Thousands of Linux systems infected by "perfctl" malware since 2021
TLDR: perfctl is a crypto mining and proxy jacking malware that exploits about 20’000 common missconfigurations to install itself on Linux servers. Mostly using a 10/10 CVE on Apache RocketMQ.
It is very persistent and can reinstall itself even when you have deleted all the perfctl and perfcc files. It hides itself by removing logs, network packets, and stopping all activity once you login to the machine.
Monitoring cpu usage using tools (I use net data on my server) can help identify infections (100% cpu usage when « idle »).
Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021
The ability to remain installed and undetected makes Perfctl hard to fight.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
I'm confused trying to get SCALE to work
Hi, I'm trying to get SCALE to work but I'm so confused by what they mean by PATH and I'm stuck.
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I'm at the CMAKE step.
This is the official guide I'm following. I do understand what they mean by SCALE_PATH though as that is clearly explained but PATH is just very vague to me or I'm just misunderstanding it completely.
PATH is a shell variable that defines where stuff can be executed from without writing their absolute path.
So the export PATH command just adds the scale stuff to the path.
I'm fine with RTFM but I had no idea PATH is a global variable and I assumed it's telling me to specify path to something. So I had no idea I need to RTFM because I did not RTFM to understand that I need to RTFM. After the first reply pointed me the right direction I managed to make sense of it. Though english is not my first language and some of the terms are just over my head so I had to RTFM with dictionary which took a lot of time for me to finally understand because I was doing another thing wrong on top of that which specifically was
I had to do ~/SCALE_PATH instead of the confusing example of $(SCALE_PATH} as trying nvcc --version did absolutely nothing even though the path was correct
I've been on Linux since April so I've stumbled a lot but got many things to work, it just takes me a lot of time to get trough it and I've really stumbled on this one. Getting ROCM to work was a breeze and most recently getting PyTorch with ROCM to work for AI generative models on AMD. I've also finally started to tinker with toolbox a lot more and finally understand the benefits of it.
Explaining like you are 5:
If you have worked with programming languages, you might have come across global variables and inbuilt functions/keywords. PATH is a similar global variable for your terminal session.
Every time you open up a terminal, you load up these "global variables", and you/programs can access them (or the applications assigned to them).
So, let's say you have your application (executable) as /home/werecat/corncob/bin/corn, instead of starting it with ./home/werecat/corncob/bin/corn ..., if you have /home/werecat/corncob/bin in your PATH variable, you can just use it as corn ....
export PATH="/home/werecat/corncob/bin:$PATH"just means:
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PATH = /home/werecat/corncob/bin + PATH2. persist (export) path for the duration of this session (usually until you close the terminal tab)
If you see somewhere to add it to your /home/werecat/.bashrc file, it means "all commands in .bashrc file are auto-executed every time you start a new terminal session, so if you have it there, you won't need to manually keep entering the command over and over again".
You can list these environment variables by just running:
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Hope this helps. Good luck on your Linux journey.
Thanks. That's a good ELI5. Fortunately I managed to make sense of it before your reply but the link to environment variables is highly appreciated. As I already replied to someone else, I had no idea PATH was a global/environment variable and just assumed it's telling me to specify path so I had no idea I need to RTFM as it confused me greatly and on top of that I did another mistake which confused me even more when I finally managed to get it to do correctly which made me think I am doing it wrong.
I gave up at CMAKE finally as I really need to RTFM more on that as it started to throw many errors at me.
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North Atlantic Fishing Co Ltd är den enskilt största innehavaren av pelagiska fiskerättigheter i England och en av de största i Storbritannien. Det är ett företag som helt ägs av den stora nederländska fiskerikoncernen Cornelis Vrolijk.
Mycket allvarligt att Dadgostar hotar med uteslutning. Nooshi Dadgostar har uttalat sig i Göteborgs-Posten. Det är utifrån uttalandet uppenbart att hon har tappat kontakt med verkligheten i sin privilegierade tillvaro som partiledare och riksdagsledamot.
Tre personer misstänkta för mordet på C. Gambino. Den 4 juni mördades rapparen C. Cambino i ett parkeringshus på Selma Lagerlöfs torg i Backa. Efter några dagra greps två män som senare blev häktade för medhjälp till mord.
Hezbollah fighters have fiercely repelled all Zionist attempts to cross in Lebanon’s territory on Thursday, with Islamic Resistance heroes turning the border area with occupied Palestine into a graveyard for the Zionists.
An Islamic Resistance battlefield source stated that so far, all Zionist attempts to infiltrate into the Lebanese territory have failed, and that Hezbollah fighters have inflicted heavy losses upon the Zionist troops.
“Hezbollah fighters have repelled all Zionist attempts to advance in several axes in southern Lebanon,” the source told Al-Manar, noting that the resistance fighters have employed different kinds of weapons.
“Resistance’s pre-prepared ambushes are inflicting heavy losses on Zionist soldiers,” according to the source.
A field officer in the operations chamber of the Islamic Resistance stated: “The explosives detonated by the fighters of the Islamic Resistance today, Thursday, October 3, 2024, against the ‘Israeli’ elite forces that attempted to advance in the outskirts of the towns of Maroun al-Ras and Yaroun resulted in the deaths and injuries of more than 20 officers and soldiers. These explosives were recently planted based on the monitoring and tracking of the enemy’s movements by the fighters, with some being planted just hours before the detonation.”
The officer added that the fighters of the Islamic Resistance managed to plant these explosives along potential advance routes of the enemy’s elite soldiers at the Lebanese-Palestinian border. This occurred amid the mobilization and buildup of Zionist enemy forces at their positions and military barracks across the border, alongside the heavy presence of reconnaissance aircraft in the skies over the area.”
Operations
Hezbollah’s Military Media has published so far on Thursday 21 statements that give details on the Islamic Resistance fighters acts along the border with occupied Palestine.
Shortly after midnight, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers at Hanita, at 01:15 on Thursday, the first statement read.
Later at 02:00, the Islamic Resistance fighters hit Israeli repositions at Mesgav Am with a barrage of rockets, achieving a direct hit, according to the second statement.
Another barrage of rockets was fired by the Islamic Resistance fighters, targeting a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers at Yir’on at 03:10, the third statement read.
Later at 09:05, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli
Operations
Hezbollah’s Military Media has published so far on Thursday 21 statements that give details on the Islamic Resistance fighters acts along the border with occupied Palestine.
Shortly after midnight, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of soldiers at Hanita, at 01:15 on Thursday, the first statement read.
Later at 02:00, the Islamic Resistance fighters hit Zionist repositions at Mesgav Am with a barrage of rockets, achieving a direct hit, according to the second statement.
Another barrage of rockets was fired by the Islamic Resistance fighters, targeting a gathering of enemy soldiers at Yir’on at 03:10, the third statement read.
Later at 09:05, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers at Kfar Giladi with a barrage of Falaq rockets, the fourth statementread.
Falaq rockets was also employed against Zionist gathering in Ramim Barracks at 09:15, according to the fifth statement.
Simultaneously, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering in Mesgav Am forest with a barrage of rockets, the sixth statement read.
Then at 10:15 on Thursday, the Islamic Resistance fighters repelled a Zionist attempt to advance at Fatima Gate, the seventh statement read, noting that the fighters employed artillery shells.
At 10:45, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of soldiers stationed between Shtula and Al-Raheb with a barrage of rockets, the eighth statement read.
Al-Raheb site was a scene for another rocket strike, this time with Burkan rocket, when the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of soldiers at 11:00, according to the ninth statement.
Another gathering was targeted at 11:30 in the settlement of Adamit with a barrage of rockets, the tenth statement read.
Also at 11:30 Al-Raheb site was targeted a new with artillery shells, the eleventh statement read.
Later at 11:40, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the occupied city of Tiberias with a barrage of rockets, according to the twelfth statement.
The Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at 12:20 gatherings of Israeli soldiers in Sa’sa’ settlement with a barrage of rockets, the thirteenth statement read.
The fourteenth statement mentioned that the Islamic Resistance fighters repelled a infantry force which tried to infiltrate into the border town of Maroun Al-Ras. The resistance fighters detonated two explosive devices as the Zionist force attempted to infiltrate into the area, according to the statement.
At 12:45, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of soldiers east of Sa’sa’ settlement with Falaq rocket, the fifteenth statement read.
Simultaneously, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of soldiers west of Sa’sa’ settlement at 12:45 with a barrage of rockets, according to the sixteenth statement.
Later at 13:00, the Islamic Resistance fighters hit a gathering ofsoldiers at Shomera with a Falaq rocket, the seventeenth statement mentioned.
The Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering stationed in the occupied Palestinian town of Al-Bassa with a barrage of rockets at 13:10, according to the eighteenth statement.
Later on Thursday, the Islamic Resistance fighters hit a gathering in Avivim settlement with a salvo of rockets, the nineteenth statement read.
Hezbollah Military Media also announced that the Islamic Resistance fighters ambushed a Zionist unit from Golani Brigades in Maroun Al-Ras.
“The resistance fighters detonated an explosive device as the Zionist unit attempted to sneak from the western side of the village,” the twentieth statement read, adding that heavy losses were inflicted upon the Israeli force.
Another infiltration attempt was repelled on Thursday, this time in the border town of Yaroun.
“The Islamic Resistance fighters detonated a Sijjeel shell as an infantry unit tried to infiltrate toward the village’s cemetery,” the twenty-first statement read.
At 15:05, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Merkava at Netu’a with a guided missile, the twenty-second statement mentioned.
Later on Thursday, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Zionist gathering near the outskirts of Adaisseh border village with a barrage of rockets, the twenty-third statement read.
Hezbollah Military Media’s twenty-fourth statement stated that between the dawn and noon on Thursday, the Islamic Resistance fighters detonated four explosive devices targeting soldiers in Yaroun and Maroun Al-Ras.
According to the twenty-fifth statement, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Sakhnin military industries base in Acre Bay with a salvo of rockets at 4:40 PM on Thursday, October 3, 2024.
The twenty-sixth statement noted that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of enemy forces in Kfar Giladi settlement with a rocket salvo at 5:45 am on Thursday, October 3, 2024.
The twenty-seventh statement maintained that the Islamic Resistance fighters bombarded the site, settlement, and orchards of Al-Metula at 06:15 pm on Thursday, 3-10-2024, with 100 Katyusha rockets and 6 Falaq rockets.
The twenty-eighth statement pointed out that the Islamic Resistance fighters bombarded the occupied city of Safed with a salvo of rockets at 7:00 pm on Thursday, 3-10-2024.
The twenty-ninth statement mentioned that Hezbollah fighters struck a gathering of occupation soldiers in Avivim settlement with a missile barrage.
The Operations Chamber of the Islamic Resistance confirmed, on the basis of its reliable field and security sources that 17 soldiers and officers were killed during Thursday’s border battles, according to the thirtieth statement.
The thirty-first statement indicated that the Islamic Resistance fighters bombarded Al-Baghdadi occupation site a salvo of rockets at 10:20 pm on Thursday, 3-10-2024.
According to the thirty-second statement, the Islamic Resistance targeted Al-Thughra and Khalet Al-Khanafer areas in Odeissah outskirts with a missile barrage at 09:50 pm on Thursday, 3-10-2024.
Islamic Resistance targeted Al-Thughra and Khalet Al-Khanafer areas in Odeissah outskirts with a missile barrage at 01:00 pm on Thursday, 3-10-2024, according to the thirty-third statement.
The thirty-fourth statement assured that, in defense of Lebanon and its people, and within the framework of the ‘Khaibar’ operations series, and in response to the targeting of civilians and the massacres committed by the Zionist enemy, and in answer to the call of ‘Labbeik ya Nasrallah’ [Here I am, at your service O Nasrallah], the Islamic Resistance launched a salvo of Fadi-2 rockets targeting “Nasher” Base east of Haifa.
The same statement underlined that the Islamic Resistance will continue to be present and ready to defend our country and our oppressed people, and will not hesitate to fulfill its duty to deter the enemy from its arrogance and oppression.
The statements stressed that the operations were “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in solidarity with their brave and honorable Resistance, in defense of Lebanon and its people and in response to the barbaric Zionist transgression of cities, villages, and civilians.”
Videos circulated by Zionist media showed helicopters flying towards the border with Lebanon in a bid to evacuate Israeli casualties.
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Notcurses ii - A different TUI library [demo video]
I've remembered this exists and there seems to be some very recent activity in the repo so if you didn't know what was possible with TUI graphics now you know! (recommended watching with sound :)
Official site: notcurses.com/
Repo: github.com/dankamongmen/notcur…
PS: dank (the guy behind it) is definitely one of a kind, just read the releases haha
PPS: here is a doom running through notcurses in the terminal:
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Current state of Intel 13/14th gen CPUs?
Hello,
I think everyone here is already aware of the current problems regarding Intels 13/14th generation CPU-chips.
If not this
article
should explain your questions.
Since Intels new ucode update came and went,
I was looking for an update on the situation and wanted to ask you (the users) for your experience using an Intel 13/14th gen CPU.
Are you still facing issues regarding degradation or are there any other issues potential users should be aware of?
Thanks in advance :)
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Their latest microcode update from 7 days ago was declared as final. Time will tell about the efficacy of the most recent fixes.
Unfortunately it may only be available via board partners as beta BIOS updates at present.
0x129 (plus turning off XMP) was enough to stabilize my 13700KF for now, and hopefully 0x12B will be the final nail in the coffin for continued degradation.
However, polling users here for experiences isnt going to give a good perspective on how the CPUs are actually doing. Until it's pretty far gone users may not even notice, and the small sample size of folks who'll reply here is probably not going to accurately reflect the actual state of the CPUs.
Level1techs has done some really good work investigating this at large scale on datacenters, and the takeaway there is that these problems are going to take a while to show, so its generally not a good idea to buy these CPUs til 0x12B has been out for a few months and we know the effects, at which point Arrow Lake will probably be a better option.
tl;dr if you're going to buy right now, buy AMD 7000, but if you're willing to wait til February or so, it'll be a decision between the new gen of Intel CPUs and current AMD CPUs (only 9000 series will probably be available by then).
Congressman Hank Johnson: It’s time to shut down BioLab
From Decaturish:
DeKalb County, GA — U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson is calling for the closure of BioLab, a chemical plant in Rockdale County that recently caught fire. The fire triggered a sprinkler system. The sprinkler water mixed with chlorine, a water-reactive chemical, allegedly creating a plume over the plant, WABE reported. Rep. Johnson said it’s time for BioLab to […]
https://decaturish.com/2024/10/congressman-hank-johnson-its-time-to-shut-down-biolab/
Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance
Google's latest flagship smartphone raises concerns about user privacy and security. It frequently transmits private user data to the tech giant before any app is installed. Moreover, the Cybernews research team has discovered that it potentially has remote management capabilities without user awareness or approval.Cybernews researchers analyzed the new Pixel 9 Pro XL smartphone’s web traffic, focusing on what a new smartphone sends to Google.
“Every 15 minutes, Google Pixel 9 Pro XL sends a data packet to Google. The device shares location, email address, phone number, network status, and other telemetry. Even more concerning, the phone periodically attempts to download and run new code, potentially opening up security risks,” said Aras Nazarovas, a security researcher at Cybernews...
... “The amount of data transmitted and the potential for remote management casts doubt on who truly owns the device. Users may have paid for it, but the deep integration of surveillance systems in the ecosystem may leave users vulnerable to privacy violations,” Nazarovas said...
https://cybernews.com/security/google-pixel-9-phone-beams-data-and-awaits-commands/
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Scientists Decode Key Mutation in Many Cancers
UChicago scientists decode key mutation in many cancers
Finding points to expanded role of RNA in human gene expressionmheslinga (University of Chicago)
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feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance
There used to be a Kbin instance called feddit.online, which was shut down. @Jerry@hear-me.social just announced on Mastodon, that he brought feddit.online back to life, this time using PieFed. PieFed is a pretty neat alternative to Lemmy and Kbin/Mbin, created by @rimu@piefed.social and of course it's fully free and open source on Codeberg: codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
It has some cool features like “Topics”, which are basically groups of multiple communities that you can view all at once (similar to these Lemmy feature requests: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu… github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/i…).
Want a piece of PieFed? I'm now running a PieFed instance: feddit.onlineA long time ago I had a #KBIN instance, feddit.online. KBIN is part of the "threadiverse", a Reddit replacement.
When KBIN was abandoned, I shut it down. KBIN became #MBIN and Jerry Bell opened a fantastic MBIN instance, fedia.io, to go along with the mother ship instance. I didn't see a reason to open yet another MBIN instance. So feddit.online remained parked ... until now.
Ending its time in beta, there is a new #Reddit #Fediverse replacement, #PieFed, which is similar to MBIN in how it works, but is built with different technology.
While MBIN is mainly written in PHP and Node, and uses RabbitMQ for queuing, PieFed is written using Flask/Python, with Celery for queuing.
I'm much more familiar with Python than PHP, and so PieFed is particularly interesting to me. I might even be able to contribute to the project someday when I get through learning the codebase and learning Flask.
More information about PieFed is here: join.piefed.social/features/ and blog.elenarossini.com/the-futu…
Want to play with PieFed?
feddit.online is available now. Registration is immediately available while I'm available to watch, but restricted when I'm not watching. If restricted, you just need to give a quick reason for joining and then be patient.
Also, some email providers have an issue with email addresses ending in .social, especially that come from a mail server hosted on Digital Ocean. If joining, check your spam filter and white list notitifications@feddit.online
Remember, it's beta. So there may be issues and there may be downtime at times to address upgrades and what not. Also, I've been so busy bringing up the server that I haven't had a chance to learn everything yet about it, so I may not have answers to questions.
It seems to run efficiently, but I'm unsure if I sized the server optimally. I will grow it if need be.
Welcome to anyone interested in checking out PieFed!
@mastodonmigration @jerry@infosec.exchange @rimu @_elena
#Fediverse #Lemmy
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Great news!
Edit : sad to see the first comment being really negative
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This is good news that the instance is back up again. But as an Outsiders pov, I'm going to be super hesitant on wanting to interact with the instance since it's already proven to be shut down once.
Being said, I love to see people monopolizing on better technology that have more feature sets, and honestly it looks pretty dang cool
That's great!!
I love PieFed - hopefully this instance will be a success! It's nice to see something other than the flagship. PieFed seems pretty flexible, so it'll be fun to see what another instance makes of it.
I would warmly recommend checking it out!
(That's feddit.online and piefed.social)
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Good to see another public PieFed instance. Any idea if this one allows subscribing to NSFW communities? They're entirely blocked by piefed.social, unfortunately.
Nothing against @rimu (or any other individual admin) for not wanting to deal with having NSFW content cached on his server, but I find the collective prudishness of the threadiverse disheartening. I think it hinders our growth, and fosters a worse culture overall. It's kind of ironic that Reddit, for all it's other flaws, is more sex-positive than the threadiverse is.
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Filtered word: nsfw
It's not that I want the threadiverse to deliver porn to me. I'm capable of finding that myself. It's that I like sex-positive culture and think it's a good thing for humanity overall.
As I noted, my complaint isn't about any specific instance admin. Individually, no one should be required to host or cache anything that they don't want to. However, the overall trend of blocking NSFW communities is still concerning, and we should advocate for admins to not do that where feasible.
The design decision to hide NSFW communities from logged-out users also plays a part here. Community discovery is bad enough as it is, and this makes it even worse. Last I checked, lemmynsfw was having to maintain their own patch to fix it, and keep updating it as new lemmy versions are released. Kbin and PieFed also copied this behavior, and I assume Mbin inherited it.
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The problem is not code. The problem is that no one wants to take this responsibility. Every one wants to talk about supportive they are on sex positivity until some men in uniform knocks on their doors because they are running a website that is available for minors all around the world.
Also, I don't even want to get in the discussion of "sex positivity" being associated with "easily available porn". Like you said, porn is easy to find and I really doubt that the someone who is savvy enough to use Lemmy would have trouble to know where it is.
Every one wants to talk about supportive they are on sex positivity until some men in uniform knocks on their doors because they are running a website that is available for minors all around the world.
Are you speaking from first-hand experience, or is this conjecture? At least in the US, complying with the law isn't that difficult.
Also, I don't even want to get in the discussion of "sex positivity" being associated with "easily available porn".
That's an odd way to avoid discussing it. Do you think the availability of porn (or prohibition thereof) within an online space has no effect on what kind of culture develops there?
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Do you think the availability of porn within an online space has no effect on what kind of culture develops there?
Of course it does have an effect, but there is a difference between "can be found" and "should be encouraged to be treated on equal footing as any other community forum".
Much like "absolute freedom of speech" platforms that inevitably end up catering to people who want to say only repulsive things without repercussion, what do you think will happen if you create an online space and put a big billboard saying "here you will always be free to share your NSFW content"?
Content discovery of porn should not be as easy and it should not be trivialized under the pretense of "sex positivity". One can have an absolutely open mind about sex and sexuality while still wanting to keep a clear boundary of when/how/whom to talk about it.
You seem to be implying that I'm arguing something that I'm not? This thread started with me lamenting that piefed.social accounts are prohibited from accessing NSFW communities, and inquiring whether feddit.online would have the same policies. Along with some commentary on the general state of the threadiverse's culture.
Note that I haven't asked either admin to host said communities, and I specifically acknowledged the caching issue. Nor am I advocating for them to be treated on absolutely equal footing; they're specially marked so that people who don't want to see them can filter them out, which I think is a good thing.
what do you think will happen if you create an online space and put a big billboard saying "here you will always be free to share your NSFW content"?
If you're specifically advertising it as focused on that, then that's likely what you'll get. If you allow NSFW but don't center it, you'll end up with something like Reddit, Twitter, or pre-ban Tumblr. While there are things to criticize about those sites, very little of it has to do with porn.
Content discovery of porn should not be as easy and it should not be trivialized under the pretense of "sex positivity".
Why? That absolutely sounds like a sex-negative attitude to me. It's treating sexuality as something toxic that needs to be suppressed and hidden even from those that are interested in seeing it. Sex positivity means treating sexuality as a normal thing that is not unusual for people to be interested in.
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advocating for them to be treated on absolutely equal footing; they're specially marked so that people who don't
You lamented the fact that unlogged users can not see it and that they can not be found as easily. This is the same as "make it available to the public without any type of check".
It's treating sexuality as something toxic
Sexuality != Porn, and "toxicity" is dose-dependent. Eating a bit of broccoli is good for you. Too much at once and you get thyroid dysfunction.
There are plenty of things that are good and normal, but need to be discussed/presented with a proper context and (most importantly) people need to have a better understanding of the potential bad consequences if it is abused or corrupted.
You don't see young people destroying their lives because they were promised they could make a lot of money by knitting sweaters or working as electricians, but cases of vulnerable women who regret getting into sex work are infinite.
Filtered word: nsfw
You lamented the fact that unlogged users can not see it and that they can not be found as easily. This is the same as "make it available to the public without any type of check".
Behold! (nsfw) - no login required, just an "are you 18+?" prompt, which is pretty standard. You can also search for NSFW communities without logging in. If you're being more moralistic about this than Reddit is, you're probably taking it too far.
Sexuality != Porn
Porn ∈ Sexuality. Also, I intentionally used a broader term here, because what I'm advocating for is expansive, not restricted to just porn. For example, I miss r/bdsmcommunity and r/sex, which are discussion-only. However, you don't get those kinds of communities growing in a place as structurally and culturally prudish as the threadiverse.
"toxicity" is dose-dependent.
Yeah, porn is about on par with video games in that regard. Yet we (rightly) don't suppress gaming communities here.
You don't see young people destroying their lives because they were promised they could make a lot of money by knitting sweaters or working as electricians, but cases of vulnerable women who regret getting into sex work are infinite.
C'mon, don't get all SWERFy on me now. That regret is a direct result of (drum roll)... sex negative culture! (And capitalist labor exploitation.)
"If you think sex workers 'sell their bodies,' but coal miners do not, your view of labor is clouded by your moralistic view of sexuality."
Look, I want a world in which, to the extent that jobs continue to be a thing, acting in commercial porn is just as normal and unremarkable as any other job, and people don't get all judgy about it. Same (hopefully robust) labor protections too. We don't get to there without abandoning pearl-clutching attitudes towards the resulting product, among other things.
“If you think sex workers ‘sell their bodies,’ but coal miners do not, your view of labor is clouded by your moralistic view of sexuality.”
If you are going to start a conversation by attacking a strawman, then I really will not get into it.
acting in commercial porn is just as normal and unremarkable as any other job
If this is your idea of being "sex positive" then I really do not want to get into this argument. I can guess this will quickly play out to any objection as "pearl clutching" and I will stick to the point that your attitude is completely dehumanizing and that there is nothing "positive" about reducing sex to the mechanical/physical act.
Like I said in the first comment, if you feel so strongly about this, go ahead and create your own and see how far it goes. When you start putting some Skin In The Game you will get more credibility or at least accept that things are Just Not That Simple.
then I really will not get into it.
Bet.
If this is your idea of being "sex positive" then I really do not want to get into this argument. I can guess this will quickly play out to any objection as "pearl clutching" and I will stick to the point that your attitude is completely dehumanizing and that there is nothing "positive" about reducing sex to the mechanical/physical act.
DEHUMANIZING? Seriously? I guess you actually are a SWERF. You clearly have no claim to the label "sex positive". Why would you even want to identify as such?
The view I expressed here is consistent with how sex workers view themselves. Sex work is work. They're just doing a job. They don't want to be "rescued" by moralizing radfems. They want more pay and better working conditions, the same as most workers.
Like I said in the first comment, if you feel so strongly about this, go ahead and create your own and see how far it goes. When you start putting some Skin In The Game you will get more credibility or at least accept that things are Just Not That Simple.
And as I've said, I'm definitely interested in doing that. If you know of any IT people that want to work on such a project, send them my way. I've got experience with programming, leadership, and community building to bring to the table.
Given your attitude regarding (more than just performative) sex positivity though, I'm not sure why you're egging me on here.
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Behold! (nsfw) - no login required, just an “are you 18+?” prompt, which is pretty standard.
I just tried, it's the same on lemmynsfw.com/
PieFed has some design principles, including being accessible on lower-end devices and for those with unreliable bandwidth, which mean that it's default UI is never going to look like apps which involve downloading a sizable chunk of Typescript.
I'm okay with its look. Partly because it's themeable, and there's a theme called 'Card Shadow' which looks more modern imo. And partly because Lemmy can feel quite slow showing 20 posts at a time, whereas PieFed throws 100 at a time. And also because there will eventually be an API, allowing people to view it how they want (similar to Lemmy - lemmy-ui is maybe not that great, but there's other frontends which I think are an improvement)
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Whoa... !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io looks really good in PieFed's tile views! It's kind of what I was going for with my CSS. I think PieFed has a ton of potential, and I want to mess around with it more.
@Jerry@hear-me.social, if you just saw a spike of like 1GB of data getting federated in, that was me manually retrieving my first few hundred posts.
Edit: Oops, I tagged the wrong instance admin named Jerry!
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Gänguppgörelse i Hellerup? Vid middagstid på onsdag denna vecka grep vakter på Köpenhamns järnvägsstation två svenska ungdomar, 16 och 19 år gamla De var på väg till Tyskland. När de greps hade de några handgranater i sitt bagage.
Nederländare med fiskeriföretag i England. Det finns flera stora nederländska fiskeriföretag som har dotterbolage och verksamheter i England och Skottland. Ibland även på andra håll i Storbritannien. 3 av dem sysslar främst med pelagiskt fiske.
How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28930199
A bit of an effortpost :)Please do crosspost in more fitting communities if you think of any
How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?
From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it…A Division by Zer0
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ah yes, the age old tale of "the internet sucks and people are stupid"
If you've ever tried hosting a web based solution you'll know exactly what i mean. The entirety of web hosting is a disaster. The entire mountain of web code is a nightmare, and the collection of website based frameworks do nothing more than burn electricity and man hours to create a fucking button on a screen.
as for discord, i haven't puzzled that one out yet, i don't understand. Probably lazy developers and the community aspect, it's a forum, but free, and worse. And now you can shitpost with random people you don't even know!
Personally, i believe that enshittifcation is an inevitability. You put somebody in a room with something, and when you take them out, that thing will somehow have gotten more complex, and thus probably worse.
Discord, at one point, was better than a lot of other app on the market, and they were one of the first where you could just create an account and join any group, for free.
It became the standard, and now we're stuck with that shit
In an ideal world yes, but we've learned nothing from the Dotcom bubble, or the 2008 housing bubble.
If there is money to be made, history will repeat itself.
I'm only on it because my Linux distro's dev uses it for communication for some reason, but from what I can tell, it's just a locked-down IRC client you can buy emojis and shit on.
But people are so used to seamless voice and video chat nowadays - and that’s a technical hurdle that AFAIK, no open-source self-hostable projects have come close to solving.
this is unironically such a big problem, there are great voice chatting solutions, mumble, and the handful of other ones that exist out there.
There are basically 0 good usable video conferencing/sharing softwares out there. The same goes for desktop streaming. If we just focused like, a little bit more of our energy on these two things, i think the world would unironically get better. It's 2024, h264 runs on a CPU like nothing, why haven't we figured out how to do these things yet?
The ones that do exist are likely to be web based, and thus, webRTC, the dreaded behemoth of both web support and also, generally poor implementation. I just want mumble but with support for video streaming, how hard is it >:(
What do you need screen sharing for? This comes up so, so rarely for me.
it's convenient, also it'd be nice if it had the feature capability.
Mumble is great, but if there was something like mumble, that implemented video sharing, that would be miles better, though a lot of people would probably still use mumble, as it's fine.
From what i've dug into, basically every video sharing capable setup is based on web technology, and i simply refuse to go near web technology unless i WANT to use a web browser. It's just, worse, in so many ways.
Until that API nonsense I was always using old.reddit because the redesign was ass.
Discord is cool tho, better than skype gui for sure.
Plenty of console Homebrew and general gaming forums are still around. Like GBAtemp and ResetEra.
I think all forms have really been about niche things for the most part. There were some general purpose forms but most of them focused around some Central subject that is core to their identity.
Truly general purpose platforms that attempt to be about everything weren't really a thing until social media, with digg and Reddit.
It’s 2024, h264 runs on a CPU like nothing, why haven’t we figured out how to do these things yet?
It's not about the hardware. (Not like it's that ubiquitous anyway; I'm daily driving a machine from 2017)
I'm going to guess part of it is because for the things that matter to the people who do end up having to code, test and distribute stuff, something like "seamless screen sharing" or "video conference" doesnt really matter.
And IMO, that's good if we want to Recover the Web.
The idea behind being in something like a jabber chatroom, or a web forum, is that I can pay attention to 12 channels (or whatever) at a time, read one or two, reply in three others, etc. Text is so un-invasive that I can just explore without bothering myself or anyone else.
In comparison, something like audio chat or video chat is more presence-encompassing. You can't really "push to talk" three different things to three chatrooms at about once, and you likely can but won't want to listen to three chatrooms full of people at the same time. For something like a videoconference you not only need a camera, but a good behind-you because not only who knows who or what will be showing back there.
In the end, something like a simple jabber-like chatroom is far easier and more productive to work on, even before we get to the coding part.
Not to mention: this is computer stuff. No one really likes to work on "debt", which is what "Foo has to have 'screen sharing' because Discord has it" ultimately boils down to.
the major issue with forums, as pointed out, is the hassle of having to go from one website to another to talk about various subjects and needing to sign up to each one of them.
Honestly the "having to sign up" part would be trivial to solve if topical forums just globally adopted OpenID sign-in or similar. No need to have one account per community if you already have (or "are") an account in the World.
But even then, there's a point to having to go through a sign-up process. At least some sort of vetting. We have seen how far have fallen all the communities that have ever relaxed sign-ups (as another comment in this thread shows, there was once a time when FB only allowed educated people in).
Well Discord, Slack, & others are web tech too so it’s not like avoiding it is easy. If I have to use these services, I would prefer it be in the browser’s sandbox.
Even still, almost all debug, troubleshoot, pairing session I have done in the last 4 years have been done over Upterm or Tmate, which is much, much lighter on bandwidth & not crushed by video compression.
true. I didn't consider that. That would could work. Lemmy is a lot more advanced in that regard. Currently the best ideas are Discord and give up, and the original owners are done with the idea, but I could try and create a spiritual successor on here. Lemmy suffers a bit from the same isues as Forums with lack of people, but I only need to convince the OGs. I need to think about that, and a forum from 2004 whose software is a decade out of date is easy to beat in that regard
Also thanks for creating this awesome instance.
Corpos are spending countless resources to infiltrate anything with as much as a iota of traction so that they can bleed the cow cash dry and sell its carcass for money.
Even if you distrust the corpos and want them to die, the majority of the population has so much trouble just surviving that its hard to raise up against that bullshit
There were plenty of free forum hosts back in the day.
But then social media came out, and everyone got addicted to the gamified dopamine mechanics like upvotes and shit. So now everything has to have upvotes, or likes, or whatever other stupid bullshit shit that has absolutely ruined human interaction and discourse and is single handedly to blame for the extremity in modern discourse, because the need to drive clicks and upvotes leads to extreme polarization where no common sense, honest discussion can be held.
because you either 100% agree with me (upvote) or you are a baby killing bastard who disagrees with me (downvote), and there can be no middle ground! /s
They're not search engine indexable though.
You can't view it without logging in.
yeah, and discord slack and basically everything based on electron is a fresh hell.
I love having three separate instances of chrome running the background while just using my computer, such that they all consume an entire gigabyte of ram for no particular reason.
TBF i wouldn't do much if any troubleshooting over RDP or anything similar, i use SSH for all that stuff lol. I'm just confused that nobody has put together a "relatively" functional version of this yet, it seems like it would be prime realestate.
There were plenty of free forum hosts back in the day. (edit: just did a search and there are still free forum hosts)
But then social media came out, and everyone got addicted to the gamified dopamine mechanics like upvotes and shit. So now everything has to have upvotes, or likes, or whatever other stupid bullshit shit that has absolutely ruined human interaction and discourse and is single handedly to blame for the extremity in modern discourse, because the need to drive clicks and upvotes leads to extreme polarization where no common sense, honest discussion can be held.
because you either 100% agree with me (upvote) or you are a baby killing bastard who disagrees with me (downvote), and there can be no middle ground! /s
Even with a free forum host, it's difficult to keep things running for a long time.
Awhile back I was unsatisfied with how quickly my (new) furniture was degrading, and found a furniture forum run by a guy in the biz. So much knowledge on there about different furniture and how to actually find quality stuff that will last decades.
The owner retired this week, and he had been paying for an IT contract to do basic maintenance / upgrades on the forum (I think he started on a free host, but as it got bigger he eventually had to move it). He needed IT help basically to apply security patches and do upgrades. He's stated that he no longer plans to pay for the maintenance contract. I'm guessing the forum will disappear soon.
I’m going to guess part of it is because for the things that matter to the people who do end up having to code, test and distribute stuff, something like “seamless screen sharing” or “video conference” doesnt really matter.
this definitely makes sense in the OSS community, but i feel like someone should've already done it as a semi pet project already. I know i would've done it.
And IMO, that’s good if we want to Recover the Web.
that's an interesting take, but personally i think the web should stick to pretty much static web pages, the browser is turning into a secondary operating system, which is being run on an operating system, which is just, stupid.
Personally i don't think any of this stuff should be done over the web, period.
The idea behind being in something like a jabber chatroom, or a web forum, is that I can pay attention to 12 channels (or whatever) at a time, read one or two, reply in three others, etc. Text is so un-invasive that I can just explore without bothering myself or anyone else.
yeah, my main complaint though is that we do have things like jabber, this is already incredibly accessible, there is almost no need for expanding the current landscape because it's been around for like 30 years now.
In comparison, something like audio chat or video chat is more presence-encompassing. You can’t really “push to talk” three different things to three chatrooms at about once, and you likely can but won’t want to listen to three chatrooms full of people at the same time.
no but that's not the immediate use case either, something like mumble is really nice if you're playing games with other people and just want to VOIP so you don't have to use a text chat, you can talk and play video games at the same time pretty easily. It's also nice if you just want to casually hang around other people without having to be physically near them, or at a keyboard typing on it constantly.
For something like a videoconference you not only need a camera, but a good behind-you because not only who knows who or what will be showing back there.
i mean, you don't need a camera, maybe in a professional setting, but in a casual setting, screensharing something to show someone else for example, you don't even need a camera.
Not to mention: this is computer stuff. No one really likes to work on “debt”, which is what “Foo has to have ‘screen sharing’ because Discord has it” ultimately boils down to.
this is fair, and tbh i don't even really want a discord clone, you could very easily just adapt one of the many existing text chat protocols IRC being the most obvious, and VOIP is basically a solved problem, that's not hard either. Mumble has a pretty good low latency implementation of it, but you don't always need low latency. Video sharing/video conferencing is harder, but we have things like youtube and netflix, so the actual video streaming part isn't the hard thing. We have entire video manipulation libraries like FFMPEG as well, which will do everything you need it to do.
Mumble i think is the perfect example of a "minimalist" application, it does VOIP and it does it really well. I pretty much just want mumble but for video sharing and i'd be happy.
it's hardly an upgrade from a threads only channel
I see this comment two days in the future.
We probably could promote using "New comments" more.
Edit: I poorly skimmed this article and mistook some of its points. This comment deserves no upvotes and I’ll circle back later and give some credible feedback.
Thank you for this constructive approach
this definitely makes sense in the OSS community, but i feel like someone should’ve already done it as a semi pet project already. I know i would’ve done it.
Pet project, yes; production-ready, that's a whole 'nother story.
Ultimately some things are too complex to deliver out on tem "just because". Such as web browsers, hence ATM there only exist about 2.
Well written, interesting article.
Really getting momentum from Reddit will be tough though. Our main advantage is that we have the rest of the Fediverse as a potential user base, and existing forum apps that also activate apub; reducing network effects. If the Fediverse has momentum, so has the threadiverse.
Pet project, yes; production-ready, that’s a whole 'nother story.
to be fair, linux was also a pet project, until it wasn't. I'm not expecting people to drop zoom2 electric boogaloo over this or anything.
Ultimately some things are too complex to deliver out on tem “just because”. Such as web browsers, hence ATM there only exist about 2.
web browsers i could see, because they fucking suck, though there are a few alt browser projects currently going on, so there is that.
but something like VOIP and video sharing i would imagine is probably going to be magnitudes easier than something like a web browser.
Oh you could if so inclined run a Notcurses renderer for Minetest. l-m.dev/cs/hijacking-opengl-wi…
They already have a render for NEStopia + RetroArch lol
They have !lemmybb@lemmy.ml
Lemmy is just a forum set to sort by new posts, not new comments.
I do not know what you talk about. I use screen sharing and voice chat daily on elements with our own hosted matrix server.
Edit: i felt wrong saying "voice chat" what even is that. I make regular calls and video calls with screen sharing in elements ;)
Back on reddit, I mostly interacted with communities relating to JRPGs. There are some communities over here, but at most they post some trailers every now and then. There are also some more focussd communities about Dragon Quest, Xenoblade or SMT - all of them practically dead. I don't think there is an instance.
I could go over to a programming related one, the german instance or even one of the vegan instances for secondary 'interests', but those aren't things I often find myself posting about online to be honest. They seem to be mostly about memes anyways.
lemmy.zip/ could be a good fit for you. It's reliable, transparent (lemmy.zip/post/22004722?scroll…) and hosts communities about gaming and technology.
The main jrpg community is actually hosted there (!jrpg@lemmy.zip )
On the other hand, wherever the communities are, you can just subscribe to them whatever instance you are using, so it's not that big of a deal.
Matrix servers chew up an order of magnitude more CPU/RAM which limits the places you can deploy it. The eventual consistency model makes storage balloon as every message, attachment, metadata must be copied to all nodes in a conversation which is resilient, but wasteful in duplicated content in practices which has historically caused many medium & larger servers to shut down due to the explosive just of storage (similar issues with Mastodon). That same model is why it takes on the order of minutes to just join a room or come back to a client that hasn’t been opened recently. Element X & new servers have to work so damn hard to work around asynchronously than fundamental decision to attempt to hide it from the sluggish UX but behind the scenes still too expensive. & since it is expensive to run in many vectors this causes folks to then move to the biggest servers that can handle the load which means the Matrix network is in actuality a small number of massive servers (most of which managed by Matrix.org) & a small number of tiny hobbyists running nodes of <10 users is practice. With so many users on Matrix.org-controlled instances (& again with eventual consistency), almost all data gets synced to their nodes make subpoenas a breeze.
A healthier network would have many fewer massive centralized nodes, medium-sized nodes, & the resource requirements would be low enough that more folks would be encouraged more often to run their own nodes they control so they aren’t required to trust an unknown serves operator. Meaning “just making an account on any public server” isn’t a great mode of operation for privacy—especially as with Matrix joining a medium-sized server will put them under a lot of strain causing them to throw in the tower & joining the few massive servers further exacerbating the centralization issue.
Copying the UX of Slack/Telegram/Discord in a decentralized manner is a fool's errand. Keeping the chat history for eternity is already a questionable call over using forums, but trying to distribute that out like a blockchain is so wasteful.
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process-one.net/blog/matrix-an…
Atleast for us having another vm among the thousands we host in our dc is not a huge cost, but i understand that is not the same for everyone.
kind of, like i said i play technical minecraft so the kind of stuff i'm accustomed to are the fact that repeaters schedule power events on a priority system changing based on what it's powering or not.
I will probably end up playing mineclone2/voxelibre at some point though, it's just not really a substitute here unfortunately.
V3 has chathistory + away status so the bouncer isn’t needed. Voice & video would be out of scope if trying to use a single tool, but the way these protocol operate is just to handshake & negotion for another protocol. My mates & I use Mumble (looking for alternative but everything kinda sucks & uses too many resources) for audio & share terminal sessions for other tasks where video is a massive liability for bandwidth & accessibility with video artifacts making text illegible.
Even still none of this requires perpetual data replication—what it leads to is Alice joining Bob’s server instead of setting up her own server & joining that way since the cost of hosting all that data + CPU/RAM prohibit her sovereignty in the space. Our society has enough of that where you can’t own your own land or other resources, reliant solely on those in power. With tech we can give that power back to folks so they can run their own stuff if they want, but we can’t have that if the cost of running everything is too high due to bloated design.
Also this was hard ta read: Is your space bar broken? ’Cause a lot of words are stuck together… ins & outs*, DMs* …apostrophes don’t make words plural.
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I haven't experienced this in the last week or so, so maybe it was fixed in an update? I'm on Fedora, btw. I just wanted to share, so I can find out if anyone else had the same issue.
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in reply to SuperFola • • •I will never understand people using 3rdparty MQ and RPC implementations. What a a PR for rocketMQ right here.
You can and you should implement your communication protocols, most of the time 3rdparties are very wasteful and a security liability. I like ZeroMQ (zeromq.org/), they have amazing tech guides (zguide.zeromq.org/). I still mostly do my own code.
I may have trust issues but sockets are not THAT hard, they're just amzaingly frustrating to debug, not as much as debuging 3rdparty code.