Firefox готовится к запуску бесплатного VPN, встроенного в браузер
Все указывает на то, что Firefox VPN будет бесплатным сервисом, но с некоторыми ограничениями, такими как возможное ограничение объема данных и небольшое количество серверов.
С помощью этой инициативы Mozilla намеревается позиционировать Firefox как «лучший браузер с встроенным VPN на рынке», титул, за который ведется все более ожесточенная борьба в войне за конфиденциальность в Интернете.
Mozilla VPN — платная штука для всех (куда есть установочники). А тут будет в браузере уже для всех (у кого будет работаь, разумеется). в статье про это говорится. кстати
Странно выделять это в отдельный сервис, если можно было бы просто сделать бесплатный план в уже существующем. Чувствую, долго не проживёт. Тем более когда у них с прибылью тяжело.
@kttrickster А что толку от бесплатного плана, если я не могу установить? Браузеры есть у всех и для всех платформ, даже на BSD работают, наверно.
Долго не проживёт
В том же Brave у меня не открывалась страница прямо в самом браузере, то есть подключиться я не мог и так.
Это напоминает прокси по типу Censor Tracker и прочих бесплатных расширений, которые тебе дают возможность открыть сайт под ограничениями доступа. Это ж не для всей системы по типу Nekoray(box)
@OfShad0ws Скорее всего, там не только ТОР, но и прочие проколюхи для обхода ограничений, оно как было там, так и будет. В ГНУ системах всё ставится с пол пинка, но мы — слишком маленькая аудитория, что б кто-то обращал внимание и шерстил все пакеты
Китай представил первый в истории собственный электронно-лучевой литографический аппарат под названием Xizhi
Разработка принадлежит Чжэцзянскому университету и, по словам местных СМИ, должна помочь стране снизить зависимость от зарубежных технологий, доступ к которым ограничен экспортным контролем США и Нидерландов
До сих пор китайские компании могли закупать лишь оборудование с устаревшей технологией DUV (литография в глубоком ультрафиолете), тогда как самые передовые EUV-станки (экстремальная ультрафиолетовая литография) от голландской ASML им были недоступны
Такое оборудование критически важно для производства чипов с техпроцессом менее 7 нм, в то время как лидеры рынка вроде TSMC и Samsung уже готовятся к массовому выпуску 2-нм процессоров
Xizhi использует сфокусированные электронные пучки для переноса схем на кремниевые пластины
Установка может формировать линии шириной всего 8 нм с точностью позиционирования 0,6 нм, что соответствует международным стандартам
Правда, такая технология не подходит для массового выпуска микросхем — зато отлично годится для тестовых этапов производства и исследований
По данным Hangzhou Daily, переговоры о поставках Xizhi уже ведутся с научными институтами и компаниями
Кроме того, аппарат дешевле импортных аналогов, что повышает его привлекательность на внутреннем рынке
Для Китая это первый шаг к созданию собственной экосистемы оборудования для микроэлектроники и способ обхода внешних ограничений
На этом фоне появляются сообщения и о более амбициозных планах
По слухам, HUAWEI уже тестирует собственную экспериментальную EUV-машину на заводе в Дунгуане
Если проект будет реализован, и массовое производство стартует к 2026 году, это может вернуть компании и всей китайской индустрии возможность выпускать передовые чипы, сравнимые с решениями Apple, Qualcomm и NVIDIA
Hope this is okay here but I am more and more skeptical of short form videos and hope there is a community where we can go to drop slop and have it identified.
Most AI video tools aren't perfect, so you can only spot the most obvious fakes. If someone takes time to edit a fake video, it becomes very hard to detect. The best way to judge is to check the source, the motive, and whether you trust the person who shared it.
Smaller content creators with fewer views are generally more genuine.
If I see someone with several thousand views, I'm instantly skeptical. If their channel is part of their work, I pay attention too. I'm fine with AI assisted content as long as there's an actual human behind the keyboard who truly took time to think and used their brain.
The Frank Zappa video is fake AF. Just google like "Frank Zappa Al Bundy quote" or any of the other topics. None of them are there. The google "AI" says Zappa was never quoted about Al Bundy.
Also the video itself looks too sharp for when this guy died. And the million russian hashtags? Phony.
edit: Holy shit just look at the account. It's all pure "AI" disinfo. smh.
@sasha Там просто 2 опции на одно и то же: ссылка в посте и chebotarev.spb.ru/blog/categor… - это выборка по категории "диафильмы" Чтоб не путать, может, уберу вторую
@sasha да, есть плагин, он подтягивает динамически список дочерних страниц. Но так как там уже ничего не меняется, то я перевел его в статику, чтоб быстрее подгружался.
А можно подарок выклянчить на Новый Год - выкачать все Ваши диафильмы? В моей коллекции разрешения поменьше хоть и выбирал лучшие из нескольких источников. И объем несравненно меньше. Все необходимые ссылки поставлю. Вот моя самодельная галерея: pole.nsupdate.info/disk1/diafi…
Обнаружил, что не видно постов с mastodon.world. Он не дружит с mastodon.ml или вообще заблокирован в России? Собственно, в браузере mastodon.world тоже не открывается, если через мобильный интернет. Через рабочий, по проводу, открывается, но зато там mastodon.ml выдаёт 403 Forbidden. Такие дела.
это один из нюансов федерации. Ты его посты смотришь не просто *от* нас, но и *у* нас. С нашего сервера на этот аккаунт (!) никто не подписывался и постов его не бустил, вот его постов у нас и нет. Подпишешься — новые будут поступать. Старые, увы, пока придётся смотреть в первоисточнике браузером. Чему да, РКН мешает (mastodon.world на хостинге Hetzner, которому РКН велел приземлиться, а он просьбу проигнорировал). Но у нас с ними никакой ссоры нет.
Если хочешь повзаимодействовать с постом, найденным в браузере, скопируй ссылку на него и вставь в поиск в приложении, должен найтись.
@dside Ага, то есть только после подписки. Понятно, спасибо. Ну, я так и подозревал, что хостинг попал под раздачу. Когда начались блокировки в этом году, у меня перестала работать пачка приложений, включая прогноз погоды, онлайн-радио и так далее.
I realize my title has little to do with the post, lol, tired ADHD brain. I did have the thought that if someone were to be ambitious and motivated enough, the Red Dwarf code could be used to build direct access to BlueSky content into a Fediverse client.
But then, I'm always the guy in the corner pining for the good ole' days of Trillian for IM, the one client to reach them all ^_^
I was recently playing around with Constellation and - partly as a statement but mostly as a personal challenge - used it to build ATProto notifications support into my ActivityPub enabled web app (writeup here, I'd post from that but I think lemmy.world blocks it since I sent it too many invalid activities or whatever).
I already had the ability to follow someone on atproto by resolving their handle and hitting their PDS directly (without authentication - that's all public), and I also turned Bridgy Fed on. With Constellation, I was able to (a) find the bridged atproto version of each ActivityPub post I made, and (b) find any likes, replies, or reposts related to each post.
When a Bluesky post hits my inbox and I click on it, my app checks to see if that user is also using Bridgy Fed, and if they are, it shows me their post over ActivityPub instead, so I can like or reply to it.
More broadly, it might be interesting if someone made an app that used a PDS as its primary datastore, but also had ActivityPub S2S support built into it. I know wafrn can do both protocols, but I think in its case it mirrors posts to a separate PDS kind of like you're describing.
PandaCap is freaking awesome! Pretty much just what I had in mind when I posted previously about a single client to act as inbox for all ActivityPub and RSS/Atom content, only I had imagined it as a browser plugin or full on custom browser so that the content from the inbox would be opened in a client of the user's preference based on post type.
Really awesome project! including DeviantArt etc is really great for the art angle.
The only feature I would miss here vs. other clients is the search function as you mention. I assume that is omitted because it is a lot of work to implement. Have you looked at extending your project with someone else's code for that function? I know sometimes that is more trouble than help, but it would really take the project to that next level of "completely full featured client".
I have looked at wafrn, definitely a cool project and I like that it handles both protocols, but it has some limitations that hold me back from switching to it as my main client. I didn't know it was using a PDS in that way, do you mean it uses a server side PDS to mirror ATProto content or is it PDS per user?
I'm not exactly sure how it works in wafrn - I haven't looked into it myself - but last I heard, they were using blacksky's PDS (lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51892713) which I'm guessing means all their users (at least the ones who've turned atproto on) get mirrored to that particular PDS.
The search functionality missing from Pandacap is in some ways intentional; I don't personally like searching for anything in the fediverse or in Bluesky, because I run into a lot of text posts, photos, screenshots or whatever that I don't have context for and that I haven't mentally prepared myself to see. But there's also the technical issue that right now, Pandacap doesn't index incoming posts in one place; they either go to the inbox, go to notifications, or get ignored. If search were to be implemented, perhaps it could take the form of an external ActivityPub instance that indexes posts, and Pandacap would just hit its API or something.
The other issues with Pandacap are that it's single-user, and that it's on the Microsoft stack, so no one can really use it unless they're willing to sign up for Azure and know their way around it enough to get it deployed. But that keeps overheads down for me compared to running a VPS.
I've never tried loading a PeerTube post in Pandacap but I wonder if it would try (and fail) to display the video in an image tag, or if it would just show up as a text post.
Wafrn (tumblr alternative with fediverse and bluesky support) has started using an alternate relay; this means that they depend on none of bluesky's infrastructure to work.
Bluesky post by @gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net saying: "Thanks a lot to @[url=https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw]Rudy wants revolution.[/url] for hosting the blacksky PDS. After confirmating thatis ok, wafrn now uses blacksky's relay! In the next update other wafrns may also use the relay"
I think it could be. Cosmos DB might have to be replaced with a different EF Core provider - not sure which would be most appropriate but I'm sure something would work. Key and image storage could just be done on disk.
Looks like someone's built a Reddit-like on top of ATProto. Would be really interesting to see whether it could interact with the threadiverse through something like BridgyFed, which currently only works with microblogs (I think?)
In a nutshell, it's because you don't have to build the entire kit and kaboodle all at once.
Lots of BlueSky is centralized so you don't have to worry about distribution, user, hosting, scaling, etc. and just focus on the frontend.
It's the same reason why all the Lemmy and Mastodon apps look way better than the web versions, because all those other parts are no longer relevant and the creator(s) can focus on just putting out a polished product.
That site looks like it's closed source. FOSS projects tend to not be well designed in the frontend except the occasional gem. Not sure why it's such a pattern, considering this project isn't making much money and it's made by a single dev.
I think the most interesting opportunity here is that ATProto's strength is that it was built for a "credible exit", i.e, it allows users to migrate from any centralized network to a decentralized one.
IOW, it would be a lot easier to implement Fediverser on top of ATProto than of ActivityPub.
Federation is not the natural unit of organization, that's a hill I'm ready to die on. The problem is that most people get hung up on the idea of instances because they've only experienced the two extremes of siloed networks and the "Dark Forest" of blockchain.
On the topic of 'hills to die on', I will say I have gained a significant respect for you over the last 2 years, for sticking to your principles on this and following through on them.
We might disagree on the best way to do things. I'd witnesed you in the past receiving a lot of pushback (to put it lightly) for a well-intentioned but controversially implemented project (the whole Reddit mirroring and account claiming thing you tried). If I had been in your shoes at the time, I would probably have quit Lemmy and the Fediverse entirely for something else in order to try to pursue that vision. Yet, you've stayed with it, with the aim to refine your ideas on how to better bring decentralized social media to the general public. So kudos to you for your resoluteness on this.
I agree with everything. The thing is, I've been thinking about the psychology behind this lately.
When Fedi-Fans complain about Bluesky, it is usually based on the misunderstanding that it also is instance based. It really doesn't seem to occur to many that things might be done differently. But I think it may go a little deeper.
A common complaint is that it's too expensive to run a full relay. People want to self-host it all. They want to feel that they are in control and don't need anyone. It's not particularly rational but people do lots of silly things chasing that feeling. The rational start would be to move somewhere remote and grow your own food. Instead, people buy a pick-up truck or degoogle their phone.
That architecture also appeals to a more tribal mindset. An instance is "our" place. We just pull up the drawbridge when bad people come and we are safe here in "our" castle.
I think to some people that is more appealing than the more open design of atproto.
On Bluesky, there is all this waffle about some people trying to get someone banned. They might find such tribal architecture more appealing.
It's a mess, I find it ridiculous that my account and all of its data is tied to a fediverse instance (which is most often operated by a single person that could decide to shut it down at any time) and other people are ok with this
Fediverse Report 137 - this week’s fediverse news
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[li]altstore joins the fediverse, and you can interact with apps on the alternative iOS app store now via your fediverse accounts. Altstore also made a 500k USD donation to various fediverse platform
Fediverse Report 137 - this week's fediverse news
altstore joins the fediverse, and you can interact with apps on the alternative iOS app store now via your fediverse accounts. Altstore also made a 500k USD donation to various fediverse platforms
Mastodon is getting Starter Packs, with more details on the design, soliciting feedback
A New Social announced a new version for Bounce, which allows you to transfer your account from the fediverse to #bluesky
Alternative iOS app store AltStore joins the fediverse, with a 500k USD donation to various fediverse projects. Mastodon talks about their upcoming Starter Pack feature. Bounce your account from the fediverse to Bluesky.
Since 15 September, IFTAS has been tracking a coordinated network of accounts operating across Mastodon. These accounts are engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narra…
Remember every time we find Putin backed propaganda outside of Russia in the wild, it's nearly always boosting predominantly conservative viewpoints versus anything else.
Outside of their borders they're more interested in people fighting with each other than anything like coming together. Right wing politics is how they do that
Sorry, but this is wrong. They're also actively sponsoring "left wing" propaganda, to further sow discord. Depending on which group you yourself belong to, it's just easier to spot "the others".
And of that propaganda being created, that conservative inclined people are most likely to fall for it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/…
There seem to be plenty of other papers that more or less reach those same conclusions with a good number of citations, but I can't find anything really at all on Google Scholar concluding the opposite with a quick search, let alone something also credible.
The closest some papers come is saying that they try groups all over the political spectrum, as their goal is disunity ultimately, but they seemingly don't really have any kind of continued success with misinforming those groups anywhere near as effectively. They more or less all end up concluding that most of the propaganda targets conservatives, because they're the ones that fall for it.
I think one of the problems with citing that first study as evidence Russian disinfo is targeted at conservatives more than liberals is that it only studied one case, and Russian disinformation campaigns tailor their disinfo to different demographics, often through brute force/trial and error. So it is quite possible that the particular case they studied happens to be tailored to (or more successfully resonated with) conservatives, while another specific case would have resonated with liberals more thus resulting in more liberal exposure by their metrics.
Your assertion that more is conservative is a meaningless assertion in the context of this discussion.
More can be conservative on average but you don't see an average view of the internet, you see your filter bubble, and that source backs up the original assertion that yes, Russia is targeting leftists too.
Rumors and smears are part of free speech. To the extent that right-wing trolls and their audience are actual voters, it's essentially just a coarse form of ordinary political speech.
The extent to which a foreign government acting coverly is either creating or artificially boosting such content is scandalous.
True enough. But even a tyrannical government at least has a presumable intent of working for the betterment of its country. (Albeit through wrongheaded and small-minded means )
A.foreijgn power, especially a historical adversary and bad actor, is instead presumably working to harm or diminish us.
No, they have the intent of working for themselves. That's it. They don't give a shit about the country and you should never presume the ruling class of your country has your country's best interests in mind.
You presented it as proof that Russia is supporting misinformation on the left. To be that, it has to both include all three parts of the claim -- that there is disinformation on the left, that Russia is covertly supporting disinformation, and that some of the disinformation on the left was supported by Russia.
If your wife sleeps around, and I engage in casual sex, it does not necessarily follow that I slept with your wife.
A common suspicion in America is that Vladimir Putin believes that Trump as POTUS is good for Russia, and that Putin interferes with US politics with a specific goal of helping Trump.
If you have some reporting that directly links Russia to left-wing disinformation I'd love to read it. But the BBC article I read after following your link didn't have any such link.
When you make a statement it's your responsibility to provide proof because what if you're talking out of your ass? How would we find any proof in that scenario when it literally wouldn't exist? How would we know if you misinterpreted a source? How would we know we misinterpreted the correct source? What if we think what you're saying is so stupid we don't want to waste our time looking for proof? There are a lot of reasons the burden of proof shouldn't fall on us, which means the burden of proof should fall on the person who made the statement. They know if what they said is factual and if it's factual they know where they found this fact and thus it would be significantly less effort for them to find and present the source.
Better. That actually supports the assertion that Russia does engage in left-targeted disinformation (in Canada, on Twitter.)
It also supports the original point you dismissed as "wrong" -- of the 90 "most influential" accounts, only 9 were subjectively identified as "Canadian far left".
Maybe you should spend more time reading the actual articles, and not just their headlines?
Absolutely and utterly false. They try and promote fighting, anger, and distrust of government to everyone.
They target leftists with things that will upset them, make them angry at the right and the government and other leftists and sow further discord and polarization.
Less extreme Leftists generally aren't nearly as likely to be control freaks as the right (although there are always exceptions), so getting them (as a group) angry enough to fight takes much more effort than it does the right.
Thats false, every report ive seen on Russian activity shows that they antagonise both left and right wing people creating and boosting misinformation and organising real world protest events.
A source for my lived experience? Or do you mean an example?
I have been banned from .ml twice for stating that Russia shot down a civilian airliner over Ukraine - a matter of incontrovertible fact which has absolutely nothing to do with any leftist theory, as far as my masters degree in political science can discern.
.ml is moderated to be ideologically one sided. Pro-capitalism is literally not allowed and will deleted. Making a pro-west or anti-China or Russia comment is like a bat signal for .ml admins and users alike to dogpile on your comment.
It’s their right to moderate their instance how they see fit, but removing content on ideological grounds is going to result in people thinking what’s left is propaganda.
For the most part I like .ml users, I don’t care for the admin team and moderator decisions and that’s why I’m not on that instance. I could care less about the fact my instance is defederated from hexbear users or grad users. They do want to be polarizing and live in a propaganda bubble
I wouldn't call them that. Most if not all of them are genuine people with some having accs for many years before Reddit crossed the line for most of us and them becoming anyhow relevant to interfere. In a recent hexbearean post about fediverse negativity I've read a couple of opinions with a notion that federating with others wasn't that great, and they were pretty happy just by themselves. I assume, it's the same for other two too. That's a game too long and effortful to be a psyop imho. Their positions and where they get their info are things to argue, but let's not get as far as dehumanizing them.
Almost everywhere I soundly proclaim that I am a russian dummy anarchist, that I live in that state for I have no options, and I angrily disagree with their fascination, mystification of what it is, I hold a grudge with anyone who wants that russki mir to be the model the whole world should share.
I, nevertheless, find a lot of points, like personal stuff and grieveancies, theoretical things, sympathy to protesters, to Gazan survivors that I share with them. Unlike transparently racist/fascist troll comms that were there, unlike their campaigns I've noticed, there is a huge population of real people worthy of talking, arguing with.
Call me any names and ban me, but as long as any person or community is supportive of basic pillar causes like body autonomy, you, like, can at least talk to them and find something in common.
What I missed though, is that Diva said the same, but misleadingly doubted the existence of russian bot networks. Them and state suppression ruined the rusophonic space to that degree I dropped it altogether. I don't know how their actions affected other countries, but as a nolifer shitposting addict trying to trust them just a bit, I came through fire, water and copper tubes before dropping them altogether. They are like current Twitter, but worse. And, well, fuck, I wasn't abandoning that to find the next option already corrupted.
To be honest I didn't understand the thrust of most of what you wrote, but if you are against the Rusky Mir, you are probably on the right side to begin with. If you are an anarchist, you probably have no place on .ml to begin with.
Drunktexting and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
The main point why I wrote it was that I don't find them either bots or artifical influencers. They do probably want to have some reach or fresh blood, but don't want their local culture to be spread too thin like it's reddit 2.0. They are anything but cancer that I've met seeing real botfaming ops.
And, although I don't share many of their thoughts, most of the posts I see in my feed discuss common issues where we aren't that far from each other. Closer, than to maga/zionist/z-crowd. And in that context I find it alright to not draw any lines and just talk.
When things start to get overly political, well, that's a whole another thing, where different bestest solutions are incompatible, historical betrayals are dugged up and the internet infighting ensues. It's exhausting and pointless with just 2mil mostly irrelevant nerds on Fediverse. It's easier to just scroll through some amuzing takes, and instead focus on things where we can cooperate.
misleadingly doubted the existence of russian bot networks
don't get me wrong, I know these exist. I am just expressing skepticism because people on the English speaking Internet will act like every reply they don't like is a bot puppeteered by foreign intelligence.
It's just more likely to be a normal person and any state actors are probably going to be focusing on the corporate-run social media spaces
"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.
"Thank you," the KGB agent says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."
Lots of people can not stand the fact that you don't agree with them. They will accuse you of being a bot or something, rather than to accept the fact that people have different opinions on things.
The fact the comments here are so contentious is just funny. I will block as is appropriate but so far have not had to do to much of it on the fediverse. Man it needs to be reciprical though so their training is limited.
There are obviously agents from elsewhere, and some of them may be pretty effective, but it's nothing compared to Trump and Co getting money from the likes of Saudis and acting like they own the place. If the main concern is american politics, well, the real worms aren't theoretical or real foreign enemies, but corrupted fuckheads that ignore human, state rights, shutdown government, pack people from the streets to deport. No enemy could've done such damage so-called friends are doing.
The rise in right-wing nationalism has been notable across Europe, as well. It's a good guess that the Russians have been pushing that, too. The US is just ahead of the curve.
The network includes accounts impersonating reputable news outlets such as BBC News, Euronews, and Meduza, designed to give credibility to Telegram propaganda links. We believe it may be connected to the “Pravda/Portal Kombat” pro-Russia propaganda network.
Accounts are hosted across numerous Mastodon instances and bridged into Bluesky, creating the appearance of independent sources. Activity on Bluesky helped reveal aggregate patterns, identical usernames, posting schedules, and content themes more clearly than across decentralised Mastodon services.
If your first reaction was to post "posts I dislike are Russian bots", then you haven't actually grasped the argument. It has nothing to do with anyone disagreeing with specific posts.
It's also very telling that you're reflexively posting that when it says nothing about the data being presented.
I guess in a way that's what it offers, just that instead of an algorithm it's human curated. Mastodon is a lot about boosts, so following someone doesn't mean just following them, but also being subjected to whatever they boost (unless you silence their boosts of course). So if you're interested in pottery and you follow a pottery starter pack, chances are that feed will end up a curated channel of pottery content.
The great thing is that it has quality control and cannot be abused the same way algorithmic feeds always end up being. The funky thing is, of course, that you also end up being exposed to everything else those people are interested in. But I think that's part of what makes Mastodon feels so nice.
I see what you mean, but it's never worked as well for me as a simple, well designed algorithm or even bsluesky feeds, or, incidentally, lemmy communities.
I wish there was something like this for tags. So: display only posts that contain tag X, but sort them with some algorithm. Ideally: steered by number of likes and date of adding. May be even the same that is used by Lemmy.
That's what I want, it could be implemented like bluesky feeds, where you choose the tags and words you want included, and then choose what kind of ordering you want!
Congratulations, you've been included in the "Assholes" pack.
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Bluesky pioneered a brilliant solution to this “empty feed problem” in 2024, with the introduction of “Starter Packs”, a feature that allows users to curate and share their own collections of recommended accounts.
Bluesky pioneered, eh? I distinctly remember using a feature called "circles" on Google+ back in 2011. It allowed people to create arbitrary "circles" of people, share them and have others bulk-follow/unfollow the people from a circle. It worked incredibly well and Google+ became a lively social network even with its small userbase at the time.
I really don't understand the point of packs when Mastodon has hashtag follows. Mastodon is already winning in terms of discovery here and in fact I still don't use Bluesky because its impossible to discover content there.
On Bluesky you get a pack of people but in linear timelines the power spammers just take over and then you have to do all that personal curation anyway but it's often even a worse starting point than just blank slate. With hashtag following I just subscribe to #fediverse and discover new content and creators organically.
Instead I'd like to see Mastodon commit more to organic discovery rather than consolidation of power users by expanding post classification system like using AI classification that attaches topic hashtags to posts etc to help users discover content they actually want to see not follow personalities.
Какой-то сервис в тик токе переписали с го на раст и всё стало дешевле и быстрее в 2 раза 😁
Критический сервис TikTok, написанный на Go, был переписан частично на Rust для узких мест. Это дало двукратный рост производительности, снижение задержек и нагрузок на CPU и память. В итоге сервис обрабатывает в 2 раза больше запросов, что снизило инфраструктурные затраты на $300,000 в год #go #rust
What nobody likes to talk about is the amount of developer time (and therefore money) it takes to write and maintain a correct and optimized Rust program.
Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform tricks) front and center.
1 . As you could have guessed from the community this was posted in, a software that is part of the fediverse. It has various modules for different functionality. 2. Because they made a long blogpost that explains the new features that you hopefully read before commenting?
Sorry, it's just that there's a bad habit going around on Lemmy at large, of lazy copy paste posting of releases of software without any description of what the software is or why the OP thinks this release is of particular interest, or why they think we should care.
The project is very interesting. After quickly browsing their website I understand that it's a kind of a framework to build fediverse apps. It's implemented in Elixir programming language and uses Postgres as a database. Looks like they are putting a lot is emphasis on community and cooperative aspects.
The 2nd Berlin Fediverse Day is a networking event for people in the Fediverse. With talks, workshops and networking opportunities, we want to spread knowledge about the Fediverse, promote creative solutions and strengthen the exchange between developers, administrators, academia, civil society and content creators.
Speakers include, among others: Elena Rossini, Andy Piper, Evan Prodromou, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Matthias Pfefferle…
The Berlin Fediverse Day is a Fediverse conference taking place on 3-5. October 2025 at c-base Berlin with workshops and lectures for interested people, newcomers and experienced users.
So, if you're online poisoned like me, you may have noticed that Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has been having sort of a slow motion, low-key public meltdown for the past several weeks. Most recently, in this interaction with a user. […] Even with practical technical decentralization, the vast majority of Bluesky users are on, well, Bluesky. Bluesky was never really packaged as something that was relatively easy for someone to spin up on their own servers; the network has been historically extremely centralized, and only small minorities of users have broken off.
AT Proto decentralization doesn't exist as a practical reality, and if it ever does it won't be for years. Most of the work driving effective decentralization is being done by third parties, who have limited guarantees about future compatibility with possible breaking changes on Bluesky's end.
Bluesky inc isn't really making 'a protocol', they're making Bluesky, the monolithic (to within a rounding error) social network that they operate.
I do genuinely believe that the Bluesky team set off from the start to create a decentralized protocol, but unfortunately for them they ended up running a social network. And at this point, AT Proto has become essentially a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform.
This is, of course, just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without accountability. The tech industry elite are very much like Gilded Age railroad barons – buying up whole towns, breaking up strikes, imposing top-down economic policy on whole sectors – except all the while they claim that they are just technology enthusiasts playing with their little trains.
Bluesky is of course just another American social media company. If they are not shit now, they will be once they get bigger. The American model has reached a dead end and it's not suitable for good products, competition and real innovation.
Side note, it's been a while since I've lived in the US, so my knowledge of local "culture wars" is from online sources, but the article is incorrect in claiming that Jesse Singal is a transphobe. I say this as someone who often disagrees with him.
I will add that many of the commentators in his substack are unhinged and likely transphobes.
Legal scholar John Inazu characterized the backlash as "widespread outrage from progressive commentators" and that in some criticisms, "ad hominem attacks far outpaced their substantive critiques".[13]
US americans are largely the same, be it trumpers or self styled liberals, they always have to be "better than" or "the best" of something. This leads to dangerous orthodoxies that don't allow debate or discussion which furter leads to stances that are nothing but distilled anti-intellectualism. The trumpers call everything woke, the liberals call everything phobe. Meanwhile the overton window has moved so far to the right, the country elected a pedophile scam artist as president because they know him from TV and the rest of the world is left holding the bag.
There is a bunch of normalized transphobia in America. That certain views are shared by elected politicians doesn't make them not transphobic.
"Trans allies aren't even bothering to debate this white guy, they're just calling him names" isn't proof of anything more than the frustration of said allies. It's essentially the same thing as "Trump derangement syndrome".
If we want to argue that someone is or isn't transphobic, it would be a better use of everyone's time to focus on what they actually said and what justifications their critics give for applying that label.
IMHO, the US has bigger fish to fry than transphobia, it's ridiculous it has so much air time in the anglosphere in the face of the much more relevant inequality and destruction of association rights. The neonazis set up the bait and the idiots gobble it up, hook line and sinker.
Are you telling trans people that the unequal treatment they face isn't relevant? It's all part of the same pattern of restricting rights. It's a bit like saying, "never mind all that about the Jews, let's focus on the Nazis."
Everyone who questions your orthodoxy is a nazi, got it. That type of reasoning has worked wonderfully for everyone and resulted in better government and standards of living for all trans people. Wonderful job you've done protecting trans people in your country, the results really show.
And they use the threat of trans people getting government healthcare as a way to stop socialized medicine. They also use racism this way, and sexism, and homophobia, and xenophobia, and other reactionary ideologies. These things are directly connected, we can't really ignore one to focus on the other.
Besides, we need to form a mass movement, and you can't form a mass movement by telling minorities to shut up and wait their turn.
Also I might lose my healthcare in the next few months. It's kind of fucking urgent?
This is complicated by the fact that the English speaking world isn't safe, or won't be for long. The UK is having its own wave of transphobic reaction which has spread to Ireland, Canada is being threatened with a trade war and being the 51st state, Australia got couped that one time by the CIA, and New Zealand is a hard place to get into since it's basically the bunker nation for billionaires since COVID.
I might apply for asylum outside the English speaking world but that's extremely challenging in lots of other ways. I'm cramming language lessons atm to give myself a chance if I am forced to flee, but it's dire.
By "association rights" I infer that you mean the right of free association.
If so, can you be a little bit more specific as to whose "association rights", specifically, are a more important issue than the right of trans folk to get healthcare, be free from discrimination, and be able to play sports without being harassed?
My inclination is that the most important targets to defend against facist oppression are the ones being targeted, which does suggest one plausible answer, but I really do want to know what you meant in your post.
IMHO, the US has bigger fish to fry than transphobia
Yes. That's why the politicians keep talking about trans people. They are explicitly stirring up transphopbia as a simultaneous distraction and unification tool
he liberals call everything phobe.
Literally the only reason you're even talking about this yourself is because of the neonazis. You're literally doing their work, whilst somehow thinking you're immune to it...
It‘s perhaps worth noting that the first people the Nazis came for was LGBTQ people. If you‘ve seen photos of Nazi book-burnings, there‘s a high percentage chance that what you‘ve seen is the first book-burning, because the vast majority of photos are from one event. The books being burnt at that event was research from an organisation called Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (the Institute of Sexual Science), which was founded by a gay activist and focused mainly on LGBTQ research and care - including gender-affirming surgery. The Nazis very deliberately tried to wipe out this research and acknowledgement that trans people existed.
If you don‘t care about the current attacks on trans people in and of itself, it should trouble you as a canary in a coal mine. The famous poem‘s first line should be „first they came for the trans people“, rather than „first they came for the Socialists“. Don‘t do the „and I did nothing because I wasn‘t trans“ thing.
It all matters, even if your concern is purely for yourself.
Funny you'd mention that adage because the people getting sent to concentration camps are hispanics by ICEsatsgruppe. Leave it to amis to grandstand while missing the point...
I strongly disagree. Even the section on his articles about trans kids shows that Singal is able to show a measure of nuance and understanding with respect to the critiques of his work.
Not to mention the more global context. Are you sure that non-english speaking trans folks would have the same attitude (i.e. they may have their own opinions and priorities)? The reason I mention this is that I have some exposure to the local LGBT community and their attitudes don't always align with "Western" expectations.
I can see how the AT protocol is designed to scale. ActivityPub works fine now because the community is fairly small, but it will reach its limits as it is currently designed. Its basically an event driven model vs a push and pull model. Sure a docker image can more or less jusy be deployed, but that simplicity is a ticking time bomb.
Running a relay is way more powerful than the author states though. You could do stuff like selectivly intercept and reject events before they make it into or out of the firehose.
ActivityPub works fine now because the community is fairly small, but it will reach its limits as it is currently designed. Its basically an event driven model vs a push and pull model. Sure a docker image can more or less jusy be deployed, but that simplicity is a ticking time bomb.
You mean that when there's more traffic, the instances will start to DDOS each other?
Yeah i guess you could look at it that way. Each instance would have to scale horizontally to handle the load, which is waste.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that ActivityPub is just a rest api contract that one can implement in order to communicate with the rest of the "network". Its simple, but its such massive overhead to do this all via http. Pushing all your instances events to a dedicated stream and letting the other instnaces read it can be more performant and handle the load better. The downside though is who controls the streams?
IRC is the OG of federation, i am sure we could learn something from it and have federated networks that are in turn federated with eachother. I dunno, just thinking out loud here.
As far as I understand one could split a fediverse instance into three parts: data, backend and UI. The data is not shared 1to1 - each instance gets a copy of the activity and from that creates it's own copy. Hence the same post on different instances will have different id The problem we are speaking about is the capability of the backend to process incoming copies. Meaning, I also understand that the part that serves the local data to UI should not be the problem
What if there was a queue at the front and from the backend a scalable ingestion worker would be split off? Those would only do the putting the actions onto the data. Probably with per community(?) FIFO topics/partitions, so we can process data in parallel and not worry about an updoot for a post that does not exist yet
Those would still be fairly easy to deploy and be vertically scalable, right? Or is there some bottleneck in the protocol itself?
So lets say there are 100 instances. My instance needs to issue api requests to each instance to sync with the network. They in turn need to issues 100 requests to me to sync (and eachother). What about when there are 100k instances? Its exponential.
From the looks of AT, its farily linear because its really just operating on a set of giant event streams (like kafka).
To me, ActivityPub being based on REST APIs was always a problem. On the upside it makes it approachable, but its not really the right tech imo. Use something without the overhead of http headers and whatnot.
Yes eventually, just like the instances do once enough users are hitting it. Its a matter of how much all servers in the network need to scale, but also the nature of the protocol itself. Streaming binary data is more performant than individual http api requests for instance. Event streams are the way to go un a decentrliazed network for sure.
I suppose technically someone could implement streaming using AP payloads. So long as the format of the payloads are the same they could translate. It would be a different thing though without the pull part of it
So lets say there are 100 instances. My instance needs to issue api requests to each instance to sync with the network. They in turn need to issues 100 requests to me to sync (and eachother). What about when there are 100k instances? Its exponential.
This falsely assumes that everything gets federated to everyone, which isn't the case for ActivityPub. You only get what you actually subscribe to with it.
i ddos my wordpress-activitypub-enabled website every time i boost a post made from there to my 10k followers. tried every single caching plugin for it as well.
OP would have to have their wordpress site running on multiple instances to leverage that. It would work, but now they are paying for more infrastructure.
ActivityPub is designed to scale well for millions of users with a low number of subscribers each (Dunbars number and so on). It is not designed as a mass media publishing tool where a few have tens of thousands or even millions of followers.
I consider this a feature, but feel free to disagree.
This depends on what you think the purpose of ActivityPub is and subsequently the type of scale. ActivityPub is designed for horizontal scale in a "social network". If you have lots of participating entities with a more or less similar number of interconnected subscriptions ActivityPub scales extremely well, unlike ATProto, which needs to more or less ingest the entire network in its firehose.
But you are right that ATProto is better designed for "social media", meaning that most subscriptions are one sided affairs with highly visible "influencers" being the main point around which the network operates. Obviously this is what most commercial networks are more interested in as it allows profitable advertisement and other forms of social influence.
I see these two types as entirely different forms of social interaction, and couldn't care less about the latter. So I am not worried at all about scaling issues of ActivityPub, as it scales extremely well in the "social network" type of interaction.
I like this take, but I wonder if there's eventually a combinatoric problem with having hundreds of thousands of small instances, each with thousands of connection to other instances? I have no idea how that relates to the network/computational constraints..
Modern webservers don't have a problem serving thousands of requests as long as they are spaced out a bit timewise. And since each AP instance only sees and interacts with a small part of the overall network it should not become an issue to expand the network horizontally. It is anyways probably better to think of interconected archipelagos and not of a singular network in the case of ActivityPub.
Is that really true though? Say we end up with 10k servers with 100-1000 users each, even if only 10% of those users have a connection to a server that no one rose on their server is connected to, that's still a highly connected network.
Then add boosts from other servers (that incentivise cross-network follows)...
I don't believe that's true.. It currently has around 9k servers, but I think the vast majority of those will have less than 10 users.
Anyway, there's currently about 1m active users, so the real question is will it scale by 3 orders of magnitude? And my point being that I'd expect the network to become more connected as it scales (at least for the main archipelago, which is probably always going to house a majority of users).
MAU is a very incomplete measure of active users as by far the most users lurk and post very little.
In total numbers Mastodon has about 10m users and only 30% of those are on mastodon.social, the rest is distributed on the 9k other instances. That's pretty close to the scenario you stated.
An instance does not interact with all other instances. It only syncs with other instances when users follow someone there, join a community, ...
But that's also a problem. It means you can't search the entire Fediverse from a particular instance and find new and interesting discussions and people. There is no discovery feed. For that, you need something like Bluesky's relay. That relay actually does keep up with what everyone is posting and archives it.
But that's one aspect of Bluesky that draws a lot of criticism by Fedi people. A full relay is expensive to run and not something anyone can self-host. Pruned down versions are doable, though. If everyone actually did run their own relay, then one would get you the combinatorial problem.
In practice, large instances are the Fediverse solution to the discovery problem. You can see what the many users on that instance post. Also, the many users subscribe to many things and so a large instance will cache much content from elsewhere. That architecture encourages centralization.
There's other difficult issues. So you have a little server that serves your content to a few followers. Some celebrity with millions of followers would have to rent an entire server rack. But what if little old you interacts with a celeb and now all their followers try to fetch your content from your little server? Common problem. You just need caching. EG the celebrity rack also serves your content to their followers and takes the load off your server. But now whoever is doing the caching can also filter replies. There's no simply solution there.
They recommend people other american centralized social media as an alternative to Bluesky in response to this, yet again. When are they going to learn?
I feel like many people who went to Bluesky were desperate for it to work and grow, rather than necessarily believing it would work and grow and in some cases - weren't even people who the Twitter style even appealed to. They just went there to try and do a bit of damage to Twitter. This is likely why its now slowly losing activity.
I signed up to Bluesky not too long after it surged. And I made a few comments, but quickly just... didn't have anything say. It's just a "shout into the ether" site like Twitter - but smaller, and no nazis. That's a good thing in itself, but in an ideal world I would never really use it.
This sucks. Hopefully this will push ppl to sign up to mastadon or to other atproto instances and move away from the main bluesky acct.
For anybody looking for mastadon instance i recommend mas.to and for an atproto alternative, I've been on blacksky.community instance for a few weeks now and I rly enjoy it
Unfalsifiable conjecture. Contradicts everything the people involved say themselves. Including transparently good actors like some of the board members.
Assumes bad faith, basically. Which ironically is one of the founding ills of social media.
This does raise a question relevant to the Fediverse. Some Bluesky users are lobbying to have Jesse Singal banned, whoever that is. Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.
Once people find out what decentralization means, are they even willing to tolerate it?
If you're the kind of person who wants a particular person banned, you probably want to be on the kind of instance that would ban them, and then from your perspective, they'd be banned, so you'd never have to see their posts. It still being possible to interact with them from other instances isn't any more of a big deal than it being possible to interact with them on an entirely different website after they're banned from regular social media - no one can ban someone from the whole Internet.
Yes. On Bluesky, they could be individually muted or blocked. You can make and share blocklists, make your own custom feeds that exclude such posters, or even create your own moderation service that removes (or blurs, ...) posts for your subscribers. Obviously, that is not satisfactory for some people.
Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.
What, you can absolutely ban people on a decentralised network. You may not be able to expunge someone from a part of the network they control themselves, but you can expunge them from the part you control. Bluesky has this power and has used it in the past.
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Jessie Gender's account on Bluesky suspended seemingly because she said "I also wish ill will to JK Rowling" https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zy7ifa3dmd46dcrbjkgkg2xz/post/3lwiszke4bk2x
Yes, but that doesn't seem sufficient for some. Conservatives certainly would like to remove trans people from the public completely. Aside: It's foolish for trans people to copy these tactics, assuming this comes organically from the trans community. These people are certainly acting like the heels in some right-wing propaganda play.
Bluesky offers several ways in which users can remove unwanted content from their experience. Easiest is for users to block Singal; banning him from their personal part of the network. Blocklists can be shared easily. Users can also spin up their own moderation service.
I probably shouldn't go into the details of what Bluesky can do on a technical level. Incidentally, that blog post contains errors.
In short: On a technical level, the Bluesky company can greatly reduce the visibility of someone. But they would likely run into legal problems if they used that on Singal. The EU regulates what can be done quite strictly. Maybe they could benefit from some industry friendly "loopholes". I'd have to look that up.
Questo fotogramma da "Altered States" (Ken Russell, 1980 - un po' tanto un filmaccio, ma con delle intuizioni visive notevolissime secondo me) riassume mi pare perfettamente il pensiero di René Girard sul meccanismo sacrificale, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A… (in particolare quello della vittima - di solito una persona diversa dalla maggioranza, emarginata o solitaria, senza legami forti con nessun*, e che perciò non sarà vendicata - vista da tutt* come demone prima del tutti-contro-uno catartico, e come divinità dopo, siccome la sua uccisione riportava la pace nella comunità in cui avveniva). Qui ho scritto come la vedo io anche rispetto a questo argomento che per me resta centrale: bu.noblogs.org/come/
Quando si considera qualsiasi conflitto, frizione, attrito, che sia passato o in divenire, tra due o più esseri umani, o tra due o più gruppi di esseri umani, quanto più indietro si va a cercarne “colpe” o responsabilità, tanto più difficile e poi im…
Trickster
в ответ на Paradox • • •А как же Mozilla VPN? Он вроде бы даже не заброшен. Но стоит денег.
Да и если его выпустят, то скорее всего для РФ не будет доступно.
open-source virtual private network service by Mozilla
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Paradox
в ответ на Trickster • • •в статье про это говорится. кстати
Trickster
в ответ на Paradox • • •Paradox
в ответ на Trickster • • •@kttrickster А что толку от бесплатного плана, если я не могу установить? Браузеры есть у всех и для всех платформ, даже на BSD работают, наверно.
В том же Brave у меня не открывалась страница прямо в самом браузере, то есть подключиться я не мог и так.
Это напоминает прокси по типу Censor Tracker и прочих бесплатных расширений, которые тебе дают возможность открыть сайт под ограничениями доступа. Это ж не для всей системы по типу Nekoray(box)
Шуро
в ответ на Paradox • • •Vad fan? 🇷🇺
в ответ на Шуро • • •Wandering Thinker (Sharkey) нравится это.
Шуро
в ответ на Vad fan? 🇷🇺 • • •@Vad fan? 🇷🇺 100% так и будет.
Ещё и головную инфраструктуру положат, даже если она отдельно.
@Paradox
Wandering Thinker (Sharkey) нравится это.
OfShad0ws
в ответ на Шуро • • •@shuro
как там яндекс поживает, скоро заблокируют?
mirror.yandex.ru/debian/pool/m…
Index of /debian/pool/main/t/tor/
mirror.yandex.ruШуро
в ответ на OfShad0ws • • •@OfShad0ws не удивлюсь, если.
Кстати, урлы заблокировать несложно, а вот пользователей зеркал это будет весьма и внезапно радовать.
@Paradox
Paradox
в ответ на OfShad0ws • • •@OfShad0ws
Скорее всего, там не только ТОР, но и прочие проколюхи для обхода ограничений, оно как было там, так и будет. В ГНУ системах всё ставится с пол пинка, но мы — слишком маленькая аудитория, что б кто-то обращал внимание и шерстил все пакеты
@shuro
Шуро
в ответ на Paradox • • •@Paradox просто пока не донесли.
Ну и ещё нюанс в том, что в большинстве пакетов только клиентская часть (ну или и серверная, но лишь само ПО), т.е. самих сервисов там нет.
При этом, на моём провайдере Тор тот же побанен просто наглухо. Ничего не работает, кроме частных скрытых мостов.
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Artificial Stupidity
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