Lynn Foster
and 2 others
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Seth of the Fediverse
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Bad Bot Problem
Following a report on the situation with Social Media and bots, Lewis Stuart of University of Nottingham is inspired to see just how easy it is to fire up his own botnet and puts them to work on a fake social media site: 'scroll hole.'
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg
#socialmedia #botproblems #aislop #web #botnet #internet #youtube #video #yt #bot #ai #badbot #badbots #fake #social #fakesocialists #network
Bad Bot Problem
Following a report on the situation with Social Media and bots, Lewis Stuart of University of Nottingham is inspired to see just how easy it is to fire up his own botnet and puts them to work on a fake social media site: 'scroll hole.'
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg
#socialmedia #botproblems #aislop #web #botnet #internet #youtube #video #yt #bot #ai #badbot #badbots #fake #social #fakesocialists #network
David Clubb
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Lets talk all things volunteering in Wrexham - Wrexham Volunteering Network
Friday, 20th February, 10:00-11:30am. Ty AVOW, 21 Egerton Street, L11 1ND
Book yourself a place on our Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wrexham-volunteering-network-rhwydwaith-gwirfoddoli-wrecsam-tickets-1980866264320
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Lets talk all things volunteering in Wrexham - Wrexham Volunteering Network
Friday, 20th February, 10:00-11:30am. Ty AVOW, 21 Egerton Street, L11 1ND
Book yourself a place on our Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wrexham-volunteering-network-rhwydwaith-gwirfoddoli-wrecsam-tickets-1980866264320
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Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate)
Hey everyone, the attached link is my write-up about the plans for a new community I am trying to get established.
Since I know a lot of people don’t actually follow links to read articles, I’ll copy and paste some stuff here:
My ideal for this platform is to build a space that values creativity, learning, and working/tinkering at various projects - whatever that may be, from arts and crafts, to software development, to 3D printing, to scientific research. As the forum title suggests, “UnfinishedProjects” is meant to bring people together to share what they are working on, provide a network to collaborate and work together, and just overall enjoy the journey and make some friends along the way.
The forum is not meant to be a “hyper-niche” space, but instead a place for creatives and tinkerers (the kind of people who always have three half-finished projects sitting on their desk) to come together. While the forum has a slight leaning towards the open source and Creative Commons space, to support the “Libre” community - it’s meant to be more of a general philosophy rather than a strict gate-keeping measure.
To initially get started, I am using a free hosting platform, but as soon as I am sure the community has enough members who are committed to the community, I plan on transferring over to nodeBB which has native support for Fediverse integration.
Also, addressing the questions of “why not just create a Lemmy/PieFed instance":
Let me start off by saying that I recognize that mega-forum platforms like Reddit, Lemmy, and PieFed exist, and serve an important function. While Lemmy and PieFed have yet to gain traction, I personally hope that they might eventually mature enough to replace Reddit - but as of now, Reddit is a central platform that allows users to find almost any sub for a random topic, and get questions answered from other people who are also interested in that specific niche. This is great, and I think this is where mega-forums excel.
However, I feel that individual forums (like this one that I am trying to create) have very much died off, with the exception of some already well established and long lived ones (BoardGameGeek, I’m looking at you). What I think a personal forum like this has to offer that mega-forums do not, is the permanence and commitment from its members - generally leading to a smaller but more tightly-knit community and network of individuals. On mega-forums like Reddit, it is so easy for members to move from one sub to another, and get lost in the “social-media” type of posts and memes that detract from the intent of any one specific forum.
Additionally, subs on these platforms are often hyper-niche, which can offer a lot of benefits, but a traditional forum may provide a better place to bring people together from various skill sets, interests, and hobbies to share and encourage one another.
If this is something that you think you might be interested in supporting, I kindly ask that you might be willing to join our community and help us build a place that we can all be proud to participate in.
I hope you all have a great day!
Stay safe in these crazy times ✊
-Anthony
Les hago una consulta.
Tengo un cable utp cat 5e que es de aleación de cobre.
Tengo que instalar unos ap Unifi,me tiene que llegar el cable cat 6 100% cobre.
Pero quería ir probando configurar los equipos ahora para ganar tiempo.
Es riesgoso incluso hacer las pruebas con ese cable que no es 100% cobre? Según gemini,no(?) pero ustedes que dicen?
alcinnz
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Huge if true:
"Sonar is a #Rust project exploring data transmission using audio signals. It aims to enable communication across air-gapped systems or in environments where traditional networking is not an option, using only standard microphones and speakers."
#DSP #SignalProcessing #Audio #DigitalSignalProcessing #Network #RustLang
James Smith
and 1 other
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US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) is a thing. If you're in MA, CA, or VA, you already have a local SEN to join. If you're in another state, it's time to establish yours.
PM me if you are on board and want to find the others near you and build citizens assemblies and mutual aid networks.
#MutualAid #solidarity #economy #network #USpol #anarchism #democracy
US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) is a thing. If you're in MA, CA, or VA, you already have a local SEN to join. If you're in another state, it's time to establish yours.
PM me if you are on board and want to find the others near you and build citizens assemblies and mutual aid networks.
#MutualAid #solidarity #economy #network #USpol #anarchism #democracy
“A Fetish for Phone Sockets”…..
These are the kind of sentences you hope candidates will casually drop during a job interview when discussing a role focused on #network and connectivity innovations. 🤓💛
https://thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing-gigabit-ethernet-over-my-british-phone-wires/
TeraWave Satellite Communications Network
https://www.blueorigin.com/terawave
#HackerNews #TeraWave #Satellite #Communications #Network #satellite #technology #space #innovation #BlueOrigin #connectivity
I'm starting to detect the breakdown of what Google has done when it comes down to authentication of programmers for its Android platform
I needed to patch a very small program through fDroid KDE connect
When I proceeded with install, Google Play popped up a bogus requester stating that the program is malicious.
It's not malicious it's an Open Source program
I proceeded with install anyway for which I had to put in my phone's password. Google Play decided to block me from updating the program. I proceeded with this 16 times and got the same result.
I have to check what happens on my other Androids, however on this Android, a small one, I cannot update kdeconnect anymore, because the Play Store actively blocks it even when I override it with install anyway.
KDE connect was installed via fDroid
I have the right to install any program I want, on my device.
I paid for it!
Google cannot dictate me what to do
I shall fight this
#OpenSource #programming #technology #Google #play #bully #war #fDroid #KDE #network #malicious #bogus
Huge if true:
"Sonar is a #Rust project exploring data transmission using audio signals. It aims to enable communication across air-gapped systems or in environments where traditional networking is not an option, using only standard microphones and speakers."
#DSP #SignalProcessing #Audio #DigitalSignalProcessing #Network #RustLang
BGP Scout – BGP Network Browser
#HackerNews #BGP #Scout #BGP #Network #Browser #Networking #Tools #Internet #Security #Network #Management
Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25759181.network-scottish-x-accounts-go-dark-amid-iran-blackout/
#HackerNews #Network #Scottish #X #accounts #Iran #blackout #socialmedia #news