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So in November 2015 there was this huge derailment in France during one of the final test rides on then soon-to-be-opened LGV Est that killed 11 people and left 42 people injured, which was one of the worst railway accident in France in decades
And barely anyone even heard about it because it happened THE NEXT DAY after November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks and the eyes of everyone were focused on that
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This is pretty normal, though.
There was a huge scandal here back when I was in primary school, a group of students went to a swimming pool and one of them, a classmate of mine, drowned because the teachers and lifeguards were busy chatting. Normally, that would have been all over the news, but it happened right when we were hosting the European football championship (june 2012), so it was barely even mentioned.
new work: W3C has approved the charter of the GPU for the Web Working Group.
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A massive data leak from AI startup DeepSeek has raised alarms about the security of sensitive user data in the rapidly evolving AI industry. appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…
This marks my very first technical blog post, Interning at @servo has been an absolute joy—I’ve learned so much about browsers, Rust, and the open source community, and I’m beyond grateful!
Browsers are simply so much cooler than I ever gave them credit for. It is about halfway through my Outreachy internship, and I have still not fully processed how mind blowing it is that these thin…
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We've added some bluer skies to our social media platforms. (Don't worry, we're very much staying here on Mastodon!) If you're on #BlueSky and would like to give us a follow, we're at: bsky.app/profile/thunderbird.n…
I would have followed you on identi.ca and Jaiku before that if the chance had come up. Following on Bluesky doesn't mean I'm convinced. Bluesky has vc funding and we have two decades of experience. We see how things go once VCs join a project. I prefer projects while they're idealistic. Even Flickr has done well. I'm following on bluesky but as "acte de présence".
An interview with Bill Gates on his memoir, "Source Code: My Beginnings", social media, crypto, AI, billionaires, tax, Trump, his parents, Microsoft, and more (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
It has been a while, but here's a new #recorder video showing the "Kindergartenflöte" - an instrument without a thumbhole. So, is it even a recorder? Have a look and a listen, if you like. And let me know what you think 🙂
Subtitles are also on my blog, as well as a German translation.
In this video, I'm showing my new Schneider "Kindergartenflöte", a recorder for pre-schoolers made from maplewood. The video has English subtitles. You can find a German translation here: https://a...
right now, actually bind in combination with pihole, as a local resolving nameserver for my home to not leak data to the hoarders, and to block trackers/ads for everything, point my local router to my pihole->local resolver.
Der deutsche Mail-Anbieter Tutanota setzt stark aufs Thema Datenschutz. Unter bestimmten Vorraussetzungen gibt er Ermittlern seit diesem Juni aber Zugriff auf unverschlüsselte Mail-Inhalte.
@HeinzSprungfeld @merrily This only affects not-encrypted emails after we receive a court order for an individual account. That's why we recommend to send emails end-to-end encrypted.
Mit Verlaub, das mag hart klingen, aber für so etwas sollte ein Verantwortlicher zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden – mit Konsequenzen, die sicherstellen, dass er nie wieder eine solche Verantwortung übernehmen darf. Solche »Sicherheitslücken« sind grob fahrlässig. 👇
Ein Datenleck betrifft potenziell hunderttausende Patienten der ZAR-Reha-Kliniken in ganz Deutschland. Abrufbar waren unter anderem hochsensible Patientendaten.
As my findings in my #GeneticProgramming research are becoming more and more thorough, I have started to document them. The main problem in my runs is still lack of diversity.
PS: It could be nice if we could write papers in some dialect of #markdown
PS2: These writings are for myself to remember where am I and where I'm going. No academic paper yet :)
Could Montreal rents reach Toronto and Vancouver levels of unaffordability? Tenants's rights groups are calling for a rent hike freeze until measures such as a mandatory rental registry and a ceiling on rent hikes are implemented. #rent #housing #affordability #politics #Montreal #Toronto cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/re…
Jedna z nejlepších, nejzajímavějších a nejtěžších prací. Pořiďte si. Nebo si půjčte. Sama jsem to opakovaně četla fakt s chutí a na některá řešení jsem hrdá. knihydobrovsky.cz/kniha/rust-7…
The author of this model claims that it took $1000 to train. Meanwhile, $6m is considered cheap for *a single training run for a decent LLM*, and that doesn't even include ablations and experiments.
I really don't understand why this didn't happen earlier.
I thought Eleven Labs had some "secret sauce" that OSS models struggled to replicate, but maybe it's just that nobody even really bothered?
Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz wirft Friedrich Merz vor, mit einer möglichen Abstimmung gemeinsam mit der AfD einen fundamentalen Grundkonsens der Republik zu gef...
Earlier today, Anglican Priest Calvin Robinson ended a speech at a pro life summit in DC by giving the exact same Nazi salute that Elon Musk did.
The crowd laughed & cheered.
The Anglican Church revoked his license.
This is how you handle Nazis. You condemn them. You don’t pander to them.
Considering how many organizations excused Musk’s salute as an “awkward gesture”, I’m incredibly grateful to see the church taking a strong stand against hate
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The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice.
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I work in IT in a small org, we have MS VL contract, I could have any version of office I wanted and in fact have on service machines but on my personal box I installed LO and it just does everything I need it to do.
I tried it (many) years ago and had difficulties with the conversion to .docx etc. I needed this in my communications with clients as not many (if any) were using Linux. Not sure if that problem still exists. At the time, it got to cumbersome and Microsoft 'forced me' to stick with office.
@Scubyw If you tried it many years ago, then why not try it again 😉 It's difficult to chase the moving targets of Microsoft's .docx "transitional" format but we have hundreds of compatibility improvements in every major release...
Kapsys who make accessible smart phones are releasing a new product called KapX later this year. This device is designed to assist with mobility. More information about KapX can be found at
Let's meet, eat, drink and share opinions, hot takes and updates about our projects at the Fringe Event. Nordeck, Workadventure, and Famedly are graciously offering us the drinks and food ❤️
📆 Jan 31, 13:00 CET 🗺️ HSBXL (location changed since last year)
Zu Fortsetzung der beliebten Serie "mecklenburgische Dorfkirchen bei schlechtem Wetter" heute ein kleiner Leckerbissen:
Die, wie viele hiesige #Backsteinkirchen im 12. bis 14. Jhd. nach den Kreuzzügen gegen die bereits ansässige elbslawische Bevölkerung und Kolonisation durch christliche Siedler entstandene Kirche von #KirchMummendorf, die etwa aus der Zeit ab 1250 datiert, enthält Balken aus Bäumen, die schon ab dem Jahre 1026 geschlagen wurden und die aus älteren Gebäuden stammen.
I když máte Premium za 89 Kč měsíčně, #iDnes po vás chce souhlas s tím, aby mohli údaje předávat kdekomu i mimo EU, kde může být "horší uplatňování Vašich práv podle GDPR", jinak vám nic nezobrazí.
Jak může být tohle vůbec legální? No, každopádně bye bye, iDnes.
Nikdy by mě nenapadlo si platit Premium. Za Babiše už vůbec, ale ani teď za Pražáka. Ostatně se na iDnes podívám jen v případě, že tam "zabloudím" přes odkaz.
#XMPP or why all of us should move to use #standards for instant messaging instead of being locked in proprietary networks, centralized servers and/or proprietary protocols/software. Dreaming of a world without WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, and other beasts.
Hi there, the moment has come to do the first instance upgrade cycle in the life of this instalation to bring this server to the actual stable version 2024.12-1 in the comming days.
Are there any specific recomandations or details to have in mind besides the information expected to be found in every update release instruction?
This is basically a single user instance with round about 14 forum pages with few followers each and a total of 18 profiles with contacts in the activityPub and diaspora community and some RSS subscriptions. No other specific conectors are enabled.
DB backups amount to ~180MiB and the image file storage folder on ftp around ~400MiB.
Friendica stable | 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518 PHP Version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14 VPS server | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk - unlimited traffic hosted by @ raroun 👍
Notes: This instances right now seems to work well. Sometimes this profile here has some strange hickups like when following up the link of a post from this server in a stream view a message "Not Found |The requested item doesn't exist or has been deleted." Also right now profiles from contacts, for example @ hoergen or @ feb don't show up in the contact list but they are displayed as followed in the profile contact page.
Thx @Tobias 👍, added the respective links to the publication. I guess there is nothing to add with respect to the difference between 2024.12 and 12-1, it's just installing 2024.12-1 instead of 2024.12 (?).
@TupambAdmin [2023.05] ah, yes that is the same code in Friendica, but the CI needed a fix and reacts only on a release tag - sorry I forgot about that x)
Learning/comprehension question @Tobias: What does "in Friendica" mean? The stable version 2024.12, in other words the github pull of 2024.12 even when the date says "1 month" like it if werent as upt o date than 12-1?
@TupambAdmin [2023.05] no, the files are part of the git repository and are transferred by a git pull. But the files are part of the files that Friendica uses while running on the server.
Question: Release notes and news forum announcement do not mention setting the site into maintenance mode by "going offline" stopping cron job:
1. If you had set up a worker cron job like this */10 * * * * cd /var/www/friendica; /usr/bin/php bin/worker.php run crontab -e and comment out this line.
and the following command:
2. Put your server into maintenance mode: bin/console maintenance 1 "We are currently upgrading our system and will be back soon."
Trying to pull the update from 2023.05 to 2023.12 I get the message that the branch I'm trying to pull doesn't exist: www-data@myservername:~/html$ git pull https://github.com/friendica/friendica/tree/2023.12 fatal: repository 'https://github.com/friendica/friendica/tree/2023.12/' not found
@TupambAdmin [2023.05] @Tobias @…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup Please verify the ownership of these folders. You might have ran Composer as root, which would have made the folders in /vendor unable to modify by the web server user.
vendor ownershipdrwxr-xr-x 40 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 20 21:22 vendor drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 20 21:20 ezyang drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 20 21:20 htmlpurifier
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 341 Nov 17 2023 CREDITS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26456 Nov 17 2023 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1271 Nov 17 2023 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Nov 17 2023 VERSION
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1415 Nov 17 2023 composer.json
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 20 21:20 library
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Feb 20 21:20 HTMLPurifier
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 274 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.auto.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.autoload-legacy.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 910 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.autoload.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.composer.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 576 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.func.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10573 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.includes.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 923 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.kses.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.path.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10187 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13579 Nov 17 2023 HTMLPurifier.safe-includes.php
There has been problems before with nearly all folders becoming owned by root. In this upgrade I made the mistake to initialize bin/composer.phar install --no-dev as root but aborted that intent, changed to www-data and applied bin/composer.phar install --no-dev again.
Command applied now to asure that all folders will be owned by www-data. chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/
What is the www-data user? askubuntu.com/questions/873839… The web server has to be run under a specific user. That user must exist.
If it were run under root, then all the files would have to be accessible by root and the user would need to be root to access the files. With root being the owner, a compromised web server would have access to your entire system. By specifying a specific ID a compromised web server would only have full access to its files and not the entire server.
I guess this observation goes both ways, a compromised friendica instalation get's access to all the friendica folders if I choose to first create/activate the www-data user, than create the friendica installation folder structure, than git clone friendica, than create the smarty3 folder and ultimately do the git clone of the addon folder as described here: tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-… The order in which the creation of www-data related folders in the above case is described makes all folders and files in the friendica directory belong to www-data. In the friendica help description first comes the git-clone, than the the smarty3 folder part than the addon git-clone. Actually I guess that last part would make the addon folder belong to www-data too if I run one command after another. Is that intended?
I wonder if this could have some kind of security implications. I guess www-data is somehow the friendica site and has permissions to do "what ever it wants" (-> "writable by the webserver user") with all the folders in the friendica directories if it's the owner of them.
Somehow this looks all good. We should consider updating to 2024.08.
[spoiler] Friendica Core Updates to the translations AR, CS, DE, ES, FR, GD, HU, IS, IT, JA, NL, PL, RU, SV Updates to the documentation Updates to the themes (frio) General code cleanup Improved the redirection for contact actions Improved the performance while fetching of replies Improved the performance when visiting remote profiles Improved OWA Improved the procession of worker tasks Improved performance in the probing process Improved INBOX performance Improved perfomance when expireing postings Improved mirroring settings for RSS contacts Improved supported image formats Improved handling of CC for comments Improved handling of "sensitive" flags for postings Improved display of log levels Improved handling of permissions for attachments Improved addon handling Improved API for channels and circles Improved performance while displaying local postings Improved federation with pixelfed, threads Improved integration with Bluesky Improved automatic cleanup of the database Fixed access to restricted timeline via API Fixed problem fetching from INBOXes Fixed display of contacts from unavailable networks Fixed profile display Fixed a problem with local un-/follows Fixed the uimport POST endpoint Fixed problem with 0Auth logins Fixed problem with @mentions in comments Fixed XSS in profile fields Fixed bug in deleting unused cached avatar pictures Fixed paging bug on the media tab of remote profiles Fixed display of attached links Fixed a bug in circle only contacts Fixed display of moderation reports Fixed delivery problems to group postings Added monitoring service endpoint Added admin option display_link_length to set the length of displayed links Added the possibility to upload media files via API Added console command to clear avatar cache Added platform data to the API Added parsing support for Nodeinfo 2.1 and 2.2 Added node description to Nodeinfo Added owner information of relay accounts Added option for users about how to transmit postings with titles Added for non HTML content of feeds Added reshares for postings from Bluesky and tumbl Added public forums with manual request approval Added "next try" information for deferred worker jobs listing Added support of FEP-e232 Added automatic closure of registration if admin becomes inactive Added channel only option for contacts
Friendica Addons Updates to the translations AR, CS, DE, FR, IT, PL, SV Blockbot Added Relatica to good client list Improved agent identifier list Bluesky Added monitoring statistics Added support of sensitive postings Improved API handling Improved fetching of user DID Fixed conversion BS/Friendica handles jsuploader Improved detection of supported file types mailstream Improved image handling tumblr Added monitoring statistics Improved quoted postings [/quote]
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This is pretty normal, though.
There was a huge scandal here back when I was in primary school, a group of students went to a swimming pool and one of them, a classmate of mine, drowned because the teachers and lifeguards were busy chatting. Normally, that would have been all over the news, but it happened right when we were hosting the European football championship (june 2012), so it was barely even mentioned.