NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
I'd love to say this surprises me, but it does not in the slightest.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Tuesday accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement after several residents of the Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire, according to multiple Palestinian media outlets.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the Israeli army’s actions constituted “a clear violation of the ceasefire,” following reports of civilian deaths in different parts of Gaza.
“The Israeli occupation army’s killing of a number of Gaza Strip residents this morning through shelling and gunfire is a violation of the ceasefire agreement,” Qassem said, as quoted by the Quds News Network. He called on mediators to monitor Israel’s conduct and “prevent it from evading its commitments to end the war on the Gaza Strip.”
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Tuesday accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement after several residents of the Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire, according to multiple Palestinian media outlets.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the Israeli army’s actions constituted “a clear violation of the ceasefire,” following reports of civilian deaths in different parts of Gaza.
“The Israeli occupation army’s killing of a number of Gaza Strip residents this morning through shelling and gunfire is a violation of the ceasefire agreement,” Qassem said, as quoted by the Quds News Network. He called on mediators to monitor Israel’s conduct and “prevent it from evading its commitments to end the war on the Gaza Strip.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed he believes that the call to "internationalise the intifada" is a "call to attack Jewish communities around the world".
Conservative MP Julian Lewis asked Starmer in parliament on Tuesday afternoon whether he accepted that there was no possible interpretation of "internationalise the intifada" other than as "a call to attack Jewish communities around the world".
Lewis seemed to be referring to the popular chant "globalise the intifada", often used at pro-Palestine protests. Starmer replied: "There's no other interpretation." He added that he was glad Lewis had raised the point.
Pro-Palestine activists have strongly denied that "globalise the intifada" is antisemitic or a call for violence, and British Jews have been prominent in pro-Palestine marches in the UK.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed he believes that the call to "internationalise the intifada" is a "call to attack Jewish communities around the world".
Conservative MP Julian Lewis asked Starmer in parliament on Tuesday afternoon whether he accepted that there was no possible interpretation of "internationalise the intifada" other than as "a call to attack Jewish communities around the world".
Lewis seemed to be referring to the popular chant "globalise the intifada", often used at pro-Palestine protests. Starmer replied: "There's no other interpretation." He added that he was glad Lewis had raised the point.
Pro-Palestine activists have strongly denied that "globalise the intifada" is antisemitic or a call for violence, and British Jews have been prominent in pro-Palestine marches in the UK.
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Nice. NATO is an offensive alliance responsible for the destruction of Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and more, all by using lies as pretenses for their invasion.
Can't see this being a popular move with the majority of the population while Russia keeps antagonising Europe and the US being so temperamental right now.
A European army is a far more sensible move than NATO. The US is an extremely unreliable partner. If Russia acually invades EU (which it won't because the EU already spends 4x more money on military than Russia right now) you can bet America will sit back and call it a day or do some top tier blackmail in exchange for helping.
What's the difference though? It would essentially be the same thing as NATO just without the US and Canada. We'd still have the same commitments. Canada is a reliable partner and it's only really Trumps reign where the US has been a bit weird but ultimately it's still a huge strength to have the US within the pact.
Europe’s most senior human rights official has urged the British government to review its protest laws over the recent proscription of Palestine Action as a terror organisation.
Michael O'Flaherty, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, said in a letter to British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood that the UK's legal framework allows authorities to "impose excessive limits on freedom of assembly and expression, and risk overpolicing".
His intervention comes after Middle East Eye revealed last month that four times as many people had been charged in the UK under Section 13 counterterrorism powers since Palestine Action was proscribed in July as during the entire "war on terror" since 2001.
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.
We're excited to announce that Loops now federates with the fediverse. After months of development, ActivityPub support has officially entered beta. Your loops can now travel across the open social web.
Neat! Been meaning to flesh out my social media usage to other federated platforms, and hopefully not be so reliant on Lemmy in general. So far, only on Lemmy, but want to join Pixelfed, Mastodon, etc, just not sure where to make an account.
I've been trying Mastodon for as long as Lemmy but it's not nearly as good due to the "who to follow" problem and the lack of ability to sort a topic by amount of interaction. E.g. can sub to say #Canada but within that, there's no good way to surface highly faved or replied-to posts. The upcoming Starter Packs should help a lot because you'd be able to follow bunch people who tend to discuss some topic, which means you'd get the more active posts in your feed by means of those people intercting with it. It doesn't replace the need for sorting algos but it addresses the problem partially. Perhaps it would be good enough. Circles (same concept) worked wonders in Google+.
For Mastodon, I'd recommend just joining any large instance that's been around for a while. You can always move accounts if you decide on a different one later. Mastodon makes it pretty easy, and can automatically notify your followers if you hop to a different one. You can also run your own with masto.host for like 6 bucks a month. I'm on pixelfed.social, and been pretty happy with it.
I know todon.nl is a good leftist instance for mastodon. hachyderm.io is general but nice admin team; and wetdry.world is general purpose and has a really modified (and fun!) fork of mastodon, and I vaguely recall seeing a couple Marxists there.
That's AFAIK for mastodon. I'm not sure about the rest since I only use lemmy, piefed and matrix as my socials anyway, and even that's a stretch lol.
Radical leftist anti-authoritarian. For anarchists, socialists, (climate) activists, LGBTQIA+, anti-racists, anti-fascists, anti-capitalists, intersectionalists, human rights, animal rights, etc. Anno 2017.
Thanks, I'll add them to the list to check out! I've also seen matopacos.dog, hosted by a Hexbear user, so that's another I have my eye on.
Yea, right now I only use Lemmy, and YouTube if you count that (though only as a watcher). Having content that isn't as focused on discussion might help me balance my social media usage more, I hope!
Also, love the New Vegas pfp, one of my favorite games of all time.
I tried searching for @loops.video users on three separate mastodon instances and the only ones that pop up are the "official" accounts (@dansup@loops.video and @loops.video@loops.video).
Anyone else have better luck federating with loops?
That's just how the fediverse works. Your instance only know accounts from other instances by boosting or directly searching for them. Not seeing most accounts from newly federated instances is by design.
I did also try directly searching for accounts from loops, i.e. @eickertv@loops.video and Rudygardea@loops.video, and neither of those popped up either.
Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of an appeals process in an attempt to get back his security clearance, the man told investigators he felt his bosses spied on him too much and that the interrogation over the porn snafu was akin to the “Spanish Inquisition."
On March 23, 2023, a DOE employee attempted to back up his personal porn collection. His goal was to use the 187,000 images collected over the past 30 years as training data for an AI-image generator. He said he had depression, something he’d struggled with since he was a kid. “During the depressive episode he felt ‘extremely isolated and lonely,’ and started ‘playing’ with tools that made generative images as a coping strategy, including ‘robot pornography,’” according to a DOE report on the incident. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… Fueled by depression, the man meant to back up his collection and create a base for training AI to make better “robot pornography” but he uploaded it to the government computer by accident. He didn’t realize what he’d done until DOE investigators came calling six months later to ask why their servers were now filled with thousands of pornographic pictures.
“The Individual ‘thought that even though his personal drives were connected to [his employer’s], they were somehow partitioned, and his personal material would not contaminate his [government-issued computer],” a DOE report said.
According to the report, the man was using his cellphone to look at AI-generated porn images, but the screen wasn’t big enough so he moved the pictures to his government computer. “He also reported that, since the 1990s, he had maintained a ‘giant compressed file with several directories of pornographic images,’ which he moved to his personal cloud storage drive so he could use them to make generative images,” he said. “It was this directory of sexually explicit images that was ultimately uploaded to his employer’s network when he performed a back-up procedure on March 23, 2023.”
The 187,000 images represented a lifetime’s collection. “He stated that the sexually explicit images were an accumulation of ‘25–30 years worth of pornographic material’ he had collected on his personal computer,” he said. He told a DOE psychologist that he should have realized he’d backed up his personal porn collection to a DOE network but said he “was not thinking multiple steps ahead or considering the consequences at the time because he was so depressed.”
According to the DOE employee, he’s been treated for depression since he was a kid. He has ups and downs, and was in a bad headspace when he accidentally uploaded his entire porn collection. He admitted he violated HR rules, but “did not think it was very wrong,” according to the DOE ruling. He also “asserted that his employer ‘was spying on him a little too much’...and compared the interview with his employer following the discovery of his conduct to ‘the Spanish Inquisition.’”
When someone loses their security clearance with the DOE, they can appeal to get it back. In this case, the appeal led to a lengthy investigation and multiple interviews with various DOE psychologists and the man’s wife. When the DOE makes a ruling on an appeal they publish it publicly online, which is why we know about the man’s private porn stash.
He did not get his clearance back. “The DOE Psychologist opined that the individual's probability of experiencing another depressive episode in the future was ‘very high,’” according to the report.
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.
There is InsightsLM, which is a private, local version of NotebookLM that incorporates N8N and SupaBase, however I do not know of a frontend for Google NotebookLM
Honestly though it might take 15min to configure, 1hr to let it run so that it get all images, dependencies, etc, 30min to debug GPU passthrough with the right driver version, 10min to try by getting the right endpoint... then 1min to realize that sure you can get give a PDF and "chat" with it but nothing particularly interesting or actually insightful will come out of this, especially if the paper itself if well written, namely has a proper introduction, structure, etc.
Open-source, fully private and local alternative to NotebookLM. Chat with your documents, generate audio summaries, and ground AI in your own sources—built with Supabase, N8N on a React frontend us...
Happy to help....if I did. LOL I've run a few local LLM just to be versed in the subject, however, my equipment is not modern enough to handle the requirements to make it justifiable to me in a self hosted environment.
You did. Well my point is that nobody needs this kind of equipment in the first place anyway because 99% of "useful" stuff done by an average officeworker isn't actually LLM it's usually STT. The rest, e.g. GenAI with videos is for shit&giggles, vibe coding doesn't work except few super tiny narrow cases (e.g. transforming a file quickly without caring for 100% accuracy and when converters don't already exist) and last but not least genAI on text itself is mostly used for spam, scan and cheating at school.
So... please don't felt "left behind" if you can't self host this kind of tools, it seems to me it's nearly never justifiable!
#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…
The European Commission did not take long to capitulate to comments by Israel’s ambassador to the EU Avi Nir-Feldklein, who said that if the bloc wants to participate in the US plan for Gaza, it must lift the proposed penalties against Israel which EC President Ursula von der Leyen announced last month.
Within a few hours of Nir-Feldklein’s statement, EC spokesperson Paula Pinho said that the sanctions were “proposed in a given context, and if the context changes that could eventually lead to a change of the proposal.” Of course, the EU focused only on the ceasefire not on the Palestinian people’s political rights, so it is highly likely that the belated proposed measures will be reversed, despite the bureaucratic process that might be even briefer, given than there is no angering Israel with reverting to the status quo.
A peace deal, and one that serves Israeli interests, does not cancel out genocide. On the contrary, it rewarded Israel for genocide and consolidated its colonial structure to the detriment of the Palestinian people.
Back to Nir-Feldklein’s discourse of premeditated omission. There will be no “reset of EU-Israeli relations” because proposals are just proposals. The EU was careful not to jeopardise its relations with Israel; the bloc’s actions openly testified to its acceptance of genocide. But this is the Israeli narrative that sells – Israel was wronged, allegedly, by von der Leyen’s very late intention to penalise a colonial, genocidal enterprise, and the EU must now rectify its offence.
A Palestinian man is to be stripped of his newly granted German citizenship after posting a photo showing support for Hamas.
A day after celebrating the arrival of his German passport, the man, referred to only as Abdallah, uploaded a picture to Instagram showing Hamas fighters with the caption “heroes of Palestine”.
Shortly afterwards, he received a letter from Germany’s interior ministry saying his citizenship had been revoked, according to the local Bild newspaper.
In 2024, it reformed its citizenship laws to require applicants to respect its “free-democratic order. New questions were also added about Jewish life and Israel’s “right to exist” in the German citizenship test.
@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.
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…
In this context, accuracy is a metric that measures the percentage of questions the model answered correctly on the MMLU-Pro benchmark. So, it's not math specifically being 62% accurate, but the overall ability of the model to converge on a correct answer.
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.
A lawsuit for "unfair competition"? How do they figure that? .to is a ccTLD. The Kingdom of Tonga will manage it however it sees fit. Not every country in the world is obligated to subscribe to the same ideas on copyright and digital piracy
Check out some thread on AI and copyright. That oughta tell you how copyright people "think", for lack of a better word. Not impossible to succeed with that kind of thing in Europe.
Idk why they think that the Czech Republic has power over the Tongolese government. .to is the internet version of tongolese soil. Czech courts don't have power over foreign flags of convenience
Also love the complaint that tongo isn't following European privacy laws
Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.
While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife[1]. Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.
Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.
While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife[1]. Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.
EDIT: I've accepted that the tutorial I was trying to follow is incomplete or incorrect. I've successfully accessed my new samba share after creating a user on the host machine and updating smb.conf. I must authenticate to access the share, and I'm fine with that, so I'm calling this thread "Resolved." I want to thank everyone who chimed in in the comments. Feel free to keep the discussion going for anyone else who stumbles upon this thread.
Confirm smbd is running: sudo systemctl status smbd
Create a dedicated folder for the share: sudo mkdir /mnt/ShareDemo
Create a new user and set the password for Linux: sudo adduser shareuser
Add the new user for Samba using the same password: sudo smbpasswd -a shareuser
Change ownership of the ShareDemo folder: sudo chown -R shareuser:shareuser /mnt/ShareDemo
And change its permissions to 0775: sudo chmod -R 0775 /mnt/ShareDemo
Update firewall rules to allow access: sudo ufw allow samba
Add the share definition to the end of /etc/samba/smb.conf as follows:
[ShareDemo]
path = /mnt/ShareDemo
valid users = shareuser
public = no
writable = yes
browseable = yes
I'm not sure if restarting the smbd is necessary, but if it is, here's how to do that: sudo service smbd restart
On another device on the same network, we should now be able to find and access this shared folder in the Network section of our file browser of choice and authenticate using shareuser.
ORIGINAL POST:
Background: I'm attempting to set up a public samba share on my local network following this tutorial on thelinuxcode.com. Long term, I'll probably set up some security around this, but for now I just want to confirm I can follow a basic tutorial. Unfortunately, so far, I'm failing.
Confirmed smbd is running: sudo systemctl status smbd
Created a dedicated folder for the share: sudo mkdir /mnt/ShareDemo
Changed ownership of the ShareDemo folder to nobody:nogroup: sudo chown -R nobody:nogroup /mnt/ShareDemo
And changed its permissions to 0775: sudo chmod -R 0775 /mnt/ShareDemo
Added the share definition to /etc/samba/smb.conf as follows:
[ShareDemo]
path = /mnt/ShareDemo
valid users = @users
force user = nobody
force group = nogroup
public = yes
writable = yes
browseable = yes
Updated firewall rules to allow access: sudo ufw allow samba
As far as I can tell, I've followed the instructions exactly as described in the tutorial. According to the tutorial, my newly created Samba share should now be accessible from any Windows, macOS, or Linux device on the same local network. On Linux:
Install samba-client if you haven‘t already -> DONE.
Open your file manager and click "Other Locations" or "Network" -> DONE.
Browse for your Ubuntu hostname and click the share folder -> DONE.
It will mount automatically without any login prompt needed -> this is where I'm stuck. I've tested this on two different Linux devices on my local network. In both cases, the samba share shows up in the file manager, but the system prompts me to authenticate and I cannot proceed as an anonymous user.
Even though the tutorial doesn't specifically say I need to, I've tried restarting smbd after updating smb.conf, but I still have the same issue.
What have I done wrong? Is the tutorial missing a step or simply outdated? Is there another tutorial that I should follow instead? Thanks in advance!
Sorry, I'm trying to understand your comment. Are you suggesting I put something else in place of nobody:nogroup when I set ownership of the ShareDemo folder, or is the issue that I have to actually create a user called nobody and a group called nogroup? Or should I create a different user and group specifically for this samba share? Thanks.
Isn't there some example config installed along with samba, which you can modify or copy-paste? I think that's more likely to be laid out correctly than a random internet tutorial which might be outdated or for another distro or another use-case...
It’s been a few years (like 20) give me an hour or two to get a few things done and I’ll have a look.
I was suggesting that a public share might not mean anonymously accessible. You may need to authenticate, some OSes will try to do that for you, some won’t.
I was suggesting attempting to mount the share with a login and password of guest.
Gotcha - thanks for clarifying. I tried logging in w/ login and password of guest, but that didn't work, either. FWIW I successfully authenticated after following the "optional" part of the tutorial (created a new user shareuser, made it the owner of /mnt/ShareDemo, and updated smb.conf).
Based on non_burglar's and frongt's comments, I think I'm willing to file this experience under either incomplete or incorrect tutorial. Importantly, I have learned something about setting up a local Samba share, so I thank you for helping me.
NOTE: I have read probably up to 50 different pages describing how to setup public Samba share in the span of 2 YEARS and nothing ever worked for me. I don't know how much RTFM I need to set this s...
What has me scratching my head is that in the tutorial I was reading from, it mentions setting up users but very explicitly labels that section as "Optional." Anyway, I got in after following the instructions in that paragraph - adding a Linux and Samba user called shareuser, setting the new user as the owner of /mnt/ShareDemo, and updating the config. Unlike in the tutorial, I kept browseable = yes so that I can still browse to the folder in my file manager.
valid users = shareuser
public = no
writable = yes
browseable = yes
It's a good lesson to learn if you're working with Samba frequently. Just always that there are two auth systems at work: SMB local to the server and filesystem, and the SMB protocol auth that does network access.
You are being prompted because the nobody/nogroup user/group has no password, no shell, and no permissions.
That tutorial is wrong. Couple of problems immediately:
"valid users" specifies "all the users in this group are allowed access". It is incompatible with "force user/group" directive
you should be using the "guest user=" directive, which sets the identity of any public access. Your permissions should match this user.
nobody/nogroup are special user and group that (usually) have no access to any file. They exist for processes to run with minimal provileges, or for a fallback default if UID/gid map are invalid. Using this user/group combo for this samba share implies that you will either alter them so that they now DO have privileges to access files, or that you intend samba to never access any files. Create a guest user, set permissions and umask in the directory.
It smells of AI generation. Real people don't write this kind of article like that. I'd bet they said "write a comprehensive 2500+ word guide to install and configure samba on linux".
Edit: the site logo is definitely AI generated, and the T&C page was also generated. This whole site is slop.
Gotcha. FWIW I got in after following the instructions in the "Optional" paragraph about setting up users for authentication - I added a Linux and Samba user called shareuser, set the new user as the owner of /mnt/ShareDemo, and updated the config.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion. This was really going to eat at me if nobody else chimed in, so you really saved me from questioning my own sanity.
Glad I was able to help, because samba has a lot of knobs and switches.
When I was first learning samba in 2003, I got overwhelmed pretty fast until my colleague told me the best way to handle samba is to start with a working and simple global directive, then one simple share, and layer security on top of that.
While this can be selfhosted, YOU SHOULDNT! ... NONE of my projects have been audited or reviewed. I provide them for testing and demo purposes only. NOT to replace any other app you use.
BE RESPONSIBLE WHEN USING UNAUDITED SOFTWARE... DO NOT USE FOR SENSITIVE PURPOSES.
Now that I've hit you over the head with caution...
Want to send encrypted WebRTC messages and video calls with no downloads, no sign-ups and no tracking?
This prototype uses WebRTC to establish an encrypted browser-to-browser connection. Everything is stored locally in browser storage and cleared when you clear the site data from your browser - true zerodata privacy!
I'm glad people are doing stuff like this. Some technical description of how it works would be great to have. I see there's an android app written in Java and a server side wrapper for Tauri(?) in Rust. Also a wasm directory. I only looked for a minute or so though.
Is this much different from Jami or Jitsi? I don't use Whatsapp or know what it does.
I think it should have the links for more information.
The android app is poorly maintained I would stick to the website based version which I actively work on. I'm using tauri to wrap the webapp. I'm no java developer, that's all tauri boilerplate.
Ultimately this is intended to be a general purpose messaging app. But it isn't as good as any of the app you've suggested. I sharing it because it demonstrates a fairly unique browser based architecture. Aiming for secure client-side cryptography.
Unlike other solutions, as a webapp users can get started without installing or registering.
Experience secure peer-to-peer chat with end-to-end encryption, no registration, and complete privacy. Built with WebRTC for direct browser-to-browser communication.
I tried again, I don't know if you changed anything, but it works perfectly now. Also, I know it's a WIP... but about the "new chat" flow, if you keep it as close as signal / whatsapp, it will be way easier to newcomers.
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.
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.
Marc Thiessen declared on social media that he’s no longer an ‘outlier’ at the Washington Post, as the paper’s opinion section is wholly ‘conservative’ now
Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen said the quiet part out loud this week when he bragged that the newspaper’s opinion section was now thoroughly “conservative” after Donald Trump praised his most recent op-ed.
Thiessen’s declaration comes on the heels of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos imposing an ideological realignment of the Post’s opinion page, which has resulted in an exodus of talent and the hiring of an editor who shares his vision of dedicating the section to the “support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
The admission from Thiessen, a Fox News contributor who served as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, came after prominent MAGA personalities expressed shock over his Washington Post piece endorsing Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. (The president, despite his persistent lobbying for the award, lost out to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.)
“Not too often do you see a brother that looks like me come into the county and take the entire county over,” Tanner said in a July TikTok post. “Well, I have taken the entire county over, out here in Loving County, Texas. When these elections hit in 2026, we’re going to wipe the board. Everybody that I selected will be elected.”
Although many were rejected for technical reasons, he said most of them could be easily cured. A dozen of Tanner’s followers have successfully registered, the sheriff said last week.
Targeting an entire county for political takeover might seem difficult, but Loving County represented a ripe target. With only about 70 residents, it is the least-populated county in the country. County commission seats can be won with as few as a dozen votes; county-wide positions often are gained with fewer than 50.
Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Malcolm Tanner, the leader of a group of people that moved to Loving County with the intent to gain political control.
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