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Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts Undermine HIV Prevention Efforts Across Africa telesurenglish.net/trumps-fore…

Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts Undermine HIV Prevention Efforts Across Africa - teleSUR English

Sweeping foreign aid cuts by U.S. President Donald Trump have triggered a public health crisis across sub-Saharan Africa, where millions are now at risk of
teleSURenglish

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Crying At The Discotheque (Official Video)

The song Crying At The Discotheque would usually want a video recorded in - you guessed it - a disco or club, but I have been thinking so much recently about all my musician and crew friends who can't work at the moment, I thought a video where I film in as many empty London venues as possible would highlight all that's on hold at the moment.

I worked again with my favourite team for my videos, Sophie Muller, Robbie Ryan and Lisa Laudat, and we did all 7 venues in one day. It was strangely moving performing in those places to no crowd when I'd sang in them previously so full of life. I hope it brings home the gap in our culture at the moment.

Lyrics:
Downtown's been caught by the hysteria
The people scream and shout
A generation's on the move
When disco spreads like a bacteria
The lonely days are out
Behold the passion of the groove

The golden years, the silver tears
You wore a tie like Richard Gere
I wanna get down, you spin me around
I stand on the borderline

Crying at the discotheque
Crying at the discotheque

I saw you crying
I saw you crying at the discotheque
I saw you crying
I saw you crying at the discotheque

Tonight's the night at the danceteria
The joining of the tribe
The speakers pumping clear and loud
And the way you move is our criteria
Let the DJ takes you high
And tears of joy baptize the crowd

The golden years, the silver tears
You wore a tie like Richard Gere
I wanna get down, you spin me around
I stand on the borderline

Crying at the discotheque
Crying at the discotheque

I saw you crying
I saw you crying at the discotheque
I saw you crying
I saw you crying at the discotheque

The golden years, the silver tears
You wore a tie like Richard Gere
I wanna get down, you spin me around
I stand on the borderline

Crying at the discotheque
Crying at the discotheque
Crying at the discotheque
The discotheque, the discotheque
Crying at the discotheque
Crying at the discotheque

Album Artist: Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Album(s): Songs from the Kitchen Disco: Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Greatest Hits
Written by: Bernard Edwards, Anders Wilhelm Wollbeck, Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard, Anders Erik Hansson, Nile Gregory Rodgers, Michael Dimitrios Goulos
Music genre(s): Pop, Dance
Released: #2020
Decade for first release: #2020sMusic

#SophieEllisBextor #SongsFromTheKitchenDisco #CryingAtTheDiscotheque #Pop #Dance #2020sMusic

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Author Jeffrey Simon discussed his study of terrorism and the landscape of global threats. Followed by neurosurgeon Eben Alexander with the story of his near-death experience.

coasttocoastam.com/show/2025-0…


Terrorism Threats / Near-Death Experiences | Coast to Coast AM

Author Jeffrey Simon discussed his study of terrorism and the landscape of global threats. Followed by neurosurgeon Eben Alexander with the story of his near-death experience.
Coast to Coast AM

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UK seeks to ban Palestine Action over RAF base protest english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

UK seeks to ban Palestine Action over RAF base protest

The UK government is moving to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group following its protest at a military base, sparking backlash over the criminalization of pro-Palestinian activism.
Al Mayadeen English (UK seeks to ban Palestine Action over RAF base protest)
in reply to Council Estate Media

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Bwaz

I really don't get how this panic scheme works. If Iran had a nuke, they'd only know it worked with a test that any nation on earth could detect. Wouldn't they still have quite a bit of developing to do to get a way to deploy it? During which time the capability could be 'removed' then, when there was actually a need? These explosion of these gadgets aren't hard to detect.

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Israel says it launched strikes on Iran missile facilities

Renewed strikes in Israel and Iran come after Tehran ruled out a return to nuclear talks until Israel halts its strikes, and Israel's army told Israelis to brace for a "prolonged campaign."
dw.com/en/israel-says-it-launc…


US moves stealth bombers to Pacific, amid Iran tensions

Several US B-2 bombers took off from a US base and were headed across the Pacific, according to media reports. The bombers can carry the only weapon capable of destroying Iran's deeply buried nuclear facilities.
Timothy Jones (Deutsche Welle)

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Read “Oregon bans the corporate practice of medicine“ by Cory Doctorow on Medium: doctorow.medium.com/https-plur…

@pluralistic thanks for calling out this dreadful dystopian garbage for what it is.


Oregon bans the corporate practice of medicine - Cory Doctorow - Medium

The 20+-city for my novel Picks and Shovels is in the home stretch! Catch me TODAY in Portland, Oregon at the Lloyd Center Barnes and Noble, and at the TUALATIN Public Library on SUNDAY (Jun 22)…
Cory Doctorow (Medium)

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breitbart.com/clips/2025/06/21…

Maher: Blue States Are Intruding on Parents’ Rights on Trans Issues, Not Red States

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that the issue with intrusions on parents’ rights on transgender issues isn’t with states banning transitioning minors, it’s blue states keeping parents in the dark if their children …
Ian Hanchett (Breitbart)

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Video: Reporter and cameraman amazed by extent of destruction in Tel Aviv following Iranian missile attack en.abna24.com/news/1700152/Vid…

Video: Reporter and cameraman amazed by extent of destruction in Tel Aviv following Iranian missile attack

Reporter and cameraman amazed by the extent of destruction in Tel Aviv following Iranian missile attack
ABNA English

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D-Day: Combat Stories From The Men of the 101st Airborne - American Veteran's Center

youtube.com/watch?v=lGY3rY2bKI…

Colonel Edward "Ed" Shames, the last surviving officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. A unit that would be made famous by the miniseries Band of Brothers.

Private Thomas M. Rice, after 18 months of training, he joined the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) of the legendary 101st Airborne Div & was shipped ...


D-Day: Combat Stories From The Men of the 101st Airborne

This AVC Compilation brings together three incredible perspectives from paratroopers of the famed 101st Airborne and what each of them experienced jumping in...
YouTube
in reply to HunDriverWidow

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HunDriverWidow

overseas to participate in the D-Day invasion. Tom Rice would spend a total of 336 days in combat participating in Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden, The Battle of the Bulge, & helping to capture Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden.

PFC Jim "Pee Wee" Martin, One of Colonel Sink's original "Toccoa Men", James Martin joined the now famous 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment at Camp Toccoa in July, 1942. Martin ...

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FM: US-Israeli escalation against Iran is a foolish and reckless choice en.ypagency.net/360226

FM: US-Israeli escalation against Iran is a foolish and reckless choice

SANAA, June 21 (YPA) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sanaa Government, Jamal Amer, on Friday stated that the US-Israeli escalation against Iran is a foolish and reckless choice."The catastrophic consequences of this choice will not be limited to
عماد (Yemen Press Agency)

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Belarus, Venezuela’s Mérida State sign trade, economic cooperation program eng.belta.by/politics/view/bel…

Belarus, Venezuela’s Mérida State sign trade, economic cooperation program

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Venezuela Andrei Molchan visited Mérida State. He met with Governor Arnaldo Javier Sánchez Pérez, representatives of the business community, and toured pharmaceutical enterprises.
Belarusian Telegraph Agency
in reply to Joe

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Cassandrich

This 👆 is still pro-"AI" propaganda.

"AI" did not write *any* of your bot. At best it regurgitated large volumes of other people's code that the "AI" provider intentionally stripped of identifying information to launder plagiarism and copyright infringement. More likely you also sat there coaxing it to get the outputs you knew you needed, which someone who did not know could not have done.

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House Dems should force standalone votes on 1-Asbestos. 2-Selling off public lands. 3–funding rural hospitals. The midterm ads write themselves.

...

“Congressman X wants to bring asbestos into your house and give your kids cancer. Those lands where you hike and hunt? He wants to sell those to big city Wall st types and that hospital where your mom got dialysis—defunded so a billionaire could get a tax break. This election let X know…”"
threads.com/@lukerussert/post/…

#Politics #USPol #USA #US

Screen shot of a social media thread by lukerussert Post 1: House Dems should force standalone votes on 1-Asbestos. 2-Selling off public lands. 3–funding rural hospitals. The midterm ads write themselves. Post 2: If you’re asking how a minority party does this—it’s called a “Motion to Recommit.” The GOP is absurdly good at it when they’re in the minority— What is a motion to recommit? https://www.politicopro.com/blog/what-is-motion-to-recommit/ Post 3: “Congressman X wants to bring asbestos into your house and give your kids cancer. Those lands where you hike and hunt? He wants to sell those to big city Wall st types and that hospital where your mom got dialysis—defunded so a billionaire could get a tax break. This election let X know…”

Luke Russert (@lukerussert) on Threads

Threads

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How to "Reformat" a Hardrive the American way

So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board.
And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time.
One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!!


going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!

We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it

This entry was edited (2 days ago)

lemmy - Link to source

How to "Reformat" a Hardrive the American way

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/40679506

So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board.
And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time.
One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!!


going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!

We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it

lemmy - Link to source

Converting an E-Paper Photo Frame into Weather Map

Photo of Inky Frame e-paper display

Here’s a great hack sent in to us from [Simon]. He uses an e-paper photo frame as a weather map!

By now you are probably aware of e-paper technology, which is very low power tech for displaying images. E-paper only uses energy when it changes its display, it doesn’t draw power to maintain a picture it has already rendered. The particular e-paper used in this example is fairly large (as e-paper goes) and supports color (not just black and white) which is why it’s expensive. For about US$100 you can get a 5.7″ 7-color EPD display with 600 x 448 pixels.

Beyond the Inky Frame 5.7″ hardware this particular hack is mostly a software job. The first program, written in python, collects weather data from the UK Met Office. Once that image data is available a BASH script is run to process the image files with imagemagick. Finally a Micro Python script runs on the Pico to download the correct file based on the setting of the real-time clock, and update the e-paper display with the weather map.

Thanks to [Simon] for sending this one in via the tipsline. If you have your own tips, please do let us know! If you’re interested in e-paper tech we have certainly covered that here in the past, check out E-Paper Anniversary Counter Is A Charming Gift With Minimal Power Draw and A Neat E-Paper Digit Clock (or Four).

The video below the break is a notice from the UK Met Office regarding their data services.

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wewbull

wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Man…

Although Manjaro is Arch-based and Arch compatible, it is not Arch.

Manjaro package repository
Stable branch
There is no solid rule indicating when Stable branch is snapped from testing. It can be anything from one to four weeks....

Testing branch
Testing branch is snapped from unstable at irregular intervals - ...

Unstable branch
Unstable branch is synced several times daily from Arch stable


Manjaro Unstable is Arch Stable


Manjaro:A Different Kind of Beast

Manjaro
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in reply to Jesse 🇫🇷

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Altbot

The image displays a detailed system monitoring interface, likely from a Linux-based operating system. The interface is divided into several sections, each providing different types of information.

  1. Top Section: The top section features a large graph with a grid of colored dots, possibly representing system performance metrics over time. Below this, there are system statistics including CPU usage, memory usage, and disk usage. The CPU usage is shown as 24.74%, with a load average of 21.3, 76.2, and 59.3. Memory usage is displayed with 8.18 GB used out of 14.8 GB total, and 6.67 GB available. Disk usage shows 8.18 GB used out of 14.8 GB total, with 6.67 GB available.
  2. Middle Section: The middle section includes a list of processes with their respective commands, CPU usage, and memory usage. The processes are listed in a table format, with columns for the command, CPU usage, and memory usage. The processes are color-coded, with red indicating high usage. The top process is "clang++" with a CPU usage of 79%.
  3. Bottom Section: The bottom section shows network statistics, including upload and download speeds, with upload at 17.8 Kbps and download at 16.2 Kbps. There is also a graph showing network activity over time.
  4. Right Section: The right section displays detailed information about the CPU, including temperature, fan speed, and voltage. It also shows the system's hardware specifications, such as the CPU model (Ryan 7 7350H) and the amount of RAM (4.2 GB).
  5. Additional Details: The interface also includes a terminal window with various commands and outputs, such as "select" and "Info: reneate III signals." The system's hostname is "reneate," and the current date and time are "07/52."

The overall color scheme is dark, with text and graphs in various shades of green, red, and yellow, providing a clear contrast for readability.

Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energy used: 0.422 Wh

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Lord Dannatt lobbied ministers for millions

A member of the House of Lords lobbied the government to get financial support worth millions of pounds for a commercial deal he was steering, documents reveal.

It is the second time that Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British army, has potentially broken parliamentary rules that forbid lobbying.

He is under investigation by the House of Lords authorities over a separate set of allegations, following undercover filming by the Guardian.

Lord Dannatt. Just another dodgy bastard elite.

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Trump administration pulls the plug on suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-administration-pulls-the-plug-on-suicide-hotline-for-lgbtq-youth?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Headlines @headlines-PBSNewsHour


Trump administration pulls the plug on suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

Next month, the Trump administration will end specialized support on the 988 national suicide prevention hotline for young LGBTQ+ callers — a group that has disproportionately high suicide rates.
John Yang (PBS News)

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@jemmesedi@c.im Legitimate question though:
What's in it for the EU to accept the UK back? Furthermore, what's to stop the UK from voting to leave again in another 20 years when they don't like things?

Jonathan Emmesedi

2025-06-21 21:29:07

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Rejoining should happen, but will be difficult.

leftfootforward.org/2025/06/mo…

#UKPolitics #EU #Brexit



Most Britons say they would support rejoining the EU ahead of Brexit vote anniversary - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate

A majority of the public now regret the vote to leave.
Basit Mahmood (Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate)

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Oh Look! A ‘Think Tank’ Manufacturing Consent to Bomb Iran with Tactical Nukes libya360.wordpress.com/2025/06…

Oh Look! A ‘Think Tank’ Manufacturing Consent to Bomb Iran with Tactical Nukes

Vanessa Beeley Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow Trump is considering a tactical nuke attack on Iranian soil which will have apocalyptic consequences On the 19th of June, the Atlantic Council publ…
INTERNATIONALIST 360°

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One of the most underreported aspects of life for Black undocumented migrants can be summed up in one statistic: They’re deported at a rate four times more often than their numbers would suggest, according to an analysis of federal data by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration.

The analysis showed that while Black migrants make up 5.4% of the undocumented population in the U.S., they make up 20.3% of migrants facing removal based on criminal convictions.

capitalbnews.org/black-migrant…


5% of Undocumented Migrants Are Black. They’re 20% of Potential Deportations.

Research exposes how racial disparities in policing have created a pathway from routine life to permanent family separation for Black migrants.
Adam Mahoney (Capital B News)

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KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session.

KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

www.phoronix.com
in reply to Tony Bark

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audaxdreik

Touch support really needs some love because OOF. I understand why it's maybe not a priority, but I have a nice little 2-in-1 and I'm tired of pretending like tablets don't at least deserve their niche.

Any good gesture support software I might be missing?

wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touch…

If I'm reading the wiki correctly, touch is just reduced to pointer input and yeah, that's exactly what it feels like

EDIT:

Yes, the writing is on the wall. X11’s upstream development has dropped off significantly in recent years, and X11 isn’t able to perform up to the standards of what people expect today with respect to support for multi-monitor setups, high DPI monitors, HDR, VRR, other fancy monitor features, multi-GPU setups, screen tearing, security, crash robustness, input handling, and more.


I glossed over it on first reading, but I guess there's a small nod to it there and that's something.

Touchscreen - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org
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Insufficient Press Coverage on the Big Data Surveillance Complex projectcensored.org/coverage-b…

Insufficient Press Coverage on the Big Data Surveillance Complex 

Mischa Geracoulis As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partnership with unregulated Big Tech, it also surveils online, helping itself to citizens’ personal id…
Kate Horgan (Project Censored)

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It's not free speech, it's propaganda.
> Reporters for Voice of America and other U.S. networks fear what’s next - NPR apple.news/AJ-bHeWvGSiiLIgD-m0…

Reporters for Voice of America and other U.S. networks fear what's next — NPR

Journalists who have risked their freedom to report for Voice of America and its sister news outlets wonder what happens to them now that the Trump administration has gutted their parent agency.
apple.news

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Winston Marshall on ‘tense’ atmosphere in Jerusalem as Iran ploughs ahead with offensive

Podcaster and political commentator Winston Marshall has spoken from Jerusalem about his experiences since Iran launched its offensive…
#Israel #News #Clips #Iran #jerusalem #WorldNews
europesays.com/2182638/

Winston Marshall on 'tense' atmosphere in Jerusalem as Iran ploughs ahead with offensive - EUROPE

Podcaster and political commentator Winston Marshall has spoken from Jerusalem about his experiences since Iran launched its offensive on Israel.
EUROPE SAYS

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KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

"- We’ll make sure Plasma continues to compile and deploy on X11.
- Bug reports about the Plasma X11 session being horribly broken (for example, you can’t log in) will be fixed.
- Very bad X11-specific regressions will probably be fixed eventually.
- Less-bad X11-specific bugs will probably not be fixed unless someone pays for it.
- X11-specific features will definitely not be implemented unless someone pays for it.

As for when Plasma will drop support for X11? There’s currently no firm timeline for this, and I certainly don’t expect it to happen in the next year, or even the next two years. But that’s just a guess; it depends on how quickly we implement everything on community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayla…. Our plan is to handle everything on that page such that even the most hardcore X11 user doesn’t notice anything missing when they move to Wayland.
At this point in time, our telemetry says that a majority of Plasma users are already using the Wayland session. Currently 73% of Plasma 6 users who have turned on telemetry are using the Wayland session"

phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-…

i think its a reasonable stance unlike gnome (as usual).


KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away
www.phoronix.com
This entry was edited (2 days ago)

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Municipal Elections in Venezuela: CNE Holds Meeting With Political Parties to Select Positions of Symbols on Ballot orinocotribune.com/municipal-e…

Municipal Elections in Venezuela: CNE Holds Meeting With Political Parties to Select Positions of Symbols on Ballot

The Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) held a meeting with political parties in order to choose the positions of the party symbols on the ballot for the 2025 municipal elections scheduled for July 27, as established in Article 70 of the Orga…
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

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Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

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If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.


Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.


If you enjoy these services, please consider supporting us by taking advantage of our paid services: https://www.eskimo.com/

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