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What I know, is only what I learned through experience and reading, but I hope with this article to provide a better framework to understand what a shell like Bash can do.
What's a shell?
When we talk about a shell in this context, we talk about an interface you see on the screen who allow you to interact with the computer. This can be a graphical interface, like your typical desktop environment (think Gnome, KDE, Mate, Cinnamon...). Or it can be a text based interface. In this article we'll talk about the typical text interface which we'll refer to as Unix Shell, or simply Shell. There are different variations of this Shell, and different implementations of these variations. The currently most known one is probably Bash. In this article, I'll try to keep examples more general so they can work in different variations of the Unix Shell.
Getting started
First we open a shell. If you're using Linux and don't use a graphical desktop environment, you're probably already in a Shell. On KDE, you can open "Konsole", otherwise you can see if you find something called "Terminal" or "Console" or something. On OSX it's called "Terminal". On Windows you can use WSL, install Git Bash, or install a proper operating system instead. Note that Git Bash is just a very simple compatibility layer and will only allow rather shallow interactions with the OS itself. These are actually Shell emulators. They are GUI tools, who give you something that looks like a textual Shell.
First steps
When you have your Shell open, things can look slightly different based on how the Shell is configured. Typically you will see a dollar-sign "$" where you can start typing. Often, but not always, you will see some extra information like user, host, and directory. The background is often either black or white.
$ _
Let's start how most guides start and type a command. Type pwd and press Enter.
$ pwd
/home/me
pwd is a typical command and it prints out the location where you currently are in the file system. This is a first important observation. The operating system you're working in has a file system, and you are always located somewhere in that file system. In this example I use /home/me, but it will probably be the home folder of the account you're logged in with.
Let's try a different command, echo.
$ echo look, I am Shelling!
look, I am Shelling!
Here we didn't just call a command, we also added some extra things after it. The Shell interprets these as parameters for the command you typed. Here we called echo and provided it with the parameters "look,", "I", "am", and "Shelling!". What echo does is just print out the parameters it got.
Variables and substitution
Alright, let's do something fun now. While most people see the Shell as a place to run some commands, it's actually a programming language and environment. Just one who is very tightly coupled to your operating system. That means we can do typical programming language things. One example is variables. Let's store a value in a variable and then view the content of it.
$ me="Look it is me!"
$ echo $me
Look it is me!
First we store the string "Look it is me!" into the variable me, then we use echo to print it out. But there's a lot of new things going on here! Let's check them out.
First of all, we are using quotes, yet we do not see the quotes in the value of the me variable. The thing is that not all characters are taken literally as is. Some characters have special meaning. This is true for double quotes, single quotes, backtics, the dollar-sign, several types of brackets, and a whole bunch of other characters. Over time, when using the Shell a lot, you'll start getting a feeling for good practices, but for now it suffices that you know this is a thing.
Secondly, we see that we use echo $me. But why use echo, and what's with the dollar sign? When you type something as-is, the Shell will try to make sense of it. Maybe it's a keyword, maybe it's a special character, maybe it's a command. If we would just type Look it is me!, then it will try to figure out what Look means in this context, assume it's supposed to be a command it doesn't know, and throw an error. So instead, we use echo and let that command print it out. So far so good, but we didn't actually give the words "Look it is me!" to echo, did we? Well... yes we did! That's where the dollar sign comes in. When we use the dollar sign in front of some text, the Shell will interpret this as a variable name and substitute it before it does something with it. So when we do echo $me, the Shell will first replace $me with the content of the variable "me", then it will interpret the whole as it is now, which means it executes echo Look it is me!.
But there's another thing going on. Why use the double quotes when assigning the string to the variable? And why don't we use the double quotes with echo? The thing is that, by default, a space is considered a separator. Quotes, however, tell the Shell that the text shouldn't be seen as separate words. When you try me=Look it is me!, the Shell will consider "me=Look", "it", "is", and "me!" all separate things and throw an error because it assumes it is supposed to be a command it can't find. We're gonna go a bit deeper in how the Shell interprets this exact line a bit later, but for now, we just want to understand what the quotes do. We want to store the whole sentence as a single variable, so we need a way to tell the Shell that this is one value, and we do that by quoting the sentence.
When you try echo Look it is me! and echo "Look it is me!", you wont see a difference in behaviour. There is a difference, though. In the first case, echo will see these as different parameters, and just print them out one by one, space separated. In the second case, we only give one parameter to echo. In this case, both ways just happens to provide the exact same output. One way to see the difference between using quotes or not, is to use multiple spaces. Try it! If you add multiple spaces, then those will be seen as a single separator, and the output for the version without quotes will only have one space between the words. In the case with the quotes, the spaces are an integral part of the variable that we provide, and as such will be printed in the output.
$ echo Look it is me!
Look it is me!
$ echo "Look it is me!"
Look it is me!
$ echo Look it is me!
Look it is me!
$ echo "Look it is me!"
Look it is me!
You can also try this with single quotes and you'll see the same result as with double quotes. The difference between the two is that the Shell will still do the substitution within double quotes, but not for single quotes. Being able to substitute and still have quotes can be important. Observe the example below, do you understand what is happening?
$ echo Look it is me!
Look it is me!
$ echo "Look it is me!"
Look it is me!
$ echo 'Look it is me!'
Look it is me!
$ me='Look it is me!'
$ echo $me
Look it is me!
$ echo "$me"
Look it is me!
$ echo '$me'
$me
$ you="and you"
$ me="Look it is me $you"
$ echo "$me"
Look it is me and you
$ you="and you"
$ me='Look it is me $you'
$ echo "$me"
Look it is me $you
If you find it a bit confusing to predict how the quotes will be interpreted, remember that the Shell will always first replace the variable, then execute the line.
Procedures and executables
As said before, the Shell we're talking about is more than just typing commands, it's a programming language. In modern programming languages, we generally have three big paradigms; procedural programming, object oriented programming, and functional programming. Our Shell can be considered a procedural programming language. You tell it line by line what you want to see happening, but you can also write procedures that you can call with or without parameters. Let's give it a go!
$ do_something() {
echo "we are doing something"
}
$ do_something
We are doing something
Here we wrote a procedure called do_something, and then call it. The procedure just prints the sentence "we are doing something". We can also pass parameters to our procedure, so let's play with that a bit.
$ do_something() {
echo "$1"
}
$ do_something 'Am I doing this o_o'
Am I doing this o_o
As you can see, we do not define the parameters when defining the procedure, we just get them passed in the form "<dollar-sign><number>". We also see that we start with $1 and not $0. Why is that? Let's see!
The output you see can be slightly different, but what we see here is the command that was called to start the current process. In our case, that's the command used to start the Shell. This isn't really useful here, but can be useful in executables. Let's play with that a bit.
In the beginning of this article, we used the command pwd to see where in the file system we are. First we'll move somewhere else so we can play there a bit without bothering the rest of our system. Let's do the following
$ mkdir /tmp/learning_shell
$ cd /tmp/learning_shell
$ pwd
/tmp/learning_shell
The /tmp folder is a temporary folder which, on most systems, gets wiped when starting the computer. By moving here, we can play around, create folders and files here, and after a reboot, we wont have files polluting our system. Great! Now let's do what we wanted to do, play with some executable scripts. Let's do the following
Few, that's a whole bunch of new stuff to explain ^^' Firstly, we see characters we haven't used yet, > and >>. To really understand what these are, we need to understand file descriptors, but for now you can interpret these as "take the output and put this in the following file, and create the file if it doesn't exist". A single > will first clear the file if there's already content, the >> will append to the file as a new line. The third line shows a command we haven't used before, chmod. Files have content, but there's more to files than just the content. There's also metadata. One of the metadata is what you can do with a file. There are three things you can do with a file, you can read from it, you can write to it, and you can execute it. chmod allows you to change what is allowed to do with a file. In this case we say that the file "a_script.sh" may be executed. In the fourth line, we actually execute the file. Note that we don't just give the name of a file, we prepend it with "./". But before we go deeper into that, let's analyse the content of the file.
The first two lines are quite clear I guess. It's just the echo command where a parameter is provided. When this line is executed, we expect that to be printed out to the terminal, but here we instead write it to the file "a_script.sh". So our file will have two lines.
We already understand the second line we write to the file, it's an echo command. But what about the first line? There's actually two things happening here. Firstly, as said before, the Shell is actually a programming language. As such, it's not surprising it also has a way to add comments. The # at the start of a line tells the Shell it should consider this a comment. So when the script is executed by the Shell, it just ignores that line. But why is it there then? The answer is quite ingenius. We ask our shell to execute the file, but there are many ways to execute a file. A file containing machine code may need it's instructions to be provided to the processor directly. Meanwhile, a script, and Shell is a scripting language, needs a specific program, called an interpreter, to run. We can tell the Shell what program to use, by starting our file with #!, followed by the absolute path of the interpreter to use. So first the Shell will read #!/bin/sh to conclude that it needs to use the program /bin/sh to run the file. Then /bin/sh will read the file and simply ignore this first line because it considers it a comment. Quite clever, isn't it. Note that this also means that we don't need the ".sh" extension in the filename. It's often used to give a hint to the person using the script, but it will work just the same if you just name the file "a_script". Another thing that we can show here; Do you remember how parameters are past using the "$<number>" notation? Well, the $0 shows how an executable was called. When we tried it with a function, it showed what command was used to start the executable it was started from, and that was the Shell. But here we call an executable. This will run in its own process and $0 will have the value of how the script was called. Observe:
But why do we precede the name of the script with "./"? There are two ways to call an executable. You can either specify them by typing their path, or you can give the name of an executable located in what is called the PATH. Note that when we use the term path (lowercase letters) and PATH (uppercase letters), we mean two different things. A file has a location in the filesystem hierarchy and we represent that location by using what we call a path. In case of the script we made, the so called "full path", also known as "absolute path", is /tmp/learning_shell/a_script.sh. Another way to call the script by it's path, is by using the relative path. The Unix Shell has several shorthand notations, for example the dot ., double dots .., and tilde ~. The dot represents the current path. In our case that's /tmp/learning_shell. The double dots represent the parent folder of the directory we are in. In our case, .. represents /tmp. Note that these are representations, they are not substitutions like we saw with the dollar sign $. The tilde ~ represents the home folder of the user as whom we are running the process.
When we use the term PATH, with uppercase letters, we mean something different. The PATH is an ordered list of directories containing executables who may be called directly by their name. The PATH is defined in the variable PATH by a colon separated list. Try it!
Your PATH may look slightly different but most of these folders are typically present, especially "/bin" and "/sbin" should be there. When we just type the name of a command, the Shell will look in several places to see if it finds what you ask to execute. This can be a procedure you defined (which we saw earlier), it could be a build-in command, or it can be an executable that the Shell finds in your PATH. It will start looking in the first folder, and keep looking until it finds a match. This means we can overwrite what our Shell will use by placing things in different directories, or even by expanding the PATH. Let's experiment a bit.
$ a_script
a_script: command not found
$ OLD_PATH="$PATH"
$ PATH="/tmp/learning_shell"
$ a_script
This is running
$ PATH="$OLD_PATH"
$ a_script
a_script: command not found
Here we completely changed the PATH, but normally you would just add a directory to the PATH. For example, if you want a new directory and you want it to be checked first, you can do PATH="/tmp/learning_shell"":$PATH".
Using variables like this is often used to pass certain parameters to programs. By default a variable is only accessible in the process you run, but you can use export to make it accessible to child processes as well. Such variables are generally referred to as "environment variables". Whether parameters can be passed like this, depends on how the executable is implemented that you want to use them for.
Another way to pass an environment variable to a process, is to precede it when calling the command to run. It will then pass it to the process, but not set it for itself. We can also unset a variable, which locally clears the variable, and thus also remove that it was exported.
We already saw procedures and executables who both execute things. There are also keywords. One example where they are used is for the structures that you typically have in programming languages, like if, while, and case.
if true
then
echo blop
fi
case blop in
blop)
echo 'this is the blop case'
;;
blub)
echo 'I am a fish'
;;
*)
echo 'this is something else'
;;
esac
To know what type a certain command is, you can use the type command. The most typical types are shell builtin, keyword, or executable file.
$ type echo
echo is a shell builtin
$ type if
if is a shell keyword
$ type chmod
chmod is /usr/bin/chmod
test and arithmetic operations
We can also do tests who resolve to true or false, and we can do arithmetic. Let's use it in a while structure, using the while keyword.
number=0
while [ $number -lt 10 ]
do
echo "$number is less than 10"
number=$((1+$number))
done
echo "We are done, $number is not less than 10"
Let's write a program!
We've seen a lot of concepts that go way beyond simply commands. To prove that Shell is an actual programming language, let's write a small program.
Paste the following in a file, make it executable, and run it! The program doesn't have any error handling at the moment, feel free to add some yourself!
Note that this uses some commands and notations we haven't mentioned before. Can you understand what they do?
\#!/bin/sh
echo "Let's play a guessing game!"
echo "I'll think of a number from 0 to 9, you guess what the number is."
echo "Let's go!"
echo ""
number_to_guess=$(cat /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -cd '0-9' | head -c 1)
running=true
while $running
do
echo "Ayt, what number am I thinking of?"
read guessed_number
if [ $guessed_number -lt $number_to_guess ]
then
echo 'Nooo, think bigger! The number I have in mind is bigger than that!'
fi
if [ $guessed_number -gt $number_to_guess ]
then
echo 'Whooo, slow down! The number I have in mind is not so big!'
fi
if [ $guessed_number -eq $number_to_guess ]
then
echo "Yes, you found it! The number I was thinking of is indeed $number_to_guess""! How did you know ^^'"
running=false
fi
done
echo ''
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My instance is very slow and in 4 out of 5 calls it shows me the typical 504 error
The instance was installed with the help of Yunohost on an old laptop with 4GB RAM, 500GB hard disk and according to htop, it almost never exceeds 500MB RAM overall load
I have disabled infinite scroll and I have lowered just to 5 messages per page the timeline
What else can I do?
PS: The 504 is almost always on /network, /community and the circles pages
@ɯɟʇɹ @Friendica Support Friendica really likes as much innodb_buffer_pool_size as you can give it (assuming you use innodb in MariaDB). It looks like from your RAM usage you can increase that to ~2 GB and see how that helps.
@ɯɟʇɹ @Friendica Support I would log into your mariadb on your server laptop by using sudo mariadb -u root -p, enter the password, then enter the following in the mariadb client you just logged in to, to show the current size:
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'innodb_buffer_pool_size';
(The semicolon at the end is required!) To change it, in the same mariadb client, you can enter:
@ɯɟʇɹ SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'innodb_buffer_pool_size'; +-------------------------+------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +-------------------------+------------+ | innodb_buffer_pool_size | 2147483648 | +-------------------------+------------+ 1 row in set (0.001 sec)
Oh hey looks like pixelfed had a major post leak issue and the maintainer absolutely fucked up managing the security patch situation.
https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html
I wouldn't call it Pixelfed's vulnerablility, but a reminder that nothing on Fediverse is private. Even if Pixelfed is fixed, someone can create rogue instance to read other's private posts.
The issue is that if you don't default to federation, it becomes essentially impossible for new instances to join the fediverse. A potential new instance would have to go around to every single existing instance and ask to be allowlisted, which is onerous for both the new instances and for the large server admins who would be getting tons of requests. It would also essentially kill small-scale selfhosting as a result.
private posts are only sent to instances that either your followers or the list of people you want to see the post are on. If they all co-operate, you will be fine.
Well, obviously they’re sent to some other ones, or else this wouldn’t be an issue.
This is a design flaw in the protocol. If your instance is going to send your private posts to other people, they’re not private. The authors need to fix your instance software, not demand that every other software in existence needs to “cooperate” and find out whether they’re “private” and not show them to the users if they are.
There is @bob@pixelfed.example their is their friend, @joe@mastodon.example. bob also follows @jane@gotosocial.example
If bob makes a private post (ie, followers only), only the instances of people he follows will recieve the post. The instance will see that its supposed to be private, and not show it to everyone.
This may, gotosocial.example, mastodon.example and pixelfed.example have the post, but don't show it. misskey.example won't have the post.
Then, if gotosocial.example (hypothetically) had a bug where it ignored posts visibility settings, those posts would be shown, since the post is sent to that server. If misskey.example had a similar bug, nothing would happen as the post wouldn't have reached that server anyway.
Yeah, so there's no real way to implement private posts on Mastodon.
I mean, it is fine if you want to implement sort of "best effort" semi-privacy and make it clear to everyone involved that that's what it is, but for any reasonable definition of "private," the requirement that it not get shown to people outside the list of people allowed to see it needs to be enforced better than this. There will always be server software that doesn't "cooperate." That's just the nature of open distributed systems. If you're making assurances to your users that their posts will be private, you need to be the one enforcing that, not everyone else on the network and the protocol needs to be set up with the ability for that to happen (which ActivityPub is not, which means it's misleading that someone told users that they can have "private" posts via this hack.)
email works the same way. it's impossible to implement private emails? if you cc your email to im.going.to@leak.it and it leaks, would it be fair to complain about the whole email system?
e: should have read deeper first its already been said
Edited to add: I got this around the wrong foot, see the reply to this. /edit
Not necessarily, as clearly stated in the linked article:
But sure enough, the toot was followers only and the person that had liked it was not following her Mastodon account. When I took a look at the other persons profile on pixelfed.social, I noticed that the instance was nevertheless claiming the account was following her.
When pixelfed assumes that an account is not locked, it immediately treats a follow attempt as completed. For the server on the other end it looks like a normal follow request. It could be rejected, and pixelfed would still be convinced that a follow relation exists.
@privateuser@mastodon.example.com has a "followers only account".
@someuser@pixelfed.example.com is a friend of above account, requested access and was granted. This now causes mastodon.example.com to push all messages of @privateuser to pixelfed.example.com.
@anotheruser@pixelfed.example.com requests access, but gets ignored. But the pixelfed instance marks the user as "follows @privateuser"
In the interface of @someuser, the messages are shown as expected.
In the interface of @anotheruser, they are also shown. Because PF basically does a database "select messages of users that the user follows", without checking if the access was ever granted.
Important to note, that this would not happen, if the messages weren't already pushed to the server due to the "allowed" user
I kinda of lean towards the idea of "private accounts" being a bad idea as a result, just because it creates a false sense of security. But I'm not in the target demographic so idk
Give it a rest. A fork of Mastodon created a new abstraction for "private posts" and started sending to instances some posts that were marked in a new way as "private," and now they're trying to blame Pixelfed for not adopting their homemade standard for what posts their servers are sending out to everyone that they're not supposed to show, and what ones they are supposed to show. And, Pixelfed fixed it once they became aware of the issue.
It's fixed in 1.12.5. Why is this not titled "Mastodon instances claim to their users to offer 'private' posts but send them out exactly like normal posts, get surprised when software that hasn't magically adopted their new standard is showing them to people"?
I did a whole analysis of what the spec actually says, how it relates to "private" posts, and Mastodon's implementation details. TL;DR they just made things up and it's a huge disservice to Mastodon users to give people the impression that these posts are private.
your complaints on "unlisted vs public" are completely unrelated to the issue at hand
your analysis that relates to this pixelfed flaw is just:
Privacy Enforcement: * No explicit requirements for how receiving servers should restrict visibility based on audience fields * No requirements that servers must hide content from non-addressed users
these aren't good analyses: content should be private by default, nowhere is stated otherwise. if you feel like this common sense practice is somewhat arbitrary, it's actually mandated by GDPR and more data protection laws.
if you want to rule lawyer that "acktually spec doesnt EXPLICITLY say that you cant show stuff meant for alice to bob if bob asks" and ignore this web good practice (probably implied by the many privacy remarks in the spec but let's ignore those) which is actually mandated by governments, feel free to still ignore the incompetence displayed by dansup in implementing something that every other fedi software managed, go for it
even if you were right, even if the spec was really that vague, even if it wasn't a good practice and requirement, in a federation parties cooperate. pixelfed breaking a common agreement is defederation worthy, and dansup remains either incompetent for implementing badly something easy or toxic for federating ignoring what the federation requires
you're still not addressing the point, just linking other posts back and forth and moving the goalpost
content should be private by default, nowhere is stated otherwise
This is completely false. Read section 7.1, "Note: Silent and private activities". It specifically says that privacy behavior, for activities with no recipients at all, is undefined. It recommends not showing them to anyone, obviously, but that "behavior is not defined" has a very specific meaning in a specification document. It means, if you sent an activity of that type to someone, trusting that they would then keep it private, then you fucked up, because behavior in that area is undefined and cannot be relied upon.
That's not "rules lawyering." That is how specification documents work. That's an important note, which I suspect is why it is highlighted and in its own separate box. There are some similar parts of the document, involving the big word "MAY" in all caps where they had the option of writing "SHALL" or even "SHOULD", to indicate that a server had to keep certain things private, that follow the same philosophy.
None of that means you can't use some common sense. It's obviously not good to be handling intended-to-be-private information in some way that the sender doesn't expect, and that's why Dansup fixed it quickly when it was brought to his attention (particularly since the issue wasn't even directly related to access control on private posts, just in a subtle interaction involving approved-followers-only users and a setting that was failing to federate). My point was just on the broader issue, that if Mastodon is sending out "private" statuses to random servers, then this is at the root a Mastodon issue. The quick fix (regardless of whatever it was about that made the blog poster even more upset when Dansup took it seriously and fixed it quickly) puts the lie to your assertion that Dansup is "toxic" "ignoring what the federation requires" and so on.
I suspect that we're going to keep going around in circles on this forever. I have a new strategy when someone is just endlessly arguing with me about some weird minor issue. I just make a new post dealing with the issue in more depth, so that it's not just you and me endlessly going in circles deep in the comments at each other. You're welcome to come to that post, and continue the conversation there, if you'd like to:
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Los antecedentes de Las Textilientes, se remonta al 2018 cuando participamos del proyecto "Secreteando". En ese entonces, un grupo de tejedoras investigamos acerca del rol de las mujeres espías (y de las tejedoras en particular) en la primera y segunda guerra mundial. Como conclusión del recorrido realizamos una muestra con prendas bordadas y tejidas que contenían frases en un código de colores. En estos días, les contaré un poco más ¿están de acuerdo?
La historio de "Las Textilientes" devenas de 2018 kiam ni partoprenis en la projekto "Secreteando". En tiu tempo, grupo de teksistoj esploris la rolon de inaj spionoj (kaj teksistoj aparte) en la Unua kaj Dua Mondmilito. Kiel konkludo, ni faris specimenon kun broditaj kaj teksitaj vestaĵoj, kiuj enhavis frazojn en kolorkodo. Ĉi tiuj tagoj, mi diros al vi iom pli, ĉu vi konsentas?
L'histoire de "Las Textilientes" remonte à 2018 lorsque nous avons participé au projet "Secreteando". À cette époque, un groupe de tisserands enquêtait sur le rôle des espions (et des tisserands en particulier) pendant la Première et la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pour conclure, nous avons réalisé un échantillon de vêtements brodés et tissés contenant des phrases codées par couleur. Ces jours-ci je vais vous en dire un peu plus, vous êtes d'accord ?
The story of Las Textilientes dates back to 2018 when we participated in the "Secreteando" project. At that time, a group of kniters investigated the role of female spies (and weavers in particular) in the First and Second World Wars. As a conclusion, we made an exhibition of embroidered and woven clothing that contained phrases in a color code. These days, I will tell you a little more, do you agree?
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So my one cat disappeared again. I thought she was just in one of her hiding spots. Nope, she was outside. Turns out that if the dog door cover isn't properly attached, she can just pull it off just enough to let herself in and out. For an orange cat, this kitty sure is smart
J'ai suivi l'infiltration des eaux de pluie dans le sol et la réapparition des eaux souterraines en surface. J'ai eu envie de raconter par le dessin la manière dont une résurgence se forme et à l'inverse le fonctionnement de dispositifs techniques qui canalisent le flux. Aller vers l'eau, c'est toujours un accès à la connaissance. C'est en tous cas ma manière d'en apprendre un peu plus sur le monde. I followed the infiltration of rainwater into the ground and the reappearance of underground water on the surface. Through drawing, I wanted to show how a resurgence is formed and, conversely, how the technical devices that channel the flow work. Going towards water is always an access to knowledge. In any case, it's my way of learning a little more about the world.
Surabaya, Indonesia: Riot Outside East Java Government Building Against New Military Law
A violent clash broke out Monday in the Indonesian metropolis of Surabaya between police and demonstrators protesting against the country’s newly passed military law.
Around 1,000 students and activists dressed in black participated in the protest in front of an East Java government building.
Holding posters that said “Reject the Military Law”, and “The Military Should Return to the Barracks”, protesters hurled rocks, sticks, and Molotov cocktails towards the police guarding the demonstration.
The revision to the armed forces law, pushed mainly by President Prabowo Subianto’s coalition, was aimed at expanding the military’s role beyond defence in a country long influenced by its powerful armed forces especially under the brutal military dictatorship of Suharto called the “New Order” who were avowedly anti-communist and anti-anarchist. Large-scale killings and civil unrest primarily targeting members and supposed sympathizers of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) were carried out in Indonesia from 1965 to 1966. Other affected groups included alleged communist sympathisers, Gerwani women, trade unionists, ethnic Javanese Abangan, ethnic Chinese, atheists, so-called “unbelievers”, and alleged leftists in general. The dictatorship eventually fell in the May 1998 Indonesia riots triggered by corruption, economic problems, including food shortages, mass unemployment, repression, genocide in East Timor and following the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
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Upcoming Windows 11 builds won't have the ability to to install without internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.
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How does financial investment firm BlackRock justify how it's obtained it's 5 trillion dollar worth 😏 that's sketchy as fuck like politicians all becoming gazillionairs
Mit Werken über Diktaturen und Unfreiheit wurde Timothy Snyder bekannt. Nun verlässt der Historiker die Vereinigten Staaten und geht nach Kanada, wie andere Fachkollegen auch. Seine Frau warnt vor einem Bürgerkrieg.
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The problem for some with the use of the word "Gimp" is that sometimes it has been used as a slang word for someone who is crippled or physically disabled. In kink-sex-bdsm circles "gimp" also sometimes refers to a submissive that is in bondage or other gear designed to humiliate them. So because of those things some people find the name GIMP for the software is offensive. It's never bothered me, I don't really think of these other uses when I hear the word, I just think of an open source free tool that has enabled me to get my image editing and not have to pay exorbitant subscription fees to Adobe.
Thanks for the explanation, @Steven Berson. I had to translate but it explains quite well!
Pour certains, le problème de l'utilisation du mot « Gimp » est qu'il a parfois été utilisé comme un mot d'argot pour désigner une personne infirme ou physiquement handicapée. Dans les cercles kink-sex-bdsm, le terme « gimp » fait également parfois référence à une personne soumise qui est soumise à un système de bondage ou à d'autres équipements conçus pour l'humilier. C'est pourquoi certaines personnes trouvent que le nom GIMP du logiciel est offensant.
The measure of offense is not whether it bothers those for whom it is not an insult, but rather how it perpetuates oppression to those who have been victimized by this word as a taunt.
If the “N-word” does not personally offend you, that does not make it okay for you to use that word, does it?
The software makers were warned about this problem long ago, and they chose to ignore it. That’s a poor reflection of their empathy for others.
The "n-word" has a history of massive amounts of violence with its use, where as "gimp" doesn't really have that, which is why they are not equivalent to me, but I can understand if some are offended with a software is using that name. In which case, luckily this is a FOSS project, so it can just be forked with a new name and branding. In fact this has already happened, with the "Glimpse" project, and folks that are offended just need to help assist updating the fork to 3.0 if they want an immediate solution. github.com/azubieta/Glimpse
methinks it a worse wrong to try to lop off all uses of the word because of one use as an insult.
homonym, yo.
[^ that's the short of it. read on if you dare, for the more personal bit, and then the more challenging bit yet after that (~ or at least see the question in bold, maybe~)].
As one who's been described as a gimp, and do indeed sometimes have a gimpy limp from any of half a dozen ailments, I'm eager to keep the name. Feels incidentally representative. No need here to swoon all offended as victim, creating and doubling the injury, taking it as a pejorative, rather than a descriptive. People calling me a gimp, bothers me far less [(& nothing at all, even)], than being cut off, from support of needs, such as money to survive, or right to a voice... "nothing about us without us" as the pithy slogan goes. It's quirky and fun to me. Would so love to alleviate the pain of those taking offence to it, not just to protect my own expression/culture/identity/fun/etc, but to alleviate their suffering, and the suffering of others from their attempts to right the wrong, not realising their "two wrongs". Maybe it helps to entertain the idea, that it's good that rotters reveal themselves with their use of pejorative intended language, so then you know where they are, to avoid or offer better ideas to, rather than force them to fester ever more malignant in their unchallenged bad ideas, ever shifting through more euphemistic dog-whistles, leading to genocides. Speaking as a survivor thereof, again, better we're retaining our free expression, than being culled covertly under euphemisms signalling the mandatory virtues in totalitarian mass formation, not realising those are atrocities, not virtues.
[Fair warning, part way through this next portion, punches are not pulled. Might be too strong for some to read easily. It's not meant to be an easy read. It is challenging to face these things raw. But face them we must {so I assert}, in grace and kindness of due consideration at least.]
So, maybe indeed, offer the preferred named fork, to obsolete the wrongthink named version, and let people decide there with the means to choose, rather than suffer being berated as stupid and evil for not following the one true way and proper newspeak, so then none of us need suffer the derailing from the pertinents. Or maybe there's a compelling argument yet. Maybe we could run as thorough a poll as we can to see if any who are affected by it are offended by it or have fond affection for it, or are utterly indifferent to it. And still then what better solutions, than banning speech. STAMP on that camel's nose the moment it enters the tent, or before we know it, before we can stop it, we'll never be able to express an idea again, as the language truncates in the Orwellian race to the bottom, chasing the true scotsman fallacy. English is a mongrel language, with many an imported patch from other languages, and many a coined term from many a colloquial eccentricity, so there are many homonyms stepping on the toes of their own many meanings... and in terms of language of the oppressor, and words of oppression, "gimp"'s not just milder, but distinct in greater breadth of established homonymity, contrast to stronger words of oppression, such as "nigger", "faggot", or "marijuana". I know of no other use of "nigger", ~ save for the (still problematic) "nigga", and for most, is easily the worst of the monstrous words of oppression, utterly regardless of if mere cultural happenstance, given how sub-human'ising/dehumanising and enslaving and culling and colonising over~ [but I'd still not want evoke the uber-dumb of blanket banning... again, that abuse of censoring a mere word wont stop the abuse behind the word ~ and yes, it is shocking to see that word, as it should be. Lets not book burn history. Face the horror.]. Faggot, would be a weird word to somehow deny people, given it's a common term for sausages, and, was innocent enough to burn, as bundles of wood, rather than bundles of people. Such is the true horror of the etymology of the word "faggot" as a term of abuse and oppression, highlighting the democide, (which similar to "nigga", many have taken as their own, staying strong, never forgetting). Marijuana, distinct again, in that its prior meaning was the means by which it was deployed as a word of oppression, in the intentional misnomer, effectively depriving the majority of humanity of their best resource, enslaving, impoverishing, poisoning, billions of people for generations of this perversion (and so arguably [by the narrowly glimpsed numbers] a worse word of oppression than even "nigger"!), and I do find myself lean to discouraging its use, still vividly injured by this word of oppression. Gimp though, I'm unfamiliar with it as a word of oppression... perhaps you can enlighten me of the etymological history (beyond the shallows offered by dictionary webpages)...? If there is some such horrific history tied to the word (rather than the word being there by happenstance, unless it's really really really bad), I may join in your advocacy of a rename, but it does need be really really really bad, since it's already so widespread established a homonym meaning other things already (other things like GNU Image Manipulation Program) before it's worth embracing that wrong to attempt to correct the wrong. Or at least promoting GLIMPSE (or... a better name. Ew.).
Thank you for your thoughtful reply, @Digit. I can see the convenience and value of using this name (letting rotters reveal themselves - ha!) and would not support efforts to forcefully ban it. Maybe the use of this name could better be characterized as 'careless' rather than offensive. In any case, I'm grateful for the insights I gained from the comments here.
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Chicoree aber auch Radicchio, Zuckerhut, Puntarelle, Catalogne und nach dem Krieg hat man direkt aus der Wurzel in der heimischen Pfanne einen Kaffeeersatz gemacht den Muckefuck
Oder die App noch nicht haben. Muss langsam mal wieder suchen und identifizieren, was blüht. Außer Haselnussträuchern. Die sind hier langsam durch und dafür muss ich nur das Fenster aufmachen 🤧
In early 2022, I started noticing something strange in #Spotify’s jazz playlists. I listen to jazz every day, and pay close attention to new releases. But these Spotify playlists were filled with #artists I’d never heard of before.
Who were they? Where did they come from? Did they even exist?
In April 2022, I finally felt justified in sharing my concerns with readers. So I published an article here called “The Fake Artists Problem Is Much Worse Than You Realize.” I was careful not to make accusations I couldn’t prove. But I pointed out some puzzling facts.
Many of these artists live in Sweden—where Spotify has its headquarters. According to one source, a huge amount of streaming music originates from just 20 people, who operate under 500 different names. Some of them were generating supersized numbers. An obscure Swedish jazz musician got more plays than most of the tracks on Jon Batiste’s We Are—which had just won the Grammy for Album of the Year (not just the best jazz album, but the best album in any genre).
How was that even possible?
I continued to make inquiries, and brooded over this strange situation. But something even stranger happened a few months later.
A listener noticed that he kept hearing the same track over and over on Spotify. But when he checked the name of the song, it was always different. Even worse, these almost identical tracks were attributed to different artists and composers. He created a playlist, and soon had 49 different versions of this song under various names. The titles sounded as if they had come out of a random text generator—almost as if the goal was to make them hard to remember. - Trumpet Bumblefig - Bumble Mistywill - Whomping Clover - Qeazpoor - Swiftspark - Vattio Bud I reported on this odd situation. Others joined in the hunt, and found more versions of the track under still different names. The track itself was boring and non-descript, but it was showing up everywhere on the platform.
Around this same time, I started hearing jazz piano playlists on Spotify that disturbed me. Every track sounded like it was played on the same instrument with the exact same touch and tone. Yet the names of the artists were all different.
Were these AI generated? Was Spotify doing this to avoid paying royalties to human musicians? Spotify issued a statement in the face of these controversies. But I couldn’t find any denial that they were playing games with playlists in order to boost profits.
By total coincidence, Spotify’s profitability started to improve markedly around this time.
If your brand and your sales are dependent upon a major platform, you need to be prepared for the fact that you are going to lose it sooner or later, because once established, it is always much more profitable for a platform to generate its own content than serve as a middleman paying out the majority of its own revenue to external content creators. And the combination of algorithmic influence with the total indifference of the modern mass consumer means that there is no brand loyalty on a major platform.
As the analyst observed: “This is what happens when distributors take control of a creative industry, and outsource content.“
And it is why it is absolutely vital for a creator-centric community to stick together and relentlessly find ways to work together, because the larger economic forces are now operating in a way to eliminate independent creators. Fortunately, we have a small, but strong and battle-tested community, as well as several loyal creators who understand the importance and the necessity of standing together.
We have a lot of talent in the community. This is why I’m always encouraging people to take on new projects of which they conceive, like Vox DAI, just to give one example, and to support external creator projects like A WORKING MAN – which launches today, by the way – because it gives us all a much better chance than those poor bastards who still think they can rely upon YouTube, Spotify, and Amazon going forward.
And that’s why, although some of my music can be found on Spotify, YouTube, and iTunes, all of it is available in the very highest quality on UATV.
Gee I wonder why we are seeing food shortages worldwide. Take S.Ontario, for example. The Gov. is making a Dairy Farm dump 30,000 litres of milk because they have gone over quota.
The right is mad that RFK hasn't banned all vaccines yet. The left is mad top vaccine specialists are being forced out of their positions by RFK. So is he good or bad?
@everything is fake and gay @Sir Endeavour I don't think the right ever wanted all vaccines banned, I certainly didn't, and I don't think the "experts" being forced out of their positions are anything more than greedy big pharma sharks. There is a limited place for vaccines, but today we totally destroy a childs immune system with excessive vaccination insuring they've got no stem cells left to provide immunity into later adulthod.
Bookface 1.6 introduces a new feature called "Postboxes" that allows you to create a post with a colorful background like a similar feature on Facebook. It's built into the Bookface scheme, but I also created TWO add-ons for Friendica if a server administrator wants to roll it out for all of their users regardless of what theme they prefer.
Postbox: simply adds a minified stylesheet to the head with the Postbox styling. It doesn’t add any interface for creating a Postbox, but users can still create them manually with BBcode.
Zen Postbox: adds the minified stylesheet to the head, but also adds a tool to the post composer to insert a Postbox or wrap selected text in one.
To manually create a Postbox just wrap your text in the Postbox class BBcode like this:
[class=postbox-redblue]Text that will be wrapped[/class]
Make sure to PREVIEW it before you post it! While Friendica's Postboxes do allow more content than just plain text, certain formatting blocks can't be placed inside them.
If everything looks good, go ahead an POST it. Anyone using Bookface or any server using either the "Postbox" or "Zen Postbox" add-ons will see it like this:
If the "Zen Postbox" add-on is enabled it adds a button for wrapping/inserting a Postbox to the post editor:
Full Documentation of the "Zen Postbox" add-on is available as a GitLab Wiki.
Keep in mind that other servers that don't implement Postbox styling, other platforms (like Mastodon), and third-party apps will not show these colored backgrounds. This feature only works in the Friendica webapp/website.
This is what that post would look like in the stock "Frio" theme without the add-ons:
Can anyone confirm what Postboxes look like when shared to various other platforms like Hubzilla, GNUsocial, Bluesky, etc.? I'm assuming all the ActivityPub platforms are handling it similarly to Mastodon but I have no way to check any others.
Now I guess the question for the ones that are messed up is whether the problem is in how Friendica sends the post data or if it's how the platform that receives it is parsing it?
I tried looking through the Friendica code myself trying to find where post data gets processed to send to each other platform and I can't make head nor tail of it. Though I did run across a comment that [class] was "deprecated since 2021.12, left for backward-compatibility reasons" but doesn't way why it was deprecated. I hope it doesn't get removed because it's also how I'm making the "Cover Photos" work in Bookface.
@Pygoscelis Papua @Matthias It was probably deprecated because of the absence of remote system support for it. These Friendica-specific classes are at odds with a platform that intends on being as compatible as possible with other decentralized social networks,
@Pygoscelis Papua @Matthias We have a specific processing for Diaspora because it expects Markdown but otherwise it's converted in HTML for all the other remote platforms.
Well, still, there'd be no reason not to strip out the [class] wrapper since other platforms can't use it anyway. There isn't anything similar in Markdown so far as I know, which might be why the raw BBcode is getting through to Disapora? I'm guessing it's missing the conversion from BBcode [class] to Markdown syntax. Which should be conversion to nothing. I'd check for it myself but I have no clue where the processing for other platforms even is in the Friendica code.
Jumping into the fediverse can feel confusing at first. Unlike traditional social media, the fediverse is decentralized, with multiple servers working together, which brings opportunities but also challenges. Empty timelines, weird search results, choosing a server, finding friends and understanding the difference between a private post and a direct messages. Let me get you up to speed on the things that threw me off when I first hit the Fediverse.
Télécharger Graze for Mastodon pour Firefox. Graze is 1-click follow, favorite, boost, bookmark, reply for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home.
Finding yourself paying more than you want to for storage on your Mastodon instance? Understanding how the caching system works in Mastodon is key to keeping down costs and keeping your instance on the fediverse.
Jumping into the fediverse can feel confusing at first. Unlike traditional social media, the fediverse is decentralized, with multiple servers working together, which brings opportunities but also ...
The correctional system is constantly seeking ways to improve efficiency, enhance security, and reduce operational costs. One of the latest technological shifts in prisons across the country is the adoption of Voice over VoIP jail telephone systems. Unlike traditional landlines, VoIP uses internet connectivity to transmit calls, offering significant cost savings, better management capabilities, and enhanced security features.
The High Cost of Traditional Prison Phone Systems For decades, prisons relied on legacy phone systems, which often came with exorbitant costs due to:
High per-minute rates from telecom providers
Expensive hardware maintenance
Limited scalability for growing inmate populations
Complex call monitoring and recording systems
These systems also required physical wiring, making upgrades difficult and costly. Additionally, third-party service providers often charged correctional facilities and inmates steep fees, leading to criticism over unfair pricing.
How VoIP Lowers Costs for Prisons Switching to VoIP provides prisons with a more affordable and flexible communication solution. Key cost-saving benefits include:
Reduced Call Rates VoIP services typically offer lower per-minute rates compared to traditional prison phone providers. Since calls are transmitted over the internet, long-distance and international calls become significantly cheaper.
Elimination of Outdated Hardware Traditional phone systems require on-site PBX equipment, which is expensive to install and maintain. VoIP systems operate on cloud-based platforms, reducing the need for physical infrastructure and lowering maintenance costs.
Scalability and Flexibility As prison populations fluctuate, VoIP systems can easily scale up or down without costly hardware upgrades. New lines can be added with minimal effort, making it ideal for facilities with changing needs.
Enhanced Security and Monitoring VoIP systems come with advanced security features, including:
These features help prevent illegal activities, such as contraband phone usage or inmates coordinating criminal operations from inside facilities.
Improved Efficiency for Prison Staff Beyond cost savings, VoIP improves operational efficiency by:
Centralizing call management through a single dashboard
Automating call logs for better record-keeping
Integrating with existing security systems (e.g., linking calls to inmate databases)
Supporting video visitation (reducing in-person visit demands)
This streamlined approach allows prison staff to focus more on security rather than managing outdated phone systems.
The Future of Prison Communication With tightening budgets and increasing scrutiny over inmate communication costs, VoIP is becoming the go-to solution for modern correctional facilities. By reducing expenses, improving security, and offering greater flexibility, VoIP helps prisons operate more efficiently while maintaining strict communication controls.
As more institutions adopt this technology, we can expect further innovations, such as AI-powered call monitoring and biometric authentication, to enhance security even further.
Conclusion The shift from traditional phone systems to VoIP in prisons is a win-win—lowering costs for facilities while providing better communication management and security. As technology continues to evolve, VoIP will likely become the standard for correctional institutions looking to balance efficiency, affordability, and safety.
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South Carolina has to ignore Trump on this. Full stop. A healthy MAGA movement means that sometimes Trump can't get what he wants because we know better.
Lindsey Graham is a psychopath. Lindsey Graham is evil. If Speaker Smith or Attorney General Alan Wilson challenged Graham, and Trump endorsed them, they would win 90% to 10%. No ifs ands or butts about it
@relentless_eduardo Lindsey Graham is a war whore who profits from war. It's a very, very dangerous thing to be power AND be unable to feel anything for other human beings. Lindsey Graham has GOT to go
GoToSocial is probably the best way to get yourself onto the fediverse at the lowest price possible. It's an excellent choice for solo instances and enables you to migrate both to and from Mastodon.
FediHost has GoToSocial in beta for free if you want to try it out. Simply create a fedihost account and request access to the beta program by emailing support@fedihost.co
In this video I discuss how Gimp 3 has finally had a stable release and comes with awesome new features that will save a lot of time with image editing like Non-destructive layer effects.
On March 25, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law a measure that made ivermectin available over the counter in pharmacies. On March 18, the Arkansas House voted 78-14 in favor of Senate Bill 189 by Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale,…
Arkansas is the second state, I think, to allow that, but there are bills in several states that will allow it if passed. Let's hope it grows to a nationwide trend.
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📝 Quick Summary of the Video Zorin OS 17.3 is here, bringing a refined and user-friendly Linux experience based on Ubuntu. With a polished GNOME desktop, multiple layout options mimicking Windows and macOS, and seamless integration with Microsoft domains, it’s an excellent choice for newcomers and office users. The OS enhances usability with its built-in Windows app support, Zorin Connect for phone integration, and a customizable app store featuring Flatpak, Snap, and APT packages. With Brave as the default browser and the latest NVIDIA drivers included, Zorin OS 17.3 is a solid alternative for those looking to move away from Windows. Watch the full video to explore all its features!
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Sharkey-Lemmy Interoperation Notes These are some as-I-went observations and notes, so not to be taken as comprehensive. For the most part I think it's pretty similar to Mastodon-Lemmy interactions, but others can chip in with anything different or that I may not have encountered.
Thought it'd be a good use of Sharkey's page feature to share like this. Pass it along if you find it helpful, or copy and improve and share your own variation!
Yeah, when I ran into it and realized what was happening, I was a little stumped on what a possible solution could be too. All that comes to mind are some clunky workarounds unfortunately.
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Type these commands in the chat to control the game: - "up" - Move up - "down" - Move down - "left" - Move left - "right" - Move right - "start" - Press Start button - "select" - Press Select button - "a" - Press A button - "b" - Press B button use "a4" to do 4 "A" button presses. you can left10 to do 10 left button presses. I'm able to get the latency down to 7 seconds 4 or witch are just interval between inputs (that's what my testing says)
How It Works
enter a command into chat
closets command to the 4 second check will get executed
Multiple viewers' inputs create chaotic and unpredictable gameplay
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