"So, when we first hear about the Insurrection Act, it may trigger our alarmism. But better to face it now, before it comes, than learn about it on-the-fly."
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With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.Daniel Hunter (Waging Nonviolence)
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My wife told me to stop singing Wonderwall.
I said maybe.
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♲ @muse@diaspora.glasswings.com:Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
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Signal provides:
- Excellent protection against third party interception of communications (wiretapping).
- Limited protection against compromised (hacked) or lost devices
- No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat).
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The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.Will Lockett (Planet Earth & Beyond)
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DOGE Staffer Known as 'Big Balls' Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy gizmodo.com/doge-staffer-known…
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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You haven't been following the downfall of Twitter, have you ?
Or those dumpster fires that are the SSybertruck an Teska Semi, right?
Or how he got his ass fired from PayPall because he wanted to use Windows Server instead of Linux to run the service?
Elons incompetence has been showing for a while.
We stay strong against hate and hatred, and in response to the recent abuse campaign on our platform, we have renewed our commitment to fight for a better world. We apologize to everyone who was greeted with an abusive message this morning.
Read about the recent incident and our position on our blog: blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-stro…
Thanks to all your kind words of support, this is much appreciated. #StaySafe
#HateOnline #Hate #RightwingTrolls #rightwingExtremists
Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces,...blog.codeberg.org
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If you work in government and are asked to remove content from websites (as a result of executive orders), please use the HTTP status code 451 instead of 404.
451 is the correct status code to use for these cases, and you'll be doing the rest of the country a service by using it.
Addendum: you should also include a Link header with the link relation "blocked-by" that "Identifies the entity that blocks access to a resource following receipt of a legal demand."
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Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️
Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/up…
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Starting to get the itch to re-do my server, as this is the year Ubuntu 20.04 LTS loses support. Was thinking TrueNAS but wanted a little more freedom with lower ports. Now thinking about using #ZFSBootMenu on Alpine as a host for converting most everything to #docker :
docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v3.0.x…
Then make a few zpools for different benefits for my nextcloud docks and the other services I use...
Now not to get tempted with getting a refurb DL580 G9. 😅
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Anyway, if you also want to be cool and help in archiving the US government, head on over to the Archive Team wiki at:
You'll need the technical ability to be able to install VirtualBox or Docker and run an appliance/container.
You can also help archive other things, not just the US gov. There's a lot of the web that's at risk.
On the little server I have running here at home, I'm now helping @internetarchive back up US Government websites and data.
You can help, too:
1. Download and run the ArchiveTeam Warrior
2. Set the selected project to "usgovernment" (or select US Government from the available projects in the web interface)
I'm running Warrior as a container with podman, but there are various other ways to run it.
More details at wiki.archiveteam.org/
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docker-compose up -d, and allowed the appropriate ports on the yaml file through ufw. Looks like it's scanning NIH now. 😎 Probably the easiest deployment I've ever run!
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
NOAA had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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A guide to using Signal for government workers a.wholelottanothing.org/a-guid…A guide to using Signal for government workers
🔒Editor's note: A friend of mine works in the federal government and wrote a guide for their fellow federal workers on how to use Signal.Matthew Haughey (A Whole Lotta Nothing)
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WASHINGTON—In an effort to assuage any fears over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive actions, a D.C.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Human Rights Watch is hiring a Director of Information Security
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The annoying nerds who said you should install Linux, use decentralised social media, use Signal secure messenger were right.
Control of our own computing is a prerequisite for freedom.
The internet *is* real life.
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The Chinese system is superior to democracy and climate change is not man-made: disinformation and conspiracy narratives are widespread among the German population - especially among young people and TikTok users, a new survey by the Gemran Allensbach Institute on behalf of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung shows.
Ahead of Germany federal elections in Feb. 23, there is growing concern about foreign disinformation in the country. The German government is concerned that foreign states will deliberately influence public debate. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns against false reports and manipulation.
The representative survey by Allensbach Institute now shows that young people and TikTok users are particularly vulnerable.
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Although a small majority of respondents say that misinformation in the media is a big problem, only 44 percent of them say it is easy to recognize them.
Thus, 30 percent of the respondents do not recognize that Russia is deliberately spreading disinformation, and around 40 percent do not identify China as an actor that deliberately circulates false information.
The results show that young people are much less suspicious than older ones. For example, 42% of people under 29 doubt that Russia is deliberately spreading false information; in the case of China, more than half do.
TikTok users doubt the prevalence of misinformation at 50 percent in Russia and 59 percent in China. TikTok users are therefore significantly less suspicious than consumers of other media.
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The survey of certain disinformation narratives confirms this picture.
Only around 78 percent of those surveyed fully or rather "agree that Russia is conducting an internationally unlawful war of aggression against Ukraine. In the group of under 29-year-olds, this approval is still significantly lower at 69.7 percent. Among TikTok users, only 66 percent.
It is also a matter of concern that more than one third of all TikTok users believe that Russia has a greater interest in peace in Ukraine than the West. In the general population, only 18 percent believe this, while among young people it is 23 percent.
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The susceptibility to disinformation narratives is equally clear when it comes to whether China is a dictatorship. While around 81 percent of Germans agree with this statement, the figure is only 67 percent in the group of under 29-year-olds. Around a third of TikTok users even believe that China is not a dictatorship.
Almost 30 percent of Germans also believe that the autocratic Chinese government system is "more efficient and successful" than Western democracies. Among TikTok users, the figure is significantly higher at 42 percent.
Doubts about vaccines, climate change and pandemic
The view of fundamental scientific knowledge by young people and TikTok users is particularly frightening.
Only 71 percent of people under 29 agree that vaccines have helped save millions of lives. Among TikTokNutzers, the approval rate is even lower at 69 percent. More than 20 percent of young people, that is one in five, and around a quarter of all TikTok users even openly doubt this knowledge, which has been established for decades.
On climate change alone, young people and the general population seem to be shockingly unanimous: only 64 percent of respondents and 67 percent of young people agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Among TikTok users, it’s just over half.
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Kritik an der Demokratie und Leugnung des menschengemachten Klimawandels sind verbreitet – besonders bei jungen Menschen und TikTok-Nutzern. Das zeigt eine Allensbach-Studie im Auftrag der FNF.Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung
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It's hilarious how these "studies" completely ignore the nonstop domestic propaganda. People are completely brainwashed to the point that they support genocide but somehow china/russia is the problem. It's so transparent and so gross. Fuck this imperial trash.
Have more Palestinians or Israelis died in war? Half of Americans don’t know, poll says
@technocrit
For the few months that I have been here you have been flooding the comms with 1 or 2-sentence messages like this one and literally every single of them conveys one and the same narrative. Are you really this braindead or do you need the 50 cents so urgently for always the same derailed comments?
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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
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Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Ukraine's F-16 Pilot Downs Six Russian Cruise Missiles in Historic First - Newsweek newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-f-…Ukraine's F-16 Pilot Downs Six Russian Cruise Missiles in Historic First
"For the first time in the history of the Fighting Falcon, an F-16 fighter jet destroyed six Russian cruise missiles in one combat mission," a post read.Brendan Cole (Newsweek)
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I've seen some people suggesting that the donations by tech companies and their CEOs to Trump's inaugural fund aren't unusual and are in fact routine and similar to what was given to Biden and... nope
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The CEOs and their companies have donated millions to Trump's upcoming inauguration.Andrew Stanton (Newsweek)
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Astronomers focus on the sky, but it’s worth looking around our planet, too! This image, for instance, was taken from Pukará de Quitor, a fortress built 900+ years ago by the Licán Antai community, also known as Atacameños, not far from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. What a perfect frame for the Licancabur #volcano!
Learn more: eso.org/public/images/potw2501…
📷 ESO/A. Ghizzi Panizza
#archaeology #astrodon #astronomy #science
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An award-winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post has announced her resignation after a cartoon depicting the newspaper's billionaire owner groveling before Donald Trump was rejected.
#USPolitics #press #freedom #political #cartoon
Democracy can't function without a free pressAnn Telnaes (Open Windows)
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Thought I'd write an #introduction for all those #newhere from the Musk exodus:
I'm an analytical chemist. I've hosted my own #Friendica node (instance) at my home since 2018, shortly after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. From there, I got bit by the #selfhosting bug and am now hosting my own #opensource replacements for many FAANG services.
Welcome all to the #fediverse ! If you are thinking about self-hosting and have questions, would be happy to help as able!
#introductions
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