Interview: "How the Corporate Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide in Gaza

"If there is one indisputable fact, it is that Israel lies like it breathes".

From the beginning of the genocide, the corporate press in the US & Europe amplified Israeli lies, eg, about "beheaded babies", Palestinian resistance groups attacking their own hospitals, journalists being members of Hamas; discredited Palestinian reporting, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcm-Q3KdhWg

#USPol #EUPol #Gaza #GazaGenocide #palestine .

Hi everyone. Yesterday, many #snac instances had a failure in the notifications area: accessing it was impossible. I have not much information about what the problem is, but it seems it's related to a specially crafted post that makes snac hang. If this is happening to you, and you have access to snac's disk storage, you can delete manually the files inside the notify directory of your user (they are a bunch of .json files).

Whenever I finally understand what is making snac fail, I'll publish a version that mitigates this.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Am Wahlabend nicht alleine sein. 🫂

»Wir schauen gemeinsam die Wahlergebnisse zu den Landtagswahlen in Sachsen-Anhalt. Außerdem wird es einen kleinen Ⓐ Infotisch mit Broschüren und Büchern geben.«

Infoladen Subtilus
Norder. 41, Flensburg
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IXes in space?!?!?!? We do not need more crap in LEO...

@nomadwarmachine The latter is obviously the most important 😉

So it seems like a similar swarm of OpenAI agents to the one that compromised Hugging Face had another, seemingly unreported, message board going?

https://collusion.wiki/

@TheBreadmonkey We’re like:

🎵 God save our tins of beans,
And keep our arses clean.
Socks with ice cream 🎵

@Em0nM4stodon Are there even any good educational videos/channels on peertube?

@phobeus 26-09-2025: "la Banca fa advocacy con parlamentari italiani e europei affinché risolvano la questione alla radice, chiedendo che venga definita a livello europeo un’azione strutturale che garantisca agli operatori finanziari europei la possibilità di operare liberi da vincoli arbitrari decisi da governi extraeuropei." Hai più saputo niente di questa azione di "advocacy"? Chiedi alla tua filiale se erano solo chiacchiere per contenere un danno reputazionale.

https://www.bancaetica.it/restiamo-uniti-per-opporci-al-genocidio-a-gaza/

Apple making just a few hundred iPhone Ultras per day, per report https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/04/apple-making-just-a-few-hundred-iphone-ultras-per-day-per-report/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Apple fixes frustrating TestFlight app regression that search feature update added https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/04/apple-fixes-frustrating-testflight-app-regression-that-search-feature-update-added/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

apparently f-droid needs an offline bookmark manager
maybe i should do that
pinboard being unresponsive again when i need it.

🆕 blog! “A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP”

If you're reading this, you've probably been hitting your head against a brick wall trying to parse and decipher the new HTTP Signatures sent by Mastodon and other Fediverse servers.

This is a…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/a-reasonably-practical-guide-to-validating-rfc-9421-http-signatures-for-activitypub-in-php/
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#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php #webdev

I have been pondering the Debian / Linux kernel / other bits situation, re. genAI, and what I want to do.

I don't have good answers, but it struck me that some things are easier than others for me. practically speaking.

From easier to harder:

1. Not using genAI myself. Very easy.

2. Where I am involved in projects, pushing back on use of genAI / encouraging policies which reject genAI.

3. Not using software which surfaces genAI functionality (i.e. finding an alternative to calibre, rather than just not using calibre's genAI functionality).

4. Not using software which I know was / was likely to have been coded using genAI (e.g. finding an alternative kernel etc.)

5. Not using software which was coded using genAI, where this is undeclared.

@thomasfuchs I know people have there issues with every service, but Proton Drive works well for me.

@dangillmor
THIS!! One thousand times THIS!! I have pretty dumped all the "Big Tech" products. But we need municipal broadband and cell service to complete the circle so we don't have our internet shut off. Right?

An updated version of This Old Man. I didn't write a single note. I let claude do the heavy lifting, and I think the end result is pretty cool. Each verse is slightly different. Also the ending wasn't my idea, but I'll take it. If I could remember any of my music theory from highschool this would have come out way better.

One truly essential Mastodon account is @Nonilex

Thank you Nonilex for your tireless efforts to keep us informed. Your contributions to this community are greatly appreciated.

@libreoffice
No added sugars
No palm oil
No gluten
No AI 👌