Last Week in the ATmosphere – Sept 24 week 3
Welcome to this week’s update, with lots of news regarding T&S on Bluesky, managed PDS hosting, and a deeper dive into the Jetstream!
The News
Bluesky released an update on their current efforts on Trust and Safety, listing all the features the team is currently working on. There are quite a few features being worked on that are great (better ban evasion detection, moderation feedback via app), and I want to highlight two of them:
- Geography-specific labels. Bluesky is working to add the ability to remove posts only in certain countries, if they violate local laws but are allowed by Bluesky’s own guidelines. This is a feature that I’ll certainly be writing more about once more about it becomes known, as it poses tons of interesting questions about decentralised protocols and national internet sovereignty. As Bluesky’s own labels can be avoided in an open protocol by running your own infrastructure, it poses the questions of whether people actually do this to circumvent local laws, as well as the extend local governments will accept this (or understand it, to be honest).
- With toxicity detection experiments, Bluesky aims to detect rude replies and potentially reduce their visibility, possibly by hiding them behind a ‘show more comments’ button. It puts Bluesky closer to what other networks are doing, which is hiding bad or spammy comments behind a button you have to click to see. My guess is that Bluesky also eventually will end up in this position, skipping the labeling part altogether.
A report by Brazilian investigative researchers finds that Bluesky is having difficulty moderation CSAM in Portugese, mapping 125 accounts that sell or share CSAM. Bluesky’s head of Trust & Safety already reported in early September that the sudden inflow of new users lead to a 10x increase in reported CSAM, as well as a more general strain on the moderation. Bluesky’s Emily Liu also stated in response to the report: “we’re taking this extremely seriously, and since the recent influx of users started, we’ve hired more human moderators (who are also provided mental health services) + implementing additional tooling that can quash these networks faster and more effectively”.
Bluesky has appointed a legal representative in Brazil, and will make an official announcement in the next few days. X not having a legal representative in Brazil is what ultimately led to a ban on X in Brazil. This week, X finally caved and appointed a representative, and X might become unbanned in the next few days again. It is worth watching how X becoming available again in Brazil will impact the current userbase of Brazilians on Bluesky. While some will undoubtedly go back to using X, the open question is how large this group will be.
In other news
With a maturity of the ecosystem, companies are starting to offer managed hosting of a PDS, both in the US as well as in Japan. It also raises interesting question regarding branding and marketing: both of these services explicitly advertise themselves as offering a Bluesky PDS: while that makes sense from the company’s perspective (very few people will understand what an atproto PDS is), I am entirely unclear if this desirable from the perspective of the Bluesky company.
Last week I wrote about a directory of Brazilian Bluesky accounts, and it turns out there is also a Japanese equivalent: the Bluesky Feeds Navigator lists a large variety of custom feeds (mainly in Japanese) for Bluesky.
Brazilian tech YouTuber Gabs Ferreira interviewed Bluesky engineer hailey about developing on Bluesky, focusing specifically on mobile and React Native (in English). Ferreira interviewed Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee last week, and will talk with Dan Abramov on 26-09.
Altmetric, which tracks engagement with academic research, is working on adding support for Bluesky.
EmbedSky is a new tool to ’embed the last thirty posts and reposts from your BlueSky timeline in your blog or website’. It works with OAuth, which facilitates that the tool can only be used to embed posts from your own account.
On Relays, Jetstreams and costs
Some semi-technical protocol discussion about relays is worth mentioning, since I see people on the other networks talk about it. First, a super simplified description of how atproto works: everyone’s data is stored in a simple database, which does not much else besides storing your data, called a PDS. A Relay scrapes all the PDS’s on the entire network, and turns it into an unending stream of updates, often colloquially called a firehose. An AppView takes all the data from the firehose and makes it presentable for a user (counting all the ‘likes’ on a post, for example).
People on other networks often assume that running a Relay is prohibitively expensive, and it turns out it is not: Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold ran an extra full-network Relay for 150 USD/month, and recently someone confirmed this is still possible after the massive influx of new users.
Relays can be ‘expensive’ in another way though: a lot of the data that goes through a Relay is dedicated to making sure that the data is authenticated. This is the ‘Authenticated’ part in the name ‘Authenticated Transfer Protocol’. However, there are quite some use cases for which it is not necessary to validate every single event that comes through the firehose, such as a simple bot that listens for certain keywords. In that case, they can get by with a simpler version of the firehose.
Two versions of such a simpler version, called a Jetstream, launched this week. Bluesky engineer Jaz released their own version of a Jetstream, accompanying with an extensive blog post in which they describe how it works. They note that this reduces traffic activity by 99%, all while running on a 5$/month VPS. Jaz also says that an official Bluesky version of a Jetstream is coming soon.
Skyware (who recently released a lightweight labeler as well) also has their own version of a Jetstream available as well.
The Links
- Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99%
- A complete and follow-along guide to ‘Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS and using your domain as your handle’.
- Buttondown’s CEO writes about Bluesky.
- Growth of Bluesky also comes with additional needs for protection for the Blacksky community.
- The Government of Brazil now also has their own verified Bluesky account.
- Bluesky could become Brazil’s next big social media platform. It has Elon Musk’s X to thank – Fast Company.
- Frontpage, a HackerNews-like build on top of atproto, now has OAuth login.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to receive the weekly updates directly in your inbox below, and follow me on Bluesky @laurenshof.online.
fwupd 1.9.25: Synaptics, Dell, and Intel Enhancements
fwupd 1.9.25: Synaptics, Dell, and Intel Enhancements
The latest fwupd 1.9.25 firmware update daemon for Linux brings bug fixes and adds newly supported devices.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Probably because your hardware's firmware is up to date or there's nothing available.
It's rare that it's updated.
Check your journal or
systemctl status fwupd.service
fwupdmgr get-history
No problem.
The only reason i know this is because systemd throws degraded warnings because fwupd keeps failing. On several machines. (Because DNS, proxies, VPN, etc.)
In xfce there's a panel tool called genmon I use.
I have 2 specifically for monitoring systemd status
First is just the status
systemctl is-system-running
The other lists the failed units using a script
#!/bin/shfailedd (){ systemctl --failed | grep -o -E "●.{0,35}\<failed" 2>/dev/null }echo $(failedd)
Mint cinnamon has a similar "spice" (panel plugin) that I also use.
Fedify finally reached 1.0.0, its first stable release
Fedify 1.0.0 · dahlia fedify · Discussion #141
Fedify, an ActivityPub framework, has finally released its first stable version, 1.0.0! What is Fedify? Fedify is a TypeScript library that makes it easy to create federated server applications bas...GitHub
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Probably worth putting this in the post description so we don't all need to ask "what's that?"
Fedify is a TypeScript library that makes it easy to create federated server applications based on the ActivityPub protocol.
Keyboard / Mouse Sharing with Arch / Wayland, MacOS, Windows 11 Laptop
TL;DR: Want to use my desktop keyboard/mouse with my Laptop. What software are you using/enjoying? Arch+KDE w/ Wayland will be the main host, main client is Windows 11. Secondary hosts may be Debian and MacOS, same client, but low priority on the Mac.
Hey folks, I'm rearranging some things a bit at home, would love to get some current thoughts on keyboard/mouse sharing over IP (no video).
I have to put up with some tools that don't play nicely with wine/proton, and so my work laptop is a windows device. I'll be controlling that device primary from Arch and Debian, though MacOS is a possibility. I'd like to keep the laptop closed and not add another mouse/keyboard into the mix, so Keyb/Mouse over IP it is.
Here's what I'm looking at, haven't tried them all yet, but looking for opinions:
* Barrier - Dead fork. Hasn't been updated in some time, being superseded by input-leap. Most portions of the project managed by someone who had not been active for a couple years before the Input Leap fork.
* Input Leap - Forked from Barrier at the end of 2021, and nearly 3 years later, no stable binary releases yet. Development seems fairly active, but no binary releases yet doesn't provide a massive amount of confidence that it will be stable. Doesn't mean I won't build and test though.
* Lan Mouse - Seems pretty neat, the lack of input capture on MacOS could create an issue for me in certain situations, but I can work around that if I need to for the rare times I'd need it. Traffic is unencrypted/plaintext. Its entirely local, and I've got more security than most users (and some companies), but still. Probably leading the pack right now.
* Deskflow - Upstream project for Synergy, a rename to differentiate the user project from Synergy. TONS of recent activity, but the switch is very recent. I don't know if there are any binaries built, but its a longstanding project (and like many, many others, I used Synergy before it went commercial, it was nice).
Any other options out there? Good/bad experiences with any of these?
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Fair point, and I'm not entirely against commercial software. Probably easier to deploy to my work laptop too.
Synergy will be on the list
EDIT: May have spoken too soon. No wayland support still it looks like. From what I can see its been on the list since around 9 months ago, was 6 weeks away 5 months ago, but as of today still not available. I'll give it a go just to check, but I don't think libei support will be in until 3.2. Current version up is 3.0.
Edit 2: Usable code is out, so screw it, going to rework the home setup. Worst case scenario I'll keep a spare mouse and keyboard handy for the laptop. Going to start testing out the others in earnest in the meantime once I've reworked my desk (and figured out where the hell I'm putting a 50" monitor that's apparently arriving next week for testing).
Barrier is synergy but no cost
E: It works fine for me across macos, windows and Linux but I don’t use Wayland so that might affect you.
E2 looks like Wayland breaks barrier.
Yeah, Wayland definitely complicates things. I dropped synergy before v2 and no longer being open, v3 is apparently 1 with some GUI on top. I can build v1 (deskflow), as long as they are keeping the main bit underneath open I don't mind supporting them with a $50 one time payment. We will see how it goes though, their Wayland support is still in Dev.
I had expected to see input leap further along since it had been 3 years since the fork (and 2 more years since the maintainer of the repo was active), but it doesn't seem ready for release, as they even recommend sticking with the last barrier release for now according to their readme.
Right now, deskflow/synergy seems the most promising.
I don’t use Wayland for other reasons, but if I did and it broke barrier I’d switch to x11.
Might be worth investigating what you use that is incompatible with x…
Not really an option for me or it would interrupt some other stuff I work on personally. I could make it not my main PC and go back to Debian, but it would also mean less time for me testing my stuff. So I'm more likely to just forget IP keyboard/mouse sharing and stick one of my little keyboards and a mouse there.
The rest of the main use machines are all on what amounts to an overly expensive physical KVM (work stuff freebie), so the only reason to use the software based option is the laptop.
Audio which can be brought out to an amp or into a processor, relay controls, even occupancy sensor support (standard 24v line, works with pretty much anything), ability to set custom edids, and a very capable API on the base, as well as custom packages that can be installed (based around node).
Yeah its a wildly powerful little box. List price is like $2500 or so though!
For the record, you may see some of these show up on ebay or something, they have been discontinued (really they just changed the line, same hardware with more variation and flexibility, which also means more variation in pricing, but also stuff like a transmitter/receiver option).
Since they are discontinued though, some companies may replace soon, so they may show up somewhere for much cheaper.
This is what I've been missing the most since switching to Wayland.
I was testing again yesterday, on Fedora mainly.
lan-mouse is a bit clunky. It requires too many clicks to start on Gnome. bi-directional.
Couldn't get it to work on NixOS but I'm new to it.
Input leap can be finicky to install and set up too, depending on your system. For some reason on my setup it lags a lot, and from time to time I have to reconnect.
They don't give an easy access to builds, but you can find them. It requires to be connected with a GitHub account though.
Definitely clunky on lan-mouse.
I'll give input-leap a check with my gh account logged in, see how it goes - I'm curious if I'll have the same fun with latency. Since its mostly for meeting stuff, a bit of lag is ok, but if its choppy or otherwise severe that could be an issue, definitely....
Since I switched to Wayland, I could not find an alternative for barrier that I used under X. After a lot of search I bumped into a project called rkvm. You can check it out. It is a bit more difficult to setup than barrier but it works pretty well for me.
The only bad thing is that both computers must run linux.
Neat project! I especially like that it goes for raw keycodes, real nice approach.
Unfortunately the Windows support is a hard requirement for me, but hopefully someone else sees and takes advantage
I've been doing something insane that keeps Barrier working. I have Firefox and KeePassXC flatpaks installed and forced to use X11 fallback so they can autotype together. And coincidentally, that means Barrier can mouse off the server screen to the client machine if I have Firefox maximized on that edge. And never any other time. But maybe that's helpful to someone.
This post reminded me how stupid that was. So I installed input-leap on a distrobox arch container. Now it all instantly works. My existing Barrier clients just connected as usual with no tweaks. Apparently it was already installed in Aurora-dx directly, but that version didn't work for some reason. I suppose I'm glad I went the long way and you reminded me to try.
We Finally Know What Creates Static Electricity, After Thousands of Years
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"For the first time, we are able to explain a mystery that nobody could before: why rubbing matters,"
sigh The jokes write themselves. He had to know, when he said that.
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We knew enough to make it extremely useful, but didn't have a full understanding of the underlying mechanics.
Hate to break it to you, but that is how knowledge works. Even things we have an extremely detailed understanding of are likely to have underlying mechanisms we are not aware of.
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Maybe you just went to bad schools?
My experience with science and other teachers of every grade was that they stressed how we make new discoveries all the time.
Maybe I went to bad schools, maybe my country has a dysfunctional education system, but I suspect the matter is widespread because it's way easier to teach factual information rather than dive into the nuances of how confident we are about our explanations.
Some reductive examples: Pluto is / is not a planet, wings work because the path air takes is longer than on the other side, the cause for this war was xyz, you can't subtract below 0 (that's at a very early age of course), this philosopher thought X.
Oh I guess a CRUCIAL one is how most teachers are horribly unfit to answer "Why should I care about this?", but that's beside the point, in a way.
I had wildly different experiences with teachers within my own schools growing up. There was legitimately no standard that valued this kind of nuanced exploration of the world. Just a focus on standardized tests. It was almost entirely on the individual teachers to spend more of their time and effort to go any further than that.
I had some great teachers that made everything interesting and taught us more like the classes I eventually had in college, but I definitely have had more that were like this one math teacher I remember who, when I asked about why we had to do a math problem in a specific way we were learning about, answer something along the lines of “because I say so.”
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There are a ton of things that we know how to replicate and sometimes think we know how they work, but being able to see in more detail or with better pattern recognition can lead to further understanding. The best part is the new understanding can lead to all kinds of possible applications, like being able to regulate static electricity by manipulating surfaces to either increase or decrease the amount created.
Heck, this could possibly lead to lighter materials for electrical insulation if the effects are relevant for electrical conduction in general.
Oh for sure, I fully understand that there are tons of things/mechanics we take for granted every day that we don't actually know how it/they work(s) at the most fundamental level. Static electricity just seemed like a pretty important one that I'd just assumed it was well and thoroughly researched/understood.
Anyway, completely agree with you that this breakthrough is great news and that there are some exciting practical applications that may emerge as a result, particularly the more that model is understood/completed.
Like things we thought we nailed down in the 19th century and haven’t thought to revisit with modern methods and equipment. Then someone decides to look at it again and uncovered a boatload of previously unknown data.
“We thought we understood hiccups, but this changes EVERYTHING!”
(I dunno if hiccups are secretly a scientific black box or not, but you get the idea.)
See also the giraffe nerve that takes a 15 foot detour because it didn't evolve to go on the other side of their hearts. It's theorized to have travelled even further in dinosaurs:
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Top 5 Features Coming to GIMP 3.0
In this video, I provide an overview of the 5 best or most exciting features coming to the highly-anticipated GIMP 3.0 release! These are my 5 favorite new features coming to GIMP 3.0, including non-destructive editing, smart guides, and CMYK support.
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Davies Media Design is a fantastic channel. Additionally here are links from the developers:
- official page for roadmap of GIMP: developer.gimp.org/core/roadma…
- Milestones of the source code: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/…
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this is a gnome project, that's not how it tends to work
closed "Not A Bug" "WontFix"
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For all the shortcomings of AI, and specially of Google's Gemini model, its YouTube integration is really good for this, even more so on Android where you can set it as your default assistant and ask a question about the video you're currently watching without having to switch apps.
Asking for a bullet point list, it gave me this:
- Nondestructive editing
- Dynamic guides or smart guides
- CMYK support
- Outline text
- Multi-layer features and layer sets
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To be honest, complaining that "half of the information" is in a video form is so stupid. Stick to the written sources and be happy that the other half of the information is supplied the way you want it.
Obviously there is a market for video content, and there is probably as many people liking it as disliking it. I am a dyslexictic person that can understand and remember way better when I am spoon fed the information instead of struggle through a long blog post or news site.
Please be open minded that we are different.
Video gets higher engagement. If you want your information to be consumed, video is a better bet.
That will not stop every video from having a top comment complaining about it though.
I prefer written content myself. But, as you say, I am happy for content in whatever form I can get it. I did not pay for it. How it is generated and shared is not up to me.
Soon I hope, we will have a bot that transcribes every video. Then that can be the top comment instead of the endless complaining.
these basic features all seem like they should ve been added 10 years ago
For anyone wanting to play G.A.M.M.A. on linux
GitHub - DravenusRex/stalker-gamma-linux-guide: A guide to getting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - G.A.M.M.A. running on GNU/LINUX.
A guide to getting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - G.A.M.M.A. running on GNU/LINUX. - DravenusRex/stalker-gamma-linux-guideGitHub
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It was dumb luck for myself too, years since I had last played figured I could install through wine.. Anyway stumbled on to this guide.
Be careful out there stalker.
Misstänkt näringspenningtvätt för nära en halv miljard kronor. Ekobrottsmyndigheten (EBM) genomförde under tisdagen den 24 september ett tillslag på flera platser i Stockholm och Lettland.
blog.zaramis.se/2024/09/25/mis…
Nordiska länder har klartlagt onlinebedrägerier. De nordiska ländernas polismyndigheter har kartlagt aktörer som begår bedrägerier på nätet, och tagit fram en plan för att hantera och stoppa dem. Polisen i Sverige kallr det hela för ett krafttag mot onlinebedrägerier. Men hur det skulle vara ett krafttag att kartlägga saker begriper jag inte. Det är möjligen en förutsättning för att det ska kunna blir krafttag mot bedrägeribrottsligheten.
Holy Hell, The Social Web Did Not Begin In 2008
Some folks have gotten themselves together as something they’re calling the Social Web Foundation, and I’ll cut to the chase: this is an attempt by ActivityPub partisans to rebrand the confusing “fediverse” terminology, and in the process, regardless of intent, shit on everything else that’s been the social web going back twenty-five years.
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Applause for the term "pluriverse" (did you coin it?).
And a standing ovation for the alliterative phrase "pluriverse of protocols".
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I don't get that from the article. And I mean it's not a "web" if it's not interconnected, is it?
Things have shifted a bit in the last many years. Now almost no one reads blogs anymore. They want doom-scrolling and interaction. And even the old school nerds moved away from RSS, Mail and IRC. I also liked some Linux forums, but I feel it got more quiet there during the last years. Mostly to the benefit of proprietary platforms like Discord and such. But I don't thing they're very social, as in open and giving freedom to the people...
This Bix guy seems a bit butthurt.
Like, I am sure there are dozens of definitions for what "social web" is and when it began. And that sentence about Evan surely is sus, but is one sentence on one foundations website. I'm still thinking that this foundation will be pretty irrelevant.
it's better than "threadiverse" which at once includes the name of a Facebook product and seems to also give Facebook all the credit for mastodon, Lemmy, pixelfed, peer tube be etc, while also making them appear to be second class citizens.
but I am not endorsing this "social web" thing yet, either.
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Oh no! Somebody organized to further the interests of the free and open internet, and they didn't invite me even though I was active on some IRC channel in 1995!
Cry me a fucking river.
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> However, the Fediverse was never just about ActivityPub
Correct. As those of us who used GNU social 10 years ago will never tire of telling you, it was coined to describe the OStatus network. Once all the software using OS adopted ActivityPub, it came to describe the AP network, and anything hanging directly off it (eg Diaspora).
> ATProto is part of the Fediverse too
No it isn't, because...
> Fediverse software doesn’t speak it.
Same with XMPP, Matrix, etc
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I've never seen anyone try to claim that XMPP is part of email. Or that Matrix is part of UseNet. Even they though these are all federated networks people have used for social purposes.
Yet for reasons I can't fathom, some people insist that new federated social networks that *choose not to use* the common protocol of "the fediverse" are somehow part of it.
Honestly, why?
You might as well call the whole thing Womp Triangle, for all it clarifies matters;
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I'm not an AP partisan. I was using the fediverse - by that name - before AP existed. I will still be here if the majority of software projects migrate to another common protocol.
I'm an evangelist for re-decentralisation. I look forward to a future where BlueSky and Nostr join all the AP projects in one unified social web space, which we might still call "the fediverse". But pretending it's already here, by changing the boundaries of the term, does not automagically make that happen.
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FWIW I've written about the history I lived through in some detail. As have other fediverse veterans, like @deadsuperhero;
scribe.rip/we-distribute/a-qui…
... and Gargron;
blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/…
I first wrote about it in 2017;
socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…
... and then a couple of times this year;
codeberg.org/fediverse/fedipar…
socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…
You are free to disagree, of course. People have done so in heated debates on SocialHub. I just wanted to add my 2c, and some context.
Technically the blog author is right. Sure, the social aspects of the web go back to the very first chat rooms, but okay. Let's set a backstop at web 2.0's blogs. So what is his point, let's burn down this new foundation on a technicality before it gets off the ground?
Also technically, "social web" is super imprecise when clearly the organisation is supposed to promote and highlight federated platforms. Sounds like somebody did a super lazy brainstorm without looking up from their belly button to consider this exact fallout.
I have the feeling the same somebody will be on the market for a new domain name pretty soon.
There's quite a few people who think the social web is a good term for what this is; websites talking to each other, allowing for two-way communication across platforms.
Not everybody loves the word "Fediverse". And then for those who like it, the connotations might be somewhat different.
You can't really do anything right in this field, as there are thousands of people ready to cry their hearts out at any given decision. But calling communication between web platforms the social web is not extremely controversial, and it's a bit easier to sell to a wider audience (government agencies, media outlets, people who don't know what HTML is) than going on an on about some obscure Fediverse. Different uses.
As I’ve only just recently written here, blog comments are not social media, and I think such things should remain separate.
So it's definitely not social media but it is the social web? I don't see any comments section at all over there. Some of these "indieweb" guys are pretty weird.
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Blogs were the social web. Friendster was the social web. MySpace was the social web. Twitter was the social web.
With the possible exception of blogs, these are all walled gardens. I'm not disputing the statement, but we now know these are bad places to grow the Social Web.
(I say possible exception because, while with blogs you can self-host and if you don't want to do that, there are multiple options to choose from, you can still get caught in the trap of trusting one provider and losing everything/getting locked out. Thinking about Posterous here.)
So if not the start date, 2008 is still an important milestone - it's when we started cutting the cord from these walled gardens to grow an independent web.
Experts Say Young People Should Learn to Code so They Can Get a Job 10 Years Ago
Experts Say Young People Should Learn to Code so They Can Get a Job 10 Years Ago
NEW YORK — A recent poll of experts showed broad consensus that learning to code is the easiest way for Americans to remain competitive while…Travis Tack (Hard Drive)
For the first time ever Hezbollah fired a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv, reaching the furthest distance into the occupation to date. David’s slingshot, the Zionists medium tier air defense system, intercepted the missile. Each missile costs the regime one million dollars.
A single one of these missiles from Hezbollah force 1.2 million settlers into shelters. Zionist sources estimate Hezbollah has approximately 5,000 of these missiles.
The previous day, Hezbollah carried out 18 attacks on the entity.
The Resistance group said it targeted the Kiryat Shmona settlement with a barrage of rockets, resulting in fires according to Zionist media. Firefighting teams were dispatched to the area in an attempt to extinguish the fires.
Hezbollah also struck the Meggido military airbase west of Afula – north of Jenin – three times throughout the early hours of the day with salvos of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 rockets.
Additionally, in a strategic operation, the Resistance announced targeting with Fadi rockets the Zionist base, which is the occupation army’s main transport and logistical support base for the northern region.
Around 60 km deep into northern occupied Palestine, in the Zichron area, Hezbollah targeted a factory specializing in producing explosives, with two seperate barrages of Fadi 2 rockets.
The Resistance also announced that it has struck the Ramat David airbase, which has been under repeated Hezbollah strikes over the past two days due its key role in launching the airstrikes on Lebanon.
Furthermore, the group targeted the logistical warehouses of the 146th Brigade at the Naftali base.
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah announced a significant attack targeting the Zionist naval elite unit Shayetet 13 in the Atlit base, located south of Haifa. This marks Hezbollah’s 18th statement on the day’s operations.
The Islamic Resistance underlined that the assault involved a swarm of drones that had struck Zionist assembly points within the base. The Resistance underlined that the UAVs had struck their intended targets.
Hezbollah underlined that the operation was a direct response to the occupation’s aggression on Gaza and Lebanon, stressing that it was in support of the people of Gaza and their Resistance, as well as in defense of Lebanon and its citizens.
The targeted unit is known as the occupation’s elite naval force, ranking as a top-tier special unit within the occupation forces. It is regarded as one of the three most pivotal special forces among the ranks of the occupation, serving a pivotal role in reconnaissance operations.
Zionist media outlets reported that air raid sirens were sounded in both Atlt and Neve Yam, the first time in five years such alarms had been sounded in these areas.
Hezbollah’s drones reached an unprecedented depth within the occupied Palestinian territories, according to reports. The Atlit base, located on the Mediterranean coast, lies 12 kilometers south of Haifa.
This attack follows a series of similar high-profile operations conducted by Hezbollah in northern occupied Palestine, most notably the missile strike on the Samson base using the newly inaugurated Fadi-3 rockets, which saw the light of day following the recent outbreak of hostilities.
Hezbollah launched 50 rockets targeting the Dado base, the headquarters of the Northern Command, and the Gesher HaZiv settlement with multiple rocket salvos.
Prior to this, Hezbollah also shelled the Rosh Pina settlement and fired dozens of missiles at the main storage facilities of the occupation’s Northern Command in the Nimra base, as well as the HaGoshrim and Katzrin settlements with rocket barrages.
The military spokesman confirmed that 300 rockets had been launched from Lebanon toward northern occupied Palestine on Tuesday alone. Zionist media described the barrage of rockets over Safed as “chaotic.”
Despite heavy Zionist bombardments of villages in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, Hezbollah has continued to expand its missile strikes deeper into Israeli-occupied territories.
Inauguration of Fadi-3
Hezbollah announced on Tuesday that it had launched Fadi-3 rockets at the Samson base. In a statement, Hezbollah explained that the Samson base serves as a command and regional equipment center.
This marks the first deployment of the Fadi-3 rocket in the ongoing war, striking the Samson Remote Controlled Weapon Station (RCWS) near the Golani Junction, west of occupied Lake Tabarayya.
The Samson base is located approximately 35 kilometers from the Lebanese border.
Zionist sources further noted the sounding of sirens across northern occupied Palestine, with Hezbollah firing 105 rockets toward the region in an hour and a half.
These strikes follow a series of earlier operations by Hezbollah, including the bombardment of the Eliakim military camp, located south of Haifa, with Fadi-2 rockets.
Iraqi Resistance escalates
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced it launched a drone strike on a target near the Jordan Valley in their occupied territories on Wednesday.
In a statement, the resistance movement emphasized that this target was in response to the ongoing massacres perpetrated by the occupation entity against Palestinian civilians—including children, women, and the elderly—the group vowed to intensify operations against enemy strongholds, pledging to escalate their efforts in defense of Palestinian rights and sovereignty.
Zionist media reported that the drone targeted Ramon Airbase and air defenses failed to intercept it.
In another operation, the resistance announced that it targeted a site in the northern occupied territory with an al-Arqab missile (a developed cruise missile).
This comes after the resistance announced early Monday that its fighters targeted “a Golani Brigade observation base in our occupied lands using drones.”
In a statement, the group affirmed that the operation comes “in continuation of our resistance against the occupation, in support of our people in Palestine, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity against civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.”
The Iraqi Resistance underlined that it will continue to “strike enemy strongholds with increasing intensity.”
The operation came a few hours after the Islamic Resistance in Iraq confirmed it had targeted an Israeli site in the Jordan Valley, east of occupied Palestine, using the al-Arfad drone, marking the fifth attack on Sunday.
Palestinians continue attacks in West Bank
The al-Quds Brigades – Jenin announced on Tuesday that its fighters had targeted occupation forces storming the town of Al-Yamun, located northwest of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, with pre-planted explosive devices.
The Palestinian Resistance group also stated that “it showered” the storming Zionist forces with gunfire.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced they confronted the occupation forces in several areas in the West Bank.
Also in al-Yammoun, the Resistance’s group Jenin Battalion said they confronted the “invading ‘Israeli’ forces using machine guns and explosive devices.”
In Nablus, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades confirmed they engaged in fierce battles with the occupation at the Askar New Camp, east of the city, using machine guns and explosive devices.
In the south of Tubas, the Brigades said they confronted the occupation forces in the town of Tammun using machine guns.
Zionist forces withdrew from Nablus on Sunday
On Sunday, reports state that in the West Bank the occupation withdrew from the city of Nablus after a covert special unit was exposed during its operation.
Field sources in the West Bank reported that Resistance fighters from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades successfully destroyed a vehicle used by the special forces during their infiltration into the center of Nablus.
The Resistance group announced that its fighters engaged in intense confrontations with machine guns and explosive devices against a special Israeli force that had infiltrated the Old City of Nablus.
The group affirmed that they successfully inflicted direct casualties on the special forces during the confrontation, emphasizing the effectiveness of their strikes against the infiltrating unit.
Since October 7, 2023, alongside its war on the Gaza Strip, the occupation army and settlers have intensified their attacks on the occupied West Bank. These aggressions have resulted in the martyrdom of at least 716 Palestinians, over 5,500 injuries, and the arrest of more than 10,800 people, according to official Palestinian institutions.
The occupation is waging a devastating war in Gaza with full US support, leading to over 136,000 Palestinian casualties, including a significant number of children and women. Additionally, more than 10,000 people are missing, while the region suffers from massive destruction and an ongoing siege.
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The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine called, in a statement issued by it, on the masses of our people in the West Bank, with their national forces, social sectors, and popular movements, to continue popular mobilization and take to the streets to express their outrage and anger against the ongoing war of destruction and genocide that has extended to our beloved Lebanon and its brotherly people, aiming to weaken the support front for the Palestinian resistance, which has continued to engage with the enemy and exhaust it as long as it persists in its aggression and brutal war against our people in Gaza and the West Bank.
The Islamic Resistance Front praised the valiant resistance and the spirits of the hundreds of martyrs who rose in their steadfastness and firm stance, in the courageous and painful response to the enemy, defending Lebanon, its people, and its land, while continuing to support the Palestinian people and their resistance against the ongoing genocide war, amid the international community’s and Security Council’s inability to stop it.
The Democratic Front held the full responsibility for the continuation of the war and aggression, and the serious risks it poses of turning into a regional war, to the American administration, the actual partner in the genocide war.
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That's fantastic news, but one piece worth noting... The "Nazca Lines" is not a monolith. There are at least TWO known cultures who contributed to this World Heritage Site:
The Nazca (obviously), but also their ancestors, the Paracas. Possibly the Topará as well.
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This is what AI should be used for. There's another great article on the same site about using AI to find qanats too which was fascinating.
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God everyone really is copying breath of the wild.
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This shit is actually super fucking cool.
Hallucinations are an issue for generative AI. This is a classification problem, not gen AI. This type of use for AI predates gen AI by many years. What you describe is called a false positive, not a hallucination.
For this type of problem you use AI to narrow down a set to a more manageable size. e.g. you have tens of thousands of images and the AI identifies a few dozen that are likely what you're looking for. Humans would have taken forever to manually review all those images. Instead you have humans verifying just the reduced set, and confirming the findings through further investigation.
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There's a difference between source available and open source. For example, actually being allowed to distribute modified versions is pretty damn important:
Restrictions
- No Distribution of Modified Versions: You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whether in source or binary form.
- No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software.
- Official Distribution: Only the maintainers of the official repository are allowed to distribute the software and its modifications.
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The official open-source definition expects more freedoms that just being able to see the source: the whole point of having the source isn't transparency, it's freedom. Freedom to fork and modify. Freedom to adapt the code to fix it and make it work for your use case, and share those modifications.
This doesn't let you modify the code or share your modifications at all.
Everyone has a different opinion on what that means, some people get really angry when you don't use their (or some other group's) explicit definition of the term "open source" that nobody actually owns. If they want it to mean something really specific, they should use a registered trade name with a defined meaning. But that usually implies some kind of capitalism at work, which most FOSS zealots are very much against.
In the end, nobody wins...
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People often use the OSI’s Open Source Definition when using the term “open source”.
Which is one of the possible definitions. Mine is "you can see the code". Everything else falls into "free software".
opensource.stackexchange.com/q… has a discussion about this.
The short story is that the OSI failed to obtain a legal trademark in the US for the term "open source" (software), resulting in many opportunistic companies and individuals adopting the term popularized by the OSI (which was founded by Eric Raymond, Michael Tiemann and Bruce Perens).
There was controversy at the time due to it being a business-friendly spin on the ideological "free software", and I personally avoided using the term for many years as a result. Even without a trademark on the now generic term of Open Source, there is still value in the OSI brand and its stamp of approval on a license.
Those who want to be crystal clear, should probably always say OSI Approved Open Source License.
Now, I'm off to have a Nescafé Approved Coffee.
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If your goal is to ever talk to people about open source software, that’s going to create a lot of unnecessary confusion.
I guess that my definition of open source is not that uncommon, given that the terms "free software" and "libre software" exist and are rather well-established by this point.
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in reply to Laurens Hof • • •>Bluesky is working to add the ability to remove posts only in certain countries, if they violate local laws but are allowed by Bluesky’s own guidelines
This seems like a bug, not a feature.
Will they be stopping posts about the Tiananmen Square massacre being seen in China? Or the truth about the invasion of Ukraine being seen in Russia? Or about the ICC agreeing that the IDF is committing genocide in Gaza being seen in Israel or the US?
#censorship
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in reply to Strypey • • •> Bluesky aims to detect rude replies and potentially reduce their visibility, possibly by hiding them behind a ‘show more comments’ button
Let me guess. They're planning to use a Trained #MOLE for this, right?
Instead of doing what Slashdot pioneered, what Minds does, and what dReddit essentially does, which is harvest the wisdom of crowds by exposing rating/ flagging controls to readers. Then having human mods review the outcomes for balance.
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in reply to Strypey • • •> Bluesky is having difficulty moderation CSAM in Portugese
Which is an example of why fediverse moderation structure has always been more responsive than any centralised system.
The more accounts are spread across many small servers, the more the number of mods tends to scales with the number of new accounts. If Brazilian people who post in Portugese are (mainly) on Brazilian-run servers, with Portugese speaking mods, this language headache takes care of itself.
#moderation
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in reply to Laurens Hof • • •> Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold ran an extra full-network Relay for 150 USD/month, and recently someone confirmed this is still possible after the massive influx of new users
I'd love to see an apples-with-apples comparison with the cost of running an AP relay, and how this scales as the number of accounts being proxies increases.