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Wow, liczba zgłoszeń na Zlot Fanek i Fanów Jawności przeszła nasze najśmielsze oczekiwania! Dziękujemy za każde z nich! 💛

Do 9 września każda i każdy z Was otrzyma od nas informację zwrotną. Już teraz wiemy, że mamy ogromny orzech do zgryzienia - Wasze zgłoszenia są świetne i najchętniej spotkalibyśmy się z Wami wszystkimi! Niestety pojemność hotelu oraz nasz budżet mają swoje granice. Mamy ogromną nadzieję, że to zrozumiecie i uda nam się spotkać przy kolejnych okazjach.

Bardzo ważna prośba do osób, które otrzymają zaproszenie:

Jeśli z jakiegokolwiek powodu okaże się, że nie możecie być z nami 26 i 27 września w Pruszkowie - dajcie nam znać jak najszybciej.

Nie chcemy, aby jakiekolwiek miejsce się zmarnowało. Wasza szybka informacja to szansa na udział dla kogoś innego!

Patronat medialny nad Zlotem objęli: Portal organizacji pozarządowych ngo.pl, Radio Nowy Świat, Stowarzyszenie Gazet Lokalnych oraz Witryna Wiejska.

Wydarzenie jest współfinansowane ze środków Narodowego Instytutu Wolności - Centrum Rozwoju Społeczeństwa Obywatelskiego w ramach #PROO.

Friends, you may have seen this but if not, sharing:

"The LLM-generated proof hinges on a particular mathematical argument that it presented as its own but that actually first appeared in a 2016 paper by Miller and a collaborator."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openais-latest-math-breakthroughs-commit-research-misconduct-experts-say/

Punx.social has been translated into English!

Summer break is over and now, as promised, the complete punx.social website is also available in English:
https://punx.social/en (or you click the English button on top.

It's your punkrock starting point, if you want to try something else then the normal Meta (anti-)social media.

Have a read, to learn more about #Mastodon, #Pixelfed and #Peertube.
Please share this information on Facebook, Instagram or wherever you reach all other punks normally.

Also the text is prepared to be translated by the community (you!) into any other language.
If you wanna help, ping us.
Or have a look at:
https://codeberg.org/fedipunx/punxsocial#how-to-start-a-new-translation
If that's too complicated, please let us know, and we will try something else.

P.s. Dear translation bubble: this is a non-commercial website from the community to the community, that's why we ask the community. No one is earning money here with this project, that's why we can't hire a professional translator. Just before everyone of you starts complaining again.

#punk #punxsocial #punkrock @punk #translation #translationhelp #translatorbubble

@mttaggart Indeed. I guess watch for the media copters.

@gubi Volentieri, separiamoli. Che la multa a UniCredit riguardi la succursale statunitense non è un'opinione contrapposta: è un errore, pagarono la tedesca UniCredit Bank AG e Bank Austria. Che Visa Europe sia la controllata inglese non è un'opinione: è di Visa Inc. dal 2016. Un ex direttore resta tale, ma questi due non sono pareri.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unicredit-bank-ag-agrees-plead-guilty-illegally-processing-transactions-violation-iranian

#flosstodon at the end, and beginning of its journey

This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago.

The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely staggering. And it gets worse if you use their apps, particularly the LG TV "network":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

Having an old set DOES NOT HELP YOU; they've been adding these spying functions in firmware updates.

So DO NOT BUY ANYTHING LG. Certainly not anything "smart."

#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus

I got the P1 system less than a year later, and the first thing I wanted to do was re-shoot this. But by then it was too late; no longer accessible.

So, this is yet another example where the camera and lens one has being the best tool for the job, by definition.

@pallenberg Irony is dead. Modern times ran it over and reversed and ran it over again and buried it and dug it up and hit it with a baseball bat and threw it in the ocean.

@ai6yr grumble Tell me about it. Huge pain during the Palisades fire

If I were going to re-shoot this today, I'd use the Rodenstock 32mm to make two vertically shifted captures and stitch them. This can yield roughly the angle of view of a 16mm lens in 35mm format terms, with excellent edge sharpness and very low geometric distortion.

But this place is no longer safely accessible. It was reached via a side door in the now-shuttered Hyatt, and then carefully crossing the roadway; today you'd have to walk two blocks in traffic behind a blind curve to get there.

@evan Thanks, I understand better now. Yes, I follow you, that some sense of ownership would fundamentally change how people view the network and how they interact on it.

It seems like any kind of "having skin in the game" would be a positive step forward. Because it takes time and work for someone to build up that ownership (in whatever form it takes) and they wouldn't want to lose it. So, they might make different choices to maintain their reputation as a member of XYZ community.

If you want to restrict or screen who can follow your account on Mastodon, you can switch your account to "follow requests" mode. When this is activated you will be able to accept or reject followers before their follows become active, so you can accept the ones you want and reject the ones you don't want. More info at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/restricting-who-can-follow-you-in-mastodon

This guide also answers lots of questions about follow requests. Let me know if your question is missing from the guide.

#FediTips #Mastodon

@TJ1001 Exactly. The Palestine Action protestors seem to have been elderly #Quakers and retired vicars, getting forcibly arrested whilst clutching flasks of hot tea. That, apparently, causes “terror”. Whereas an intimidating gang of men in balaclavas is “peaceful protest”. 🤪

#OtD 7 Sep 1997 2600 transit workers on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) began a successful six-day strike for higher wages and an end to the two-tier system that limited the earnings of new workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10759/san-francisco-transit-strike-1997

gallows humor https://theonion.com/americans-take-day-off-from-looking-for-work-1819573848/

@jpoesen The vast majority of my smart devices live on a very restricted VLAN, with access only to Home Assistant.

This is the latest reminder in a long list of why it was a good idea to set that up.

#xkcd No. 3295
Date: 2026-9-7
Title: Semaphore
Alt text: The speed of light in air is 50% faster than in fiber, but it's a challenge to get the arms to move fast enough to realize the latency advantage.
https://xkcd.com/3295/

Say hello to the Fediverse Drupal recipe! Understanding and configuring the ActivityPub module can be a tedious task. This recipe ships with sensible default configuration enabling you to set everything up in just one minute! See https://drupal.org/project/fediverse for more information. Quick demo in the video, it's pure magic!