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Pregunta seria. ¿Por qué Israel tiene derecho a tener armas nucleares pero Irán no? A estas alturas ambos son una teocracia absurda, no?Es que para mí, ningún país debería tener este tipo de armas.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Russian Federation is repeating the crimes once committed by the Nazis—pointing to mass graves of civilians, tortured prisoners of war, abducted children, and cities left in ruins. — Ukrinform.
I have always been curious about the journalistic value of the word "strongly" in this context. Has any reporter, ever, said that anyone "weakly denied" anything? Are we supposed to infer that if something is "strongly denied," that the denial is more reliable than if the thing being denied were just "denied?"
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of people protested Sunday against NATO and military spending and against a possible conflict with Iran, two days
“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.
[follow up] The UK government is using existing anti-terrorism laws (specifically the Terrorism Act 2000) to determine if Palestine Action meets the criteria for proscription.
[…] 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.
Legal organizations, including Kellys Solicitors and groups like Amnesty International and Liberty, argue that the group’s actions – primarily spray painting warplanes – do not meet the established definition of terrorism and that the move is an abuse of power and a restriction on freedom of expression. The legislation, they point out, was intended for groups advocating and engaging in violent acts, not non-violent demonstrations.
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.
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.
Seit 2022 bin ich auf Mastodon aktiv, seit November 2022 auf dem Server von #digitalcourage. Digitalcourage macht wichtige Arbeit die uns hilft digital mündige Bürger*innen zu werden und zu bleiben. Das war auch meine ursprüngliche Motivation um auf die Server dieses Vereins zu wechseln. Seit November 2022 habe dort über 4k Posts verschickt (digitalcourage.social/@bhaug/). Das ist jetzt vorbei.
4.32K Posts, 398 Following, 12 Followers · Wildly fermenting and smelly mixture of vegan food-lover, anti-surveillance activist, antifascist, privilidged white cis male, he/him... with a growing interest for anarchism.
Nun wurde mein mein Account auf digitalcourage.social kürzlich von den Moderatoren zunächst mit content-warnings versehen, hinterher ‚gelimitiert‘.
Um hier transparent zu machen was passiert ist werde ich die interaktion mit dem Moderationsteam, repräsentiert durch @padeluun öffentlich machen. 2/23
17. Juni 2025, 23:55 (digitalcourage): Marking of account as sensitive from Jun 17, 2025 From now on, all your uploaded media files will be marked as sensitive and hidden behind a click-through warning. 3/23
18. Juni 2025 (mein Einspruch): „Hallo digitalcourage.social Mods, ich habe soeben die Moderationsentscheidung gesehen, dass meine Mediendateien von nun an mit einer content warning versehen werden sollen - sorry aber was ist das denn? Ich habe keine Medien mit Inhalten hochgeladen, die gegen die digitalcourage.social Regeln verstoßen und diesen Schritt rechtfertigen. Ich äußere mich kritisch zum Verhalten Deutschlands im Nahostkonflikt und habe dies mit dem Hashtag 4/23
#GermanyGazaShitshow dokumentiert. Ich vertrete hier Positionen, die durchaus auch von viele Jüd*innen weltweit geteilt werden. Auch diesen Stimmen gebe ich in meinen Posts immer wieder Gehör (z.B. Raphael Mimoun). In meinen Posts bekenne ich eine klare Position zum aktuellen Geschehen in Nahost. Hierbei nehme ich niemals Partei für eine politische Seite sondern für die Seite der Menschlichkeit, verurteile Hamas genauso wie Israel (Profilbeschreibung), und beleuchte vor allem
die Rolle Deutschlands in diesem Kontext. Ich kann mir nur vorstellen, dass einer meiner Posts (oder ihre Summe) von einer oder mehreren Personen, der sehr wohl Partei bezieht/beziehen (für Israel, für Hamas, für die dt. Bundesregierung) als nicht hinnehmbar empfunden wurde, eine Begründung und um welche(n) Post(s) es sich handelt habe ich schließlich nicht erhalten. In diesem Fall frage ich euch drei Dinge:
1. Falls sich User durch meine Meinung in ihren Gefühlen gekränkt sehen, warum werden dann 'nur' Mediendateien als sensitiv markiert? 2. Um welche Äußerungen dreht es sich sodass ich das verändern kann? 3. Welche(r) meiner Posts war(en) der Auslöser für diese Entscheidung? In meinen Posts halte ich meinem Heimatland, Deutschland, konsequent den Spiegel vor, das ist durch die freie Meinungsäußerung gedeckt und widerspricht auch den Benutzerregeln von digitalcourage.social /nicht/.
Ich bitte euch, die Entscheidung umgehend zurück zu nehmen, den Account wieder als nicht sensitiv kennzeichnen und bitte euch um eine kurze Stellungnahme. Danke und Grüße“ 8/23
18. Juni 2025, 22:56 (digitalcourage, padeluun): Limitation of account from Jun 18, 2025
You can still use your account but only people who are already following you will see your posts on this server, and you may be excluded from various discovery features. However, others may still manually follow you. Hallo bhaug, dein Engagement gegen Antisemitismus und gegen islamistischen Terror ist grundsätzlich begrüßenswert. 9/23
Trotzdem haben wir uns entschieden, deinen Account stumm zu schalten. Grund ist eine Aussage von dir, in der du den in Israel gelebten Zionismus als „rassistisch-kolonialistische Ideologie“ bezeichnest und Israel pauschal einen „verbrecherischen Apartheidstaat“ nennst. Auch wenn du Antisemitismus ausdrücklich ablehnst, reproduziert diese Wortwahl Narrative, die mit strukturellem Antisemitismus in Resonanz stehen – gerade, wenn sie jüdische Selbstbestimmung und Erinnerungskultur
pauschal delegitimieren.**Wir finden: Kritik an israelischer Politik ist legitim – aber sie braucht Differenzierung und Sensibilität.** Deine Aussage überschreitet für uns eine Grenze, bei der wir nicht möchten, dass sie weiterhin ungefiltert in unserer Timeline auftaucht. Du kannst weiterhin gefunden werden, wenn man dich sucht oder dir folgt. Aber wir möchten mit dem Stummschalten ein klares Zeichen setzen, wo für uns der Rahmen einer verantwortungsvollen Debatte endet.
In genau diesem Moment findet der
✡️Jüdisch-Antizionistische Kongress✡️ in Wien statt - der Geburtsstadt des Zionismus! (13.-15.6.).
Hochkarätige Sprecher*innen wie
•Ilan Pappé
•Yakov Rabkin
•Donny Gluckstein
...
Ich sehe dies als weiteren Beweis für die nicht hinnehmbare Einschrängkung der Meinungsfreiheit unter dem Deckmäntelchen der ‚Antisemitismusprävention‘. Nicht nur meine Stimme sondern auch wichtige jüdische Stimmen, die das Narrativ des kolonialen Zionismus ablehnen, werden hierbei übersehen und die Strategie des Staats Israels, sich Jüdischsein und die Definitionsmacht hierüber anzueignen, unterstützt. 13/23
Die deutsche Politik und Mehrheitsgesellschaft ist willfähriger Handlanger dieser einseitigen Entwicklung. Um es mit den Worten der jüdischen Organisation ‚Jüdische Stimme‘ zu sagen: „[…] wo Judentum durch Zionismus ersetzt wird, können auch Nichtjuden bestimmen, wer als jüdisch gilt. Das hat in Deutschland bekanntlich Tradition.“ Das sind Jüdinnen und Juden, die das sagen. In Deutschland. 14/23
So viel zum Vorwurf, ich bediene eine Wortwahl, die Narrative „die mit strukturellem Antisemitismus in Resonanz stehen – gerade, wenn sie jüdische Selbstbestimmung und Erinnerungskultur pauschal delegitimieren.“ (Zitat padeluun). Es ist Deutschland das dies tut und diese Schande werde ich weiterhin benennen. Vorläufiger Tiefpunkt Deutscher Schande: die Benennung einer jüdischen Organisation die sich für Frieden in Nahost einsetzt als gesichert extremistisch 15/23
Das Anti-Zionismus im Judentum selbst eine lange Tradition hat (siehe z.B. Bundisten), Zionismus selbst im Judentum hochkontrovers diskutiert wird, scheint egal zu sein. 17/23
Man hat sich klar auf eine Seite zu stellen und delegitimiert hiermit die andere Sichtweise. jewishjournal.com/commentary/o…
Ich beziehe mich in meiner Profilbeschreibung (mittlerweile gepinnter Post) bewusst auf den de facto kolonialen, imperialistischen und genozidalen Staat Israel (Zionism as it materializes in the state of Israel). bekenne mich gleichzeitig ausdrücklich gegen die Hamas und gegen jeden Anstisemitismus. 18/23
In a recent essay for the Jewish Journal, Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz makes the case that Abraham, the first Jew, was also the first Zionist. “Abraham becomes a
Das ist im Deutschland 2025 nicht genug an Differenzierung während sich im Gazastreifen die Leichen und das Trauma, unterstützt mit echten und diplomaitschen Waffen aus Deutschland, stapeln, ein deutscher Bundeskanzler Israel dafür lobt, dass es die "#Drecksarbeit" für den Westen mache. 19/23
Ich kritisiere dies. Ich kritisiere dies vor allem aus Verantwortungsgefühl gegenüber unserer deutschen Geschichte. Nie wieder heißt Nie wieder für JEDEN, auch für Israel. 20/23
Ironischerweise (ich kann nicht lachen) wird Deutschland einen Tag später vom Europarat wegen mangelnder Meinungsfreiheit im Kontext des Nahostkonflikts gerügt : 19. Juni 2025 - The Commissioner asks the German authorities to uphold freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in the context of the conflict in Gaza (coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/…) 22/23
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:
Launch Virtual Machine Manager.
Click File > New Virtual Machine, which opens the "New VM - Step 1" window.
Select "Local install media" and click Forward, which brings me to "New VM - Step 2."
Click "Browse..." which opens the "Locate ISO media volume" window:
Click "Browse Local," which opens the file browser.
Choose ISO file (in my case, I'm using debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso) and click Select, which returns me to the "New VM - Step 2" window.
Because the OS is not detected automatically, I uncheck the "Automatically detect from the installation media / source" checkbox, start typing the word "debian" in the text box above it, and select Debian 12 from the pop-up selection menu.
Click Forward.
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.
I copied the ISO file to my home directory but got the same result. Any other ideas?
EDIT: I got past this issue by opening up Flatseal and granting access to all system files for Virtual Machine Manager; however, now I'm getting stuck on another permission issue after I choose how much RAM, CPU, and disk space to allocate. Reference my response to @ormith@lemmy.world's comment.
Here are the results of some commands that I believe answer your questions. When I run the ls command against that directory, it says no such file or directory. Could this have something to do w/ the fact that Virtual Machine Manager is running as a flatpak? (as the other commenter @ormith@lemmy.world has hinted)
Here's what I tried:
what are the permissions of /run/usr/1000/doc/c0a3c3fc
myusername@fedora:~$ ls -la /run/usr/1000/doc
ls: cannot access '/run/usr/1000/doc': No such file or directory
EDIT: I got past this issue by opening up Flatseal and granting access to all system files for Virtual Machine Manager; however, now I'm getting stuck on another permission issue after I choose how much RAM, CPU, and disk space to allocate. Reference my response to @ormith@lemmy.world's comment.
That /run/user/1000/doc/... path suggests it's getting the .iso through the documents portal. So virt-manager is a flatpak? Sounds bad! Try using flatseal to give it direct access to all files.
Thanks - this got me past the original issue. What I did is I opened up Flatseal and granted access to all system files for Virtual Machine Manager.
However, now I'm stuck at a different point. I can get past where I choose how much memory, CPU, and disk storage to allocate, but when I get to Step 5 and click Finish,
This happens:
Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-06-22T17:16:36.091623Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/run/media/myusername/path/to/installers/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}: Could not open '/run/media/myusername/path/to/installers/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso': Permission denied'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 71, in cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvm.py", line 2008, in _do_async_install
installer.start_install(guest, meter=meter)
File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 726, in start_install
domain = self._create_guest(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 667, in _create_guest
domain = self.conn.createXML(initial_xml or final_xml, 0)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 4590, in createXML
raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-06-22T17:16:36.091623Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/run/media/myusername/path/to/installers/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":true}: Could not open '/run/media/myusername/path/to/installers/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso': Permission denied
This message is talking about permission denied, so I checked the file permissions, and I saw that the ISO file is owned by the qemu user:
myusername@fedora:~$ ls -la /run/media/myusername/path/to/installers
total 101472336
drwxr-xr-x. 2 myusername myusername 4096 Jun 16 14:47 .
drwxr-xr-x. 6 myusername myusername 12288 Jul 29 2024 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 myusername myusername 7547453440 Oct 17 2024 bazzite-gnome-stable.iso
-rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu 702545920 Jun 12 17:00 debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso
No idea. Since the path is a /run/media one, what's the filesystem used there? Perhaps it's incompatible. Have you tried putting the iso in your home directory and going from there instead?
But perhaps it would work best if you just do what the documentation tells you not to do and rpm-ostree install virt-manager (and libvirt and friends, if needed)
Might check the file permissions then. Who owns the file? Does VMM have read permissions to the file? UUID 1000 is root, so it sounds like VMM is being run as your user, but the ISO is owned by root. You could try chown'ing that file to your user.
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:
(Step 0: Uninstall^[The 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)
Step 1: Install Virtual Machine Manager with ujust, i.e. invoke the ujust setup-virtualization command
I 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted President Trump's decision to bomb Iran Saturday without congressional authorization and called the move grounds for his impeachment.
#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.
+ 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?
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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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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"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: [...]"
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.
Lecture recorded August 8, 2023Speaker: Emily Bender - University of WashingtonDescription: Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT, the internet has been awash i...
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 […]
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…
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.
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.
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.
a couple of things about the right that people dont realize because the news doesnt explain it this way: the right wing voters (middle to far right) wanted our current commander because they thought he would not start a war. looks like they were wrong. right wing voters wanted someone who would know how to run the government to favor businesses. wrong again. they wanted someone who was going to help older people with fixed expenses. wrong there too.
It's not the US--it's one man and the sycophants who cow to him, if No Kings day is any measure, but you are right in that Racist Felon 2024 is a global danger.
they have always been a danger for some, and a blessing for others. How many countries have they protected ! And how many countries have they brought to their knees by removing their elected government thru the CIA (directly or indirectly) and replaced them with dictators. Iran 1953, Guatemala 54, Congo 60, Chile 73 to list a few. Mind you, the Russians are no better (Hungary 56, Slovaki 68, Afghanistan 69 to list a few), or others thru colonialism ...
50th anniversary of the declaration of National Emergency: When Indian democracy stood nakedly exposed as a system of bourgeois dictatorship cgpi.org/26320
Remember when the U.S. at least faked reasons before starting wars in the Middle East and pretended to have a legal basis for their attacks? Good times...
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.
I was terrified of Iran during the crisis in '70s. I realize now it wasn't that Carter didn't know what to do, he was following a script. Both Clinton and Bush knew where bin Laden was hiding, Africa and Iran.
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/artikel/1192070.…
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.
"... 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 ...
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.
"Just a hole in the mountain": "The nuclear facility at #Fordow has not been seriously damaged"! "Most of what was hit was above ground and was recoverable" No deception and no surprise. And many questions about whether they achieved their goal.
#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...
We may or may not like North Korea, but it is increasingly clear that the temptation for countries not aligned with the United States to acquire nuclear weapons is aimed at securing a kind of life insurance against powers that do not respect international law. The West is dragging the planet into barbarism when it legitimizes attacks without any respect for the sovereignty of peoples and international law. No country should have nuclear weapons, and what these military actions do is accelerate the race for atomic bombs.
@Lizette603_23 So is Von Der Leyer, and Starmer and the German puppet (I don't even know his name) Macron. They are all in this mess. We have to rise up against all of them. #rebellionsanduprisings
The corrupt, conservative Democratic Party leadership is putting out far more effort to try to keep a progressive Democrat from becoming mayor of New York City than they are trying to keep Trump from starting Word War III.
For those posting online in social media blaming Israel & Jews for all the evil, how many of those in this meme are Jews? There's enough evil to go around that includes many nations covering all religions.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea offers nuclear weapons to #Iran: "To maintain peace and stability in the Middle East" Kim Jong Un said he was ready to support #Tehran as "independent state to independent state" #DPRK
All-India General Strike on 9 July: Let us escalate our struggle against the capitalist offensive!Let us make this strike a grand success! cgpi.org/26318
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.
The cost to US taxpayers of each *Tomahawk* from manufacture to launch is between $5 million and $10 million. Exorbitant cost aside, let’s not forget the penchant of colonizers to conquer Indigenes only to culturally appropriate the latter in order to name the weapons used for future expansion. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6khpb…
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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.
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.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.
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.
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.
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.
How Bluesky Works
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.
Common misconceptions
An atproto relay is too expensive to run.
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.
There is no instances available except for bsky.social
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.)
You can't defederate bsky.social, this proves atproto is centralised!
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.)
Bluesky can censor people in turkey, this proves they're centralised!
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.
Bluesky isn't decentralised as someone was banned for pointing out the head of T&S liked jailbait porn.
That person came back on a different PDS. They literally are still on bluesky because they joined a different server.
Bluesky went down due to a DDoS, this proves they are centralised!
The DDoS only crashed the Bluesky PDSes. People self hosting were fine.
Wafrn
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
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-e
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.
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.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.
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.
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.
Wafrn is the main wafrn instance, a tumblr inspired federated social network that can connect with the fediverse. Follow your friends from mastodon, misskey, akkoma, and, if its your thing, threads too
PDSes and relays exist at the whim of Bluesky's corporate entity. Having all of the endpoints on the network controlled by a single agent is what makes Bluesky centralized. If Bluesky decided so, your server can be removed from their network and is functionally useless at that point. They decide who is and is not allowed to be a part of Bluesky.
For contrast, no such governing body exists with ActivityPub networks. Nobody can decide whether or not an instance should be removed from the network, they can only choose whether or not to federate with that instance. If you wanted to truly silence a Lemmy instance, for example, it would take the cooperation of all the major Lemmy admins to defederate, and is an entirely democratic process as a result.
EDIT: To clarify, ATProto is not what is centralized, "Bluesky" the platform utilizing ATProto, is what's centralized.
That's at a very different level. With dot social it's about a quarter of the active users on the fediverse, whereas bluesky is probably something like 95% centralized in practice. It seems to keep improving, but right now it's basically impossible to use without mostly interacting with bsky.
I know, but that wasn't my point. Getting cut off by a large server is a problem in any network. Yes, its bad that bluesky controls most of atproto, but its possible to use atproto without bluesky.
I have read it, and a lot of the problems have been addressed. Bluesky is still very early. There was an awkward period where lemmy was mostly lemmy.ml.
I'm not trying to cherry pick anything, I'm just addressing arguments against it I have seen.
My point was that the network was fairly centralised in the beginning. The people behind atproto.africa are working on an alternate bluesky appview anyway.
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