People think Linux needs you to constantly open the terminal to work on things, in part because they see Linux users so often opening the terminal to work on things...
Was just appreciating this morning that the "opening the terminal to fix it" in Linux is a privilege, not a limitation lol.
Sound started glitching this morning, I of course checked the soundbar, unplugged and replugged it, didn't fix it. Switched to TV speakers same problem.
Me being a techie, I'm going "Ah, pipewire glitched out", I pop open the terminal type systemctl --user restart pipewire and voila sound is perfectly fine again.
Do I expect other people to know how to do that to handle an odd sound glitch? No! I expect them "turn it off and on again".
The difference is that in Windows that's the only choice, probably the same with Mac too.
A lot of people seem to still believe the memes and jokes of the old days when you in fact needed them terminal. I completely agree with you! I can choose to use the GUI, the terminal or simply restart.
It's like opening the hood of your car. Nobody complains that that's just part of the process of fixing them. We've been trained by Apple and Microsoft to think that we *shouldn't* have to do that. It's monopoly shit.
It’s happened, and Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States, with all that means for trans Americans. We wish we could offer all of you one of our individual consultations to help you form a plan to get out.
idea: extension that adds boost, favorite, and follow buttons to your browser. if you go to a webpage that has an activitypub actor/note attached to it then they light up and you can just click them and you'll do the thing on your own profile
Yeah okay this is one of the threads I am the proudest of. On tumblr while I was still active it had about 70k reblogs? I talked to a variety of people and I managed to convince a lot of people that rehabilitative justice is effective for things like sex crimes. I also got to emphasize the importance of "early intervention" in the case of people showing signs of incel-like behavior before they commit their first offense. It is something that I am proud of although it was a hard thread.
this is very true. We have to consider how the state treats prisoners as much as it treats regular people. Because it takes one miscarriage of justice for you to be part of the prison population. By making some crimes like that with special exceptions, you will find that the state will use its powers to make you fit into the special exceptions. Consider, for example, that harming police officers in some jurisdictions is treated harder than general harm. Well, now you get that charge added, a charge that is difficult to disprove unless there’s clear evidence and suddenly there’s a few more years on your sentence.
You deserve to feel pround. That's a lot better than my most popular Tumblr post: I got 38 thousand notes from a one-sentence post that wasn't particularly good.
As a lesbian i will always relate more to trans women than cishet women. Made to feel disgusting and predatory in women’s spaces? Check. Berated and mocked for our relation to sexuality and womanhood?...
Very funny! Is this real? I can't find it on their plaque map: arcgis.com/apps/Shortlist/inde… (but then, I don't know what category it should be under — maybe it's literature?).
This is the only plaque I’ve ever seen dedicated to the death of a minor fictional character. It’s found at the mouth of Burritt Alley in San Francisco.
My sister's tea shop is bridged from Bluesky now so I can finally start trying to convince y'all to (a) follow her and (b) try some of the best tea you've ever had!
Temporarily hacked solution, but in theory my posts should be bridging over to Bluesky now...
Gist of what came about: Bridgy identifies it's accounts as "application" types and apparently Friendica treats those accounts differently, expecting them to be send messages but not need to receive... so it never actually sends post updates to them which means in turn the bridge never has a post to forward... unless you tag a bridged account, which explicitly sends it.
Looks like both teams are looking at fixes, Bridgy is going to change it's account types (but won't be sending updates, the few who are affected can just use the update contacts option to fix it) and Friendica is looking at potentially minimally invasive fixes.
My temporary fix that might work? I manually changed the account type in the database...
I'm old enough to remember when Russia bought a nine-year-old LiveJournal to identify and stifle local dissenters who were using the platform to mobilize. The whole Twitter thing happened before and it'll happen again, over and over again until we fucking learn.
Twitch's ban of the term “Zionism” was "clearly a political decision," EFF’s @jilliancyork told The New Arab. "While the term can be used as a proxy to mean ‘Jewish,’ censoring it completely ... disables criticism of the 19th-century political ideology." newarab.com/news/twitch-faces-…
Urgent Warning for Fedi Admins We've discovered an ongoing Denial-of-Service attack against Misskey-based instances. The attacks exploit a zero-day vulnerability impacting Misskey, Sharkey, IceShrimp, and other related software. Patches are in progress and will be released ASAP. We encourage all admins to update immediately!
Note: this is a different vulnerability from the ones that were recently announced! You should update today and again tomorrow at the scheduled time.
Hello everyone, the Sharkey project has been quiet due to our ongoing efforts to patch major security vulnerabilities in coordination with Firefish, Iceshrimp.js, and upstream Misskey. On Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, our efforts will be finalized with a security release for all affected projects. It is of upmost importance to update your instance(s) to the latest version if you utilize any of the aforementioned software once the patches are released.
hmm, that's concerning. What patterns of impact are you seeing? This one is typically characterized by maxed out CPU, upload bandwidth, and download bandwidth, but no increase to memory usage.
Randomly thinking about small protocols or protocol changes that I think should exist.
Prime example is Static HTTPS: I think there should be a companion protocol to HTTPS for handling static requests. This would be great for caching, general performance, and even saving storage/bandwidth on things like ActivityPub.
The gist of it is that HTTPS uses a static set of keys to negotiate a dynamic set of keys and dynamically encrypts your entire conversation with the server. It's impossible to do any sort of caching on HTTPS without decrypting it first, but also there's no way to make it unique either without things like php sessions (requiring logins or backchannel confirmations).
How this would work, using the existing HTTPS keys, a request would be made similar to HTTP where the connection itself is unencrypted, but the host/url will specifically be encrypted and the payload of the data sent in return will be encrypted. If you were to cache it the same encrypted request will net the same encrypted data (unless the file behind it gets updated of course). If headers must be added then those can be encrypted separately as well, but also support unencrypted where not necessary... everything would be avoiding using headers in general for this, especially as the files are static.
(Optionally the html could also include a key explicitly for that file)
This means that anything in the middle can cache data without necessarily knowing anything about it. Meaning that something like Cloudflare could provide caching for an HTTPS website without also having to have the key.
Obviously in less secure cases where it doesn't include a special key in the html it will mean that if someone knows what site you're accessing (often an easy guess from IP unless it's something like a cloudflare protected site) they can potentially identify the file by matching to their own browsing... but these should be unimportant files anyways (ie. the google logo, css style sheets, etc), even if visible they'll be effectively signed and you'll know the site wasn't tampered with in transit.
But the really special case shines in things like the fediverse where when I make a followers-only post with a picture attached... right now either the picture is relying on obscurity (publically visible if you know the address) or it has to be embedded in the post as it's sent to the recipient.
This protocol would mean that the html of the post could include the key to the file. The receiving server wouldn't even need to support this protocol or have any change at all in ActivityPub standard to show this image, but the image would still be visible to the recipient so long as their browser or client supported it.
Example: <a href="shttps://foggyminds.com/images/123456" key="101010101"> (obviously the key would be much longer usually)
A backwards compatible call when privacy isn't a concern (ie. google logo): <a href="https://foggyminds.com/images/123456" shttps=1> (Browser with no shttps support would use https normally, but one with that support would see the shttps=1 on there and change the protocol automatically)
Minority opinion and vulnerable minority population aren't the same thing.
Just because your opinion is in the minority doesn't mean it's bigoted or unreasonable to dismiss it, only when your opinion is rooted in your status as a vulnerable population.
Me voicing about how things affect me as a trans-woman is speaking from my minority status and bears listening to because we want to be a fair and equitable society.
That doesn't mean we should take seriously the minority of people who are convinced that 1+1=3. Their minority position stems from simply being wrong about fundamental truths.
And this is in fact related to my previous... the minority who think this is Mastodon shouldn't be the leading voice on things going on in the fediverse.
If you think this is the place for privacy or control of your data... you shouldn't be leading the discussion.
Especially compared to the people who know what ostatus and gnu.social are, let alone people who know what diaspora* is.
We're going to get a wave of outrage as Mastodon rolls out quote posts and people realize that those posts don't follow delete requests of the original let alone the block settings of the original user and server. And they're going to scream and shout that this should be removed from the whole fediverse... nevermind the fact that it's only new to Mastodon.
Copying myself because I'm irritated yet again by people with their head up their ass assuming that their tiny view of the fediverse represents the whole and it's history...
This was set off by another person, yet again, complaining about bridgy-fed and thinking Snarfed is some untrustworthy asshole because he was following the actual norms and standards of the fediverse because the Twitter expats thought Mastodon was some bastion of personal control and ownership....
For context, opt-out (via just blocking the bridge) has been the norm since pretty much the beginning of federation... which the people complaining about the nature of the bridge don't realize how old federation and the community is.
For context (of the ones I'm aware of): * The first federated protocol was introduced in 1980 * The first federated chat protocol was introduced in 1999 * The first federated social networking platforms that I know of started coming out about 2010. The platform I'm on (Friendica) came out that year. * the second major federated chat protocol was introduced in 2014 and quickly bridges were built between it and the first (all only opt-out via blocking) * Mastodon wasn't released until 2016, originally on the ostatus network (Friendica supported and still supports ostatus) * Snarfed starts working on bridgy-fed around 2018 * Activitypub came out in 2018, mastodon and friendica both transitioned to Activitypub as their central protocol with Mastodon eventually dropping ostatus. * Bridges were established between Activitypub and previous social networks, all opt-out bridges (and again via blocking) * 2022 Elon Musk buys Twitter and do to good PR Mastodon becomes the instance platform of choice for most of them to the point that most of them think Mastodon is the network * 2023, Snarfed has been writing bridgy fed for 7 years now, about as long as the activitypub network has existed, long predating Bluesky (because that's not the only bridge in the project), and all of a sudden people specifically overwhelmingly on Mastodon or younger projects think it's a deep offense to build something under the same social standards that have been the norm for decades. Even then long before the bluesky portion of the bridge was fully functional they relented and switched to an approach that drastically hampered has caused countless bugs and technical difficulties just because a minority of people decided to dogpile him... and of course he's judged because other people essentially crashed a party he'd been at peacefully for years and decided to scream that he was being inappropriate when everyone who was hear already supported it...
And I really can't wait until Mastodon's roll out of quote posts hits and they start freaking out like it's a whole new and despicable thing... I'm gonna break out the popcorn for that because I can't imagine them convincing the whole fediverse to just tear out a feature that's been there for ages because they thought Mastodon made the rules lol
If any of these aren't your style, please still check out the rest of the art fundraiser linked above, there's SO many amazing works in different styles and mediums!
The infowars website is back in the hands of Jones et al.
A stop was put on the purchase of the site by a court. I highly recommend staying away from it for the time being, as you can imagine just what is being posted there at the moment.
PROS + Fast performance and cool operation + Competitive pricing + Aesthetics + 5-year warranty
CONS - it is an object that exists and obeys the laws of physics - it does not have the useless feature that you should not use ever - Not available in 4TB
The wonderful folk over at @trans_rescue@mastodon.social have been working their butts off with a very limited budget to help get trans folk out of dangerous places.
I've pulled together a collection of my stories. These were first written on twitter, some I've reposted here over the years but this is the first time a collection of them has been available.
If you want to acquire a copy of this collection all you have to do is send me proof of a £5 or more donation to Trans Rescue in a DM. (Please for the love of all that is holy redact any bank details) and I'll send you a link to the file with 60 stories and more than one hundred pages of kinky smut.
Note: trans rescue have nothing to do with this, do not hassle them about it, I'm doing this entirely on my own and if they ask me to stop I will.
yeah, guess it just mails them out. forgive our clanky donation system. our web dev is done by volunteers who are awesome, but are working in their spare time.
Things seem pretty cool here on this "fediverse". What does that mean though, the "fediverse"? I hear it's using ActivityPub. Could anyone explain to me what that means? Thanks!
This is a running gag on the fediverse, originally created at a time where I got tired of people explaining activitypub to me, which happens, especially at conferences, more than one might think.
However, the post doesn't give that context, and I'm asking people to explain AP to me. A lot of people give it an earnest try! I actually really appreciate that, and if you're one of those people, that's great. (cotd ...)
There's a big difference between explaining something unprompted, assuming they don't know, and explaining something because someone asked. The humor here is comes from many people are excited to explain and don't check my profile. I don't think negatively for someone giving a sincere reply to a request, many are nice!
Meanwhile, here it's meant to be more performance art, especially to reflect what it's like when I *don't* ask and get told. Thanks for participating!
First, to answer your question, the "Fediverse" is what we call the broader network of Social Media servers which use the ActivityPub protocol to communicate and share posts with each other: basically, the Fediverse is the network, while Mastodon is just a software. Other servers might use software like Misskey or WordPress to make and display posts, which is why we don't just call it the "Mastodon" network.
Now, some advice to get you started on here...
There is no algorithm here, so we generate our feeds by following people and hashtags. I recommend you search up a few hashtags and follow them now to get started.
I also recommend you make a post talking about yourself, using the hashtag #introduction, and adding further hashtags for the things you intend to post about. That way, you can find some followers right away.
If you have any questions or need any help, feel free to ask! 🙂
It's 100% fine, sorry about this! It's fine to let people know about where to find advice, please do keep doing so 👍
Basically, this particular thread is a running gag. When Mastodon first started getting massive numbers of people joining, some new people were "mansplaining" in great detail to Ms Lemmer-Webber about how the site worked and telling her she didn't understand it. I think with this thread she's trying to tempt someone to do this again 😁
@FediTips Thank you for the info, but for those who want to help and who are not mainsplaining, it's a trap because speaking for me not being in IT, I didn't know that... 😕
I asked my cat to purr if she created the fediverse and she purred, so I think my cat created the fediverse. I haven't gotten her to explain what the fediverse actually is though.
A conference about the present and future of ActivityPub, the world’s leading federated social web standard. This two day event will include presentations of prepared talks on Saturday followed by ...
Imagine a crazy business model where someone puts a lot of effort to provide a platform "for free" and then people use it and think themselves as absolutely clever because they just take and never pay a cent. But, they are not aware that actually the business guys take all their private information and make tons of money from targeted advertising. Fediverse is exactly that but without the money and the advertising and much more crazy business guys who don't actually have a business! 😀
It's actually Felineverse and CativityPub; created to spread cat images across the world on caturdays. However, when the final draft was saved a cat walked across the keyboard which introduced some spelling errors so here we are.
Salut et bienvenue, ActivityPub est un protocole utilisé pour interconnecter les outils du Fédiverse, cependant il est très mal documenté et manque cruellement de démonstration. Un jour peut-être il y aura une vraie documentation qui expliquera ce qui est réellement attendu, de quelle manière et surtout quels éléments obligatoires il faut pour que ça fonctionne sans avoir besoin de faire de la retro-ingéniérie dessus !
In September 2023, I started work on a book about ActivityPub for O’Reilly Media. The book is now available! O’Reilly Learning Platform Amazon Apple Books ebooks.com Kobo Upcoming event…
The Fediverse, put simply, is the collection of all the applications that interoperate using the same network and messaging protocol, ActivityPub. Mastodon, Pixelfed, OwnCast, and all other Fediverse apps all use the same messaging format spec, so that you can subscribe on your Mastodon account to see posts from someone else's PixelFed account without needing any additional tooling.
Imagine if YouTube, Twitch, Kick, email, Usenet, Wordpress, Videosift, and so an were all using the same standardized post format and talked to each other. That's the Fediverse (very simplified).
Put another way: if the Fediverse is like "the web", then Activitypub is like XHTML. Sort of.
ActivityPub is a protocol used to build a federated social network that's known as the "Fediverse". In layman's terms, instead of posts being carried by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.
The original fediverse had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic mastodons, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.
The fediverse has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal troll posts
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The kid says "I heard you were ill today so..." "Here!!!".
The viewer (boyfriend-kun)'s internal dialog is seen, and he says "Huh? A gift for me?".
The kid responds "Dont' get it wrong!!!", "It's just a small gift to thelp you get well soon"
Boyfriend-kun's internal dialog is "[she]s so cute".
The kid finally responds "It's not like I like you~" "plus like we're both boys so..."](https://foggyminds.com/photo/preview/640/5575555 "Panel 1 of the comic. Depicts a young dark skinned kid standing in the middle of a house entrance with bushes on either side of them. The kid is standing straight with their arms outstretched towards the viewer holding a card with the text \"Get Well Soon\" on it.
The kid says \"I heard you were ill today so...\" \"Here!!!\".
The viewer (boyfriend-kun)'s internal dialog is seen, and he says \"Huh? A gift for me?\".
The kid responds \"Dont' get it wrong!!!\", \"It's just a small gift to thelp you get well soon\"
Boyfriend-kun's internal dialog is \"[she]s so cute\".
The kid finally responds \"It's not like I like you~\" \"plus like we're both boys so...\"")
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