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Für die Verabschiedung ihres „Sicherheitspakets“ hat die Ampel ihre drei einst hoffnungsvollen Farben zu einem schmutzigen Farbton zusammengerührt. Vom Versprechen einer grund- und menschenrechtsfreundlichen Politik ist nichts mehr geblieben. Ein Kommentar.
„Sicherheitspaket“: Die Fortschrittskoalition ist tot

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A Startup Once Valued at $22 Billion is Now Worth Nothing - An anonymous reader shares a report: Byju Raveendran, the founder of the embattled... - news.slashdot.org/story/24/10/… #money

Militärhilfe für Putin gegen Ukraine: Nordkoreas Soldaten sollen russische Tarnidentität haben


Nordkoreas Soldaten ziehen für Russland in den Krieg, behauptet Südkoreas Geheimdienst. Damit überschreitet das Kim-Regime für viele eine Linie.
Militärhilfe für Putin gegen Ukraine: Nordkoreas Soldaten sollen russische Tarnidentität haben

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Secret Service trained at mock White House that Hollywood producer Tyler Perry built as stage

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Cruz, Allred trade barbs in heated Texas Senate debate: 'Extreme,' 'threat to democracy'

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‘Little House on the Prairie’ star Melissa Gilbert says Michael Landon’s ‘brutal’ cancer ‘decimated him’

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Michigan community leader tells CBS 'a lot of Black men are not into the Harris campaign'

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Snow impacts western NC mountain towns recovering from Hurricane Helene: 'Coldest air of the season so far'

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Jets superfan Fireman Ed takes issue with lack of screen time at stadium: 'They’re phasing us out'

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A look at the oldest stone tools ever discovered, dating back 3.3M years

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Kate Moss, 50, takes Victoria's Secret fashion show by storm in surprise appearance with daughter Lila, 22

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Snow impacts western NC mountain towns recovering from Hurricane Helene: 'Coldest air of the season so far'

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Cruz, Allred trade barbs in heated Texas Senate debate: 'Extreme,' 'threat to democracy'

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Kate Moss, 50, takes Victoria's Secret fashion show by storm in surprise appearance with daughter Lila, 22

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‘Little House on the Prairie’ star Melissa Gilbert says Michael Landon’s ‘brutal’ cancer ‘decimated him’

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“What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.”
Philippians 4:9 (ESV)

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Next Friendica Release Candidate available


The development cycle for the 2024.09 release enters the last stage before the stable release – today we have branched off the 2024.09 release candid branch. 2024.09-rc contains all the features of the stable release and is meant to test the new features, find some last rough edges and smooth out the path to the final stable release at the end of October. 2024.09 will be mostly a maintenance release fixing issues in various parts of Friendica. If you want to help out in testing, please checkout the new 2024.09-rc branch and report problems that you encounter.

The most notable changes in this release are:

  • we now support HLS and further improved the compatibility with Bluesky,
  • we dropped the support of OStatus (the predecessor of ActivityPub) after evaluating the amount of active servers/contacts that are still only using this protocol,
  • Friendica is now REUSE compliant and supports FEP-67ff


What is Friendica


Friendica is a decentralized communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky.

How to use the 2024.09 RC Version of Friendica


If you want to help in the release process, you can checkout the 2024.09-rc branch from the git repositories.
git fetch
git checkout 2024.09-rc
git pull
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
Note that you only need to pull the composer dependencies in the core repository.

Should the upgrade process of the database get stuck


If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script
./bin/console dbstructure update
from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned above.
What to do with Quirks

The 2024.09-rc phase is meant to identify and preferable resolve quirks and bugs that should not be in the 2024.09 release, but have slipped through so far. So if you switch your node to the 2024.09-rc version of Friendica, please let us know about rough edges you find, either at the issue tracker (github account required), in the support group or in the developers group.

Thanks a lot for helping with the release 🙂


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USA - Trump wirbt für Militäreinsatz "im Inneren" und schürt Ängste vor Chaos durch "linksradikale Irre"


In den USA hat der republikanische Präsidentschaftskandidat Trump vor möglichem Chaos durch "linksradikale Irre" rund um die US-Wahl gewarnt und für einen Einsatz des amerikanischen Militärs gegen den "Feind im Inneren" geworben.
USA - Trump wirbt für Militäreinsatz "im Inneren" und schürt Ängste vor Chaos durch "linksradikale Irre"

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Eine "kleine" Faszination: Das Wuppertaler Miniaturland ist eröffnet


Mehr als sechs Jahre hat ein Team aus Modellbau-Enthusiasten akribisch daran gearbeitet, um eine Dauerausstellung zu etablieren.#Wuppertal #Miniaturland #Modellbahn #Schwebebahn #squeet.me/search?tag=
Eine "kleine" Faszination: Das Wuppertaler Miniaturland ist eröffnet

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Irina Scherbakowa über Exil und Flucht: „Ich vermisse Russland nicht“


Putin, die Ukraine und der Westen. Kulturwissenschaftlerin Scherbakowa über den Kampf um Demokratie, Solidarität und das Werk der Ost­europa-Expertin Anne Applebaum.#Russland #Menschenrechte #Demokratie #WladimirPutin #Memorial #FriedenspreisdesDeutschenBuchhandels #wochentaz #Nobelpreis #Friedensnobelpreis #KrieginderUkraine #Europa #Politik #Schwerpunkt
Irina Scherbakowa über Exil und Flucht: „Ich vermisse Russland nicht“

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Big Brother Award: Warum Temu und Lauterbach als Datensünder gelten


Die Deutsche Bahn, Bundesgesundheitsminister Lauterbach und die Polizei Sachsen werden in Bielefeld als Datensünder ausgezeichnet.#Regio-Beitrag #Big-Brother-Award #DeutscheBahn #Datenschutz #Negativpreis #KarlLauterbach #PolizeiSachsen #Bielefeld #11102024
Big Brother Award: Warum Temu und Lauterbach als Datensünder gelten

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