This is the kind of thing that should be banned. It is time to realize that indiscriminate data collection and profiling is harming our society.
techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perp…

#Vivaldi #Browser #Spyware #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #Windows #Macos #Linux

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch

Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

^{Julie Bort (TechCrunch)}

Matthias and Florian are talking at LAS about the Android backend for GTK4

#las2025 #linuxappsummit #GTK

The process of importing the #EV is finally over. It was pretty smooth on the Czech side except for a little drama at the technical inspection. Since I was buying it from an official dealer, I just checked the VIN code on the windshield, but the technical inspection needs to check the one sealed in the chassis and they couldn't find it. I had to call the German dealer and they had to ask the mechanics. It was under the carpet in the back of the trunk. 😅

#electronicvehicle #emobility

I'm pondering adding a --location-mode flag to #curl and I could use your feedback!

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1654…

curl: add --location-mode all/obey/first by bagder · Pull Request #16543 · curl/curl

Sets the "mode" for how to treat and use a custom HTTP method when following redirects. The idea being that a user can set location-mode: obey in their .curlrc or similar to get this func...

^GitHub

Day 1 of LAS 2025 is about to start in Tirana

#las2025 #linuxappsummit

With bluesky (mostly) going down for a few hours today, I got to wondering about how decentralized the fediverse really is in terms of where its servers are hosted. I grabbed a server list from fedidb, with network information coming from ipinfo.io .

[EDIT: I did a better analysis on a dataset of 10x as many servers, see discuss.systems/@ricci/1144003… ]

These stats are by the number of *servers* not the number of *users* (maybe I'll run those stats later).

fedidb currently tracks 2,650 servers of various types (Mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, misskey, peertube, etc)

The fediverse is most vulnerable to disruptions at CloudFlare: 24% of Fediverse servers are behind it. Also note that this means that I don't have real data on where this 24% are located or hosted, since CloudFlare obscures this by design.

Beyond CloudFlare, the fediverse is not too concentrated on any one network. The most popular host, Hertzner, only hosts 14% of fediverse servers, and it falls off fast from there.

Here are the top networks where fediverse servers are hosted:

504 Cloudflare, Inc.
356 Hetzner Online GmbH
130 DigitalOcean, LLC
114 OVH SAS
56 netcup GmbH
55 Amazon.com, Inc.
55 Akamai Connected Cloud
36 Contabo GmbH
33 SAKURA Internet Inc.
32 The Constant Company, LLC
31 Xserver Inc.
28 SCALEWAY S.A.S.
24 Google LLC
23 Oracle Corporation
16 GMO Internet Group, Inc.
14 IONOS SE
14 FranTech Solutions
11 Hostinger International Limited
10 Nubes, LLC

Half of fediverse servers are on networks that host 50 or fewer servers - that's pretty good for resiliency.

There is even more diversity when it comes to BGP prefixes, which is good for resiliency: for example, the cloud providers that have multiple availability zones will generally have them on different prefixes, so this gets closer to giving us a picture of the specific bits of infrastructure the fediverse relies on.

The top BGP prefixes:

55 104.21.48.0/20
50 104.21.16.0/20
48 104.21.64.0/20
41 104.21.32.0/20
41 104.21.0.0/20
38 104.21.80.0/20
32 172.67.128.0/20
31 172.67.144.0/20
28 172.67.208.0/20
28 162.43.0.0/17
27 104.26.0.0/20
26 172.67.192.0/20
26 172.67.176.0/20
23 172.67.160.0/20
19 116.203.0.0/16
17 172.67.64.0/20
17 159.69.0.0/16
16 65.109.0.0/16
14 88.99.0.0/16
14 49.13.0.0/16
13 78.46.0.0/15
13 167.235.0.0/16
13 138.201.0.0/16
11 95.217.0.0/16
11 95.216.0.0/16
11 49.12.0.0/16
11 135.181.0.0/16
10 37.27.0.0/16
10 157.90.0.0/16

75% of fediverse servers are behind BGP prefixes that host 10 or fewer servers, meaning that the fediverse is *very* resilient to large network outages.

Top countries where fediverse servers are hosted:

871 United States
439 Germany
156 France
148 Japan
75 Finland
57 Canada
49 Netherlands
38 United Kingdom
26 Switzerland
26 South Korea
21 Spain
19 Sweden
18 Austria
17 Australia
15 Russia
12 Czech Republic
10 Singapore
10 Italy

And finally, a map of the locations of fediverse servers:
ipinfo.io/tools/map/91960023-e…

IP Map Report

We're the trusted source for IP address information, handling 50 billion IP geolocation API requests per month for over 1,000 businesses and 100,000+ developers

^ipinfo.io

Did you leave your Wii at the #EMF2024 Swap Shop?

If so, it's now hosting my blog:

blog.infected.systems/posts/20…

Huge credit to @jmcwhatever for the effort porting NetBSD to the Wii!

Hey pals: Someone I like made a tool that extracts still images from youtube tutorials so we can follow them step by step with screenshots as God intended instead of having to constantly be pausing and seeking back and forth. I have LOST this precious resource.

Was it you? Will you give me the link? I will bookmark it this time.

UPDATE: FOUND. It is github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpag… by @jesse and it deserves a genius grant if we're honest

GitHub - obra/Youtube2Webpage: I learn much better from text than from videos

I learn much better from text than from videos. Contribute to obra/Youtube2Webpage development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

As a reminder to my academic friends. If you are doing research that involves modifying a compiler - perhaps to add a security mitigation or to test an optimization or some other interesting behavior - and you want to run a real world benchmark or test suite: we can help you run it on Firefox.

We can get you set up with our CI so it's easy and efficient to iterate on your patches and run it through the whole gamut.

If you want a compelling story in your paper, showing results on what is probably the second most complicated piece of software in use ought to do it.

wiki.mozilla.org/Building_Fire…

Anatomy of a microgenre: hyperpop's next evolution
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5361403/hyperpop-digicore-jane-remover-2hollis-microgenre?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Music @music-npr

Listening to PBS News Hour - Segments (‘Sonic Heritage’ project lets people experience world’s most iconic places through sound): flex2.acast.com/s/pbs-newshour…

If you think of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, you might conjure an image of Michelangelo’s famous ceiling. But what does that famous place, or any place, sound like? A new project timed to World Heritage Day asks us to experience the world through its sounds. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS News is supported by - pbs.org/newshour/about/funders flex2.acast.com/s/pbs-newshour…

Funders

Current News Hour Funders Corporation for Public Broadcasting PBS Friends of the NewsHour Corporate Sponsors AARP American Cruise Lines BDO Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. Consumer Cellular Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Foundati...

^{PBS News}

If trans people or people of colour bother you more than nazis, you need to re-evaluate your life!

#lgbtqia #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #queer #intersex #asexual #agender #nonbinary #antiracism #antifascism #antifa #antixenophobia #poc #blm #blacklivesmatter #antitrump #trump #antipvv #pvv

National Weather Service to resume translating its products for non-English speakers
https://apnews.com/article/weather-service-spanish-translations-noaa-trump-0753d36b7dd1724898eef86ebf3a920b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress

National Weather Service to resume translating its products for non-English speakers

The National Weather Service will resume translating its products for non-English speakers. The weather service paused the translations earlier this month because its contract with the provider had lapsed.

^{The Associated Press (AP News)}

Tl;dr: Google transfers $70B from people who buy ads to people who buy shares.

finance.yahoo.com/news/google-…

Now it can be told: I wrote two episodes of Volume 4 of Love Death + Robots!

variety.com/2025/tv/news/love-…

Love, Death and Robots Season 4 Trailer: MrBeast, Red Hot Chili Peppers

'Love, Death + Robots' Season 4 streams on Netflix May 15. The new episodes feature David Fincher directing Red Hot Chili Peppers, MrBeast and more.

^{Ethan Shanfeld (Variety)}

if I where to setup a new @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org which server software is nicer to work with?

Synapse Or Conduit?

synapse seemingly has the pro in terms of support for tools such as synapse admin: github.com/Awesome-Technologie…
and the ability to use oauth and handle user management using solutions such as authentik.

while conduit seems to be more resource efficient and better in terms of speed?

#matrix #selfhosted #tech #chat #social

GitHub - Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin: Admin console for synapse Matrix homeserver

Admin console for synapse Matrix homeserver. Contribute to Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub