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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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I know, I'm the one who approved your application.
You happened to sign up right before we've had our first particularly bad issue in 3 years. Unlucky, yes, but it's a bit out of order (IMO) to say we're a poorly managed instance based on that, especially seeing as you lost nothing besides the time it took to write your application. :\
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It looks like there is no enough solar power for solarpunk!
~~no need to show me where doors are, I will find them by myself~~
anyway, good luck with that!
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Thanks for the info, a healthy amount of real life awaits then. 😀
I knew it was running on solar energy and old hardware so I guessed something like this had happened. 😀
If you need fail-over to awaken a backup system when the primary fails, things can be designed. 😀
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Alt of ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net chiming in, thanks for giving us the sitrep, poVoq!
This is an unusually unlucky set of circumstances, but for the Solarpunks who find their way here, let's try to make the best of it. If you don't already have an alternative account somewhere, you may want to create one to use until we're back up and running. lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, or lemmy.cafe are some solid choices to consider. After that, you may want to favorite poVoq's post here so you can check back on any news.
Even without our home base, we can still share the solarpunky stuff we find and create around the threadiverse (though as Tofu mentioned, maybe this could be a time to take a breather to be refreshed when we come back 😄).
Besides, if the past is any indication, time will fly by and we'll be back before you know it!
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Not sure about your area, but a wireguard accessible OOB connection is a great piece of kit to keep handy. I use a cheap 768kbps SIM in an Ethernet connected switch into my personal systems. It's saved my skin numerous times.
I'm sure this is obvious, especially in hindsight, but just mentioning because the existence of IoT LTE data plans for a minimal fee ( $100/year for me in Midwest US) was NOT obvious to me until 2 years ago.
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Might it also be possible/feasible to send an "email blast" to everyone with a slrpnk.net account? It would probably be quite complicated to send that many emails at once without getting blocked by the major email providers, but hypothetically we've all registered with emails...
Just spitballing ideas for the future. Everything's fine now. Gives me an excuse to spend a little more time on the Canadian end of the fediverse. 😀
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As email in profile is an optional feature on our instance about 50% of the userbase opted to not share one so we would only reach some people. But yes, getting spam filtered would be another problem of mass-mailing.
But I found a way to put up a simple html error page and will add this later to inform our members and link to this thread.
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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.
Sounds like your 'bus factor' is too high and you need a few more backup admins.
Hey fellow slrpnk.net refugees... if you're looking to recreate your list of subscribed communities, here's a good place to start:
::: spoiler click here for a list of communities that are NOT politics, tech, or meme -related.
Most are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked) Sometimes politics, tech or memes sneak in but they're not the focus.
GENERAL DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS
ART / PHOTOS
- !artporn@lemm.ee
- !astrophotography@lemmy.world
- !accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !badrealestate@feddit.uk *
- !collage@lemmy.ml *
- !desire_paths@sh.itjust.works
- !fakehistoryporn@lemmy.world *
- !fediclicks@viewfinder.pro *
- !filmsframes@lemmy.world
- !foodphotos@sh.itjust.works *
- !gameart@sopuli.xyz
- !grasweeti@slrpnk.net
- !hmmm@lemmy.world
- !imadethis@lemm.ee
- !imaginary@reddthat.com
- !inhabitedbeauty@lemmy.world
- !liminalspace@lemmy.world
- !mobile_wallpaper@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !nocontextpics@lemmy.world
- !pics@lemmy.world
- !pictures@lemm.ee
- !pixelart@retrolemmy.com
- !pixelart@lemmy.ml *
- !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
- !traditional_art@lemmy.world
- !trams_trolleys_streetcars@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !wallpapers@lemmy.ca
- !52weeksofart@lemmy.world
ANIMALS
- !bats@lemmy.world
- !catposting@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !cat@lemmy.world
- !catsstandingup@lemmy.world *
- !opossums@lemmy.world
- !scrungycats@lemmy.world *
- !superbowl@lemmy.world
COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS
- !alanmoore@feddit.uk *
- !comics@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world
- !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
- !truecomics@midwest.social *
- !garfield@lemmy.world
- !outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world
- !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
ENTERTAINMENT
- !80smusic@lemmy.world
- !90smusic@lemmy.world
- !90s_tv@lemmy.sdf.org
- !badmovies@lemmy.world
- !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world
- !Bside@fedia.io
- !boardgames@sopuli.xyz
- !cultfilms@lemux.minnix.dev *
- !dwarffortress@lemmy.ml
- !edm@reddthat.com
- !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee
- !iasip@sh.itjust.works
- !martialartsmovies@lemm.ee *
- !metal@lemmy.world
- !movies@lemm.ee
- !music@lemmy.world
- !pokemon@lemm.ee
- !pokemon@lemmy.world
- !pokemongo@lemmy.world *
- !ska@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !thrashmetal@lemmy.world
- !trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone
GENRES / STYLES
- !cassettefuturism@lemm.ee
- !cosmichorror@lemm.ee
- !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip
- !fuckyournelsonlamp@lemmy.world *
- !goblincore@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !gothindustrial@lemmy.world
- !lovecraft_mythos@lemmy.world
- !mullets@lemmy.ca *
- !punk@lemmy.world
- !punk_rock@lemmy.ca
- !raygungothic@lemm.ee
- !streetwear@lemmy.world *
- !vampires@lemmy.zip
- !weirdcore@sopuli.xyz
- !witchcraft@lemmy.ml *
- !witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca
HISTORY
INFORMATION / KNOWLEDGE
- !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net
- !catastrophicfailure@lemmy.world *
- !creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
- !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml
- !documentaries@lemmy.cafe
- !esa@feddit.nl
- !explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
- !goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works
- !humanities@beehaw.org
- !interestingasfuck@lemmy.world
- !math@lemmy.world
- !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe
- !recommendations@lemmy.world
- !solarpunk@slrpnk.net
- !thingscutinhalf@lemmy.world
- !til@lemmy.world
- !vexillology@lemmy.world
- !whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
- !wikipedia@lemmy.world
- !youshouldknow@lemmy.world
OTHER
- !andfinally@feddit.uk
- !academiagonewild@lemmy.world *
- !internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee
- !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
- !nowhereelsetoshare@sh.itjust.works
- !pbsod@lemmy.ohaa.xyz
- !publictransport@slrpnk.net
- !stick@sh.itjust.works *
- !sumo@lemmy.world *
- !shortstories@literature.cafe
- !treehuggers@slrpnk.net
- !the_heinlein_society@lemmy.world
- !woahdude@lemmy.world *
- !youcantparktheremate@feddit.uk *
FEDIVERSE
- !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !fedigrow@lemm.ee
- !fediverse@lemmy.world
- !fediverse@piefed.social
- !fediverselore@lemmy.ca
- !lemmyapps@lemmy.world
- !comm_revival@lemmy.dbzer0.com *
- !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
FINDING NEW/GOOD COMMUNITIES ON LEMMY
- !communities@ponder.cat
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- !findacommunity@lemmy.ml
- !index@lemmy.world *
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca
- !newcommunities@discuss.online
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
- !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca *
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::: spoiler click here for a list of (mostly non-political) meme communities
MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR
Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes these include politics but that's not the sole focus.
:::
(luckily I was posting this to newcomers whenever I had the chance...)
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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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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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I am a slrpnk user. Oh well, shit happens. What makes me a bit sad was that a few months (?) ago something similar happened. Slrpnk.net was down for aa day or two? Don't remember the exact amount of time. What I do remember is asking if there was intention of adding a second admin and making the point that it would be good to create that sort of redundancy. I was ignored.
Mid of july is basically 1 and a half months from now. Hopefully a new solarpunk instance emerges, one that is safer from such scenarios.
Enjoy your vacation and don't stress too much! Shit happens.
WARNING: [youtube] KheSE_280a0:
Some tv client https formats have been skipped as they are DRM protected.
The current session may have an experiment that applies DRM to all videos on the tv client.
See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 for more details.
Watching YouTube on Steam Deck / SteamOS? You need to grab VacuumTube which makes the whole experience a lot nicer.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Came here to ask "how does this compare to freetube" lol
Quick edit: Looking at the article, the gaming mode integration looks pretty neat
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.
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.
Nah dude it's over. Not just in Japan but in most developed countries. Changes were needed decades ago. The only way to survive it is to relax immigration, not by "maybe" cutting work hours.
How about giving families struggling to pay for child numero uno (like me) a stipend? Per child. Not even going to consider having more until Japan starts respecting full-time parenting as a legitimate occupation.
In the three and a half years my son has been alive, the Japanese government has given us a grand total of ¥120,000 ($834 USD). That covers about a month’s worth of childcare now thanks to soaring grocery prices.
"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…
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)
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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
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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
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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)
Floggings would be a suitable alternative for those partaking in shoplifting.
There could even be a marketing slogan to discourage the practice...
"Illegal gain, feel the pain"
The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.Makena Kelly (WIRED)
#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.
Authorities in Gaza described the shooting near aid distribution center as “horrific, intentionally repeated crimes.”IRNA English
Me, finding some music to help focus today: “Oh, nice. There’s a 10th anniversary remaster of this album I used to listen to a lot.”
Also me: “This remaster came out… 9 years ago?!”
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Y'all worried about the Gay Agenda?
Brace your asses for the TransMission.
Pars Today- Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran said,Pars Today
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The following communities have already an alternative on instances that I run:
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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!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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Lien propre : yewtu.be/watch?v=5_ItDVwqpik
#droite #gauche #intelligence #fr
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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
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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)
@georgetakei I have a better one then that !!
Attached: 1 image @georgetakei@universeodon.com I have a better one then that !!Mastodon
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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)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted for the "One Big Beautiful Bill" that's backed by President Donald Trump, but admitted on Tuesday that she had not read it.Sarah Rumpf (Mediaite)
I like Musk idea of using AI to summarize legislation. I would also like to see block chain used on legislation; how many times have something been slipped into a bill, by persons unknown? It is a common occurrence.
agreed.
I use AI to summarise all sorts of things. However I have to use several different engines to ensure it isn't biased.
You smarter than I am, I like the block chain idea. These fuckers are always inserting undesirable laws in omnibus legislation.
I have always like the idea of not using Latin and other legal jargon, that prevents "everyman" from understanding the operation of their government.
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.
You not read a 1000 page piece of legislation in several hours.
Lehrer*innen in Berlin leisten pro Jahr über 2 Millionen Stunden unbezahlte Mehrarbeit. Die GEW fordert eine verbindliche Arbeitszeiterfassung.
Belastung bei Lehrer*innen in Berlin: Deutlich über Stundenplan
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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.
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The author claims:
'Indeed, the Soviet bloc, having started from a position of post-war devastation, was never able to close the economic development gap with the massive head start enjoyed by the United States.'
I beg to differ... the gap was closing, and had it not been for the subversion of the USSR, it most likely would have been closed by now.
Successes of the Soviet Union before Perestroika
Andrei Fursov (Андрей Фурсов) - Russian historian, sociologist, writer, organizer of science.YouTube
@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.
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
(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.
Andrei Fursov (Андрей Фурсов) - Russian historian, sociologist, writer, organizer of science.YouTube
@GossiTheDog here is Fortinet’s answer for FortiEDR:
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Full disclosure, I am a systems engineer for Fortinet; however I don’t speak for the company.
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
Elon: How long would it take us to stop using Crowdstrike?
Remaining engineer: I think we use Norton.
Elon: So we already did it?!
Eng: Uhhh.... yep, sure did, boss!
Elon: Congratulations! I guess now we can downsize the IT department.
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)
@GossiTheDog I love how so many of us have said "I didn't know that parody site existed until I saw the news about the DMCA"
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If anybody is wondering the impact of the Crowdstrike thing - it’s really bad. Machines don’t boot.
The recovery is boot in safe mode, log in as local admin and delete things - which isn’t automateable. Basically Crowdstrike will be in very hot water.
You know it was coming...
Crowdstrike's BSOP theme tune
I've obtained copies of the .sys driver files Crowdstrike customers have. They're garbage. Each customer appears to have a different one.
They trigger an issue that causes Windows to blue screen.
I am unsure how these got pushed to customers. I think Crowdstrike might have a problem.
For any orgs in recovery mode, I'd suspend auto updates of CS for now.
Airports, banking and healthcare were all hit when a Crowdstrike update triggered huge Microsoft outages.BBC News
The .sys files causing the issue are channel update files, they cause the top level CS driver to crash as they're invalidly formatted. It's unclear how/why Crowdstrike delivered the files and I'd pause all Crowdstrikes updates temporarily until they can explain.
This is going to turn out to be the biggest 'cyber' incident ever in terms of impact, just a spoiler, as recovery is so difficult.
I'm seeing people posting scripts for automated recovery.. Scripts don't work if the machine won't boot (it causes instant BSOD) -- you still need to manually boot the system in safe mode, get through BitLocker recovery (needs per system key), then execute anything.
Crowdstrike are huge, at a global scale that's going to take.. some time.
Crowdstrike statement: bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49…
Basically 'it's not a security incident... we just bricked a million systems'
Airports, banking and healthcare were all hit when a Crowdstrike update triggered huge Microsoft outages.BBC News
For anybody wondering why Microsoft keep ending up in the frame, they had an Azure outage and- this may be news to some people- a lot of Microsoft support staff are actually external vendors, eg TCS, Mindtree, Accenture etc.
Some of those vendors use Crowdstrike, and so those support staff have no systems.
But MS isn’t the outage cause today.
Airports, banking and healthcare were all hit when a Crowdstrike update triggered huge Microsoft outages.BBC News
The CrowdStrike outage affecting Microsoft Windows systems caused error messages worldwide on Friday. Here are some images of the weirdest ones we’ve found.William Joel (The Verge)
CrowdStrike have effectively a mini root cause analysis out
Pretty much as everybody knows, they did a channel update and it caused the driver to crash.
If they blame the person who did the update.. they shouldn’t, as it sounds like an engine defect.
crowdstrike.com/blog/technical…
Learn more about the technical details around the Falcon update for Windows hosts.www.crowdstrike.com
For the people thinking ‘shouldn’t testing catch this?’, the answer is yes. Clearly something went wrong.
This isn’t CrowdStrike’s first rodeo on this, although it is the most severe incident so far.
Eg just last month they had an issue where a content update pushed CPU to 100% on one core: thestack.technology/crowdstrik…
Truthfully these issues happen across all vendors - I’ve had my orgs totalled twice now by AV vendors, one while I was on holiday abroad and had to suspend said holiday.
"Note: This is 100% of a single core. In an 8-core system for example, an additional 12.5% of unexpected total CPU load would be experienced..."The Stack
Btw, that isn’t to excuse it or any vendor. CrowdStrike have gotta be better at this stuff. And they’ll have to, as if they aren’t transparent customers will flee.
It’s a warning shot to all AV/EDR/XDR vendors that if you fuck up availability, your brand will become failure. It’s harsh but that’s the media cycle and modern world.
On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally.David Weston (The Official Microsoft Blog)
The Verge has a quick look at the orgs trying to recover from the Crowdstrike incident.
If you’re wondering why it’s dropped off the radar of most press, they think it’s over as Down Detector looks okay (which, to be clear, is not good logic).
theverge.com/2024/7/21/2420296…
Images, video, and stories illustrate how the CrowdStrike outage is affecting IT workers as they push to get their organizations’ systems back online.Wes Davis (The Verge)
Crowdstrike are touting auto remediation of blue screen as an opt in feature.
However, I just tried it - it’s not very successful, most boots still blue screen of death. I think CS need to be careful on messaging about this as it sounds like they’re offering it as a silver bullet. It only works if networking kicks in and the agent updates before Windows finishes booting.
Microsoft's statement that a faulty CrowdStrike update affected less than 1% of active Windows systems doesn't tell the full story, since large organizations in critical sectors make up a disproportionate part of the user base, as the outages in heal…www.bankinfosecurity.com
CrowdStrike have published a video on YouTube about how to remediate PCs: youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5eRUaMZX…
(Despite the name, Self-Remediation, it is manual).
This video for remote users with local administrator privileges, outlines the steps required to self-remediate a Windows laptop experiencing a blue screen of...YouTube
Upguard have published a list of companies they say are impacted by the CrowdStrike 'Global IT Outage', based on public reporting.
upguard.com/crowdstrike-outage
Edit: obviously it’s missing most companies as most companies aren’t disclosing publicly.
To help organizations navigate the CrowdStrike Falcon incident we’ve compiled this list of companies reported to have been impacted by the outage.www.upguard.com
The initial Post Incident Review is out from CrowdStrike. It’s good and really honest.
There’s some wordsmithing (eg channel updates aren’t code - their parameters control code).
The key take away - channel updates are currently deployed globally, instantly. They plan to change this at a later date to operate in waves. This is smart (and what Microsoft do for similar EPP updates).
crowdstrike.com/falcon-content…
Access consolidated remediation and guidance resources for the CrowdStrike Falcon content update affecting Windows hosts.CrowdStrike
By ‘this is smart’ I mean ‘this is smart… now’. Obviously they shouldn’t have been globally, simultaneously deploying kernel driver parameter changes across all customers: it was waiting to go wrong.
They still are btw, as it will take a while to engineer the correct way of doing it.
Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer ParametrixNick Robins-Early (The Guardian)
If you want to know something crazy:
- This year TCS migrated their EDR to CrowdStrike
- Then they announced a strategic partnership with CrowdStrike
- Then they lost all their systems
- They’re just finishing recovery today, 6 days in
- Then they got a $10 Uber Eats voucher
- …which got cancelled due to Uber flagging CrowdStrike’s account as fraudulent
Questions for your EDR providers (do not assume they are experts in availability):
- What are your different update processes?
- How do you test them?
- Do you dogfood test them?
- Do you roll them out in waves? What are the details, eg what percentages and when?
- Do you monitor failures and roll back?
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. initially disclosed a cybersecurity incident in an SEC 8-K filing on 2024-07-22 17:27:44 EDT.www.board-cybersecurity.com
Microsoft are talking about changes to Windows after the CrowdStrike incident. Good.
theverge.com/2024/7/26/2420671…
Microsoft has started responding with changes it wants to see in the wake of the CrowdStrike botched update. It looks like Windows kernel access is on the agenda.Tom Warren (The Verge)
There’s a really good discussion on @riskybusiness’s YouTube show about the CrowdStrike incident.
About the 3 minute mark @alex made me realise I was far too kind to CrowdStrike. He rightly rips them apart.
Risky Business host Patrick Gray talks to SentinelOne's Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about CrowdStrike's baffling failure and what it means for the wider secu...YouTube
Delta are looking to sue CrowdStrike and Microsoft. HT @hrbrmstr
cnbc.com/2024/07/29/delta-hire…
Delta has hired prominent attorney David Boies to pursue potential damages from CrowdStrike and Microsoft after a mass outage earlier this month.Jordan Novet (CNBC)
Re the Delta case - the lawyer they’ve hired successfully sued Microsoft previously on behalf of the US government, and the decision was upheld on appeal too. The ruling almost lead to the breaking up of Microsoft.
The following US government backed out of the case.
Bill Gates said at the time the lawyer was “out to destroy Microsoft”.
So there’s a chance here the CrowdStrike incident may end up having implications across vendor industry around warranties etc, we’ll see.
Replacing an XDR platform at scale takes some time, so if you’re wondering what the translation of Elon’s tweet about Crowdstrike is:
Elon: can we replace Crowdstrike?
Somebody: yes, we’ll begin looking into it but..
Elon: job done
Of course.. given how the Twitter takeover happened maybe he just got them to uninstall it and #yolosec
Delta’s CEO has confirmed they plan to take legal action against CrowdStrike after incurring a $500m loss
6 minute video interview: cnbc.com/2024/07/31/delta-ceo-…
Bastian told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday that the carrier would seek damages from the disruptions, adding, "We have no choice."Leslie Josephs (CNBC)
A faulty update by the cyber-security firm last month caused chaos around the world.João da Silva (BBC News)
Here's the Delta boss on his thoughts about the CrowdStrike incident.
They had 40k Windows Server boxes alone, all with BitLocker full disk encryption enabled, all of which wouldn't boot and weren't fixable without manually unlocking BitLocker. That had gone all in with CrowdStrike + Microsoft's most premium offerings.
He has a really good point about how tech companies have become obsessed with growth as their only metric of success, and customer satisfaction is not on the radar.
There's a really mad moment in that interview where they ask them what assistance CrowdStrike have offered, and he essentially says nothing, not even a lunch voucher.
What a time to be alive.
CrowdStrike complained to Cloudflare about a CrowdStrike parody site… and Cloudflare took it down. Without a court order. clownstrike.lol/crowdmad/
Cloudflare recently announced they have become a strategic partner with CrowdStrike: cloudflare.com/en-gb/press-rel…
New alliance combines best-of-breed platforms, accelerating partners’ ability to drive vendor consolidation by securing the network and stopping breaches across device endpoints, cloud, identity, data, and applications Austin, TX and San Francisco, …www.cloudflare.com
Contestants say food, water, prescription medicine and clean underwear were withheld — but the YouTuber is blaming external factors.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
360 takes a look at the Crowdstrike kernel drivers - finds they implement an eBPF like system, contain a wide attack surface, don’t check validity of update files (eg no signing of updates) and claim they contain conditions for LPE and RCE vulnerabilities. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/uD7mhzyRSX1…
Before people write this off as ‘the Chinese’, I’ll give you a hint: there really, really should be security research about the security of security products across all vendors. I’ve seen things.
Last month’s unprecedented global IT failure should be a wakeup call. Decades of antitrust inaction have made many industries dangerously reliant on the same tools, making such crises inevitable.Electronic Frontier Foundation
CrowdStrike refutes Delta’s allegations that the cybersecurity firm is to blame for a dayslong flight disruption following last month’s system outage.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
I've written up a bit about CrowdStrike's latest bold strategy.
doublepulsar.com/crowdstrike-t…
Cloudflare took the website offline. Cloudflare are famous for platforming nazis, and refuse to take the sites offline or terminate the customers in the name of free speech. Pretty obviously, parody…Kevin Beaumont (DoublePulsar)
Microsoft have now queued up to try publicly throw their customer under the bus, claiming (without evidence) Delta’s CrowdStrike woes were due to non-Windows systems. The CrowdStrike issue only impacted Windows systems so I hope somebody at Microsoft knows what they are doing.
theverge.com/2024/8/6/24214371…
Microsoft has responded to Delta’s calls for compensation over the CrowdStrike outage. The software giant blames Delta’s IT infrastructure and refusals of help.Tom Warren (The Verge)
If anybody wants the subtext of what is happening here, CrowdStrike and Microsoft both really do not want to get sued by Delta and have it go to court as it would potentially be explosive for both orgs and the wider security industry.
The customers are always plebs to be milked, as is status quo.
CrowdStrike incident root cause analysis is out.
Overall, good… but.
It is very verbose but doesn’t say much. Some of the wording will confuse people - eg it talks about rings (waves) in a way which makes you think it is already implemented. It isn’t. They’re saying they plan to implement it later.
Channel updates weren’t tested on a real Windows PC prior to deployment, they relied on automated bespoke code testing. They don’t mention that and it’s the real reason.
Risky Business take on CrowdStrike root cause report is good.
You can see the confusion the report provides in this discussion I think, eg some of the things are talked about as being implemented - but they’re down as findings for improvement. It’s the way the report is worded, to make you believe certain things existed.. that don’t yet.
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:* Crowdstrike talks loud in its postmortem, but says very litt...YouTube
Really good piece about CrowdStrike (technically CSC) misusing DMCA takedown notices over trademark disputes.
CrowdStrike probably want to have a word with CSC about this and Cloudflare should tighten process as DMCA isn’t supposed to be used for this. I know CSC do it.. but they shouldn’t be.
Wider point: cyber industry abusing process in takedowns.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Parody site ClownStrike defended the “obvious” fair use.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
CrowdStrike have responded to two claimed vulnerabilities in CrowdStrike Falcon, including one made by a former staff member: crowdstrike.com/blog/tech-anal…
There may be more to come on this one..
Our analysis outlines why the Channel File 291 incident is not exploitable in a way that achieves privilege escalation or remote code execution and we detail how we secure the Falcon sensor’s channel files from being tampered with and abused.www.crowdstrike.com
CrowdStrike vs Delta vs Microsoft continues to play out in public, now with SEC filings
Gestrichene Flüge, ausgefallene Server und PCs, Unternehmen, die ihre Beschäftigten nach Hause schicken mussten – vor zwei Monaten, am 19. Juli 2024, ging vielerorts nichts mehr.Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
The BBC have an in depth look at the impact of the CrowdStrike ‘global IT outage’ aka happy little non-cyber availability incident
It’s a really good article. Held up cancer care etc. bbc.com/news/articles/cr54m92e…
Cancer delays, holidays ruined, businesses out of pocket - the CrowdStrike outage examined.Graham Fraser (BBC News)
Delta have filed their lawsuit against CrowdStrike, accusing the firm of gross negligence in their testing regime.
Microsoft is working on a new framework to move Windows security vendors out of the kernel. It’s designed to avoid another CrowdStrike incident.Tom Warren (The Verge)
CrowdStrike says customers who left “won’t be missed” HT @metacurity
theregister.com/2024/11/27/cro…
Thinks customers may have forgiven it after revenue hits a recordSimon Sharwood (The Register)
US authorities are investigating CrowdStrike over their defective software update last year - and, intriguingly, their financial statements.
Why intriguing? I mentioned last year - their financial position doesn’t make sense. One to watch.
"Financial incentives" did not include discounts, contract extensions, or additional license counts. It was features that you didn't already have at a reduced rate...which will go up to full-boat pricing after the discount period.
They turned a disaster into a sales tool.
But, I still don't understand the complaints about airlines. There were companies who recovered in hours, or were able to stave off 100% penetration of the update....and recovered in hours.
The organizations who took days and weeks didn't have a Crowdstrike problem. They had a management problem and some technical debt that got cashed in that night.
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But is that a Crowdstrike problem? We have BitLocker, and use a non-Microsoft tool to manage keys and recovery, accessible from off-site.
I guess since we used encryption before Microsoft starting bundling BitLocker we had a little more common sense?
Perhaps we have fewer facilities to visit, and could have at least one person at each. I think maybe Delta does not have that many personnel who can be mobilized? Do they run support from remote call centers? (I don't have work-from-home or outsourced support here. Something breaks...somebody from I.T. is walking.)
An SOP was created and shared via standard comms, and printed out for the technicians on the floor. Non-technical I.T. staff were able to follow the SOP, which multiplied the number of people per site.
I'm saying, it's not a new event in the span of I.T. and vendor-caused outages. It has happened before.
Sophos/Utimaco and Microsoft had a similar problem with Win7 FDE, which had greater impact on us due to I.T. staff computers being offline, unable to access email, file storage, ticketing systems, and org-wide chat didn't exist.
But, we do have humans available at each site within 1-2 hours.
I heard from someone in the know that Crowdstrike had been _begging_ Delta to upgrade certain parts of their infrastructure, that they knew something like this could happen any day and tried to warn Delta about it. That Delta was uniquely lax in keeping up its technology.
(doesn't assuage Crowdstrike from partial blame, just saying)
Itll be a very interesting court case if it goes that far. Like SCO vs. everyone level tedious (but technically verya interesting)
Dear corporations,
You can proceed with all of this insanity like a pack of rabid bonobos with some kind of weird fetish,
-- OR --
you could JUST NOT RUN WINDOWS.
I've read one of the reports they are talking about. I didn't post about it here, because I found its arguments tenuous at best, although I could have misunderstood them, given that I can't read Chinese and automatic translation usually makes a mess of it.
However, there are places in CrowdStrike's refutation of it that make me go "Hmmm".
The report is intended to divert the attention towards some topics and away from other topics.
There are still gaping holes in the explanation you could smuggle several Kaijus through.
E.g. did the file ever get tested in a complete environment?
I could easily write down several of such questions they don't want to answer.
In an extensive and unnecessarily complicated document, the manufacturer explains its errors and names improvement measures for the security software.Dr. Christopher Kunz (heise online)
"good" is strongly overselling it. It's utter garbage, and I'm about 95% sure that no human wrote that.
Here's my screaming about it - infosec.exchange/@munin/112916…
Oh look, the asswipes at clownstrike shat out an analysis when everyone's going to DEF CON for hacker summer camp.Infosec Exchange
I wonder if it came to that if support.microsoft.com/en-us/wi… would be introduced as evidence
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Learn how to protect your PC, identity, and data from tech support scams.support.microsoft.com
brave strategy as EDR costs in an org budget is insignificant (relative to other parts)
However this shitty attitude now generates an incentive not to allocate it to Crowdstrike.
I'm told crowdstrike regularly screws up linux machines in our environment... it's just that we don't run enough of the same version of linux to have it cause a major impact.
Not that I think that's what happened here, but maybe that's what they're trying to imply.
Is Delta getting heavy? 😁🤷♂️
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If the First Rule of Holes is "Stop Digging", the Second Rule should be "stop, look around, and think about what your predicament looks like to the regulators standing at the top of the hole".
You're gonna need to call them and ask them to toss down a rope eventually. Might as well make that call while they're still laughing.
(to be clear: unless they're performong surgery at their offices, I don't think I have any regulatory authority here)
Comparing them to clowns might be going too far.
Clowns are hardworking professionals who take their craft very seriously. Comedy is a serious business 😉
Kind of an interesting argument to point out that cs hit both linux and windows, but then specifically shift focus to microsoft.
Like, yes, they've got a point, and I largely -agree- with their point, but the way this is structured, it feels like they're using this more as a justification for a long-time campaign against ms and kinda handwaving this as more-of-the-same than treating it as its own thing, and properly addressing the actual systemic problems around the specific harm that occurred.
I had a similar experience with Microsoft.
A junior colleague found a 1-click exploit in Skype for Linux. We reported it. We didn't want any bounty money - just to be assigned a CVE that we could include in our paper. Microsoft's response was essentially "it's not an RCE, go away".
Then they silently fixed it, without crediting us.
Never every doing the "responsible disclosure" dance with Microsoft ever again.
it is always the same. Incident happens, lots of people look at that specific thing, find a lot of stuff, but no one wants to look at "other thing", which is just as much broken.
after a while people go back to using thing, because now its secure:tm: ...
"...didn’t receive their prescription medication or clean underwear on time..."
That's it. I'm officially old. I've clearly reached the point in life where you have no chance of understanding what "the youth of today" are doing.
What the hell... why do you sign up to something whereby you give over the responsibility of providing your medication and underwear to you to a YouTuber??
I have a question - is it really necessary to have your whole disk encrypted with BitLocker - as opposed to having a Windows boot partition unencrypted and keeping your sensitive data on a separate, encrypted volume? Are there any serious security problems with this approach?
I don't use BitLocker but the disk encryption software I use encrypts only some (sensitive) volumes and not the whole disk.
Kevin, I'd be curious about your take on this column of Ed Zitron's. To me, he seems to be lumping the Crowdstrike failure in with the enshittification and such at bigger tech companies like Alphabet/Google, Meta/Facebook, etc.
I usually like Ed's stuff and agree with him about what he calls the "rot economy", but I'm not so sure about his take here including Crowdstrike with all the rest of the bad actors out there.
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@paul_ipv6 the obsession with growth comes right out of Friedman and the myth of shareholder value and can be tied to the rise of the Harvard Business School MBA in the 1960s and 70s. Combine with trickle down economics and the downright wrong Laffer curve and voila, the “what have you done for me this quarter?” mentality.
And we no longer have reasonable choices in anything.
does 40k servers pass the sniff test or do they mean 40k devices?
Because their servers should have had LOM, surely, and they only have ~100k staff total, many of whom would use shared endpoints (or not use one at all), so I can believe 40k endpoints.
Even the most egregious example of unintegrated acquisitions I know of was only at around 10k servers (estimated!) for 50k employees, and Delta doesn’t really have a similar acqui-problem, do they?
but I'm not getting why they're letting Ed off the hook with ".. we have redundancy built in ..."
Well. If main and replica are both using CrowdStrike and are running on the same Patchlevel, they certainly haven't.
But they're making it on volume, as Bezos once said once in a similar situation, right?
(On volume of computers bricked, I guess...)
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be interesting to see the full defence
“We never claimed our software was good or tested, actually”
Does anyone know how Delta runs their IT? In house? outsourced to a cheap-ass contract?
One might think their disaster-recovery procedures could also be a bit funky?
other strong contenders:
•they only had it installed on one system for some weird reason so they quickly removed it
•they just migrated off them last quarter
@hrbrmstr polar bear killing airline versus shitty software companies ... >fetches popcorn<
Edit: sorry, slightly flip reply to a serious thread, didn't mean to derail. It does feel like the only likely winners wil be the law firm, though..
@hrbrmstr I think it'd be tough to prove causation with Microsoft given it's not a Microsoft product: they've installed a third party tool that interacts with kernel hooks that they were obliged to add by EU law.
On the other hand, you always enjoin the party with the greatest capacity to pay, where you can. And optics wise, MS will probably settle.
I suspect anyway.
(speaking as a former lawyer and current software engineer)
Until corporate malfeasance is pursued as a criminal mater, with criminal convictions of corporate officers, including los of liberty and personal property, it'll be the same old shit forever. Delta could secure a $100B ruling, and it wouldn't change a thing.
eBPF implementation that runs on top of Windows. Contribute to microsoft/ebpf-for-windows development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Something like having a test and a validation environment before push updates in production.
Something like having a primary and a backup server and not pushing updates on both servers at the sametime ( wait a week to see if there is not an effect on the first updated server )
The basis when you manage it production systems .
And don’t say it cost money. All affected entreprises made big profits .
This is exactly what I thought should happen, but I didn't want to say anything because I'm not a Windows expert, so I figured I was missing something.
Linux has done a great job creating high-level userland APIs to audit kernel-level "things," and my first thought when I heard about this mess was, "Why doesn't Windows have an eventful API for just about everything that goes on in their kernel? Linux has Netlink, fsnotify, and ebpf. What does Windows have? And if it doesn't have those things, why doesn't it?"
Ten years ago, I don't think the world was ready for auditable systems because of privacy concerns, but in today's world, I think they're a must-have. They must be resilient to security tools and give us decent analytical hooks.
I understand these APIs can be used maliciously, but the same applies to every security feature.
I was thinking that it couldn't be all fixed in only a week.
And let's remember that 3% of 8½ million computers is somewhere around 255 thousand computers still DEAD.
If that were *your* computer, it would still be an issue for YOU.
go directly to windows/system32
do not pass GO
the correct question to ask is "how much will the gift card be for after you brick our entire company?"
(In an ideal world, the question would be about actual monetary compensation for outages caused by their incompetence, but I know we are a great distance from such a reality)
yeah. am looking at this also, the servers that does not like sudden reboots are going to have a hard time restoring.
end points are not that bad... but i hope most people have their BCP/DR in place.
panda av flashback.
silicon.co.uk/security/cyberwa…
Face-palm time. Panda Antivirus accidentally labels itself malware and damages an undisclosed number of PCsTom Jowitt (Silicon UK)
Airports, banking and healthcare were all hit when a Crowdstrike update triggered huge Microsoft outages.BBC News
do you know if this is related?
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Airports, banking and healthcare were all hit when a Crowdstrike update triggered huge Microsoft outages.BBC News
Airports, banking and healthcare were all hit when a Crowdstrike update triggered huge Microsoft outages.BBC News
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
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
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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...
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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
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chore: set default instance to lemmy.zip, remove lemm.eeThank you for all your work!
📝 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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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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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.
Der Verein Pädagogen für #Menschenrechte e.V. möchte damit an die Übergriffe der #Corona -Maßnahmen auf #Kinder und #Jugendliche im deutschen #Bildungssystem erinnern.
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Consider Knitting
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From the freedom flotilla:
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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.
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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 ?!
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in reply to squirrel • • •Seems to be a kind of online conference. For being open source focused it's opening is very salesy/buzzword salad-ish.
"Open protocols, not closed platforms. The Fediverse, Mastodon and ActivityPub. ATmosphere, Bluesky and AtProto. Human connections, not AI bots, nor fake news nor manipulative algorithms. New funding models. New forms of governance. Better trust and safety. Direct relationships to stakeholders and customers. Interoperability across social platforms everywhere, and so much more.
After a decade of stagnation, next-generation social media is breaking out of the closed silos and connecting the world into a global, open social web. It’s a wild world full of opportunity.
FediForum brings together the leading thinkers and doers who build this new Open Social Web."
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