babadookspinoza, 1 month ago to random

The ruling class is going to do everything they can to increase their control over what people can see on the Internet. The support for Palestine took them by surprise and they are in panic mode over the possibilities that exist online for the sharing of information and experiences across borders, the extension of solidarity between oppressed peoples everywhere.

eff, 1 month ago to random

"I have a hard time believing that YouTube would be unable to keep business afloat without the revenue generated by behavioral-tracking advertisements,” EFF’s Daly Barnett told @theregister. “It’s a lazy and deliberately malicious move on their part."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/youtube_ad_blocking/

lydiaschoch, 1 month ago to hiring

I recently discovered Chronically Capable, a job board for people with disabilities or chronic illnesses: https://www.wearecapable.org

It’s mostly U.S. based for now, but there are ads for other countries, too. I want every one of us jobseekers to find the perfect position this year. 😊

Boosts are warmly welcomed to this post as are suggestions for other hashtags to include if I’m missing good ones.

#FediHired
#GetFediHired
#RemoteWork
#Hiring
#JobSearch

TheConversationUS, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Israel

Will #Israel and #Iran now escalate into full-scale warfare, or will they return to the "shadow war" they've been fighting for decades?

An expert on U.S. national security and counterterrorism who served on the National Intelligence Council says there's reason to believe Iran will be wary of making additional public attacks
https://theconversation.com/shadow-war-no-more-hostilities-between-israel-and-iran-have-strayed-into-direct-warfare-is-there-any-going-back-227877
#News #BreakingNews

TheConversationUS, 1 month ago to mentalhealth

Research has shown that flexibility, security and autonomy in the workplace are strong determinants of health.

And new research shows that employees who don’t have control over their work schedule take a serious #mentalhealth hit.

Why employers should care, besides just being good employers:
When workers aren’t feeling well mentally, they’re less productive and more likely to miss work. Their creativity, collaboration and ability to meet job demands also suffer.
https://theconversation.com/not-having-job-flexibility-or-security-can-leave-workers-feeling-depressed-anxious-and-hopeless-222364

Rastal, 1 month ago to Palestine

#palestine #israel #media #news

But do you condemn Hamas?

nicol, 1 month ago to Israel

'“I asked the nurse, what’s the history? She said that they were brought in a couple of hours ago. They had sniper shots to the brain. They were seven or eight years old,” she said…

Children account for more than one in three of the more than 32,000 people killed in #Israel’s months-long assault on #Gaza.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war

oracle, 2 months ago to random

does anyone have any good tools for converting FLAC to AAC that are (a) free and (b) not just ffmpeg under the hood? we wanna convert our FLAC library to AAC so we can sync it to our iPod but ffmpeg’s files have weird skipping issues (this is documented) so we can’t use it

eff, 2 months ago to random

While responding to a ShotSpotter alert, a Chicago police officer opened fire on an unarmed child in his backyard lighting fireworks. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/responding-shotspotter-police-shoot-child-lighting-fireworks

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

You’ll have to find the video, it was great.

But damn, he left out the part where Trump ID’d E Jean Carroll as Marla Maples.

Rupar:

Oof -- Nadler put together a brutal supercut of Trump gaffing and shorting out

#Hur #Biden.

abartlet, 2 months ago to cycling

I had the pleasure of meeting Jade as she gave her pitch for this crowdfunder at Cycle Wellington:
A motor assisted trailer for moving building supplies for building jobs around hilly Wellington https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511145/repair-collective-getting-creative-with-transport-in-hilly-wellington

Aiming to prove that even building work doesn't need a van on site, against the theme that some things by definition need a car.

On a similar theme I recently met a disability support worker who takes on inner urburn clients by e-bike to avoid parking.

#biketooter #cycling

w7voa, 2 months ago to random

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will host Israeli Minister Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, for a bilateral meeting today in the Pentagon, according to DoD.

_L1vY_, 2 months ago to random

Via The Moth
9:26 PM · Mar 4, 2024

"Probably a good time to point out that this is one of the worst periods of wealth disparity in the history of humanity."

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This ⬆️ is why billionaires are fcking up social media platforms and journalism.

The internet is the equalizer where we compared notes and learned the rich have feet of clay, they're not hard-working geniuses who just deserve more than the rest of us.

Ten, 2 months ago to trans

To the other #trans people across the Fediverse:

What piece of fashion advice would you recommend to someone who recently started their transition?

Please boost for visibility!

#Transgender

EuromaidanPress, 2 months ago to Russia

18-year-old #Darya_Kozyreva imprisoned, facing 5-year sentence, for #Shevchenko poem on anniversary of #Russia full-scale invasion of #Ukraine
#LetMyPeopleGo #StandWithUkraine #StopRussia #Oleg_Orlov

https://khpg.org/en/1608813454

mibwright, 3 months ago to random

I lost sleep last night to #TheBezzle by @pluralistic, a book about the ruination of prisons by private equity.

My brother went to jail in 2023. For dinner, two slices of bread, a slice of ham. My parents were paying $600/mo for video calls to his "free" tablet. I couldn't mail him a book, but had to have it sent by Amazon. Worse, the GED program was in practice non-existent.

I'm teary-eyed and grateful that Doctorow wrote a (great) story about the sleaze of these management companies.

jackyan, 3 months ago to random

A friend called the closure of #Newshub last year—looks like he was right. In fact, he wasn’t even sure if there still will be a #TV3 come the end of the year.

doomyflo, 3 months ago to crochet French

Plus que 2 jours avant le week-end!!!!
#parodie #lecri #EdvardMunch #crochet #slipper #lol #humour

darkcisum, 3 months ago to machinelearning

I finally understand how Machine Learning works!

https://xkcd.com/1838/

#machinelearning #ml #xkcd

evacide, 3 months ago to random

Signal has finally introduced usernames so you can use it without giving out your phone number. This is the number one feature I have seen prevent people from using Signal for many years and I’m happy it’s here!

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

heidilifeldman, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

I’m reading Judge Engoron’s opinion. Sharing some of my reactions in real time. So far, the best line of the opinion: “The Trump Organization keeps Weisselberg on a short leash, and it shows.” 1/

paspro, 3 months ago to Stoicism

#cooperation #peace

ErikUden, 3 months ago (edited 1 month 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

polotek, 3 months ago to random

Somehow found myself arguing with someone who talks about "the fediverse" like it is a) a singular thing and b) a separate thing from bluesky. It helped remind me of a fundamental truth about talking to people who are mad on the internet. What they're mad about is entirely uncorrelated with how well they understand the issues. Anger is an emotion. So is fear.