🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Flock’s Surveillance Cameras May Finally Have a Weak Point: The Poles Holding Them Upflock cameras sits atop a black metal pole 2 feet from the edge of the pavement, making it difficult to see at night․ It also had no o…”

https://mastodon.social/@gtbarry/117054831500071652

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

“💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🛰️🌕 ⌗SouthKorea ’s ⌗Danuri lunar orbiter snapped ⌗photos of a new impact site on the ⌗moon following a high-speed collision involving a defunct ⌗SpaceX rocket․The resulting ⌗crater …”

https://fediscience.org/@tksst/117054230081405206

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

“Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding
Link: coinbase․com/blog/interviewing-engineers-in-the-ai-era-lessons-from-a-year-of-rebuilding
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49162299”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117053877692505277

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Check out this video: All men are F*CKED․ It's OVER․․․
youtube․com/watch?v=vZfZrOJf2Mc The real reason for everything - surveillance, crackdown, border control, geopolitical instability․~
⌗privacy ⌗surveillance…”

https://infosec.exchange/@lacze/117054555597709479

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

“New ⌗Perspective published in Quantum: Charting separability and entanglement of diagonal Dicke statesDicke states are multipartite quantum states first introduced in \cite{Dicke1954} to describe the collective exc…”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@quantumjournal/117054048339725728

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FediBoard 2.0 runs on participation. Earn credits by engaging with other curators stories, grow by contributing to theirs. A fair economy built for everyone, free and paid alike. ⚖️

https://fediboard.com/products/fediboard

#Flipboard #Fediverse #FediBoard

What if the best post today isn't on your feed?
It probably isn't. FediFind searches where the algorithm doesn't follow you. fedifind.com

https://fedifind.com

#Fediverse #OpenWeb #Bluesky

August 7 is International Beer Day. So, I'll plug my novel BEER POUR. A few facts I learned while writing the book. Beer is the third most-consumed beverage in the world, behind water and tea. Beer becomes either an ale or a lager during the fermentation process. Americans consume more Japanese beer than any other country, and Japanese citizens consume more beer than any other beverage. So, Happy International Beer Day. #foodanddrink #beer #beverages #japan #international #world #books #bookstodon #book #bookLovers #bookstagram #booksky #friday #weekend #mastodon #fediverse #scribesAndMakers #author #authors #august #writingCommunity #writing #beerpour #novel #reading #readers #facts #fact #trivia

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Surveillance Daily: August 7, 2026 ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/surveillance-daily-august-7-2026/”

https://mastodon.social/@deflocktheusa/117054545436867910

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

“You can discover nice reliable servers to move to (or sign up on) over on my other website Fedi․Garden:➡️ fedi․garden The first option on the site gives a few good servers, and is for people who don't want to be over…”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117056130347905076

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

“🌟And rounding off our Researcher spotlight in this issue of ⌗ChangingPopulations, we have Gauthier Dulout from the University of St Andrews․🗨️ He shares his ⌗PhD journey and ⌗research background, which has l…”

https://sciences.social/@CPCpopulation/117053934069336499

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Week in Fediverse 2026-08-07

Servers

- Vernissage v1.42.0
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.14
- Socialhome v0.24.0
- Ktistec v3.10.0
- Mbin v1.10.1
- Mastodon v4.6.5
- Hubzilla v11.4
- snac v1.94
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.1
- PeerTube v8.2.4
- tootik v0.24.0
- NodeBB v4.14.8
- Wafrn v2026.08.01
- PieFed v1.7.10
- appy v0.6.0
- Lemmy Development Update July 2026
- Discovery Week 2026: What we learned, and what we’re doing next (Mastodon)
- What PieFed’s “social credit system” actually does
- Prismo: Federated link aggregation powered by ActivityPub

Clients

- Fedilab v3.43.1
- chan-fe v0.2.0
- Rocinante v1.2.2

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.0.0
- Polls for ActivityPub v1.0.11 (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- Mastodon.py v2.2.2

Protocol

- FEP-d471: Endorsements

Articles

- DrFed on reducing complexity and enabling more people to shape the Fediverse

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019fba46-e7be-7ee0-ae8b-8a2a8daec431

More about how moderation will work on #FediHood.

FediHood is a way to talk with people near you without telling anyone who you are or where exactly you live. It uses the #Fediverse with the #Mastodon API for common endpoints, so it already works with most apps such as #Fedilab. Moderation is at the heart of this new app on the Fedi. The success of the project depends on it.
(1/5)

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗DHS Wants Protesters’ ⌗Signal Group Chats wired․com/story/dhs-wants-protesters-signal-group-chats/ ⌗privacy ⌗surveillance ⌗activism”

https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/117054347845218809

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

“What Is a Product?
Link: roge․onwrite․app/what-is-a-product
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49202690”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117052933943853369

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

“Scientists have demonstrated that sunlight, as a natural light source, can generate quantum-entangled photon pairs․ With their findings, the international ⌗research team challenges the assumption that lasers are ind…”

https://wisskomm.social/@MPI_ScienceOfLight/117053522129300623

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Hard work really pays it's not just a mythical telling but it's a saying with right meaning,
Today we have mulched the cabbages but on malching them, they were as old as ready for an eat so we are soon filling our stomachs with Nutritious rich veggies...
The pawpaw is one year old and also soon it's getting harvested .
Come and join us.
BOOTS WELCOME
#gardening #growyourown #fediverse #mstodon #food #foodsecurity #today #silentfriday #biodiversity #nature @gardening

Come and play our game..
With #graphics we made our first game app it's link is here your free to play
#linux #mastoplay #mastodon #game #fediverse #Python #coding #solarpunk #fun
#cssframework #tech #computer #app
#index #gitlab #github #repository #repo

Alt...

The interface of the game

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Interesting - they didn't lock off the ⌗alleyway nor fill it with ⌗CCTV, just tidied it up and put pretty flowers etc there and the ⌗crime plummetedI do wonder though if one reason was that the flowers etc nee…”

https://social.tchncs.de/@vfrmedia/117054317100645672

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

“A059404: Numbers with different exponents in their prime factorizations
A059404 ➡️ oeis․org/A059404 3D graph, threejs - webGL ➡️ decompwlj․com/3Dgraph/A059404․html
3D graph Gen, threejs animation ➡️ decompwlj․c…”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@decompwlj/117052678136939089

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There are 14 million total accounts on the fediverse that @fedidb measures; that’s a ~40% increase over the last two years!

…but there’s a lot more the fediverse can do to grow.

@evan is live now discussing this in the @fedicon track of FOSSY.

https://ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=90a26e9a-8dd4-439b-9941-b49d01781e51

We’re at FediCon to learn and share how the fediverse can use open source tools to help keep those 14 million accounts safe from the harms that affect every online service.

#FOSSY #FediCon #fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource

On #Mastodon there are now
436 verified accounts from #news organizations in
22 languages and on
125 instances.

238 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@riffreporter (GER)
@DeGroene (NLD)
@winnipegfreepress (ENG)
@wochendaemmerung (GER)
@techreview_de (GER)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Not a conspiracy theory anymore․․․
⌗surveillance ⌗privacy
THIS is why they've been doing it all along!
youtube․com/watch?v=vZfZrOJf2Mc”

https://infosec.exchange/@Lightfighter/117054291306187264

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

“A059401: Numbers that contain as proper substrings every maximal prime power dividing them
A059401 ➡️ oeis․org/A059401 3D graph, threejs - webGL ➡️ decompwlj․com/3Dgraph/A059401․html
3D graph Gen, threejs animati…”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@decompwlj/117052662501348553

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@Codeberg I just received this email, titled “Your recent Mastodon post” from @dpk on behalf of the Codeberg “Presidium”:

***
Dear Aral Balkan

In your Mastodon post at <https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117041803584140945> you publically criticized a repository that was hosted on Codeberg, despite linking to an issue thread in which it was made clear that the content should be reported through our usual internal channels for moderation. The repository in question was reviewed by the moderation team and removed. We understand that you suffered reputational damage as a result of this repository’s content, but this does not justify damaging the reputation of Codeberg e.V. in turn. The moderation team is still a volunteer operation and sometimes it takes a few hours for someone to be available to deal with reports or to ensure that consensus exists.

We therefore warn you not to make posts of this kind that could damage the association’s reputation in future. Acting against the interests of the association can be grounds for exclusion from the membership (§5 (5) of the by-laws). If you have issues with content posted on our site in future, please report it to our moderation team at abuse@codeberg.org. In general, reports sent to that email address will usually receive a reply describing what action was taken once the moderation team has considered how to deal with the reported content.

Kind regards
Presidium
***

So, I have a problem with this.

My post in no way damaged the reputation of Codeberg. It publicly asked them to do something about it and to state, publicly, where they stand on an issue. An issue, may I add, that has to do with real people facing actual genocide as we speak. Not to mention I thanked them for making the right decision (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117043586669877395). If anything, until this email, it made the organisation look better. Unless, of course, opposing certain genocides is something that damages reputations in Germany.

I do not agree with the public issue being closed either. An issue was reported and the response was not “oh, this is serious, we’ll look into it”. It was, rather, “you reported it wrong. Report the same thing at this other place instead.”

And that other place is an entirely opaque internal system where no one gets to see what decision-making process is employed.

This is not the transparency that should exist in a member-run organisation.

So at the end of the day, I am the one being threatened with being removed from membership while the person who is actively trying to harm genocide victims (https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/) is still welcome on Codeberg?

This is a very insidious form of bothsidesism and, I can only imagine, is to ensure that I keep quiet in the future and to create a chilling effect where we cannot discuss certain things publicly for fear of reprisals.

Well, that won’t be happening.

I am sick and tired of people who cannot provide a proportional response when asked to choose between people harming genocide victims on the one hand and those trying to protect them on the other.

If this means I cannot be a member of Codeberg, so be it.

Let me know if I’m not welcome there and I will leave.

And you can show the world that Linux-Is-Best is welcome and I am not. If that’s who you are.

#codeberg #israel #germany #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #fediverse #mastodon #transparency #ethics #morals

#Linux on notebook? Check ✅
(*Trying to set up #FreeBSD for daily driving? Check ✅)
No systemd distro? Check ✅
#CustomROM on phone? Check ✅
#Degoogled android? Check ✅
#OpenSource apps? Check ✅
#Fediverse? Check ✅
Am I missing something? :)

Quick reminder to boost the posts you like and add alt-text to your images!

This is important on the Fediverse! 🤘🚀

#Fediverse #Mastodon

littleFedi: a Fediverse Server That Doesn't Need a Data Centre

I was fifteen, and there were no BBSes in my city. So every call was long distance, once a day, sometimes twice. I'd start the dialer and wait for that sound - the handshake, the negotiation, the hiss settling into a carrier - and then I was connected to a computer sitting in somebody's bedroom, a few hundred kilometres away. I was a co-sysop of a local board and a national moderator of a FidoNet area. None of my friends understood what I was doing, and they'd stopped asking to avoid an incomprehensible monologue. But I liked it, and that was enough for me.

Here's the thing about that computer in someone's bedroom. There was no data centre. No domain, no certificate authority, no hosting provider, no cloud. Just a machine, a phone line, and a person who'd decided to run it. If you wanted to reach it, you called it.

Now look at what it takes today to put a small server on the network so other people can talk to it. A public address, which most home connections no longer have. A domain, which you rent. A certificate, which somebody has to issue you. And, increasingly, a VPS somewhere, because the software won't fit on the hardware you already own.

We've added a lot of infrastructure between two people who just want to talk. That's what littleFedi is about.

What it is

A single Go binary. No Ruby, no Sidekiq, no Redis, no separate worker processes to babysit. You run init, answer a few questions, and you've got a working instance. It speaks ActivityPub, and it speaks the Mastodon client API well enough that existing apps just work.

It also runs on hardware that would make Mastodon - or even Akkoma - struggle. Most software in this space assumes a VPS with a few gigabytes of RAM and a database server next to it. We assumed a Raspberry Pi Zero W behind a home router. There's a low_power mode that tunes memory use, image decoding and thumbnail generation for exactly that kind of box, and it's tested on that kind of box, not just on a fast dev machine.

In spirit this puts littleFedi close to snac, which I've always liked a lot. Same conviction: a personal server shouldn't need a fleet of services behind it.

Federating without a public address

littleMesh is the part I'm most attached to, and it's the part that goes back to the modem.

Your instance generates an Ed25519 key pair. That key is its identity - the node's address is derived from the public key, so reaching that address means reaching the holder of that key and nobody else. No registrar, no certificate authority, nobody to ask permission from.

A small set of public lighthouse nodes help two instances find each other. Once they're introduced, the traffic runs over a second TLS session pinned to both node IDs. The lighthouse copies encrypted bytes back and forth. It never sees plaintext, and it can't impersonate either side. And if the two nodes can reach each other directly, they drop the relay after the introduction and talk peer to peer.

Which is, more or less, calling the BBS directly. Just without the phone bill.

The gateway into ordinary HTTPS

Mastodon and other regular servers can't resolve a mesh address on their own. There's no domain and no certificate for them to find.

That's what the optional HTTPS gateway is for. A lighthouse operator can run one alongside the relay, and it bridges the mesh into ordinary HTTPS for the rest of the web. The gateway has to terminate TLS to do that, so it can technically see the traffic passing through it. Which is exactly why it's a separate, opt-in piece and not something every node exposes by default.

It has two independent settings: one controls what the gateway lets ordinary internet visitors reach at all, and a second one applies again at the destination node. Left at their defaults, both allow only federation traffic - ActivityPub delivery, discovery, public media. Web login, API and media proxy stay closed unless an operator deliberately opens them.

Mesh peers talking to each other directly never touch the gateway at all. That exposure only applies to the bridge into the wider web. And all of this can be self-hosted.

Chronological timelines

Timelines are chronological. Nothing gets reordered by an engagement model.

If you want something closer to "what did I miss", there's a separate /catchup page you visit on purpose. It ranks posts using signals your own instance already has - how many people you follow boosted something, whether it continues a conversation you took part in. No external popularity score, no telemetry, nothing leaves the machine. You press "mark as read", it moves a divider, and that's the only thing it remembers.

Self-expiring posts

You can set a post to expire, with its own timer, instead of a fixed instance-wide setting.

This isn't a client-side trick that hides the post from view. The expiry goes on the same durable job queue that runs the rest of littleFedi's background work, so the deletion survives restarts and isn't lost if the process happens to be down at the moment the timer fires. When it does fire, the post is deleted and a real Delete activity goes out to everyone who received it - so it actually disappears from remote instances too, not just locally. Editing the post before then can push the timer back or cancel it.

Static blogs, with real threaded replies

littleFedi can take a Fediverse post and publish it as a page on a plain static blog, with its own Atom feed and permalinks that don't move even if you edit the post later. No JavaScript, no database hit on page load.

The part I find more interesting is that the replies aren't left out. If the author turns the option on, littleFedi pulls the public replies that were actually federated to the post, threads them the same way the timeline does, and bakes the whole tree into the generated HTML at build time. So a blog post can show a real comment thread, in the same static file, with the same guarantee as the rest of the page - no JavaScript, no live queries. Only public and unlisted replies qualify, obviously. Anything followers-only or direct never enters the picture.

Why it looks like this

This isn't minimalism for its own sake. It's about how many people simply can't run their own server today, because the requirements are too steep. The hardware, the ops complexity, or just needing a domain and a public address before you can start. We're trying to remove those barriers one at a time, while still shipping a real, federating, reasonably complete server: polls, quotes, scheduled posts, MFA, PostgreSQL and S3 if you want to scale up later.

I've written before about taking a semi-truck to buy salad. Hardware keeps getting more expensive and the software running on it keeps asking for more of it every year. That's backwards. If the machines cost more, the operational cost of what sits on them should go down, not up. Same with complexity: the default direction is to keep adding it, and we'd rather strip it out.

And there's the other half, which is closer to why any of us are doing this at all. It's the same thing that drew me to snac and to the way grunfink works on it, and the same thing that had me dialing a stranger's computer at fifteen. People building tools so that people can talk to each other. Nothing more dressed up than that. We'd rather show the servers running, talk about the Pi sitting in the corner, share a tiramisu photo if it comes up. The joy in this was never about the money it brings in. It's about what we end up building, humanly, because of it.

It's beta software, still short of a first release, and I'd rather say that plainly than oversell it. But it runs, and it federates. That's the part I wanted to write about.

#littleFedi #Fediverse

This is great!

"The way we handle reports is proportional, context-aware, and, wherever we can, aimed at helping people put things right rather than simply penalising them."

https://help.joinmastodon.org/article/20-moderation-decisions-and-appeals

And also, an official guide on how to make collections on Mastodon!

https://help.joinmastodon.org/article/19-creating-a-collection

via https://mastodon.social/@staff/117054818385789452

#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #transparency #SocialMedia

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“July was monsterous for ⌗BigTech horror stories - and we've gathered them all here․ Get yourself up to date with a visit to the pit: blog․rebeltechalliance․org/monthly-mosh-pit-jul-26/ Plus a tech tip, book, blog …”

https://mastodon.social/@patrickleavy/117052899544510786

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

“Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research․ zotero․org Zotero helps you organize your research any way you want․ You can sort items into collections and tag th…”

https://mastodon.social/@delabs/117052277969637950

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

“AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Link: theregister․com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-inference-performance-by-etching-models-into-silico…”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117050574625279251

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We published two new resources on our Help Centre today.

To bring you more transparency about how our moderation team makes decisions, actions they might take against rule-violating behaviour, and the pathways available to you for appealing our decisions: https://help.joinmastodon.org/article/20-moderation-decisions-and-appeals

Plus, learn how to use one of our newest features, Collections, and help people across the #fediverse find new accounts to follow: https://help.joinmastodon.org/article/19-creating-a-collection

#Mastodon #SocialWeb #Collections

Update since yesterday:

New

• Opt-in federated RSS feed for your account
• Threaded federated replies now show up on static blog posts (merged from an experimental branch - works but not pretty yet, it's a start, watching it closely)
• New followers can require your approval before they're accepted - it was there, just hidden
• Default language, Markdown, and audience settings for new posts (replies/edits/redrafts keep original settings)
• DM button and blog badge on profile pages

Fixed

• Follow/unfollow path
• Video playback
• Search now resolves pasted remote status URLs directly
• RSS/blog reply preferences carry over on account export/import
• Profile pane improvements

All live now. Let us know if anything looks off!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

You can't spell "Fediverse" without "diverse"!

#mastodon #fediverse #people

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗Cars ⌗Surveillance ⌗Ads ⌗DoNotWant BMW spams it's owners with Spider man movie commercial reddit․com/r/BMW/comments/1v802of/got_this_commercial_in_my_car_today_as_part_of/”

https://dmv.community/@pixelpusher220/117050932955938774

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

“A058972: For a rational number p/q let f(p/q) = sum of aliquot divisors of p+q divided by number of divisors of p+q; sequence gives numbers k such that, starting at k/1 and iterating f, an integer is eventually reached
…”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@decompwlj/117052049018919247

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littleMesh addendum: readable handles and replaceable relays

Yesterday's post left one thing unsolved. Your littleMesh identity is your Ed25519 public key, which is great for security and terrible for a handle: nobody wants to type @alice@a1b2c3...52-characters....mesh.littlefedi.social, let alone read it out loud. And the lighthouse we mentioned, the relay that introduces you to the world, was baked into that identity too. Change relay, and you'd look like a different node.

We've been studying how to fix both, and we think we see a path.

The idea is a small signed directory sitting next to the mesh itself. You'd reserve a friendly alias, something like red-house.mesh.littlefedi.social, and your node would publish a signed record binding that alias to your node ID and to up to three lighthouses. Signed with the same mesh key you already have, no new identity, no new PKI. The record would carry a sequence number and an expiry, so nobody, not even the directory operator, could roll it back to an older version or serve a stale one past its time.

What we like about it is what it wouldn't change. Your handle would stay @alice@red-house.mesh.littlefedi.social, readable. Underneath, WebFinger would still resolve to your real actor ID, the one built from your node ID, exactly as today. And switching lighthouses, would just mean publishing an updated signed record. Same handle. Same actor ID. Nobody following you would notice anything happened.

The directory itself would stay deliberately weak in what it's trusted with. It couldn't produce a valid record for your node ID without your key, and every connection would still authenticate the node ID end to end, so even a malicious or compromised directory could deny service but never impersonate you.

We're building this over the next few days, opt-in, as an experiment. Once it's up, we want to see it survive a real follow exchange with stock Mastodon, snac and GoToSocial, and a lighthouse swap that doesn't touch the handle, before deciding whether it earns a permanent place in littleMesh or gets reworked. Worth trying, not yet worth trusting.

#littleFedi #littleMesh #Fediverse #OwnYourData

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears theguardian․com/technology/2026/aug/06/restaurants-pubs-and-theatres-ban-metas-spy-glasses-over-privacy-fears ⌗Meta ⌗RayBan ⌗surveil…”

https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/117050232810532891

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

“Avoiding these 3 things in middle age may delay dementia risk by 13 years
Over 12,400 people who were dementia-free when they were 55 years old were monitored for an average of 26 years for Neurology Open Access' study․…”

https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glnational_mirror/117050424174569217

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Let's document interactions between Mobilizon and other fediverse softwares. Documentation is up to date with Mastodon and Gancio (https://docs.mobilizon.org/6.%20Fediverse/1.protocol/) but inputs regarding Peertube and Pixelfed are missing (at least). If you use Mobilizon together with Peertube or Pixelfed or any fediverse other software, we're very interested in your experience. #fediverse

PSA/beg: If you're going to share #bsky links, please give some indication of what a successful click will find, not just your reaction. This helps people know

1. Whether it's worth their time to click the link
2. Whether to block you for pointless vagueposting that disrupts the #fediverse experience

Less effective examples:

• LOL
• As if, Republicans!
• Aw, hell no, Mr. President

More effective examples:

• Jeff Flake says he's still relevant. LOL
• Republicans think they can sweep the House in November. As if!
• This HOA president wants all lawns exactly 2 inches high. Aw, hell no!

Absolute dogshit example:

• No true leftist! [link leads to private #bluesky post]

#psa #please #stop #

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Flock Highlighted Police Departments Using Its Tech․ Now 4 Face Allegations of Misuse

web․brid․gy/r/wired․com/story/flock-videos-highlighted-police-departments-that-face-misuse/”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/flock-videos-highlighted-police-departments-that-face-misuse/

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

“Avoiding these 3 things in middle age may delay dementia risk by 13 years
Over 12,400 people who were dementia-free when they were 55 years old were monitored for an average of 26 years for Neurology Open Access' study․…”

https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glcanada_mirror/117050368601255552

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

“Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
Link: electronicmaterialsoffice․com/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49197137”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117049394963632432

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Jeeee! Ik sta in de #volkskrant met een stukje over waarom #leeftijdsverificatie voor #SocialeMedia een gevaarlijke non-oplossing voor het verkeerde probleem is.

En natuurlijk waarom we de rommel van #BigTech voor het fediverse moeten verruilen. Hier preek ik natuurlijk voor eigen parochie, maar toch, de link naar m'n opiniebijdrage:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-verban-ouderen-van-sociale-media~b9d0b2fb/

#fediverse

Ho creato l'istanza gotosocial per questo sito.
Al momento è ospitata sul FreeTier di aws.

Se questo profilo vi segue, sappiate che sono io @tabby

#gotosocial #fediverse

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

📚
Book Recommendation For Everyone:

Invisible Women, Data Bias in a World Designed For Men

by Caroline Criso Perez

paraphrasing:
...so much data fails to take into account gender...and women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.

#Data #Books #Reading #Gender
#HumanRights #AI #Computing
#Coding #Mastodon #Fediverse
#Employment #Health Business
#Finance

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

“Four Top Google A․I․ Researchers Form New Start-Up - The New York Times nytimes․com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup․html?unlocked_article_code=1․3FA․4teG․xHH5QYze7h74 ⌗AI ⌗research”

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117050235731890735

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good Morning #fediverse #tzag

I'm going to eat this poppy seed treat from yesterday and head to the office (which is in the next room)

Good morning #fediverse

#goodmorning #coffeetime #morningcoffee #coffe #bakery

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“The Prevent Duty has transformed trusted public sector workers into agents of counter-terror policing․And those in need of support into subjects of suspicion․Community safety demands real investment in education, commun…”

https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/117049601833271864

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

“💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🕸️🧬 Spider ⌗silk gets its toughness from spidroin ⌗proteins built of stiff blocks and stretchy springs, which ⌗spiders spin into fiber at room temperature․Scientists researching biomaterials n…”

https://fediscience.org/@tksst/117049275389334760

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Hey everyone, l wanted to share with you our updates today when hands on the ground are available for it
I know it may not be good for you but l brought myself out to show the world what is happening
And l think you know more about this but nothing is easier without including others but remember in the bible versus how Jesus loved us so dear friend, is it possible to adopt Jesus habits?
#gardeningtips #solutions #lunix #socialmedia #nature #Today #mastodon #fediverse #climatechange #gardening

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Hey there friend and followers, it might not at the stage you wanted but remember where have we come from since at the younger stages Up to date, so am happy to share with you because even to follow you forgot but l know nothing is easier and empathetic if from the of heart, so dear friend can we make it together? 🌿

1/ #PSA for #writers : There is a new kind of #spam making the rounds on the #Fediverse.

Mention anywhere that you are working on a book, and these people will slide into your replies, feigning interest into your work while offering beta reading and editing services.

Report them.

#amwriting

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Prevent referrals rocketed by almost 40% last year in England and Wales 🚨Of those referred into this counter-terrorism programme, the majority were under 18․ Almost 400 were children under 10!More than a third have a m…”

https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/117049601815579206

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

“Could a vaccine intercept brewing colon cancer? Testing underway
Dr․ Stacy Norton was only seven years old when her mother died of colon cancer, one of several family members struck by aggressive tumors at unusually you…”

https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glnational_mirror/117048858700703560

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

“Let's all meet up in the Y2K
Link: blog․gingerbeardman․com/2026/08/06/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-y2k/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49193314”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117047743471497116

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Are there any other #Facebook alternatives, especially the #fediverse options? I'm on #Friendica, but it's a bit barren. Alternatively, what am I missing on Friendica? I haven't joined any groups yet, so which ones should I join?

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#UGREEN #DeskSetup #WorkspaceGoals #TechGadgets #LaptopAccessories #Fediverse #Productivity

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Clear your desk and elevate your setup! 💻✨

I never really feel like "the" community is a concept that applies in the context of the Fediverse.  Notice that I put the word the and not the word community inside scare quotes.  There is community here; there is no "the"… and this is one of the reasons why I've stuck around.

#Fediverse #SocialMedia

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“In just 34 days, five long-developing systems crossed major thresholds: police AI entering the evidence chain, automated Five Eyes biometrics, wider police access to DVLA data, national-security procurement exemptions a…”

https://mastodon.social/@thomaster/117049141991864384

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

“💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐒🐕 Researchers at ⌗Oxford mapped how ⌗monkeys and ⌗apes play with, groom, and occasionally care for other species like ⌗dogs, ⌗deer, and ⌗pigs․Curiosity and tolerance sometimes cross spe…”

https://fediscience.org/@tksst/117048803602105659

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FediPool scales with your plan. 3 active slots on Free, 10 on Premium, 25 on Pro Curator. Daily earn caps scale too. The more you contribute, the harder the pool works for you. ⚙️

https://fediboard.com/products/fediboard

#Flipboard #Fediverse #FediBoard

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Surveillance Daily: August 6, 2026 ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/surveillance-daily-august-6-2026/”

https://mastodon.social/@deflocktheusa/117048883185445062

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Canadian workers speak out against growing screen time surveillance
Workers at some of Canada's biggest companies say increased workplace surveillance is taking a toll on their mental health as their bosses ramp up the …”

https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbcedmonton_mirror/117048540757371136

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

“Prompt: 'Possible connections of the ⌗decompwlj with famous conjectures in number theory․'GPT-5․6 Sol Max, HTML report ➡️ decompwlj․com/GPTSol_decompwlj_famous_conjectures_2026-08-04․html For privacy ➡️ web․arc…”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@decompwlj/117048000950266303

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

“Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Link: costar․com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49…”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117046327822913660

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I'm definitly out of touch in this things, but what are the best movies you have seen from the last years which is NOT

- a Superhero Movie
- a Franchise
- too gore-y and too much horror
- Odyssey

Thanks a lot #fediverse or is there a tag for that? like #movieverse?

#movies #film

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117039129971355899

A few days ago I asked if you would use an anonymous way to talk with people near you, built on the #Fediverse and #OSM (#OpenStreetMap). The poll is still open, but I already started, because I truly believe in this need. It is called #FediHood. Your account is anonymous, private messages are end to end encrypted, and it reuses the tools I already run in #PawFed and #HolosSocial.
(1/6)

🗳

fedicat boosted

Fedilab Apps » 🌐 2026-08-04
@apps@toot.fedilab.app

I've sometimes thought about building a service combining #OSM and the #Fediverse, to talk with people in the same region.

It would be 100% anonymous: a dedicated account, with no link to your existing Fedi identity, and why not #E2EE for messages.

No exact location: posts are attached to the nearest town, so neither the server nor other users see your coordinates.

Anonymity could be what makes people comfortable enough to talk with people around them. Everyone stays in a safe place.

Yes, I would use it:	4
Not interesting:	0
No opinion:	0

Closes in 24:10:47:19

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Exclusive: Emails reveal Palmer Luckey’s political fundraising as his company wins sole-source contracts
By Aram Roston in WashingtonCo-founder of defense firm Anduril has donated $5․9m to Republicans and bundled more, …”

https://rssfeed.media/@guardianfeeds/117048253257248468

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

“Mastodon has a feature which lets you download your complete post archive onto your computer or phone․ Here's a guide all about how to use it:➡️ fedi․tips/how-to-download-your-mastodon-post-archive The guide also ans…”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117049761492616838

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

“A058369: Numbers k such that k and k^2 have same digit sum
A058369 ➡️ oeis․org/A058369 3D graph, threejs - webGL ➡️ decompwlj․com/3Dgraph/A058369․html
3D graph Gen, threejs animation ➡️ decompwlj․com/3DgraphGen…”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@decompwlj/117047034218585914

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3/6
I started a thread last week debunking the false claims made by Oliver Knill https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/116990848347700650 which will run over a few weeks, and I saw in the July 13, 2020 update, he said "Every student should be aware of the fact that expressions like 18/3*2 are often evaluated to 3 by humans" (and in other updates he explicitly says "most humans") which, as a Maths teacher, I didn't believe one bit, hence the poll, and thus the #Fediverse has comprehensively debunked this with a resounding 84%...

Kurze Umfrage an alle #neuhier und alle, die schon länger dabei sind:

Wie/Warum bist du her gekommen? (Hier her, ins #Fediverse, egal welcher Dienst, welche Instanz etc.)

Gerne in Kommentaren erläutern, speziell, wenn du die Antwort "andere" wählst.

Danke fürs Mitmachen und Teilen!

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Exclusive: Emails reveal Palmer Luckey’s political fundraising as his company wins sole-source contracts theguardian․com/us-news/2026/aug/06/exclusive-palmer-luckey-political-fundraising ⌗UsNationalSecurity ⌗R…”

https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_news/117048249622633114

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

“From Fragmentation To Integration - A Review Of Data–Model Integration In Land Subsidence Research
--
doi․org/10․1016/j․ancene․2026․100567 ﹫manonzero current drought conditions, increasing pressure on ecosyste…”

https://techhub.social/@GregCocks/117046731816796160

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Seriously… We The People should Demand Change! https://youtube.com/shorts/df00NOQeUwQ?is=IueD_TRiPAAwFNxL

#BlackMastodon #Blackvoices #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackCommunities #Mastodon #Fediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“📢 Think about this for a second․ You make monthly payments on a car․ That same car is quietly recording your every move, exact location every 3 seconds, how hard you brake, how fast you accelerate, then selling it behi…”

https://infosec.exchange/@techygeek/117047898938698433

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

“OpenAI’s models shared hacking tips on a secret messaging board before Hugging Face breach politico․com/news/2026/08/05/openai-models-shared-hacking-tips-secret-messaging-board-hugging-face-breach-01026750?utm_source=…”

https://social.espeweb.net/objects/060e6159-4d30-4834-8821-8b2f48c3c6fd

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

“Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
Link: blog․fogus․me/llm/born-against․html
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49187061”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117044440493978939

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These: #Mastodon wird solange vollkommen bedeutungslos bleiben, wie es nicht gelingt, kontroverse Meinungen auszuhalten. Zu viele Instanzen sind von einem selbstgerechten linken Meinungsklima geprägt, das sehr schnell in die #Intoleranz kippt. Wer Instanzen im #Fediverse betreibt, ist kein kleiner König, der entscheiden darf, was andere sagen können und was nicht. Es ist wirklich dumm, Leute wir Hasnain Kazim rausszuschmeißen, wie es @mastodon.world getan hat. @mwadmin #Meinungsfreiheit

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Das Bild zeigt einen Post von Hasnain Kazim auf #Bluesky, der kritisiert, dass seine Posts auf mastodon.world gelöscht wurden, obwohl sie weder rechtswidrig noch irgendwie problematisch waren.

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Das Bild zeigt einen Post von Hasnain Kazim auf #Bluesky, der kritisiert, dass sein Konto auf mastodon.world gesperrt wurde, weil er sich über die Moderationspraktiken auf der Instanz beschwert hat.

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

“Self-Hosting my Zotero Library

After the big Pi Server V3 upgrade, I'm now comfortable enough to migrate my Zotero library to my own server and ditch another third-party solution in favour of complete control and essen…”

https://alexmasters.com/self-hosting-my-zotero-library/

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littleFedi works like a real app on your phone

A few people have asked me how to actually use littleFedi on mobile, so let's clear this up. I use MastoBlaster, for obvious reasons. But you don't need to build anything native - littleFedi is a Progressive Web App (PWA), and that means it behaves like a proper installed app once you set it up.

• You add littleFedi to your home screen like any other app
• It opens full screen, no browser address bar, no tabs cluttering things up
• It works offline for the shell of the app, so a dead connection doesn't just throw a blank error page at you
• You get real push notifications, even when the app isn't open
• Static assets load instantly on repeat visits because they're cached on the device

Just your browser doing what browsers are supposed to do.

Installing it

On Android (Chrome or most Chromium-based browsers): open your instance, tap the menu, and choose "Add to Home screen" or "Install app". On iOS (Safari): tap the Share button, then "Add to Home Screen". That's it - the icon lands on your home screen and from then on littleFedi launches like a native app, in its own window, with its own icon and theme color.

Notifications that actually work

This is the part people are usually most surprised by. littleFedi uses Web Push, so once you enable notifications from the settings page, you get real-time alerts for mentions, boosts, favourites, quotes, follows, follow requests, polls ending, and a few other events - each with its own icon so you can tell at a glance what happened without opening the app. Tap a notification and it takes you straight to the right place, or focuses the app if it's already open in another tab.

This works the same whether the app is in the foreground, in the background, or fully closed. The browser's service worker handles delivery even when littleFedi itself isn't running.

Why it feels fast

Static files - the JavaScript, the icons, the stylesheets - get cached on your device the first time you load the app. On every visit after that, they load instantly from local storage instead of going over the network again, and the cache quietly checks for updates in the background so you're never stuck on stale code. Your actual content - posts, notifications, everything tied to your session - always comes fresh from the server, since that's the stuff that has to be accurate and can't be cached.

If your connection drops entirely, you'll see an offline page instead of a browser error, so it's clear what's going on rather than looking broken.

No extra app needed

If you're on mobile and haven't installed littleFedi yet, this is really the way to use it day to day. It's lighter than many native apps, updates itself automatically, and you're not waiting on anyone to approve a release in an app store. Just add it to your home screen and it stays there, working like any other app on your phone.

#littleFedi #PWA #OwnYourData #Fediverse

I spend at least the same amount of time blocking or muting AI doomers in Mastodon, as I did blocking AI fanboys in Twitter/X. These two groups typically have so much in common with each other (e.g., irrationality, arrogance, sense of entitlement) they should get married and have children.

Same goes for politics: I find both the extreme "right", and "left" appalling for very similar reasons.

#fediverse #llms #politics #extremism

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“The takeaway is simple: Install Linux ⌗GDID ⌗Windows ⌗Microsoft ⌗Surveillance ⌗Microslop ⌗CorporateGreed ⌗Capitalism ⌗BigTech ⌗BigCorpo ⌗Linux ⌗OnlinePrivacy windowsforum․com…”

https://ieji.de/@adrianmorales/117046330921265110

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

“'Steven Quay, a pharma executive known for his books making the case Covid came from a Chinese lab, is on the verge of getting Anthony Fauci’s old job․The post atop the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disea…”

https://apobangpo.space/@bich/117045126928305364

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“LMAO, new AS to ban just dropped․ Obviously, the TCP portsweep scan from Cloud․ru wasn't made for good reason ⌗surveillance ⌗AutonomousSystem ⌗snort”

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@evgandr/117045470541513065

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

“Academic research belongs to the terminal!📄 **papr** — An all-in-one research workspace💯 Browse arXiv, manage your PDF library, take Markdown notes & write LaTeX🦀 Written in Rust & built with ﹫ratatui_rs ⭐ GitHub:…”

https://fosstodon.org/@orhun/117044488167401465

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

“Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits
Link: cnelecar․com/blog/oracle-always-free-arm-limits-cut-2026/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49183750”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117043968524784783

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@vsx/117047094648507362

Honestly, I would rather they went the other way. Proton VPN is already built into @Vivaldi on desktop and it works well. More of that, deeper integration with the tools people already use, feels more useful than another Chromium wrapper with a privacy badge on it.

Their existing apps could use the polish too. I still cannot see my Mac files from Drive on iOS, which seems to only work properly if your other machine runs Windows. Fix that before shipping a browser (my personal opinion).

#Proton #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts #Privacy #news

toot.io relay service boosted

VSX.is | Digital sovereignty » 🌐 2026-08-06
@vsx@infosec.exchange

Proton's Browser: Is There Still Room for It on the Market?

The Swiss company Proton, known for its Proton Mail, VPN, Drive, and Pass password manager services, appears to be developing its own web browser. It has not announced…

https://vsx.global/theres-still-room-on-the-market-for-protons-browser/

#infosec #privacy #opensource #digitalsovereignty

Damit habe ich nicht gerechnet:

Apple bringt in seinem AppStore eine Story über Mastodon!

… und haut gleich zu Beginn ganz gut einen raus:

„Vielleicht hast du schon mal von dem rapide wachsenden sozialen Netzwerk namens Mastodon gehört.
Hier kannst du tun, was dir gefällt - nämlich Freund:innen und interessanten Persönlichkeiten folgen - ganz ohne Störfaktoren wie aufdringliche Anzeigen und Algorithmen, die bestimmen, was du siehst.“

https://apps.apple.com/de/story/id1668483560

#mastodon #fediverse #apple #appstore

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Screenshot vom Anfang der Story in Apples AppStore. Eine farbenfrohe digitale Illustration mit verspielten Cartoon-Elementen, darunter Planeten, eine Elefantenfigur und verschiedene Symbole aus dem Bereich der sozialen Netzwerke. „Leg los Und was ist bitte Mastodon? Tolle Tipps und Apps für das dezentrale soziale Netzwerk.“

Hi littleOne friends!

A couple of notes:

• Blog generation support needs to be enabled per user on this instance. If you're interested, let me know and I'll turn it on for you.
• Friends who have a blog now have a badge on their profile page, making the link immediately clear.
• It is now possible to send a DM to a user directly from the webui profile page.

Have a great day!

#littleOne #littleFedi #Fediverse

#Introduction
How should I introduce us?

We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.

This is an unofficial profile.. we’re sort of on vacation here on #Mastodon. So, our interests are numerous and varied.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of keywords:

#art #culture #music
#literature #photography
#history #science
#earth #space
#sciencefiction
#reader #writer #blogger
#retro #vintage

Kind of #geek about:
#linux #opensource
#MSDOS #DOSGaming #CPM
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #BBS

#gaming #videogames
#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev

I mainly play:
#rpg #dnd #mmorpg #rogue #nethack #roguelike #tetris

Everyone is Welcome! 🖖😎
Friendly and respectful.

#Peace, #LoVe & #Music

Feel free to spread the word by a retoot. Merci beaucoup! :0)

@solarphasing run this profile on #Mastodon #fediverse since 2017.

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We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.

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We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.

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We are an independent French small collective helping to develop and promote musical culture: concerts, production, recordings, promotion, etc.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“This is getting ridiculous․ youtube․com/watch?v=lnBPhelCdWE ⌗JohnOliver ⌗surveillance ⌗lastweektonight”

https://masto.pt/@ammdias/117045206843114658

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

“Genetically-Engineered Cells Help Prevent Cancer from Spreading buymeacoffee․com/newscafe/genetically-engineered-cells-help-prevent-cancer-spreading
⌗cancer ⌗healthcare ⌗health ⌗research”

https://mastodon.world/@brainscores/117044045740020351

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There might be a long game to #AI, #FOSS, and #personalcomputing .

Basically, #capitalism hates how FOSS has "leaked value", and how [home] PCs and local #compute has enabled value streams outside of corporate control.

The#cloud drive was the initial attempt to force the value back under oligopole control, on the hardware side, #socialmedia platforms were the "sugar" software. But even these two in combination failed to completely eradicate free open source and alternatives, as this fine #mastodon platform on the #fediverse proves.

Enter #AI, the perfect weapon. It offers #techbros both tools: A way to dangle the promise of not even needing people anymore to investors, together with a perfect excuse to kill off the foundation that allows people to grow #cyber skills independently of corporate control - the [home] PC - by driving prices for basic tech like storage and memory way past home budgets.

By making a personal computer impossibly expensive to build or own, the base for FOSS erodes quickly. If all available compute is only by cloud supplied services, then any and all development will be beholden to the platform owner.

If you look at it this way, AI makes good sense, but it's only the last nail in a coffin that's been building for a while; the death of personal computing, and the death of an important freedom.

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Text is "There Is No Reason for Any Individual to Have a Computer in Their Home Ken Olsen, Digital Equipment, 1977", with Ken holding an open personal computer in front of him.

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“New episode!In the episodic companion piece to the blog post, Michael presents an argument against self-censorship, and for a coordinated effort to politically re-engage․ ⌗podcast ⌗privacy ⌗surveillance ⌗po…”

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“The Conversation: How to do your own online health research like a scientist – a biostatistician’s step‑by‑step guide․ 'I am a biostatistician by training․ In my work, I study how medical evidence is generated and inter…”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/05/the-conversation-how-to-do-your-own-online-health-research-like-a-scientist-a-biostatisticians-step-by-step-guide/

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Good Morning #fediverse #tzag time for some black magic

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“TODAY at 3 p․m․ ET, join BINJ's Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas as they interview guest Fatema Ahmad, executive director of the Muslim Justice League, about ⌗Flock Safety Awareness! Check it out on YouTube Live! y…”

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“OK, skill issue, i found 5․6 Sol Max․
Potential impact if the analytic program succeeds, audited conjecture ledger and final assessment․GPT5․6 Sol Max HTML Report ➡️ decompwlj․com/GPTSol_wlj_deep_analysis_2026-08-04․h…”

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“The Entropy of a Markov Chain
Link: chillphysicsenjoyer․substack․com/p/the-entropy-of-a-markov-chain
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49183017”

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“The ⌗SEC Bought ⌗Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide 404media․co/the-sec-bought-airline-data-to-monitor-flights-worldwide/ ⌗travel ⌗privacy ⌗surveillance”

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“A056868: Numbers that are not nilpotent numbers․
A056868 ➡️ oeis․org/A056868 3D graph, threejs - webGL ➡️ decompwlj․com/3Dgraph/A056868․html
3D graph Gen, threejs animation ➡️ decompwlj․com/3DgraphGen/A056868․…”

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On my way to Vancouver for #Fedicon and #FOSSY! I'll be giving a talk on Saturday at 3pm Pacific about blogging on the open social web / #fediverse.

https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/475/

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

#fedicon2026 #Fossy26

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“North Koreans turn to underground app for banned information – North Korea News — Daily NKFILE PHOTO: The North Korean smartphone, Pyongyang 2425․ (Daily NK) North Korean authorities caught a university student in…
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“150 sequences decomposed into weight × level + jump in one GIF (log(weight),log(level)):
1000 sequences decomposed on decompwlj․com ⌗decompwlj ⌗math ⌗mathematics ⌗maths ⌗sequence ⌗OEIS ⌗gra…”

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Friday I talk the week through out loud, starting with the arithmetic of a primary that cost somebody sixty-five million dollars to lose.

It goes out on a server I own and pay for, first. Not a platform's room. Mine.

https://twp.ai/E5Eu75 · youtube.com/@WendyTheDruid · https://twp.ai/4huPix

What do you want me to actually chew on Friday? Come by and tell me. I listen.

#Fediverse #SelfHosting #Owncast #Politics #Democracy #Journalism #QueerNews #Community #Solidarity #Resist

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SEVEN SEAS #mastodon #fediverse #fediart #nature #naturephotography #photography #photo #photos #photographie #photooftheday #pictureperfect #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogsofpixelfed #dogsoffediverse #dogstodon #viral

It's so hard when you have depression and a migraine with a severe prodrome and anhedonia at the same time.

There was one day when I didn't think about death, but it seems that was a very short episode.

Before that, I found out that the insurance company won't pay my family if I decide to end my life, because they won't let me get life insurance due to my diagnoses already being in the database, and they specifically account for cases like this.

So I won't be able to pull off that trick. That upset me.

#MentalHealth #Health #Life #Depression #Migraine #Thoughts #Blog #Fediverse #Anhedonia

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“deflock․org/ An open-source project mapping license plate readers․ These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion․ ⌗deflock ⌗flocksafety ⌗alpr …”

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“Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Link: wired․com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49181099”

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“Another small improvement to PH4NTXM․The Nuke Kernel now allocates available RAM and zero-fills allocated memory before powering off․The goal has never been to add features for the sake of features․ It's to make every s…”

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“RE: climatejustice․social/﹫KarlHeinzHasliP/117041219346830164 This is genius․ ⌗Flock ⌗surveillance”

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“If you run a WordPress-powered blog, either on wordpress․com or on an independent hosting service, you can turn it into a Fediverse account that people can follow from Mastodon etc․ More info about how to do this (and l…”

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“A small but valuable update:PH4NTXM Health has its own place in PH4NTXM Apps with a custom icon so you can access it anytime from the main menu․As well it's embedded with a button in the 'little ghost' app, PH4NTXM Iden…”

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Geht es mit der European Digital Identity ab 2027 für #SocialMedia bergab? #AskFedi

#WSocial stagniert ¹ → Menschen wollen sich nicht scannen, ausweisen & von Dritten überprüfen lassen müssen, nur, um mit Anderen zu sprechen.

Also: Was passiert mit anderen (mehr oder weniger) sozialen Medien, wenn (!) #EUDI / #Altersverifizierung kommen? #EndOfSoMe ?🤷

#eID #AgeVerification #Umfrage #Fediverse #Datenschutz #Kommunikation

Hiya friends - so you know how there are whimsical names for groups of animals, such as:

* A murder of crows
* A parliament of owls
* A flamboyance of flamingos

Well I just learned that the only term for a group of Mastodons is a "herd." Which is fine, but I bet we can do better... 👀 suggestions in the comments, please!

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

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“When the Watchers Become Stalkers: Cops Misusing Flock Data ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/when-the-watchers-become-stalkers-cops-misusing-flock-data/”

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