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US tracking nearly 500 incidents of civilians harmed by US weapons during Gaza war
US State Department officials have identified nearly 500 potential incidents of civilians being harmed by US-supplied weapons during Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, Reuters has reported.
However, no further action has been taken on any of them, three sources, including a US official familiar with the matter, said this week.
US tracking nearly 500 incidents of civilians harmed by US weapons during Gaza war
US State Department officials have identified nearly 500 potential incidents of civilians being harmed by US-supplied weapons during Israel's military offensive in Gaza, Reuters has reported. However, no further action...Middle East Monitor
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I have a WILD idea on how to reduce the growth of that statistic to 0.
What if, and bear with me here....
What IF.... We stopped sending Israel weapons and armor.
No foreign warplanes entered the skies over Tehran
No foreign warplanes entered the skies over Tehran.Israeli pilots will not dare to enter a well defended Iranian airspace.
They attacked Iran from the U.S. controlled air spaces of Syria, Iraq and Jordan with long range air-launched missiles.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/10/no-foreign-warplanes-entered-the-skies-over-tehran.html
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I'm a communist myself but if the mods here legit simp Stalin, I'll be glad to be banned.
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Is OP from El Salvador? Wikipedia is showing the top five are El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, the US in that order.
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The former might not be true either. China has 1.7M listed, but if you include 1M to 3M in forced vocational education and training centers, the count would be higher than the 1.8M in the US. The rate would still be lower though.
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I remember this scene from Se7en
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“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said
Putting aside that no president should say that about the citizens of their country even if there is some truth to it, I don't think Harris will lose any votes over this. People made up their mind months ago, I made up mine a year ago. There can't be people who haven't made up their mind yet.
Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Development Opens - Defaulting To -O3 Optimizations
Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Development Opens - Defaulting To -O3 Optimizations
Canonical has announced the formal state of the Ubuntu 25.04 'Plucky Puffin' developmentwww.phoronix.com
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-O2 vs -O3 adds-fgcse-after-reload -fipa-cp-clone -floop-interchange -floop-unroll-and-jam -fpeel-loops -fpredictive-commoning -fsplit-loops -fsplit-paths -ftree-loop-distribution -ftree-partial-pre -funswitch-loops -fvect-cost-model=dynamic -fversion-loops-for-strides
I don't think any of these optimizations require more modern hardware?
On immigration, Harris and Trump have more similarities than one might think
On immigration, Harris and Trump have more similarities than one might think : Peoples Dispatch
Ahead of the US presidential election, Peoples Dispatch analyzes the continuity between Trump and Biden’s immigration policyNatalia Marques (Peoples Dispatch)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 90
The Fediverse Schema Observatory helps to improve interoperability, the botsin.space server will shut down, and more.
The News
The Fediverse Schema Observatory is a new project by Darius Kazemi, who runs the Hometown fork of Mastodon as well as co-wrote to Fediverse Governance paper this year with Erin Kissane. The Observatory collects data structures from the fediverse; it looks how different fediverse softwares use and implement ActivityPub. It explicitly does not gather any personal data or posts; instead it looks at how the data is formatted in ActivityPub. ActivityPub and the fediverse has a long-standing problem in that the selling point is interoperability between different software, but every software has their own, slightly different implementation of ActivityPub, making good interoperability difficult to pull off. Kazemi has posted about the Observatory as a Request for Comments. The Observatory is explicitly not a scraper, but considering how sensitive the subject can be in the fediverse community, Kazemi has taken a careful approach of informing the community in detail beforehand about the proposed project, and how it deals with data. The easiest way to see and understand how the Observatory is works is with this demo video.
The botsin.space Mastodon server for bots will shut down in December. The botsin.space server is a server dedicated to running bots, with a few thousand active bots running. The server is a valued part of the community, with the wild variety of bots running on the server contributing to the Mastodon in both useful and silly ways. The admin states that over time running the servers has become too expensive over time, and that is was not feasible to keep the project going. The shutdown of botsin.space showcases an ongoing struggle in the fediverse, running a server is expensive and time-consuming, and every time a server shuts down the fediverse loses a block of its history.
Sub.club is a way to add monetization options to fediverse posts. Sub.club started with being able to add paywalls to Mastodon posts, recently expanded to long-form writing with support for Write.as, and now has added support for WordPress blogs as well. Sub.club has posted a tutorial on how to add the plugin to WordPress, making it an easy system to set up.
Bridgy Fed, the bridge between ActivityPub and ATproto has gotten some updates, with the main new feature is that you can now set custom domain handles on Bluesky for fediverse accounts that get bridged into Bluesky. This brings the interoperability between the networks closer to native accounts, and makes having a bridged account more attractive.
Upcoming fediverse platform for short-form video, Loops, got some press by The Verge and TechCrunch. Creator Daniel Supernault said that there are now 5k people on the waiting list, and that a TestFlight link will go out soon for the first 100 people. An Android APK will be made available at some point as well.
GoToSocial is working on the ability to for servers to subscribe to allowlists and denylists. This makes it easier to create clusters of servers with a shared allowlist, such as the Website League. As I recently wrote about Website League, it is a cluster of federating servers that uses ActivityPub but exists separately from the rest of the fediverse, and it is started by people who build a new shared space after Cohost shut down. Website League servers predominantly use GoToSocial or Akkoma, and have been actively working on tuning the software to meet their needs.
The Links
- Flipboard is now federating accounts of publishers in Brazil, Canada, Germany and the UK.
- A long read on Content Warnings, that extensively touches on the culture on using Content Warnings in Mastodon and the Website League as well.
- Diving Into the World of Lemmy.
- One year after X: Embracing open science on Mastodon – a reflection by the University of Groningen Library.
- Mastodon, two years later – a continuation of the article ‘Mastodon – a partial history‘, by The Nexus of Privacy.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- The Event Federation project has drafted a Fediverse Enhancement Proposal for a common way to use the ‘event’ type in the fediverse.
- Setting up my federated fleamarket with flohmarkt.
- IFTAS October update.
- Ghost’s weekly update on their project to implement ActivityPub, mentioning that they have bridged their ActivityPub-based Ghost account to Bluesky as well.
- The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same. – Elena Rossini.
- How the ‘Fediverse’ Works (and Why It Might Be the Future of Social Media) – Lifehacker.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
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Audacity 3.7.0 released
The 3.7.x series is primarily maintenance releases while we're working on Audacity 4.0. 3.7.0 fixes the following bugs:
- #6233, #7397, #6900 Improved Linux compatibility.
- #6702 Improved contrast in the light theme.
- #7008 MP3 exports: Renamed "Insane" to "Excessive".
- #7570, #7452 Improved non-standard character handling for cloud saving.
- #7486 Renamed "Split cut/delete" to "Cut/delete and leave gap".
- #7293 Pasting clips no longer moves clips on other tracks if "editing clips can move other clips" is enabled.
- #7312, #7382 Fixed database compacting not working properly sometimes.
- #6851 Improved startup speed on systems with many audio devices.
- #7186 Multi view: Fixed the hitbox of the x being misaligned with the visuals. (Thanks, Kurtsley)
- #7468 macOS: Fixed VST presets path.
- #7571 Adding, removing, replacing and reordering of effects now is undoable.
- #7573 Closing a project upon turning a realtime effect stack on and off doesn't crash Audacity anymore.
- #7610 Canceling a stereo track mid-operation no longer crashes Audacity.
- #7385 Importing Opus files using libopus no longer shifts the audio data.
Release Audacity 3.7.0 · audacity/audacity
Changes in version 3.7.0 The 3.7.x series is primarily maintenance releases while we're working on Audacity 4.0. 3.7.0 fixes the following bugs: #6233, #7397, #6900 Improved Linux compatibility. #...GitHub
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Afaik, back when it all went down, they heard the public reaction about the telemetry thing and completely reversed course. On top of that, many distros would be sure to never distribute a build with telemetry enabled anyway. So there has never been any cause for concern. Would love to be proven wrong, though.
Also, Audacity is handy, but it's not perfect, and I'll gladly use a better alternative. But the last time I tried Tenacity, it had a bunch of little differences that made the tool just a bit harder to use. So I still default to audacity.
The fact they were willing to try it says all it needs to about them. They only stopped because of complaints.
Your argument is like saying Unity game engine is fine because they rolled back on the changes. Nope.
Tenacity is much more trustworthy for me.
Could you elaborate on the harder to use? It was a fork so should be pretty similar. They overhauled the build stuff to make it easier to build on multiple systems.
I disagree that it's the same for multiple reasons: first off the project and telemetry were never profit-driven. Their goal was always to use modern methods of software development to make the software better.
The fact is, these days all for-profit projects gather a ton of info without asking, and then use that data to inform their development and debugging (and sell, but that's irrelevant to my point). To deny open source software the ability to even add the option of reporting telemetry is to ask them to make a better product than for-profit competition, with fewer tools at their disposal, and at a fraction of the pay (often on a voluntary basis). That's just unreasonable.
Which is why the pushback wasn't that they were using telemetry, it was that they were going to use Google Analytics and Yandex, which are "cheap" options, but are obviously for-profit and can't be trusted as middlemen. They heard the concern over that and decided to steer away to a non-profit solution.
But as a software dev and a Linux user, I often wish I could easily create bug reports using open source, appropriately anonymized telemetry reporting tools. I want to make making a better system for me to use as easy as possible for the saints that are volunteering their time.
As for the issues in tenacity, it was likely specific to what I was doing. I was rapidly opening and closing a lot of small audio clips, and saving them to network mounted dirs under different names. I remember I had issues with simple stuff like keyboard shortcuts to open files, and I had to manually use the mouse to select a redundant option every single time (don't recall what it was), and I think it would just crash trying to save to the network mounted dir, so I had to always save locally and copy over manually. So I just switched back and continued my work.
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They’re only waiting for some code restructuring to release 4.0, which includes UI rework.
China chooses 2 teams to develop low-cost space station cargo spacecraft
China chooses 2 teams to develop low-cost space station cargo spacecraft - SpaceNews
China chooses 2 teams to develop low-cost space station cargo spacecraft China’s human spaceflight agency has selected two proposals to develop spacecraft for low-cost space station resupply missions, echoing earlier moves by NASA.Andrew Jones (SpaceNews)
Last Week in the ATmosphere – Oct wk 5
Some big news for Bluesky this week, as they raise $15M in their series A. Another new option to import your old tweets into Bluesky, and more.
Bluesky announces series A
Bluesky has announced their series A funding round, raising $15M, using the announcement to give a first look at some of their monetisation plans as well. The series A funding round is lead by Venture Capital firm Blockchain Capital. In summer 2023 Bluesky had an $8M seed round, and various investors of the seed round also returned for the series A. Kinjal Shah, a Partner at Blockchain Capital, will join the board of Bluesky.
The seed round already had investors from the crypto world, but this drew much more attention with the series A, as the headline of Blockchain Capital as a lead investor made the connection loud and clear. Bluesky is aware of the negative connotations that many people have regarding blockchains and crypto, explicitly stating that “the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.).”
Bluesky also announced two avenues they will start to explore for monetisation; a subscription model and payment processing. For the subscription model Bluesky will explore various additional features that do not touch on the core experience, such as higher quality video uploads, or profile customisations. Bluesky will also start working on payment services to support creators. Not much information is known yet on this, and Bluesky says they will share more information as it becomes available.
Kinjal Shah wrote the investment thesis for Blockchain Capital, which gives good insight in the vision of what Blockchain Capital hopes to get out of the investment. She writes: “With this investment, we’re investing in more than a product but rather a vision of what social infrastructure could be. A future where users own their identity and data, developers can innovate freely, and networks are as diverse as we are.” The reason for Blockchain Capital to invest into a social infrastructure is the new opportunities that an open developer ecosystem brings for (other) developers to build new products, which is also stated here by Bluesky developer Why.
On Enshittification
A common response to the news of Bluesky’s series A being lead by a VC firm called Blockchain Capital is that “the enshittification has started”. This response was dominant on the fediverse, and less so but still present on Bluesky. It’s been such a common response that I think it deserves a closer look at ‘enshittification’ and how it relates to Bluesky taking money from a blockchain VC firm. The meaning of the term enshittification has shifted over time, and both meanings provide an interesting lens to look at the news.
When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification in 2022, he used it to describe a process of platform decay. A platforms subsidises growth by operating at a loss, and places themselves in between the suppliers and customers on a two-sided marketplace. Once suppliers and customers are locked in on the platform and cannot easily leave, the enshittification cycle happens: the platform uses their control of the marketplace to take an ever increasing part of the value while while making the experience on the platform worse, for both suppliers and consumers.
What is interesting here is that in earlier interviews, Jay Graber has mentioned the idea of building marketplaces on Bluesky as a way to make money. If enshittification is used to describe platform decay, it stands out that a marketplace is not present in the Series A announcement as a way for Bluesky to monetise. For a platform to become enshittified in this meaning of platform decay, a platform needs to have exclusive control of a marketplace on the platform. However, Bluesky is currently not taking the direction of a marketplace for monetisation, instead opting for subscriptions and payment processing. This is still open to change at a later point, as Graber has expressed interest in it before.
Doctorow also mentions two principles to combat platform enshittification. Platforms should be interoperable, allowing users can switch to a different provider. Users should also have the ability to control the content they see, and not be dependent on an opaque algorithm owned by the platform. As both of these principles are deeply embedded in the design of ATProto, Bluesky is an interesting case study if the principles that Doctorow mentioned are indeed good enough to stave off enshittification.
The meaning of the term enshittification has drifted and expanded over time. Enshittification is now commonly used to refer to any business practice that makes the company or product, well, shit. There is a fairly widespread negative attitude towards both venture capital as well as blockchains and crypto. People perceive that these systems have not brought benefits they promised, and enriched a small elite instead, all the while degrading the experience of using the internet. This is not a newsletter to deconstruct blockchains or VC (I’m sure you can find your own sources for that), but I do want to point out that public perception of both venture capital and blockchains matter here. Bluesky is in an active growth phase, and part of the sales pitch to get people to join the network is that Bluesky is a ‘better’ place, for various interpretations of ‘better’.
Getting people to join Bluesky while also being associated with technologies and organisations that many people perceive as ‘not better’ is much harder. People want to join a new network because they hope that the new network is a better experience for them. Judging from the outside if a network is a suitable place is hard, so people tend to fall back to simple heuristics to determine if a network is a good place for them. BlockChain Capital might provide valuable support to Bluesky, but this hard to see as an outsider that is considering joining Bluesky. Instead, it is more likely that they will fall back on their preexisting opinions about startups that take VC money or affiliated with blockchains.
The News
Porto is a new free tool that allows you to import your Twitter archive into Bluesky. The tool asks you to download your tweets from X as an archive, and upload the folder with your archive into the tool, via a browser extension.
Bridgy Fed, the bridge between ActivityPub and ATproto has gotten some updates, with the main new feature is that you can now set custom domain handles on Bluesky for fediverse accounts that get bridged into Bluesky. This brings the interoperability between the networks closer to native accounts, and makes having a bridged account more attractive. As such, you can now follow my fediverse account on Bluesky at @fediversereport.com.
Last week I wrote that the “new wave has a higher retention rate than other waves”. Another week later and this effect still holds.
ProtoScript is a tool that lets you publish Javascript code directly to your PDS, and then view and execute code from any user directly in your browser. Conceptually it is similar to ATFile, which lets you store arbitrary files on your PDS, but this time with Javascript code instead. Both ProtoScript and ATFile are exploring the idea that the PDS is a website, and it seems like there is still a lot of design space left to explore here.
The ATProto Tech Talks is back, with a new event November 7th. This event will feature various ways people build blogs on ATProto, including by Bluesky developers Samuel and Hailey. Smoke Signal event to register is available here.
Tracking how the space of labelers for self-identification is evolving:
- The Games Industry Labeler now is now automated via DMs, where a chat interface walks a user through setting their labels.
- The permissionless nature of ATProto allows people to backdate posts. This feature allows people to import their Twitter archive to the original date of posting, but can also create confusion. The Backdated Labeler labels posts that have a different timestamp than the time they first become visible on the network.
The Links
- Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media – Mike Masnick.
- Ucho-ten is a new Bluesky client (iOS and Android) with a focus on a clean and quiet interface, that does not show engagement numbers.
- ‘What is a PDS, anyways?’
- A Bluesky meetup in Fukuoka, Japan, on 2024-11-16, following earlier successful meetups in Kyoto and Tokyo.
- A visualisation of how the algorithm for ATProto-powered link-aggregator Frontpage works.
- Building your own feed that sorts posts by your mutuals by trending.
And some more links that cater towards developers:
- ‘React Native, and “the native feel’ – Bluesky developer Samuel.
- A tool to see which browser or mobile OS a Bluesky user uses.
- Post to Bluesky directly from the Command Line Interface.
- PDSIs is a tool to browse all the different PDSes.
- Tracking the rate at which all the different apps on ATProto get used.
- Parsing PDS Logs With OpenTelemetry.
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 this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online.
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US Ambassador to Lebanon Promotes 'Internal Uprising' to Assist Israel: Report
US ambassador to Lebanon promotes 'internal uprising' to assist Israel: Report
A Lebanese security source has revealed the US ambassador is calling on her allies to 'do their part' to destroy Hezbollahthecradle.co
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Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
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There is apparently a way to set up a bridge that will allow you to access it, but that sounds like an awful lot of work. It also requires connecting to a PC running the software, and I would imagine it affects the security of the messaging (which may be the reason to choose proton mail in the first place).
Note that -
Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.
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Besides, if you don't like the default look, you have plenty of themes to use with.
IMAP/SMTP does make their encryption at rest impossible, AFAIK similar providers like tuta don't have those either.
At the time that I found it, FairEmail was the only client that met all of my needs. Like managing multiple accounts, each with multiple folders and none of that unified nonsense. It's also available on F-Droid and GitHub.
I get the joke, but also I was shocked to see in the article:
Thunderbird for Android runs on mobile devices running Android 5 and above.
Who out there is still running Lollipop?! That came out over a decade ago. You can't even get Thunderbird through the Play Store because Google Play Services dropped support for 5.1 back in July. I have so many questions.
Edit: just tried this and it didn't work. Proton bridge only listens on 127.0.0.1 and doesn't accept incoming connections due to security concerns.
If I were in your position, which I am and will probably end up doing this, is vpn into your home network and just connect to the local IP of your bridge server.
WG tunnel on F droid allows for you to auto connect to your wireguard server when you leave your home net, and auto disconnects when you get back on your home net.
Personally, I'm unsure if proton bridge listens for external request or if it only accepts requests from localhost? If that's the case it may be an issue.
ActiveSync is to Exchange as IMAP/POP3 is to other email providers.
So if you want your email client to speak with an Exchange server you're using ActiveSync, not other protocols used by other types of servers.
RSS sync would be great though, I'd love that too.
It looks better imo
Also you will have to check whether k9 will still receive updates
One important thing K-9 does that this doesn’t: realese on F-Droid.
What is this? At least provide a repository like DivestOS… while you are at it, get the code for the free software off of proprietary Microsoft GitHub.
Doesn't IMAP sync anyway?
Been using Thunderbird and K9 for years. All is the same on both.
This remains my #1 complaint every time they send me a "how are we doing" survey
I check, then reply:
Your email app still doesn't support basic functionality like creating and editing filters, something I had to code for a phone app back in high school
Like, holy shit, the feature exists on desktop why the fuck can't I have it in the app rreeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Mousam is a Detailed Desktop Weather App for Linux - OMG! Ubuntu
Mousam is a Detailed Desktop Weather App for Linux
Being a Linux nerd I rarely go outside —that’s a joke— but knowing what the weather is doing beyond my basement walls —still a joke— is useful – if only because it usually gives me ...Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
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Well, the size estimate on flathub assumes that you're installing every dependency, which only happens if it's the first app you're installing with this FreeDesktop version, which is rare. I have like 15 flatpak apps installed, all of which had a claimed install of over "1 GB", but the flatpak install directory is only like 2 or 3 GB.
There's just not a great way to predict how big an install will actually be from flathub.
Edit: just to give you an idea, since its only downloading the deltas, most of these "1 GB download size" Flatpak apps are downloading less than 100 MB
Maybe I'm missing a setting, but I can't get this to scale with my vertical monitor. Rearranging the layout would be cool too.
Otherwise ya this looks and works well.
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