Greetings to the Activitypub.space community. I have a question. Is it possible to use Activitypub protocol to define a unique identity on a single account across the various federated platforms, valid for the entire Fediverse?
phi yes! It is very much possible in theory, but in practice it is less of a given.
What you're thinking of is having the "various fediverse platforms" — Mastodon, Pixelfed, WordPress, etc. — allow you to use your existing fediverse account, and for your interactions there to be done by that account, which might not be on the server you're on.
A lot of sites (this one included, for now) doesn't support that, but the base techniques are there.
We know we can achieve fediverse single sign-in through OAuth2, and the ActivityPub API can theoretically accomplish the latter. It's a matter of support, and it's something I want to focus on soon!
julian Thanks. I think there's some confusion among the protocols for defining a single identity for the Fediverse. I've heard about the Nomad, Zot, and Streams protocols for defining a nomadic identity on Activitypub, but I'm a bit confused.
Initially nomadic identity was only possible in Zot and Nomad protocols, but not in ActivityPub. But we figured out how to do it in ActivityPub too. Streams is a software that implements both Nomad and ActivityPub protocols, and supports nomadic identity. It is not the only such project though, there are a couple of others that support ActivityPub-based nomadic identity:
silverpill@mitra.social I think it's important to define a feature within ActivityPub that "allows users to freely move from one server to another without losing their identities and content." Obviously, the servers don't have to be part of the same platform.
phi maybe this is a social layer problem rather than a technical problem.
Your issue means a lot in a world where we have amateur hobbyists setting up social network servers and allowing the general public to join. Those hobbyists get overwhelmed or bored after a while, or they do a bad job and your server gets defederated.
In this case, it makes a lot of sense to move from one server to another. But this is not the only way we could organize the Fediverse.
Email isn't like that. You (probably?) don't use an email address from a server you found on a list on joinemail.org. You probably, instead, have an email address from your employer or university, and maybe a personal one from a well-known and reliable cloud service. If you're very clever, you may use your own domain for email, and share it with your household or family.
In those cases, you rarely change email addresses. We have some ad hoc ways to move from one to the other, but they aren't built into the SMTP or IMAP specs. And yet we have a lot of email going around, even after 50 years.
I think we should be putting our efforts into getting Fediverse services from organizations we have a lot of affinity with, like employers or universities or the city you live in or the post office.
Another option is using the extremely portable identity system we already have -- domain names. It should be a lot easier to bring your own domain name to a Fediverse server, and to move your data between servers by backing up and restoring and then repointing your domain name to the new server, like you do for blogs. This is really hard right now.
I think LOLA is doing a good job with online moves, but we should also be encouraging more server developers to support BYOD, and we should encourage Fediverse users to get a domain.
> We have some ad hoc ways to move from one to the other, but they aren't built into the SMTP or IMAP specs
yes they are, though? in IMAP, you can just copy your messages and folders from one inbox to another. in SMTP, we have email forwarding.
using your own DNS name can make things easier, but the main challenge in fedi is that we don't have a common storage/access abstraction (equivalent to IMAP folders), and we don't recognize HTTP redirects (equivalent to SMTP forwarding).
Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable” and Flock “is unable and uninterested in preventing them.”
ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras
A division of ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy’s criminal investigation division all had access to Flock’s nationwide network of tens of thousands of AI-enabled cameras that constantly track the movements of vehicles, and by extension people, according to a letter sent by Senator Ron Wyden and shared with 404 Media. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the section of ICE that had access and which has reassigned more than ten thousand employees to work on the agency’s mass deportation campaign, performed nearly two hundred searches in the system, the letter says.
In the letter Senator Wyden says he believes Flock is uninterested in fixing the room for abuse baked into its platform, and says local officials can best protect their constituents from such abuses by removing the cameras entirely.
The letter shows that many more federal agencies had access to the network than previously known. We previously found, following local media reports, that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had access to 80,000 cameras around the country. It is now clear that Flock’s work with federal agencies, which the company described as a pilot, was much larger in scope.
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I hate this argument that people use. Technology has fundamentally redefined what it means to be observed. Someone casually glancing at you in public is a completely different thing to having your movement tracked, permanently stored, and linked to you wherever you go. People absolutely have a right to expect a degree of privacy even in public settings
I don’t know about the particulars of other countries, but in America you’re mistaken.
The goal of my comment was not to “well actually” but instead to point out that, relevant to the post topic and concurrent with your recognition that technology has fundamentally changed in our lifetimes the understanding of privacy and anonymity we apply in everyday life, if you want privacy you have to take active steps to ensure you can go in public and maintain it.
That doesnt mean using graphene and libreboot, it means covering your face in public.
Apologies I must've replied to your comment accidentally, I was meaning to post it as a general comment in the thread. It's interesting though, there's a middle ground somewhere but people shouldn't need to take extreme steps to not be recorded everywhere they go. The only thing we can be certain of is that the government and companies aren't going to give us privacy back. We have to be proactive ourselves. I just wish it didn't have to be this way
One thing I’ve been thinking about is the historical circumstances around traditional dress in the Arabic speaking world, Muslim religious proscriptions about clothing and how those could converge with outcomes in the present day.
Giant wraparound shades with a punisher skull veil dangling off em.
"No expectation of privacy in public" is a legal doctrine. I do have an expectation of privacy in public. Stop filming me and shit, mind your own damn business.
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
The author’s opinion is worthless, because she is just a ruzzian shill who runs around giving talks about how Ukrainian decolonisation from ruzzian imperialism is wrong, how it’s fake and devastating, she strongly suggests that Ukrainian nation building cannot happen without thousands of monuments to Lenin across the country and without streets named after ruzzian generals. Pathetic. By the same logic, China and India must speak English and fill their cities with monuments to the queen of Britain. And in this article she is just crying that an ex mayor of Odesa, ruzzian supporter who ordered assassination of Ukrainian activist and constantly tried to obstruct people’s will to dismount imperialist shit across the city - finally got what he deserved.
The least deranged liberal has logged on. The best part is the sheer historical illiteracy on display. Wait till you find out who actually lives in Odessa.
The idea that Jews and Ukrainians were always the main population is counterfactual. The truth is, Odessa's founding was founded by Russians. Catherine the Great, after taking the land from the Ottomans, decided to build a shiny new warm-water port from scratch. To get people to move there, Russia offered all sorts of incentives, and a lot of the initial settlers were indeed Russians imperial officials, soldiers, and merchants. Since the first good chunk of its existence, like throughout the 1800s, ethnic Russians were consistently the largest single demographic group in the city. But hey why let facts get in the way of your braying.
Of course some ruzzians lived there at some point in the past, when Ukraine was occupied by imperialist tzar regime. But that doesn’t prove anything, because if you want to follow the same logic - citizens of Hong Kong should respect British colonisers and install monuments praising the glory of British empire.
If we follow the same logic then Odessa would become part of Russia the same way HK was returned to China. Even British media is now admitting that people of Odessa are rebelling against the fascist regime you support.
Sure, right, HK was returned to China and great for them! Empires suck ass, but for some reason you like ruzzian empire, while disliking western empires. It’s dishonest, pathetic and hypocritical. At least Ukrainians have the integrity to hate all of them, even though we have to side with western powers to avoid being occupied by ruzzia.
Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles
A number of easy to access websites use facial recognition to let partners, stalkers, or anyone else uncover specific peoples’ Tinder profiles, reveal their approximate physical location at points in time, and track changes to their profile including their photos, according to 404 Media’s tests.
Ordinarily it is not possible to search Tinder for a specific person. Instead, Tinder provides users potential matches based on the user’s own physical location. The tools on the sites 404 Media has found allow anyone to search for someone’s profile by uploading a photo of their face. The tools are invasive of anyone’s privacy, but present a significant risk to those who may need to avoid an abusive ex-partner or stalker. The sites mostly market these tools as a way to find out if their partner is cheating on them, or at minimum using dating apps like Tinder.
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Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creat…
"App store" means a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device.
This sounds like it could apply not only to F-Droid but also to any website distributing APKs, and actually, every other software distribution sysem too (eg, linux distros...) which include software which could be run on a "mobile device" (the definition of which also can be read as including a laptop).
otoh i think they might have made a mistake and left a loophole; all of the requirements seem to depend on an age verification "under Section 121.021" and Section 121.021 says:
When an individual in this state creates an account with an app store, the owner of the app store shall use a commercially reasonable method of verification to verify the individual's age category
I'm not a lawyer but I don't see how this imposes any requirements on "app stores" which simply don't have any account mechanism to begin with 😀
(Not to say that this isn't still immediately super harmful for the majority of the people who get their apps from Google and Apple...)
Right, so basically they'll have a database of who has (had) what app, when, and where...
Which could include apps like Grindr (way to target the LGBT community), or like Signal (way to target Journalists, activists, and other privacy minded people). You can find out a lot about someone's app choices and in a state like Texas, which is conservative and authoritarian, that can be used to go after certain demographics.
On Tuesday, here in Chicago, America caught a glimpse of its possible future, and it was terrifying. Federal agents, dressed like soldiers and armed with the weapons of war, rammed a civilian vehicle on 105th Street, using a maneuver outlawed by Chic…
In a shock poll, the Green Party under its new leader Zack Polanski has pulled ahead of Labour (just).
According to the pollsters Find Out Now, the Greens are on 15%, the same level as Labour. But as economist James Meadway notes, if you look at the detailed results, the Greens are on 15.31%, compared to 15.23% for Labour.
This is being a bit mischievous, because polling has a margin of error. But the trajectory is clear - the Greens are surging, and Labour is falling back. The Greens are enjoying their best polling in their history. Just 13 months after winning the election, Labour is on its worst polling recorded in the post-war period.
The headline claim is nonsense, as partly acknowledged by Jones. A single poll means very little, less still when you just ignore margins for error, as he does here. If there are other polls showing similar numbers, the Greens can get reasonably excited.
Now, having said that, this does fit the overall pattern of absolutely dire polling for Labour. As such, we can use it as further evidence that they need to drastically change course before they get totally hammered in 2026.
"What we will not accept is for the ACA premiums to skyrocket on the American people," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "And what we will not accept is allowing the teetering of this system to collapse."
Ciao a tutti, sto provando a passare in modo definitivo a Linux. al momento utilizzo un mac book pro (fine 2008) con Lubuntu e sono molto, molto soddisfatto. Sto' cercando un alternativa non troppo complessa a Camera Raw, ho provato (e sto' continuando a provare) DarkTable ma ... è veramente macchinoso ... consigli ?
non so se mi leggerai, comunque io per le foto ho provato CameraRaw e RawTherapee, e uso quest'ultimo dal 2020, da quando ho preso la macchina bellina che ho ora, e mi ci trovo benissimo, meglio che con CameraRaw. L'unico punto un po' dolente è che il setup iniziale per la tua macchina può essere un po' complicato (il più delle volte è automatico, ma a volte, come nel mio caso, no), però comunque se segui le istruzioni sul wiki non lo è, rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/; e che comunque devi impararlo (ma gli strumenti sono un po' gli stessi su tutti i programmi di "sviluppo" RAW, solo che in RawTherapee mi sembrano organizzati meglio che in CameraRaw); e che ha una visuale di anteprima sempre un po' sgranata rispetto a come potrebbe essere (mi pare ci stiano lavorando, a migliorarla; comunque dopo un po' ci fai l'occhio).
On his Reddit, Platner didn’t identify himself by name, but he shared biographical details, including his military service, age, occupation and residence in Maine. While the account dated back to 2009, many of his most incendiary comments reviewed by CNN were posted around 2021.
A senior Hamas official on Thursday accused Israel of flouting the ceasefire by having killed at least 24 people in shootings since Friday, and said a list of such violations was handed over to mediators, Reuters reports.
He said:
The occupying state is working day and night to undermine the agreement through its violations on the ground.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to the Hamas accusations. It has previously said some Palestinians have ignored warnings not to approach Israeli ceasefire positions and troops “opened fire to remove the threat”.
...the recovered data included user SMS and voice call contents, user internet traffic, and cellular network signaling protocols... the team was able to collect unencrypted satellite data “from sea vessels owned by the US military,” along with traffic from multiple organizations within the Mexican government and military, including personnel records, narcotics activity, and military asset tracking...
I come for amusing memes. All I see is American politics. Isn't there some other place for political memes to keep this shit separate? Or maybe some tagging system to help with using a keyword blocker?
Mods haven't added much to the sidebar rules. Any opinion from the mods or community?
President Donald Trump has said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to stop buying Russian oil, as the US seeks to put economic pressure on the Kremlin as part of efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump told reporters he had received assurances from Modi that India would halt its purchases "within a short period of time", which he called "a big stop".
The US president has sought to leverage India's purchases of Russian oil in his trade war, but Delhi has so far resisted.
I’m guessing India either doesn’t actually stop, or starts buying a very similar quantity of oil from Kazakhstan that definitely isn’t Russian, no, don’t think too hard about it.
I don't think the government will risk significant increases in fuel prices on the eve of the Bihar elections. On the other hand, it is quite possible that they agree to stop buying Russian oil from Russia as a compromise - it could be bounced off a third country so we can technically agree to the US demands.
I’ve been thinking about discovering underappreciated Lemmy instances. GitHub’s awesome-lemmy-instances used to serve a similar purpose, but it hasn’t been updated in a long time, and I haven’t found anything else like it.
I got the idea from this post about finding decentralized communities in the Fediverse. I’m thinking of a Lemmy bot that tracks Lemmy instances, calculates the average number of active users and standard deviation, and identifies instances with activity below the average plus two standard deviations. It would then rank these underutilized instances by performance metrics like uptime and response time, and periodically update a curated list on Lemmy to guide users toward instances that could use more participation.
I'd love feedback on how you would go about doing something like this. And specifically how to rank by performance.
If someone wants a regional instance they usually figure it out by themselves, also the Piefed instance chooser can help and has a latency indicator: piefed.social/post/1337079
You don't need to calculate the average number of active users. If you do, it will be wasted resources and you probably will miss a few dozen.
Simply request the instance's NodeInfo.
NodeInfo 2.1 (which Lemmy does implement) and I think 2.0 as well require implementors to provide correct user usage statistics. So you have total users and average active users per month/half year calculated on request.
This also means you can provide this service for other platforms that support NodeInfo.
Making a GET request to /.well-known/nodeinfo will give you the links to the instance's NodeInfo documents.
In fact, you can recursively begin from some random known instance, get a list of other instances it is federated with, get their NodeInfo and repeat the process. NodeInfo also provides the name of the software (check schema).
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Read what the released palestinian prisoners say: torture, hunger rapes, no medical treatment, psychological torture. Overcrowded cells. Inhuman people, who have neither empathy nor compassion, can't treat their prisoners with respect.
Wow....I wonder which of these two sides our country's allied with
Also I'm sure Israelis will use this as a wake up call to stop terrorizing people who have all the reason in the world to be brutal to them but are treating them better than the people who terrorized their grandparents for zero reason
Can anyone tell me whether modifiers/diffusers 're-polarise' light? For example, if i put a polarising filter on a speedlite but then fire it through a softbox, will the light still be polarised outside of the softbox?
It's sobering walking down a street 30 minutes from where you live – even in a crowd of 2000, majority women – to cries of 'shame on you' and 'ped~~~~les' from families stood in their drives with their kids. It's not that the marchers didn't have our shar
Like many who marched against the Iraq war (an estimated 36 million across 3,000 protests) only to see the popular turnout ignored by government followed by a devastating, illegal war, I’ve come to question the value of marches. 500,000 marching about Gaza in London each month doesn’t get a photo in the press, but an arrested 83-year old Priest holding a Palestine Action sign – or a Plasticine Action sign – does.
But Epping was something different.
If me – 6ft white guy – felt nervous amidst a crowd of 2,000 anti-fascist marchers, with police everywhere – I was struck by how on earth the asylum seekers in the Bell Hotel must feel, amidst theviolence erupting outside their accommodation. And how must Epping’s BAME and migrant residents feel walking about? Unlike other marches I’ve been on, this was about strength in numbers. It was a way of saying to the rest of Epping ‘you’re not alone’ – and judging by the many waves and cheers from windows and doorsteps (some half-hiding for fear), that was welcomed.
By some. But not by others – it’s sobering walking down a street 30 minutes from where you live – even in a crowd of 2000, majority women – to cries of ‘shame on you’ and ‘pedophiles’ from families stood in their drives with their kids.
But it’s not that the marchers didn’t have our share of inflammatory chants – from ‘Nazi scum’ and ‘kill yourself like Adolph Hitler’, this social media-friendly tendency to paint the other side in the extreme worst place struck me as lose-lose for everyone, other than the companies who depend on polarised content to feed to audiences around the world safe at home, screen-stroking. On this level it’s not a community crisis it’s a content strategy – it’s the social media equivalent of premium content – violence on British streets, with something for both sides. It’s not tribes, its not a community story, it’s two different dramas with two different audiences, who each can look at it and say how the other side are a sign of how Britain is doomed.
Campaign groups need to get better at communicate to both two audiences
A danger of these ‘filter bubbles’ is not knowing how to communicate to the other bubble; the strongest messages can be heard by both groups and the majority will agree with it. That’s why ‘save our kids’ works and ‘migrants out’ doesn’t. Organisers Stand up Against Racism have to be better at communications. Take this reasonably balanced report from the BBC of the march –
Carmen Edwards, from the anti-migrant protest, said: “It was all happy, people were dancing, we were singing. There weren’t no far-right.” Sharon Smith, who had travelled from nearby Harlow, said she wanted to attend the protest to “protect my grandkids”. She said: “A lot of people showed up; it was good humoured and [there was] music. Everyone wants the same, [which is to] save our children.” However, Lewis Nielsen, officer at Stand up to Racism, said: “We think it is a quite dangerous situation in Epping. “They are potentially heading towards the same kind of violence we saw in August last year, so we think it is important that anti-racists and anti-fascists come out and mobilise against them. “People are right to be angry about the cost-of-living crisis, the NHS, the housing crisis. None of that was caused by the refugees in that hotel.”
Stand up to Racism sound like a politician who’s dodged a question from a journalist. The anti-migrant crowd in Epping aren’t talking about the NHS or housing, they’re talking about ‘protect our kids’. That has to be the first sentence in any response:
“We absolutely agree every community should feel safe, and nothing is more important than keeping all of our children safe. Unfortunately some of the refugees staying at the hostel have been attacked and beaten up while just going to the shops – and we’re here to say they must feel safe too.”
That’s the headline statement. And then they can pivot to the hard truths:
Nigel Farage has tried to split this community over a sexual assault of a teenager, but champions pro-rape figures like Andrew Tate. Some of the loudest voices weaponising the concerns of this community pay no interest when those accused are white. Tommy Robinson planned to come here today – he co-founded the EDL with Richard Price who was convicted for creating and possessing child pornography; Tommy defended him for long after that. The EDL – which he founded – had 20 members charged with child exploitation offences. This has continued for years – dozens of people close to him charged with child sexual abuse material, his spokesman in 2019 convicted for domestic abuse, and what’s key is he NEVER condemned these white supporters when the crimes came to light.”
Of course this isn’t a new story – a horrible attack on a teenager, weaponised by Britain’s newest Nazi group Homeland through a Facebook Group ‘Epping Says No’ (who openly boast of their orchestration), instrumentalised by a click hungry right wing press, conflict-hungry social media platforms and shameless politicians – to divide a community into ‘racists’ vs ‘threats to children’; or at the extremes ‘Nazi scum’ and ‘Pedophiles’.
Is this something new?
Is there anything meaningful to take from all this? From Tulsa to Ballymena – sexual assault is the ignition on an initial furious community backlash against the minority group where the accused comes from; and other forces then mobilise to defend them. In Ballymena 107 police officers were injured; in Tulsa in 1921 35 blocks were burned down and 39 of the local black community were killed. In Epping’s march on Sunday night thankfully no-one was hurt, a week before tho a dozen were – and Nigel Farage spent the week in between complaining that the police had let more get injured.
Reading the press in the aftermath, listening to the chants on the day, looking at the range of people who opposed our march through Epping I think there is. I think what’s new in all this, that’s different to Tulsa or previous such fights was how many of the men lining the streets was how many of them were filming. Unlike the race battles of the 80s and 90s that we thought we’d left behind, this is also about content production and distribution. It’s both social-capital generating content for the creator, and money-making, attention-grabbing content for the platforms.
This is a relatively new thing. And so a relatively routine far-right weaponised concern for the safety of women and kids and a similarly common concern for the safety of refugees and minorities – is prevented from finding that natural common ground of ‘safety and care for all’ on social media, because this is social media’s version of a football match – choose your side and attack the other. A resolution would be bad for business.
Where once community leaders – from the local church to pub, cabbies and newspaper – would do the work of trying to repair fractured communities, the business model here is the opposite. The attention model is built on conflict, not the calming down and compromises which community peace and restoration is built on. At its worst unregulated extreme, we can picture a full cycle where social media companies –who don’t invest in content production– benefit so much from these conflicts that their algorithms continually reinforce the conditions for conflict, encouraging each ‘side’ to behave in ways that are most triggering to the other, all as a path to generate high-value content.
I began to write a screenplay a few years back about a developer who discovers the algorithm he’d written to grow a newspaper’s engagement and clicks was triggering geopolitical conflicts to meet its objectives of ‘more news’. It was a fun/scary Black Mirror-esque idea, but increasingly it feels like a logical conclusion of the business model of the attention economy, when coupled with the lack of transparency or regulation over the algorithms that decide who sees what.
Un uomo trovato morto nella sua villa. Una scena che sembra una rapina finita male. Ma qualcosa non torna.
Il vicequestore Tiburzi lo capisce subito: la vittima, rivela il medico legale, prima di essere uccisa è stata drogata con un insolito cocktail di medicinali. Perché? Se doveva essere uccisa perché complicarsi la vita drogandolo e in modo così raffinato? E la rapina come si inserisce nel delitto?
La vittima è un noto commercialista. Ricco, affermato, ma anche pieno di nemici. Una moglie elegante e distante. Un figliastro pieno d’odio. Un passato costruito su segreti e compromessi.
Mentre la città soffoca nel caldo estivo, le indagini fanno emergere le contraddizioni. Una relazione ambigua. Una vita doppia. Un piano studiato nei dettagli. O forse solo una tragica coincidenza?
“Una vita di inganni” è un giallo raffinato e avvolgente, dove ogni personaggio ha qualcosa da nascondere. E dove la verità si nasconde dietro le maschere quotidiane.
Un’indagine che scava a fondo nei legami familiari, nelle ambizioni, nei rimpianti. Perché, a volte, il movente non è solo l’odio o l’avidità. È anche l’amore tradito.
Come tutto ha inizio
Tutto ha inizio in una villa. Una rapina finita male, un uomo trovato morto. Eppure, come spesso accade, ciò che appare agli occhi non sempre corrisponde alla realtà.
Il vicequestore Tiburzi si troverà coinvolto in un’indagine tanto complessa quanto affascinante. Perché un noto commercialista è stato ucciso? Cosa lega davvero la rapina all’omicidio? Sono solo alcune delle domande a cui dovrà cercare una risposta.
In un intreccio carico di suspense, Maurizio Mos, con la sua penna calibrata e uno stile limpido, ci trascina nel cuore di un romanzo in cui nulla è come sembra in questo thriller. Un giallo elegante, raffinato, dove ogni personaggio ha qualcosa da nascondere e dietro ogni angolo si celano maschere e finzioni.
Le maschere: Pirandello e il doppio volto dei personaggi
Uno degli aspetti più apprezzabili del romanzo è il modo in cui Mos affronta – con delicatezza e raffinatezza – il tema della maschera, concetto caro alla tradizione letteraria italiana e in particolare a Pirandello.
“Uno, nessuno e centomila”
Così scriveva il grande autore siciliano, e così appaiono anche i personaggi del libro di Mos: dietro le loro quotidianità si celano inganni, sotterfugi, avidità, gelosie, amori traditi e sogni spezzati, che danno vita a un sottile gioco di parole e azioni. Il vicequestore Tiburzi si muove in questo scenario con l’abilità di un danzatore, un ballerino che riesce a destreggiarsi su fili sottili intrecciati con le trame nascoste della vita di tutti i giorni. “Una vita di inganni” è un giallo raffinato e avvolgente, dove ogni personaggio ha qualcosa da nascondere. E dove la verità si nasconde dietro le maschere quotidiane. Anche nella presentazione ufficiale si sottolinea la centralità del tema delle maschere, simbolo di finzioni, segreti e apparenze. Ma, si sa, le maschere prima o poi cadono, frantumandosi davanti allo specchio della verità.Tiburzi riuscirà a smascherare ciò che si cela dietro le apparenze? A sciogliere i nodi del dubbio e della finzione? Questo lo scoprirete solo leggendo il thriller di Maurizio Mos.
Un pensiero sulla scrittura
Non è il primo libro che leggo di Maurizio Mos e, come le volte precedenti, posso dirmi soddisfatta. Ho particolarmente apprezzato la scelta del formato: caratteri grandi e chiari, ideali anche per chi ha difficoltà nella lettura. Una soluzione che rende il testo più fruibile e migliora la scorrevolezza generale.
Questa volta, però, ho percepito qualcosa in più. La scrittura di Mos sta maturando, diventando sempre più sicura e incisiva, capace di coinvolgere il lettore pagina dopo pagina.
Estratto dal romanzo
“… Erano alla fine della settimana, le indagini non avevano fatto un passo in avanti… Intanto già ai telegiornali e sui giornali erano comparsi i primi resoconti vagamente critici sulle indagini. C’era da temere un insuccesso.”
Questo estratto mi ha colpita particolarmente. Spesso diamo per scontato che ciò che non si risolve subito sia destinato a fallire. Ma la verità è che occorre dare tempo alle azioni perché maturino. E questo è proprio ciò che Mos riesce a fare con il suo thriller: costruire con pazienza una tensione crescente, fino al disvelamento finale.
Chi è Maurizio Mos
Maurizio Mos nasce a La Spezia il 16 novembre 1951. È in pensione dal 2013, dopo aver lavorato per anni in diversi enti pubblici. Ha una figlia trentenne, laureata in Filosofia.
Amante della campagna, vive in solitudine nella casa di famiglia, dove si dedica a lunghe passeggiate. È anche un grande appassionato di auto d’epoca (soprattutto quelle dei suoi vent’anni, seppur platonicamente, come lui stesso racconta) e di letteratura gialla: la sua collezione supera i 200 titoli.
This might be the most Israeli video I have ever seen
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Popular Israeli TikToker and trainer Hen Ben Moha (hen_bar_ami, 189k followers) posted a video of her trainees exercising to the sound of the new unofficial Israeli anthem "May Their Village Burn". They sing along excitedly. Hen adds "AMEN!"
It's crazy that we are having a discussion in a forum where racism and misogyny is unacceptable, yet here we are clumping all these women into a single category of being dumb crazy bitches.
Meanwhile, the government those women live under is completely incapable of seeing the irony of committing genocide against their neighbor, while they themselves exist as a response to their own genocide by Europeans.
You are a hypocrite, the women in this video are hypocrites, none of this shit makes sense to me.
Amazon's new delivery station in Elkhart, Indiana, looks nothing like the concrete and steel boxes that dot America's logistics landscape. The 171,000-square-fo
julian
in reply to phi • • •Re: User identity and Activitypub
phi yes! It is very much possible in theory, but in practice it is less of a given.
What you're thinking of is having the "various fediverse platforms" — Mastodon, Pixelfed, WordPress, etc. — allow you to use your existing fediverse account, and for your interactions there to be done by that account, which might not be on the server you're on.
A lot of sites (this one included, for now) doesn't support that, but the base techniques are there.
We know we can achieve fediverse single sign-in through OAuth2, and the ActivityPub API can theoretically accomplish the latter. It's a matter of support, and it's something I want to focus on soon!
phi
in reply to julian • • •Re: User identity and Activitypub
julian
in reply to phi • • •Re: User identity and Activitypub
silverpill
in reply to julian • • •Initially nomadic identity was only possible in Zot and Nomad protocols, but not in ActivityPub. But we figured out how to do it in ActivityPub too.
Streams is a software that implements both Nomad and ActivityPub protocols, and supports nomadic identity. It is not the only such project though, there are a couple of others that support ActivityPub-based nomadic identity:
codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/s…
@julian
ap-next/nomadpub.md at main
Codeberg.orgphi
in reply to silverpill • • •Re: User identity and Activitypub
evan
in reply to phi • • •Re: User identity and Activitypub
phi maybe this is a social layer problem rather than a technical problem.
Your issue means a lot in a world where we have amateur hobbyists setting up social network servers and allowing the general public to join. Those hobbyists get overwhelmed or bored after a while, or they do a bad job and your server gets defederated.
In this case, it makes a lot of sense to move from one server to another. But this is not the only way we could organize the Fediverse.
Email isn't like that. You (probably?) don't use an email address from a server you found on a list on joinemail.org. You probably, instead, have an email address from your employer or university, and maybe a personal one from a well-known and reliable cloud service. If you're very clever, you may use your own domain for email, and share it with your household or family.
In those cases, you rarely change email addresses. We have some ad hoc ways to move from one to the other, but they aren't built into the SMTP or IMAP specs. And yet we have a lot of email going around, even after 50 years.
I think we should be putting our efforts into getting Fediverse services from organizations we have a lot of affinity with, like employers or universities or the city you live in or the post office.
Another option is using the extremely portable identity system we already have -- domain names. It should be a lot easier to bring your own domain name to a Fediverse server, and to move your data between servers by backing up and restoring and then repointing your domain name to the new server, like you do for blogs. This is really hard right now.
I think LOLA is doing a good job with online moves, but we should also be encouraging more server developers to support BYOD, and we should encourage Fediverse users to get a domain.
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in reply to evan • • •> We have some ad hoc ways to move from one to the other, but they aren't built into the SMTP or IMAP specs
yes they are, though? in IMAP, you can just copy your messages and folders from one inbox to another. in SMTP, we have email forwarding.
using your own DNS name can make things easier, but the main challenge in fedi is that we don't have a common storage/access abstraction (equivalent to IMAP folders), and we don't recognize HTTP redirects (equivalent to SMTP forwarding).