[-] klu9@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Awww...

Can I at least use the and tags?

[-] klu9@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Just line the parade route and turn your backs on him and his brownshirts as they pass by.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

" Lots of planets have a white cismale backlash"?

[-] klu9@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

A simpler time... when a fan could post a GIF of Spock shagging a sheep without having to worry about being downvoted. Only about how many people signed their guestbook.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

My software chops begin and end with: 10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD" 20 GOTO 10

Good to hear devs are working on it.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks for the info.

In the meantime, I opened a new tab, input my instance, waited for the home page to load, searched for 'elena rossini', compared the top two results (her channels?), went with one, looked at its list of videos and saw that it didn't include the video in question, went back, chose the other account and discovered it has zero videos.

???

Saw your reply, tried new search: "Introducing the Fediverse"... 471 results with hers not visible among the top results. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Looked again at your reply, copied that video link that you originally gave and searched... and it works! (Although... how did you get it? I can't see it anywhere else.) Finally I can upvote it. Sheesh!

Also, tried searching for "fedifuture@videos.elenarossini.com"

  • a search term that I think you can only find if you have already found the video? Catch-22?
  • finds the right channel (which is neither of the ones found in my original search)... but no videos... not even the one it just found when searching for that URL. Same when I'm on the page of the video on my instance ( https://peertube.wtf/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN ) and click on its channel name... no videos.

???

So, there's a chance of me being able to eventually interact with the video... if someone else somehow finds an underlying URL and helpfully gives it to me and I then copy and paste it into my instance's search bar.

Meanwhile with content on every non-fediverse social network, it just takes one click to reach and interact with it (comment, upvote etc).

A social network system that breaks the basic building block of the web, the link, seems to be shooting itself in the foot. I hope the fediverse comes up with a much more user-friendly solution soon.

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[-] klu9@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm still new to the Fediverse; how do I view that link in my home instance of Peertube (peertube.wtf) so that I can save, upvote, comment etc?

[-] klu9@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

The important difference, though, it that Apple offer a service and release software that are black boxes that users and other interested parties cannot examine for backdoors and other issues.

Canonical release open source software, the vast majority of it actually put together by other parties (like volunteer Debian packagers) and whose checksums are verified, which the FLOSS community can go through with a fine tooth comb.

On a further note, while the Investigatory Powers Act and what the govt have been doing with it are very concerning, the very fact that we know about the Apple case and the recent XZ Utils backdoor have demonstrated/reminded us that large, well-funded, well-lawyered orgs in their jurisdiction are not the easiest target for intel agencies.

The true low-hanging fruit, the weakest links in the chain are small, understaffed, underresourced, underappreciated but crucial volunteer projects.

A. How many packages are there in a major Linux distro like Open SUSE? Thousands? Tens of thousands?

B. How many developers contribute to those programs and utilities?

C. How many people packages those programs and utilities?

D. How many people approve those packages for inclusion in the distro?

Add up A, B, C & D, and I suspect you end up with a very large number of people. Can Open SUSE (or any distro for that matter) guarantee that just because their distro's HQ is in country X, that not one of those people is subject to the laws, pressures or inducements of country Y? E.g. how many packages in Open SUSE have some kind of involvement of someone in the UK subject to Investigatory Powers Act? It's probably greater than zero.

So while there are benefits to the distro's HQ being in Germany, I don't think it's a guarantee.

/TED talk

[-] klu9@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Is there any evidence that open source Ubuntu has ever been compromised by an intelligence agency (as opposed to things like that search marketing deal they had years ago)?

[-] klu9@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Me neither.

  • Browser: Zen (mod of Firefox)
  • Extension: LibRedirect (pre-installed in Zen IIRC)
  • App: FreeTube

I click on a YouTube link and it opens in FreeTube, no ads.

Every now and then, videos won't play because of some change by Google, usually it's just a day or so until FreeTube releases an update that works again.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

How did they feel about the constable being a changeling?

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... Bajorans.

[-] klu9@piefed.social 97 points 4 days ago

“While I stand by my support for him, I will call out harmful actions when necessary,” she said. “And finally, this isn’t about regrets; I have none.

Well...

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Teaser trailer

Rise of the Deceiver is an action co-op game in which players, imbued with powers bestowed upon them by the legendary members of the Wu-Tang Clan, fight against invaders that wish to corrupt their home. It’s been in development for three years, and started as a companion piece to Angel of Dust, a movie produced by Ghostface Killah and directed by The RZA.

While there have been numerous hip-hop-centric video games over the years, very few of them tackle the artistry, history, and culture of the genre beyond using it as set dressing. “We wanted to create something where it was built from the ground up,” Dabby Smith said. “It was by the culture, for the culture, and actually representing what [Wu-Tang Clan] put out there through the years.”

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Written by George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger
Art by Harmony Becker
Published by IDW Publishing

It Rhymes with Takei fills in the massive blanks George left in his bestselling autobiography of the 1990s by sharing the story of his being a secretly gay man. It’s a book about love, not sex, a book about the pain of hiding one’s true self. It’s a book about fear, about ambition, about shame, about hollow success, and, most of all, it’s a book about growth.

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Exactly what it says on the tin.

The Voice has some artifacts, but I had to get it out of my head and into yours.
Peter Griffin Backed by the Sky Power Band:

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On May 19, 2025, federal prosecutors charged Rep. LaMonica McIver, a New Jersey Democrat, under a little-known federal statute—18 U.S. Code Section 111—for allegedly assaulting and impeding Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during a visit to a Newark detention facility. The officers refused her entry to conduct a federally authorized oversight visit. It’s still unclear whether the claimed assault was alleged to be physical or verbal. But what’s clear is that Rep. McIver’s prosecution reveals something much larger: Under the current administration, Section 111 is being reimagined as a blunt political weapon. Not to deter violence—but to silence dissent and criminalize opponents.

Section 111 makes it a crime to “forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with” federal officials engaged in their duties. But here’s the problem: You don’t even need to know they’re federal officials. You can be convicted for shoving someone you think is just someone yelling in your face, even just placing them in “reasonable fear of harm” without physical contact—if they turn out to be a plainclothes agent. That’s not hypothetical.

That’s precedent, courtesy of the Supreme Court over 50 years ago.
Which means this: An undercover agent embedded in a protest, a public meeting, even a constituent town hall could claim to have been “impeded,” and the federal government can treat that moment as a federal crime. Under the current administration’s appetite for authoritarianism, that’s not a loophole, it’s a feature.

Archived at https://archive.is/JvUOO

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Out of five critical tech sectors, “China has the most immediate opportunity to overtake the United States in biotechnology,” the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs said Thursday in its release of a “Critical and Emerging Technologies Index,” covering AI, biotech, semiconductors, space and quantum.

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Online culture and censorship have broken the ties that once spurred protesters.

Today, June 4, marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—a moment of both tragedy and hope. It was the bloody end to a nationwide democracy movement that brought together workers and students, the most promising push for political reform in the history of the People’s Republic of China. But despite the courage of many individual Chinese who fought for democracy and the solidarity of their international supporters, there has not been a comparable movement since—and it’s hard to imagine one arising anytime soon.

It wasn't paywalled on my phone, but apparently it is when viewed elsewhere.

One of the key factors mentioned in the article: the erosion of the "the middle ring" from many societies (not just China): "close-ish" but not intimate/familial face-to-face relationships (neighbours, coworkers etc.) that are key to growing a social movement with real world activity.

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