Iniziativa dello scorso anno #UNMUTEGAZA è stato un movimento creativo che ha chiesto a vari artisti di elaborare delle opere sulla base delle foto di fotoreporter di Gaza con un semplice richiesta "Chiediamo gentilmente a tutti di stampare e condividere le immagini nelle stare delle vostre città.
GNOME Shell developers (or extension developers): first, forgive me for I have sinned; second, if I want GNOME Shell to show the app grid on startup instead of the overview, tell me why this is the wrong way to do it.
Fixes #11.
This feels a bit like a bludgeon; I feel like there should be a way to ensure it's showing after the actual startup instead of just as soon as the extension is loaded.
Heavy fighting is ongoing on the Dobropillia axis around Pankivka–Mayak–Novotoretske. Ukrainian forces are pushing to encircle Russian units toward Kucheriv Yar.
Here are some recent inks and colours I had the oppurtunity to collaberate on 😁. Pencils and character design are by the amazing Walter Geovani ; bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rvdqn… @waltergeovani.bsky.social
Next Sosyal is a new Turkish social media platform that is based on Mastodon. The platform has not enabled federation, and is thus not accessible from the fediverse. Next Sosyal is endorsed by Turkish ruling party AKP, and president Erdogan recently made his first post on the platform. Erdoğan quoted a poem from a prominent Turkish poet, and posted “Are you ready?”, with the hashtag “We’re starting,” along with emojis of the Turkish flag, the Earth and a rocket.
Next Sosyal is developed by Selçuk Bayraktar, who owns military drone company Baykar and is the son-in-law of President Erdogan. The platform is branded as a “local and national” alternative to global platforms such as X and Facebook. Bayraktar describes the platform as a safer and cleaner space for constructive dialogue free from trolling, disinformation and Western platform algorithms.
The Nordic Monitor news site further reports: “Several ministries and public entities now maintain official Next Sosyal profiles. Staff in these offices report that social media guidance increasingly favors the platform. Press releases, bulletins and announcements are expected to appear on Next before being shared on global platforms. Some officials say internal memos suggested de-emphasizing X and Instagram entirely. In addition, some major corporations have reportedly started opening accounts on Next out of fear of government pressure.”
Bayraktar claims that the app now has over 1 million users. Since Next Sosyal is a slight reskin of Mastodon, it means that the same API also works. API calls to Next Sosyal on August 22nd showed an exact user count of 850.000, and as of September 2 the API claims a total of 1.100.000 accounts. Registering on the app requires a Turkish phone number, making it difficult for me to verify these numbers by looking at timeline activity, but the exact roundness of these numbers does raise some suspicions for me.
The platform was originally released without any reference to Mastodon’s source code. Mastodon is released under the AGPL license, which means that you can use, modify and distribute the software freely, as long as you publish the code under the same AGPL license. After some requests from the Mastodon organisation, Next Sosyal is now compliant with this, and explicitly mentions that “NSocial is an open source Mastodon-based social media platform developed by TEKNOFEST entrepreneurs.” on their About page.
We live in a world where authoritarian rulers seem to have a better grasp of current social media dynamics than many democratic leaders have. Both Trump and Erdogan understand the value of building a social media platform where they have a direct connection with their supporters, and can control message distribution. That both leaders use Mastodon for this, while democratic leadership shows little interest in building out their own social media distribution platforms on the open social web is painful.
In Other News
Last week I wrote about SocialHub, a forum to discuss ActivityPub, and how it fits into a larger understanding of the ‘substrate’ layer of the fediverse. One of the points I made is that the communication layer underneath the fediverse (meaning places to discuss and collaborate on ActivityPub, for example) is fairly decentralised. The positive effect is that this creates a distribution of power, nobody can control all the conversations that happen about ActivityPub. This also means that coordination is more difficult, as developers are spread out over multiple places. There has been quite some movement this week in this space of “what are the places to talk about ActivityPub”:
The direct cause for writing the article was SocialHub potentially shutting down. A new administrator has been found, workers cooperative Pavillion. The cooperative was hired by forum software Discourse to create the ActivityPub plugin for the forum.
Activitypub.rocks is the ‘official’ website for the ActivityPub protocol, but it has not been updated for almost five years. Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the co-authors of ActivityPub, has decided to hand over the website to the SocialCG, the community group for ActivityPub that is part of the W3C. A new initiative to work on the website from the SocialCG is led by Johannes Ernst, who also organises the FediForum conferences.
Activitypub.space is a new forum to discuss ActivityPub, created by NodeBB developer Julian Lam.
Fediverse software updates:
A blog by the WordPress ActivityPub team with more details on their latest updates, with expanded moderation tooling and improvements under the hood.
Piefed now has a build-in discovery tool to find new communities to subscribe to.
Blogging platform WriteFreely has further fediverse integrations with their latest update: it now displays ‘likes’ on WriteFreely blog posts made on other platforms. Other platforms such as Mastodon will now also show a preview or summary of a WriteFreely post, in addition to a link.
LemmyBridge is a new browser extension that connects you to Lemmy discussions for any website you visit.
Pixelfed releases the ‘Stories’ feature on their Android app.
And an overview of all fediverse software updates of the week.
And some more links:
WeDistribute writes about the Client-to-Server part of ActivityPub, a part of the protocol that is rarely used, and how the Social Web Foundation is working on promoting its use.
A tutorial that explains how you can do podcasting with PeerTube.
FedInspect, a desktop application for analysing fediverse server configurations and features.
@crossgolf_rebel Im Artikel ist die Rede von autoritären Regierungen (ich kenne keinen Diktator der das Fediverse nutzt). Und ist die Frage rhetorisch gemeint (im Sinne eines Jammerns, warum nur?) oder ernsthaft? Ich weiß leider keine gute Antwort. Weder mit Idealismus noch mit Machtstreben scheint es bisher dazu geführt zu haben, dass demokratische Parteien das offene Web wirklich ernst nehmen und sein Potential für die direkte Kommunikation mit seinen Zielgruppen voll nutzen.
ist bei mir wohl ein Stück weit Frustration dabei.
Während "autoritären Regierungen" das potentioal von Fediverse Software durchaus zu nutzen wissen, scheint es demokratischen Regierunge nmehr als schwer zu fallen, das Fediverse auch nur ansatzweise als weiteren Weg zu sehen.
Und ich würde Truth und Konsorten, nicht mal ansatzweise als Teil des Fediverse sehen. Auch wenn sie die selbe Software verwenden.
@crossgolf_rebel Wer sollte sie davon abhalten demnächst das „Bösiverse“ zu gründen und sich mit den Diktatoren dieser Welt zu föderieren? Das wird die nächste Stufe, wenn du mich nach der Zukunft fragst. Aber vielleicht bleiben sie auch lieber unter sich. Wäre schade, wenn wir es es als Demokraten nicht schaffen, diese Potentiale der freien Kommunikation im Fediverse unseren demokratischen Parteien beizubringen. Nur Mut!
ja, ich glaube das "dunkle Mächte" das Potential immer zuerst erkennen und für sich eine Mehrwert schaffen.
Gefällt mir nicht die Idee.
Im Moment sehe ich im Fediverse nicht viele Demokratische Parteien. Eher ein paar Einzelkämpfer, bis auf die Grünen Instanz, da geht schon wesentlich mehr. Hoffen wir, das das ausgebaut wird und die demokratischen Parteien dieses Potential und auch die positive und progressive Grundeinstellung hier im Fediverse, mit nutzen
@crossgolf_rebel Tun sie doch nicht. Truth Social ist eine geschlossene, proprietäre Plattform, die Mastodon nur als Basis nutzt. Auch Erdogan wird sicher kein Teil des Fediverse.
@kaibojens @crossgolf_rebel ja dann ist doch ein Netzwerk mit mächtiger Reichweite doch deutlich ein Vorteil, also Instagram mit threats oder ähnliches. Auf Mastodon würde ich auch beim besten Willen keinen Wahlkampf betreiben wollen.
@Zoidtes @kaibojens @crossgolf_rebel Wenn ich einen Wahlkampf führen würde, dann im Fediverse (Mastodon ist ja nur ein Teil davon). Und warum das sinnvoll ist: kein Dritter entscheidet mehr über meine Reichweite. Keine fremden Algorithmen und Abhängigkeiten. Die potentielle Reichweite auf Instagram ist vielleicht höher, aber die tatsächliche Reichweite in Wahlkampf ist mit hohem finanziellen Einsatz verbunden. Wobei ab Oktober nicht mal mehr politische Werbung auf Meta geschaltet werden kann.
@kaibojens @crossgolf_rebel Das kannst du gerne machen, das schließt ja auch Threads mit ein. Dritte entscheiden in der Hinsicht komplett über deine Reichweite. Mastodon ist ein Paradebeispiel vom Blocken ganzer Instanzen, Nutzer und co. selbstverständlich immer mit einer staken Begründung.
Für einen Wahlkampf ist Reichweite jedoch kritisch. Ist ja schön und gut da Wahlkampf zu machen, wo man so oder so stimmen bekommen wird, es ist jedoch wichtig neue stimmen dazu zu gewinnen.
Den Begründungen fürs Blocken kann ich mich schon anschließen, wir nur von den Betroffenen nicht so gesehen.
Nur als Gegenbeispiel, in den Konzerndiensten ist es auch nicht viel anders, da wirst du mit Shadowban, Reichweitenverlust und anderem belohnt.
Deswegen sagen wir auch immer für neue, setzt euch nicht auf problematische Instanzen, weil sonst werdet ihr von Zeit zu Zeit nicht alle user erreichen können. Und meist ist dieses Instanzblocken eine temporäre Sache von meist 2 Wochen
Ja das stimmt, shadowbans und ein folgender Reichweitenverlust ist natürlich auch ein Problem. ich bin hier so einigen Instanzen begegnet, wo ich definitiv weiß, dass sie kritisch sind, aber dennoch möchte ich lesen, was die zu melden haben. Das kriege ich auf meiner aktuellen Instanz nicht hin. Hier habe ich eine schöne neue Welt, ohne "böses" o.ä .
Ob eine self hosted Instanz, nicht auch noch gebannt wird? Sehr schwierig die heutige Situation
Oh, eure Instanz hat ja massig Instanzen gesperrt. wobei masto.online nicht ganz so auffällig selber für Spam und hate sorgt, wie masto.social
Um das zu überprüfen gibt es ein cooles tool auf fediblock.grautier.eu/ Damit kannst du selber auch mal andere Instanzen überprüfen und checken, was die alles sperren.
Generell gehört so was auch ein wenig zur Moderation des Fediverse. Wie Moderiert wird, ist dann wieder eine individuelle Einstellung der Instanz.
Wenn ich jetzt sehe, wie der Ruf von Chaos.social ist und das die rigeros alles wegblocken und wie wenig die dann doch machen, sollte man die Wahl seiner Heimat mal überdenken, wenn einem wichtig ist (und man damit auch mental umgehen kann), was auf anderen Instanzen los ist
Scopri Villa d’Este a Tivoli, un capolavoro manierista a un passo da Roma che affascina con fontane simboliche, architetture teatrali e illusioni idrauliche
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NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers.
But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two such mortgages in quick succession.
LOL! Seems six-time bankrupt Trump scored another own goal, his cabinet gang members having committed the wrongdoings economic dunce Donnie would've liked to be found with Fed Governor Lisa Cook!
Interesting how they accuse the left of making a big deal about it to discredit the trump regime but pulte manufacturing and weaponizing inside information to come after trump's enemies is perfectly A-OK.
Ehh, what was the cornerstone to Drumpf's career except defrauding lenders? [oh yes & bankruptcies & stiffing creditors] Over & over we say, "Carnival of crime, well of course, I'd expect any 10-yr old to know that" but no, can't expect even every voter to know that. I'm thinking of O'Brien in '1984' when Winston hears himself offering to throw acid at a child ... "O'Brien shrugged as if the demonstration was hardly worth making" [or words to that effect]
Il mio babbo non è stato un gran babbo. Anzi. Mi ha tanto condizionato, soprattutto in negativo. Ho tanti traumi e se sono una persona infelice lo devo in grande parte a lui. Però è morto e non ce la faccio.
Anmerkungen zu den Links zu #Musikstücken, in meinen Posts.
Es sind zum Teil freie Stücke von #Jamendo oder #youtube-Links. Alle kommerziellen Stücke habe ich durchaus in der einen oder anderen Form ( meist auf #CD oder #Vinyl ) erworben. Leider funktioniert #invidio.us im Moment nicht verlässlich. Daher hier noch einmal der Hinweis auf Freetube:
I'm currently attempting to give Blender another chance and have therefore tried to create a small backrooms scenario, since Spooktober is coming up soon!
To give my backrooms scene some musical ambiance, I've created a track called "AM 3:00 SEP 4 1988 - CAM 9"!
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Boutique Musetti, si apre una nuova pagina: taglio del nastro in Borgo Giannotti La storica attività lucchese ha lasciato il centro storico per trasferirsi fuori le Mura urbane.
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The image shows a social media post with a profile picture of a character wearing a red scarf and goggles. The post is from a user named "[@]3misanchez567" and was made 4 years ago, with the text "she is homeless" and the genre labeled as "house" with a house emoji. The post has received 25 thousand likes and no dislikes. The post is marked as edited. ― The image shows a social media post. The post features a profile picture of an acoustic guitar resting on a wooden surface with grass in the background. The username "[@]bigguys45s29" is displayed next to the profile picture, along with the timestamp "há 6 anos," indicating the post was made six years ago. The main text of the post reads, "Most upbeat song about a homeless person ever." The text is in black font on a white background, typical of a social media platform's interface. ― The image shows a social media post with a profile picture of a dog's face on the left. The post is from a user named "[@]angiev1111" and was made 5 years ago. The post reads: "Crystal: 'she's homeless 😔' Us: 🎉". Below the post, there are 56 thousand likes and a thumbs-down icon, with an option to "Responder" (respond) at the bottom. The post is a humorous response to someone's statement about being homeless, using a celebratory emoji to suggest a sarcastic or ironic tone.
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TL;DR: California lawmakers are urged to pass S.B. 524, which mandates police reports written using AI include disclaimers and retain first drafts to enhance transparency and accountability in law enforcement narratives. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/cali… #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum
EFF urges California state lawmakers to pass S.B. 524, authored by Sen. Jesse Arreguín. This bill is an important first step in regaining control over police using generative AI to write their narrative police reports.
Mehr als 50 Menschen hatten gestern früh den Weg zum Kanzleramt gefunden, darunter auch mehrere Aktive von Aktion Freiheit statt Angst, um dem dort versammelten schwarz-roten Kabinett klar zu machen, dass wir keine US Überwachungssoftware in unserem Land haben wollen.
Innenminister Dobrindt will die umstrittene Software des Rechtsextremisten Peter Thiel bundesweit einsetzen. Dagegen haben heute anlässlich der Kabinettssitzung der schwarz-roten Koalition besorgte Bürger vor dem Kanzleramt demonstriert.
Nicht nur, dass diese Software unsere Daten für die deutschen Sicherheitsbehörden zusammen führt und auswertet – nein – Palantir ist ein US Unternehmen. Noch dazu gehört es, wie bereits erwähnt, dem amerikanischen Rechtsextremisten Peter Thiel. Mindestens er kann in unsere Daten hinein schauen. Aber nicht nur er. Nach dem US Cloud Act müssen US Unternehmen Daten, auch wenn sie im Ausland liegen, an die US Sicherheitsbehörden herausgeben. Deutschland macht sich mit der Nutzung dieser US Software wieder und weiter von den USA abhängig.
In Bayern wird diese Software bereits von der Polizei genutzt. Bislang sind 30 Millionen Menschen in Bayern in dem System gespeichert. Da diese Zahl über der Gesamtzahl der Menschen in Bayern liegt, müssen wir annehmen, dass auch Reisende, die in Bayern ein oder aussteigen von dem System erfasst werden.
Ein Gangsterstück hat die CDU in Baden-Württemberg mit dieser Software vollbracht. Ohne eine Genehmigung durch die schwarz-grüne Koalition im Land wurde dort ein Vertrag mit Palantir unterzeichnet. Anstatt die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen und den Vertrag rückgängig zu machen hat Ministerpräsident Kretschmer nun die Seiten gewechselt und verteidigt die Nutzung dieser Software im Ländle.
Doch noch können wir den bundesweiten Einsatz von Palantir verhindern. Schon über 300.000 Menschen haben den Appell von Campact gegen das Spähprogramm unterzeichnet. Justizministerin Stefanie Hubig (SPD) sieht Palantir kritisch. Und auch andere Sozialdemokrat*innen lehnen den Einsatz der Überwachungssoftware ab. Nun kommt es auf die SPD an: Bleibt sie standhaft oder knickt sie vor ihrem Koalitionspartner ein? Wenn wir Hubig jetzt den Rücken stärken, kann sie Palantir stoppen.
Die Demonstranten riefen den im Kanzleramt versammelten Kabinettsmitglieder zu:
Palantir raus
Dobrindt stoppen
Lieber Eis am Stiel als Palantir
Die Juristin Simone Ruf von der "Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V." erklärt, warum der Verein in mehreren Bundesländern Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen den Einsatz von Datenanalyse-Software eingereicht hat.
Historian Meredith Oyen explains how disagreements over the history of the second world war and who fought the Japanese are central to tensions between China and Taiwan. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast. tcnv.link/thmylYa
The Tampa Bay Times identified 49 people with connections to the utility who testified in support of the rate hikes. They are from foundations, charities, chambers of commerce and other organizations that have been the beneficiary of support from Florida Power & Light. The connections range from direct payments to companies and nonprofits to having a utility employee serving on their boards.
A2: Computers feature pretty heavily in my making. Nearly all my research is done on the internet, I use Pinterest to compile references and mood boards, I use photo editors to figure out scale, I draw vectors and build 3D models on them, and there's probably a lot more that I don't even think about.
A bit, as a tool to find patterns, look for inspiration, and record my makes on my blog. Oh, wait, I scan all my photo negatives, so even though I take photos the analogue way, they still end up as digital files that I have to tweak on the computer. So, more than I tend to think, really. #MakersHour
Q2: How much do computers feature in your making? If they don’t, could they, and how? #MakersHour A2 Very little and very rarely. I use an iPad and an iPhone for checking pictures, looking up designs and taking pictures of my work (and chatting to you lovely people) but an actual computer only on the very rare occasions I want to print something out. I use the computer *all the time* for work so my making is my screen free time.
@Janet_52square i used to use computers at work all the time but it's amazing how quickly I've fallen out of the habit. Even the fact that apparently the pen fell off my tablet and I font know where or when
It is fair to say computers in one sort or another are the tools, the raw materials, the inspiration, the references, and in some cases even the product of my making!
computers are great for finding and downloading PDF patterns, turning photos into pixels that I can turn into knitting patterns and accessing my pattern libraries
Q2: How much do computers feature in your making? If they don’t, could they, and how?
A2: They don’t. I don’t want them to either.
Unless you count trawling eBay for potential restoration projects (and other accoutrements and trinketry that I shouldn’t be buying). That’s pre-making though, not making-making.
A2 #makershour not enough! I have a Samsung tablet and a mental block about properly learning how to use it well I guess my phone is a computer too. So I do search info and message stuff too
#MakersHour A2: I do most of my writing, yarn buying, and knitting pattern finding online. And knitting and crochet are the only disciplines I think video tutorials actually work for.
A2 depends how you define computer. And depends how you define involve. Most of my projects involve research on a computer of some kind. Some involve some sort of design phase using CAD, some involve CAM (3d printing, laser cutting). Others once I've printed the drawings out the only computer involvement is the DRO on the machine tools... And the phone I use to take photos documenting it... And then the blog I write about my making...
I am a computer nerd, have been for 3+ decades and much of my life revolves around the blighted things. I will spec out, type up words at least, as part of planning most things I do. I use 3D and 2D CAD for planning and can design my own stuff for 3D printing and CNC. Of course both those devices basically have computers in them, and talk to computers. I write code on a computer for the microcontroller (also a computer) electronics I build. I type this very message and take many many photos with the computer I am holding (aka a "phone")... photos are actually a key thing for me, my thinking and memory are very visual (yet U cannot actual draw freehand for shit.)
A hell of a lot, and almost never Windows or Macs. If you remember the computers of the 1980s and wonder what a modern day version could do, get yourself a Raspberry Pi or similar, the BBC Micros of the modern world! (Current projects: A RasPi based internet radio, and an Arduino based bin night reminder bot)
A2: I often use computers for designing artwork for screen printing. Usually a lot of text so it fun to play around with different fonts and such like this wanted poster camp t shirt.
I find tutorials for stitches I don't know how to do online and pictures if I'm making a knitty based on a specific character. And I write on a computer. #MakersHour
A2. For embroidery, a great deal, after discovering laser printable soluble self-adhesive transfer paper sheets. Monochrome natural history illustrations are a good pattern source, like the Valley Quail from Birds of Yosemite, cropped and resized from a scanned book illustration. For some projects, patterns via web shops or Etsy. For the pieced cloth ball projects, the square and hexagon templates for paper piecing at a specific size. For most projects, sharing update pictures to social media (Mastodon, very occasionally Facebook).
Noting here re the "computers" question that I work in crewel stitch, usually with DMC cotton floss, not with counted cross-stitch on a grid canvas. (which has more obvious computer affinities via the grid planning)
Q2: How much do computers feature in your making? If they don’t, could they, and how #MakersHour
A2. Well, seeing as it's my job... a lot! Code is useful for all kinds of things. In the reverse direction, I learned CAD strictly for fun, and it ended up being useful at work, too. I got a HAM radio license just to have a structured way to learn more electronics, and that's been incredibly fun too.
I also deliberately do things that have no computers involved, like hand sewing and throwing pottery. It's kind of a both extremes situation, I guess.
A2: Computers fit a lot in my making. I need them for 3d printing and designing. I could imagine using it for CNCing but I do not have the space for that. 😅 #makersHour
I use a computer to view the online materials for a weekly watercolor class I take a few times a year; to join the online, real time paint-along class, to view reference photos, and to post to a group of fellow students—many of whom are “groupies” of the teacher, myself included
I also use tech (a tablet) to mark up the reference photos to help me approach the painting
Rauswurf von Behördenchefin: Druck auf US-Gesundheitsminister wächst
US-Gesundheitsminister Kennedy hat in einer hitzigen Senatsanhörung den Umbau der Gesundheitsbehörde CDC verteidigt. Die brauche "kreative" Führungskräfte. Die Demokraten fordern hingegen Kennedys Rücktritt.
"Kreative" Führungskräfte statt "kompetente" Führungskräfte. Vermutlich wird hier vor allem "Kreativität" bei der Interpretation und Auslegung von Fakten gefordert. USA, du bist verloren.
John Wells
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