Notices by 𝓻𝓻𝓪 (rra@post.lurk.org)

@evan @stefan Yes, same here. the disappointment is not about tags.pub itself but rather that what seemed like more people discovering fediverse is in fact fedidb wrongly counting tags.pub as new users. In my opinion the fix is then not necessarily in nodeinfo but rather in in Fedidb excluding tags.pub, they exclude several other instances for different reasons.

@stefan that user growth is basically 100% bot accounts connected to tags.pub though https://fedidb.com/servers/tags.pub

@stefan yep

@evan @hongminhee @cwebber could you share a link to that Python one?

@dansup @manum No it is not a water proof approach. But there is a lot of space between not offering the tools to understand and people not understanding the tools offered.

@dansup @manum It does not seem that the TikTok design carries well to a federated situation. You can use a display name to trivially impersonate someone else. User names+instance are used to verify an account.

"BBC News liked your post"

"BBC News (troll@randominstance) liked your post. "

"BBC News (news@bbc.co.uk) liked your post"

@laurenshof @cwebber This is Soapbox which can be used as a client for Mastodon. It looks like a better interface but it still has the "everyone mentioned receives the message" broken stair. Even a bit worse because when you have an existing exchange with someone in "Messages" and you @ someone else, it looks like the other accounts are no longer mentioned (they are no longer colored links) but they in fact also receive the DM 🙃

"After decades as the world’s largest oil importer, the United States has emerged as its leading exporter of oil and gas. Since then, the country has begun to behave less like a liberal hegemon and more like a classic petrostate."

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/petrostate-america

"AI therefore currently, and under current conditions, only helps to carry on with business as usual[...], and sustainable #AI only works as change placebo resulting in placebo change; or to put it more concisely: “sustainable AI is the technical solution to the #climate crisis from a techno-solutionist vantage point simply reproducing the status quo."

https://policyreview.info/articles/news/impossibility-sustainable-artificial-intelligence/1804

Wow this struck a chord, it seems I was not the only one who was not aware of this story!

Some additional info:

@teclista shared that the protagonists are on the fedi as well (of course they are!):
https://mas.to/@teclista/113872887620692513

@__nate__ wrote about the episode in several papers (for example: https://networkcultures.org/cpov/2011/01/15/spanish_fork/) and also a book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo19085555.html

@rwg also wrote about the episode in a book:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14bssk4.9

"in the light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation" was referring to things such as https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113868325221306547

Finally, I don't have a soundcloud to promote, but I'd really like to see the first paid position for Trust & Safety on the fediverse get funded:
https://givebutter.com/givingmastodon

please chip in if you care about digital commons

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

@ayoub have a look at the archive of The Rest Is History!

@dymaxion @hugo @iraantlers Yeah tbh I think self-repair is overrated when it comes to phones. Pixels have a lot of spare parts sourced from original phones that you can order online and then bring to a local technician for professional repair. You will *have to* with Pixels because they are incredibly fragile in my experience. Speaking of sys-adminning a phone in scandinavia, I have two identical models so that when one breaks *again* I can hotswap while waiting for repairs without losing access to public institutions 💩It is such a sad state of affairs.

"Community servers for interdependent #feminist trans*feminist free/libre self-hosted #federated autonomous collective #cooperative community and #art servers "

A thorough historic overview by @monoskop

https://monoskop.org/Community_servers

How to Build an Electrically Heated Table?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/12/how-to-build-an-electrically-heated-table/

With once again great illustrations by @marieverdeil

Here is one for #lazyweb

What year(s) would you say #cloud #computing broke through and why was it that year?

And connected to that: When did VPS (virtual private #server ) technology become mainstream?

I'm not looking for a date those first appeared, but rather when they became mainstream parts of hosting and development practices?

:boost_requested:

TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw

This piece about bitcoin mining and noise pollution has such a density to it..

the notion of noise pollution and its effects

the way the mine looks, where it is, why it is there and how it sustains and necessitates fossil fuel plants

the way the noise pollution wilts humans, animals and the trees and how the article centers discusses them (that portrait of the atrophying dog)

the former oathkeeper, trying to address it but so firmly stuck in his ideology of "non-political"

Only oversight is that they could have really underscored that decibels are a logarithmic scale and an increase of 3db is double the power emitted.

https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03/15/poetin-komt-tanken-bij-vlissingen-a4193179

Last week the NRC reported about a little-known refueling (bunkering) point in the south-west of the #Netherlands, at the entrance of the Schelde near #vlissingen. The newspaper uncovered that it is being used by a #shadow #fleet of often badly maintained and very old tanker vessels which play a pivotal role in turning sanctioned Russian #oil in to not sanctioned oil. The vessels make their way from Baltic ports along the North Sea, either to India or Turkey. The newspaper called this bunkering point "Putin's petrol station", because on the way back the sanctioned vessels stock up on fuel. The ships all fly under several different "flags of convenience" and as their companies get put on sanction lists, the ships move to other owners.

It is not often that international politics, global capital, supply chains, the news and infrastructure congeal the way it does at Putin's Pitstop so I had to go take a look #infrastructours.

infra thread!

> In relation to other struggles in Germany, with this occupation, we want to take the next step in the fight for climate justice, because we are trying to bring in water as an issue, and we are trying to debunk the narrative of “green growth,” the idea that electric cars are solving the problem. At the same time, this occupation is related to the anti-fascist movement, because Elon Musk is also part of the fascist problem.

https://crimethinc.com/2024/03/08/germany-the-fight-against-the-tesla-gigafactory-some-occupy-the-forest-some-shut-down-the-power-grid

@CrimethInc