I have not had a chance to read all of this, but I was sent this information about communicating on #SocialMedia within the #fediverse:
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-get-started
"Bridgy Fed is a decentralized social network bridge. It connects the fediverse, the web, and Bluesky. If you're on one of these networks, you can use Bridgy Fed to follow people on other networks, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them." #Mastodon

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗FuckYeah ⌗DeFLock ⌗Surveillance ⌗PRivacy ⌗Technology
san․com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/”

https://mastodon.social/@Flowermob/117135774740539055

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“🤦‍♀️I really need to stop hitting these walls in background research, where I spend an hour across multiple search platforms only to come to the conclusion no work has been done on the topic in the last thirty years (a…”

https://mastodon.world/@ombialik/117135370669191014

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“'Darth Vader' comes out in favor of Flock cameras at San Diego city council meeting theguardian․com/us-news/2026/aug/21/darth-vader-flock-cameras-san-diego ⌗Surveillance ⌗Technology ⌗LocalNews”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/darth-vader-flock-cameras-san-diego

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe newscenter․lbl․gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/ Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49392200 ⌗HackerNews ⌗2Dmap ⌗unive…”

https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/117135005255953514

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
Link: san․com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=4938…”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117133859135604645

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Guten Morgen ins Fediverse ​​
Wenn es morgens noch dunkel draußen ist und man wach im Bett liegt, dann hört man hier das leider schon vertrocknete Laub rascheln. Es ist der Igel, der hier jedes Jahr sein Revier hat und die trockene Sommerzeit dieses Jahr hier überlebt hat. Nach den Regen in den letzten Tagen findet er nun endlich wieder alles was er braucht.
Ich wünsche euch einen tollen Start ins Wochenende, habt einen schönen Samstag 🤗💚

#gutenmorgen☕️☕️
#fediverse 🫶

Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor?

Please don’t post URLs that have been shortened. Link-shortening services can not only potentially *track* your interactions and add telemetry to track your behaviors, they can also *break* and make your links unusable.

You can use services like https://urlexpander.net or install an app (I like Link Unshortener (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/link-unshortener/id1506953658)) to find the ultimate destination of a shortened link, and then post that instead.

Remember, all URLs in #Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long the actual URL is, so there really is no benefit to shortening your URLs.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗Flock ⌗Cameras․ Canoodling ⌗Lawyers․ How Much ⌗Surveillance Are We Comfortable With?Americans say they hate prying cameras․ But they can’t look away․
⌗privacy ⌗alpr ⌗surveillance nytimes․com/2026…”

https://mas.to/@PrivacyDigest/117135650581548005

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Thinking about offering to write lunarpunk haikus in honour of every survey participant? The survey is about making ⌗climate action fun and engaging and like a quest to restore the planet in community with other 'pl…”

https://mastodon.green/@fastfrwrd/117134997669846108

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Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“How Many Americans Has the Government Hacked? ⌗News ⌗TechNews ⌗USA ⌗USgovernment ⌗Hacking ⌗Surveillance ⌗Oversight youtu․be/UyRTeqf9v3w”

https://mastodon.social/@NickAEsp/117135502892660931

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“My new research, article and redteam-tool: RinHit-How we built an open-source macOS reconnaissance framework that turns Wi-Fi artifacts, Bluetooth pairings, and USB history into a narrative of cross-device identity, phy…”

https://defcon.social/@toxy4ny/117134341604028401

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“perhaps everyone who occasionally (or regularly) wears ⌗spectacles will have to pick thinner frames? (I do anyway, at least for last 20 years)This at least proves the ⌗glasses are just that and can't contain any…”

https://social.tchncs.de/@vfrmedia/117135005701230995

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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse

“p․s․ Just to make clear, I'm not trying to criticise Pixelfed or this feature! 🙂 I'm just trying to inform people because the name of the feature doesn't quite match what it does, and I've regularly had to help people …”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117135746147484202

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐛🌊 Scientists have long wondered why no ⌗insects live in the ⌗ocean, often blaming ⌗water pressure․A new ⌗study found that ⌗larvae of the lake fly Chaoborus edulis dive nearly 260 m in …”

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Link: annas-archive․pk/blog/physical-destruction․html
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49385994”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117133387235614138

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Fuck off Zuckerberg, fuck off, fuck off, FUCK OFF! opensource․fb․com/linux/ ⌗Meta ⌗Linux ⌗Surveillance”

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“What happened when people with anorexia tried magic mushrooms scientificamerican․com/podcast/episode/what-happened-when-people-with-anorexia-tried-magic-mushrooms/ ⌗Science ⌗Health ⌗Research”

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what's a good free ios app for mastodon? I'm trying out ice cubes but I don't know if I like it or not. is there a way to view all the posts on someone's profile together instead of separating original posts and boosts? I like the option to only see one or the other but I want the default to be both. otherwise you're only seeing half of someone's account...

I would prefer something that could handle reactions on mastodon glitch but it's not a dealbreaker.

#mastodon #apps #iOS #IceCubes #AskFedi #fediverse #MastodonGlitch

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-21

Servers

- Funkwhale v2.0.8
- PieFed v1.7.11
- TinyAP v0.1.13
- Wafrn v2026.08.04
- Mastodon v4.7.0
- gathio v1.6.5
- NeoDB v0.17.7
- NodeBB v4.15.1
- Flox v2.7.0
- 5.0: Laying the foundation (Mastodon)

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.11.3
- chan-fe v0.3.0
- Tuba v0.11.0
- Mangane v1.24.3
- Mastodon for iOS v2026.07
- Miria v4.0.0+125
- Summit v1.84.0
- Voyager v2.48.5
- Pixelix v5.1.1

Tools and Plugins

- Pluraldawn: Decodes indicator emoji information from account avatars to provide a PluralKit-esque experience inside of various fediverse webapps

Protocol

- ActivityPub Miscellaneous Terms

Articles

- Implementing Pagination for ActivityPub Collections
- Owncast Newsletter August 2026

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a001c8-99bc-7663-85ed-1ef3e36035e8

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Flock cameras are often sold as tools for serious public-safety cases․ But a traffic-ticket story shows why ALPR mission creep matters․In episode 446 of the Shared Security Podcast, we discuss searchable vehicle-locatio…”

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“If you use Pixelfed's 'Sign in with Mastodon' feature, it does not actually sign you in with Mastodon․What it does do is create a totally new Pixelfed account every time you use this feature, and copies over info from y…”

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Opus 5 Max: A pedagogical treatise for Graduate / researcher new to the decomposition into weight × level + jump ➡️ decompwlj․com/Opus5_decompwlj_pedagogical_treatise_9th_edition_2026_08_16․html The weight is unique:…”

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Welcome to Prismo revived!

Not so long ago, after a bit of encouraging from @dansup, I decided to revive this project using more modern stack. Apart from it being more modern, it is also way lighter than before and that's my main goal when working on it: everything should be as simple, light and independent as possible.

Technical stuff

New Prismo only depends on Ruby and sqlite. JS layer is minimal and based on importmaps so no heavy build step is needed anymore. CSS is being generated by native tailwind binary so produced stylesheet files are as small as possible and generation footprint is tiny.

When it comes to federation, old Prismo was based on a code extracted from Mastodon which was both messy and far from optimal to be used by such a small and simple website. Now we're using an excellent ruby library called Fedipub instead.

Why another link aggregator?

While other projects are focused on supporting multiple groups with massive amount of people in them, Prismo is more about small cozy federated single-topic instances. Being small and simple will let us perfect our feature set more easily.

What's next?

There is no any roadmap as of yet but, for starters, i will try to bring back original feature set (as you might feel like new Prismo is a downgrade from the old one - i just brought back the essentials for now). After that - we can discuss on what's needed and what would be good to have :)

There are obviously plenty of rough edges and issues but we will get there eventually. Let me know in the comments and, as usual, boosts highly welcome! :)

Let's talk!

• Mastodon
• Matrix
• Github

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Маскировка под закон: Как провокация становится инструментом фальсификации и как от нее защититься
Одной из самых сложных и скрытых проблем в правоприменительной практике остается разграничение между легальным оперативным экспериментом (ОРМ) и юридически запрещенной провокацией.

Закон категорически запрещает искусственное склонение граждан к совершению преступлений (ст. 5 ФЗ «Об оперативно-разыскной деятельности»). Однако нечистые на руку исполнители иногда используют сложную маскировку, чтобы создать имитацию преступления и склонить человека к незаконным действиям ради показателей или вымогательства.

1. Как устроен механизм маскировки провокации?
Главная цель провокации — сделать так, чтобы умысел на совершение правонарушения выглядел как собственная инициатива жертвы, хотя изначально его не существовало.

Использование агентов-посредников («Засланные покупатели/заявители»):

Сотрудники или подконтрольные им лица (часто сами находящиеся «на крючке») неоднократно обращаются к человеку с настойчивыми просьбами, финансовыми предложениями или уговорами совершить действие (например, ускорить оформление документов, выдать справку, оказать «услугу»).

Создание искусственного безысходного положения:

Жертву ставят в условия, когда отказ от «сделки» или «помощи» грозит ей огромными убытками, срывом контракта или проблемами на работе.

Подмена понятий и фиксация на аудио/видео:

Разговор провоцируется таким образом, чтобы звуковые фразы звучали двусмысленно. На записи фиксируется только момент передачи денег или согласия, а предшествующие настойчивые уговоры и давление из материалов дела «исчезают».

2. Примеры из судебной практики (Верховный Суд РФ)
Правовая система РФ и Президиум Верховного Суда РФ неоднократно отменяли приговоры, в которых под видом следственных действий скрывалась обычная провокация:

Дело о настойчивом инсценировании (Определение ВС РФ):

Суть: Оперативные службы задействовали «покупателя», который на протяжении нескольких недель ежедневно звонил гражданину с просьбой достать запрещенные вещества/компоненты. Гражданин неоднократно отказывал, но под постоянным давлением и обещанием крупного вознаграждения в итоге согласился.

Решение суда: ВС РФ признал это прямой провокацией, так как первоначальный умысел сформировался не у подозреваемого, а у оперативников. Приговор был отменен, а дело прекращено.

Дело о провокации взятки в сфере госконтрактов:

Суть: Чиновнику или предпринимателю под видом коммерческого партнера настойчиво предлагали «откат» за подписание актов выполненных работ, хотя сам он никаких денег не требовал и намеков не делал. Деньги были подброшены/оставлены в кабинете без его прямого согласия.

Решение суда: Суд указал, что проведение оперативного эксперимента без предварительных объективных данных о том, что человек уже вымогает деньги, является недопустимым доказательством.
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Признак / Критерий Законный оперативный эксперимент Искусственная провокация
Первичный умысел Возник у гражданина ДО вмешательства органов Сформирован настойчивыми уговорами агентов
Поведение оперативников Пассивное наблюдение и фиксация Активное давление, манипуляция, предложение денег
Наличие данных Есть доказанные факты прошлых вымогательств Фактов не было, эксперимент начат «из ниоткуда»
Судебная оценка Доказательства признаются допустимыми Дело прекращается, операторы сами подпадают под ст. 304 УК
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3. Механизмы защиты и отмены фальсифицированных дел
Для нейтрализации провокационных схем в российской юриспруденции задействуются следующие нормативные рычаги:

Статья 304 УК РФ («Провокация взятки либо коммерческого подкупа»):

Законодательство предусматривает уголовную ответственность для самих сотрудников или агентов, пытавшихся передать деньги/имущество без согласия лица или с целью искусственного создания доказательств.

Истребование полных аудио- и видеозаписей ОРМ:

Адвокаты добиваются приобщения всех нередактированных записей разговоров (включая предшествующие дни и недели). Если на записях слышны сомнения, отказы и настойчивые уговоры агента — это стопроцентное основание для развала дела.

Обращение в Управление собственной безопасности (УСБ) и СК РФ:

Провокационные действия оперативных сотрудников являются грубейшим нарушением закона. Заявления в УСБ и Следственный комитет приводят к служебным проверкам и возбуждению дел против недобросовестных исполнителей.

Главный вывод: Четкая правовая грань
Закон прямо указывает: цель следственных органов — пресекать имеющиеся преступления, а не провоцировать новые. Наличие жесткой позиции Верховного Суда РФ по делам о провокациях дает надежную правовую опору для защиты: если человек не собирался совершать противоправных действий, любые попытки склонить его к этому искусственно признаются незаконными и влекут уголовную ответственность для самих провокаторов.

#право #законодательство #адвокатура #верховныйсуд #упк #защитаправ #орд #fediverse

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Системный анализ «полукриминальных» схем: Механика, признаки и способы защиты
В юридической и криминологической практике под «полукриминальными» или «серыми» схемами понимают ситуации, когда недобросовестные представители правоохранительных органов и аффилированные юристы используют формальные процессуальные нормы (УПК РФ) не для защиты закона, а как инструмент давления, отжима бизнеса или вымогательства.

Главная опасность таких схем заключается в том, что на начальном этапе они выглядят как законные следственные действия.

1. Как работают основные классические схемы давления
Схема «Провокация и искусственный состав»:

Механика: Подсылка «агента» или засланного покупателя/заказчика (в сферах госзакупок, оборота недвижимости или обмена валют). Создаются условия, при которых человек совершает действие, формально подпадающее под статью УК РФ (например, ст. 291 УК — дача взятки, или ст. 159 УК — мошенничество).

Цель: Возбуждение уголовного дела для последующего предложения «закрыть вопрос» за денежное вознаграждение или перепись активов.

Схема «Необоснованная мера пресечения (СИЗО) как рычаг»:

Механика: Вменяется статья, позволяющая ходатайствовать об аресте (часто тяжелая квалификация, например, мошенничество в особо крупном размере — ч. 4 ст. 159 УК РФ). Помещение человека в СИЗО резко снижает его способность защищаться.

Цель: Поставить человека в экстремальные условия, чтобы он подписал признательные показания, передал доли в бизнесе или согласился на выплату «компенсации».

Схема «Заказное уголовное дело в корпоративных конфликтах»:

Механика: Один из участников бизнес-конфликта привлекает нечистых на руку сотрудников силовой структуры. Гражданско-правовой спор (обычная задолженность по договору) искусственно переквалифицируется в уголовное «мошенничество».
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Схема / Механизм Формальный повод Реальная цель Ключевой инструмент давления
Искусственный заказ Якобы завышение цен в контракте / некомплект Передел бизнеса или вымогательство Задержание, обыски, выемка техники
Провокация Инициирование передачи денег/услуги Фабрикация статьи (взяточничество/услуги) Аффилированные «свидетели» и агенты
Гражданский спор -> УК Задержка поставки, долг по договору Выбивание долга или захват доли Угроза заключения под стражу (СИЗО)
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2. Положительная информация: Институциональные и юридические механизмы защиты
Несмотря на наличие коррупционных рисков, в современной правовой системе РФ существуют эффективные механизмы противодействия и защиты от подобных схем:

Законодательные ограничения на арест предпринимателей:

Статья 108 УПК РФ прямо запрещает применение меры пресечения в виде заключения под стражу (СИЗО) по экономическим преступлениям (в сфере предпринимательской деятельности), если отсутствуют тяжелые отягчающие обстоятельства.

Специализированные институты защиты:

Уполномоченный по защите прав предпринимателей (Бизнес-омбудсмен): Обладает полномочиями входить в процессы, запрашивать материалы прокурорских проверок и приостанавливать незаконные действия.

Антикоррупционные подразделения (УСБ МВД, УСБ ФСБ, СК РФ): Управление собственной безопасности ведет реальную работу по выявлению и привлечению к уголовной ответственности сотрудников, занимающихся вымогательством и превышением полномочий (ст. 286, 290 УК РФ).

Фиксация и Адвокатский контроль:

Фиксация провокаций: Судебная практика Верховного Суда РФ жестко трактует оперативный эксперимент: если доказано, что умысел на преступление возник в результате действий правоохранителей (провокация), такие доказательства признаются недопустимыми, а дело прекращается.

Независимая аудиторская и правовая экспертиза: Доказывает отсутствие состава преступления и наличие чисто гражданско-правового спора, что лишает следствие основания для уголовного преследования.

Главный вывод: Важность превентивной правовой гигиены
«Серые» схемы работают только там, где отсутствует публичность и квалифицированная юридическая защита. Главные способы нейтрализации подобных рисков — ведение прозрачного бизнеса, фиксация всех контактов с проверяющими органами и привлечение независимых адвокатов на самых ранних этапах любых проверок (до момента возбуждения дела).

#право #законодательство #коррупция #защитабизнеса #упк #адвокатура #безопасность #fediverse

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CW: Правовой анализ, институциональная коррупция, Уголовно-процессуальный кодекс РФ, адвокатский контроль, судебная практика, антикоррупци

Added @sutty (@distributedpress CMS), #gofed, #Habitat, #Forte (streams fork) and #Sakura (Misskey fork) icons to #FediverseIconography at https://fediverse.wake.st (repo at https://codeberg.org/FediverseIconography)
#fediverse #ActivityPub

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a screenshot of icons for Kitsune, Librecast, Newsmast, Sutty, go-fed, Habitat, Forte, and Sakura

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“⌗flock ⌗surveillance”

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“Three millennia of lizard and snake consumption by Natufian foragers'Our results demonstrate that reptile exploitation was an established and persistent dietary practice and that squamate consumption intensity is linked…”

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“We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon
Link: encore․dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49384716”

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Теневой спектр: как криминал и специальные службы отслеживают человека через окружающие поля
Современные методы слежки давно вышли за рамки классической прослушки или физического «хвоста». Криминальные элементы и государственные структуры используют физические свойства электромагнитных и инфракрасных полей, превращая городскую инфраструктуру и средства связи в инструменты постоянного контроля.

Главный сдвиг современных технологий заключается в том, что объекту слежки больше не нужно носить с собой включенные гаджеты — сама среда вокруг человека фиксирует его присутствие.

1. Технология радиочастотного зондирования (RF Sensing / Wi-Fi & 5G Radar)
Эта технология позволяет «видеть» силуэты и перемещения людей сквозь стены и препятствия, используя обычные сигналы Wi-Fi и 5G.

Принцип действия: Радиоволны, излучаемые роутерами, вышками сотовой связи и смартфонами, непрерывно отражаются от предметов и человеческого тела. Человек не излучает радиоволна самостоятельно, но выступает как физический отражатель. Специальное ПО с алгоритмами ИИ анализирует задержки и фазовые сдвиги отраженного сигнала (Channel State Information — CSI и Beamforming Feedback Information — BFI), строя 3D-модель помещения и находящихся в нем объектов.

Применение в слежке: Злоумышленникам или операторам спецоборудования достаточно перехватывать открытые пакеты обратной связи Wi-Fi/5G-сетей в радиусе действия. Это позволяет фиксировать местоположение человека, его походку, дыхание и пульс без какого-либо прямого контакта или установки видеокамер.

2. Тепловое излучение и инфракрасный диапазон (10 мкм)
Человеческое тело постоянно генерирует тепловое излучение с длиной волны около 10 мкм (длинноволновый инфракрасный диапазон, LWIR). Это базовое свойство метаболизма, которое невозможно «выключить» или заблокировать стандартной одеждой.

Принцип действия: Тепловизионные матрицы (микроболометры) считывают разницу температур между телом человека (~36.6 °C) и окружающей средой. В отличие от обычных ночных камер, тепловизорам не требуется внешняя подсветка — они видят в абсолютной темноте, сквозь дым, туман и легкие препятствия.

Применение в слежке: Высокоразрешающие тепловизоры и микро-дроны с тепловыми датчиками позволяют отслеживать человека по «тепловому следу» (оставленные на предметах тепловые отпечатки рук, нагрев сиденья в машине), определяя его путь и действия с задержкой в несколько минут.

3. Комплексный мониторинг: Сочетание телекома и правительственного оборудования
При государственном слежении и сложной криминальной разведке радиочастотные и инфракрасные методы объединяются с телекоммуникационными системами:

IMSI-Catcher («Ложные базовые станции» / «Скат»): Портативное спецоборудование, перехватывающее сигнал мобильного телефона в радиусе действия. Оно заставляет смартфон подключиться к себе под видом вышки 5G/4G, позволяя считывать уникальные идентификаторы (IMSI, IMEI), определять точные координаты и фильтровать трафик.

СОРМ / СОРМ-3 и Триангуляция: Системы технического съема информации на стороне операторов связи. Позволяют определять местоположение абонента с точностью до нескольких метров за счет разности времени прибытия сигнала (TDoA) на несколько секторов базовых станций.

Нейросетевая интеграция: Данные от RF-зондирования (Wi-Fi/5G), тепловизионных комплексов городской инфраструктуры и гироскопов/акселерометров смартфонов объединяются в единый аналитический поток. Это позволяет идентифицировать «цифровой и физический профиль» человека даже при смене SIM-карт и попытках маскировки.
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Метод слежки Физическая основа Требование к объекту Возможности защиты
RF-зондирование (Wi-Fi/5G) Отражение радиоволн от тела Наличие радиополя вокруг Использование радиопоглощающих экранов
Тепловизионный контроль Инфракрасное излучение (10 мкм) Излучение телом тепла Специальные термоизоляционные накидки
IMSI-Catcher (Ложная вышка) Перехват сигналов GSM/5G Включенный радиомодуль Перевод устройства в «Авиарежим» / Фарадей-чехол
СОРМ / Триангуляция Задержка сигнала на базах Подключение к сотовой сети Отказ от использования SIM-карт
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Главный вывод: Невидимая среда контроля
Современная слежка трансформировалась из штучного наблюдения за конкретным устройством в системный анализ окружающей среды. Смешение физических принципов (отражение радиоволн, снятие тепловых профилей) с телекоммуникационным перехватом делает пространство мегаполиса прозрачным для операторов специализированного оборудования.

#слежка #безопасность #5g #wifi #тепловизоры #технологии #сорт #fediverse

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CW: Цифровая слежка, технологии досмотра, спецсредства, радиочастотное зондирование, тепловизионный контроль. Теневой спектр: как криминал

#BostonWeekend oh and yeah, if you're new, each week I set aside an hour and look at a buncha events listings, calendars, social media feeds, and email newsletters, and curate a thread of stuff that might be worth the trip. I'm stubborn and do this all by hand myself, no funding, no ai, and share it exclusively on the #Fediverse as a way to nurture the #boston area community. Y'all know how the algorithm doesn't exist to help folks with discovery, if this is useful, please boost to get the word out, yeah? And when you're talking with friends who aren't currently fedi-enabled, this kind of project is something nice to chat about, maybe? Let's keep this place alive and local events happenin'.

The source code of #FediHood is now available under the AGPLv3.

A #Fediverse app using #OpenStreetMap to display timelines close to you, filtered by topics.

More about the project: https://fedihood.social/about

Source code: https://git.holos.social/tom79/FediHood

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“OpenAI is trying to out-Meta Meta․That all these companies gravitate towards the same Orwellian 'big brother is watching you' surveillance business model, tells you this is not just an Altman personality defect․ This sh…”

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“A070552: Semiprimes k such that k+1 is also a semiprime
A070552 ➡️ oeis․org/A070552 3D graph, threejs - webGL ➡️ decompwlj․com/3Dgraph/A070552․html
3D graph Gen, threejs animation ➡️ decompwlj․com/3DgraphGen/A0…”

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Hello v4.7.0 , how are you ?

#mastodon #fediverse #selfhosted #socialmedia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/117134196889411019

I love #mastodon and the #fediverse because a post about old books by a feminist writer can go trending on here 💚

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“When Darth Vader Jokes About Flock, the Joke Has a Point ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/when-darth-vader-jokes-about-flock-the-joke-has-a-point/”

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“💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌌⚡ Astronomers in ⌗Chile confirmed the fastest ⌗star ever measured in the ⌗MilkyWay, S301, which swings around Sagittarius A*, the ⌗blackhole at our ⌗galaxy ’s center․At closest approach i…”

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“🕵️ Latest from ⌗Surveillance ⌗Technology Oversight Project (S․T․O․P․) ⌗NYC 'ICE reportedly used surveillance tools and subpoenas to identify online critics—often without filing charges․'All of this is abou…”

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“While AI has totally collapsed the cost of shipping a piece of software, the cost of shipping the wrong software has never been higher!Why it matters: The key shift nobody is naming is the move from 'can we build this?'…”

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“Consumer Rights Wiki
Link: consumerrights․wiki/w/Main_Page
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49378243”

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Juliette, 2013–2026.

I wrote down what remained of her life and the way it ended.

https://juliette.oliinyk.com

#Grief #Dachshund #PetLoss #Juliette #Fediverse #Blog #Thougts #Loss #Health #Pets #PetsOfMastodon

IndieAuthors.social - Mastodon server for independent self-published authors to discuss writing and to support each other. Fans of their work are also welcome.

This server has a post size of up to 1500 characters.

https://indieauthors.social

You can find out more at https://indieauthors.social/about or contact the admin account @admin

#FeaturedServer #IndieAuthors #Authors #Writing #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

In short, Fediverse Report says that launching Threads as part of the Fediverse is basically dead in the water. They have decided not to pursue it in 2026, and nobody is actively developing it anymore.

Well, good riddance, I guess. It was fun before it even started. Many of us saw this coming. I would not be surprised if they phase it out completely over the next few years. The Fediverse was never a real priority for them, it was just marketing hype all along. Just like some open source LARPing from the Big Tech corporates.

Direct quote:

"Threads’ integration with the fediverse is on maintenance mode, says head of Threads Connor Hayes in an interview by Alex Heath. Hayes said about the fediverse: ““It’s something that we’re supporting, it’s something that we’re maintaining, but it’s not the thing that we’re talking about that’s gonna help the app break out”. In October 2023, Mark Zuckerberg gave an interview with Alex Heath, who asked him about decentralisation and open protocols, with Zuckerberg saying he “always believed in this stuff“. With the fediverse integration for Threads now in maintenance mode, this must surely be a big blow for Zuckerberg’s belief in decentralised social networking.

Threads’ integration with the fediverse was never popular, especially from the side of Threads. In January 2025 the mastodon.social knew about 25k Threads accounts which had turned on federation. But while that number is already low considering the total number of Threads users, the interest in actually following an account on Mastodon from Threads was even lower: in January 2025, only 800 Threads users followed at least one account on mastodon.social. Threads deliberately made it difficult to follow fediverse accounts, and later updates deprioritised the fediverse feed even more. Regardless, it is not particularly hard to understand why a platform that now boasts about having 400M monthly active users is not putting in much effort to maintain a complex system that only a few thousand people at best make use of."

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-147/

#FediverseThreads #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Protocols #Platforms #SocialMedia #Mastodon

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Fediverse Threads marketing photo with post-like bubble shared to Fediverse

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“📷 32 new license plate readers just reported around South Amboy, NJ․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗SouthAmboy ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-…”

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“Zombie Cards Back Online: Reviving Expired Credit Cards for Contactless Payments - ⌗Research Paper published at USENIX Security Conference 2026 ⌗Infosec usenix․org/conference/usenixsecurity26/presentation/anwar”

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“⌗government ⌗surveillance ⌗privacy ⌗technology ⌗psychology michaelfillimowicz․substack․com/p/surveillance-as-self-censorship-machinery”

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“europesays․com/3205599/ Why whales are being drawn to ‘feeding frenzies’ within Arctic Circle ⌗animals ⌗Arctic ⌗ArcticCircle ⌗ClimateChange ⌗Conflicts ⌗Danmark ⌗denmark ⌗Greenland ⌗Ma…”

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I found a 30 y/o video that I had not been able to play on windows for decades, but #Linux helped me out so I could update the format. #ZorinOS preserving memories I thought was lost forever. 🐧☺️🐾

#dogs #dogdad #mudbath #happy #Norway #fediverse

I'm a big fan of Sill, a service that connects to your Mastodon account in read-only mode (and your ATProto account, if you're so inclined), and then sends you a daily newsletter with popular links! (i.e. that had lots of reboosts among your follows)

https://sill.social

Now that's my beloved free software

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #ATProto #Sill

Ah, these spam sign-ups... Bots, most likely. Spam, most likely.

For the past month they've been adding random bios ~ that already exist across Fedi accounts ~ as a reason for requesting a sign-up.

Today I rejected an sign-up request that had a bio of a person I'm actually mutual with. Fame must be theirs.

#Mod #SignUp #Fediverse #Mastodon

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“I like this․ A positive use for Flock cameras: assume Flock cameras mean a high crime rate area and you are a part of it․ gadgetreview․com/flock-cameras-are-affecting-the-housing-market-homebuyers-are-checking-surveill…”

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“The Astro Fair is just around the corner!

Do you want to set up an astronomy club at your school? This area has information on what needs to be done to start and promote your club, activities, and more․ There will a…”

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“I Am Morally Opposed to Updating My Claude․md
Link: alex-jacobs․com/posts/claudemd/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49376287”

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Ein Blick lohnt vielleicht. Der Bedarf für eine Alternative zu Xing oder LinkedIn ist jedenfalls vorhanden.

#Fediverse #Xing #Linkedin #vutuv
vutuv

We are open source, cooperatively-run, community-led and in the process of joining the social web. We're also working collaboratively with others in the space towards different modes of decentralisation, going against enshittification and one-size-fits-all approaches.

If you'd like to support our work and help allocate more resources towards these things, there are several ways to do so at the link below. Thank you! 💪🐦‍⬛

https://mirlo.space/team/tip

#SupportUs #Fediverse #Support #Coop #Coops

https://codeberg.org/skittr/skittr-fe
here's my wip fedi client, only works with mastodon api

#mastodon #fediverse #fedidev

Today my Termix answered with a 404 this morning 🫠 CloudFront was fine, EC2 was fine (obviously since 404 was returned from nginx). There was just nothing behind it.

Termix on :latest, the host updates everything at night, and by morning it was exit 1, restart, 1, restart.

It is a Graviton box, so I went at the architecture first and the architecture was innocent. docker inspect said linux/arm64. Right image, right machine.

The mismatch was inside it. better-sqlite3 ships a prebuilt binary linked against GLIBC 2.38 and the image has 2.36, so the linker refuses and node never starts.

Pinned 2.6.1 and it came back (AWS Sessions Manager saved me).

I put :latest there on purpose a year ago, FOMO, and because it is only a homelab. A homelab I route every other server through.

ntfy has been sending me those logs every night. I read them.

I am clearly going to keep reading them exactly the same way. The hard lesson learned.

Bug Report is still open BTW: https://github.com/Termix-SSH/Support/issues/1184

#Linux #Docker #AWS #Graviton #SelfHosting #Blog #Thoughts #DevOps #Fediverse #Termix

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Diagram titled From :latest to 404, subtitled it moved overnight, I found out in the morning. On the left a numbered chain of six steps under the heading how the bastion went down. 01, colon latest, a tag I chose on purpose. 02, at night, the host pulls and restarts. 03, termix 2.7.0, new image, linux slash arm64. 04, its prebuild, wants GLIBC 2.38. 05, the base image, has GLIBC 2.36. 06, exit 1, crash loop, then a 404. On the right, under the heading what it was saying all night, a black panel labelled docker logs termix shows the error output: version GLIBC_2.38 not found, required by better_sqlite3.node. Below it three rows. docker inspect, linux slash arm64, right image. issue 1184, already open, same error. pin 2.6.1, and it came back. At the bottom a note reads: a prebuilt binary carries the glibc it was built on. Nothing on the host changed, the tag moved underneath it.

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“Oconee Country in ⌗southcarolina has decided to remove all ⌗flock ⌗surveillance from country roads․ Props to them for making the right decision! ⌗news”

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“The Interesting Part of Regenerative Peptide Research Isn't the Peptide․ It's What the Tissue Does Next chronogram․com/resource-guide/the-interesting-part-of-regenerative-peptide-research-isnt-the-peptide-its-what-the-…”

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@Cinnamoncoffee Willkommen im #Fediverse. 👋

In meinem Uber gab es heute ein Karaoke-Mikrofon. Ich war kurz davor den Fahrer zu fragen, ob er auch passend "Schnappi das Krokodil" spielt, denn das war hier in Taiwan um 2009/10 tatsaechlich ein kleiner Hit 😀

Moin #Fediverse und euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Freitag. Alles wird gut!

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Eine Aufnahme aus dem Innenraum eines Autos (vermutlich eines Taxis), die auf die Rückseite des Vordersitzes gerichtet ist. Zentrales Motiv: In der Sitztasche des schwarzen Vordersitzes steckt ein auffälliges, kabelloses Karaoke-Mikrofon in Roségold und Weiß mit integriertem Lautsprecher und Bedientasten. Details & Umgebung: Links neben dem Mikrofon schauen zwei weiße Schraubverschlüsse von Wasserflaschen aus der Tasche hervor. Der Fußraum ist in lilafarbenes Ambientelicht getaucht, und rechts ist die Mittelkonsole mit den hinteren Lüftungsschlitzen erkennbar.

What do you like the most about the Fediverse and Mastodon? 👀

#Fediverse #Mastodon #AskFedi

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“DOWN WITH FLOCK! DEFLOCK DEFLOCK DEFLOCK ⌗deflock ⌗flock ⌗surveillance ⌗․․․
youtube․com/shorts/OHmHnvZe3yc?si=fedrze8A-unUMhsK”

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“University of Exeter: Scientists increasingly depend on ‘black-box’ tools they cannot control or fully understand․ 'As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, this lack of transparency will make scientific findings hard…”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/20/university-of-exeter-scientists-increasingly-depend-on-black-box-tools-they-cannot-control-or-fully-understand/

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Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

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“When it comes to ⌗ALPRs, it's not just cops and cities who are watching․․․ Watch and read the full interview plus get all our ⌗surveillance coverage at binj․news/2026/08/06/the-muslim-justice-league-and-a-nation…”

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“Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload
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@dansup

Looking beautiful! Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering how similar the Loops and Pixelfed apps are? Are you trying to use similar interaction patterns between them so one feels familiar to users of the other, or are you trying to fit the UX specifically around the medium?

#Loops #Pixelfed #Fediverse

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“The Early Medieval Crucible: Viking, Magyar, and Saracen Contestation and the Forging of New Orders'This study has argued that the simultaneous and pervasive contestation from Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens was not mere…”

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If anyone is interested in starting a band, I can confidently bring the following to the table:

• I have a really cool band name in mind (this is the most important point in this list)
• I'm pretty pissed off about right-wing politics and fascist douchebags doing fascist stuff (really close second place for importance)
• Love songs are cool also

This post started out as a joke, but by the end of the bullet list I realized it would be fun and probably doable, or at least (for me) worth a try, so I kept thinking and wrote a bunch of stuff below. If you're not interested in the actual possibility of forming a band, then you should probably ignore the rest of this message and accept the somewhat-lame joke up to the end of the bullet list above.

I figure a band with interested people from the #fediverse could be pretty neat. We could send recordings around and add tracks, like The Postal Service but way cooler, of course. So much cooler. Note that "cooler" is not the same as "more skilled"; that's not a punk thing to think. It's capitalist thinking.

Things you should know if you are considering this idea with any interest

Me: I'm old by rock standards (mid-50s). I play rhythm guitar and sing. It's best not to ask tough questions like "how well do you sing?" or "do you know all the chords?" I can also play bass, somewhat less goodly. Really, what do you need for bass besides a bunch of 1s and 5s, and occasionally some 4s and 3s? Don't answer that. I'm probably too old to scream-sing but I can sing with irony, sarcasm, or possibly with feeling. I also like singing backup for people who sing better than I do. Like 90% of the human race I also write songs, which is either good, bad, or neither, depending on personal taste. Puedo hablar y escribir en español, también, pero no con fluencia perfecta.

My motivation: I deeply enjoy making music. At the same time I have, let's say, limited music-specific ambition due to structural issues: I'm not going to quit my job or miss important milestones in my daughter's life for a band, and I'm probably not driving more than 3 hours from Western New York (USA), with the possible exception of summertime, when maybe I would. Actually, 3 hours is a lot. I would need a good reason. I would not expect anyone else to have a greater level of commitment than I do, so this would probably be a long-distance internet-type collaboration, potentially with long gaps in progress and maybe with some members (maybe including me) dropping out and coming back as their lives required.

Genre: I'm most familiar with what I can do alone with a guitar: folk (sometimes with a punk spin), acoustic punk, mopey navel-gazing, parody, satire, opinionated 80s-00s covers, and apparently bluegrass. I'm open to almost any genre another person might want to play, though I see some potential roadblocks: I don't think I'm a good fit for serious metal, mainstream country, sugary pop, or any genre requiring a high degree of musical virtuosity like jazz or Klezmer (or serious metal). I don't think I have much to contribute to a fully electronic sound, either. That's all potentially malleable, though. I'm most interested in collaboration, so who knows? Maybe I could contribute somehow to an EDM metal free-jazz klezmer collective.

What would this band need? Attitude! Flexibility! Desire to do musical things, probably at a distance! More music-specifically: Bass, lead guitar, keyboards, drums (OMG so much this; drummers are precious unto all gods of all religions), strings, and Way Better Singing come to mind. DJ stylings or beats or electronic stuff I don't understand? Sure, why not? Experimental stuff that makes Bjork seem like Britney Spears? Maybe! Again, I'm more interested in music collaboration than anything else.

Kind of Important: I don't see this happening except as a "sending tracks back and forth" type thing, so everyone involved needs to be able to record their stuff as a track on top of (and separate from, but in time with) whatever already exists. This isn't necessarily too difficult or expensive. If you're interested but this is the sticking point, ask me questions and I'll tell you what I know and/or search for answers.

Other things

I guess I should say that some basic musicality would be helpful, though (a) my music reading sucks so bad it's embarrassing, and (b) I've been in a couple of cover bands featuring musicians who didn't know what "notes" were, couldn't keep a rhythm, couldn't play their instruments at first, and couldn't sing on key. Those bands were (one still is) delightful for me; the experience just becomes something a bit different from the usual. It becomes partly about supporting those members in their growth. I also know my musical skills are very weak compared to a lot of other musicians, and sometimes I'm the person being nurtured and helped along.

If you care about the music being heard by people who are not in the band, then it might help if you have literally any idea how to do "marketing" or "PR". If you don't care, then ignore the previous sentence.

A Mastodon post seems like very ineffective way to create a band, which kind of suits me just fine, right now. I'm a somewhat busy person thinking of yet more things I'd love to do. If something happens from this invitation, I'm open to it. If not, I'll just spend more time doing research.

After all the negative info above, remember the most important thing: I have a cool band name in mind. I don't rule out someone having a better one, but this one is really pretty good. You might think the name has to do with science or research or stats or psych, but you would be wrong. I have cool band names like that, but this one is better.

#JoinABand #band #rockmusic #musicians

THE FEDIVERSE CERTAINLY HASN'T
ABOLISHED ARSEHOLES 💎

I spent part of this morning answering a fairly large pile of comments on my posts. And somewhere between my breathwork, lighting the fire and drinking my coffee, I noticed something.

NOBODY WAS BEING HORRIBLE.

People disagreed with me. People corrected things I said. People brought different experiences and different political views. There were jokes, arguments, questions and tangents. But almost none of that peculiar tension I became accustomed to on the big closed social platforms.

YOU KNOW THE FEELING.

Someone says something mildly contentious, and suddenly twelve strangers are preparing for the next Battle of Facebook. I haven't experienced much of that here. Perhaps I've simply been lucky. The Fediverse certainly hasn't abolished arseholes. Give humanity sufficient time, and I'm confident we'll manage to decentralise those too.

But I wonder whether something structural is happening? The giant platforms discovered that anger, fear and outrage are extraordinarily good at keeping human beings engaged. Conflict isn't necessarily an unfortunate side effect of the system. It can be profitable.

Here, there isn't one enormous corporation deciding what billions of people should see next in order to keep them scrolling. And perhaps that changes the temperature of the room.

THERE'S ANOTHER POSSIBILITY TOO.

Maybe our communities become partly what we practise in them. If disagreement is treated as conversation rather than combat, people begin behaving accordingly. I don't need everyone here to agree with me.

IN FACT, THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLY BORING.

I just rather like being somewhere where disagreement doesn't automatically require a body to reach for a flamethrower. So far, the Fediverse feels less like an audience being managed... and more like people talking.

I hadn't realised how much I'd missed that.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenWeb #Community #flamethrower #ARSEHOLES

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Me at my computer in Hobart, Tasmania. This is an AI-prompted image, but it is remarkably accurate. The slimmer body, white T-shirt, white beard, long hair, cream headphones, computer, fire and tree ferns outside the window are all very close to reality. Apparently, this is what 70 looks like from the outside, although I don’t feel that old.

Another cool thing about the #Fediverse:

IF (most likely NOT gonna happen) a major instance or smaller ones would be sold to whatever evil entity that wants to use it to influence our network…

…most of the rest of the Fediverse would simply block them and local users migrate to a different instance for example

What I’m saying is, the Fedi cannot be bought by an evil billionaire 🤷

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Here's v0.3.0 of ties, the federated bookmark manager, with a new light mode, flexible bookmark editing tools, and a critical security fix!

If you're using ties, please update at your earliest convenience. If you're not using it yet, now's a good time to try it out!

https://github.com/raffomania/ties/releases/tag/v0.3.0

#fediverse #selfhosted #activitypub #rust #htmx

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Screenshot of the ties home screen, with one half of the image showing the light mode, and the other half the dark mode.

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Никотиновый капкан: как легальный табак блокирует когнитивные функции и критику мышления
Продающийся в магазинах табак и никотинсодержащая продукция (сигареты, стики, вейпы) часто воспринимаются как «безобидная легальная привычка». Однако с точки зрения нейробиологии и токсикологии воздействие никотина на мозг строится на тех же фундаментальных механизмах угнетения когнитивных функций, что и при других формах химической зависимости.

Сигарета не просто наносит физический урон легким и сосудам — она создаёт иллюзию снятия стресса, поэтапно «отключая» ключевые отделы головного мозга, отвечающие за глубокое мышление, самоконтроль и долгосрочное планирование.

1. Нейробиологический механизм: Что происходит с мозгом при затяжке?
Никотин — это алкалоид, который мгновенно преодолевает гематоэнцефалический барьер и в течение 7–10 секунд достигает головного мозга:

Искусственный всплеск и истощение дофамина: Никотин связывается с ацетилхолиновыми рецепторами, вызывая мощный выброс дофамина. Это создает кратковременный сигнал «вознаграждения». Однако мозг мгновенно реагирует снижение естественной чувствительности рецепторов. Без сигареты человек попадает в состояние микро-абстиненции, когда мышление блокируется фоновой тревогой.

Угнетая префронтальную кору: Префронтальная кора (LTP) отвечает за критическое мышление, контроль импульсов, силу воли и сложную аналитическую работу. При постоянном поступлении никотина нормальная нейропластичность префронтальной коры снижается. Мозг переходит из режима «глубокого анализа» в режим «поиска следующей дозы».

Спазм сосудов и хроническая гипоксия: Каждый акт курения вызывает мгновенный спазм периферических и головных сосудов (через выброс адреналина). Мозг начинает испытывать кислородное голодание (гипоксию). В долгосрочной перспективе это приводит к снижению скорости обработки информации и ухудшению памяти.
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Параметр воздействия Физиологический механизм Влияние на работу ума и поведение
Капиллярный спазм Мгновенное сужение сосудов головного мозга Снижение скорости мышления, фоновая головная боль, утомляемость
Десенситизация рецепторов Падение чувствительности к ацетилхолину Потеря способности концентрироваться без никотинового стимула
Блокировка префронтальной коры Смещение фокуса на удовлетворение синдрома отмены Снижение критической оценки рисков, импульсивность
Хроническая гипоксия Уменьшение притока кислорода к нейронам Постепенное ухудшение долговременной и рабочей памяти
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3. Легальный психоактивный деструктор: Почему табак свободен в продаже?
Свободная продажа табачных изделий создает опасный психотерапевтический миф: если продукт продается в магазине, значит, он «не отключает мозг так, как тяжелые вещества». Это иллюзия.

Замена истинного расслабления на снятие синдрома отмены: Сигарета не расслабляет курильщика — она лишь временно снимает тревогу и раздражение, вызванные предыдущей сигаретой. Мозг сигаретного аддикта постоянно находится в состоянии разорванного внимания.

Паралич критического восприятия: Курение становится «автоматическим ритуалом». В моменты стресса вместо включения механизмов адаптации и поиска решений человек выбирает паузу на курение, откладывая решение проблемы и блокируя работу аналитических отделов мозга.

Главный вывод: Постепенная деградация нейронных сетей
В отличие от веществ, вызывающих мгновенный психоз или отключение сознания, табак действует как медленный нейротоксический и сосудистый деструктор.

Он не отключает мозг одномоментно, а планомерно сужает его когнитивный диапазон: человек теряет способность к длительной глубокой концентрации, становится зависим от быстрых дофаминовых стимулирований и тратит колоссальный ресурс нервной системы просто на то, чтобы поддерживать работоспособность в перерывах между затяжками.

#нейробиология #никотин #зависимость #префронтальнаякора #здоровье #мозг #когнитивистика #fediverse

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CW: Нейробиология, никотиновая зависимость, когнитивные искажения, префронтальная кора, сосудистая патология, деградация институтов. Нико?

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“⌗books ⌗ideas ⌗government ⌗technology ⌗NSA ⌗surveillance ⌗Snowden ⌗privacy ⌗humanrights ⌗civilliberties”

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“Don't Paste the AI, please
Link: dontpastetheai․com/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49371857”

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Just found out Vivaldi Radio exists.

https://radio.vivaldi.net

What an interesting idea, genuinely didn't see this coming from a browser company.

Trying it.

I love how this company keeps evolving, and honestly their whole product line right along with it.

@Vivaldi

#Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #VivaldiRadio #Radio #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts

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“Surveillance Daily: August 20, 2026 ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/surveillance-daily-august-20-2026/”

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“🇷🇺 🧬 An ancient DNA perspective on the Russian conquest of Yakutia'We found Yakut origins tracing back to local populations that admixed with Trans-Baikal groups migrating as the Great Mongol Empire spread․ Despite …”

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No, you can't follow me. What even is this? According to reverse image search:

This image shows Nadia Calviño, the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and former First Vice-President and Minister for Economy, Trade and Enterprise of Spain

Getting these botcreeps from mastodon.social about once a day lately. I'd block the whole stupid domain if that wouldn't mean half the fediverse.

#fediverse

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It says Laura Hamilton

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This is NOT "Laura Hamilton"

Komm zum #FediTreff im Oktober in #NeuUlm

Wir wollen das #Fediverse, also faire Soziale Netzwerke wie #Mastodon in der Region #Ulm stärken.

Interesse? Dann stimme schon mal ab, welcher Termin es werden soll.

Wir (@eppelt @mihiosswald @georg) freuen uns auf den Austausch und haben auch schon ein paar konkretere Ideen:
- Mastodon-Workshop in Ulm-Böfingen #FediBoe
- lokale Mastodon-Instanz für die Region
- Influenzen auf Insta

#FediUlm #UnserSocialMedia #OurSocialMedia #NeuHier

🐘 Mon instance Mastodon vient de passer en 4.7.0 !

Grosse mise à niveau côté interne (sécurité, nouveaux protocoles ActivityPub, préparation à la 5.0), presque invisible côté utilisateurs — mais ça méritait un petit guide.

📝 J'en ai profité pour documenter toute la procédure Docker Compose (backup, migrations, bascule) sur mon wiki, pour celles et ceux qui gèrent leur propre instance :
👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/mise-a-niveau-mastodon-docker

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littleFedi and your data

Several people have asked me the same thing over the past few days, in different words but with the same question underneath: "if I set up a littleFedi instance, or open an account on one that is already running, what ends up stored somewhere?".

It is a fair question and it deserves a precise answer. So I went back and reread the code, the database schema and the default configuration, and what follows is what I found. Including the parts I do not like, and the parts no fediverse software can solve.

One premise that applies to everything else: littleFedi is a binary running on a server. Whoever administers that server has access to the database. This is true for littleFedi, for Mastodon, for snac, for GoToSocial, for anything. The difference is how much that database holds, and how much of it leaves for the outside world without anyone asking.

The database holds the obvious things: username, display name, bio, avatar, header image, the key pair that is the account's ActivityPub identity, posts, favourites, follows, blocks, mutes, bookmarks, lists, filters.

Then the preferences: theme, interface language, default post language, default visibility, which notifications you want by email, which by push. Functional stuff.

Email is optional. require_email is false by default: on a single-user instance you can leave it out entirely, and on a multi-user one it is the operator who decides whether to require it. If you do provide it, it is used for verification, password reset and the notifications you chose. Nothing else.

The password is hashed with bcrypt. The TOTP secret, if you enable the second factor, is encrypted at rest, not stored in the clear.

And here is something I want to say because it was a deliberate choice: every bearer token is stored as a SHA-256 hash, never in the clear. Session tokens, OAuth access and refresh tokens, application client secrets, password reset tokens, email verification tokens. Anyone who walks off with a copy of the database does not walk off with reusable credentials.

We did a cleanup on exactly this just yesterday. The sessions table had been carrying a legacy token compatibility column for a long time, inherited from an older schema. It held nothing dangerous, because the function that creates sessions was writing the hash into it rather than the browser token, and I checked that this is the only path that leads to an insert. But the guarantee lived in one line of Go, not in the schema. A line of Go can be removed by accident; a column that does not exist cannot. So I dropped the column with a migration, and now there is simply nowhere in the sessions table for a token in the clear to end up.

There is exactly one place where an IP address ends up

The sessions table. When you log in, littleFedi saves the session row with: hashed token, creation date, expiry, User-Agent and IP address.

It serves one purpose: the Settings > Sessions page, where you can see your active logins and revoke them one at a time. It is your data, shown to you. There is no admin screen listing users' IP addresses, and we did not write one on purpose.

Sessions last 30 days and are removed by automatic maintenance when they expire, along with the push subscriptions attached to them.

What is not saved, and what other software does save:

• No registration IP. Until yesterday the registration struct had a field for the IP and one for the User-Agent that nobody ever read: the data arrived inside the function and died there, without touching the database. We took them out. I did ask myself whether it was worth actually recording it, the way Mastodon does, and the answer I arrived at is no. There is really only one use case, the wave of fake accounts created in bulk, and in that case you already have the data: a freshly registered account that is spamming has an open session, and that session holds the IP and the User-Agent. Someone who registers and never logs in is not spamming. On top of that the IP is a weak signal in itself, between CGNAT, mobile carriers and VPNs, while invites, manual approval and email verification are real defences. And unlike the session, which expires in 30 days and disappears, a column like that would stay attached to the account forever: one more entry in the privacy policy, one more target in a breach, and one more thing someone can come asking for with a stamped piece of paper. On a single-user instance it would mean nothing at all.
• No last-login IP on the account. Only the session, which expires.
• No IP history. Close the session and that row is gone.
• The per-IP rate limiter does exist, but it keeps its counters in memory only and cleans them up by itself. It never touches the disk.

What about cookies?

Five, all first-party, all functional:

session (HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, Secure when you are behind HTTPS, 30 days), pwreset_token (lives 15 minutes during a password reset), locale, theme, appearance.

There is nothing else. There is no analytics cookie because there is no analytics.

Zero third parties

What the code does not contain: Google Analytics, Matomo, Plausible, Sentry, a CDN, a remote font, a third-party script, a pixel, a beacon. And, old-fashioned as it may sound, there is no AI listening in and offering suggestions.

The default Content-Security-Policy is default-src 'self' with a nonce for inline content. Pages load only what your own instance serves. If someone tried to slip an external resource in tomorrow, the browser would block it on its own.

There is not even an update check phoning home. littleFedi does not know you exist and I have no way of finding out.

The only connection to a server of mine is the commercial Big Tech domain list, still empty, (https://littlefedi.org/lists/commercial-bigtech.csv), which is downloaded only if you turn that block on, and it is off by default. It is a download of a CSV of domain names: it sends nothing about you, and you can point the same option at your own list or at a mirror.

The /metrics endpoint is disabled by default.

What about logs?

Here I owe you the whole truth. The access log is on by default and writes one line per request: method, path, status, bytes, duration and remote address.

High-volume, low-value requests (static assets, proxied media, /health, /metrics, /robots.txt, the service worker) are logged at debug level only, so at the default info level they stay silent. But pages are logged.

It goes away with one line:

[observability]
access_log = false

And retention is not littleFedi's call: those lines end up wherever your init system sends them, journald or syslog or anything else. It is the operator who decides how long they stay. In the policy template I ship I suggest 14 days as a starting point.

As for media?

EXIF metadata on uploaded images is stripped by default (strip_exif = true). Orientation is preserved because it is baked into the pixels before the rewrite, so the photo does not end up sideways.

With one honest caveat: the rewrite only happens for JPEG and PNG. GIFs are deliberately left untouched, because rewriting them would flatten the animation, and WebP files are not rewritten because the library I use has no WebP encoder. In practice: if you upload a WebP with GPS coordinates inside, those coordinates stay. I am saying it plainly because it is better to know than to find out. We will look at it later on.

File names are randomised (rename_media = true), so IMG_20250812_my_coffee.jpg does not become a public URL.

And then there is the thing I am proudest of, which is on by default: the remote media proxy.

proxy_remote = true. When an image, an avatar or an emoji living on another server shows up in your timeline, your browser does not contact that server. It contacts your instance, which streams it through. The result is that the remote instance does not see your IP address, does not see your User-Agent, does not see what time you read that post, and cannot use an image as a tracking pixel.

Proxy URLs are HMAC-signed and regenerated on every response, never stored anywhere. And cache_remote is off by default: the stream is passed through and that is it, without keeping other people's media on your disk. If you would rather keep them to cut down on traffic there are the lazy and eager modes, but that is your choice, not a default you find yourself saddled with.

I will add the security headers, which are privacy too: X-Frame-Options: DENY, X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin (meaning: when you click a link to the outside, the destination site does not see which exact page you came from), HSTS when you are behind TLS.

But there is also the part no software can fix.

Which is to say, it is time for the uncomfortable section, and it applies to littleFedi just as it does to any other ActivityPub implementation. If someone tells you otherwise, they are selling you something that does not exist.

Public posts are public. When you publish, a copy is delivered to every server that has at least one of your followers, and to every relay your instance is connected to. Those copies are on machines you do not administer. There is no way to call them back.

Direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted. In the fediverse a DM is a post with direct visibility. It sits in the clear in your instance's database and in the clear in the recipient's instance database. Whoever administers either server can read it. Do not use fediverse DMs for anything you would not put on a postcard. This applies to littleFedi, it applies to Mastodon, it applies to everyone. We are thinking about a way to encrypt DMs between littleFedi instances, but that could not apply with other software, and it risks giving a false sense of security.

Followers-only is a convention, not a lock. You tell the remote server "this is for followers only". The remote server, if it is honest, respects that. If it is not, no amount of encryption is going to stop it.

Deleting means asking to delete. littleFedi sends Delete activities to peers and has a queue with retries. If a peer is offline, or uncooperative, that copy stays where it is. That is a limitation of the protocol, not a bug.

And what if I delete my account?

I wrote this part carefully, because it is where a lot of software pretends.

When an account is deleted, a single transaction removes: posts and boosts, polls, options and votes, notifications (both received and generated), mentions, favourites, emoji reactions, bookmarks, link previews, home feed rows, attachments, filters and filter keywords, scheduled posts, push subscriptions, OAuth tokens, sessions, lists, followed tags, featured tags, blocks and mutes (in both directions), follows (in both directions), relays, read markers, personal domain blocks, password resets, email verifications, digest state, MFA recovery codes, exports, imports, reports, generated invites, and finally the account row itself. Counters on other accounts and other posts are recalculated, not left out of sync.

The actual files, meaning media, export archives and import archives, are deleted from storage, whether that is a local disk or S3.

What stays, and I am saying so explicitly:

• Tombstones. A row with a URI, the original type and a date. They exist so that deleted content is not resurrected when a peer offers it back to us. The ones for posts have a configurable retention, 90 days by default. The one for a deleted actor stays indefinitely, but it holds nothing but URI, type and date.
• The moderation log. Administrator actions stay, because an audit log you can delete is not an audit log. The template suggests 2 years.

Deletion has a window: peers are notified first, then it is finalised. There is a deadline past which it is finalised anyway, because at that point the right to erasure of someone who is here outweighs an unreachable peer.

But you can take your data with you.

There is the account export: a ZIP with account.json, the media index and the media themselves. It is served with private, no-store, it has an expiry, and a cleanup job removes it from storage. The template suggests 24 hours and a single download.

There is the import, which accepts the same format. And there is migration to another instance. The archive uploaded for an import is deleted as soon as the import succeeds.

What if you use littleMesh?

Anyone running an instance behind NAT with littleMesh has one more surface, and I want to be precise here too, because it is already written in the documentation.

The lighthouse relays encrypted circuits. It does not read the contents, it cannot impersonate a node, and it has neither the mesh key nor the actor key. But it does see which node IDs open circuits to which, with what sizes and what timings. littleMesh solves reachability, not anonymity. If anonymity is what you need, an onion service is the right tool, not this one.

The HTTPS gateway is a different matter: it is the one terminating TLS for non-mesh servers, so it sees the traffic. That is written in the trust table in the documentation, in plain terms, along with what it can and cannot do.

The default exposure is federation: discovery, inboxes, objects, actors and public media get through. The web interface, the authentication pages, the Mastodon API and the media proxy do not.

Retention defaults, all in one place

What

Default

Sessions

30 days, then removed

Remote posts

30 days (prune_remote_statuses_after_days = 30)

Remote media cache

disabled; if enabled, 720 hours

Terminal jobs

24 hours

Post tombstones

90 days

Your own posts

never, unless you ask

Moderation log

indefinitely

Access log

your system keeps them, not littleFedi

You can have your own posts pruned automatically, by age and with like and boost thresholds, if you want a timeline that forgets. And there are self-destructing posts with a per-post timer. But those are things you choose, not things I decide for you.

There is something the software cannot do in your place, though

If you open an instance to other people, the code cannot write your privacy policy for you. It cannot decide the lawful basis, the jurisdiction, the subprocessors, the policy on minors, the breach notification timelines.

That is what docs/instance-policy-template.md is for: an operator checklist with a starting retention table and a list of what an honest privacy policy has to cover, namely federation of profiles and posts to independent servers, caching and proxying of remote content, email, push endpoints, logs, moderation records, backups, exports, imports, tombstones, where the data lives and how people exercise their rights. It is not legal advice and does not claim to be.

Moderation, privacy and security contacts, the rules and the terms of service are published from the admin console without restarting anything, and they land on /about, on /terms and in the instance APIs.

In two lines...

...littleFedi collects what it needs to work and nothing more. One IP address per session, shown to you and revocable by you. No analytics, no telemetry, no third parties, no phoning home. We do not know how many of you there are or who you are, and we have no interest in finding out. EXIF stripped by default, remote media proxied by default, metrics off by default, secrets hashed at rest, deletion that actually deletes.

And then there is the fediverse, which is a publishing protocol. What you put on it in public is public, DMs are not encrypted, and deleting is a polite request to other servers. littleFedi does not change that and neither does anyone else. Once you know it, you can live with it perfectly well.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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Das Fediverse für Medienmenschen

Weg von kaputten Plattformen wie X und Instagram – hin zu einem offenen Netzwerk von Diensten, das digitale Souveränität und stabile Demokratie im Angebot hat.

Problem Plattformwechsel? Deine Community zieht einfach mit.

swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/…
#Fediverse #Friendica #Mastodon

@ashwin @dumpsterqueer

I cannot destroy X by myself, no matter how much I want to.

However, I _can_ do my part to help ensure that the #Fediverse is more welcoming to marginalized groups who currently do not feel welcome here.

Calling on fediverse moderators: if you see a post that kind of, sort of borders on racism, but you're not really too sure: yep, you're definitely dealing with a racist.

Learn about dog whistles. And microaggressions. Get a Black person on your moderation team.

None of the redesigns and user experience tweaks will matter if we can't make this place welcoming to everyone.

#fediverse #FediMeta #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #racism #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon

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Don't manufacture them․ Just take the blue prints and lock them in a vault with a sign that says 'Beware of the leopard'․ bloomberg․com/news/articles/2026-08-19/apple-s-camera…”

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“A069686: Primes whose internal digits form a prime
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“Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker
Link: sprocketfox․io/xssfox/2026/07/01/cricut-unlock/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49365841”

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Tuba 0.11.0 released for GNOME, now also updated this on my Haiku install (still not available in the depot).

Read all about it at:

https://codeberg.org/GeopJr/Tuba/releases/tag/v0.11.0

#HaikuOS #haikuports #gnome #gtk #vala #tuba #opensource #Mastodon #Fediverse

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Latest release for Tuba 0.11.0 (GNOME/GTK4) running on Haiku 64bit nightly.

what years of being on the fediverse does to you

#tomodachilife #linux #fediverse #activitypub #bluesky #atproto

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Tomodachi Life screenshot of an upset Tux the Linux Penguin saying he doesn't really like thinking about decentralised social media

@funk Macht doch vielleicht erst mal eine Fedi-Umfrage, um eine ungefähre Vorstellung von der statischen Altersverteilung der #Fediverse Nutzer zu bekommen.

Vielleicht hat ja jemand schon mal sowas gemacht und möchte das Ergebnis reposten.

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“📷 11 new license plate readers just reported around Longview, TX․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Longview ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-camer…”

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“europesays․com/3203772/ Global warming 40 million years ago transformed the size of Europe’s carnivorous mammals ⌗BodyMassEvolution ⌗Carnivoramorpha ⌗Climate ⌗ClimateChange ⌗ClimateDrivenEvolution …”

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@juergen_hubert @tuban_muzuru @minmi @dumpsterqueer

Good to see that you support the #Fediverse over closed platforms. I am not literally asking you to face violence. I am asking about anything you have done, any concrete actions you have taken, to help people out of the walled gardens, and break the deadlock of mutual presence with their friends and community, on those closed platforms?

What do you think of the idea of making a site to facilitate an exodus of users from Twitter / Facebook, to the open platform of #Mastodon ?

Could the German Green Party help with this undertaking?

https://youtu.be/Zx1_6F-nCaw?si=Fm7oPyb6rBXtbEfp

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Cameras in glasses․ Cameras on poles․ Cameras in ears․ No one wants this․ Jfc․ ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗AirPods dexerto․com/entertainment/new-airpods-leak-reveals-built-in-cameras-and-visual-intelligence-34…”

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“Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some mundane activity ⌗life ⌗coffee ⌗music ⌗linux ⌗research”

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@ashwin @tuban_muzuru @minmi @dumpsterqueer

No, because the hate groups do not prowl for their targets in public where I live.

Anyway, are you not seeing how weird this conversation is getting?

I start out with saying that the #Fediverse could do more to include marginalized people, and you get all worked up and demand that I pass your arbitrary purity tests before I am allowed to voice any criticism.

I do not need to justify myself to you.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Flock AI: Guilty Until Proven Innocent ⌗News ⌗TechNews ⌗Technology ⌗Surveillance ⌗Flock ⌗OSInvestigate ⌗Privacy youtu․be/72A4hmy8U00”

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“In August, ⌗RFKJr ’s ⌗HHS followed up by announcing it would no longer fund ⌗mRNA ⌗research through the Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Authority․ The latter move involved the cancellation of 2…”

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“Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams
Link: github․com/onecli/onecli
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49363710”

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“Daily podcast: Flock AI: Guilty Until Proven Innocent ⌗News ⌗TechNews ⌗Technology ⌗Surveillance ⌗Flock ⌗OSInvestigate ⌗Privacy ⌗podcast open․spotify․com/episode/274EdEtimZKE0lUKlZh2kl”

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“💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📱🧠 An eight-year Finnish ⌗study followed 260 ⌗children to see how physical activity and ⌗screentime related to later cognitive processing․More screen time correlated with better ⌗teen cogn…”

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* Deine Follower bleiben bei dir - Du willst den Server oder Dienst wechseln? Kein Problem! Deine Community zieht einfach mit. Nie wieder bei null anfangen.
* Kein Bullshit - Keine Datenkraken, keine nervigen Algorithmen, kein Clickbait. Stattdessen: Echte Inhalte, Privatsphäre, chronologische Timelines.
* Offenes Web - Alle Inhalte sind ohne Login lesbar, teilbar und verlinkbar. Das Internet, wie es gedacht war – offen für alle.
* Echte Vernetzung - Mastodon spricht mit Pixelfed, Lemmy und allen anderen. Ein Netzwerk ohne Mauern – sogar mit Threads kompatibel.
* Eine Community mit Haltung - Respektvolle Diskussionen statt Hasskommentare. Und du bestimmst selbst, welchen Content du sehen möchtest.
* Qualität wird belohnt - Gute Inhalte kommen an. Deine Follower lesen, hören und kaufen tatsächlich – ohne aufdringliches Marketing.
Das #Fediverse - unendliche Freuden!
https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/das-fediverse-fuer-medienmenschen-100.html

The Post sent me a notification saying "The following consignment will be with you soon".

It is the parcel from the pet crematorium.

I had never noticed that sentence before. It is just a template, and millions of people get the exact same text about sneakers and phone cases.

But it means something else to me.

My Juliette will be with me soon.
This time, forever.

I never wanted a parcel like this.
I wanted her alive, meeting me at the door and pushing her wet nose into me every time I come home.

But this one I need.
What is left of her is inside it ❤️

#PetLoss #Grief #Dachshund #Fediverse #Pets #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Blog #Thoughts

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Email from Swiss Post, "My consignments". A yellow header with the Swiss Post logo and the heading "Your consignment is on its way". Below it: "Hello Dmytro Oliinyk. The following consignment will be with you soon." Then "Parcel from Tierkrematorium Rosengarten AG" with a link labelled "Track the consignment", and "Planned delivery, Thursday, 20. August 2026"

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“US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
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“All other studies:'Do you want to participate?'
'No․'
'Well, I have bad news for you then․ 😈' ⌗Science ⌗Research ⌗MedicalResearch”

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Jacques & Nicole from France just supported FediBoard with $100.
Merci beaucoup à vous deux! 💖
Every contribution keeps this independent project alive and the open web growing. 🙏

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“⌗Sainsbury ’s store pauses ⌗AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation theguardian․com/technology/2026/aug/17/humiliated-sainsburys-store-pauses-ai-scanning-after-false-shoplifting-accusation ⌗privacy ⌗…”

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“A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers blog․cloudflare․com/revisiting-spectre-attacks-on-workers/ ⌗Security ⌗Networking ⌗Research”

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“The Two Factions of C++ (2024)
Link: herecomesthemoon․net/2024/11/two-factions-of-cpp/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49318311”

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