Mail on Sunday, which included a photo of Andrew with his arm around Guiffre's waist.
Hello everyone, what is your go-to password manager?
KeePassXC for something hosted locally on your home network. Best aspect of KeePassXC is the support for OTP codes built-in, in my opinion. For mobile OTP codes, I personally use Aegis.
What would you suggest for friends and family that aren’t very tech savvy?
You could actually host your KeePass DB online, if you secured it good enough (and on a server you control). That way you'd have a solution working for every device you have, wherever you are.
I would recommend if you do this to have a two part key. Password and file. Then you can have the file on specific devices but share the database through the cloud.
Bitwarden. There are also self host options, and other free/freemium offerings as well. Personally, I feel like Bitwarden built all this infrastructure to keep my passwords encrypted and secure, and since my db contains not only personal data, but also business data, I'll leave it to Bitwarden who has a fantastic record as far as breaches.
The government today reversed course on its ill-advised anti-privacy measures in Bill C-2, introducing a new border bill with the lawful access provisions (Parts 14 and 15) removed.
Built-in password managers in software like browsers and operating systems are sometimes not as good as dedicated password manager software. The advantage of a built-in password manager is good integration with the software, but it can often be very simple and lack privacy and security features that standalone offerings have.
For example, the password manager in Microsoft Edge doesn't offer end-to-end encryption at all. Google's password manager has optional E2EE, and Apple's offers E2EE by default.
As a general rule, browser based password storage is less secure than a standalone offering. While convenient, Firefox loads the cipher into memory. and stores passwords in a local file (logins.json) encrypted with 3DES (older versions) or AES (newer), using a key derived from an optional primary password. Without a primary password, Firefox uses a blank key, making it trivially decryptable. Even with one, decryption occurs locally but lacks the layered, zero-knowledge design of something like Bitwarden. This makes Firefox stored passwords more vulnerable to something like a virus outbreak on your computer, which can access your Firefox stored passwords.
This is how I understand it. If someone has better intel, or if I need schooled up, do share.
I am basically relaying conventional wisdom I have gleaned over the years of 'best practice'. I also forget that a lot of people in the privacy sphere run Linux solely, where as I run Windows, Linux, and Mac. I hold no high ground in privacy, security, or anonymity. You are certainly within spec to run your network as your requirements deem necessary. I'm just a lot more comfortable not using a browser to store my passwords. If you've got it all down to a note, then rock on my brother and don't let them give you shit about your ponytail either.
You seem to be much more knowledgeable on the topic, and while I would call myself privacy conscious, I would hardly consider myself within the pricacy sphere. How would using something like bitwarden or keepassxc work with entering passwords on websites? Firefox just retrieves it from its vault (as bad as it may be from what I'm reading) and then inserts it into the u/p fields. I've seen LastPass in action plenty, because corporations seem to love it, and I find it anything but seemless. So how do those two aforementioned compare?
You seem to be much more knowledgeable on the topic,
Well, the first thing you need to know about me is that I am an expert at nothing. I've just been screwing up enough computers since the mid 70s to learn a couple things. LOL
Some thoughts and opinions:
Firefox: As mentioned earlier, Firefox stores it's logins in a file called logins.json, which is encrypted. It stores the encryption keys in a separate file called key4.db. They are encrypted with 3DES in CBC mode for the passwords themselves. When you save a password, Firefox encrypts it before writing it to disk. If you don't create a master password in Firefox, the browser uses a basic form of encryption based on your operating system credentials or a default key. This allows Firefox to automatically decrypt your passwords for autofill purposes without requiring any extra authentication, as long as you're logged into your device. The master password is key, because with the master password Firefox adds a stronger cipher in the form of PBKDF2-SHA256. Without the master password, anyone using your browser can fill in log information.
Bitwarden: Bitwarden is a dedicated, separate, password manager that stores your vault data in the cloud on Microsoft Azure in the US or EU regions iirc. Bitwarden has zero-knowledge of your passwords or encrypted data. You start with a master password, much like you would with Firefox. That master password is never sent to Bitwarden. Here's where my eyes start to glaze over. LOL It undergoes key stretching using PBKDF2-SHA-256 with 600,000 iterations. This derives a 256-bit master key, which is then expanded via HKDF to a 512-bit stretched master key. A separate 512-bit symmetric key generated by CSPRNG, is encrypted with this stretched key and stored on the servers as your 'protected symmetric key'. Your passwords are individually encrypted using AES-256-CBC with HMAC-SHA256 for integrity, each with its own unique cipher key that's further protected by your symmetric key. When you log in, the master password re-derives the keys client-side to decrypt the protected symmetric key fetched from the server, and decryption happens only in memory and is never written to disk. I'm not going to even pretend to thoroughly understand the process. That's going to take someone way more intelligent than I. LOL
Firefox password system is browser based. Firefox does not mandate a master password like Bitwarden, or at least in the past has not. Firefox stored passwords, as mentioned earlier, are susceptible to Firefox based exploits. Those exploits are not relegated to just Windows platforms, and can happen on Linux and Mac just by visiting a laced up website. Bitwarden is device agnostic and invokes more encrypted protections than it's Firefox counterpart.
To boil the ox down to the bullion cube, Bitwarden, in my humble opinion, gives you more layers of protection than your standard Firefox browser. I like layers. They do add complexity to the situation, but at times, complex layers is just what is required. At the end of the day, it gets down to what you feel comfortable with based on your threat model. Both options offer encryption and security features. Both options are reasonably secure, with Bitwarden being, in my mind, far more secure because it offers more robust layers of complexity. Bitwarden has a fabulous track record of security, and tho there have been previous breaches, none to my knowledge ever revealed any user data.
It has been quite a while since I have used LastPass briefly, so I cannot speak with intelligence about it's operation. I do know that Bitwarden is super easy (for me) to use and in the browser, works like any other password storage option. You can set it to automatically fill in passwords and user names which is a feature I think appeals to those who use Firefox or other browser based password storage systems. However, as I stated, at the end of the day, it all gets down to what aligns with your threat model, and how comfortable you feel using the options you have chosen. For me, Bitwarden offers more layers of protection, and I am a green ogre who likes layers.
Keepass and Bitwarden respectively. Keepass has a lot of fringe advantages but most important to me is automation and offline consistency. Bitwarden will let you stay logged in offline depending on the options but it's a bit different and they offer some kind of premium service. They both have good Android apps and Firefox addons
I used Bitwarden for a long time and it was easy and convenient. I've since switched to KeePassXC which is less convenient, but it's more private and secure because it's offline. I wouldn't recommend it to someone less tech savvy unless they are just going to need access to their passwords on one device as setting it up reliably with a cloud solution isn't always simple.
Bitwarden is great, has lots of free features, and a pretty cheap premium family plan. I've been trying to onboard my old people to my family plan so that I can help them if they forget their passwords. 1Password is more expensive, but more polished, and a better choice for newbies IMO.
I recently moved my family from 1Password to Bitwarden. They're not tech savvy at all and haven't really noticed a difference aside from that "the password vault looks different".
Again, they're not tech savvy so they don't really use any specific 1Password features. They're also not constantly adding or removing logins, so Bitwarden has been pretty easy for them.
I checked my email just to be sure. So looks like I migrated my family in August 2024. Ah. Actually, further back than I thought.
So my mom, dad, wife, and me have been using Bitwarden for a little over a year without any issues.
My wife is a macOS user (for now...) and she's totally fine with Bitwarden. She doesn't care about password managers. It's just some random app that saves passwords to her. She probably wouldn't remember if she's using 1Password or Bitwarden. My wife occasionally will add logins to Bitwarden.
My parents were macOS users—now they're on Fedora Silverblue for 2 months!—but they're even less technical than my wife. They don't know what OS they're running or what a password manager app is. They just know wolf icon = internet, shield icon = passwords. They don't add or remove passwords. I added their 5 website logins and that's all they need.
If you use nextcloud, especially for your friends and family, the passwords app is really good there. Plenty of apps and plugins available to use it everywhere.
Same here, KeePass with SyncThing with a weekly copy of the database-file to a VPS I rent. Besides a password the database requires a key-file, which is copied between the various devices over a USB memory stick.
Why would I keep my passwords with an external company?
Yup, KeePassXC is amazing, especially with the add-on in your browser (librewolf I think you need to do something to work). I don't use my phone much for logging into things, but you can probably sync it on Android (I don't know how it works on iOS). I love it because you can download icons from websites, and it's very simple once you get used to it!
I use self-hosted Nextcloud to sync mine. Other people like Syncthing. I'm going to drop an unpopular opinion here: if you use a sufficiently strong master passphrase, you can sync your file with even gdrive or Dropbox if those are more convenient for you.
Not just between devices. Between people, too. Super handy to coordinate shared passwords. I use it with my wife for utilities and stuff.
You can also designate other Bitwarden accounts to have the ability to reset your master password, in case of emergency. So my wife has a password she can use to get in there, in case something happens to me. But people can’t do it on the sly, because it’ll notify the account holder of its use.
I try to minimize use of browser extensions, but i have the phone & desktop application. Nextcloud/whatever you run for syncing. I also back up those files through rsync to encrypted volume in a cloud provider (so double encrypted), so that if the worst should happen, I can still access the last version.
It's worth noting that you can manage OTP through it. When you add to your phone's OTP manager, you can also add it to Keepass, so you wont be up shit creek if your phone dies. Personally I would make a separate volume for your OTP, so you retain dual verification, even if someone should gain access to one of the two.
Thanks for answering. I don't self host it but am interested. It's still a company that i entrust to store highly sensitive data with, hence my interest in self hosting. Usually folks promote self hosting, so i was curious about your comment to not. Agree, that's not something to consider lightly.
you don't have to be very tech savy to use a password manager. I use a keypass variant for local ones and keep important ones there and bitwarden online with stuff that if it got taken over would not matter.
Israel kills at least five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the humanitarian terms of the ceasefire agreement. Aid is entering Gaza at an insufficient pace, with authorities warning it represents “a drop in the ocean” of Gaza’s needs. The United Nations Development Program says that $70 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza. President Donald Trump continues his “victory tour” of the Levant, taking credit for the ceasefire in speeches at the Knesset and at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt, where he signed the deal presided over by the heads of state of Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, and Indonesia, while the leadership of the Palestinian resistance did not attend. A live microphone records Trump agreeing to arrange a meeting between his son and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, saying “I’ll have Eric call. Should I do that? He’s such a good boy.” The U.S. plans to commit half a billion dollars to anti-drone defense in anticipation of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. ICE continues to harass residents in Chicago and Portland. China threatens retaliatory tariffs after Trump signaled plans to impose “100 percent tariffs” on Chinese goods. Washington reaffirms its readiness to defend its ally in the Philippines if hostilities in the South China Sea escalate further. Floods ravage Mexico’s east coast. Madagascar’s president flees the country amid ongoing “Gen Z” protests.
Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement
Israel kills at least five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the humanitarian terms of the ceasefire agreement. Aid is entering Gaza at an insufficient pace, with authorities warning it represents “a drop in the ocean” of Gaza’s needs. The United Nations Development Program says that $70 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza. President Donald Trump continues his “victory tour” of the Levant, taking credit for the ceasefire in speeches at the Knesset and at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt, where he signed the deal presided over by the heads of state of Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, and Indonesia, while the leadership of the Palestinian resistance did not attend. A live microphone records Trump agreeing to arrange a meeting between his son and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, saying “I’ll have Eric call. Should I do that? He’s such a good boy.” The U.S. plans to commit half a billion dollars to anti-drone defense in anticipation of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. ICE continues to harass residents in Chicago and Portland. China threatens retaliatory tariffs after Trump signaled plans to impose “100 percent tariffs” on Chinese goods. Washington reaffirms its readiness to defend its ally in the Philippines if hostilities in the South China Sea escalate further. Floods ravage Mexico’s east coast. Madagascar’s president flees the country amid ongoing “Gen Z” protests.
“I think that there is clearly a risk that that will take much more time.” Cardon added that it could take days or weeks and that there was a possibility they were never found.
Because of the massive bombing by Israel?
Was this not known in negotiations? I can guess but I'd prefer to ask.
Was this not known in negotiations? I can guess but I'd prefer to ask.
It was, and it was made clear to all parties. It was highlighted by the Resistance and by Trump, both during and after negotiations. All parties have publicly acknowledged this multiple times, this is just the "Israelis" inventing a pretext.
my most cynical prediction was that this would last about as long as the "ceasefire" from around Trump's inauguration, although I didn't predict Trump would be doing victory doughnuts in a saudi parking lot as it broke down.
Israel kills at least five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the humanitarian terms of the ceasefire agreement. Aid is entering Gaza at an insufficient pace, with authorities warning it represents “a drop in the ocean” of Gaza’s needs. The United Nations Development Program says that $70 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza. President Donald Trump continues his “victory tour” of the Levant, taking credit for the ceasefire in speeches at the Knesset and at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt, where he signed the deal presided over by the heads of state of Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, and Indonesia, while the leadership of the Palestinian resistance did not attend. A live microphone records Trump agreeing to arrange a meeting between his son and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, saying “I’ll have Eric call. Should I do that? He’s such a good boy.” The U.S. plans to commit half a billion dollars to anti-drone defense in anticipation of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. ICE continues to harass residents in Chicago and Portland. China threatens retaliatory tariffs after Trump signaled plans to impose “100 percent tariffs” on Chinese goods. Washington reaffirms its readiness to defend its ally in the Philippines if hostilities in the South China Sea escalate further. Floods ravage Mexico’s east coast. Madagascar’s president flees the country amid ongoing “Gen Z” protests.
Ultimamente stavo pensando (ahia…), quasi rimuginando a riguardo, per qualche motivo, che questo terzo anno di università, in termini di vibe, in alcuni specifici frangenti mi riporta un po’ al liceo… e non so se è una cosa buona. Mi sono tenuta questa pazzia per un po’, ma veramente più ci penso e più mi […]
gli inutili pensieri personali noiosi sulla discrepanza uniscolastica dell’octo…
Ultimamente stavo pensando (ahia…), quasi rimuginando a riguardo, per qualche motivo, che questo terzo anno di università, in termini di vibe, in alcuni specifici frangenti mi riporta un po’ al liceo…e non so se è una cosa buona. Mi sono tenuta questa pazzia per un po’, ma veramente più ci penso e più mi sembra valida, quindi eccola qui come al solito per chi non ha paura di subirla… 😈
Innanzitutto, l’ambiance. Questa è particolarmente interessante, perché come vibe si divide in più punti, eppure resta consistente con la premessa; tolta l’aula dove si tengono i corsi facoltativi quest’anno, che non mi riporta a nulla di antico:
Il lunedì mattina, si va nel laboratorio al primo piano… che, quando le tapparelle sono aperte, ed entra la luce, mi riporta spaventosamente all’ora di informatica al liceo; dove, a dire il vero, si faceva forse anche di più di cosa facciamo in questo laboratorio con le due materie di questa mattina… cioè, io faccio le mie robe come allora, e gli altri perdono tempo col telefono o videogiocano in ogni caso come allora, ma il professore lì a scuola non stava solo a spiegare da delle diapositive come qui all’università. Sarà perché anche al liceo il laboratorio di informatica era al primo piano, e non sotterraneo come gli altri laboratori di PC all’università, e più o meno le dimensioni sono comparabili, anziché esagerate con file lunghissime?
Il giovedì e venerdì mattina, invece, si sta nell’aula normale, alquanto ampia ma fredda di inverno… (me ne sono già lamentata abbastanza, non aggiungerò altro…) come al liceo, finché non accendono i termosifoni, lì a dicembre. Però, come al quinto anno di liceo in particolare la mia era una delle poche aule senza termosifoni, qui all’università questa è una delle poche aule dove i condizionatori sembrano non riuscire a fottutamente funzionare… che è quantomeno curiosa, come corrispondenza. Non bella, ma ci sta.
Il mercoledì, ad orario di merda purtroppo, come già detto anche questo, ci sono le conferenze delle aziende in un’aula che non è presa a caso, ma è apposta per le conferenze, con una specie di palco seppur non profondo e le sedie a salire… che, con facilità ovvia, riporta subito all’aula magna del liceo, e a tutte le ore felicemente perse (perché erano di mattina, in quel caso) lì dentro nel corso di 5 anni, ad ascoltare la gente yappare per assemblee di istituto o per i soliti eventi con ospiti da fuori. Peccato non abbia lo stesso odore di polvere, e sia molto più piccola, altrimenti le vibe erano veramente spiccicate uguali.
Questa è una foto del laboratorio, comunque… Chi andava al liceo con me E leggerà questo post, cioè nessuno, noterà anche una certa somiglianza per come dalle finestre si vede l’altro fabbricato, con il cortile sotto… che magia… 🤩 Poi, una nota piccola ma importante ci sarebbe da fare sui professori… e questa non è buona, principalmente. Per quanto di personaggioni in questi 2 anni già passati me ne siano capitati, e più volte in passato ho fatto paragoni mentali con alcuni del liceo, con quest’anno siamo veramente ad un bel livello!
C’è il professore di Android che si incazza se la gente bisbiglia — e oh, in realtà per questo lo rispetto, tecnicamente ha ragionissima — e, per quanto non urli come a scuola invece è prassi, questo suo lamentarsi continuamente del rumore mi fa per forza pensare alle ore di scuola… con la differenza che lì eravamo tutti obbligati a stare, mentre qui, chi non vuole seguire la lezione se ne può andare fuori a parlare; oltre al fatto che il suo è uno dei corsi a scelta, quindi basta.
C’è poi il professore di non dico quale delle due materie obbligatorie (sia mai ‘sto blog giri proprio quando non voglio, poi succede che me lo sogno la notte…) che, vi giuro, è attualmente il nuovo yapping final boss, definitivo. Per carità, l’anno scorso ne ho avuto uno mooolto peggiore sotto questo punto di vista, e del primo anno non parliamo nemmeno, ma questo… mi appare, fisicamente e come attitudine, un misto tra il prof. di chimica e quello di educazione fisica del liceo, e parla e straparla aggiungendo dettagli superflui quando spiega che è un mal di testa…
Ahimè, le similitudini coi vecchi tempi — dove ero allo stesso tempo più tormentata ma più spensierata, nonché c’è da dire che non era ancora arrivato il mio glow-down, seppure il mio glow-up non c’è mai stato prima e sta arrivando solo ora (…lasciate stare, sono normali paranoie da ragazza magica…) — finiscono qui. O quasi: ero tanto socialmente inetta allora come ora, e tutto sommato ugualmente poco cagata, ma ora è per certi versi anche peggio sotto questo aspetto, come tra l’altro sospettavo prima di iniziare l’università… almeno al tempo c’era nella stessa mia classe gente che conoscevo circa bene e con cui scambiare delle parole di vario tipo, mentre ora no… c’è appena qualcuno in altre classi, in alcuni momenti, che non è per niente la stessa cosa. Ah e, letteralmente dimenticavo…al liceo non c’era nessun piano di studi da presentare, mentre qui mi tocca, ed entro questo venerdì… l’altro ieri pensavo fosse inizio ottobre, mentre invece siamo a metà. Il tempo sta proprio volando!!! 😩
Un’altra cosa nata al liceo e poi svanita è, probabilmente, il sitoctt; Scopri come mai è morto, nel nuovo articolo paradossalmente ma piacevolmente pubblicato sullo stesso sitoctt: sitoctt.octt.eu.org/it/blog/20…. (Messaggio promocttionale, leggere attentamente il foglietto illustrocttivo.)
Chi segue il sitoctt (…sarà mica rimasto qualcuno?) avrà purtroppo notato una certa mancanza di contenuti nell’ormai ultimo anno, su questo sito… e non solo in post, che già da 2 annetti erano decisamente traballanti, ma anche per quanto riguarda var…
Obviously, ignoring security is pervasive, well-established, S.O.P.
Incompetence wins, because it is "normal"?
I read only a sample of this book manning.com/books/secure-by-de… and its whole fundamental understanding is that our world has been using the wrong framing of security, all along.
It isn't paint you put on finished-work, for nice highlights ( my metaphor, not theirs, I'm just trying to communicate the idea of what we've been doing )
Rather, it is a set of concerns that need to be kept-in-mind throughout the entire development-process.
So, more lives will be subject to identity-theft, wrongful-accusation/conviction-of-crimes, robbery, etc, because corporate institutions refused to be responsible..
Will anything make the irresponsible-authorites accountable?
Of course not: establishment protects its own.
Force-altering the framing of secure development, however, that does look like it can make our future investments be significantly less corrupt.
I have not bought that book, I have not read more than some of the sample, I'm not saying it definitively is the understanding we're needing.
I AM saying that what the authors were saying in the part I'd read definitely is on-the-mark about us solving-the-wrong-problem, producing wrong-results ( I'd say pretending to solve problems, as what we keep proving we're doing is fundamentally more-corrupt than merely solving the wrong problem, but .. )
Manning has specials, periodically, so it should be possible to get the ebook for 40%..50% off, if one is patient, & persistent in checking their website.
I want the results we're making to be better.
If anyone knows better means for making our results better, please correct my comment.
Secure by Design teaches developers how to use design to drive security in software development. This book is full of patterns, best practices, and mindsets that you can directly apply to your real world development.
The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms protecting Bitcoin wallets, encrypted web visits, and other sensitive secrets will be useless. No one doubts the day will come, but as the now-common joke in cryptography circles observes, experts have been forecasting this cryptocalypse will arrive in the next 15 to 30 years for the past 30 years.
The uncertainty has created something of an existential dilemma: Should network architects spend the billions of dollars required to wean themselves off quantum-vulnerable algorithms now, or should they prioritize their limited security budgets fighting more immediate threats such as ransomware and espionage attacks? Given the expense and no clear deadline, it’s little wonder that less than half of all TLS connections made inside the Cloudflare network and only 18 percent of Fortune 500 networks support quantum-resistant TLS connections. It's all but certain that many fewer organizations still are supporting quantum-ready encryption in less prominent protocols.
This is more a technical curiosity than a complaint.
And it's not only about the last two days. I have been finding this instance to be intermittently unreachable more often than any other popular(ish) instance I occasionally visit, and more than what some instance trackers show (I don't know how they work).
And luckily when that happens, cloudflare helpfully informs me that the problem is not at my end, although not always.
France on Tuesday expressed deep concern over an Israeli army drone incident that injured a UN peacekeeper in southern Lebanon, urging Israel to halt its violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and to fully respect the ceasefire agreement.
In a statement, the French Foreign Ministry said a grenade, dropped by an Israeli drone near a UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon) position in the Kfarkela region on Oct. 11, exploded, injuring an Indonesian peacekeeper.
I've been running my Lemmy server since 2023 with minor issues, however I recently had my server go down for about two weeks due to a drive failure (should have been a RAID array, I know, but when I set this up originally I wasn't sure if it would be a mainstay and then I never revisited my design).
So, this has brought about a couple different problems, first and foremost federation seems completely broken? My proxy configuration and cloudflare stuff has been unchanged, so I don't think that is the issue. However, I'm not receiving new posts, comments, or upvotes (after what gets synced initially).
Here are the logs from the lemmy backend:
2025-10-14T21:05:39.429156Z WARN lemmy_server::root_span_builder: CouldntFindPost: CouldntFindPost
0: lemmy_api_crud::post::read::get_post
with data=Query(GetPost { id: Some(PostId(1495861)), comment_id: Some(CommentId(4689293)) }) local_user_view=None
at crates/api_crud/src/post/read.rs:18
1: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy:8536 http.target=/api/v3/post otel.kind="server" request_id=f47caa4f-2ef1-4bff-a7fa-f8d27c75294b
at src/root_span_builder.rs:16
So I assume that posts are getting pushed across but not actually getting created?
The second question I have, and I fear there may be nothing i can do about this, is since I had to recreate my lemmy db I don't have any of the posts from my users on here anymore. They were all to other servers, so I assume there is some sort of copy out there. Is there a way that I can get them to federate back to my server? Or are they just lost to the ether of posts?
EDIT: The plot thickens...
I connected to the database, and I can see a ton of recent posts/comments/interactions, but those aren't showing up in the frontend? Maybe there is something messed up in my config, but its more or less what was in the docs (only changes were to make it work with my proxy vs the built-in nginx)
These logs are from the api, not from federation. So a client is trying to access posts and comments which dont exist. Is the Lemmy frontpage looking normal? Regarding federation, other instances would have marked your instance as dead by now. This should be reset automatically after a few days, or you can manually trigger it (eg unfollow and refollow remote communities).
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“Burkina Faso is a place of dignity … not a place of expulsion,” said its Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré, rejecting US President Donald Trump’s deportation deal.
Deeming Trump’s proposal for Burkina Faso to accept foreign nationals he is deporting from the US as “indecent”, he said it was “totally contrary to the value of dignity, which is … the very essence of the vision of Captain Ibrahim Traoré.”
Coming to power in 2022 after the ouster of Roch Kaboré’s unpopular regime, propped up by France, Traoré expelled French troops, consolidating his mass support in the country.
His avowed anti-imperialism and pan-Africanism have won him admirers across Africa and Black and Afro-descendant communities in the West. It has distinguished him from many other African heads of state, who have often yielded to Western hegemony.
In recent months, Swaziland, Ghana, Rwanda, and South Sudan have agreed to accept foreign nationals deported from the US, while many other countries are in negotiation, with the US offering monetary inducements or preferential visa processing in return.
Snubbed by Burkina Faso, the US appears to have reacted with punitive actions. Redirecting visa applications to its embassy in neighboring Togo, the US Embassy in Burkina Faso “has temporarily paused all routine visa services effective October 10, 2025. This pause includes immigrant visas and nonimmigrant visas for tourists, business travelers, students, exchange visitors, and most other nonimmigrant categories,” said a note on the embassy website on October 10.
The State Department’s Consular Affairs further adds that those who have already paid for existing appointments will not be refunded. “Appointment scheduling will resume after the pause is lifted. At that time, appointments affected by the pause will be rescheduled, and the applicants will be notified,” it explained, without providing any timeline for resumption.
“Is this a way to put pressure on us? Is this blackmail?” the foreign minister questioned in a state broadcast held hours after the announcement by the US embassy. “Whatever it is … Burkina Faso is a place of dignity, a destination, not a place of expulsion.”
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,...
🌸La méditation guidée de 15 à 20 mn sera suivie d'un cercle de parole, pour faire une pause et se reconnecter à soi et aux autres.
Le thème proposé pour le cercle de parole est : "J'imagine qu'une des raisons pour lesquelles les gens s’accrochent à leurs haines avec tellement d'obstination, est qu'ils sentent qu'une fois la haine partie, ils devront affronter leurs souffrances" (James Baldwin, Chronique d'un pays natal). Et chacun est libre de s'exprimer sur ce qu'iel souhaite 🌸
➡ Pour participer : il suffit de se connecter sur ce lien : xrb.link/v6oCB4dM le moment venu. Tout le monde est bienvenu·e, quelle que soit sa pratique ! Les arrivées ne seront pas acceptées après les 20 premières minutes.
🧘♀️🧘🏼♂️🧘🏾♀️ Parce que l'activisme est un engagement externe ET une transformation intérieure, c’est dans un esprit de compassion et d’approfondissement de la connaissance de soi que nous prétendons évoluer et communiquer les un‧es avec les autres.
Here's an idea: How about giving everyone the opportunity to have a fulfilling life?
Crime is not the result of babies being born wanted to rob or kill people.
San Francisco’s political establishment rounded on Marc Benioff over the weekend after the Salesforce founder backed the idea of sending in the National Guard to clean up the city’s streets.
By late Sunday Benioff took to Twitter to clarify that he believed the best people to manage public safety in San Francisco was… San Francisco, and that “Salesforce is proud to support the Mayor through the Partnership for San Francisco.”
Benioff, previously seen as a broadly liberal benevolent benefactor to the city by the bay, seemed to follow the path of his fellow tech CEOs in cozying up to the Trump administration, just ahead of the company’s Dreamforce conference in the city.
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.
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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.
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.
Prosecutors said that hundreds of people were trafficked and forced to work in the scam compounds, “often under the threat of violence.”
Zhi and a network of top executives in the Prince Group are accused of using political influence in multiple countries to protect their criminal enterprise and paid bribes to public officials to avoid actions by law enforcement authorities targeting the scheme, according to prosecutors.
An indictment says forced-labor compounds ran cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes that stole billions of dollars from victims in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Questa è una foto del laboratorio, comunque… Chi andava al liceo con me E leggerà questo post, cioè nessuno, noterà anche una certa somiglianza per come dalle finestre si vede l’altro fabbricato, con il cortile sotto… che magia… 🤩
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