My article in The Philosophical Salon, “Foucault: The Faux Radical,” has been praised in certain circles for its political clarity, while in others it has generated some heated debate, as ... Read More
Senator Bernie Sanders warned the U.S. faces an “unprecedented level of danger” under Trump, citing the rise of oligarchy and billionaire control of politics, including Elon Musk’s growing influence.
Speaking at packed rallies, Sanders criticized both parties for enabling inequality and called America a “pseudo-democracy.”
He denounced Trump's attacks on law firms, Musk’s federal layoffs, and corporate political spending.
At 83, Sanders remains active, urging Democrats to reconnect with working-class voters and stop prioritizing wealthy donors. He sees a constitutional crisis, not just a political fight.
Across the U.S., tens of thousands have been attending rallies held by the Vermont Senator, who says that the nation is moving rapidly toward what he calls an oligarchy influenced by billionaires.
...they have broken norms, you're telling the truth is good, needed and wanted...what the fuck are we doing? no offense to the ~3to5 million who showed up yesterday
If by "we" you're referring to the American people as a whole, then no, no we don't. So many people I talk to are treating this like just another 4 years of republican shenanigans; I rarely find someone in real life who understands just how close we are to all-out war.
Artist Sarah Boardman said her 41-year art career is at risk after Donald Trump accused her of distorting his likeness in a 2019 portrait displayed in the Colorado State Capitol.
Trump called for its removal in a March 23 Truth Social post, prompting Republican lawmakers to have it taken down the next day.
Boardman denied political bias and said the portrait was pre-approved. She reported a sharp decline in business and backlash, though her family and supporters defended her online.
Boardman had also painted Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
The artist who painted a portrait of President Donald Trump for the Colorado State Capitol said reviews on her work have "changed for the worst" since Trump accused her of distorting his image and that her livelihood is "in danger of not recovering."
I mean, Trump has a point here. That portrait is barely recognizable as being him... way too normal looking, not enough orange blotches around the face, hair looks attached instead of combed over, and she definitely wasn't able to capture that maniacal glint in his eyes.
Since the Colorado Governor put an image of himself in the form of South Park, they should go get a picture of Mr. Garrison too since he wants it redone.
If anything, he looks better in the portrait than irl. His narcissistic addled brain thinks he doesn't look disgusting...but he seriously fucking does.
I daresay he almost looks.... Stately in the portrait. It's like a look into an alternate reality where Trump was loved by his father and got into politics out a desire to serve his country, and were he's also done the bare minimum to care for himself for the past 79 years.
Republicans are the snowflakes and while not surprising, just absolutely pathetic and sad.
The portrait looked a shit ton better than how he looks in real life but we all know that the fragile Republican, male especially, will be hurt of the portrait isn't AI generated to artificially make him look like a comic book hero and isn't as fat and sickly looking that he actually is.
I would love to know where these Zoom protests for the disabled are being held, as a person with cancer and other maladies that often make it difficult to show up in person. This article tells me everything except where to find them!
a BIPOC led collaborative project working toward building communities and providing disability & neuro-affirming spaces online through TikTok and Discord.
You'd think we'd know by know that that's just how technology works - it makes us 'dumb' because we don't need to spend the effort to do things we've automated away with technology and thus can focus on shit that is more important to us. If I don't have to sit around thinking about math because someone invented a calculator, that's more time that I can spend doing the thing I want to use the math for. The math is a tool, not the point itself.
Protesters rallied around the US against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, seeking to defend the country from an administration they say threatens basic civil rights and calling for a halt to efforts to downsize the government.
Abbastanza gnammy la mattinata di oggi, per quanto pure questa strana forte: anziché una programmazione normale, come dormire fino all’una o boh, andare a messa, questa domenica mattina sono andata al cinema a vedere un film nuovo, uscito 3 giorni fa: La vita da grandi, diretto da Greta Scarano (regista debuttante), e in cui figurano […]
“La vita da grandi” di Greta Scarano — Recensione Film
Abbastanza gnammy la mattinata di oggi, per quanto pure questa strana forte: anziché una programmazione normale, come dormire fino all’una o boh, andare a messa, questa domenica mattina sono andata al cinema a vedere un film nuovo, uscito 3 giorni fa: La vita da grandi, diretto da Greta Scarano (regista debuttante), e in cui figurano come protagonisti due fratelli, Omar ed Irene Nanni.
Irene ed Omar, lui il fratello maggiore, sono belli che grandi, ma il film racconta non altro che il percorso di crescita da affrontare a tale età per diventare effettivamente adulti… perché la sorella ha la sua vita normale, ma il fratello è un tizio autistico che, a ben 40 anni, non è ancora riuscito a rendersi autonomo dai genitori per quanto riguarda le questioni pratiche, la roba di tutti i giorni. E il tema del film è proprio l’autismo cosiddetto di alto funzionamento, e le difficoltà subdole che questo porta non solo a chi ne è affetto, ma alle persone che gli sono vicine, che alcune volte sbagliano di grosso nel gestirle.
Il film si apre con Irene che si ristabilisce per diversi giorni nella casa dei genitori a Rimini, sostanzialmente perché la madre vive una situazione di salute problematica e deve andare in quel periodo ad approfondirla, e c’è bisogno che qualcuno, a parte la zia e la nonna, si prenda cura del fratello. Questo perché i genitori lo hanno fatto vivere per tutti quegli anni sotto una protezione estrema, che chiaramente non può venire a mancare da un momento all’altro, altrimenti sarebbe davvero la fine: Omar, per dirne una, non riesce neppure a lavarsi da solo, e ha solo un lavoro part-time con cui non riuscirebbe mai a sostentarsi.
Nel mezzo di un periodo già difficile tra amore e lavoro, tornando a casa Irene riceve addosso questa enorme responsabilità, che per lei è inizialmente un macigno. La madre in questo certamente non aiuta, con la sua personalità estremamente ansiosa e protettiva, che diventa persino prevaricante nel momento in cui qualcuno, come Irene stessa, si comporta in modo più libero e responsabilizzante nei confronti di Omar; principalmente, opponendosi alla possibilità che il figlio faccia quelle varie esperienze che sono tutto sommato normali, ma potenzialmente sovraccaricanti e difficoltose per un individuo con quel grado di dipendenza familiare — opponendosi al fatto che la vita è resa tale anche dai rischi.
Data una tale situazione, il doversi interfacciare in maniera così reale con il fratello diventa in realtà occasione di crescita personale per Irene stessa, che non sopporta l’idea di dover finire praticamente a fare da badante al fratello una volta che i genitori non ci saranno più, e quindi fa un importante sforzo. Inizia a fare quello a cui i genitori hanno palesemente rinunciato ad un certo punto del loro percorso, ossia cercare di capire veramente Omar e lasciare che abbia modo di sperimentare, e di sbagliare, con il desiderio non solo che lui possa diventare un adulto autonomo, ma una persona realizzata, un uomo felice.
Allora, in questo periodo in cui la madre è per qualche attimo fuori dalle palle, questo è esattamente quello che succede. La sorella scopre il talento praticamente nascosto del fratello per la musica, che aspira a diventare di professione quello che lui si autodefinisce, ossia “gangster rapper autistico” (ho riso). Questo è un sogno che tiene nascosto alla sua famiglia, condividendolo solo con altri ragazzi autistici conosciuti tramite un’associazione, e con la sorella che lo scopre dopo averlo pedinato, una sera in cui lui è uscito di casa senza dire nulla. La madre non gli permette infatti neanche di andare a cantare in un locale del posto con gente tranquilla, perché ha il terrore di cosa potrebbe provare il figlio nel fallire.
Durante la storia, infatti, si scoprono anche i momenti più oscuri del vissuto di Omar in questo senso, che hanno chiaramente influenzato la madre fino a farle sviluppare l’atteggiamento che ha. Come è in realtà abbastanza comune per le persone nello spettro autistico — che di solito hanno una ben più grande consapevolezza di sé di quanto appaia alle persone neurotipiche (ma anche di quanta queste ultime ne abbiano, aggiungerei personalmente), ma contemporaneamente delle enormi difficoltà nell’esprimere ordinatamente le proprie emozioni — è arrivato persino a considerare seriamente il suicidio per motivi relativamente stupidi, come l’essere stato rifiutato dal conservatorio, avendo alla fine rinunciato davvero solo per pigrizia.
Nonostante diversi episodi spiacevoli nel mezzo — come quando l’uomo si è fidato di un presunto senzatetto affamato, che sfruttando la sua ingenuità lo ha assalito e rapinato; o come quando si è lasciato convincere di tornare a casa dalla genitrice isterica, che si è precipitata fino a Bologna scoprendo che in quel momento avrebbe dovuto partecipare al casting del talent show a cui aveva evidentemente tanta voglia di partecipare, convinto dalla sorella che non bisogna arrendersi a quelle sconfitte che nella vita purtroppo arriveranno sempre — alla fine la storia si conclude piacevolmente. Omar ha ovviamente ancora del lavoro da fare, ma il periodo con Irene gli ha giovato tanto quanto ha giovato a lei stare con lui, da cui lei ne esce con prospettive diverse anche sulla propria vita.
Tutto sommato, questo è un film che ho trovato particolarmente emozionante, e in cui volente o nolente mi rivedo come Omar. Al di là di tutti gli spacc che mi capitano giornalmente, vedendo le cose in questa prospettiva devo riconoscere la fortuna che comunque ho avuto, da ahimè persona autistica, ad avere due genitori intelligenti, capaci e pazienti; non mezzi scemi, come invece non ho paura a dire che mi sono sembrati quelli dei due fratelli… tra la madre su cui ho detto già troppo e il padre che, rendendosi sotto sotto conto di come la madre esageri e che il suo metodo non è quello giusto, rimane comunque completamente passivo, andando appresso alla moglie. (Regà, se siete degli yesman fatevi il piacere, non vi sposate…)
L’errore enorme che i genitori di Omar Nanni hanno commesso, tutto sommato, è quello di essersi semplicemente arresi all’idea che non potessero fare nulla per la condizione del figlio, finendo per accettarla passivamente piuttosto che studiare, informarsi, accettare che la genitorialità è una questione complessa e avere quindi l’umiltà di abbassarsi ad impararla; non andare in base alle vibe, su quella che senza dati alla mano si pensa sia la strada giusta, ma che puntualmente non lo è. Ovviamente, in casi come questi il torto si accumula, diventando marcio: la madre dice più volte ad Irene che lei non accetta di imparare dalla figlia, che madre non è, come si fa il genitore, salvo poi doversi ricredere alla fine di tutto.
E insomma, è un’opera che consiglio senza dubbio di guardare. Sento possa essere sicuramente utile alle persone neurotipiche (quelle in buona fede, almeno) per capire una piccola parte (ahivoi, il buco del bianconiglio è profondo su questo argomento!) della realtà dell’autismo, ma comunque è una commedia in generale piacevole, pure se tocca note potenzialmente dolorose. Il film è ben fatto sotto questo punto di vista, perché è in realtà tratto dalla storia vera dei fratelli Damiano e Margherita Tercon, precisamente dal loro libro autobiografico “Mia sorella mi rompe le balle: Una storia di autismo normale“… ma probabilmente anche perché Yuri Tuci, l’attore che interpreta Omar ed anch’egli debuttante, è realmente autistico. (Irene invece è stata interpretata da Matilda De Angelis, a proposito della quale qualcuno su spacctorium fa commenti poco educati.)
Qualche curiosità scema, infine, c’è anche stavolta. Innanzitutto, anche in questo caso non conoscevo nessuno dei partecipanti al lavoro, per quanto le guest star inaspettate non sono mancate: in una delle scene finali, tra i 4 giudici del talent show appaiono sia Mara Maionchi, che però è un po’ prevedibile visto il contesto della scena, e Ferzan Özpetek, che mi lascia spiazzata visto come l’ultimo e unico film che ho mai recensito qui fosse uno diretto da lui mesi fa. La regia mi è piaciuta per i dettagli curiosi, ad esempio quando un poster del famigerato talent show si intravede per strada in una scena prima che questo fosse introdotto (ed era così particolare che subito ho sentito che la storia ci sarebbe andata a parare)… o per via di come ci sono riferimenti inspiegabili alla Salernitana, come quando Irene racconta al fratello che il primo messaggio di invito ad uscire del suo ragazzo fosse stato per andare a vedere la partita (e mio padre ha ovviamente apprezzato queste reference). Un film veramente gnammy.
Stasera, dopo chissà quanti mesi, ero al cinema (con i miei genitori, ops, e chi cazzo esce con me sennò), a guardare un film molto particolare, con una strut
Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested at the Florida State Capitol after intentionally entering a women’s restroom in protest of the state’s transgender bathroom law.
Civil rights lawyers say it is the first known arrest under such laws in any U.S. state.
Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge and could face up to 60 days in jail.
Florida is one of only two states to criminalize such acts.
A transgender college student declared “I am here to break the law” before entering a women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol and being led out in handcuffs by police.
“I wanted people to see the absurdity of this law in practice,” Rheintgen told The Associated Press. “If I’m a criminal, it’s going to be so hard for me to live a normal life, all because I washed my hands. Like, that’s so insane.”
She’s an absolute legend. Thank you to her for her activism.
It's an alternative to the web as we know it designed to have fewer frills and therefore intentional creation / consumption. There's a summary about it here: geminiprotocol.net/
Anyway, just curious if anybody based in Ireland is there.
I've been interested in it for a while, but never got around to setting anything about it up. I do think it could have done with a forms system, since thats where the web peaked for me. But they do seem to want it to just be a simple document sharing system.
There is a mechanism for a server to send back a single-line prompt asking for “text input” which a client then can pass to it in the URL query component in a follow-up request. But there is no extra meta data or syntax, just a single line text prompt (no longer than 1024 bytes) and free form “text” sent back.
There is again a pull-request submitted to the curl project to bring support for the Gemini protocol. It seems like a worthwhile effort that I support, even if it is also a lot of work involved and it might take some time before it reaches the state …
Thanks, I didn’t know that. I remember the creator of the spec saying that they felt it was more important now to grow communities rather than develop the spec further. it’s likely that this is all we’ll get for a while.
MIT researchers developed a scalable interconnect that facilitates all-to-all communication among many quantum processor modules by enabling each to send and receive quantum information on demand in a user-specified direction.
Lemmy is populated by far left Americans who were banned from Reddit for extremism. Strict ideological conformity is required or you’ll get actual death threats. Don’t go there unless you want violent communist revolution and hate discussing interesting ideas.
Lemmy had a mix of Marxists, full on Authoritarians who claim to be communists (tankies, Maoists, Stalinilists, many Leninists), Anarchists (ie. Libertarian Socialists), and a bunch of more centrist liberals (ie. social democrats, progressives, welfare capitalists).
I’m pretty sure the person is ranting about the first three groups, in particular probably the tankies as they tend to be the least polite and most self righteous.
Nah, OP on Reddit has a bunch of posts in alt-right subs (KiA, Asmongold, JordonPeterson), their definition of far left is not going to be remotely serious.
A major breakthrough in quantum computing has just been achieved by American researchers at MIT. This innovation, dubbed the “quantum superhighway”, revolutionizes communication between quantum processors and opens up promising new prospects for the …
Donald Trump and Elon Musk — a reality star-turned-president and a tech billionaire-turned-senior adviser — have combined forces to build an alternate version of reality that scholars say has never been seen before in modern history, Kelly Rissman reports
Donald Trump and Elon Musk — a reality star-turned-president and a tech billionaire-turned-senior adviser — have combined forces to build an alternate version of reality that scholars say has never been seen before in modern history, Kelly Rissman re…
More than 500 law firms on Friday denounced President Donald Trump’s campaign to punish individual firms, calling his actions abuses of power that endanger the rule of law.
The firms said in a court filing that Trump’s orders are potentially devastating for any firm he targets and appear intended to intimidate others so that they do not challenge his administration. The filing was not signed by any of the 20 largest firms nationwide, as measured by revenue.
“Whatever short-term advantage an administration may gain from exercising power in this way, the rule of law cannot long endure in the climate of fear that such actions create,” the group objecting to Trump’s orders wrote in the filing.
Trump has issued orders castigating several prominent law firms, citing their connections to some of his perceived foes and directing that they face significant consequences. The punishments have included losing government contracts and being blocked from federal buildings or interacting with government employees, which firms describe as catastrophic for their operations.
His orders have caused a sharp divide within the legal community, with firms and attorneys split on whether to fight.
Some firms have reached deals with the Trump administration to avoid punishment, agreeing in some cases to provide up to $100 million in pro bono work for causes the president supports. Three firms targeted by Trump — Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale — instead sued to fight the orders, and federal judges at least temporarily blocked many of the penalties they faced.
The court filing submitted Friday was signed by hundreds of firms backing Perkins Coie in its lawsuit. The filing — known as an amicus, or friend of the court, brief — appeared to be a show of support from across the legal profession, with signatures from large firms with hundreds of employees as well as smaller, boutique operations. Three firms targeted by Trump — WilmerHale, Jenner & Block and Covington & Burling — were among those that signed.
“We are grateful for the support of over 500 law firms, as well as numerous other amici, in our challenge to the unconstitutional Executive Order and the threat it poses to the rule of law,” Perkins Coie said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear whether the largest firms that did not sign had all been contacted about the filing or offered a chance to sign on before it was submitted. The Washington Post contacted all 20 firms before the brief was submitted and again after it was filed. Most firms did not immediately respond to either query.
Senior partners from Keker, Van Nest & Peters publicly said days earlier that they had signed on to it and urged big firms to follow their lead.
Trump began targeting firms in February, taking aim at several that employed people who had investigated him or had other ties to his foes. He assailed Perkins Coie for representing Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 presidential race, and punished Covington & Burling for its representation of Jack Smith, the former special counsel who oversaw federal indictments against Trump.
In the brief, the firms backing Perkins Coie said Trump’s orders “seek to cow every other firm, large and small, into submission.” The firms said the orders posed a “looming threat” that any attorney or firm challenging the administration could face “the risk of devastating retaliation.” Challenging government overreach is a core part of what lawyers and law firms do, they added, something that invariably brings them into conflict with the government.
The firms also expressed “particularly acute concern” about the portions of Trump’s executive orders criticizing firms for their pro bono work, saying attorneys have to be able to advocate for all clients, “large and small, rich and poor.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the filing Friday.
Pope Francis made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and health workers on Sunday, marking his first public appearance at the Vatican since his release from the hospital two weeks ago.
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Crowds gathered at St. Peter's Square were treated to a surprise visit from Pope Francis during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and health workers on Sunday, marking the pontiff's first public appearance at the Vatican since his release from the …
Tehran (AFP) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday rejected direct negotiations with the United States as "meaningless", after US President Donald Trump said he would prefer direct talks with the Islamic republic.
Trump had called last month on Tehran to hold negotiations on its nuclear programme with Washington, but threatened to bomb Iran if diplomacy fails.
On Thursday, the US president said he would prefer to hold "direct talks" with Iran.
"I think it goes faster and you understand the other side a lot better than if you go through intermediaries," he argued.
But on Sunday, Araghchi said "direct negotiations would be meaningless with a party that constantly threatens to resort to force in violation of the UN Charter and that expresses contradictory positions from its various officials".
"We remain committed to diplomacy and are ready to try the path of indirect negotiations," he added, according to a foreign ministry statement.
"Iran keeps itself prepared for all possible or probable events, and just as it is serious in diplomacy and negotiations, it will also be decisive and serious in defending its national interests and sovereignty," Araghchi said.
On Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country was willing to engage in dialogue with the US "on equal footing".
He also questioned Washington's sincerity in calling for negotiations, saying "if you want negotiations, then what is the point of threatening?"
Iran's top diplomat has dismissed direct negotiations with the United States as pointless, his office said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump said he preferred face-to-face talks over its nuclear programme.
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So check it out: Mastodon decided to implement follower-only posts for their users. All good. They did it in a way where they were still broadcasting those posts (described as "private") in a format that other servers could easily wind up erroneously showing them to random people. That's not ideal.
Probably the clearest explanation of the root of the problem is this:
Something you may not know about Mastodon's privacy settings is that they are recommendations, not demands. This means that it is up to each individual server whether or not it chooses to enforce them. For example, you may mark your post with unlisted, which indicates that servers shouldn't display the post on their global timelines, but servers which don't implement the unlisted privacy setting still can (and do).
Servers don't necessarily disregard Mastodon's privacy settings for malicious reasons. Mastodon's privacy settings aren't a part of the original OStatus protocol, and servers which don't run a recent version of the Mastodon software simply aren't configured to recognize them. This means that unlisted, private, or even direct posts may end up in places you didn't expect on one of these servers—like in the public timeline, or a user's reblogs.
That is super relevant for "private" posts by Mastodon. They fall into the same category as how you've been voting on Lemmy posts and comments: This stuff seems private, because it's being hidden in your UI, but it's actually being broadcasted out to random untrusted servers behind the scenes, and some server software is going to expose it. It's simply going to happen. You need to be aware of that. Even if it's not shown in your UI, it is available.
Anyway, Pixelfed had a bug in its handling of those types of posts, which meant that in some circumstances it would show them to everyone. Somebody wrote on her blog about how her partner has been posting sensitive information as "private," and Pixelfed was exposing it, and how it's a massive problem. For some reason, Dansup (Pixelfed author) taking it seriously and fixing the problem and pushing out a new version within a few days only made this person more upset, because in her (IMO incorrect) opinion, the way Dansup had done it was wrong.
I think the blog-writer is just mistaken about some of the technical issues involved. It sounds like she's planning on telling her partner that it's still okay to be posting her private stuff on Mastodon, marked "private," now that Pixelfed and only Pixelfed has fixed the issue. I think that's a huge mistake for reasons that should be obvious. It sounds like she's very upset that Dansup made it explicit that he was fixing this issue, thinking that even exposing it in commit comments (which as we know get way more readership than blog posts) would mean people knew about it, and the less people that knew about it, the safer her partner's information would be since she is continuing to do this apparently. You will not be surprised to discover that I think that type of thinking is also a mistake.
That's not even what I want to talk about, though. I have done security-related work professionally before, so maybe I look at this stuff from a different perspective than this lady does. What I want to talk about is this type of comments on Lemmy, when this situation got posted here under the title "Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances":
Non-malicious servers aren’t supposed to do what Pixelfed did.
Pixelfed got caught with its pants down
rtfm and do NOT give a rest to bad behaving software
dansup remains either incompetent for implementing badly something easy or toxic for federating ignoring what the federation requires
i completely blame pixelfed here: it breaks trust in transit and that’s unacceptable because it makes the system untrustworthy
periodic reminder to not touch dansup software and to move away from pixelfed and loops
dansup is not competent and quite problematic and it’s not even over
developers with less funding (even 0) contributed way more to fedi, they’re just less vocal
dansup is all bark no bite, stop falling for it
dansup showed quite some incompetence in handling security, delivering features, communicating clearly and honestly and treating properly third party devs
I sort of started out in the ensuing conversation just explaining the issues involved, because they are subtle, but there are people who are still sending me messages a day later insisting that Dansup is a big piece of shit and he broke the internet on purpose. They're also consistently upset, among other reasons, that he's getting paid because people like the stuff he made and gave away, and chose to back his Kickstarter. Very upset. I keep hearing about it.
This is not the first time, or even the first time with Dansup. From time to time, I see this with some kind of person on the Fediverse who's doing something. Usually someone who's giving away their time to do something for everyone else. Then there's some giant outcry that they are "problematic" or awful on purpose in some way. With Dansup at least, every time I've looked at it, it's mostly been trumped-up nonsense. The worst it ever is, in actuality, is "he got mad and posted an angry status HOW DARE HE." Usually it is based more or less on nothing.
Dansup isn't just a person making free software, who sometimes posts angry unreasonable statuses or gets embroiled in drama for some reason because he is human and has human emotions. He's the worst. He is toxic and unhinged. He is keeping his Loops code secret and breaking his promises. He makes money. He broke privacy for everyone (no don't tell me any details about the protocol or why he didn't he broke it for everyone) (and don't tell me he fixed it in a few days and pushed out a new version that just makes it worse because he put it in the notes and it'll be hard for people to upgrade anyway so it doesn't count)
And so on.
Some particular moderator isn't just a person who sometimes makes poor moderation decisions and then doubles down on them. No, he is:
a racist and a zionist and will do whatever he can to delete pro-Palestinian posts, or posts that criticize Israel.
a vile, racist, zionist piece of shit, and anyone who defends or supports him is sitting at the table with him and accepts those labels for themselves.
And so on. The exact same pattern happened with a different lemmy.world mod who was extensively harassed for months for various made-up bullshit, all the way up until the time where he (related or not) decided to stop modding altogether.
It's weird. Why are people so vindictive and personal, and why do they double down so enthusiastically about taking it to this personal place where this person involved is being bad on purpose and needs to be attacked for being horrible, instead of just being a normal person with a variety of normal human failings as we all have? Why are people so un-amenable to someone trying to say "actually it's not that simple", to the point that a day later my inbox is still getting peppered with insistences that Dansup is the worst on this private-posts issue, and I'm completely wrong and incompetent for thinking otherwise and all the references I've been digging up and sending to try to illustrate the point are just more proof that I'm horrible?
Guys: Chill out.
I would just recommend, if you are one of these people that likes to double down on all this stuff and get all amped-up about how some particular fediverse person is "problematic" or "toxic" or various other vague insinuations, or you feel the need to bring up all kinds of past drama any time anything at all happens with the person, that you not.
I am probably guilty of this sometimes. I definitely like to give people hell sometimes, if in my opinion they are doing something that's causing a problem. But the extent to which the fediverse seems to like to do this stuff just seems really extreme to me, and a lot of times what it's based on is just weird petty bullying nonsense.
Just take it it with a grain of salt, too, if you see it, is also what I'm saying. Whether it comes from me or whoever. A lot of times, the issue doesn't look like such a huge deal once you strip away the histrionics and the assumption that everyone's being malicious on purpose. Doubly so if the emotion and the innuendo is running way ahead of what the actual facts are.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you're both wrong. Here me out.
As other commenters have said, there should never be any expectation of privacy on the fediverse. DMs here and private items are not actually private, they're quite literally blasted out to anyone who listens. I feel like I have to say that a lot. I actually like how Lemmy handles it, it warns you that it's unencrypted and that it recommends Matrix (and you can put your matrix handle on your profile).
However. I'm also disillusioned by Dansup. He made a great project with Pixelfed. It got off the ground and has a great following. However, I've read through the code, I've tried to spin it up, hell even tried to help contribute - but it's a spaghetti'd mess of unmaintainable code. What irks me is rather than dive in and fix the code, help those who honestly want to spin up his projects, he starts a completely separate project (off the same spaghetti'd base that barely scales), and goes on a whole PR junket talking about it. Then when I see people asking questions of his code or how to do things he usually jumps down their throats - or completely ignores them.
And honestly the biggest thing that irked me was that I didn't feel he gave credit to the hundreds - thousands of other people who work to make the fediverse work. Pixelfed is a great experience - but it's one of many all working together, and the developers are a huge chunk, but you have the infrastructure, us admins hosting, those out there vocalizing it, those trying to start communities, it's an ecosystem, and I just felt like he ignored the fediverse and instead pushed Pixelfed.
good reply but private items are not "quite literally blasted out to anyone who listens", AP spec has audience targeting and content gets sent capillarly, like email. a Note for bob gets sent ONLY to bob's server
as:Public content gets broadcasted by some software (relays) and inbox forwarded by others (mastodon, mitra).
Some people have privacy expectations that are not realistic in an unencrypted, federated, heterogeneous environment run by hobbyist volunteers in their spare time.
It you have something private and sensitive to share with a small audience, make a group chat on Signal. Don't invite any reporters.
it's not unrealistic to keep trust at the server level. following your rationale, you can't trust my reply, or any, because any server could modify the content in transit. or hide posts. or make up posts from actors to make them look bad.
if you assume the network is badly behaved, fedi breaks down. it makes no sense to me that everything is taken for granted, except privacy.
servers will deliver, not modify, not make up stuff, not dos stuff, not spam you, but apparently obviously will leak your content?
fedi models trust at the server level, not user. i dont need to trust you, i need to trust just your server admin, and if i dont i defederate
There's a significant distinction between servers that are actively malicious as you're describing and servers that aren't fully compatible with certain features, or that are simply buggy.
Lemmy, for example modifies posts federated from other platforms to fit its format constraints. One of them is that a post from Mastodon with multiple images attached will only show one image on Lemmy. Mastodon does it too: inline images from a Lemmy post don't show on vanilla Mastodon.
I'll note that Lemmy's version numbers all start with 0. So do Piixelfed's. That implies the software is unfinished and unstable.
if you assume the network is badly behaved, fedi breaks down. it makes no sense to me that everything is taken for granted, except privacy.
This is backwards in my opinion.
What you described is exactly how it works. Everything in the network is potentially badly behaved. You need to put on rate limits, digital signatures for activities back to actors, blocks for particular instances, and so on, specifically because whenever you are talking with someone else on the network, they might be badly behaved.
In general, it’s okay in practice to be a little bit loose with it. If you get some spam from a not-yet-blocked instance, or you send some server a message which it has a bug and it doesn’t deliver, then it is okay. But, if you’re sending a message which can compromise someone’s privacy if mishandled, then all of a sudden you have to care on a stricter level. Because it’s not harmless anymore if the server which is receiving the message is broken (or malicious).
So yes, privacy is different. In practice it’s usually okay to just let users know that nothing they’re sending is really private. Email works that way, Lemmy DMs work that way, it’s okay. But if you start telling people their stuff is really private, and you’re still letting it interact with untrusted servers (which is all of them), you have to suddenly care on this whole other level and do all sorts of E2EE and verification stuff, or else you’re lying to your users. In my opinion.
taking care of bad servers is instance admin business, you're conflating the user concerns with the instance owner concerns
generally this thread and previous ones have such bad takes on fedi structure: a federated and decentralized system must delegate responsibility and trust
if you're concerned about spam, that's mostly instance owner business. it's like that with every service: even signal has spam, and signal staff deals with it, not you. you're delegating trust
if you want privacy, on signal you need to delegate privacy to software. on fedi to server owners too, but that's the only extra trust you need to pay
sending private messages is up to you. if i send a note and address it only to you, i'm delegating trust to you to not leak it, to the software to keep it confidential, and to the server owner to not snoop on it. on signal you still need to trust the software and the recipient
this whole "nothing is private on fedi" is a bad black/white answer to a gray issue. nothing is private ever, how can you trust AES and RSA? do you know every computer passing your packet is safe from side chain attacks to break your encryption? you claimed to work in security in another thread, i would expect you to know the concept of "threat modeling"
Who would've thunk that misusing the same type for both public and private posts (with a sprinkle of weird mention rules to determine the visibility) could backfire?
Well, definitely not Mastodon devs. Lemmy's current approach of using an entirely different type is much better.
lemmy's approach still relies on audience targeting for privacy, just like mastodon. using a distinct object type (which is off spec btw) is "more secure" just because nobody else knows what lemmy is doing
Donald Trump was reportedly “unhappy” and “frustrated” after learning Elon Musk would be briefed at the Pentagon in March on secret U.S. war plans involving China.
The meeting, initially planned to include classified content, was scaled back after public backlash over Musk’s business ties to China.
Though Trump dismissed the reports as “fake news,” insiders say he was upset about being blindsided.
Musk, who requested the briefing, called the coverage “propaganda” and threatened prosecution over leaks.
I hope this is not news to anyone, but Trump does not give a fuck about conflicts of interest as was made abundantly clear by his first term. What he cares about is looking good; specifically in making sure that everyone remembers he is king dick of the universe and Musk is subordinate.
He said he wouldn't include Musk in the briefing to establish that impression.
Obviously he was lying and was going to include him anyway; oligarchs don't spend that kind of money without making sure they're getting value for it.
Now he's making excuses for having done what he always intended to do so he can maintain the illusion that he is in control.
But also he's a moron, so this excuse makes it look like he's not keeping his house in order, and any remotely media-literate adult can see through this shit clear as day.
Donald Trump was reportedly “unhappy” and “frustrated” after learning Elon Musk would be briefed at the Pentagon in March on secret U.S. war plans involving China.
Who the fuck is in charge here? I mean, it's obvious Trump sold the Presidency to Musk for the $290mil he spent getting Trump elected and as a result - out of prison. But it still needs to be said. There is nothing normal about a President being upset because he "found out" that an unelected neo-Nazi from South Africa is being briefed on war plans. Trump isn't just the weakest President of all time, he's a straight-up puppet.
The international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement are calling on people to cancel Game Pass subscriptions, avoid Microsoft-owned video game properties such as Minecraft and Call Of Duty, and boycott all Microsoft Gaming and Xbox-branded products in protest at the company’s reported business connections with the Israeli military.
The call follows allegations this January about the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology and artificial intelligence products in the course of its bombardment and invasion of Gaza.
According to a joint investigation between the Guardian, Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, with additional reporting from Drop Site News, Microsoft have “deepened” their relationship with Israel’s defence establishment since 7th October 2023, when several Palestinian militant groups struck across the border and massacred over a thousand people. Israel responded to the attack by mounting a ground offensive and airstrikes that have destroyed much of Gaza and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
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"I hate centralization, we should do less centralization"
posts a list of instances to avoid, 3/4 of which are actually much smaller in active users than his own, presumably just all instances he politically disagrees with
so that's 3/4 that you're saying to avoid because you personally have deemed their moderation policies objectively inferior (and judging by 1 and 2 you probably think the same about hexbear?)
sounds like they're just instances you politically disagree with, one of which does happen to also be massive. I'm not saying redditors should come to those 4 instances, they mostly shouldn't (grad and hexbear don't want most of them, .ml has been trying to not be "the default instance" since forever, and world is a shithole and already massive/centralizing), but your choice of list was transparently more political than it was about centralization, why not just be honest about that?
Or are you going to pull the "moderation policies are (or should be) objective and apolitical" canard?
The comment I was replying to said "Don't make perfect the enemy of good!", likely referring to getting users onto the fediverse from sites like reddit. I think recommending almost any instance but those ones is a good idea to newcomers.
Also, just because the title references centralisation, the biggest problem plaguing LW, doesn't mean there are other reasons to avoid it.
What context do you think they said that in? Were they referring to a completely different post? No, obviously not, the entire discussion has been about centralisation, because you made the title of the thread about centralisation, and now that's being used against you you're pretending that somehow the entire discussion you created about centralisation isn't about centralisation.
So you're annoyed about people being recommended lemmy.world, but not because of centralisation, you just titled it like you're annoyed by the centralisation? Are you just being a troll now?
No, I'm not trolling. I'm annoyed about people recommending LW, but not specifically because of centralisation. Centralisation is one of the larger issues though.
It honestly feels like you are misinterpreting the post (and comments) on purpose. Are you trolling?
Go look at your post from an impartial perspective. Forget what you were generally thinking about while making and posting it and look at what you actually posted and how you titled it. There is nothing there to indicate you were thinking about anything else. Nobody here is a mind reader, we do not have the context of the other stuff you were thinking about. The responses are to what you posted.
It doesn't matter if you've clarified what you meant to me, the discussion was about centralisation, so is still in that context. You need to go back and answer people's actual questions instead of just claiming to me that you meant far more than you said.
Well if you go back up to nordende's comment you'll see that you ignored all of their questions in order to, as we've established wrongly, contradict them. Go back and fix your answer.
so that's 3/4 that you're saying to avoid because you personally have deemed their moderation policies objectively inferior (and judging by 1 and 2 you probably think the same about hexbear?)
sounds like they're just instances you politically disagree with, one of which does happen to also be massive. I'm not saying redditors should come to those 4 instances, they mostly shouldn't (grad and hexbear don't want most of them, .ml has been trying to not be "the default instance" since forever, and world is a shithole and already massive/centralizing), but your choice of list was transparently more political than it was about centralization, why not just be honest about that?
Or are you going to pull the "moderation policies are (or should be) objective and apolitical" canard?
I don't hate communists. The reasons I don't recommend those instances are: lemmy[.]ml - Censorship of pro-ukraine posts and comments lemmygrad - see above; also defederated a lot. lemmy[.]world - too big, has a lot of toxic people, some moderation issues hex - defederated from most of the mainstream fediverse.
Some people don't come here to talk politics. There are some people who may just use reddit for non-political stuff, like crafts, gaming and news from their country. Most of that stuff is on lemmy.world.
We do all that too, we're just cooler. We have DIY comms, anime comms, I run the gaming discord where we mostly just chill and play Foxhole ARMA and project zomboid.
My point is that everything is political and for people that want a nice cozy space that is vigilantly purged of reactionaries and bigots it's a breath of fresh air from the reddit environment that carries over to a lot of the big "default" - as you call them - instances.
Shit half the posts on hexbear are silly jokes, weird special interest stuff, personal projects, or random bean posting. We are just very very militant and fairly unified when topics of politics come up and it has roots in irreverent commie shitposting so that will always be there.
While it does seem to house a lot of bigots, its no where near as bad as reddit. Don't get me wrong, I hate fascists and bigots, but lemmy.world housing them seems to just be a consequence of its size.
Hexbear.net defederated because of a domain problem that's since been fixed
Although I suspect the "censorship of pro-ukraine posts and comments" is just as much present there as it is in lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, and the main reason for the "censorship" is racism
Also, .ml's modlog shows a clear pro-russia bias. People should oppose the U.S's imperialism, but supporting russia (even critically) isn't the answer. I feel like hexbear has a more diverse range of views compared to .ml or grad though.
Was? No, the nazis are still in charge. I said government, don't pull that shit where you make no distinction between the people and their jailers. Ukrainians? Probably mostly cool, haven't met them. Their government? Absolutely nazis, absolutely put in place by us to do nazis shit.
I had a whole thing written about Operation GLADIO and America's almost century-long history of doing exactly this all over the world, how the word "Tankie" comes from the time the Soviet Union stopped them from doing it to Hungary in 1956, but then I remembered a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's several pictures:
That's a picture of Stephan Bandera by the way, head of the OUN-B organization which participated in the Holocaust. Here he is in his in his spiffy military uniform:
Eh, times change, right? It's not as if any recent high ranking government officials have been see-
Ah. Hm.
Well, it's not like they're doing hitler youth shit, right?
God damn, what the hell is going on? Is there some kind of documented, easy-to follow trail of obvious causality that I can use to make sense of this??
Of course there is, and it's only a minute and a half long!
Okay, joking is done. Real talk, do you honestly believe the obviously bullshit narrative that Ukraine isn't a country whose people live under the Nazi boot?
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I appreciate the clarification, the trap of assuming class unity within a country is one that these conversations unfortunately fall into easily.
I have to ask though, what imperialism means to you. It wasn't too long ago that most people made fun of communists for using the word, and now it's a popular word to use but I never see it defined. What's your understanding of it?
Also, why do you put nazi problem in quotes, as if to distance yourself from accepting the idea?
No one on reddit likes reddit.com. The people there are there just for the userbase. The actual software is shit, lemmy.world has been more stable than reddit at times.
I don't really get how to get into that. How do you find instances with more than 10 people on them ? Plus like you said, I have to make a new account for every instance which is super annoying
Lemmy.world is filled with censorship and genocide apologists. It’s basically an exact clone of Reddit’s culture of smug libs that look down their noses at other poor people while working tirelessly against their own best interest by supporting corrupt oligarchs that weaponize identity politics as a highly effective dog whistle.
Hey! I'll have you know I was onboarded from reddit because I can't possibly be asked to understand federation much less the preferred instance or any of the politics of this place before arriving. I saw an easy way in and I took it, because my anti-genocide tirades got me banned from reddit and so far haven't from here. Idk how to control which part of lemmy I'm in much less the one I come from. I am not, however, a "lemmy.world-er" I just live here
Now that the election is over and the shitlibs on world can pretend that Trump is the only demagogue to blame for the ongoing genocide, you might be fine.
If I were you, I’d switch before you share your opinion somewhere that kescusay@lemmy.world or jordanlund@lemmy.world can censor or even ban you.
I’ve seen people banned and their comments removed for having the audacity to question the official braindead Reddit hivemind lib narrative (pro-DNC no matter how demonstrably corrupt they get because “have you seen the other guys?”, anti-Single-Payer, conveniently pro-Ukraine while hypocritically anti-Palestine).
Migrating a profile right now is really just downloading your settings and subscriptions (option in settings), opening a new account on a different instance, and importing your settings and subscriptions.
I don't see the issue with recommending a generic instance, if your intend is to convert the generic user. It certainly is a better experience than saying 'ok, so choose what you like from this list of instances' and they don't even know the implications or what that means.
The overcomplication of Lemmy is an issue, and this behavior tries to avoid that.
I haven't looked at the Lemmy codebase but here's my thoughts on why they don't "just" fix this.
Unless the database is designed for easy migration from it can be a very large task to modify the database layout, as you nearly have to refactor everything.
One way to solve this is that all posts/comments/votes uses an UUID as primary key instead of auto-incrementing IDs.
Hi, so moving in AP (ActivityPub) doesn't really work like that.
Essentially, every action (like, follow, create etc) is an activity, "moving" something sends a "move" activity to every follower of an actor (group, user etc), which will make them follow the new account.
So moving a community is really just making everyone unsubscribe from the old on, and subscribe to the new one, set the old one as read only, and setup a redirect ("This community has moved to !newcomm@instance"). The old comm will stay, and it can be browsed.
Take a look at "nomadic identity" though, its a bit more similar to what you are talking about.
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