Borgio Verezzi apre il Festival con 'Miles Gloriosus' di Plauto - Teatro - Ansa.it
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Borgio Verezzi apre il Festival con 'Miles Gloriosus' di Plauto - Teatro - Ansa.it
semmai un cinico commediante, che da commediante racconta di gente che non vedendo in giro molti ideali per cui valga la pena essere coerenti, cerca di sopravvivere e divertirsi, e forse anche di vendicarsi un po' di essere costretta a recitare per v…Agenzia ANSA
Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, premio per brano su Giulia Tramontano - Musica - Ansa.it
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Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, premio per brano su Giulia Tramontano - Musica - Ansa.it
"Hanno saputo abbracciare il dolore più indicibile e trasformarlo in memoria, rispetto e amore": inizia così la dedica incisa sul Premio Artis Suavitas 2025 consegnato ai Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, in occasione della loro tappa a Napoli, per il loro …Agenzia ANSA
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‘Where am I going to go?’ Dismay as Queensland council begins tearing down tent encampment
Homeless residents given an hour to move belongings as City of Moreton Bay brings excavator to Eddie Hyland Park in LawntonAndrew Messenger (The Guardian)
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Venezuela, shocking human rights report: 522 killed in 2024 by Maduro’s security forces
The NGO “Un Mondo senza Bavaglio” (A World Without Gags) denounces widespread impunity and collapsing living conditions: water rationing, blackouts and hospitals without medicines The situation in …LiberoReporter
Cult Hero From Past Challenges Jake Paul To A Boxing Match
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Cult Hero From Past Challenges Jake Paul To A Boxing Match
"I hit so much harder than he does," the fighter said of the social media star-turned-pugilist.Ron Dicker (HuffPost)
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Angehängt: 1 Bild Im ersten Halbjahr 2025 hatte Griechenland im europäischen Vergleich den höchsten Anteil der Solarenergie an der Last (= Stromverbrauch + Netzverluste). https://www.energy-charts.info/downloads/Stromerzeugung_2025_Halbjahr.Wissenschaft trötet
Das Bild zeigt eine Frau mit kurzem, grauem Haar, die ein Selfie aufgenommen hat. Sie trägt eine Sonnenbrille mit runden Gläsern und ein hellblaues, gestreiftes Oberteil mit einem geometrischen Muster am Hals. Im Hintergrund erstreckt sich eine weite Landschaft mit Dünen und Gras, die typisch für Küstenregionen ist. Der Himmel ist teilweise bewölkt, und die Sonne scheint durch die Wolken hindurch. Die Frau lächelt und scheint sich in der Natur zu befinden, was auf eine entspannte und freudige Stimmung hinweist.
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Das Bild zeigt eine hölzerne Treppe, die sich durch eine sanfte Dünenlandschaft windet. Die Treppe besteht aus mehreren gleichmäßig angeordneten Holzplanken, die sich in einer leicht steilen Richtung nach oben erstrecken. Die Umgebung ist geprägt von niedriger Vegetation, die aus Gras und Heidekraut besteht, das die Dünen bedeckt. Die Dünen sind von einer Mischung aus grünem und braunem Gras bedeckt, was auf die natürliche Vegetation hinweist. Der Himmel ist teilweise bewölkt, mit weißen Wolken, die sich gegen einen blauen Hintergrund abheben. Die Treppe führt den Blick des Betrachters in die Ferne, wodurch ein Gefühl von Weite und Abenteuer entsteht.
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Das Bild zeigt einen schwarzen und weißen Border Collie, der auf einer Holzleiter sitzt. Der Hund ist an einer Leine gebunden und blickt direkt in die Kamera. Die Leiter führt hinauf zu einer sanften Düne, die mit Gras und Heidekraut bedeckt ist. Der Himmel ist teilweise bewölkt, und die Sonne scheint durch die Wolken hindurch. Die Holzleiter ist aus grauen Planken gefertigt und führt in die Ferne, wobei die Stufen in der Ferne kleiner erscheinen. Der Border Collie hat ein charakteristisches schwarzes und weißes Fell mit einem weißen Bauch und weißen Pfoten. Die Umgebung wirkt ruhig und natürliche, mit einer offenen Landschaft, die typisch für Küstenregionen ist.
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Das Bild zeigt eine weite Landschaft mit sanften Hügeln und dichtem Gras, die von einer Holzbrücke und einem Aussichtspunkt überblickt wird. Die Brücke führt zu einem erhöhten Aussichtspunkt, der von einer Holzbalustrade umgeben ist. Der Himmel ist teilweise bewölkt, mit großen, weißen Wolken, die den blauen Hintergrund rahmen. Die Landschaft erstreckt sich weit in die Ferne, wobei die Hügel sanft abfallen und sich in der Ferne verschmelzen. Die Vegetation besteht hauptsächlich aus niedrigem Gras und Sträuchern, die die sanften Hügel bedecken. Die Holzbrücke und der Aussichtspunkt sind gut erhalten und bieten einen idealen Ort, um die natürliche Schönheit der Umgebung zu genießen.
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openSUSE’s Agama 16 Installer Brings Wayland Support
openSUSE's new Agama installer v16 now boots with Wayland instead of X11 and offers a new minimal Rescue Mode.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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U.S. CISA adds MRLG, PHPMailer, Rails Ruby on Rails, and Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds MRLG, PHPMailer, Rails Ruby on Rails, and Synacor ZCS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs)
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Hope of finding Texas flood survivors dims as search efforts go on
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Got an ultra wide monitor, now all 32 Tuxes are visible. 🐧
#Linux #tux #gentoo #gentoolinux #ultrawide
Tankies will support the Iranian regime treating these Brown people as garbage because it's all just a big game to them and they don't really care about Human Beings, just winning a stupid argument.
They claim to be 'Anti-Racist' but they just have a different racial hierarchy to the Capitalists, but it's still a hierarchy.
Show me a nation on Earth that treats Refugees with dignity, is there one? 😞
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‘They threw us out like garbage’: Iran rushes deportation of 4 million Afghans before deadline
Thousands of lone women forced to return face extreme repression and destitution under Taliban laws that forbid them to work or travel without a male guardianGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers' Union Are Hatching a Plan To 'Bring AI into the Classroom' - Slashdot
Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic will announce Tuesday the launch of a $22.5 million AI training center for members of the American Federation of Teachers, according to details inadvertently published early on a publicly accessible YouTube livestream…news.slashdot.org
I hate that “Libertarianism” in US-english means those “free” market dumbasses.
It actually meant anarchist (anti-capitalist) originally and was a euphemism for anarchist when it was banned to be one. It still means that in French generally.
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…. Yeah, state capitalism.
You’re not gonna tell me countries with billionaires, capital accumulation, market logic, are communist?
The main exception is north korea but that’s just a totalitarian planned economy.
Cuba has corporations, billionaires, and “free” (neoliberal) trade.
Just because they fly a red flag and call themselves communist doesn’t make them such.
Trump ha rimandato l’applicazione dei dazi, chi l’avrebbe mai detto
Nuova dead line 1° agosto, poi vedremo [.....]
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Trump ha rimandato l’applicazione dei dazi, chi l’avrebbe mai detto
Nuova dead line 1° agosto, poi vedremo […..]Gaiaitalia.com Notizie | Politica Cultura & Opinioni
We are truly very happy especially me Our organization, Uganda Eco Youths Network, has been recognized by the #Agroecology community, and our logo now stands proudly among other organizations that support #SustainableFarming and #FoodSovereignty
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This is a big step for us here in #Uganda, and we are committed to continuing the work for #ClimateAction, #YouthInAgroecology, and #EcoFriendly solutions!
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Il 10% delle auto in Italia ha pneumatici lisci. La Polstrada denuncia la scarsa manutenzione e propone incentivi per migliorare la sicurezza.
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Bonelli: emendamento governo su armi porta Italia in stato di guerra - Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra - Reti civiche
“Meloni, Merz e Macron: ovvero il fattore 3M che condanna il mondo, perché mentre l’Europa e l’Italia subiscono gli effetti gravi della crisi climatica — che sono sociali, ambientali ed economici — nell’indifferenza di chi governa, le 3M vogliono fer…La Redazione (Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra - Reti civiche)
Faut-il vraiment culpabiliser en regardant YouTube en 4K ?@ApresLaBiere@labiologiefaitdesvideos
Cette vidéo traite de l'impact climatique du numérique. Quelles sont les émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans le monde ? Et en France ? Comment ces émissions sont-elles réparties entre terminaux, réseaux et centres de données ? Quel est l'impact de l'audiovisuel ? Du streaming ? De cette chaîne YouTube en particulier ? Comment cet impact se compare à d'autres loisirs ? Avec @ApresLaBiere , on s'intéresse ensuite à des impacts indirects du numérique : publicité ciblée, désinformation, mauvaise hiérarchisation et affaiblissement des démocraties.
La vidéo de Michaël (@labiologiefaitdesvideos ) sur l'impact des mails : youtu.be/UyGkxWA72tk
La vidéo de Jean-Lou (@ApresLaBiere) pour numérique plus démocratique et plus à même de lutter contre le changement climatique :
0:00 • Introduction
1:08 • Périmètre du numérique
2:36 • Émissions de gaz à effet de serre du numérique dans le monde
7:23 • Émissions de gaz à effet de serre du numérique dans en France
14:38 • Audiovisuel
23:20 • Contextualisation de l’impact du streaming
26:25 • Approche marginale
29:11 • Impact de la chaîne Le Réveilleur
34:26 • Publicité ciblée
41:18 • Amplification d’informations fausses ou trompeuses
46:26 • Mauvaise hiérarchisation des informations
51:20 • Dégradation de la démocratie
56:54 • Quelques mots sur les IAs génératives
1:00:14 • Des pistes pour réduire l’impact du numérique
1:03:31 • Conclusion
1:05:12 • Outro
Sources :
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Texte avec annotations et sources :
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Soutenir la chaîne Le Réveilleur :
tinyurl.com/ychnp6hc (de préférence)
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Merci aux relecteurs :
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Script : Rodolphe Meyer & Michaël Ruff
Montage : Michaël Ruff
Miniature : Fynless, https://x.com/fynless
Merci à ma mère qui s'occupe de corriger le texte et le retranscrire proprement pour les sous-titres.
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Pour ne rien rater sur la chaîne, pensez à vous abonner et à activer les notifications (petite cloche).
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Musique: "Time is running" par Marc Corominas Pujadó (license jamendo)
Faut-il vraiment culpabiliser en regardant YouTube en 4K ?
Vidéo Cette vidéo traite de l’impact climatique du numérique et, notamment, du streaming. On y développe aussi des impacts indirects du numérique (publicité ciblée, désinformation, dégradation des démocraties).Le Réveilleur
Canadian Mining Magnate Seeks US Projects as Trump Deregulates
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Unterdrückung von Frauen: Strafgerichtshof erlässt Haftbefehle gegen Taliban
Seit knapp vier Jahren sind sie wieder an der Macht - und unterdrücken Frauen und Mädchen in Afghanistan. Nun geht der Internationale Strafgerichtshof gegen die Taliban vor. Gegen zwei Anführer wurden Haftbefehle erlassen.
Andere Länder andere Sitten, andere Frauen andere Titten
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Non è un segreto: siamo grandi fan del Fediverso!
Sulle piattaforme come X, Instagram o TikTok, stanno crescendo odio, razzismo e disinformazione, mentre i colossi tech continuano a raccogliere in massa i dati personali degli utenti.
🌱 Il #Fediverso rappresenta una vera alternativa: è aperto, decentralizzato e costruito dalla comunità.
👉 Vieni a scoprirci nel nostro sito, abbiamo raccolto le alternative italiane che fanno parte della nostra associazione: fedimedia.it
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Fedimedia Italia APS nasce per costruire un ecosistema digitale e sociale dove tecnologia, diritti e ambiente coesistono in armonia.Fedimedia Italia APS - Web
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@warlock0x @luca_franchini inizia facendogli vedere the social dilemma: peertube.uno/w/wgJ871DwAJY1njz…
The Social Dilemma - Film documentario completo in streaming ITA Download
Questo documentario di Jeff Orlowski esplora come la dipendenza e la violazione della privacy siano caratteristiche, non bug, delle piattaforme dei social media.Che i social media possano creare dipendenza e dare i brividi non è una rivelazione per chi usa Facebook, Twitter, Instagram e simili. Ma nel documentario di Jeff Orlowski "The Social Dilemma", i disertori coscienziosi di queste aziende spiegano che la perniciosità delle piattaforme di social networking è una caratteristica, non un bug.
Essi sostengono che la manipolazione del comportamento umano a scopo di lucro è codificata in queste aziende con una precisione machiavellica: Le notifiche a scorrimento e push infinito mantengono gli utenti costantemente impegnati; le raccomandazioni personalizzate utilizzano i dati non solo per prevedere ma anche per influenzare le nostre azioni, trasformando gli utenti in facili prede per gli inserzionisti e i propagandisti.
Come nei suoi documentari sul cambiamento climatico, "Chasing Ice" e "Chasing Coral", Orlowski prende una realtà che può sembrare troppo colossale e astratta per essere afferrata da un profano, figuriamoci se ci si preoccupa, e la riduce a un livello umano. In "The Social Dilemma", egli rielabora uno dei più antichi tropi del genere horror - il dottor Frankenstein, lo scienziato che si è spinto troppo oltre - per l'era digitale.
In interviste ben curate, Orlowski parla con uomini e (alcune) donne che hanno contribuito a costruire i social media e che ora temono gli effetti delle loro creazioni sulla salute mentale degli utenti e sulle basi della democrazia. Le loro testimonianze ammonitorie sono state rilasciate con la forza di un lancio iniziale, utilizzando aforismi e analogie concise.
"Mai prima d'ora nella storia 50 designer hanno preso decisioni che avrebbero avuto un impatto su due miliardi di persone", dice Tristan Harris, un ex esperto di etica del design di Google. Anna Lembke, un'esperta di dipendenze dell'Università di Stanford, spiega che queste aziende sfruttano il bisogno evolutivo del cervello per la connessione interpersonale. E Roger McNamee, uno dei primi investitori in Facebook, fornisce un'accusa agghiacciante: La Russia non ha hackerato Facebook, ha semplicemente usato la piattaforma.
Molto di tutto ciò è familiare, ma "The Social Dilemma" si spinge oltre, intercalando le interviste con scene di fantasia in stile P.S.A. di una famiglia di periferia che soffre le conseguenze della dipendenza dai social media. Ci sono cene in silenzio, una figlia adolescente (Sophia Hammons) con problemi di immagine di sé e un figlio adolescente (Skyler Gisondo) radicalizzato dalle raccomandazioni di YouTube che promuovono una vaga ideologia.
Questa narrazione romanzata esemplifica i limiti dell'enfasi talvolta iperbolica del documentario sul mezzo a scapito del messaggio. Ad esempio, gli interlocutori del film attribuiscono l'aumento delle malattie mentali all'uso dei social media, ma non riconoscono fattori come l'aumento dell'insicurezza economica. Polarizzazione, rivolte e proteste sono presentati come sintomi particolari dell'era dei social media senza contesto storico.
Nonostante le loro veementi critiche, gli intervistati di "The Social Dilemma" non sono tutti dei dissidenti; molti suggeriscono che con i giusti cambiamenti, possiamo salvare il bene dei social media senza il male. Ma l'accaparramento di soluzioni personali e politiche che presentano nel film confonde due distinti obiettivi di critica: la tecnologia che provoca comportamenti distruttivi e la cultura del capitalismo incontrollato che la produce.
Ciononostante, "Il dilemma sociale" è straordinariamente efficace nel lanciare l'allarme sull'incursione del data mining e della tecnologia manipolativa nella nostra vita sociale e oltre. Il film di Orlowski non è di per sé risparmiato dal fenomeno che esamina. Il film è in streaming su Netflix, dove diventerà un altro nodo dell'algoritmo basato sui dati del servizio.
I had more accounts suspended in 2 years on mastodon & pixelfed than I had in 20+ years of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
Censorship, limitations, suspension and blocking are as bad, if not worse in the so called free media
It's a disgusting and sad world we live in, replacing corporate fascism with large number of little fascists
The problem is still there, & it's not just because of corporate control, bit the global fascism protecting the genocidal regime of Israel
if elon really wanted to create a party to give people what they wanted, policies would include taxing the richest people/corporations, bringing down medical costs, congressional term limits, common sense gun laws, etc
(not decreasing the deficit)
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how successful do i think the “america party” can be in gaining momentum?based on everyone’s attention spans, i’m skeptical.
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Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model
Link: 9to5mac.com/2025/07/04/apple-j…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Apple just released an interesting coding language model - 9to5Mac
Apple has just released an AI model that, rather than generating code from left to right, does it out of order and all at once. Here's how.Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)
Scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees
"...found nearly all colonies had contracted a bee virus spread by parasitic mites that appear to have developed resistance to the main chemicals used to control them."
"A combination of factors is likely to be causing successive colony deaths among US bees, including the changing climate, exposure to pesticides, and less food in the form of pollen and nectar as monocrop farming proliferates."
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‘Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees
Experts scrambling to understand losses in hives across the country are finally identifying the culprits. And the damage to farmed bees is a sign of trouble for wild bees tooPhoebe Weston (The Guardian)
"Due to government staffing cuts, the USDA team were unable to analyse pesticides in the hives and asked bee experts at Cornell University to carry out the research, with the results still to be published."
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Toscana, Giani nettamente favorito
Partita già chiusa in Veneto (con candidato unitario)
sondaggio completo👇🏻
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Sondaggio Tecnè – Toscana, Giani nettamente favorito. Partita già chiusa in Veneto (con candidato unitario)
Sostieni Sondaggi Bidimedia! Puoi farlo nei modi che ti descriviamo in seguito… E, se puoi, disattiva il tuo ad-blocker, grazie! Modalità preferita: donazione tramite bonifico tramite […]Mauro De Donatis (Sondaggi Bidimedia - Il Blog)
Le spiagge di Pizzo Calabro più belle sono cartoline d’azzurro tra mito e meraviglia
Angolo di paradiso da scoprire: ecco le spiagge più belle di Pizzo Calabro da visitare quest'estate, alcune sono gratuiteAngelica Losi (SiViaggia)
Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.David Dayen (The American Prospect)
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#Ossigeno
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54 scatti straordinari che raccontano la bellezza del nostro pianeta
Daniel Kordan esplora il mondo alla ricerca dei luoghi più remoti da fotografare, paesaggi che incantano per la loro bellezza e unicità.Un profondo amoreManila M (Keblog)
Il jihadismo ha radici antiche Intervista con Domenico Quirico
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Da Napoleone Bonaparte ad Hamas, il tema del jihadismo è all’ordine del giorno da ormai tre secoli. Partendo da questo presupposto, Domenico Quirico, giornalista e inviato di guerra
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Good condition, complete with keyboard, mouse, webcam & wifi adapter. A reasonably recent machine, no longer coping with Windows. Instead, it has a user-friendly, secure linux operating system, with vast amounts of free software available for it. If you have not used linux before, it is very easy to use - just come in for 15mins to see the simple method for using and maintaining the system.](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/52392967 "OFFER: Tower PC ([location redacted]) New listing
Good condition, complete with keyboard, mouse, webcam & wifi adapter. A reasonably recent machine, no longer coping with Windows. Instead, it has a user-friendly, secure linux operating system, with vast amounts of free software available for it. If you have not used linux before, it is very easy to use - just come in for 15mins to see the simple method for using and maintaining the system.")
Activism is inherently messy, and that’s its strength. The magic happens in the balancing act. The Beautiful Insanity of Activism: How Movements Rot or Blossom hamishcampbell.com/the-beautif…
The Beautiful Insanity of Activism: How Movements Rot or Blossom
Let’s face it — activism and counter-culture are packed with “insane” people. And thank the gods for that. It’s what makes movements exciting, dynamic, and, most importantly, effective. But like compost, too much of the wrong stuff makes the pile stink. Balance is everything. So, let’s look at this: what causes a movement to stagnate, fail, or bloom into a riotous field of wildflowers?The Rot (or: Why Your Movement Smells Bad)
- NGO’ists: These bureaucratic barnacles latch onto everything, molding it into whatever’s fundable and fashionably bland. They hoard resources, fill minds with paperwork, and slowly suffocate radical energy. They’re like termites with business cards.
- Encryptionists: Paranoid fuckists who turn usability into a sin and sell fantasies of invulnerability. They preach security like a cult, but the reality is half-baked systems no one can use and a movement too scared to talk to itself.
- Traditional Media Panderers: Useful in small doses, but quickly start reshaping the movement to fit mainstream narratives. Before you know it, your radical campaign against fossil fuels is being sold as a quirky “green lifestyle choice.”
- Horizontal Dotcom’ists: Desperate to ride the movement into start-up glory. If they build with the #4opens, great. If not, they’re a distraction at best and a flaming wreck at worst when people actually try to use their half-built platforms.
- Insecure and Nasty Lifestylists: Attracted to successful grassroots projects like flies to rot. They thrive on internal drama and are fed by the media panderers. Enough of them and your movement eats itself alive.
- Hidden Careerists: Often competent and useful — until they start networking with the NGO’ists and media grifters to build personal brands instead of movements.
- Paranoid Fuckwits: The paranoid glue of grassroots campaigns. In small doses, they help keep things tight. But let them accumulate in leadership, and the infighting becomes an art form.
- Dogmatic Liberals: Lovely people, but the human equivalent of wet blankets. They block anything genuinely disruptive because it makes them uncomfortable, ensuring nothing truly radical gets off the ground.
The Bloom (or: Why the Garden Still Grows)
- Hands-off NGO’s: The quiet good ones. They funnel resources without sucking the life out of movements. A rare species, but precious.
- User-Focused KISS Peer2Peer’ists: The heroes fighting uphill to (re)boot the #openweb with simple, human-centered tools. They understand that people need tech they can actually use, not just theorize about.
- Traditional Media Outreaches: The rare media people who amplify grassroots work without distorting it to fit mainstream appetites. They build bridges, not cages.
- Horizontal Dotcoms (Done Right): Working on open, federated sustainability instead of chasing VC cash. They build tools for the movement, not to sell the movement.
- Healthy Lifestylists: Learning to balance intense campaigning with actual human joy. Letting go of burnout culture and building connected, grounded lives.
- Open Careerists: Using the movement to bootstrap themselves — but carrying open values like a Trojan horse into the belly of institutions. Someone has to infiltrate the beast.
- Secure Organising Crews: Understanding that collective security is a shared responsibility. Keeping things calm, focused, and handling offline realities without spiraling into paranoia.
- Liberal Liberals: The ones who bring just enough common sense to stop things from exploding, but not so much that they kill the spark.
The Chaotic Harmony
Activism is inherently messy, and that’s its strength. The magic happens in the balancing act. A movement with too many paranoid fuckwits or NGO’ists collapses under its own weight. But a movement with a little bit of everything — the wild-eyed dreamers, the practical builders, the media-savvy storytellers, and the steady hands keeping it all together — can actually change the world.Because, at the end of the day, movements grow like compost. You need some rot. You need some shit. But you also need people willing to shovel through it, plant seeds, and tend the garden. And maybe, just maybe, you need to be a little bit mad to stick around long enough to see it bloom.
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Update 20250708:
The fediverse added a delay of over a month for this to propagate. I had posted the toot on 20250602 in preparation of a talk¹ on this topic at the #ngiforum25 in Brussels two weeks later, and only got a handful of answers. Now, more than a month later, answers are rushing in!
Thanks everyone!!¹) If you are interested in my talk "Digital Freedom meets Digital Payments", here it is: webcast.ec.europa.eu/ngi-forum…
To all developers of #FOSS:
I'm interested in your experiences and opinions of funding #FOSS. How to maintain freedom and secure financial stability.
Which strategies work, which don't? Like: grants from public institutions, donations from companies, donations from users, subscription models, ad revenue, sponsors, etc. etc.
What are your experiences with those strategies?
And: Do you think an anonymous payment system like #GNUTaler, along with its anonymous subscription service capabilities, could be helpful and to what degree?
What other ideas do you have?
I'm looking forward to answers, comments and shares!
From my perspective, voluntary donations like the #GitHub sponsor functionality do not work.
It's been introduced before M$ took over and few people use it. When it was released, I was really excited and tried it out. Miserably, times changed now.
Maybe it's because devs don't want to support other devs or decision-making power of companies don't care (or know) what software they use.
The general, sad opinion is: "Software has to be free (as in beer), so why pay someone who develops it?"
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Das Bild zeigt eine Stadtstraße mit einem blauen Radweg, der sich durch die Mitte des Bildes zieht. Der Radweg ist mit einem weißen Fahrrad-Symbol und einer Pfeilspur gekennzeichnet, was darauf hinweist, dass er für Radfahrer reserviert ist. Auf der linken Seite der Straße befinden sich mehrere Gebäude mit Backsteinfassaden, darunter Geschäfte und Restaurants. Einige Fahrräder sind an Halterungen entlang der Straße geparkt. Auf der rechten Seite der Straße ist ein Gehweg aus roten Ziegeln zu sehen, und es gibt einige Pflanzen in Blumenkästen. Im Hintergrund sind weitere Gebäude und ein paar Menschen zu sehen, die entweder auf dem Gehweg oder am Straßenrand entlanggehen. Der Himmel ist teilweise bewölkt, und die Straße scheint trocken zu sein.
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Das sind Messdaten von einem Ort Hohenpeißenberg die Mittelwerte eines jeden Jahres.
Das Bild zeigt eine Temperaturverlaufskurve von 1981 bis 2010. Die x-Achse repräsentiert die Jahre, während die y-Achse die Temperatur in Grad Celsius (°C) darstellt. Die rote Linie zeigt die jährliche Temperaturmittel, die im Laufe der Jahre variiert. Ein blauer horizontaler Strich markiert das 230-jährige Durchschnittstemperaturmittel von 6,2 °C. Die Kurve weist mehrere Höhen- und Tiefpunkte auf, mit einem deutlichen Anstieg der Temperatur in den 1990er Jahren. Der Titel "1981 bis 2010" befindet sich oben in der Mitte des Bildes.
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Critical Sudo Vulnerability Affects Linux Systems – Already Patched in TUXEDO OS
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We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing. Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new features—like long-form article publishing and more feed customisations...
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🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 RC2
We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing.Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new features—like long-form article publishing and more feeds customisations, plus plenty of interface refinements for both desktop and mobile.
A huge thank you to everyone who has set up a Bonfire instance, or joined the campground (our local-only testing space) to try out the app. Your suggestions and bug reports have been invaluable as we approach version 1.0. Please keep testing, sharing feedback, and helping us shape the future of federated social spaces!
✨ What’s new and improved?
- Long-form publishing: Going beyond beyond short posts to read and write in-depth articles, ideal for essays, announcements, or detailed content. Article feeds are now available for RSS readers.
- Smarter feeds: New feed options for events, books, and articles help you discover what matters to you most. You can now also filter out your own activities from your feeds when desired.
- Multi-profiles overview: A new navigation menu can display all your profiles with notification indicators, allowing quick profile switching.
- Private by default: New Bonfire instances start as invite-only, giving admins control over membership from day one.
- Interface improvements: We've refined the user experience, enhanced notifications and ensured posts display properly across mobile devices.
- More reliable: Tons of fixes for authentication, media uploads, mentions, moderation, and other core features.
Additional improvements include:
- Better translation and localization workflow
- Smoother OAuth/OpenID login and SSO support
- Updated documentation and guides for admins and contributors
- Enhanced S3 integration for uploads
- Lots of small bug fixes on comment threads, messaging, settings, and more
For a comprehensive list of changes, see the full changelog.
🎪 Community contributions and other initiatives
- We hosted our first install party using coop-cloud, with all participants who followed along successfully deploying their own Bonfire instances.
- Seperately, ozoned from Fireside Fedi livestreamed their installation attempt, surfacing valuable setup challenges. This highlighted the need to simplify Docker deployment and improve documentation. Contributors are welcome to help make this easier!
- Sciety deployed a Bonfire instance as part of their pre-print review project.
- @spark464@spark.box464.social published an article on how to add a weather widget in Bonfire.
🌍 Localisation: Bonfire in your language!
Bonfire Social is built to be diverse and welcoming, which means making it accessible in as many languages as possible. Thanks to our amazing translators, Bonfire is now available in several languages.🏅 Top translated languages
- Portuguese (Brazil): 100% translated & reviewed 🎉- French: 98.9% translated, 69.4% reviewed
- Italian: 96.7% translated, 54% reviewed
- German: 98% translated
- Spanish: 57% translated
- Vietnamese: 20.9% translated, 11.1% reviewed
- ...and several more, including Catalan, Cantonese and Taiwanese.
Want to help Bonfire speak your language? Please join us and make a difference for communities worldwide!
🤝 Help needed
As we push toward 1.0, we're facing some specific challenges where community support and contributions would make a real difference:
- DevOps expertise: We need help streamlining the Docker installation process to make Bonfire more accessible to new users. If you have experience with containerisation and deployment workflows, your contributions would be invaluable.
- Elixir developers: Join us in improving Bonfire's stability and performance. We're focused on eliminating bugs and enhancing the core extensions' reliability.
- Financial support: As a small team of two working full-time on Bonfire, we need community support to sustain development. You can contribute through our Open Collective page.
- Federation testing: We're seeking users willing to set up Bonfire instances and try out federation and interoperability with other fediverse platforms. Your real-world testing helps ensure Bonfire works seamlessly across the fediverse.
- Translation: Please join us or share this with your multilingual friends!
These are our most pressing needs as we approach 1.0. If you can help with any of these areas, please get in touch via the fediverse, Matrix chat, or GitHub. Every contribution, big or small, helps make Bonfire better for everyone.
🙏 Thank you!
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed translations and reviews. You are lighting up Bonfire for people everywhere! Here are some of our awesome translators:> Gilles Dutilh, Ahmad Dakhlallah, Lamparina Coletivo, alan ptm, Antonio Irre, Zulfikar A, CDN, cranio_is_thinking, Steven Bond, Diego KehrleSousa, Vrlo Vazno, Ed, Andrei Guliaikin, Hendra Wahyu T, Hippie Gschpängschtli, House of Olivier EU, Ivan Minutillo, Juan García, Lapineige, Pascal Schmid, Martin Frost, Duy, Mayel de Borniol, Sovversivo Anonimo, Peter Kvillegård, Poesty Li, Sergio Guidoux, Vaclovas lntas, Williams Melgar, and many more!
We really appreciate your work! 💜
And a massive thank you to everyone who contributed code, ideas, testing, translations, and support—including @spark464@spark.box464.social , @tommi@pan.rent, @lechindianer@sueden.social , @fishinthecalculator@bonfire.fishinthecalculator.me , @dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org , @ozoned@social.ozoned.net.
Thanks to those that are taking time to test drive Bonfire on our demo instance and provide feedback, such as @[url=https://pawb.social/u/liquidparasyte]liquidparasyte[/url], @[url=https://chaos.social/users/rincewind]🌈 🇺🇦 Jörg Matysiak[/url], @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/youronlyone]♾️ Yuki (스노 雪亮) 🐬 🦣[/url], @coyote...
Thanks to @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl for supporting the Bonfire development, all our Open Collective donors and our amazing community as a whole.
Bonfire is a collaborative project, and we’re grateful to build it with you .
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- Chat with us on the fediverse: @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe
Let’s light up the fediverse together! 🚀
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