La quarta giornata della Primavera Rumorosa di Extinction Rebellion a Roma, ieri 29 Aprile, comincia con un unicorno di tre metri cavalcato da una sosia
Ieri, in una Roma ancora blindata per i funerali del Papa, un fiume rosso sangue scorre per la città adagiandosi poi con teatrale eleganza sulla statua di
The Bluesky and ATmosphere reports are back after I was occupied last week with the Ahoy! conference about ATProto in Hamburg. It was amazing to meet so many cool people in real life, and share the excitement of working on this network together. There were some great talks, and just being around people who you can talk in-depth about Bluesky and ATProto with is just great. Hoping to see many more ATProto conferences pop up and meet more of you in real life.
A practical note: if you missed the ATmosphere report last week, a reminder that I’m also sending out the reports via email every Friday. This comes with an extra analysis article that’s not on the website, so don’t forget to subscribe!
Bluesky launches a blue check verification system
Bluesky has launched a new verification system for their platform, with blue checkmarks. With the checkmark system, Bluesky selects a few Trusted Verifiers, who can hand out checkmarks. Bluesky PBC will also hand out checkmarks to “authentic and notable accounts”. The main reason for this system’s existence is that the other verification system, using domain names as handles, did not perform well enough. Bluesky PBC says that 270k accounts have set their own domain name as a handle, but not enough high-profile accounts have done so. The other problem with domain names as verification is that many well-known public figures do not have a well-known website. The first organisations that are Trusted Verifiers in the Bluesky app are the New York Times and Wired Magazine.
Bluesky PBC advertises the new checkmark verification system with its Trusted Verifiers as “a healthy digital society should distribute power”. However, it is unclear with the current implementation to what extend power is actually distributed. Bluesky PBC is the one who selects the Trusted Verifiers that can be displayed in their app. In their blog post, they also write: “Bluesky will review these verifications as well to ensure authenticity.” To me, it seems far from distributing power, and can at best be seen as distributing operational work. With Bluesky PBC holding full control of who gets to be a Trusted Verifier, as well as reviewing their output, how much power has Bluesky PBC actually distributed?
The new checkmark verification system is not exclusive to the Bluesky app however, and it is build on an open system. Anyone can create verifications or become a Verifier, as all the data for verification is openly accessible to anyone. The only difference is that verifications that are not made by Bluesky PBC or one of their Trusted Verifiers will not be visible in the official Bluesky clients. Other systems have already sprung up, a new verifier tool by cred.blue allows anyone to easily hand out verifications. The Deer client, which is a fork of the Bluesky client, already allows for anyone to set their own Verifiers as well. I’ll talk more about this in an upcoming article, as what is happening with Deer and verification has some interesting implications on how the network will likely develop.
For now, Bluesky PBC has build a technologically cool system, which also solves a meaningful problem that their app has in the short term. While the way it is currently implemented falls short of the advertised distribution of power regarding verification, the team is clear that this is an early implementation and that the system will evolve later.
Streamplace funding
Some news from streaming software Streamplace:
Streamplace has raised 100k Livepeer tokens, worth around 500k USD, from the Livepeer Treasury to further expand the Streamplace platform. The money will be used to expand the team, enhance infrastructure and build a deeper integration with ATProto, as well as building content moderation infrastructure.
A short explanation of Livepeer, and how it relates to Streamplace. Livepeer is a decentralised network for video transcoding and processing. Transcoding (in this context) processes the video stream to make it accessible in various formats and qualities, so a stream can be viewed both by someone on a slow internet connection in 360p, as well as someone with fast internet in 4K definition. Livepeer is a DAO, with an attached crypto token. Streamplace uses Livepeer for the video transcoding, and because of this integration, which allows the Livepeer network to grow as well, the Livepeer DAO has awarded Streamplace 100k tokens, currently worth around 500k USD. It is unclear to me how the Livepeer token works, with its corresponding tokenomics, and where the value of the tokens is coming from.
Streamplace creator Eli Mellon gave an interview on the devtools-fm podcast where Eli goes into more detail on the background of Streamplace and how the software works.
Two other ATProto apps are working on integration Streamplace. Skylight already announced earlier to be working with Streamplace. At the ATProto conference Ahoy in Hamburg last week Joe Basser, co-founder of the ATProto video platform, announced to be working on livestreaming with Streamplace as well.
Streamplace is hiring a Decentralized Video Protocol Engineer and a Lead Front-End Engineer
An OBS overlay to display Streamplace chat on-stream.
An update on relays and independent infra
Bluesky PBC made some changes to how their relays work, with an update with the unassuming name of ‘Sync 1.1′. The update made it much cheaper to run relays, as they do not have to store data of the entire network anymore. This has made a drastic impact on running relays. Last month, independent developer @futurset up a relay on his own Raspberry Pi. Now Phil, another independent developer, has set up multiple relays and made them publicly accessible. This means that there are now multiple other full-network relays that index the entire network, that are outside of US jurisdiction. Just as importantly, running these full-network relays is cheap, with costs getting as low as 18 USD per month. Feed builder Graze is also creating their own implementation of a relay: Turbostream includes a large amount of extra information in the stream. For example, where Jetstream (a simplified version of a relay) broadcasts a reply, Turbostream broadcasts a reply together with the post that is being replied to, as well as a range of other information. This in turn makes it easier to other parties to build on, as most information needed is already included in Turbostream.
These developments leads to some interested new questions. When it comes to running a relay, technology and costs are clearly not barriers anymore. But what about moderation and uptime guarantees? Is having a relay that many other parties depend on even the right model of the network?
It also calls the model that the Free Our Feeds campaign had in mind, which aligned more with a perspective of expensive and large relays. Today, Free Our Feeds announced that they will donate a 50k USD grant to a new IndieSky Working Group. The IndieSky came out of the second day of the conference, organised by Boris Mann and Ted Han. Mann and Han are behind the ATProtocol Developer Community Group, and also organised the first ATProto conference in Seattle last month. The goal of IndieSky is to “work together on R&D, code, and infrastructure on how and why to run different parts of the ATProto stack”, with more details in the announcement. The first meeting for the working group is on May 8th.
In Other News
The Ahoy! conference for the European Social Web was last week, and as an extremely biased person who helped organise the conference I think it was a great success! Massive shout-out to Sebastian Korfmann who has done an incredible amount of work getting the conference to such a great place, super impressive. During the conference I did some longer video interviews with some of the people in the community, those videos will be released in the coming weeks. The main takeaway for me from the conference was to see the amount of positive energy and enthusiasm in the community. People are aware that they are contributing to a space that has massive potential and is undergoing rapid changes. I’m excited to see more conferences for ATProto, and meet more people from the community in real life, as it has been super great to meet the people at Ahoy!.
Turtleisland.social is a Mastodon server for the North American Native/Indigenous community. They have set up their own PDS server for community members to join Bluesky as well. Community-centered data hosting is one of the possibilities with the PDS system of Bluesky that is mentioned regularly as an option, but has not been borne out much yet. Two other communities are in the process of building out a similar structure: Blacksky is creating their own PDS software for the Black community, and Northsky is building out systems that allow people to easily migrate their ATProto account to a Northsky PDS. It’s worth pointing out here that the early adopters of new technology on social networking are all minority communities. For people building social networks this provides a pragmatic argument (besides the much more important ethical argument) for creating safe digital spaces: the people for whom safety is the most crucial are also the most likely to be early adopters of new technologies.
Not all early adoption is by minority communities: Gander.social is a newly announced social network on ATProto, focusing on the Canadian community. Gander has a lot of plans for features that make it stand out from the Bluesky app. The project is still in development, and it seems once the project gets closer to launch it will become clearer what the ATProto integration will actually entail.
Bluesky has made some changes to their PDS, allowing people to sign up directly for an ATProto account on a PDS without going through the Bluesky app. Link aggregator platform Frontpage is one of the first to take advantage of this, allowing account creation on the Frontpage platform now.
Bluesky PBC is joining Lexicon Community Technical Steering Committee. Bluesky Engineer Bryan Newbold will be the representative. It signals a growing maturity of the ecosystem, that an effort run by the ATProto developer community can come to a place where Bluesky joins the initiative on an equal footing.
Openvibe is a multi-network client that combines someones Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr and Threads accounts into a single app. Their latest update is an customisable For You algorithmic timeline, which combines posts from multiple networks into a unified algorithmic timeline.
Newsletter publishing platform Ghost now has a simple setting to share posts on Bluesky, via the ActivityPub bridge. This was already possible with Bridgy Fed, but that required some manual steps, where it is now a simple toggle setting.
The Links
For the protocol-minded people:
A proposal for private images (not posts!) on ATProto.
Proposal: A Simple XRPC Method for Signing Payloads in ATProtocol
News from Bluesky takes the most popular links on the network and displays them in an interface more like Hacker News.
Bluesky video client Skylight is working on a dislike feature so people can further fine tune their algorithm.
An example of how inauthentic accounts use Starter Packs to quickly build a following and integrate themselves into the network.
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bsky.app login screen at the top right showing account creation changed to turtleis.land Our Bluesky Personal Data Server joins our Mastodon server for a more complete Native/Indigenous social media experience The Bluesky Native community is much lar…
si parla di "metalli rari" e "terre rare" come se fosse la stessa cosa. sono basita. spero che zelensky abbia scritto terre rare, così sarà vincolato a non dare un bel niente a trump. forse trump dovrebbe leggere la tabella periodica degli elementi... e tanti italiani anche.
Uovo è più di un coworking convenzionale: è lo spazio ideale per la presentazione di libri, lezioni, workshop, incontri, servizi fotografici e molto altro.
L'immagine presenta un'atmosfera misteriosa e urbana, con un focus su oggetti che suggeriscono un gioco di ruolo o un'esperienza di gioco. Al centro, in caratteri rossi e bianchi, si legge "SODOMA 2" con la sottotitolo "URBAN GAME" in rosso. Sotto il titolo, si intravede una mano guantata di nero, posata su un foglio di carta beige, con un bastone di legno e un oggetto bianco curvo accanto. In alto a destra, un bicchiere con cubetti di ghiaccio aggiunge un tocco di eleganza. Lo sfondo è scuro e grigio, con un effetto di texture che contribuisce all'atmosfera enigmatica.
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Brain-to-speech interfaces have been promising to help paralyzed individuals communicate for years. Unfortunately, many systems have had significant latency that has left them lacking somewhat in the practicality stakes.
A team of researchers across UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has been working on the problem and made significant strides forward in capability. A new system developed by the team offers near-real-time speech—capturing brain signals and synthesizing intelligible audio faster than ever before.
New Capability
The aim of the work was to create more naturalistic speech using a brain implant and voice synthesizer. While this technology has been pursued previously, it faced serious issues around latency, with delays of around eight seconds to decode signals and produce an audible sentence. New techniques had to be developed to try and speed up the process to slash the delay between a user trying to “speak” and the hardware outputting the synthesized voice.
The implant developed by researchers is used to sample data from the speech sensorimotor cortex of the brain—the area that controls the mechanical hardware that makes speech: the face, vocal chords, and all the other associated body parts that help us vocalize. The implant captures signals via an electrode array surgically implanted into the brain itself. The data captured by the implant is then passed to an AI model which figures out how to turn that signal into the right audio output to create speech. “We are essentially intercepting signals where the thought is translated into articulation and in the middle of that motor control,” said Cheol Jun Cho, a Ph.D student at UC Berkeley. “So what we’re decoding is after a thought has happened, after we’ve decided what to say, after we’ve decided what words to use, and how to move our vocal-tract muscles.”
The AI model had to be trained to perform this role. This was achieved by having a subject, Ann, look at prompts and attempting to “speak ” the phrases. Ann has suffered from paralysis after a stroke which left her unable to speak. However, when she attempts to speak, relevant regions in her brain still lit up with activity, and sampling this enabled the AI to correlate certain brain activity to intended speech. Unfortunately, since Ann could no longer vocalize herself, there was no target audio for the AI to correlate the brain data with. Instead, researchers used a text-to-speech system to generate simulated target audio for the AI to match with the brain data during training. “We also used Ann’s pre-injury voice, so when we decode the output, it sounds more like her,” explains Cho. A recording of Ann speaking at her wedding provided source material to help personalize the speech synthesis to sound more like her original speaking voice.
To measure performance of the new system, the team compared the time it took the system to generate speech to the first indications of speech intent in Ann’s brain signals. “We can see relative to that intent signal, within one second, we are getting the first sound out,” said Gopala Anumanchipalli, one of the researchers involved in the study. “And the device can continuously decode speech, so Ann can keep speaking without interruption.” Crucially, too, this speedier method didn’t compromise accuracy—in this regard, it decoded just as well as previous slower systems. Pictured is Ann using the system to speak in near-real-time. The system also features a video avatar. Credit: UC Berkeley The decoding system works in a continuous fashion—rather than waiting for a whole sentence, it processes in small 80-millisecond chunks and synthesizes on the fly. The algorithms used to decode the signals were not dissimilar from those used by smart assistants like Siri and Alexa, Anumanchipalli explains. “Using a similar type of algorithm, we found that we could decode neural data and, for the first time, enable near-synchronous voice streaming,” he says. “The result is more naturalistic, fluent speech synthesis.”
It was also key to determine whether the AI model
was genuinely communicating what Ann was trying to say. To investigate this, Ann was qsked to try and vocalize words outside the original training data set—things like the NATO phonetic alphabet, for example. “We wanted to see if we could generalize to the unseen words and really decode Ann’s patterns of speaking,” said Anumanchipalli. “We found that our model does this well, which shows that it is indeed learning the building blocks of sound or voice.”
For now, this is still groundbreaking research—it’s at the cutting edge of machine learning and brain-computer interfaces. Indeed, it’s the former that seems to be making a huge difference to the latter, with neural networks seemingly the perfect solution for decoding the minute details of what’s happening with our brainwaves. Still, it shows us just what could be possible down the line as the distance between us and our computers continues to get ever smaller.
Featured image: A researcher connects the brain implant to the supporting hardware of the voice synthesis system. Credit: UC Berkeley
Chatbot Arena is the most popular AI benchmarking tool, but new research says its scores are misleading and benefit a handful of the biggest companies.#News
The image features a cartoon character standing on a sidewalk in front of a red brick wall. The character has a bald head with a few strands of brown hair on the sides, wears black-rimmed glasses, and a blue and black striped shirt. He is holding a microphone in his right hand and giving a thumbs-up with his left hand. His facial expression is cheerful, with a wide smile showing his teeth. To the right of the character, there is a black spider hanging from a web. The background includes green grass on either side of the sidewalk. The overall style of the image is simple and cartoonish, with bold outlines and flat colors.
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Rear-view mirrors are important safety tools, but [Mike Kelly] observed that cyclists (himself included) faced hurdles to using them effectively. His solution? A helmet-mounted dual-mirror system he’s calling the Mantis Mirror that looks eminently DIY-able to any motivated hacker who enjoys cycling. One mirror for upright body positions, the other for lower positions. Carefully placed mirrors eliminate blind spots, but a cyclist’s position changes depending on how they are riding and this means mirrors aren’t a simple solution. Mirrors that are aligned just right when one is upright become useless once a cyclist bends down. On top of that, road vibrations have a habit of knocking even the most tightly-cinched mirror out of alignment.
[Mike]’s solution was to attach two small mirrors on a short extension, anchored to a cyclist’s helmet. The bottom mirror provides a solid rear view from an upright position, and the top mirror lets one see backward when in low positions.
[Mike] was delighted with his results, and got enough interest from others that he’s considering a crowdfunding campaign to turn it into a product. In the meantime, we’d love to hear about it if you decide to tinker up your own version.
You can learn all about the Mantis Mirror in the video below, and if you want to see the device itself a bit clearer, you can see that in some local news coverage.
"Medvedev, Trump ha finalmente costretto Kiev a pagare aiuti" non sia giammai che un paese aggredito venga aiutato semplicemente perché la vittima... i russi soni proprio degli "idealisti".
fra l'altro per certi versi la storia ucraina ricorda molto quella italiana. con popoli stranieri che hanno sempre cercato di soggiogarci. chissà se in caso di successo gli ucraini chiameranno questa una "guerra di indipendenza"
a chi non ha dubbi sulla reale alleanza della russia durante la seconda guerra mondiale, basta ricordare che quella che noi la chiamiamo "guerra di liberazione", viene chiamata invece da chi non sa che farsene della libertà come "guerra patriottica"...
Il Regno Unito ha inaugurato a Southampton il primo impianto europeo per la produzione di semiconduttori su scala industriale basati su fotonica del silicio. La notizia arriva nel pieno del riavvicinamento tra Londra e Bruxelles (che dovrebbe essere
Dal #MIM un augurio speciale di buon #1maggio a tutto il personale della scuola, a chi ogni giorno sostiene la crescita e la formazione di studentesse e studenti con passione e impegno.
Dal #MIM un augurio speciale di buon #1maggio a tutto il personale della scuola, a chi ogni giorno sostiene la crescita e la formazione di studentesse e studenti con passione e impegno.
One might be tempted to think that re-creating a film robot from the 1950s would be easy given all the tools and technology available to the modern hobbyist, but as [Mike Ogrinz]’s quest to re-create Robby the Robot shows us, there is a lot moving around inside that domed head, and requires careful and clever work. The “dome gyros” are just one of the complex assemblies, improved over the original design with the addition of things like bearings. Just as one example, topping Robby’s head is a mechanical assembly known as the dome gyros. It looks simple, but as the video (embedded below) shows, re-creating it involves a load of moving parts and looks like a fantastic amount of work has gone into it. At least bearings are inexpensive and common nowadays, and not having to meet film deadlines also means one can afford to design things in a way that allows for easier disassembly and maintenance.
Robby the Robot first appeared in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and went on to appear in other movies and television programs. Robby went up for auction in 2017 and luckily [Mike] was able to take tons of reference photos. Combined with other enthusiasts’ efforts, his replica is shaping up nicely.
We’ve seen [Mike]’s work before when he shared his radioactive Night Blossoms which will glow for decades to come. His work on Robby looks amazing, and we can’t wait to see how it progresses.
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) È stata identificata un’astuta campagna di phishing che sta prendendo di mira gli utenti di WooCommerce, il popolare plugin di e-commerce per WordPress. L’esca si presenta come un avviso ufficiale di sicurezza, ma nasconde una backdoor
Quinto appuntamento dell’edizione 2025 della Scuola di Liberalismo di Messina, promossa dalla Fondazione Luigi Einaudi ed organizzata in collaborazione con l’Università degli Studi di Messina e la Fondazione
Other official government domains included DinnerForAmerica.gov and TheTrillion.Gov, and signal that there may have been plans to incorporate official government internet infrastructure with the meme coin investment dinner.#News
Il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara si è recato ieri in Liguria per una visita istituzionale sul territorio e per incontrare studenti, docenti e amministratori locali.
Si può raccontarla usando il vocabolario della finanza, correndo però il rischio di non aiutare a capire quel che sta succedendo. Perché l’intrecciarsi delle offerte pubbliche di scambio è naturalmente guidato dalle convenienze e compatibilità finanziarie, ma indirizzate a una risistemazione degli equilibri di potere. Tanto che il governo ha
Sono stati firmati dal Ministro Giuseppe Valditara due decreti finalizzati all’attivazione dei percorsi di specializzazione sul sostegno previsti dal decreto legge 71 del 2024.
Il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara ha inviato alle scuole una circolare relativa alla programmazione delle verifiche in classe e all’assegnazione dei compiti da svolgere a casa.
Il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara ha inviato alle scuole una circolare relativa alla programmazione delle verifiche in classe e all’assegnazione dei compiti da svolgere a casa.
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Il fondatore di WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, ha reso un sentito omaggio a Papa Francesco in occasione delle sue esequie, manifestando rispetto e gratitudine per il Pontefice che, nel corso degli anni, si è interessato alla sua vicenda.
Posts made by a Fosstodon server moderator on Reddit has caused some drama, leading to both Fosstodon admins to call it quits, a number of servers (threatening to) defederate from the Fosstodon server, leading to an uncertain future for the Fosstodon server.
Fosstodon drama
A few days ago someone published a post on Mastodon, with screenshots and links to posts made on Reddit by one of the Fosstodon moderators. In the linked posts, the Reddit account in question, which seemingly belongs to the Fosstodon moderator, holds various right-wing beliefs, ranging from defending the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil to claiming Democrat supporters are in a cult. Backlash to the Fosstodon server was swift and strong, with various calls and plans from other servers to defederate from Fosstodon, members of the Fosstodon server looking for other servers to move their account to, and a general condemnation from the wider community. Both Fosstodon admins have postedarticles declaring they are stepping down, citing not only the current drama as a reason, but that they see the work of being server admins as frustrating with little pay-off. One Fosstodon community member is considering to take over the administration of the server, though as of writing, that process is still ongoing and the outcome unclear.
Some thoughts and takeaways about what this drama says about the social side of federation on the network, and how different communities interact:
When a server moderators holds opinions other people view as problematic, the social cost of these views is partially extended to server users as well. See for example the account for fediverse streaming platform Owncast, which has an account on the Fosstodon server. Owncast says that they are getting messages that say they need to move servers, otherwise people will see them as Nazis. This blog post about another Fosstodon user explains a similar thought process, where it is rational for them to move to a different server, because they will be associated with the politics of the server moderator in question otherwise.
This behaviour has an impact on how people on the fediverse should find an instance they want to join. It turns out that knowing the political affiliations of server moderators is important, and that this is something that people should know about before joining a server. People will be judged for being on a server that has a moderator with toxic political views. As such, it becomes important for people to know this information beforehand: both that they will get judged for the politics of server moderators, as well as knowing what those political views actually are.
This is another indication of why the process of selecting a server when someone joins the fediverse is actually a challenge: important information that should impact server choice is not made available to users, nor is it made clear that this information is important in the first place.
The second takeaway from the situation is that it shows a need for fediverse servers to have a federation policy. How federation currently works on the fediverse is that servers are connected with each other by default, and the assumption is that servers can disconnect from each other for any reason, but will mostly do so only if one of the servers is misbehaving in some way. Freedom of association is one of the valuable features of the fediv erse. Server operators should be free to defederate from any other server, for any reason. Being able to defederate from another server because you strongly disagree with the politics from one of the server moderators is a good thing. But if this is a consistent policy of the server, it would do well to make this policy public and explicit. Servers defederating from each other can have significant impact on users, who suddenly can lose connections with their friends. A policy of defederating from other servers based on the expressed beliefs of server moderators is something that is not immediately obvious to new people joining the fediverse. There are absolutely valid reasons to do so, but it seems to me that formalising such a policy would be a good step towards making the culture on the fediverse more sustainable.
The third takeaway is that running a fediverse server is challenging, especially over longer periods of time. Both Fosstodon admins have called in quits in response to the most recent drama. Their blog posts explaining their perspectives is that this has been a long time coming, and that the Fosstodon server has been uncompensated work that they do not love doing for years now. Regardless of one’s perspective on how the admins handled the latest situation, it is a further indication that being a fediverse server admin is a challenging job, one that should not be expected that someone can do forever. This means that servers like Fosstodon need governance systems that allow for better and earlier rotation of administrative power. Fediverse software should also be better at dealing with the realities of admin burnout. The users who are transferring from Fosstodon to another server will lose their posts; Mastodon does only transfer the social graph, and not posting history. While ideally the majority of servers would have extensive governance systems in place that can help deal with admin burnout, the reality is that most servers do not. More fediverse software should provide better support for users having to move to different servers, including with their posts.
The Links
NLnet, a fund that contributes to many open-source initiatives with a long track record of support fediverse projects, has published the beneficiaries of their latest funding round. PeerTube has gotten another grant, and publisher Framasoft talked about more how the money will be spend in their 2025 roadmap. The other fediverse beneficiary is an OpenScience flavour of Bonfire. Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform with a broad range of features, but the platform has struggled to get to an actual release. Bonfire published a blog post about their ‘road to Bonfire 1.0’ in September 2023, and an update in October 2024 where they announced a bounty program to get contributions to improve performance of the app.
The Doo the Woo podcast, hosted by WordPress ActivityPub plugin developer Matthias Pfefferle, interviewed André Menrath. Menrath is working on a plugin to bring WordPress events to ActivityPub.
The Bad Space is a project where various fediverse servers share their blocklists to build an aggregate of fediverse servers that are potentially worth blocking. The project is now available for self-hosting.
Some new features for FediAlgo, a customisable timeline algorithm for Mastodon, including a ‘What’s Trending’ feature.
A writeup on how to make a blog site using Lemmy as data storage.
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Bonfire is inching ever closer towards a 1.0 release of its social offering, which is a landmark development for the project. But beneath the surface, there's a bigger story going on: rather than simp
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Oltre 22 morti a Jaramana, città a maggioranza drusa attaccata da miliziani delle nuove autorità di Damasco, e in altre località. Tra le vittime anche militari governativi Israele intanto bombarda "in difesa dei drusi" e porta avanti i
Al Wsis+20 si decide il futuro della rete: il modello multistakeholder minacciato da nuove spinte stataliste. L’Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers avverte: senza un “governo” inclusivo si andrebbe verso la frammentazione e il controllo geopolitico
la corea del nord penso sia forse l'unico paese del mondo dove il turista invece di portare ricchezza consuma ricchezza... penso sia il motivo per cui ne autorizzano pochi (ma buoni, per loro).
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Sofo, lei è un uomo di destra: ha co-fondato il think tank IlTalebano.com, è stato eurodeputato della Lega, che poi ha lasciato in occasione della formazione del Governo Draghi, e dal 2021 milita in Fratelli d’Italia. Eppure il suo
@Privacy Pride Il post completo di Christian Bernieri è sul suo blog: garantepiracy.it/blog/fragilit… No, non è Frittole, non è il millequattrocento - quasi millecinque, ma ci assomiglia molto e, mio malgrado, posso dire "io c'ero". Forse mi sto ripetendo perché cito spesso "non ci resta che piangere" ma non trovo nulla di più adatto. Tornando da una lunga…
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Almeno 14 i morti a Jaramana, città a maggioranza drusa attaccata da miliziani delle nuove autorità di Damasco. L'articolo SIRIA. Dopo gli alawiti, ora sotto attacco sono i drusi proviene da pagineesteri.it/2025/04/30/med…
Recently I had a class (at the school of art-therapy I'm currently attending) in the basics of video editing, and of course they had us use Capcut... (for those of you who don't know, it's TikTok's official app, full of AI stuff, social media optimizations, premium features etc...) I've been doing video editing on Linux since 2020 (using Cinelerra-GG), but after this class I've been looking for some "real" (i.e., as close as possible) FLOSS alternative (but w/o all the AI and the bloat) to introduce my colleagues to. I know about desktop alternatives, but here I want to focus on mobile apps (at least on Android). Initially, I really thought there was none (Open Video Editor is of no use here), and the best option would be something like CuteCut, which isn't open source but at least has 0 trackers according to Exodus. Then I stumbled upon LibreCuts. It really seems to be what I'm looking for... except, then I read that it depends on Android Studio and Android SDK. I'm not totally sure what this actually means - is it still in an early phase of development and it will eventually be available as a "normal" app in the store? And in the meantime, what should I do to try it on my phone? I'm tagging @TOV as I reckon they would have some useful insight for me, but anyone who knows better than me please help. I wonder if this may also interest @Daniel Supernault for a collab/integration for the Loops platform? @Signor Amministratore ⁂ @Devol ⁂
The truth is that editing videos on Android is a challenge because users are limited to small screens. Also, the lack of reliable applications do not help users to adequately edit videos on mobile devices.
I tried to discover a workflow for editing videos on Android a long time ago and had no success. Most video editors on mobile devices are limited. Perhaps this limitation is due to the limited processing power mobile devices offer. Because desktop processors have higher clock speeds and fewer power restrictions than mobile devices, applications like 2D and 3D animation, photo editing and video editing are better done on desktop computers.
@TOV Thank you for the reply! Well, this is my opinion, too, but what I'm saying here is that the average users wanting to make a simple, quick edit for whatever reason (from reels to post on social networks, to therapeutical activity, like in my case), really don't care about power or screen size, they just need some app on their phone to edit on the go. This is why I was looking for an alternative, because many people really appreciate CapCut for this reason, so I think it would be nice to have something else to offer them.
@TOV Well, I really wonder whether @Daniel Supernault has any ideas or plans about this (I know he's very busy with all of his projects at the moment, but maybe for the future...). I think this would be much appreciated by #pixelfed and #loops users (CapCut was created for TikTok users after all) 😉
This page is very interesting. According to Google, a video editing application can be implemented using Kotlin or Java. developer.android.com/media/im…
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Menlo Park sfodera l'app Meta Ai compatibile con gli occhiali intelligenti realizzati dal gruppo. Chiara l'intenzione di presidiare tutti gli ambiti utili a potenziare e sfamare i propri algoritmi: via
🚩ATTENZIONE🚩: il 2 maggio è prevista la migrazione di Pixelfed.uno su un nuovo server dedicato![i]
Venerdì 2 maggio, l'istanza Pixelfed.uno verrà spostata su un server più veloce e capiente per sostenere la sua recente crescita(sono stati superati i 500GB di immagini condivise!).
[b]⚠️ Cosa aspettarsi: - Interruzioni durante i lavori (il sito sarà offline alcune ore). - Nessun dato perso: tutte le foto e i profili saranno al sicuro!
Perché la migrazione? 🚀 Pixelfed.uno è la prima istanza italiana pixelfed e la prima consigliata dopo quella ufficiale: pixelfed.org/servers e c'è l'intenzione di mantenerla veloce, gratuita e senza pubblicità
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo L'ex presidente dell’Associazione degli Avvocati Progressisti (ÇHD) è stato scarcerato dopo otto anni di prigione. Ma solo un giorno dopo, lo stesso tribunale che aveva approvato la sua liberazione ha emesso un nuovo mandato di arresto. La sua
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Putin offre una tregua ma martella le linee e le città ucraine, confermando le rivendicazioni territoriali e il no all'ingresso di Kiev nella Nato. La strategia di Trump mostra i suoi limiti L'articolo Ucraina. Il bastone e la carota di Mosca spazientiscono Trump pagineesteri.it/2025/04/30/mon…
Bisogna avere la faccia come il sedere per dire determinate cose. Io non so che posizione abbiano tutti gli altri cittadini europei, ma quelli italiani in larga maggioranza sono contrari ai piani di riarmo guerrafondai di Ursula Von der Leyen. Questa naista dei giorni nostri continua a mentire spudoratamente. Il discorso che ha fatto oggi al congresso del Partito Popolare Europeo sembrava scopiazzato dagli appunti di Hitler a cavallo tra la prima e la seconda guerra mondiale: dobbiamo riarmarci, dobbiamo difenderci, ci vogliono invadere, non bisogna cedere alla diplomazia. Servono armi e guerra per fare la pace. Non sto scherzando! Questa naista del nuovo secolo, sappiatelo, è a capo dell'Unione Europea grazie a personaggi come Giorgia Meloni ed Elly Schlein.
Questa na*ista del nuovo secolo parla di diritto di difendersi ma non dice una sola parola sulla difesa dei Palestinesi contro i terroristi isrl.
Un esperimento “non autorizzato”, condotto dall'Università di Zurigo, ha riempito un subreddit di commenti generati dall'AI
Aspre polemiche sul fatto che i ricercatori dell'Università di Zurigo lo abbiano condotto di nascosto, senza informare i moderatori del subreddit: "L'abbiamo fatto a fin di bene!". Ma Reddit valuta azioni legali.
Ecco quanto è complicato il nostro lavoro. mi riferisco agli informatici.
Ed ecco perché metterci sotto pressione, sottopagati, con carenze di organico strutturali non è mai una buona idea.
Poi, magari le cause del problema non sono state queste ma voglio puntare il dito sul fatto che ormai tutto è informatizzato, anche in sistemi critici. È in questo contesto che va inserito il mio discorso; l'articolo è solo uno spunto.
Le prime conseguenze elettorali del secondo mandato presidenziale di Donald Trump si sono potute osservare nella giornata di lunedì, anche se non negli Stati Uniti e con risultati che hanno evidenziato un’influenza indiscutibilmente negativa.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale “La dichiarazione congiunta che adottiamo conferma la solidità dei nostri rapporti e oggi getta le basi per rafforzare ancora di più il nostro partenariato”. Per Meloni Erdogan è un
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