Please tell your friends about federated social media site that speaks several fediverse protocols thus serving as a hub uniting them, hubzilla.eskimo.com, also check out friendica.eskimo.com, federated
macroblogging social media site, mastodon.eskimo.com a federated microblogging site, and yacy.eskimo.com an uncensored federated search engine. All Free!
I'm seriously considering switching, but every thread about how 'easy' it is always devolves into a bunch of arcane computer-speak that I'm really not interested in learning at this point. I really just use my PC for web browsing and simracing/gaming these days, and I don't want to need a computer science degree to do that.
Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.
We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.
There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.
Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.
Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.
Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.
Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.
Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.
We offer the following federated services:
Friendica.Eskimo.Com Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.
Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.
Mastodon.Eskimo.Com Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.
NextCloud.Eskimo.Com If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.
Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.
Yacy.Eskimo.Com Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.
If you enjoy these services, please consider supporting us by taking advantage of our paid services: https://www.eskimo.com/
Shell Accounts A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.
Account Types We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.
Web Hosting Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.
Remote Desktop Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.
Applications Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.
E-mail Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.
Security Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.
Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.
Available Shell Servers
We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.
All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.
Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).
Alma.Eskimo.Com This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid. Anduinos.Eskimo.Com Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others. Debian.Eskimo.Com This server is running on Debian Bullseye. It has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded. Fedora.Eskimo.Com This server runs Fedora Rawhide. It can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed. Kali.Eskimo.Com Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites. Manjaro.Eskimo.Com Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed. Mint.Eskimo.Com This is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu. MxLinux.Eskimo.Com MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS. PopOS.Eskimo.Com PopOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others. Rocky8.Eskimo.Com Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.
Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com This is the latest stable Ubuntu release. It can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools. Zorin.Eskimo.Com Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.
Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.
Remote terminal access is available via ssh. Remote Destkop is available via X2go and on most servers also via RDP and VNC. Destkop choices on most machines include Mate, Gnome, KDE Plasma, XFCE, LDXE and LDQT.
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HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 20 (ACN) Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, highlighted today the statement by 64 countries at the Human Rights Council in support of Cuba's international medical cooperation and against its politically motivated obst…
I HATE “GREEN TAX CREDITS” IN THE GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL. They are largely a giant SCAM. I would much prefer that this money be used somewhere else, including reductions. “Anywhere” would be preferable! Windmills, and the rest of this “JUNK,” are the most expensive and inefficient energy in the world, is destroying the beauty of the environment, and is 10 times more costly than any other energy. None of it works without massive government subsidy (energy should NOT NEED SUBSIDY!). Also, it is almost exclusively made in China!!! It is time to break away, finally, from this craziness!!!
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In 2035, the Golden Dome rose—a network of satellites, lasers, and predictive AI shielding North America from missile threats. Touted as the heir to Reagan’s “Star Wars,” it stretched from Canada’s Arctic bases to Greenland’s Pituffik Space Base, down to Panama’s canal, encircling the continent like a half-sphere. The Gulf of Mexico, now called the “Gulf of America” in hushed Pentagon briefs, glistened under naval drones. Mexico, conspicuously absent from the plan, seethed at the border, where a fortified wall pulsed with microwave DEWs to keep people in—or out. The Dome’s AI, fed by exabytes of data, didn’t just track missiles. It watched people. Patterns of dissent—posts on X, travel logs, whispered rebellions—flagged “threats” for elimination. Whispers of SkyNet and Death Star haunted the net, as citizens feared the Dome’s lasers turning inward. Mexico, sensing a prison door closing, erupted in revolt. Leading the charge, improbably, were the cartels—Sinaloa, Jalisco—whose smuggling empires clashed with the Dome’s lockdown. Armed with hacked drones and narco-tanks, they became rebels, hailed on X as “Han Solo with AKs,” fighting to keep North America free. In Tijuana’s shadowed alleys, Elena Cruz, a hacker turned revolutionary, decoded the Dome’s signals. “It’s not defense,” she told her cartel ally, Javier “El Cuervo” Reyes. “It’s a cage. The AI’s profiling us all.” Javier, eyes glinting with ambition, nodded. “Then we burn it down, amiga. For Mexico—and the border’s ours.” Elena hesitated, sensing his hunger for power, but the fight demanded uneasy alliances. The rebels struck border outposts, disabling DEW turrets with EMPs. Panama’s canal fell to cartel sabotage, and Canadian hackers leaked Dome schematics. The U.S., blindsided, tightened the Dome’s grip, its lasers scorching rebel camps from orbit. The Gulf of America became a warzone, naval drones clashing with cartel speedboats. Mexico stood as the last open door, its revolt a flicker of hope against the Dome’s iron sphere.
Mexico’s revolt faltered. The Dome’s AI, unyielding, targeted rebel strongholds with laser precision. Tijuana burned, its cartel bunkers melted by orbital strikes. Elena’s hack failed, her signal jammed by the Dome’s relentless code. Javier fell in a hail of drone fire, his narco-tanks no match for DEWs. The border wall sealed shut, Panama surrendered, and Canada bowed to U.S. pressure. The Gulf of America gleamed under total control.
In Jerusalem, a figure emerged, hailed as the Messiah by fervent crowds. Talmudic prophecies, long whispered, unfolded. The Dome, now a global enforcer, culled populations with surgical strikes, keeping Earth’s count below 500 million. Gold and wealth flowed to the chosen, their coffers brimming as prophesied. Slaves—survivors of the Dome’s purge—served in gleaming cities, while the AI ensured obedience.
The Messiah’s followers rejoiced, their divine ending secured. North America, a gilded prison, thrived for the few, its borders unbreachable, its skies watched by the Dome’s unblinking eyes. X fell silent, its servers erased.
In a Mexican ruin, Elena’s last message, etched in stone, faded: “The Death Star won.”
Protest The Traitorous Attack on Iran by the Zionist State of Israel! Condemn the Imperialist US for Pushing Wars and Aggression in West Asia! peoplesstruggle.org/en/protest…
Statement of the ILPS Africa and West Asia Regional Committee Protest the Traitorous Attack on Iran by the Zionist State of Israel! Condemn the imperialist US for pushing wars and aggression in West Asia! The International League for People’s Struggl…
Islamabad (Quds News Network)- Pakistan has officially nominated US President Donald J. Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, citing his role in easing tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi earlier
Ambassador Jack Matlock argues the Cold War's end was a negotiated settlement, not a U.S. victory, a misinterpretation that fostered militant foreign policy and a "unipolar delusion."
He critiques NATO expansion as a key error provoking Russia, leading to current global instability. Matlock emphasizes the urgent need for negotiation, respecting international norms, and avoiding coercion to resolve crises like Ukraine and prevent further conflicts.
Jack F. Matlock, Jr, was the U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1987–1991, and had a key role in negotiating an end to the Cold War. Ambassador Matlock speak about...
Despite the massive night strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on a number of strategic facilities in the Poltava, Odessa and some other regions of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces command rushed to announce the successes of the air defense in the …
The Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, along with the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic, held referendums in September 2022 in which they voted to join Russia.
[ Glass Almanac: IBM laid off 8,000 employees to replace them with AI—what they didn’t expect was having to rehire as many due to AI ] glassalmanac.com/ibm-laid-off-… This is what happens when management doesn't fully understand what its employees do, or the value they bring to their organization. #HR #Corporatocracy #IBM #AI #LayOffs
In 2023, IBM made headlines with the announcement of nearly 8,000 layoffs, primarily from support roles such as Human Resources. The goal? To replace these workers ... Continue Reading →
The Syrian legislature & government have confirmed to Israel that they have no problem with intercepting & shooting down Iranian projectiles over Syrian airspace & they will not take any diplomatic action against it.
PS. I got a warning and comment deleted when I calling Israel for air force one of ISIS and Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria
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In a new phase of Operation True Promise III on Saturday morning, Iranian armed forces fired a barrage of missiles and drones at the occupied territories.
Music therapy is recognized as a medically effective intervention for various conditions including stroke, brain injury, Parkinson's and dementia; it helps restore speech, improve movement and reduce anxiety Research shows surgical patients exposed to music before and after operations need fewer painkillers, experience less anxiety and report better overall recovery outcomes Music engages multiple brain regions simultaneously, creating a "whole-brain" stimulation that conventional therapies don’t achieve, making it especially valuable for rehabilitation Music therapy works by regulating your autonomic nervous system, lowering cortisol levels, reducing inflammation and promoting faster healing without pharmaceutical side effects Creating personalized playlists for different emotional states and practicing mindful listening helps harness music's powerful neurological effects for emotional and physical wellness
ADP TV. Guest: Thierry Meyssan, journalist, writer, lecturer, and founding president of the Voltaire Network. Theme: Iran Special. Update on the situation. Are we on the brink of a global conflagration?
Fish Wallenbergs with new potatoes, a traditional egg sauce (bechamel based) and new season cabbage slaw with lemon, olive oil & dill.
Our fishing upstrairs neighbour who brings us fish in exchance for sourdough bread brought us some pike and perch last week. Had some zander in the freezer and so these three kinds of lake fish cakes were born. Panko crusted gourgeousness.😋
kitter is in here curled up enjoying the AC. he has never really known any environment other than climate control so it's gona be tough for him after we move
Iran says IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi facilitated Israeli aggressions by preparing a “biased” report on its nuclear program. It demands IAEA end actions against Israel as per the NPT and UN principles.
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Nothing says 'native people' like fleeing the land you claim is yours, the moment it gets uncomfortable, with passports from where you’re actually from 🙄
These 'indigenous' Middle Easterners are returning home...
not just gaza, palestinian/arab Israelis apparently don't get shelters either. At least according to CNN, Guardian, Haarez. ... don't need to go to Al Jazeera for these news, but they say it too of course.
But of course Israel isn't an apartheid state, perish the thought ...
ULKOPUOLISET – yhteinen blokki tasa-arvon politiikalle Helsinki Pridessa! Kulkueesta suljettiin pois eduskunnan ulkopuoliset puolueet. Emme hyväksy tätä. Se rajaa queer-ihmisten ja muiden poliittista itseilmaisua. Siksi marssimme Ulkopuolisina. Kutsumme mukaan kaikki, joille ei pelkkä karnevaali riitä. Teidät, joille Pride on protesti, tilaa olla näkyvästi queer, köyhä, vammainen, paperiton, työtön, radikaali. #Ulkopuoliset #Pride2025 #HelsinkiPride2025 TYKKÄÄ JA JAA! facebook.com/events/s/ulkopuol…
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