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Slrpnk.net outage

Alt account of poVoq@slrpnk.net here.

Our instance is currently down and I can't get remote access to the servers. It appears that there might have been a hardware failure of the main firewall, which is the one thing I can't work around remotely.

I am still trying a few things, but I am not very optimistic that I can get access.

The really unfortunate part is that just now I am on one of my rare work deployments abroad, so I also can't access it physically during the next few weeks and my usual back up that could restart it is not available either.

As something like that never happened in 3 years operating the servers, I thought I can risk it, but murphy's law seems inescapable 😓

I will try to keep you posted here on any updates, but probably there will not be much I can do for a while. Really bad timing 😥

Edit: we might use this "opportunity" to migrate the instance to Piefed, which has been an idea for quite some time now. I will keep you posted on that.

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lemmy - Link to source

ocean

I this it’s a law that servers run 100% perfect until the literal day one leaves town with zero way to return home. One of the many reasons I got all my services off of unraid.

Very cool to learn you’re running your own machines. Do you go into detail about this anywhere?

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lemmy - Link to source

Kris

We have a small write up about the hardware on our wiki, but it is also down right now.

I think we will share a post-mortem write up of the actual improvements we will do to avoid this in the future.

One thing I will definitly do is to add a KVM remote management console to one of our server boards and move the main firewall into a VM with hardware passthrough of the NICs (this was anyways planned for a 10gbit network upgrade for the second half of 2025). This way I should be able to reboot and even reinstall the main ingress point remotely, so that only the fiber gateway remains as a failure point that requires physical access.

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lemmy - Link to source

Japan births in 2024 fell below 700,000 for first time
Tokyo (AFP) – The number of births in Japan last year fell below 700,000 for the first time on record, government data showed Wednesday.

The fast-ageing nation welcomed 686,061 newborns in 2024 -- 41,227 fewer than in 2023, the data showed. It was the lowest figure since records began in 1899.

Japan has the world's second-oldest population after tiny Monaco, according to the World Bank.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called the situation a "quiet emergency", pledging family-friendly measures like more flexible working hours to try and reverse the trend.

Wednesday's health ministry data showed that Japan's total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman is expected to have -- also fell to a record low of 1.15.

The ministry said Japan saw 1.6 million deaths in 2024, up 1.9 percent from a year earlier.

Ishiba has called for the revitalisation of rural regions, where shrinking elderly villages are becoming increasingly isolated.

In more than 20,000 communities in Japan, the majority of residents are aged 65 and above, according to the internal affairs ministry.

The country of 123 million people is also facing increasingly severe worker shortages as its population ages, not helped by relatively strict immigration rules.

In neighbouring South Korea, the fertility rate in 2024 was even lower than Japan's, at 0.75 -- remaining one of the world's lowest but marking a small rise from the previous year on the back of a rise in marriages.


Japan births in 2024 fell below 700,000 for first time

RFI

mastodon - Link to source

"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

Link: sparktoro.com/blog/ai-will-rep…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


"AI will replace all the jobs!" Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing - SparkToro

Over the weekend, I went digging for evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percent of jobs. It doesn't exist. Worse than that, actually,
Rand Fishkin (SparkToro)

diaspora - Link to source

Tall ship brings ESA ocean science training to Nice


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ESA’s ocean training expedition arrives in Nice

After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wild storms to calm near-freezing seas, students aboard mastered techniques for collecting ocean measurements and harnessed satellite data to unlock insights into our blue planet.

Led by experts, this real-world expedition offered more than education – it sparked curiosity and a deeper commitment to understanding and protecting our oceans.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
GitLab

mastodon - Link to source

No fucking around in Aceh, Indonesia

100 lashes each for unmarried sex: Couple are flogged in front of a crowd as part of Sharia law punishment in Indonesia

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

100 lashes each for unmarried sex: Couple are flogged in front of a crowd as part of Sharia law...

The man and woman stood in front of a crowd in the country's conservative Aceh province on Wednesday as they received their brutal punishment.
Olivia Allhusen (Daily Mail)

diaspora - Link to source

#geopolitics #war #annihilation

Ukraine could attack Russian bombers like sitting ducks because the New START treaty. That's why US nuclear bombers (B-1Bs, B-2s, B-52s) are also parked visibly at Diego Garcia and elsewhere; China, who didn't sign the treaty, hides its bombers away in underground concrete shelters.

So of course the US must feign ignorance, else it would obviously constitute unilateral break of a treaty, that could call for thermonuclear retaliation. That's how close we come to global annihilation but, hey, "the good guys scored a point". Morons.


2010 nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

lemmy - Link to source

Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown
I'm a happy lemm.ee user and a mod of a small community hosted there. I'm also subscribed to a bunch of communities on lemm.ee. Sadly, they have just announced that they will be shutting it down. I understand that I can open an account on another instance and subscribe to the same communities. For my own community, I can probably re-create it on my new instance and DM every subscriber. But how do I find all the communities from lemm.ee in their new places? I'd like some practical advice.

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lemmy - Link to source

rglullis

The following communities have already an alternative on instances that I run:

  • !television@lemm.ee -> !television@metacritics.zone
  • !movies@lemm.ee -> !movies@metacritics.zone
  • !artporn@lemm.ee -> !artporn@sfw.community
  • !football@lemm.ee -> !football@soccer.forum
  • !keitrucks@lemm.ee -> !keitrucks@gearhead.town

All these instances have been running for close to two years and are part of the "topic-specific" network of servers that I set up to help during the migration.

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lemmy - Link to source

Blaze (he/him)

!Television@lemm.ee, !movies@lemm.ee and !Football@lemm.ee have pinned post where the community members can vote where they want to go.

At the moment, for !television and !movies, sopuli.xyz is the proposition with the most votes.

Edit: !artporn@lemm.ee also has a meta discussion post.

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diaspora - Link to source

"Nucléaire : la relance de l’atome rejetée en commission à l’Assemblée à la suite d’un imbroglio


Mais un amendement de la députée (Isère, Parti socialiste, PS) Marie-Noëlle Battistel @BattistelMarie
a déposé, semble-t-il d’abord par erreur, un amendement supprimant la construction de six nouveaux EPR2 d’ici à 2026 et de huit autres ainsi qu’un petit réacteur modulaire d’ici à 2030. Elle a finalement maintenu cet amendement, qui a été adopté.
Le rapporteur du texte, le député (Haute-Savoie, Renaissance) et ancien ministre Antoine Armand @antoine_armand
, lui a alors signifié son erreur, l’invitant à retirer son amendement, mais celle-ci a finalement décidé de le maintenir. Il a donc été adopté, supprimant les objectifs de relance pour les cinq prochaines années."

#politique #cirque #énergie #souveraineté
xcancel.com/Thinker_View/statu…

bridgy-fed - Link to source
New: CISA has already lost ~1,000 employees to Trump's workforce purge, with the marquee Cybersecurity Division hit hard and many departures from the agency's field force of local cyber advisers. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-de... Confirming @samsabin.bsky.social‬'s scoop.

CISA workforce cut by nearly one-third so far

The agency has lost roughly 1,000 staffers in the wake of the Trump administration’s workforce cuts, losses that could imperil its ability to protect government computer systems and critical infrastructure.
Eric Geller (Cybersecurity Dive)

friendica - Link to source
Israel no longer hides its genocidal aims in Gaza. Will the world keep looking away? #Palestine 972mag.com/israel-no-longer-hi…

Israel now admits its genocidal aims in Gaza. Will the world keep looking away?

Since Trump's return, Israel has dropped all pretenses of self-defense. But even as it evades accountability, it has cemented its legacy as a global pariah.
Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
in reply to Ambassador Plebeian A∴A∴☑️ ☑️

mastodon - Link to source

𝕥ℝ𝕠𝕃𝕃𝕚ℕ 𝕜𝕀𝕥𝕥𝔼𝕙

Sometimes you need the Latin to define specific "terms".

I get the shits everytime I get a medical report and I have to run it through AI to translate it into plain english. But the latin terms have known and precise meanings that would be a nightmare if overnight everyone is forced to use plain english to explain the same thing.

mastodon - Link to source

Liberalism flourished after WW2 due to the US's unparalleled economic advantage, which was built on the massive expansion of its industrial base during the war while the rest of the world burned.

The economic supremacy that legitimized western system has now faded and liberal democracies face a crisis of confidence while China's model is emerging as a successful alternative.

dialecticaldispatches.substack…

#geopolitics #china #usa #socialism


The Stress Test Liberalism Never Saw Coming

Prosperity Falters, Alternatives Rise
Dialectical Dispatches
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mastodon - Link to source

Yogthos

@Arindam I'm not saying USSR economy was inferior in nature, merely that the US had a massive head start. The US leveraged this advantageous position during the Cold War to pull of the world economy into its orbit which further shifted the balance of power in its favor.

The problem USSR had was that it was stuck in an ideological struggle with the US where countries were forced to pick bloc allegiance. China managed to avoid falling into that trap.

in reply to Yogthos

mastodon - Link to source

Arindam

The advantageous position of the United States in 1945 was whittled away in the subsequent decades.. and furthermore, it didn't prevent the following:

The USA lost the first half of the Cold War

youtu.be/cK7CUy8PxRQ

(Not just Vietnam, but also the defeat of Pakistan by India in 1971 were indicative of declining American power).

The ideological struggle wasn't the problem - especially since the existence of the Non-Aligned Movement demonstrates that countries didn't have to pick sides. The problem was that the Soviets made a few critical mistakes (the Sino-Soviet split, the war in Afghanistan, the failure to push forward in IT, etc...) - and were subverted. The latter is of utmost importance.. and a key source on it is:

Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System

amazon.co.uk/Revolution-Above-…

Learning from the Soviet example, Beijing has avoided the mistakes - and has taken extraordinary care to avoid subversion.


The USA lost the first half of the Cold War

Andrei Fursov (Андрей Фурсов) - Russian historian, sociologist, writer, organizer of science.
YouTube

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@GossiTheDog here is Fortinet’s answer for FortiEDR:
community.fortinet.com/t5/Blog…

Full disclosure, I am a systems engineer for Fortinet; however I don’t speak for the company.

FortiEDR's software and content update release process

In light of recent cybersecurity events, we would like to remind FortiEDR customers and partners about our software and content update release process, as well as our overarching release strategy.
community.fortinet.com
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mastodon - Link to source
@GossiTheDog Wrote about this last month. Customers are the beta testing infrastructure and damages to them do not constitute a significant cost. there is no incentive to protet them. cyberprotection-magazine.com/d…

Do corporations really care about your security? - Cyber Protection Magazine

So, to answer the question, "Do corporations really care about your security?", it's hard to believe. Customers cannot rely on the corporations collecting their data to keep it safe. Our fate is in our own hands in this war.
Lou Covey (Cyber Protection Magazine)

mastodon - Link to source
@GossiTheDog I was involved in another issue where an organization wanted to sue a couple of people for fraud. Their lawyers told them, "Well, the problem here is that your bookkeeping practices and approvals showed you knew exactly what was happening, so you would be held liable as well."
That' is what would happen with Delta if they sued. Theyr own negligence contributed to the scale of the problem, after others had resolved it.

friendica - Link to source
Jeremy Scahill on what he learned from Hamas officials about the release of Edan Alexander #Palestine

Jeremy Scahill on what he learned from Hamas officials about the release of Edan Alexander

We are joined by veteran investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News who is closely monitoring the ceasefire talks and is in contact with Hamas...
YouTube

diaspora - Link to source

High-Stakes Fox Hunting: The FCC’s Radio Intelligence Division in World War II


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#featured #history #originalart #wirelesshacks #counterespionage #espionage #goniometer #radiointelligencedivision #rdf #rid #spy #spyradio #wwii #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2


Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
GitLab

mastodon - Link to source

For those on FA denying the fact that there were concentration camps during WWII.

WWII Veteran Recalls The Horrific Moment Of Discovering A Nazi Concentration Camp | Remember WWII

youtube.com/watch?v=LGWHf8Pe32…

This is the story of Bill Kongable who served in the 89th Infantry Div as a member of the anti-tank company. He went to war at 18 years of age & saw things that no one should ever see. His unit made an assault river crossing across the Rhine River...


WWII Veteran Recalls The Horrific Moment Of Discovering A Nazi Concentration Camp | Remember WWII

This is the story of Bill Kongable who served in the 89th Infantry Division as a member of the anti-tank company. He went to war at 18 years of age and saw t...
YouTube
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HunDriverWidow

Check comments below the video:

My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only talked about what he had done a few weeks before he passed away aged 80 years old. RIP. My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only

friendica - Link to source
تعاون استراتيجي مصري إيراني؟ نهاية عباس ودفن أوسلو؟ هل يشن ماكرون حملة صليبية ضد إسرائيل فعلا؟ thealtworld.substack.com/p/c0d

تعاون استراتيجي مصري إيراني؟ نهاية عباس ودفن أوسلو؟ هل يشن ماكرون حملة صليبية ضد إسرائيل فعلا؟

Abdel Bari Atwan
thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)

lemmy - Link to source

Voyager changed the default instance to lemmy.zip

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/3785704…

chore: set default instance to lemmy.zip, remove lemm.ee

Thank you for all your work!


Release 2.35.1 · aeharding/voyager

📝 Other Changes chore: set default instance to lemmy.zip, remove lemm.ee PR: #2034 (I'm still on vacation; this is a hotfix for lemm.ee shutting down on June 30th, 2025.)
GitHub
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lemmy - Link to source

Quicky

Bit shit for UK users though since lemmy.zip is blocked for them. Not exactly going to encourage new users from here.
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lemmy - Link to source

Quicky

Realistically that is never going to happen. The biggest issue the fediverse has is onboarding. People just looking to try out a reddit alternative aren't going to bother emailing their fucking MP just because the default settings of an app won't let them sign up. They'll just give up and go elsewhere.

If we want to encourage growth, adding additional barriers isn't the way to do it.

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lemmy - Link to source

mbirth

It’s not lemmy.zip that’s blocked in the UK, they (lemmy.zip) block every visitor from the UK as they don’t want to get in trouble for violating the UK’s Online Safety Act.

Online Safety Act: explainer

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (GOV.UK)
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lemmy - Link to source

Quicky

It’s not actually complying with UK law, it’s removing it from the equation so it doesn’t have to. I don’t begrudge the decision though, it will have been a difficult choice to make. That said, it’s a sledgehammer approach to self-censorship, as a response to an inability to comply.

Like I say, I don’t have an issue with Lemmy.zip being unavailable in the UK. But I do think it is potentially damaging for Fediverse uptake to promote a default instance that is unavailable to such a large number of users.

For comparison purposes, the UK easily has the second highest number of Reddit users by country. It is a remarkable decision to exclude that potential market by default.

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diaspora - Link to source

Dr. jur. Beate Sibylle Pfeil weist auf eine politische #Kunstperformance am 5. Juli 2025 in Karlsruhe hin.


Der Verein Pädagogen für #Menschenrechte e.V. möchte damit an die Übergriffe der #Corona -Maßnahmen auf #Kinder und #Jugendliche im deutschen #Bildungssystem erinnern.
pfm-ev.de/aktuelles/

#GesundheitsDiktatur #Covid #Betrug

Aktuelles – Pädagogen für Menschenrechte e. V.

Pädagogen für Menschenrechte e. V.

diaspora - Link to source
L'institut allemand de sondage d'opinion Forsa déclare :
75 % des Allemands sont favorables à l’arrêt des livraisons d’armes à Israël en raison de sa guerre contre Gaza.
En Europe, on s’intéresse aux sondages d’opinion et on en tient compte.
L’arrêt de la fourniture d’armes européennes à Israël transforme l’armée israélienne en un tigre édenté.

friendica - Link to source
Christina Zeringue remembers being 10 years old, looking to the sky through her new telescope to view the Moon and planets on Christmas night. It opened her eyes to space and inspired her journey from the backyard to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. “I became fascinated with astronomy and learning about […]

How a Childhood Telescope Launched a NASA Career for Christina Zeringue - NASA

NASA

diaspora - Link to source

Shlomo Sand: De la rivière à la mer, tous peuvent être libres et égaux


#politique #Israël #Palestine

Shlomo Sand nous fait aujourd'hui l'honneur de participer au podcast. Historien, professeur à l'université de Tel Aviv, ses ouvrages font polémique depuis des décennies. A travers "Comment le peuple juif fut inventé", Sand revisite l'archéologie et les faits pour remettre en cause le mythe de l'Exil, fondement du sionisme et du retour à la terre d'Israël. Plus récemment, "Deux peuples pour un État ? Relire l’histoire du sionisme", Sand remet en cause la doxa de la politique des deux états. Il propose alors d'imaginer un Etat unitaire qui réunirait juifs et arabes sur une même terre, de la rivière à la mer, égaux en droits, et libres.


yewtu.be/watch?v=PcDgVzlP_DY

diaspora - Link to source

De l'extrême ouest à l'extrême est... d'Ankara à Tokyo, de Marrakech à Naplouse, de Jakarta au Caire... la terre tremble à répétition et à un rythme accéléré !

La punition pour « trahison » sera-t-elle un tremblement de terre majeur ? Pour que chacun puisse goûter un peu aux horreurs de Gaza, mais sans missiles ni bombardiers venus du ciel, mais depuis les profondeurs, là où Dieu lui ordonne d'avancer, pour qu'il s'élève, furieux et punitif ?!

diaspora - Link to source

C'est un nouveau scandale.

La France s’apprête à livrer des équipements militaires à Netanyahou.

Un cargo israélien fera escale demain à Fos-sur-Mer, près de Marseille.

Il transportera secrètement 14 tonnes de pièces détachées pour fusils mitrailleurs fabriquées par la société française Eurolinks. Des pièces qui doivent être livrées à l’entreprise d’armement Israel Military Industries.

Le président @EmmanuelMacron doit s'expliquer. La France ne peut être complice du génocide en cours en Palestine.

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