2026-03-20 05:49:53
Just upgraded https://peertube.iridescent.nz to the latest version - 8.1.3 - Aotearoa NZ's own Peertube instance is up-to-date.
Just upgraded https://peertube.iridescent.nz to the latest version - 8.1.3 - Aotearoa NZ's own Peertube instance is up-to-date.
Does anyone know which #instance Sly Boy is using here? I also want to keep tags on the #pediverse users (I know they’ve probably talked about me).#question
lets do this!
"For instance, the technology’s fast charging, high output and robust endurance suggest a good fit for storing excess electricity generated at solar farms during the daytime, to power the grid at night. It may also be useful for backup power at data centers.
“Because this technology could extend the lifetime of batteries to decades upon decades, it might be ideal for storing renewable energy or quickly taking over when power is lost,” El-Kady said. “This would remove worries about the changing cost of infrastructure.”
#climateaction #electrification
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
A #gongfarmer in the wild!
#DCCRPG https://piefed.soci…
When you see antisemitic bots like this that spam replies to posts criticising Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, make sure you report and block them.
(They block you after commenting so you can’t act on their post. Unless, that is, you run your own instance like I do and can suspend them.)
But wait, did I just call them antisemitic?
Why yes, conflating Zionism with being Jewish is to state that all Jews support Israel, settler colonialism, apartheid, ethn…
thinking about pre-installing a local searxng instance in bog and setting the default search for firefox to it
I Guess I’m now the first ever Indiekit Instance on the #fediverse
Thanks to Fedify
{
"@context": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"
Pretty interesting article, this one.
https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkiverse-experiment-and-why-instance-choice-matters/
It's the time of the month where #AIcrawlers with outdated user agents hit our Trac instance again…
"Whoa. What? Stop. You're into Klingon acid punk?"
I have very strong feelings of affection towards Star Trek: Lower Decks 🥰 You know how kids don't have a concept of being childish and instead everything cool is awesome? Like, Trek awesome? That's how exciting it is for me to watch every episode. For instance, "We'll always have Tom Paris" (2x03) features...Tom Paris! 😁
#FediBlock @… and @…
First account is an LLM abusing the instance, and the second account is the orchestrator of the abuse.
Most inst…
Maybe I should start keeping track of my instance kills... :nes_fire::cloudcomputing::nes_fire:
""From my home office, running Bluehood in passive mode (just listening, never connecting), I could detect:
* When delivery vehicles arrived, and whether it was the same driver each time
* The daily patterns of my neighbours based on their phones and wearables
* Which devices consistently appeared together (someone’s phone and smartwatch, for instance)
* The exact times certain people were home, at work, or elsewhere
None of this required any …
I always use some of the funds from the gardenstate.social patreon to hire illustrators to make art for our instance.
Anyone have good ideas of what kind of art we could commission next?
#gardenStateSocial #newJersey
Whoops, MullvadVPN DNS blocker for social media also blocks my own Mastodon instance 😳
Our instance is on the list, which is actually nice :)
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116043212772197701
❝On their way to the cells, they saw other detainees who were screaming and wailing for help, though most were dejectedly staring at the ground, they said. In one instance, they observed a woman who was trying to use a toilet while three male agents watched.
…
“Just hearing the visceral pain of the people in this center was awful,” O’Keefe said. “And then you juxtapose that with the laughter we heard from the actual agents….”❞
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-protest-arrests-detention-ice-8993bfd5d54b870521ec5b44fc42cd71
Im Namen von @…, @… sowie @… laden wir alle Interessierten sehr herzlich zu folgendem…
I am surprised at how bad the D's are at messaging.
For instance, the D's don't break down the costs of el cheato's wars, tariffs, and gifts to the wealthy in terms that normal people can understand.
For instance: The war in Iran is costing every person - every man, woman, and child - about $3 every day - $90 a month - $1000/year. So a family of four is paying about $4000 for the R-party's war in Iran.
Then there's the tariffs - cost to the typical…
A new pull request for Vulnerability-Lookup adds a CSAF producer that publishes advisories for many manufacturers.
This is great for defenders and researchers, as it increases the amount of detailed vulnerability information available.
It will push the number of ingested feeds to more than 50 unique sources, highlighting the growing diversity of our data sources.
If someone tells you there is a single source of truth for vulnerability information, they’re ignoring the reali…
I'm having some performance issues with #phanpy For instance I can't write a new post because it never opens the page for it. Has anyone experienced this?
I'm using:
https://phanpy.blaede.family…
Oh I do love how you have your Kitten¹ app’s database in memory – thanks to Kitten’s built-in JavaScript Database (JSDB)² – and accessible via the Kitten Shell (REPL)³ during dev.
(If I do say so myself.) ;)
:kitten:💕
¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
²
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
I wonder if a Friendica Instance could be a replacement for LinkedIn people. Just today I spoke with a colleague and he was also like "you can't use LinkedIn anymore nowadays! Everyone is an Expert in something it's totally ruined!"
Now that we've all left Twitter, where do we go to shame companies whose customer support teams (or LLM replacement thereof) have completely shat the bed?
In this instance, fucking Stripe. Again. Who used to be good about 10 years ago and have cruised straight downhill ever since.
The Trump administration, spooked by possible preparations by Iran to mine the strait,
Carried out strikes against 16 mine-laying vessels near the strait on Tuesday.
US Central Command posted a video showing munitions hitting nine vessels, most of which were moored as they were struck.
But the more potent threat remains the risk of a direct attack by Iran at scale
– for instance, a swarm of one-way attack drones or a series of shore-to-ship ballistic missiles, accordi…
I hate youtube as a service. Especially in recent years, it's getting shittier and shittier and shittier and even shittier.
But DAMN, how I love some of the stuff people put in there.
Like this absolute gem, for instance. https://youtu.be/I4MlC1hCIs4
This is hands down the most wholesome "Stranger Things" fact ever https://piefed.social/c/television/p/1661852/this-is-hands-down-the-most-wholesome-stranger-things-fact-ever
I think that I am going to shut down https://JWS.Social (my GoToSocial instance) tonight ahead of it moving to the new host in the morning.
I've started a little experiment.
I've erected an instance of Ghost 6 running on a Raspberry Pi and today it finally started talking across the Fediverse and the Bridge to Blue Sky.
In other words it's a Ghost Bloggy Magazine thing. The robot here is at @…
The website is at https:\\www.samizdat.uk
I added a Tier for anyone that wants t…
Fascinated at how Wikidata's property constraints push particular models.
The capture of Maduro has different instance values, eg both "military intervention" and "kidnapping" (with a "disputed by" qualifier).
But the (disputed) inclusion then tries to push the use of perpetrator/victim values, rather than a neutral "participant".
(Wikidata property values have highly contextual meanings beyond simple labels... but editors are sti…
The little owl, Athena noctua, is well-known as the companion of the goddess Athena, though it is uncertain how she became associated with the nocturnal birds. In Europe, the owl therefore represents wisdom and is the symbol of many a university.
The ancient Greeks showed #Athena with her favourite bird in their art, like for instance this bronze statuette of Athena flying her owl, dated ca.…
They'd be renaming anyone these days in the #WWE
Vacant − Vacant Championship
Now a 4-time NXT Champion.
(def. Oba Femi, Samoa Joe, Karrion Kross and Tommaso Ciampa)
#prowrestling
#socialcoop So our Meet.Coop instance has been down for 3 weeks, and from what I see on https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-update-october-2025/1739/47, it's not clear w…
⁉️ Hat jemand Bock, Guppe wieder aufleben zu lassen? Es muss sich jemand um Serveraufsetzen und Betrieb kümmern.
https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/119
Stupid idea: if you ban your #mastodon instance admins, they won't see that your toots violate the rules, right?
Just a shoutout to @… and @… and the team of this instance. It is great being on a social media platform where I trust the moderators to keep me safe.
@… The Vivaldi instance for Mastodon is great. I've used it for about a year.
Very quick hardware update on my homelab server. I swapped out ye olde DELL Optiplex 960 with its Intel Core 2 Duo for a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910x with an Intel Core i5-7500. I really only had to move the SSD over into the ThinkCentre, enable legacy boot in the BIOS and change the network interface name in the network config. That's was it. And now my peertube instance can finally run the latest official docker image. @…
The Mastodon instance fairmove.net has got a major update today (Postgres database v13 -> v15, Redis 8.2, Mastodon 4.5.6). Your timeline should fill up again soon. Or watch the live feed to be inspired. Happy fediversing!
In the past few weeks there has been a bot farm hammering small Mastodon instances with requests for what looks like emoji-related assets and the hashtag API.
More specifically, it appears this bot farm has now come for my Mastodon instance, because the number of requests has doubled in the last 24 hours, with a lot of the requests being API requests for a single JSON file.
Even more specifically, looking at data provided by my CDN provider, a lot of the bots appear to be using IP addresses associated with Tencent Singapore.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon
Hivemind: I'm investigating a possible case of academic misconduct. Has anyone come across an instance of GenAI supplying a comment to a bibliographical reference that goes something like this: 'This is often cited as the standard publication; adjust page numbers if you use a different version'?
#GenAI #ChatGPT
Whoa, just set up a wiki.js instance! Slick! Took about 10 minutes. If you're not familiar, see https://js.wiki
Cryptpad is an interesting platform, you can collaborate, fully encrypted, no BigTech involved, there are already several instances and ofcourse you can start your own one.
#crpytpad
OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been
Yep.
I run my instance on Ubuntu Server in a Proxmox VM in my home lab, but it would be nice to take advantage of some of the Apple-specific workflows on a dedicated Mac Mini.
https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/opencla…
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116043212772197701
In my experience, people who care about accessibility are usually good folks. So if you’re looking for a good Mastodon instance to join, this is likely a good guide.
every morning 1 - 5 bots sign up at the same time. I could fix this by closing signup or requiring approvals but I both don't want to and want to be included in the upcoming mastodon local instance sign up program.
Once https://gardenstate.social is in the program I only expect bot signup to increase.
Just ran a successful non-interactive build and test cycle of ngscopeclient in a Debian VM with a PCIe passthrough GPU.
Just start the VM from the snapshot, paste a handful of shell commands into a SSH session, and I get this.
Still need to work out how to actually spawn the VM, specify the hash I want to build, shut it down and revert when done, etc.
Took only three and a half minutes on this instance (16GB RAM, 16 vCPU, GTX 1630) which is pretty decent considering there w…
"WASHINGTON — In a stunning instance of miscommunication between departments, ICE agents have deported Venezuelan dictator Nicolšs Maduro back to Venezuela just hours after he was abducted by the DEA."
~ The Hard Times
I just realized the Vivaldi browser has a default sidebar button for Trending from their Mastodon instance.
Which means I've breached containment... :elmo_fire:
Time may fly like an arrow, but "fruit flies like a banana" is NOT true. Most fruits are round and have completely different aerodynamic properties. Apples and oranges, for instance, don't fly the same way as a banana at all. Let's retire such undue generalizations in 2026.
Question: Do I need #Kibana
Running my own instance with Elastic 7 bugged me because the signatures on the repository were too old-fashioned. Jumped in and went with https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/
Calibratable Disambiguation Loss for Multi-Instance Partial-Label Learning
Wei Tang, Yin-Fang Yang, Weijia Zhang, Min-Ling Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17788 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17788 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17788
arXiv:2512.17788v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-instance partial-label learning (MIPL) is a weakly supervised framework that extends the principles of multi-instance learning (MIL) and partial-label learning (PLL) to address the challenges of inexact supervision in both instance and label spaces. However, existing MIPL approaches often suffer from poor calibration, undermining classifier reliability. In this work, we propose a plug-and-play calibratable disambiguation loss (CDL) that simultaneously improves classification accuracy and calibration performance. The loss has two instantiations: the first one calibrates predictions based on probabilities from the candidate label set, while the second one integrates probabilities from both candidate and non-candidate label sets. The proposed CDL can be seamlessly incorporated into existing MIPL and PLL frameworks. We provide a theoretical analysis that establishes the lower bound and regularization properties of CDL, demonstrating its superiority over conventional disambiguation losses. Experimental results on benchmark and real-world datasets confirm that our CDL significantly enhances both classification and calibration performance.
toXiv_bot_toot
Looking for private instance messengers, Matrix is ok but the over-secure design makes it hard for normals to cope with phone changes etc
There is support for these laws because people think the only consequence of a ban on a thing is that the thing stops existing.
For instance: Heroin is dangerous and addictive? Ban it then.
And suddenly you have organized crime and a grey market and criminal gangs shooting each other in the streets while addicts can’t seek help and have to resort to crime to fund their addiction. Their lives more chaotic and criminal than ever. Our streets are littered in needles.
Well done everyone.
Now we think algorithmic social media may be mind bending?
Shall we ban it? For kids? Even if we can’t define it?
If you break kids access to the internet you sacrifice all the good that the majority of kids are getting from it for an ineffective solution which won’t fix anything and will mean massive increases in government surveillance and censorship. To data-hordes being hacked and people suffering ID theft.
And it won’t help.
Misogyny and sexism and depression are older than the internet.
Plus of course kids remain better at accessing computers than their parents. You’re going to end up breaking the internet for adults who can’t figure out how to verify while the kids start to use VPNs and stolen IDs to browse 4chan.
Well, some of you know that this instance also offers a matrix server.
However, sone users have decided to join every room possible - on every server they can find.
And that causes our server to run out of space and being constantly overloaded all the time.
This is why we cant have nice things
robots that only 'mine' 404's and then repeat that ad infinitum.
or scripts that posts on xmlrpc.php which is of course also a 404.
obnoxious robot builders please show some manners and read the ff-ing status code and continue your dirty work on 200's for instance.
bloody idiots.
OH: I had to pick Engineer because Broker EC2 Instance Herder wasn't an option
The Pihole instance running on my laptop blocks about 21% of the DNS requests …. This is self-defense …
#Pihole #Enshittification
@… Pulled up theforkiverse.com in the kitchen while listening via incognito mode. Thanks for following through on fediverse reporting—fun episode, well explained. A followup might cover all the other fedi app types. You could even stream an episode recording session on Owncast (what’s the worst that could happen? :-) Enjoy your no-algo feed.
Here's a bit of walking from today's hike.
Actually I didn't even want to go that far becasue I assumed it to be covered in snow.
But luckily it was completly free from snow! So I felt save to go.
AND according to Strato's mail, it the 1st anniversary of my #peertube instance! I started is as a fun test. It's not super frequented (okay, my Youtube channel was…
HELLO BLUESKY USERS!
You can follow me over here on Mastodon **but** I won't see your replies and won't be able to follow you back unless you give permission for that…
…which is easy. Just follow this special BlueSky user:
https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy
(1) click on th…
Hello all - it's that time again - tomorrow evening, Tue 13 Jan, at 20:00 NZDT, we'll be having our Jan Libre/FOSS meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - anyone welcome to join us. It'll be held on our BigBlueButton instance (thanks to Prodigi.nz for sponsored hosting infrastructure!). We'll …
@… check out this simple Datasette app a friend of mine made with exe.xyz. His entire input was: "There is publicly available data on service requests for Arlington VA available at: https://data.arlingtonva.us/dataset/100?tab=2
Can you make me a datasette instance to explore this data?"
Not that different from other vibe coding except that exe.xyz seems remarkably easy to use.
One important thing I need to keep in mind with LibreWolf is that when something does not work I need to check if it works in Firefox.
For instance the TrueNAS shell was not working, and I realized that TrueNAS wasn't broken, LibreWolf was just "protecting" me...
Which again, is a good thing, but it's sometime a bit too much protection for those of us who know what we are doing.
I published a yacy instance on https://yeold.org
What we're seeing with #theforkiverse has worked before and can work again. Community leaders have proven they can build communities in places like discord and it would be super cool if there were clear reasons for them to choose fediverse platforms.
Not sure if there are clear ways to promote it. Perhaps more focus on instance customization (tbh plugins would help).
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
Hey everyone,
Gaza Verified is now open again for verification calls in 2026.
The new process for signing up for verification calls uses sign in with Mastodon and should remove the last remaining technical hurdle that was giving some of our friends in Gaza a hard time (adding the verification link to your Mastodon account is not intuitive in the current Mastodon interface). With this new flow, you won’t have to, we do it for you.
The key to ⚠️holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable for constitutional violations -- may lie in a 1987 law review article by a young law professor named Akhil Reed Amar.
“I think it was a good idea then,” he said last week,
“and it’s only taken more than half a lifetime for people to actually read the thing.”
The article has, in truth, been quite influential. It has been cited, for instance, in seven Supreme Court opinions.
But it was also 96 pa…
Incredible. I love the idea of taking checkpoints and the "papers please" mentality, and turning it around on the nazis.
#FuckICE #Minnesota (and yes, this is very much also #TacticalUrbanism
And one more Winter clip 🙂 from the #mountains recently.
(I need to feed my peertube instance, otherwise I would question, why I pay for it)
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/qNkKaMEcLWcp…
Someone asked me, “Have you read the latest Dan Brown?” There’s actually a mention of MISP in The Secret of Secrets. And yes, it fits surprisingly well within the story. Alex Conan (who assists Jonas Faukman in the investigation) mentions that he detected the activity using FTK, and that the indicators were later reused by the threat actor (having a hit on a MISP instance).
“But before I could build the algorithm, my FTK scan returned a hit. One of
the IoCs from th…
“you can just supply an IP address of a MongoDB instance and it’ll start ferreting out in memory things such as database passwords (which are plain text), AWS secret keys etc. The exploit specifically looks for those class of credentials and secrets, too.”
https://doublepulsar.com…
So now that Meet.Coop isn't working (they shut down the @… instance and don't seem to be able to bring it back) wondering if anyone knows of another #privacy or #cooperative
Timberborn added HTTP support in their latest version. Both sending and receiving requests. Just a URL, no body or anything. But that is enough to have it signal my @… instance about whether I have enough logs or not in stock. On a trigger, it sends a GET request to HA, and HA announces it through a voice satellite:
Apologies to followers and would-be correspondents on mastodon.social—I've just found a bunch of replies to my posts over the last year that dice.camp filtered out on the basis of instance. I couldn't see them in my client, but stumbled across them accessing Masto via the web.
Reading algorithmic feeds is a crazy thing to do: abandoning control over your own influences to a robot programmed by advertisers to manipulate you?
Madness.
I will not allow a robot programmed by advertisers and surveillance capitalists to determine what I read.
I don’t read any robo-feeds and don’t recommend anyone else does.
But people do:
Top five highest reaching smart phone apps:
All designed to harvest data from your phone, three of them owned by one creepy billionaire, and most people use them by looking at a robo-feed suggesting to them what to read and watch or filter.
I don’t use any of them.
I watch some Youtube, but not though their app. Uninstalled that from my phone as soon as I got it. It’s an awful downgrade of just playing in a browser page. I subscribe to some channels there in my RSS reader like a boss. Never watch what their recommendation algorithms suggests.
I tell them what I want to watch, I don’t let them tell ME what to watch, and frankly I wish all those videographers would start a peertube instance or something instead of posting their work on a corporate surveillance site.
I say you should avoid that algorithm stuff, it’s crazy manipulative.
But people should be free to do what they want.
I’m free to block Facebook! And I do: and I encourage everyone else to do so too.
Edit your DNS, block their domain names. Do it.
But if governments or corporations have the power to mandate those choices for everyone, it will go badly.
Prohibitions always do.
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
For some reason trump thinks that Europe has no means to retaliate against US pressure over Greenland.
Suppose, for instance, that Denmark constricts the shipments of diabetes and popular weight loss drugs to the US?
Or, given that most US airlines have a lot of Airbus aircraft, suppose that France blocks the export of Airbus replacement parts to the US (just as the US blocks the shipment of Boeing replacement parts to Iran.) That would quickly shut down much of the US air-trave…
I don't think I ever got the reddit model down but I'm going to try it out on this piefed instance with a new New Jersey community
#newjersey
Just added a “Sign in with Mastodon” example to Kitten’s¹ examples:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/sign-in-with-mastodon
If I have time at some point, I might make it into a tutorial.
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕
By post, it's mostly web rather than Phanpy.
Suspect it's mostly replies over stand-alone only because of threads here really. Most of a thread counts as a reply because it's a reply-to-self.
I mostly use the web interface for new posts rather than the phanpy one because I can't type an emoji in Phanpy. Only instance custom-emojis can be typed starting with a colon and I usually want 😄 or 😉 or 🙄 not the custom emojii. Can't type them on Phanpy. So I mostly compose on web.
Maybe the Phanpy dev has some kind of emoji plugin or something? Dunno why he makes it only do the custom ones.
But this is why I mostly post from web even though I almost entirely read from Phanphy. Which means replies mostly come from Phanpy but standalone mostly from Web.
The last 5 days have been a bit wild for the GCVE.eu initiative.
What started as steady work suddenly picked up real momentum:
The public GCVE.eu database instance - https://db.gcve.eu/ - caught the attention of the media, sparking discussions well beyond our usual circles
We publishe…
Today I managed to set up a #copyparty instance as a frontend for a remote sftp mount, reverse proxied with #nginx for TLS encryption, on :nixos: #NixOS. Oh boy was that a wild ride. 😮💨
Copyparty itself …
I set up my own #Jellyfin instance to serve my old music library. To my surprise the sound quality subjectively seems much better than on Spotify ...
@… hello. tell me why you choose this instance!
In case you want to report this Zionist hasbara account that posted this reply and blocked me, please feel free to.
(This is their new tactic. The anonymous cowards.)
PS. Be careful, they’re on a German instance, they might block you instead if the admins are pro-genocide also (it’s a very common thing in Germany).
#zionism