Video Sen. Cotton: ‘I think we have to be prepared for Iran to retaliate’
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ABC News’ Jonathan Karl interviews Senate Intelligence Chair Tom Cotton, R- Ark., on “This Week.”ABC News
Video U.S. enters Israel-Iran conflict, striking three Iranian nuclear sites
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On “This Week,” ABC News’ correspondents and contributors report on the United States strikes on Iran.ABC News
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of people protested Sunday against NATO and military spending and against a possible conflict with Iran, two daysEUROPE SAYS
"Kneecap performing at Glastonbury 'not appropriate', PM says" Starmer knows that the principle of English law is innocent until proven guilty.mastodon.ie
“Palestine Action” / If plane spray-painting is “terrorism”, what are Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza and Iran?
On June 20, activists defaced planes at RAF Brize Norton the same day Israeli forces killed 23 Palestinians at an aid distribution site. Labeling non-violent property damage as terrorism while ignoring civilian killings represents a dangerous expansion of terrorism laws that could criminalize peaceful protest and free speech.
Seriously, WTF is the problem with the #UK?
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Plot twist: AI was supposed to do our dishes so we could paint. Instead, it's painting while we're stuck with the dishes. Customers are fighting back by canceling subscriptions to AI-heavy services like Duolingo and Audible.
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An artist cancelled their Duolingo and Audible subscriptions to protest the companies' decisions to use more AI. "If enough people leave, hopefully they kind of rethink this," the artist tells the Washington Post.slashdot.org
Pilot tells officials that fire caused by a blowtorch in the basket.AFP (DAWN.COM)
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EDIT: tldr - I was having issues creating a VM using Virtual Machine Manager on Bazzite Linux. Several responders chimed in that it's likely because I'm using the flatpak version of VMM. I probably still could make it work on Bazzite somehow, perhaps w/ the help of distrobox, but instead I've fired up a VM on an old laptop running Linux Mint and everything is smooth sailing. Thanks to all who took some time to help me find a solution.
Original body:
Background: I'm looking to set up a virtual Debian server using Virtual Machine Manager, but I'm stuck on creating my first VM. I'm running Bazzite on my host machine if that makes any difference.
Steps to Reproduce the Issue:
debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso) and click Select, which returns me to the "New VM - Step 2" window.Actual behavior:
Input Error - Error setting installer parameters. Validating install media '/run/user/1000/doc/c0a3c3fc/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso' failed. Could not start storage pool: cannot open directory '/run/usr/1000/doc/c0a3c3fc': Permission denied.
Expected behavior: Create the VM and boot into the ISO that I selected in previous steps.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
Virtual Machine Manager's GitHub page for its flatpak includes the following lines:
NOTE: By default, this Flatpak only includes the Virtual Machine Manager client application and does not include the libvirt daemon or QEMU. Depending on your use case, you may have to install other applications or extensions:
- Connecting to a remote libvirt instance: nothing else needed
- Connecting to a libvirt system instance: make sure that libvirtd is installed on the host, either via your package manager or using a system extension on image based systems for example
- Connecting to a libvirt user instance: install the QEMU extension using
flatpak install org.virt_manager.virt_manager.Extension.Qemu
So, in this case, have you either installed libvirtd on the host^[Technically, you could also install libvirtd as a sysext.] (i.e. have you installed it with rpm-ostree) OR have you installed the QEMU extension as per its own instruction?
If neither, then you should at least do one of them and report back.
EDIT: While what's written above remains relevant beyond Bazzite, Bazzite's ujust scripts do provide handholds for a myriad of situations including this one:
ujust script will likely install another instance of VM Manager. As such, the flatpak is no longer needed and would only cause confusion.] the flatpak of Virtual Machine Manager)ujust, i.e. invoke the ujust setup-virtualization commandI suppose the ujust way handles a bunch of gotchas you'd otherwise have to tackle yourself. And, thus, is most likely preferred over all other methods.
As a side note, please consider consulting Bazzite's excellent documentation first. We'll be more than happy to help out regardless, but I'm sure there are a bunch of gems you'll be missing out on otherwise.
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.docs.bazzite.gg
Israel recovers bodies of three Gaza captives as it kills 33 Palestinians @palestine
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Israeli forces continue to kill people across Gaza amid a food and fuel shortage, worsening the humanitarian crisis.Al Jazeera
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Buenas tardes fediverso. Voy a pedir ayuda técnica a los expertos en linux.
Tengo un disco en formato ext4 que, por un cúmulo de circunstancias, un script en Windows ha borrado por completo (usando robocopy con la opción purge).
He hecho una imagen del disco con ddrescue y le he pasado testdisk, pero me dice que no hay particiones recuperables, con photorec me recupera algunos archivos, pero quiero intentar recuperar los nombres originales.
He probado ext4magic y extundelete, pero el primero me da un error de segmento y el segundo no recupera nada.
¿Qué otras opciones podría intentar?
Muchas gracias por adelantado.
EDITO:
Bueno, pues al final solo he podido recuperar unos pocos scripts. Voy a guardar la imagen del disco por si acaso le vuelvo a dar otro intento.
Muchas gracias a todos.
After Israel's genocide became untenable for even Israel's staunchest allies to support, the West needed a more “perfect villain” to keep backing Israel. And there was no better villain for an indoctrinated mind than Iran.
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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel
After Israel’s genocide became untenable for even Israel’s staunchest allies to support, the West needed a more “perfect villain” to keep backing Israel. And there was no better villain for an indoctrinated mind than Iran.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
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"There is no “East” or “West” because the Earth is round."
Excellent article. Thank you.
“US signals a willingness to renew talks with Iran and avoid a prolonged war”
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Oh do fuck off. And my name ain’t even Iran.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that America “does not seek war” with Iran in the aftermath of a surprise attack overnight on three of that country’s nuclear sites.Associated Press (Boston Herald)
Good morning everyone and happy Sunday.
Wishing you all a Blessed day.☕
Pray for those among us who are ill or in distress.🙏
Take good care of yourselves.
Be alert, be healthy, and be free. 
When ALTIFAgs and AOC are on the same page, it's time to laugh out loud.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted President Trump's decision to bomb Iran Saturday without congressional authorization and called the move grounds for his impeachment.Geoff Earle (Daily Mail)
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I think art deco is one of my favorites. It still has a clean, modern look that ages surprisingly well, even a century later.
Thought of the day:
The deep state doesn't install people in positions of power because they are smart. They install people who follow orders.
Gavin Newson is a puppet.
As are MANY members of Congress.
#Israel startet einen Angriffskrieg gegen #Iran, die #USA treten in den Krieg ein & bombardieren, die deutsche Kommissionspräsidentin der #EU lügt in bester #Kriegspropaganda-Manier rum, dass dieser Angriffskrieg gerechtfertigt sei & in deutschen Medien wird herbeigelogen, dass der Iran eine Atombombe (demnächst) hat & mit der #Israel bedroht.
Wer #Rechtsextremismus nur bei der #AfD sieht, hat nicht verstanden, was Rechtsextremismus ist.
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+ Deutschland liefert die Waffen für #Israel, weil das dtsche Kapital von diesen Angriffskriegen profitiert. Rüstungsexporte genehmigt von #CDU / #CSU, #SPD, #Grüne und #FDP. Wie viel Lack muss man gesoffen haben, um nicht den #Rechtsextremismus, den #Rassismus und #Imperialismus bei diesen Parteien & der #EU zu sehen, die gerade den Nahen Osten in traditioneller Kolonialherrenmanier westlicher Dominanz unterwerfen wollen?
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#Iran #Palästina #Gaza #Westbank #Genozid #Aufrüstung #Bundeswehr
"Eure Meinung spielt keine Rolle, und das ist die deutsche Demokratie"
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Diese Werte sind um so krasser, wenn man sich bewusst macht, was für eine #Kriegspropaganda von der Hauptstadtmedienblase aufgefahren wird. Die deutsche Bevölkerung ist nicht ansatzweise so rechtsextrem und rassistisch wie deutsche Politiker und Journalistinnen.
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#Iran #Palästina #Gaza #Westbank #Genozid #Aufrüstung #Bundeswehr #Rechtsextremismus #Propaganda #Imperialismus #Neokolonialismus
On June 21—the longest day of the year—we witnessed one of the shortest paths to tumor death.Xuewu Liu (Xuewu Liu’s Substack)
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Real estate agents on TV and in movies are usually well-put together, younger or early middle age.
My experience in NC is that real estate agents are women on the far side of middle age who DGAF. Their official agent picture is from 10 years and 50 pounds ago. They aren't putting on hose or heels for anyone.
The one I met this weekend had a lisp from cheap teeth implants, and told me Journey was a metal band.
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Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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"Einem guten deutschen Berichterstatter ist jede Lüge recht, um diesen Krieg zu legitimieren. Und die dreisteste und menschenfeindlichste Lüge von allen stellen wir euch nun zum Abschluss vor.Miriam Hollstein ist Chefreporterin Politik beim @stern und sie hat etwas Spannendes herausgefunden: [...]"
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#Kriegspropaganda für imperialistische Angriffskriege.
#Propaganda #Gaza #Westbank #Palästina #Iran #Israel #Rechtsextremismus #Imperialismus #Aufrüstung #Bundeswehr
Whenever I say something critical about "AI" there is - given my rather general resistance - the (valid) question what kind of cases could be considered a) "good" use cases that are b) actually worth the environmental cost.
@emilymbender did a very good webinar about that question way back in 2023.
She explains what (L)LMs are, what harms they always bring and what - if ever - (very) limited use cases could actually be considered given it's technical limitations.
youtube.com/watch?v=qpE40jwMil…
Lecture recorded August 8, 2023Speaker: Emily Bender - University of WashingtonDescription: Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT, the internet has been awash i...YouTube
Images and videos are free to use, with credit to Palestine Action Palestine Action have damaged two military planes at RAF Brize Norton, where flights leave daily for RAF Akrotiri […]bluehost (Palestine Action)
An ‘astonishing’ collection of poetry and art by Palestinian children is coming to the East Sussex town of Hastings for a free exhibition in July, to be launched by prize-winning Britis…SKWAWKBOX
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CNN reports that six B-2 bombers dropped 12 bunker buster bombs at just the Fordow nuclear site alone. The U.S. told Iran, through backchannels, that the strikes would be contained, and no further strikes were planned, at least not yet.
1a-1791.com/video/fww1/8e/s8/2…
12 bunker busters must make a big boom!!
Our Deep State must be upset that the taxpayer's money that went into those bunker buster bombs didn't go into their own corrupt pockets. LOL
I hear that Scottish Labour are reportedly consulting with Tony Blair’s think tank, which has previously called for more private involvement in the NHS, on its health policies ahead of the Holyrood 2026 election.
Oh dear, oh dear
The "Midwestern Doctor" looks at DMSO
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in combination with other drugs or therapies.
Lots and lots of stuff here. Be sure to note where she has identified cautions like in combination with newer chemotherapy drugs. Doses of those drugs MAY need to be reduced significantly to avoid toxicity.
How DMSO being mixed with numerous common medications creates a myriad of remarkable therapeutic possibilitiesA Midwestern Doctor (The Forgotten Side of Medicine)
Personally I feel more and more that the US is becoming a danger to global peace
I mean, more then before
The US may have the largest army and modern toys but without it's allies, they're nothing
Fuck the US government and their wars
Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)
Link: tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/11…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Donald Trump likely decided to attack Iran after yielding to pressure from US war-hawks, political and security analyst Ali Rizk told Sputnik.Sputnik International
Project Gladio
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LA Insurrection
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OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - "INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY?"
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Scott Ritter joins TMJ News for an interview that exposes the deeper implications of Israel’s recent attack on Iran and the role the U.S. has played behind the scenes.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
Zehntausende demonstrieren in Berlin gegen das Sterben in Gaza. Israel hat dort seit fast zwei Jahren mehr als 50.000 Menschen getötet. Raul Zelik hofft, dass die Berliner Demo ein Anfang ist.nd-aktuell.de
Project Gladio
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"... We pulled back the curtain on a global machine of control—The International Syndicate—a covert alliance of Western intelligence agencies, military contractors, black-market financiers, and ideological gatekeepers.
In Part 1, we traced its roots to Operation Gladio—a NATO-CIA shadow army built to fight communism… that morphed into a domestic terror network, rigging elections and running false flags across Europe. This was no Cold War relic. It ...
Full archive of all the posts from The White Rabbit Report.thewhiterabbitreport.substack.com
Happy Feast Day of St. Thomas More!
"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
— St. Thomas More
Satellite pictures taken before #US strikes indicated heavy traffic movements at the #Fordo nuclear plant in #Iran, in images taken on June 19th and 20th released today by @Maxar
On the 19th, 16 cargo trucks were seen across an access road leading to a tunnel entrance to the facility. A day later, trucks and bulldozers are reported to have been seen near the entrance to the main facility.
#Isfahan facilities that were hit by cruise missiles were not damaged and this is evident from everywhere. #Natanz has been hit more seriously, as has #Arak.
Iran's immediate response by firing ballistic missiles at Israel, after a few hours, showed reflexes...
Trump probably wanted to put on a show, more than anything else...
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The exercise was unprecedented as it war-gamed offensive actions against Iranian nuclear capabilities for the first time, the source informed ABC.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Tempo de revisitar 😢
This Land Is Mine
blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/…
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Quem será o próximo?
tomlehrersongs.com/whos-next/
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I envisioned This Land Is Mine as the last scene of my potential-possible-maybe- feature film, Seder-Masochism, but it’s the first (and so far only) scene I’ve animated. As the Bible says, “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.Nina Paley
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Trump's military actions against Iran were carried out without Congressional or UN authorization for strikes.
Trump has also deployed US military domestically in Los Angeles without oversight, potentially violating the Posse Comitatus Act.
The US is increasingly looking like a dictatorship where the military answers directly to Trump.
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The unrelenting struggles endured by Palestinians should, by any rational expectation, have irrevocably concluded the Palestinian cause.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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Why Feditips is either ignorant, stupid, or both.
I am going straaaight to name-calling I don't care anymore
Very recently I had the great displeasure of arguing with FediTips which you may know for creating all kinds of informational content about the Fediverse and surrounding topics on their website, fedi.tips/.
That's great and all, if not for all the blatant disinformation regarding...literally any microblogging or even social media platform at all that isn't the Fediverse. Most notably, Bluesky.
FediTips, or rather the person behind it, Fedithings loves spreading plain disinformation regarding Bluesky and completely disregarding proven facts about Bluesky. Facts that are obvious by just reading one or two pages of the spec overview or the Wikipedia page on ATProto.
On the Fediverse, as I'm sure most of you will know, we use a sort of “message-passing” approach to sharing our posts around the network; We pass our posts directly to those which should see it, and we know who should see it because “oh hey, that guy followed me that one time!”. This is great! Everyone gets their posts no matter where they are, from completely different communities! (unless you deny them, we'll get to that)
These places, communities are often referred to as “Instances”. It's basically just the fancy term for communities though. But it's important to keep that in the back of your head for the rest of this.
Another important detail to keep in mind is how, on the Fediverse, your identity is usually tied to the community you chose. Your handle will quite literally look something like @[url=https://blog.cyrneko.eu/@/sunny@wonderful.garden]sunny@wonderful.garden[/url] (I don't think that's a real instance...I hope lol) and people will see you as being from that community
What about Bluesky? Oh boy, Completely different model.
To get this right out of the way: No. At least not how you think.
Whereas in the context of the Fediverse and all our communities we just sort of pass posts around directly, like people sending eachother letters, Bluesky went a different route
There is basically three important components:
now, Personal Data Servers sort of explain themselves. It's where your posts are. If you or anyone else wants to go right to the source of those memes and shitposts, that's where they'll find them. Right open for everyone to see.
I'll refer to Personal Data Servers as just “PDS” from here on out.
Relays then take the posts from every single PDS they can possibly find and turns them into one long, always-updating list of all posts in the order they were posted.
And the AppView has the job of, well, letting you actually see those posts and interact with them; Make new posts, like stuff, share stuff. You know the drill
Notice how I didn't say what data is stored on a PDS? That's actually an important detail to know, so let's compare
So with a Fediverse server, because you're passing posts directly between eachother as if they're letters, you need to hold on to the posts yourself so that you can, well...read them.
This means that you have a copy of not just your posts, but also the posts of everyone you follow and interact with regularly. Anyone that appears on the feed, basically
On Bluesky though? You don't keep the posts of others, only your own are stored. Well, your own and anyone you happen to share space with on the PDS.
Now we're back to the whole “denying” thing that I hinted at earlier.
Due to the fact that posts are exchanged directly between people, there might be like superevilcommunity.com that does nothing but send you like hatred or something else you plain don't like. And blocking those communities is known as “defederation”
Now, this is a stark difference to how Bluesky fundamentally works.
Because everyone gets their posts from the same place, the Relay, one cannot really block the server a post comes from; You're not getting it from there anyways.
But even if they did filter out posts of that kind, there is another issue that makes it near impossible to have this sort of moderation tool.
Bluesky had one arguably good reason to not use the same tech that the Fediverse uses: Fedi's account moving ability is not robust enough.
on the Fediverse, you can move your account to a different server by setting up an “alias” or “redirect”. This will make it so that anyone which follows you will automatically follow the new account, and anyone that searches for your old account will be redirected to the new one.
But for Bluesky, this wasn't enough. Posts weren't moved across, and you had to take up an entirely new identity on that new community. So for their new tech they were developing, they have a new identifier that isn't tied to a server. This is called a DID:PLC identifier.
The important thing here, just so I don't lose myself in technical details, is that even when you were previously at one given server it is trivial to move to another one, keeping this identity. Unlike a fediverse identity which is tied to the community it was on.
And this is why “defederation” doesn't work on Bluesky.
The things I've discussed here are basically a breakdown of what I talked about with Feditips.
Repeatedly, feditips refused to acknowledge the fact that Bluesky works differently, that it isn't even “federation” per-se, and eventually they pulled the “think of the minorities which are scared for their lives” card.
social.growyourown.services/@F… (archive)
On a Trans person. They were talking to a trans person. That is one of the minorities which are scared for their life.
At that point, I stopped talking to them and advised them to shut the fuck up
Feditips does this on the regular. They frequently spread disinformation about Bluesky in an effort to feed their superiority complex for using a different social media site. They blame those which use Bluesky and see them as below themselves. You can see them posting about oh how much better the fediverse is on the regular.
Preaching to the choir, on the fediverse.
my {preferred term} in christ, you don't need to preach to fediverse users how good the fediverse is. Especially when those which ACTUALLY moderate and run communities and those which have been here for MUCH LONGER THAN YOU all agree that no, the Fediverse is not this perfect safe haven. Far from it.
If you come to me screaming about how “think of the minorities” how come I don't see you taking action on transmasc erasure on fedi, or how people of color are treated on fedi? Those are marginalized too, and you say you care so much about safety which is why you redirect everyone there. Why can't they find a home here? Could it be that fedi is...not perfect? That the structure we've built over many years makes it at best uncomfortable for those people to be here?
No, it couldn't be. The fediverse is perfect and we are all superior for using it. What's that, Blacksky is a thing and they are running completely independent infrastructure for the black community? No no, you must be hallucinating. What is that, they in large parts feel much safer there? Nope. Can't be. The Fediverse is perfect.
expanding on blacksky a bit...Just to expand on this a little bit, everything I've seen from the blacksky community is genuinely amazing. They are building their community and keeping eachother safe, and it is working much better on there than anything I've seen on fedi. Seriously, these people make their own software completely independent from Bluesky PBLLC, and I've heard some rumours they even want to have their own AppView.
Thank you for reading.
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hey I don't wanna say anything but you are talking to that minority. Shut your mouth and do not use our fear to drive your point you prick.app.wafrn.net
I see a lot of misinformation about bluesky here, so I want to address a lot of the talking points against atproto/bluesky.
This is partially inspired by accounts like mastodon migration and feditips being really annoying about bluesky.
I see a lot of people misunderstanding how it works.
The network has three main parts:
1. A PDS -- This stands for Personal Data Server. These store information in records, like who you are following, your posts, who you are blocking and your images.
2. A relay -- These crawl PDSes and keep a copy of all the records on them. They give a "Firehose" of all the data on the network (that they crawled).
3. An AppView -- These index and work through the data from the firehose. All interactions are handled through these, meaning if someone follows me on bluesky, that app.bsky.graph.follow record will be crawled by the relay, and recieved by the AppView. bsky.app/ is an Appview. Appviews don't always have to use the relays, whtwnd.com/ connects to PDSes directly.
This is different to ActivityPub, where if I follow someone, my server sends that information directly to the other person's server.
atproto.africa/ is a second full-network relay run by the blacksky team. We already have a second relay, and they're not even that expensive to run anymore, a lot of people run non-archival (meaning it doesn't backfill every post) relays for less than $40 a month.
bsky.social isn't actually an instance, its just the domain name assigned to users by default. This is explained here: app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/f…
Wafrn has (opt-in) bluesky support, they act as a PDS and AppView, so if bluesky disappears tomorrow they can switch to the atproto.africa relay. (There is DID:PLC which is a problem, but I'll get to that later.)
app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/f… also explains this, bsky.social is just the name assigned to users, each PDS has names like brittlegill.us-west.host.bsky.… (where my account is).
While you could ignore records from a specific PDS on the App layer, its pretty pointless, since atproto is portable/content addressed, meaning a user could seamlessly move to another PDS. (AP does support moving, but its pretty seamful.)
(While I was writing this someone posted a pretty good blogpost about this: blog.cyrneko.eu/there-is-no-bs…)
Those posts weren't removed, people on third party bluesky apps in turkey could still see them.
People in Turkey are automatically subscribed to a Moderation Service which hides those posts, as the government requires it.
If a person unsubscribes, or uses a third party app/server the posts are still there.
That person came back on a different PDS. They literally are still on bluesky because they joined a different server.
The DDoS only crashed the Bluesky PDSes. People self hosting were fine.
Wafrn is a federated tumblr alternative. It started off as a tumblr clone, the dev added AP support, and eventually, Atproto support.
Its a great example of how bluesky can be built on.
If bluesky disappeared tomorrow, Wafrn could switch relays to atproto.africa, and still interact with people on other PDSes.
appviewlite is a cool project I forgot to mention in the original post. It lets you self host an extremely lightweight Appview.
You can crawl PDSes yourself, eliminating the need for a relay.
The main reason I made this post is because so many people are blindly anti-atproto, without fully understanding how it works and how it can be improved.
There is obviously problems with it, but it does a lot right. (There's a lot ActivityPub should do, like content addressing, DIDs and composable moderation).
I also think we could do with a better bridge. bridgy isn't really cutting it right now.
Note on did:plc, its the only centralised part of the network as of now, its essentially the underlying ID every account has. It is possible to use a did:web id instead, which is tied to a website name.
Well to answer that we must first look at how bsky.social is just the auto-assigned domains for new users the underlying servers are all hosted at subdomains of .bsky.network, luckily mary-eapp.wafrn.net
There is no bsky.social instance:
Why Feditips is either ignorant, stupid, or both.I am going straaaight to name-calling I don't care anymore
Very recently I had the great displeasure of arguing with FediTips which you may know for creating all kinds of informational content about the Fediverse and surrounding topics on their website, fedi.tips/.
That's great and all, if not for all the blatant disinformation regarding...literally any microblogging or even social media platform at all that isn't the Fediverse. Most notably, Bluesky.
FediTips, or rather the person behind it, Fedithings loves spreading plain disinformation regarding Bluesky and completely disregarding proven facts about Bluesky. Facts that are obvious by just reading one or two pages of the spec overview or the Wikipedia page on ATProto.
On the Fediverse, as I'm sure most of you will know, we use a sort of “message-passing” approach to sharing our posts around the network; We pass our posts directly to those which should see it, and we know who should see it because “oh hey, that guy followed me that one time!”. This is great! Everyone gets their posts no matter where they are, from completely different communities! (unless you deny them, we'll get to that)
These places, communities are often referred to as “Instances”. It's basically just the fancy term for communities though. But it's important to keep that in the back of your head for the rest of this.
Another important detail to keep in mind is how, on the Fediverse, your identity is usually tied to the community you chose. Your handle will quite literally look something like
@[url=https://blog.cyrneko.eu/@/sunny@wonderful.garden]sunny@wonderful.garden[/url](I don't think that's a real instance...I hope lol) and people will see you as being from that communityWhat about Bluesky? Oh boy, Completely different model.
Are there even instances?
To get this right out of the way: No. At least not how you think.Whereas in the context of the Fediverse and all our communities we just sort of pass posts around directly, like people sending eachother letters, Bluesky went a different route
There is basically three important components:
- Personal Data Servers – This is where the posts are
- Relays – This is what gets the post from A to B
- AppViews – Fancy speak for “the app the posts are in” / “The Bluesky app”
now, Personal Data Servers sort of explain themselves. It's where your posts are. If you or anyone else wants to go right to the source of those memes and shitposts, that's where they'll find them. Right open for everyone to see.
I'll refer to Personal Data Servers as just “PDS” from here on out.
Relays then take the posts from every single PDS they can possibly find and turns them into one long, always-updating list of all posts in the order they were posted.And the AppView has the job of, well, letting you actually see those posts and interact with them; Make new posts, like stuff, share stuff. You know the drill
Notice how I didn't say what data is stored on a PDS? That's actually an important detail to know, so let's compare
So with a Fediverse server, because you're passing posts directly between eachother as if they're letters, you need to hold on to the posts yourself so that you can, well...read them.
This means that you have a copy of not just your posts, but also the posts of everyone you follow and interact with regularly. Anyone that appears on the feed, basically
On Bluesky though? You don't keep the posts of others, only your own are stored. Well, your own and anyone you happen to share space with on the PDS.
What is “defederation”?
Now we're back to the whole “denying” thing that I hinted at earlier.Due to the fact that posts are exchanged directly between people, there might be like
superevilcommunity.comthat does nothing but send you like hatred or something else you plain don't like. And blocking those communities is known as “defederation”Now, this is a stark difference to how Bluesky fundamentally works.
Because everyone gets their posts from the same place, the Relay, one cannot really block the server a post comes from; You're not getting it from there anyways.
But even if they did filter out posts of that kind, there is another issue that makes it near impossible to have this sort of moderation tool.
Account Portability and Moderation
Bluesky had one arguably good reason to not use the same tech that the Fediverse uses: Fedi's account moving ability is not robust enough.on the Fediverse, you can move your account to a different server by setting up an “alias” or “redirect”. This will make it so that anyone which follows you will automatically follow the new account, and anyone that searches for your old account will be redirected to the new one.
But for Bluesky, this wasn't enough. Posts weren't moved across, and you had to take up an entirely new identity on that new community. So for their new tech they were developing, they have a new identifier that isn't tied to a server. This is called a DID:PLC identifier.
The important thing here, just so I don't lose myself in technical details, is that even when you were previously at one given server it is trivial to move to another one, keeping this identity. Unlike a fediverse identity which is tied to the community it was on.
And this is why “defederation” doesn't work on Bluesky.
The Point
The things I've discussed here are basically a breakdown of what I talked about with Feditips.Repeatedly, feditips refused to acknowledge the fact that Bluesky works differently, that it isn't even “federation” per-se, and eventually they pulled the “think of the minorities which are scared for their lives” card.
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On a Trans person. They were talking to a trans person. That is one of the minorities which are scared for their life.
At that point, I stopped talking to them and advised them to shut the fuck up
Feditips does this on the regular. They frequently spread disinformation about Bluesky in an effort to feed their superiority complex for using a different social media site. They blame those which use Bluesky and see them as below themselves. You can see them posting about oh how much better the fediverse is on the regular.
Preaching to the choir, on the fediverse.
my{preferred term}in christ, you don't need to preach to fediverse users how good the fediverse is. Especially when those which ACTUALLY moderate and run communities and those which have been here for MUCH LONGER THAN YOU all agree that no, the Fediverse is not this perfect safe haven. Far from it.If you come to me screaming about how “think of the minorities” how come I don't see you taking action on transmasc erasure on fedi, or how people of color are treated on fedi? Those are marginalized too, and you say you care so much about safety which is why you redirect everyone there. Why can't they find a home here? Could it be that fedi is...not perfect? That the structure we've built over many years makes it at best uncomfortable for those people to be here?
No, it couldn't be. The fediverse is perfect and we are all superior for using it. What's that, Blacksky is a thing and they are running completely independent infrastructure for the black community? No no, you must be hallucinating. What is that, they in large parts feel much safer there? Nope. Can't be. The Fediverse is perfect.
expanding on blacksky a bit...Just to expand on this a little bit, everything I've seen from the blacksky community is genuinely amazing. They are building their community and keeping eachother safe, and it is working much better on there than anything I've seen on fedi. Seriously, these people make their own software completely independent from Bluesky PBLLC, and I've heard some rumours they even want to have their own AppView.
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Most people who are against bluesky don't even care about an open internet or whatever, they just want their protocol to win or whatever.
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[…] The letter to Cooper from Kellys, shared exclusively with the #Guardian, said there were no previous instances of direct action protest organisations being proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000, despite several others having used comparable methods to Palestine Action, and that it was a “terrifying precedent” to place it alongside groups such as Islamic State, al-Qaida or National Action.
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