mapto, 6 days ago to bulgariaeu Bulgarian

Euractive днес пишат за увеличаващото се влияние на Източна Европа в управлението на ЕС. За съжаление след десетилетия власт на тримата дебелаци Борисов-Пеевски-Цацаров, България напълно липсва от това управление, но и от Фонда за възстановяване и развитие.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/podcast/eu-elections-the-influence-of-eastern-europe-on-brussels-politics

@bulgariaeu

mapto, 9 days ago to bulgariaeu Bulgarian

Аз работих за Машината

Едно изследване на активист над най-голямата мрежа от сайтове за дезинформация, които оперират в България. Изследването е оставено с отворен край, но и самата история продължава да бъде писана и да съсипва обществото ни.

https://dnevnik.bg/4624264

@bulgariaeu

mapto, 11 days ago to random Bulgarian

Като част от инициативата за подпомагане на българската общност във федисферата (федиверса), имам намерение да проведа серия от анкети. Все още се опитвам да формулирам полезни теми и въпроси, но тук ще направя един първи опит. Мисля, че ако ви интересува българоезичната общност тук, ще ви бъдат полезни. Вижте въпросите в дискусията под този пост #bgpoll

@bulgaria

mapto, 13 days ago to bulgariaeu Bulgarian

Николай Денков: Геополитическото значение на България за Русия нараства

Ако бяхме в опозиция, щяхме да продължим със служебни правителства без парламентарен контрол. Те взимат важни решения като договора на служебното правителство с турската компания BOTAS. Той съдържа много изгодни условия за турската страна и много задължения за българската, с 13-годишен неотменим период, който ни задължава да плащаме по 150 млн. евро годишно, дори и да не използваме газ

https://www.mediapool.bg/nikolai-denkov-pred-el-periodico-geopoliticheskoto-znachenie-na-bulgaria-za-rusiya-narastva-tova-e-opasno-news358849.html

@bulgariaeu

mapto, 13 days ago to Ukraine

The NYT informs Russia about foreign aid deliveries

The @nytimes has published sensitive tactical details about the US arms deliveries to #Ukraine which leads to very specific risks of Russia intercepting these deliveries. Is this necessary? I don't think so.

https://www.dialog.ua/war/294421_1714936204

@ukraine

mapto, 20 days ago to random

Against Europe’s largest gas project and a major threat to the fragile Black Sea ecosystem

Whereas this particular event has passed, there is still hope and the campaign continues.

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/66063/breaking-activists-protest-europes-largest-gas-project-outside-omv-petrom-headquarters-in-romania/

@blacksea

BrentToderian, 28 days ago to random

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10%, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Via @WIRED https://t.co/mZbJ0vNhsH
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/

noelreports, 1 month ago to random

Germany updated their list with aid supplied to Ukraine.

It includes:

➡️1 All Terrain Tracked Carrier Warthog
➡️6000 155-mm shells
➡️16 reconnaissance drones VECTOR with spare parts
➡️30 reconnaissance drones RQ-35 HEIDRUN
➡️30 frequency range extensions for anti-drone devices
➡️2 mine clearing tanks WISENT 1 with spare parts
➡️11 mobile, remote controlled and protected mine clearing systems
➡️24 outboard motors
➡️1 million rounds of ammunition for small arms

And more

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/military-support-ukraine-2054992

thelinuxEXP, 1 month ago to random

Hey everyone!

I'm working on a video to see what the Linux community (or at least people who follow me) actually use.

So, I created a little form, hosted on my Nextcloud (hopefully it's up to the task...)

It's only up for 2 days, so don't hesitate to share it around, it will help me "touch grass" and see if my preconceived notions are confirmed, or invalidated!

https://nextcloud.thelinuxexp.com/index.php/apps/forms/s/XQRzMrs8QTtCjDfSyP4koA9o

Of course, it's all anonymous, no personal data, it's just for the purposes of creating the video.

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to Arizona

🤦🏻‍♀️ "#Arizona Senate Passes Bill Preventing Presidents From Ballot Removal Under #14thAmendment

As states eagerly await the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on if #Trump should be allowed on the ballot for supporting an insurrection, Arizona Republicans took the first step on Monday to ensure Trump won’t be removed from their state’s ballot"

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/arizona-senate-passes-bill-preventing-presidents-from-ballot-removal-under-14th-amendment/

grimalkina, 2 months ago to random

We have measured something researchers call beliefs about "role-based communal affordances" in my lab or in other words: how much do software developers think that the job of being a software developer includes helping other people and improving their lives? And the answer is A LOT of professional developers think this is important and see this as part of their identity.

People's beliefs about the communal affordances of software work is an undermeasured, underappreciated important thing imo.

ErikUden, 3 months ago (edited 27 days ago) to random

To all Fedi Admins Currently Being hit with a Spam Wave:

This kind of spam is now over! Unmute all the instances no longer on my list!

I've just released v4.0.0 of The UNmute List! I'd be very happy about a small donation because I have very little time and I cannot really justify working on this list with my current schedule :mycomputer:​

There is a new type of spam, the same instances are affected as before. Those responsible in Japan are said to have been arrested.

Without further ado...

Limit these instances:

[Full List of Affected Instances Here]

Just get the list to download and import here.

Simply import this list and you'll mute the 47 worst spam instances currently known to me! I've worked on it for multiple weeks, sometimes ~9 hours at a time verifying all lists sent to me manually.

Limit first, defederate only in worst situations!

Consider re-federating with and un-silencing any of the mentioned instances once the spam is mitigated. The admins of some of these may have just been asleep when this all started.

Ban Spam Accounts via their E-Mail Domain

Block the following E-Mail Domain and whatever temp Mail provider it resolves to: chitthi.in

Just to be safe, block these ones too (same provider)

• mailto.plus
• fexpost.com
• fexbox.org
• mailbox.in.ua
• any.pink

All our spam accounts came from these E-mails.

Since you probably have some of these accounts sleeping:

https://[your-instance.tld]/admin/accounts?email=%25%40chitthi.in there just select all and press “Ban”.

Find Remaining Spammers

I've seen instances that fixed the spam issue but began being hit later again. The spammers might use new E-Mails, so here is a way to find and block them anyway:

https://mamot.fr/@vincib/111946701929274350

IP Bans and TOR

These spammers seem to be using the TOR Network as all of their IPs are TOR Exit Node IPs, hence an idea (with some collateral damage if executed) would be to ban all TOR exit node IPs for sign ups. I am personally against this idea as you'd also prevent users who simply wish to stay anonymous online (political refugees, leakers of important documents, etc.) from using your platform. For now, simply banning every user using a particular Spammer IP will not help and will merely ban users that try to stay anonymous! Not necessarily the spammers.

How To Block All Temp E-Mails in the Future

If you want to prevent this from ever happening again, you should block E-Mails from Temporary Mail providers all together:

• Here is the list of all Temp email providers (there are both blocklist and allowlist)
• Here how to install it in Mastodon
• The script that automatically pulls the list via Cronjob and imports it into Mastodon
• Script template

Because of this, hessen.social, for example, was not affected by the spam attack! They had already banned the email domain the spammers used ages ago.

In future updates on Mastodon, maybe Admins can simply click a button that says “Ban Temp E-Mail Providers” Automagically from the E-Mail Menu? There could be E-Mail categories that can be banned, such as temporary mails.

Why did this happen?

The real reason hundreds of us spent hours of our days during the spam on mitigating it is the following:

Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer

This is the full exposé @cappy has been working on regarding the February 15th Spam Attacks!

Thank you @BrodieOnLinux for mentioning this post in a video!

Good luck, everyone!
Thanks for participating in the Fediverse Experiment!

#FediBlock #FediAdmin

mapto, 3 months ago to random Bulgarian

Британската BBC съобщава, че техния експеримент с мастодон досега е обещаващ и се задълбочава в следващите 6 месеца.
https://social.bbc/@BBCRD

bogo, 4 months ago to random

I plan to do something crazy this month. It's related to #mozilla and #thunderbird, of course :) See my second Mozilla sprint goals.

https://dev.to/bogomil/my-mozilla-sprint-2-1gic