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Mastodon's Inherent Resilience

Another aspect of this #Bluesky crash that deserves attention is resilience and defensibility.

One of the key characteristics about the design of the internet all the way back to it's DARPA inception is an ability to withstand local service disruptions as well as attacks on its infrastructure.

Mastodon's ActivityPub architecture is like that. It was designed from the start to be resilient with individual nodes on the network isolated and completely independent.

#bluesky
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The midterms are approaching. Perhaps the most consequential election in US history. Right now opposition media voices are corralled on #Bluesky, and today they are silenced.

This may be a technical matter, but it also exposes that the entire network can be taken down. There is good reason to distrust their VC crypto owners, but they are also clearly vulnerable to outside interference.

At the very least, media should establish Mastodon accounts on the public social media Fediverse as a backup.

#bluesky

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Another reason to hate #Apple We're seeing more 2018+ MacBook Pro/Air donations — but Apple's T2 chip means even after iCloud sign-out and reset, the firmware stays locked to the original account.

Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(

I've upcycled ~1,000 older Macs, but T2 era machines will end that. It's controlling, creates e-waste, and will only get worse. #righttorepair matters — Apple couldn't care less.

#apple #RightToRepair
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The #BlueSkyOutage is why I still rely on and prefer Mastodon for my social media. I'm on Bluesky, but giving all control to one company is not what I want again. There is always a chance an instance goes down, but not the whole #Fediverse.

#bluesky

#fediverse #bluesky #blueskyoutage

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Wanted to check on Bluesky this morning, but it ended up being another potential time to point and laugh at AI vibe coding. And here the last disruption wasn't even two weeks ago.

The downtime message almost successfully tricked me into thinking there were issues on MY end, so they really do need their own Fail Whale. A Fail Butterfly, maybe?

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One of my favorite headlines ever

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Trump administration agrees to keep flying rainbow Pride flag at New York’s Stonewall monument

The decision came as the administration seeks to settle a lawsuit filed by LGBTQ and historic preservation groups that had sought to block the removal.
The Associated Press (NBC News)

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New Parliamentary session in Canada and the new leader of the NDP is getting down to business calling on the Government to ban surveillance pricing before it has a chance to take hold.

MP Leah Ghazan will be tabling a motion in the House, but it will take government to step up and sponsor a bill to make it illegal, particularly if after today they are working with a majority parliament.

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Food #Affordability #NDP #Canada #SurveillancePricing

#food #canada #cdnpoli #canpoli #ndp #affordability #surveillancepricing

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If the Pope is now considered part of the radical left, I think we need to look at just how far the overton window has moved.
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The AI Great Leap Forward

Similar to the #Chinese Great Leap Forward's inflated grain production reports, companies are fabricating or exaggerating #AI adoption and productivity gains to please leadership, leading to increased investment based on made up numbers. The focus seem to have shifted from genuine AI development to "demoware" – impressive-looking prototypes and interfaces with little underlying validation, data infrastructure, or maintenance plans, creating future tech debt.

[…] Entire departments are stitching together n8n workflows and calling it AI — dozens of automated chains firing prompts into models, zero evaluation on any of them. These tools are merchants of complexity: they sell visual simplicity while generating spaghetti underneath. A drag-and-drop canvas makes it trivially easy to chain ten LLM calls together and impossibly hard to debug why the eighth one hallucinates on Tuesdays. The people building these workflows have never designed an evaluation pipeline, never measured model drift, never A/B tested a prompt. They don’t need to — the canvas looks clean, the arrows point forward, the green checkmarks fire. The complexity isn’t avoided. It’s hidden behind a GUI where nobody with ML expertise will ever look.

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#ai #aihype #theaicon #n8n

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
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#ai #theaicon #chinese #aihype #n8n
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This is key to political understanding: austerity causes a rise in support for the far right. BTW, austerity is *not over*, unless you accept the meaningless official definition. A meaningful definition is "a decline in public services caused by a shortfall in funding". catherinedevries.eu/NHS.pdf

catherinedevries.eu/NHS.pdf

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GhostOnTheHalfShell

The irony.

Everyone should understand that at the national level, for a currency sovereign, that would be the United States and the UK, a shortfall in funding is deliberate.

Money goes to the super rich by means of direct payments and privatized public services and economic consolidation which is hardly ever taxed, and the few pennies that go to the rest of the population are taxed, destroying their wealth, but not that of the rich

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Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.

That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline…

A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines

The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
words.filippo.io
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Edwin Török

I still think hybrid is the way to go. PQ crypto algorithms and their implementations are still very new, with undiscovered flaws. If you use hybrid and PQ is broken by a bug or flaw, no problem, you still have the same protection or better than the classical one.
Even when quantum computers exist you'd have to break both the classical one (with a quantum computer) and the PQ one (with an implementation flaw, or mathematical breakthrough).
If you deploy only PQ and a flaw is found you are *worse* than classical, depending on how bad the flaw is you might not be much better from transmitting in plain text.

IOW a PQ crypto algoritm protects against an attack from a machine which doesn't yet exist. Deploying it standalone makes you vulnerable against a bug that doesn't yet exist. *But* we've seen a steady stream of bugs in OpenSSL, and it is very likely that there will be one in the PQ implementation too.
I think it is more likely that such a bug is discovered before a quantum computer is built that is capable of a practical attack.

For example there could be side channel attacks if you forget to implement protections similar to RSA blinding (constant time CPU instructions are not side-channel free, see latest Hertzbleed attack from 2025 about remote power analysis leaks). And there probably plenty of other "classical" attacks that will work on PQ algorithms too, since they execute on a classical computer...

Of course implementation flaws in a classical+PQ hybrid could be worse off than just classical too (e.g. some C memory bug), but that might be an acceptable risk.

I'm not sure what the best ordering for a hybrid would be, but I guess PQ encryption first, then classical? So you always have to break the classical first (which won't be instant, even with quantum computers).

There is of course a performance cost, but AFAICT encryption isn't really the bottleneck in TLS, from some testing with 'curl' and 'stunnel' they achieve much lower speeds than what 'openssl speed' reports, so increasing encryption time may not affect overall time that much.

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Russian Navy frigate Admiral Grigorovich escorts sanctioned oil tankers through the English Channel, accompanying vessels linked to Russia’s shadow fleet. The move signals direct defiance of UK plans to intercept sanctioned ships transiting its waters. #Russia
#russia

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Margret Kuarell

I once heard a nice thought experiment: Considering most cars are parked somewhere most of the time; imagine every parked car would be a tree.
Now imagine a good public transport could make this possible.

(I have to admit, it may work better from a German point of view, since we all live quite close together compared to some parts of the US)

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hey so this is probably completely pointless but: looking for a job (NZ or fully remote willing to hire a kiwi) in SRE, security, or linux/Unix system administration. 15 years expereince administering Linux and Unix boxes, intermediate level of experience working with docker compose and containerisation and container security. No prior job experience unfortunately, all those 15 years were mostly personal projects and small-scale stuff for friends. Currently running an entire multi-machine personal cloud infrastructure with a demonstration of all the services I have running at status.highenergymagic.net. Entirely willing to accept entry-level job placements, no expectation of being paid a lot or anything, just want to be doing something and move the needle a little on my current "being broke" status. #fedihired #infosec #cybersecurity #linux #unix #docker #sre #DevOps

Please boost for reach, any job offers please DM me.

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Status of High Energy Magic services
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#linux #fedihired #infosec #cybersecurity #DevOps #sre #unix #docker
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:boosts_ok_gay:

attention anybody with substantial experience with Rust and networking: my team is hiring!!

one of few rust jobs I'm aware of that is not web 3.0 horseplop.

fully remote (US timezones), good culture, good trans-inclusive healthcare, good work/life balance, and a nice defensive cybersecurity mission i can get behind.

feel free to reach out for more details and the job posting.

:boosts_ok_gay:

#fedihired #rust #infosec #cybersecurity #ot #ics

#rust #fedihired #infosec #cybersecurity #ot #ics
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Dear Fedi friends,

Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).

I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).

I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.

Merci beaucoup ❤️

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allen

J'aime beaucoup le réseau Mastodon parce-que quelque temps je veux voir le buzz de seulement mes intérêts, (ça veut dire les trains), et aux autres temps je veux voir une vue plus générale.

L'assemblage du ton flux Mastodon personnalisé est comme cuisiner. Il a un saveur unique, et tu as le contrôle de l'améliorer.

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Collective Truth

Translation inside #Mastodon is a real game changer + step up.

But people who don't make #time or see the point in replying limits it all.

Using all levels of people / energy here 👍

rather than feel depth is a kind of liability or time-drag, seeing people as kind of #Spam for it.

I prefer the less defensive "show me what you got" usage instead of looking for perfection or short text.

Sincerity (people who critique) and #Spam can also look the same if not given time / care ur side ⚠️

#mastodon #spam #time
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#politics #CApolitics

If you live in California, you have probably been getting spammed a lot lately on multiple channels about a ballot initiative to “protect retirement from new taxes” or another one pushing “spending transparency”.

You will perhaps be unsurprised to learn that these initiatives have nothing to do with retirement or transparency, and everything to do with billionaires attempting to defeat a proposed tax on the ultra-rich.

Follow the money. “Cui bono?”

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The sleeper initiative that could upend more than the wealth tax

POLITICO
#Politics #capolitics
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It’s been a weird couple days; I keep running into this talking point that “journalists won’t use Mastodon unless we incentivize engagement farming”.

Meanwhile I’m having a *great* experience here, because I use it to— I dunno— actually talk to people and form relationships?

I reject the premise that mastodon isn’t useful for reporters. I think it’s more accurate that modern news orgs use social media in purely extractive ways.

You might get more reporters that way, but you won’t like them.

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I’ll say what we’re all thinking: the FIFA Peace Prize will never be taken seriously now.
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'A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed divorcing "#gay" from "#queer" people reinforces a hierarchy of belonging that privileges proximity to straightness, rewards conformity, and marginalizes anyone who cannot or will not meet its terms'

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#LGBTQ #LGBT

Don't fall for WSJ's 'normal gay' whitewashing of queer life

Opinion: A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed divorcing "gay" from "queer" people reinforces a hierarchy of belonging that privileges proximity to straightness, rewards conformity, and marginalizes anyone who cannot or will not meet its terms, argues J…
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#LGBTQ #lgbt #queer #gay
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This one takes the cake.🤷

Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.

Turns out it works because the claims are adjudicated by, you guessed it, AI agents.

"Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute, Campbell’s channel was effectively handed over [to the AI company.]"

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Jérémy -Jeey-

2026-04-06 17:58:58

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Une boite d'#IA clone la voix de Murphy Campbell, une chanteuse folk américaine, à son insu, bien entendu.
La chanteuse a vu ses propres vidéos démonétisée car elle s'est faite striker par #youtube pour infraction au copyright suite à une réclamation de droits par la boîte qui a cloné sa voix.

#IArienQuiVa

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AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income.
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@Jérémy -Jeey-
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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
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#Fediverse #Mastodon

Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.
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#fediverse #mastodon
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capitalism / monetization ruins everything?

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don’t use either. use @openstreetmap or @CoMaps. it’s the #antifa thing to do.

#maps #geopolitics #fascism

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I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.

#antifa #fascism #geopolitics #maps @OpenStreetMap @CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive
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🚨 LinkedIn runs a silent browser scan on every Chrome user who visits the site. 6,222 extensions. ~405 million users affected. No consent, no disclosure, no mention in their privacy policy.

The scan identifies your sales tools, VPN, ad blocker, job search extensions, and extensions tied to religion, politics, and disability.

The full technical breakdown, legal analysis, and searchable database of every scanned extension:

browsergate.eu

#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #privacy

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.
BrowserGate
#privacy #linkedin #browsergate
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R L Raymond

I was locked out a year ago for no reason (probably VPN use) and was asked to go through Persona to verify. Never. Privacy Hell squared right there. So now I can’t even delete my account! Tried all communication channels but nope… locked out. So now my albeit minimal data floats in the evil æther. #LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy
#privacy #linkedin #browsergate
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I want to point out that there still is a way Republicans can win in November.

By now, everyone is used to Republicans suddenly reversing positions on every imaginable topic, and that is the secret to victory.

All they have to do is reverse their position on Israel.

Come out as anti-genocide and anti-Israel, and Republicans will be able to defeat all but a handful of Democrats, who will 100% continue to express their support of Israel and genocide, thus pissing off both Democratic and a surprising number of Republican voters.

Democrats have already made it very clear that they would rather lose elections than stop supporting Israel.

Poll after poll shows that Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose genocide and are no longer buying into the little narrative the US mainstream media spent decades selling us on.

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#CongressionalRepublicans can stop this motherfucker, Trump, anytime they want to. It’s been that way since day one of his first term, but they refuse to, because they don’t want to. They aren’t frightened, they’re complicit.
#DonaldTrump #AmericanHitler #CriminalCohorts #OathBreakers #AmericanTraitors #TrumpTools #Iran #IranWar
#iran #donaldtrump #congressionalrepublicans #AmericanHitler #iranwar #criminalcohorts #americantraitors #OathBreakers #trumptools
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"Devuan - Linux Committed to No Age Attestation" 👀👏

!!! ALL HAIL THE VAN PANTHER !!!

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Ugh. It's been a day already and it's only 9:30am.

With a layoff at my now former company, lots of us have been impacted, including me. The good news is my calendar is now free and clear.

I have no idea what comes next but if you know of any #InternalCommunications roles in #Massachusetts, I'd really appreciate the heads up 😃

My LinkedIn is: linkedin.com/in/shartlen/.

#FediHired #LayOff

#fedihired #massachusetts #internalcommunications #layoff

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Avete visto Ben Gvir festeggiare di nuovo la reintroduzione della pena di morte in Israele (che era un paese abolizionista di fatto)? Aveva distribuito dolcetti, ora avrebbe brindato al voto definitivo.

Ceto, Ben Gvir è Ben Gvir, che si presentò in parlamento con una spilletta col cappio (a proposito ve li ricordate i nostri leghisti?).

Ben Gvir ne ha di strada da fare per arrivare ad essere all'altezza di un R. Akiva. Mi spingo al punto di dire che IMHO non lo sarà mai.

#noDeathPenalty

#nodeathpenalty

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They Trump regime still thinks allies (we) don’t understand that the greatest threat to us right now is not Iran, it is the US. But we do. We already know the US can’t be trusted or counted on (see: Ukraine, Greenland, delusional maps of “Greater America”) so why on earth would any NATO country make itself a target of Iran for the US? Pure nonsense.

Everytime a US “patriot” missile is lost at sea a baby Canada goose flies around the lake.

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