"Moderates, those with a prior of 4, made the most valid model choice and are therefore most likely to obtain the correct estimate. Hence, pro-immigration researchers in particular appear to have reached their conclusion by making less valid choices in their analysis, thereby reaching a biased conclusion. If anti- and pro-immigration researchers were similarly frequent, such a bias may cancel out. However, pro-immigration researchers outnumber anti-immigration researchers and moderates, whose analyses are most reliable combined. The results is a literature containing mainly a small share of moderates doing rigorous research and a larger group of ideologically motivated pro-immigration “researchers” who torture the data until they “find” a pro-immigration message."
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Public opinion surveys across Western countries consistently show that majorities prefer lower immigration levels.Laurenz Guenther
A thought I've had previously:
How long would it take a group of motivated individuals to make a modern computer, if they were sent to Earth as it existed in e.g. the 18th century, and given an artifact to communicate with Earth as it exists now.
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If you just got a computer (holiday or otherwise) and are thinking of installing Linux on it, shoot me your questions!
I'm going to collect a bunch of them for an upcoming livestream, maybe this weekend after holiday parties are wrapped! Either that or next week sometime.
You can ask me here or ask (at) veronicaexplains (dot) net.
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❗ Where you go
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If you're an Android user, you don't need to share your data with Google. Change these Android settings to better protect your privacy and security.Tuta
Your smartphone surveils you by design. GrapheneOS transforms a Pixel into private hardware you actually control. Here's why it matters and how to do it.Habla
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Quite a few of #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc folks are already and will be around #39c3 -- on-site you can join a group chat (or send us a DM upfront) where we announce dynamically scheduled sessions. You'll find us mostly around Komona but also other places ... for more info:
PSA: Influenza is spreading heavily currently, and 30% of people are infectious without symptoms. Please maintain hygiene and at best test yourself before entering premises. Thanks!
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“It’s always DNS” is a famous meme among network people. Name resolution is technically quite simple. It’s “just” translating a hostname like jan.wildeboer.net to an IP address.Jan Wildeboer (Jan Wildeboer's Blog)
I went by registering a domain and use FQDN inside my homelab and use certbot with dns01 challenge.
Downside is that you either have to put internal machines in authoritative DNS or use a subdomain internally and intercept all of those internally via your piHole server.
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@bjoern@sengotta.net @homelab @homelab_de I can only underline what @jwildeboer@wildeboer.net already wrote - install your own CA using #step-ca.
Once all is up and running, SSL certificates and warnings turn into a no-issue in your home network. I've done that a few months ago and have not thought about them once since then.
Install step-ca and look no further.
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@homelab@fedigroups.social_de it’s fairly straightforward to set up your own internal CA and add it to your system / browser’s trust store. You can do it with openssl or with a GUI tool like xCA.
Or, apparently, step-ca is a thing, which should let you use an ACME client to automate issuing internal certs hub.docker.com/r/smallstep/ste…
I’ll revisit the dns challenge when letsencrypt adds the static entry option DNS-PERSIST-01 [1]. Right now you need to dynamically update dns for this to work.
[1] letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/fro…
@abulling @interpipes @jonathan859 @bjoern @homelab
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.letsencrypt.org
jep my public servers also use the DNS Validation and that works. Question for me is: do i need TLS in my Home Network?
@bjoern @jwildeboer @interpipes @kate @homelab
Indeed. You can disable certificate verification for most services but not for all.
high recommend on this short and succicnt take on LLM/AI from Joseph de Weck, tracing longer paths back to Kant and his arguments for making up your own mind to obtain freedom, and Erich Fromm who highlighted delegating authority and responsibility to "others" is a major factor in growing fascism
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Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research InstituteJoseph de Weck (The Guardian)
I just woke up this morning to an email saying my BuyMeACoffee (aka Stripe) account was suspended for adult content.
Merry Christmas.
I'm going to appeal it. I've never taken payment for any adult content, nor have I posted any, or made reference to any on my BuyMeACoffee page.
Yay puritanical capitalism!
Update: started a GoFundMe at folx suggestion: gofund.me/bd5f770fd
I contacted customer support and made an appeal. They very quickly responded that I'm permanently suspended from the platform (and Stripe) because my *Mastodon* profile (@alice) associates me with @AltAfterDark.
So, that's that.
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... your account has been permanently deactivated due to a violation of the Terms of Use related to adult content. Please note that even if adult content is posted on other websites, it can still lead to account review and banning...
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I'll be looking for another way to accept tips (as it's kinda my lifeline); if you have any suggestions that *don't* involve platforms that'll ban me for posting some wholesome-ish adult content *on my own social media profile*, I'd live to hear them.
Update: started a GoFundMe at folx suggestion: gofund.me/bd5f770fd
Watch BuyMeACoffee/Stripe send me a cease and desist for posting about them banning me.
Then watch Fedi Streisand Effect the shit out of that.
I'm sure they're already going to lose a (insignificant to them) chunk of money over this, because not only will they not be taking 10-20% of my tips, but whenever I call out a company here for being shitty, I get dozens of replies from folx canceling their accounts there.
My 92 year old aunt: You do the Leenux thing, right? You need to come over sometime and install it for me, because f#ck all I ain't gonna update to Windows 11.
Me: .... ?!#!?
I explain what the change-over entails and that I generally don't recommend it just because...
Aunt: No, f#ck that, f#ck capitalism, my laptop is still fine, so come over and set me up with that Leenux thing.
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Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore.
Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party wallet app).
Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with strangers on the Internet, I have decided to take a closer look at these .pkpass files.
They are just zip files that contain a background image, an icon and a pass.json with the actual information about the ticket. Nothing that can’t be handled by a script rather than a 3rd-party 100 MB mobile app.
I have thus put together a simple #shell script that does exactly that.
Dependencies:
jqzintmagickunzipcurl or wgetgist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pk…
Usage:
pkpass2png <a href="https://domain.tld/myticket.pkpass" rel="ugc">https://domain.tld/myticket.pkpass</a> ticket.png
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Último día de mi año laboral. Que frío hace.
📻 **Vánoce za socialismu: Splněné plány, obchody plné zboží a málo sněhu.**
#mujrozhlas
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*Velký výlet do rozhlasového archivu a poslech štědrovečerních zpráv ze 60., 70. a 80. let odhalí, jak tehdy rozhlas o Vánocích vysílal.*
- Buďte rádi, že vám v domácnostech o vánocích vůbec půjde plyn a elektřina.
- Jak je to hrozný v zemích krachujícího prohnilýho Západu.
- Co je ruský, to je nejlepší. Srovnání s dnešním ruským fašismem se tak nějak nabízí samo.
- Zkrátka obludnost totalitního režimu v celý svý vánoční kráse.
**Komunisti všech zemí, vyližte si prdel!**
Štědrý den je přeci jen tak trochu jiným dnem. Sváteční atmosféra, umocněná očekáváním večerní nadílky, se projevila i v rozhlasovém zpravodajství. Velký výlet do rozhlasového archivu a poslech štědrovečerních zpráv ze 60., 70. a 80.MůjRozhlas
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⌨ FUTO klávesnice pro Android se naučila přidat obrázek do pozadí
infoek.cz/futo-klavesnice-pro-…
⌨ FUTO keyboard for Android has learned to add a background image
infoek-cz.translate.goog/futo-…
#FUTO #Opensource #Android #Mobileapps #Privacy
Softwarových klávesnic pro mobily existuje několik, ale drtivá většina uživatelů používá ty přednastavené výrobcem. Takové klávesnice jsou sice kvalitní a d ...Adolf Pupík (Infoek.cz)
my five steps to getting out of bed in the morning:
1. pretend you do not hear the alarm.
2. verbally deny that it is time to get up. hit snooze.
3. negotiate five more minutes with the nearest person or deity.
4. express intense anger in your words and tone to demand that it not be morning.
5. accept it with a big sigh and stand up.
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Can you imagine if the billionaire tech bros were spending all their energy developing solutions to clean the planet and distribute resources better instead of incessantly enshittifying our lives and trying to devaluate labour?
What a different world that would be.
I wish them all a Ghosts-of-Christmas experience.
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