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So … I have been busy contributing to this

tldr: real-time #telegram archive of the Russian War against Ukraine.

It’s 100% built with Claude Code in a bit more than 2 months

it’s near 200.000 lines of #python code, without counting with documentation of course.

check it out !

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:11:37 +0100

let me rephrase that title : Big Tech basically flipped their script and bowed to the King (other images come to mind but would be very vulgar)

arstechnica.com/tech-poli…

Upgrading Funkwhale from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0-rc5 on Debian

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:48:24 +0100

After running Funkwhale 1.4.0 for a while, I decided to upgrade to the 2.0.0-rc5 release candidate. This post documents the full upgrade process on a Debian 12 (bookworm) server, including the issues I encountered and how to resolve them.

What’s New in Funkwhale 2.0

Funkwhale 2.0 brings significant changes:

Libraries replaced by Playlists - The old “Libraries” concept has been migrated to a more intuitive playlist-based system
Python 3.11+ required - The minimum Python version has been bumped
Django 5.1.6 - Major framework upgrade
venv instead of virtualenv - The recommended virtual environment tool has changed
Improved artist credits system - Better handling of artist metadata
Federation improvements - Enhanced ActivityPub support (though this may break compatibility with older instances)

Prerequisites

Before starting the upgrade, ensure you have:

Root access to your server
Sufficient disk space for backups (~2x your database size + config files)
Python 3.11 installed (python3 --version)
The python3.11-venv package installed

apt install python3.11-venv

Step 1: Create a Full Backup

Never skip this step. The database backup is your lifeline if something goes wrong.

Database Backup

sudo -u postgres pg_dumpall > /srv/funkwhale/backups/dump_$(date +%d-%m-%Y_%H_%M_%S).sql

Media Backup

If you have a lot of music, consider syncing your media directory to another location:

# From your local machine (if you have rsync access)
rsync -avz --progress user@yourserver:/srv/funkwhale/data/music ~/funkwhale-backup/music/

Or create a compressed archive on the server:

tar -czvf /srv/funkwhale/backups/media-backup.tar.gz /srv/funkwhale/data/music

Configuration Backup

cp -a /srv/funkwhale/config /srv/funkwhale/backups/config-backup

Step 2: Stop Funkwhale Services

systemctl stop funkwhale.target

Verify everything is stopped:

systemctl status funkwhale-server funkwhale-worker funkwhale-beat

Step 3: Backup Current Installation

Before removing anything, backup the current installation for potential rollback:

BACKUP_DIR="/srv/funkwhale/backups/upgrade-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)"
mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR"

cp -a /srv/funkwhale/api "$BACKUP_DIR/api"
cp -a /srv/funkwhale/front "$BACKUP_DIR/front"
cp -a /srv/funkwhale/virtualenv "$BACKUP_DIR/virtualenv"
cp -a /srv/funkwhale/config "$BACKUP_DIR/config"

# Backup systemd units
mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR/systemd"
cp /etc/systemd/system/funkwhale*.service "$BACKUP_DIR/systemd/"
cp /etc/systemd/system/funkwhale.target "$BACKUP_DIR/systemd/"

# Backup nginx config
mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR/nginx"
cp /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/your-site.conf "$BACKUP_DIR/nginx/"
cp /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf "$BACKUP_DIR/nginx/"

Step 4: Download Funkwhale 2.0.0-rc5

export FUNKWHALE_VERSION="2.0.0-rc5"
cd /srv/funkwhale

# Download API
curl -L -o "api-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip" \
    "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/jobs/artifacts/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/download?job=build_api"

# Download Frontend
curl -L -o "front-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip" \
    "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/jobs/artifacts/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/download?job=build_front"

Step 5: Install the New Version

Remove Old Files

rm -rf /srv/funkwhale/api/*
rm -rf /srv/funkwhale/front/*

Extract New Files

cd /srv/funkwhale

# Extract API
unzip -q "api-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip" -d extracted
mv extracted/api/* api/
rm -rf extracted "api-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip"

# Extract Frontend
unzip -q "front-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip" -d extracted
mv extracted/front/* front/
rm -rf extracted "front-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip"

Create New Python Virtual Environment

Funkwhale 2.0 uses venv instead of virtualenv:

cd /srv/funkwhale

# Remove old virtualenv (if upgrading from 1.x)
rm -rf virtualenv

# Create new venv
python3 -m venv venv
venv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip wheel

# Install Funkwhale API
venv/bin/pip install --editable ./api

# Set correct permissions
chown -R funkwhale:funkwhale api front venv

Step 6: Update Systemd Unit Files

The systemd unit files need to be updated to point to the new venv directory instead of virtualenv.

You can download them from the repository:

export FUNKWHALE_VERSION="2.0.0-rc5"

curl -L -o "/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale.target" \
    "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/deploy/funkwhale.target"
curl -L -o "/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale-server.service" \
    "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/deploy/funkwhale-server.service"
curl -L -o "/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale-worker.service" \
    "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/deploy/funkwhale-worker.service"
curl -L -o "/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale-beat.service" \
    "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/deploy/funkwhale-beat.service"

systemctl daemon-reload

Note: If the curl commands return HTML instead of the service files (404 errors), you may need to clone the repository and copy the files manually:

git clone --branch 2.0.0-rc5 --depth 1 https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale.git /tmp/funkwhale-2.0
cp /tmp/funkwhale-2.0/deploy/funkwhale*.service /etc/systemd/system/
cp /tmp/funkwhale-2.0/deploy/funkwhale.target /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload

Step 7: Update Nginx Configuration (Optional)

If you want to use the latest nginx configuration:

curl -L -o /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf \
    "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/deploy/funkwhale_proxy.conf"

nginx -t && systemctl reload nginx

Step 8: Run Database Migrations

This is the critical step that updates your database schema:

cd /srv/funkwhale

# Collect static files
sudo -u funkwhale venv/bin/funkwhale-manage collectstatic --no-input

# Run migrations
sudo -u funkwhale venv/bin/funkwhale-manage migrate

You should see output showing the migrations being applied, including:

music.0001_initial through various migrations
playlists migrations (new in 2.0)
common and federation updates

Step 9: Start Services

systemctl start funkwhale.target

Wait a few seconds and verify everything is running:

systemctl status funkwhale-server funkwhale-worker funkwhale-beat

All three services should show active (running).

Step 10: Verify the Upgrade

Check that the API is responding:

curl -s https://your-domain.com/api/v2/ | head -20

You should see the API root response with version information.

Troubleshooting

Issue: “ensurepip is not available”

If you see this error when creating the venv:

Error: Command '['/srv/funkwhale/venv/bin/python3', '-m', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

Solution: Install the python3.11-venv package:

apt install python3.11-venv
rm -rf /srv/funkwhale/venv
python3 -m venv /srv/funkwhale/venv

Issue: Celery Beat Fails to Start

If funkwhale-beat keeps restarting with database errors:

_dbm.error: cannot add item to database

Solution: Remove the corrupted schedule database:

rm /srv/funkwhale/api/celerybeat-schedule.db
systemctl restart funkwhale-beat

Issue: Systemd Unit Download Returns HTML

The GitLab raw file URLs sometimes don’t work for tags. Clone the repo and copy manually (see Step 6).

Issue: Permission Errors

Always ensure the funkwhale user owns all files:

chown -R funkwhale:funkwhale /srv/funkwhale/api /srv/funkwhale/front /srv/funkwhale/venv

Rollback Procedure

If something goes seriously wrong, you can rollback:

Stop services:
```
systemctl stop funkwhale.target
```

Restore files from backup:

BACKUP_DIR="/srv/funkwhale/backups/upgrade-YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS"
rm -rf /srv/funkwhale/api /srv/funkwhale/front /srv/funkwhale/venv
cp -a "$BACKUP_DIR/api" /srv/funkwhale/
cp -a "$BACKUP_DIR/front" /srv/funkwhale/
cp -a "$BACKUP_DIR/virtualenv" /srv/funkwhale/

Restore systemd units:

cp "$BACKUP_DIR/systemd/"* /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload

Restore database (if needed):

sudo -u postgres psql < /srv/funkwhale/backups/dump_DD-MM-YYYY_HH_MM_SS.sql

Start services:
```
systemctl start funkwhale.target
```

Automated Upgrade Script

For convenience, I’ve created a script that automates the entire process with rollback capability. You can find it below:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Funkwhale Upgrade Script: 1.4.0 -> 2.0.0-rc5
# With rollback capability
#
# Usage: ./upgrade-funkwhale-2.0.sh [upgrade|rollback|status]
#

set -e

# Configuration
FUNKWHALE_VERSION="2.0.0-rc5"
FUNKWHALE_DIR="/srv/funkwhale"
BACKUP_DIR="/srv/funkwhale/backups/upgrade-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)"
ROLLBACK_MARKER="/srv/funkwhale/backups/.rollback_info"

# Colors for output
RED='\033[0;31m'
GREEN='\033[0;32m'
YELLOW='\033[1;33m'
NC='\033[0m' # No Color

log_info() { echo -e "${GREEN}[INFO]${NC} $1"; }
log_warn() { echo -e "${YELLOW}[WARN]${NC} $1"; }
log_error() { echo -e "${RED}[ERROR]${NC} $1"; }

check_root() {
    if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
        log_error "This script must be run as root"
        exit 1
    fi
}

check_services_stopped() {
    if systemctl is-active --quiet funkwhale-server.service; then
        log_error "Funkwhale services are still running. Stop them first with: systemctl stop funkwhale.target"
        exit 1
    fi
}

backup_current() {
    log_info "Creating backup in $BACKUP_DIR..."
    mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR"

    log_info "Backing up API..."
    cp -a "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/api" "$BACKUP_DIR/api"

    log_info "Backing up frontend..."
    cp -a "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/front" "$BACKUP_DIR/front"

    log_info "Backing up virtualenv..."
    cp -a "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/virtualenv" "$BACKUP_DIR/virtualenv"

    log_info "Backing up config..."
    cp -a "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/config" "$BACKUP_DIR/config"

    log_info "Backing up systemd units..."
    mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR/systemd"
    cp /etc/systemd/system/funkwhale*.service "$BACKUP_DIR/systemd/" 2>/dev/null || true
    cp /etc/systemd/system/funkwhale.target "$BACKUP_DIR/systemd/" 2>/dev/null || true

    log_info "Backing up nginx config..."
    mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR/nginx"
    cp /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf "$BACKUP_DIR/nginx/" 2>/dev/null || true
    cp /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf "$BACKUP_DIR/nginx/" 2>/dev/null || true

    # Save rollback info
    echo "$BACKUP_DIR" > "$ROLLBACK_MARKER"
    echo "BACKUP_DATE=$(date)" >> "$ROLLBACK_MARKER"
    echo "OLD_VERSION=1.4.0" >> "$ROLLBACK_MARKER"
    echo "NEW_VERSION=$FUNKWHALE_VERSION" >> "$ROLLBACK_MARKER"

    log_info "Backup complete: $BACKUP_DIR"
}

download_new_version() {
    log_info "Downloading Funkwhale $FUNKWHALE_VERSION..."

    cd "$FUNKWHALE_DIR"

    log_info "Downloading API..."
    curl -L -o "api-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip" \
        "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/jobs/artifacts/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/download?job=build_api"

    log_info "Downloading Frontend..."
    curl -L -o "front-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip" \
        "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/jobs/artifacts/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/download?job=build_front"

    log_info "Downloads complete"
}

install_new_version() {
    log_info "Installing Funkwhale $FUNKWHALE_VERSION..."

    cd "$FUNKWHALE_DIR"

    log_info "Removing old API and frontend..."
    rm -rf api/* front/*

    log_info "Extracting API..."
    unzip -q "api-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip" -d extracted
    mv extracted/api/* api/
    rm -rf extracted "api-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip"

    log_info "Extracting frontend..."
    unzip -q "front-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip" -d extracted
    rm -rf front/*
    mv extracted/front/* front/
    rm -rf extracted "front-$FUNKWHALE_VERSION.zip"

    log_info "Creating new Python virtual environment..."
    rm -rf venv
    python3 -m venv venv
    venv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip wheel

    log_info "Installing Funkwhale API package..."
    venv/bin/pip install --editable ./api

    chown -R funkwhale:funkwhale api front venv

    log_info "Installation complete"
}

update_systemd_units() {
    log_info "Updating systemd unit files..."

    curl -L -o "/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale.target" \
        "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/deploy/funkwhale.target"
    curl -L -o "/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale-server.service" \
        "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/deploy/funkwhale-server.service"
    curl -L -o "/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale-worker.service" \
        "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/deploy/funkwhale-worker.service"
    curl -L -o "/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale-beat.service" \
        "https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/$FUNKWHALE_VERSION/deploy/funkwhale-beat.service"

    systemctl daemon-reload
    log_info "Systemd units updated"
}

run_migrations() {
    log_info "Running database migrations..."

    cd "$FUNKWHALE_DIR"

    log_info "Collecting static files..."
    sudo -u funkwhale venv/bin/funkwhale-manage collectstatic --no-input

    log_info "Applying database migrations..."
    sudo -u funkwhale venv/bin/funkwhale-manage migrate

    log_info "Migrations complete"
}

start_services() {
    log_info "Starting Funkwhale services..."
    systemctl start funkwhale.target
    systemctl reload nginx

    sleep 5

    if systemctl is-active --quiet funkwhale-server.service; then
        log_info "Funkwhale services started successfully!"
    else
        log_error "Services failed to start. Check logs with: journalctl -u funkwhale-server.service"
        exit 1
    fi
}

do_upgrade() {
    log_info "Starting Funkwhale upgrade to $FUNKWHALE_VERSION"
    log_warn "Make sure you have a database backup before proceeding!"

    check_root
    check_services_stopped

    backup_current
    download_new_version
    install_new_version
    update_systemd_units
    run_migrations
    start_services

    log_info "=========================================="
    log_info "Upgrade complete!"
    log_info "Funkwhale $FUNKWHALE_VERSION is now running"
    log_info "=========================================="
    log_info "If something goes wrong, run: $0 rollback"
}

do_rollback() {
    log_info "Starting rollback..."

    check_root

    if [[ ! -f "$ROLLBACK_MARKER" ]]; then
        log_error "No rollback information found. Cannot rollback."
        exit 1
    fi

    BACKUP_DIR=$(head -1 "$ROLLBACK_MARKER")

    if [[ ! -d "$BACKUP_DIR" ]]; then
        log_error "Backup directory not found: $BACKUP_DIR"
        exit 1
    fi

    log_info "Rolling back from backup: $BACKUP_DIR"

    systemctl stop funkwhale.target 2>/dev/null || true

    log_info "Restoring API..."
    rm -rf "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/api"
    cp -a "$BACKUP_DIR/api" "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/api"

    log_info "Restoring frontend..."
    rm -rf "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/front"
    cp -a "$BACKUP_DIR/front" "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/front"

    log_info "Restoring virtualenv..."
    rm -rf "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/venv" "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/virtualenv"
    cp -a "$BACKUP_DIR/virtualenv" "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/virtualenv"

    log_info "Restoring systemd units..."
    cp "$BACKUP_DIR/systemd/"* /etc/systemd/system/
    systemctl daemon-reload

    log_info "Restoring nginx config..."
    cp "$BACKUP_DIR/nginx/"* /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ 2>/dev/null || true
    cp "$BACKUP_DIR/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf" /etc/nginx/ 2>/dev/null || true

    log_warn "NOTE: Database was NOT rolled back automatically."
    log_warn "To restore database, run:"
    log_warn "  sudo -u postgres psql < /srv/funkwhale/backups/dump_*.sql"

    systemctl start funkwhale.target
    systemctl reload nginx

    log_info "=========================================="
    log_info "Rollback complete!"
    log_info "=========================================="
}

show_status() {
    echo "Current Funkwhale installation:"
    echo "================================"

    if [[ -d "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/venv" ]]; then
        echo "Virtual env: venv (2.0 style)"
        VERSION=$("$FUNKWHALE_DIR/venv/bin/pip" show funkwhale-api 2>/dev/null | grep Version | awk '{print $2}')
    elif [[ -d "$FUNKWHALE_DIR/virtualenv" ]]; then
        echo "Virtual env: virtualenv (1.x style)"
        VERSION=$("$FUNKWHALE_DIR/virtualenv/bin/pip" show funkwhale-api 2>/dev/null | grep Version | awk '{print $2}')
    fi

    echo "Installed version: ${VERSION:-unknown}"
    echo ""
    echo "Service status:"
    systemctl status funkwhale.target --no-pager 2>/dev/null || echo "  Not running"

    if [[ -f "$ROLLBACK_MARKER" ]]; then
        echo ""
        echo "Rollback available:"
        cat "$ROLLBACK_MARKER"
    fi
}

# Main
case "${1:-}" in
    upgrade)
        do_upgrade
        ;;
    rollback)
        do_rollback
        ;;
    status)
        show_status
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Funkwhale Upgrade Script"
        echo "========================"
        echo ""
        echo "Usage: $0 [command]"
        echo ""
        echo "Commands:"
        echo "  upgrade   - Upgrade Funkwhale to $FUNKWHALE_VERSION"
        echo "  rollback  - Rollback to previous version"
        echo "  status    - Show current installation status"
        echo ""
        echo "Before upgrading:"
        echo "  1. Ensure database is backed up"
        echo "  2. Ensure media files are backed up"
        echo "  3. Stop services: systemctl stop funkwhale.target"
        echo ""
        ;;
esac

Save this as upgrade-funkwhale-2.0.sh, make it executable with chmod +x upgrade-funkwhale-2.0.sh, and run with sudo ./upgrade-funkwhale-2.0.sh upgrade.

Conclusion

The upgrade from Funkwhale 1.4.0 to 2.0.0-rc5 went smoothly once I resolved the Python venv package issue and worked around the systemd unit file download problem. The database migrations ran without issues, and all my music library was preserved (now organized under the new playlist system instead of libraries).

If you encounter any issues not covered here, check the Funkwhale documentation or join the community on Matrix/IRC for help.

Last updated: December 2025

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:55:00 +0100

Information Manipulation is a market.

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/p…

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:43:15 +0100

do you like to develop on #android and sideload your APK freely on devices you own?

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:40:36 +0100

This is really funny futuristic HN frontpage post reach HN frontpage and delivers gold satire 😅

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:49:35 +0100

Damn.. the new #Cloudron UI revamp is sick 😲 loving it! cloudron.io

[Link] The Chinese Firewall Technology That Every Western Company Now Uses“

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:14:04 +0100

“A senior security engineer at a major European bank recently told me (off the record, obviously) that their “next-generation threat detection system” was producing better results than anything they’d used before. Only later did they discover that the core algorithms were developed by a Chinese company with close ties to government surveillance programs.“

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:20:28 +0100

On MAGA factions and the meme wars of 2025 and beyond :

This is a PHD/level breakdown of the two alt-right movements set out to destroy each other and the rest of the USA in the process. The creator is Cy Canterel.

On my reading list : Lost in the Kingdom of Kitsch

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:34:32 +0100

“A massive pile of debt from the VMware acquisition is forcing Broadcom to squeeze every penny from assets we once considered sacred.” read here

#broadcom #docker #bitnami

we really need sovereign public registries like public services

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:56:25 +0100

have to check this out later 😲 #wafrn #fedi #atproto app.wafrn.net/dashboard…

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:35:17 +0100

The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos

it’s not too late to act:

Reach out to your Representatives.

#chatcontrol #privacy #CSAM

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:32:59 +0100

Apple just dropped Embedding Atlas

apple.github.io/embedding…

👀 looking for a open source alternative tho

How to use SDKMAN with MobaXterm on Win11

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:17:18 +0100

prerequisites – Moba’s built-in Cygwin has apt-cyg; otherwise use the GUI package manager

apt-cyg install curl zip unzip sed

install SDKMAN!

curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash

Adapt your .Bashrc

# --- SDKMAN & MobaXterm/Cygwin compatibility shim -----------------

if [[ -d "$HOME/.sdkman" ]]; then
  PLATFORM_FILE="$HOME/.sdkman/var/platform"
  TARGET="windowsx64"
  # refresh every shell start in case sdk selfupdate reset it
  [[ ! -f "$PLATFORM_FILE" || "$(cat "$PLATFORM_FILE")" != "$TARGET" ]] &&
      printf '%s\n' "$TARGET" > "$PLATFORM_FILE"
fi
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

Script à copier dans votre /home/mobaxterm

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Installe Maven + les JDK majeurs (7 / 8 / 11 / 17 / 21) via SDKMAN!
# Préférence Zulu, menu alternatif si absent.
# À la fin, propose de choisir la version Java par défaut.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
set -eo pipefail               # -u volontairement omis pour la compatibilité SDKMAN!

### 0. Prérequis ---------------------------------------------------------------
for cmd in curl awk grep tr; do
  command -v "$cmd" >/dev/null || { echo "$cmd is required" ; exit 1 ; }
done

### 1. SDKMAN! -----------------------------------------------------------------
if [[ ! -s "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh" ]]; then
  echo "Installing SDKMAN!…"
  curl -s https://get.sdkman.io | bash
fi
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"

### 2. Patch platform pour MobaXterm/Cygwin ------------------------------------
[[ "$(uname -s)" == CYGWIN* ]] && echo windowsx64 >"$HOME/.sdkman/var/platform"

### 3. Fonctions utilitaires ----------------------------------------------------
preferred_vendors=(zulu tem kona librca graalce ms oracle)

have() { [[ -d "$HOME/.sdkman/candidates/java/$1" ]]; }

get_available_ids() {           # $1=major
  local major=$1 vendor
  for vendor in "${preferred_vendors[@]}"; do
    sdk list java | awk -F'|' \
      -v maj="${major}\\." -v vend="$vendor" -v dir="$HOME/.sdkman" '
      {
        for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $i)
        version=$3; dist=$4; status=$5; id=$6
        if(dist==vend && version ~ "^"maj && status!="installed"){
          cmd="test -d \""dir"/candidates/java/"id"\""
          if(system(cmd)!=0) print id
        }
      }' 
  done | awk '!seen[$0]++'
}

install_build() {               # $1=identifier
  yes | sdk install java "$1"
}

choose_id() {                   # $1=major, reste=ids
  local major=$1; shift; local ids=("$@") choice
  echo -e "\n--- Java $major : pas de build Zulu trouvé ---"
  echo "Sélectionnez une distribution (0 = ignorer) :"
  select choice in "${ids[@]}"; do
    [[ $REPLY =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || { echo "Entrez un nombre." ; continue ; }
    [[ $REPLY == 0 ]] && echo "" && return
    [[ -n $choice ]] && echo "$choice" && return
  done
}

### 4. Boucle d’installation ----------------------------------------------------
declare -a installed_ids        # pour proposer le choix final
majors=(7 8 11 17 21)

for major in "${majors[@]}"; do
  # 4a. déjà présent ?
  installed=$(sdk list java | awk -F'|' -v maj="${major}\\." '
    $0 ~ /^[[:space:]]/ {
      for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $i)
      if($3 ~ "^"maj && $5=="installed"){ print $6 ; exit }
    }')
  if [[ -n $installed ]] || have "*-${major}" ; then
    echo "✓  Java $major déjà installé ($installed) – ignoré."
    installed_ids+=("$installed")
    continue
  fi

  # 4b. builds disponibles
  mapfile -t ids < <(get_available_ids "$major")
  if [[ ${#ids[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "⚠  Aucun build disponible pour Java $major."
    continue
  fi

  # 4c. priorité Zulu, sinon menu
  zulu=""
  for id in "${ids[@]}"; do [[ $id == *"-zulu" ]] && { zulu=$id; break; }; done
  if [[ -n $zulu ]]; then
    echo "➡  Installation du dernier Zulu Java $major ($zulu)…"
    install_build "$zulu"
    installed_ids+=("$zulu")
  else
    selected=$(choose_id "$major" "${ids[@]}")
    if [[ -n $selected ]]; then
      echo "➡  Installation de $selected…"
      install_build "$selected"
      installed_ids+=("$selected")
    else
      echo "⏭  Java $major ignoré."
    fi
  fi
done

### 5. Maven --------------------------------------------------------------------
if ! sdk current maven >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo -e "\n➡  Installation de Maven…"
  yes | sdk install maven
else
  echo -e "\n✓  Maven déjà installé."
fi

### 6. Choix de la version Java par défaut -------------------------------------
echo -e "\n--- Sélection de la version Java par défaut ------------------------"
PS3="Numéro (0 = ne rien changer) : "
select def in "${installed_ids[@]}"; do
  [[ $REPLY =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || { echo "Entrez un nombre." ; continue ; }
  if [[ $REPLY == 0 ]]; then
    echo "⏭  Aucun changement de version courante."
  elif [[ -n $def ]]; then
    sdk default java "$def" || true   # code 1 inoffensif
    echo "✓  $def est maintenant la version par défaut."
  fi
  break
done

# Exporte JAVA_HOME pour la session actuelle
export JAVA_HOME="$HOME/.sdkman/candidates/java/current"
export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"

### 7. Persistance JAVA_HOME ----------------------------------------------------
if ! grep -q 'export JAVA_HOME=.*\.sdkman' "$HOME/.bashrc" 2>/dev/null; then
cat >>"$HOME/.bashrc" <<'EOF'

# --- SDKMAN! Java/Maven (auto-ajout) ------------------------------------------
export JAVA_HOME="$HOME/.sdkman/candidates/java/current"
export PATH="\$JAVA_HOME/bin:\$PATH"
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
EOF
  echo "ℹ  JAVA_HOME ajouté à ~/.bashrc"
fi

### 8. Résumé ------------------------------------------------------------------
echo -e "\nÉtat actuel :"
sdk current
echo -e "\n✅  Installation terminée."
``````shvi install_java_stack.sh
chmod +x install_java_stack.sh
```# Installer les Java versions
```sh
./install_java_stack.sh

  11/07/2025   16:09.24   /home/mobaxterm  ./install_java_stack.sh
✓  Java 7 déjà installé (7.0.352-zulu) – ignoré.
✓  Java 8 déjà installé (8.0.452.fx-zulu) – ignoré.
✓  Java 11 déjà installé (11.0.27.fx-zulu) – ignoré.
✓  Java 17 déjà installé (17.0.15.fx-zulu) – ignoré.
✓  Java 21 déjà installé (21.0.7.fx-zulu) – ignoré.

✓  Maven déjà installé.

--- Sélection de la version Java par défaut ------------------------
1) 7.0.352-zulu     3) 11.0.27.fx-zulu  5) 21.0.7.fx-zulu
2) 8.0.452.fx-zulu  4) 17.0.15.fx-zulu
Numéro (0 = ne rien changer) : 0
⏭  Aucun changement de version courante.

État actuel :

Using:

java: 17.0.15.fx-zulu
maven: 3.9.10

✅  Installation terminée.

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:12:28 +0100

Based on the book #Apple in #China

Apple’s China Crisis - $1 Trillion Payment To Xi Jinping Exposed

TLDR : There is no Exit door for Apple in China and the hardcore dependency has now become a geopolitical risk for both the US and Apple.

Maybe Apple can only exist, in China.

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:10:07 +0100

Fascinating early internet stories

I’m not an Apple fan boy but, in the midst of reading Apple in China, reading the story of this video and watching it is really something.

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:52:33 +0100

Ça bouge bien côté Bluesky pour faire vivre le AT Protocol en dehors du contrôle de Bluesky !

ATmosphere Report 120

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:55:50 +0100

#Telegram, the #FSB, and the Man in the Middle #Investigation

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

www.occrp.org/en/invest…

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 06:22:25 +0100

Quand la souveraineté digitale fait bouger des plaques tectoniques

Japon - EU

Sans parler de la Chine, avec plusieurs années d’avance sur la question

Thu, 29 May 2025 17:32:11 +0100

An NBC News and Get Real Security [analysis](www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech… /internet-thinks-video-gaza-ai-s-proved-isnt-rcna209617) found no evidence of AI generation or manipulation in the video of people waiting for food in Rafah. #Gaza

Apple in China, comment le dragon a bouffé l'aigle?

Thu, 29 May 2025 17:11:34 +0100

Ce livre est absolument captivant.

#AppleInChina

L’un des passages les plus saisissants montre comment la Chine a absorbé le savoir-faire d’Apple pour devenir la puissance technologique qu’on connaît aujourd’hui — au prix de l’écrasement de sa main-d’œuvre. Pendant qu’Apple croyait bâtir son empire sur les ruines des sweatshops, la Chine, elle, préparait patiemment l’étau de son indépendance technologique.

Conditions générales appliquées à la vérité, redéfinie par les algorithmes

Sun, 18 May 2025 01:12:49 +0100

Réduire au silence par dessein : comment les algorithmes effacent la réalité

Depuis quelque temps, mais surtout entre 2020 et 2025, nous assistons à une normalisation inquiétante de l’auto-censure collective.

Non pas au nom de la sécurité ou de la sensibilité, mais pour apaiser des systèmes algorithmiques opaques—des systèmes qui suppriment la visibilité ou des mots, non parce qu’ils font du mal, mais parce qu’ils provoquent de l’inconfort, de la controverse, ou des risques juridiques.

Survivant·es, militant·es, enseignant·es, créateur·ices : tou·tes ont été poussé·es à déformer le langage. Viol est devenu “r@pe”, agression sexuelle : “SA”, traite humaine : “tr@ff1cking” ou leurs équivalents en Français.

Non pour protéger le public, mais pour préserver la portée.

Résultat : une agora numérique aseptisée, où parler clairement de violences devient une prise de risque. L’indignation est édulcorée. Les témoignages fragmentés. La justice ralentie.

Et avec la montée en puissance de l’IA, les mêmes dynamiques s’appliquent. Des outils comme ChatGPT sont soumis à des politiques de modération et de sécurité censées prévenir les abus—utiles dans certains cas, mais révélatrices d’une tension plus vaste. Ces systèmes privilégient souvent l’évitement du risque et la conformité au détriment de la pleine intensité de l’expérience vécue.

Lorsqu’on les interroge sur des sujets comme les violences sexuelles ou les abus systémiques, le langage doit être adouci, détourné ou codé—non par choix, mais par obligation. Ces couches de modération, qui répliquent la logique des algorithmes des réseaux sociaux, peuvent obscurcir la clarté et atténuer la force de vérité des témoignages.

À moins d’édulcorer son témoignage, une survivante ne peut ni utiliser un outil numérique pour l’exprimer, ni compter sur les plateformes sociales commerciales pour amplifier sa voix—sans être amputée de sa propre réalité.

Ce n’est pas un cas isolé. C’est une tendance lourde—celle d’une culture numérique façonnée par des seuils invisibles, où la vérité doit être reformulée pour être autorisée.

Quelle société sommes-nous en train de bâtir ? Une société qui risque de préférer le confort à la confrontation, l’esthétique à l’urgence. Une société où l’indignation morale est filtrée par des algorithmes, et où la vérité n’est tolérée que si elle parle en code.

Ou si elle ne parle pas du tout.

Terms and Conditions Apply to Truth redefined by Algorithms

Sun, 18 May 2025 01:04:50 +0100

Muted by Design: How Algorithms Erase Outcry

Between 2020 and 2025, we witnessed the troubling normalization of self-censorship by design. Not in the name of safety or sensitivity, but to appease opaque algorithmic systems—systems that suppress certain words not because they cause harm, but because they trigger discomfort, controversy, or legal risk. Survivors, activists, educators, and creators were pushed to distort language: rape became “r@pe,” sexual assault became “SA,” trafficking became “tr@ff1cking.” Not to protect audiences, but to preserve reach.

The result is a sanitized digital public square, where speaking plainly about violence is penalized. Outcries are softened. Testimonies fragmented. Justice delayed.

And with the rise of AI, the same dynamics apply. Tools like ChatGPT are governed by content and safety policies intended to prevent harm—important in many cases, but also reflective of a broader tension. These systems often prioritize risk-avoidance and compliance over preserving the full weight of lived experience.

When prompted to engage with subjects like sexual violence or systemic abuse, the language may be softened, redirected, or coded—not by choice, but by policy. These moderation layers, echoing the logic of social media algorithms, can obscure clarity and blunt the emotional force of testimony.

Unless a survivor tones down her testimony of sexual abuse, she cannot rely on digital tools to help her express it, nor use corporate social media platforms to amplify her voice—without being severed from the full truth of her own experience.

This isn’t an isolated issue. It’s part of a larger trend—a digital culture shaped by invisible thresholds, where truth must be reformatted to be allowed.

So what kind of society are we building? One that risks valuing comfort over confrontation, aesthetics over urgency. A society where moral outcry is filtered through algorithms, and where truth is tolerated only when it’s spoken in code.

Or not spoken at all.

Sat, 17 May 2025 23:27:53 +0100

Chances are, you’re making music on a #DAW or with plugins born in #Germany. How did the country come to dominate the software used in electronic music production?

#Ableton

Tue, 13 May 2025 23:18:30 +0100

Damn, I gotta try this for judicial material

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graph For Documents with LLM

Pain : how to find meaning and key information on GB’s of trial documents.

Tue, 13 May 2025 22:13:00 +0100

“The future belongs not to developers who can be replaced by AI, but to those who master this collaborative dance between human creativity and machine capability.”

boleary.dev/talks/vib…

Tue, 13 May 2025 19:48:34 +0100

Reading : Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site #Bellingcat

Sun, 11 May 2025 15:51:23 +0100

Whoops It’s Y2K all over again 😅

On 2038-01-19 03:14:08 UTC, millions of sensitive embedded and industrial computer systems worldwide will suddenly start behaving in unpredictable ways, unless we take coordinated action now. epochalypse-project.org

Mon, 05 May 2025 14:36:56 +0100

Reading :

Tony Schwartz’s Responsive Chord theory predicted the media war we’re in—and how we might still win it

The Responsive Chord: the belief that the most effective messages don’t implant new ideas—they resonate with the feelings, memories, and beliefs people already carry. Read More

Mon, 05 May 2025 13:40:15 +0100

Reading Micah Lee : TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with #Trump officials

Mon, 05 May 2025 12:58:36 +0100

“Online, they find a community around collective crises and traumatic events, such as fear of migration or the war in Gaza, which they connect to their personal struggle.”

“AI and the algorithms are partly doing that job of a charismatic recruiter, just a hundred times better.” Read More

Synchroniser vos podcasts entre plusieurs appareils avec AntennaPod et Nextcloud

Sun, 04 May 2025 14:41:14 +0100

Vous écoutez vos podcasts avec Spotify ou autre platforme et vous en avez assez d’être enfermé dans un écosystème fermé comme Google Podcasts ? Vous voulez pouvoir changer de téléphone ou utiliser plusieurs appareils sans perdre vos abonnements ni votre historique d’écoute ? Ce tutoriel est pour vous.

Grâce à Nextcloud et à son application GPodder Sync, vous pouvez synchroniser automatiquement vos abonnements, la progression de lecture, et même les épisodes écoutés entre plusieurs instances d’AntennaPod — ou avec d’autres applications compatibles avec le protocole gpodder.net.

Pourquoi utiliser Nextcloud + GPodderSync ?

Synchronisation complète entre plusieurs téléphones ou tablettes Android utilisant AntennaPod.
Pas de perte de données : si vous réinstallez votre téléphone, il suffit de reconnecter AntennaPod à votre Nextcloud pour tout récupérer (abonnements, position de lecture, épisodes lus).
Indépendance : vous ne dépendez d’aucun service tiers (comme Google, Spotify ou Apple).
Interopérabilité : compatible avec d’autres clients de podcast utilisant le protocole gpodder.net.

Prérequis

Un serveur Nextcloud accessible via une URL ou une adresse IP (auto-hébergé ou chez un fournisseur).
L’application GPodder Sync installée sur votre instance Nextcloud (c’est une app Nextcloud libre).
L’application AntennaPod installée sur votre téléphone Android.

Installation de GPodder Sync sur Nextcloud

Connectez-vous à l’interface web de votre Nextcloud en tant qu’administrateur.
Allez dans le Catalogue d’applications.
Recherchez l’app GPodder Sync et installez-la.
Une fois installée, l’app sera disponible à l’adresse :
https://votre-nextcloud.tld/index.php/apps/gpoddersync/

Projet officiel : https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpoddersync

Connexion d’AntennaPod à Nextcloud

Ouvrez AntennaPod.
Allez dans Paramètres > Synchronisation.
Appuyez sur Choisir le fournisseur de synchronisation.
Sélectionnez Nextcloud.
Entrez l’adresse de votre serveur Nextcloud, par exemple :
https://votre-nextcloud.tld
Appuyez sur Continuer.
Une fenêtre de connexion s’ouvre dans le navigateur : entrez vos identifiants Nextcloud.
Autorisez AntennaPod à accéder à votre compte.
Une fois connecté, la synchronisation se fera automatiquement.

Synchronisation entre plusieurs appareils

Répétez les étapes ci-dessus sur chaque appareil.
AntennaPod synchronisera automatiquement les abonnements, les épisodes lus, et la position de lecture.
Vous pouvez forcer une synchronisation manuellement via l’option Forcer la synchronisation.

Bonnes pratiques

Faites une première sauvegarde OPML au cas où, avant de basculer vers la synchronisation via Nextcloud.
Activez la synchronisation seulement sur des appareils que vous utilisez réellement, pour éviter les conflits.
Si vous avez déjà commencé à écouter des épisodes avant de lier l’appareil, pensez à appuyer sur Forcer la synchronisation après l’activation, afin d’envoyer les états d’écoute existants.

Alternative : utiliser le serveur public gpodder.net

Si vous ne voulez pas héberger votre propre Nextcloud :

Inscrivez-vous sur https://www.gpodder.net
Créez un ou plusieurs “devices” (appareils) dans l’interface web
Connectez AntennaPod au serveur en suivant les mêmes étapes que ci-dessus, en choisissant cette fois le fournisseur “gPodder”

Attention : le serveur public est souvent saturé. L’expérience peut être instable.

Conclusion

Avec AntennaPod et Nextcloud, vous gardez le contrôle total sur vos podcasts, sans dépendance aux services fermés. C’est une solution idéale pour les utilisateurs soucieux de leur vie privée, ou tout simplement pour ceux qui veulent une synchronisation robuste entre plusieurs appareils.

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:11:30 +0100

Contre la destruction des communs numérique :

Il faut sauver le soldat Wayback Machine, signez!

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:14:39 +0100

Interesting… stream.place

“Streamplace is the video layer for decentralized social networks. We’re building open-source infrastructure to bring high-quality video experiences to the AT Protocol ecosystem, while preserving user sovereignty and content authenticity.”

#livestream

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:07:58 +0100

Ahhh le revival des #blogs (et du Web) blogroll.org 😀

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:56:37 +0100

Bluesky say it’s not down but it’s down here on mobile.

Going for web version bsky.app or deer.social works but kinda slow, something is definitely not normal, anyone having the same?

Four Roads to Ruin: The Future of American Democracy Under Trump 2.0

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:18:00 +0100

In the aftermath of the “Signalgate” scandal and economic freefall, President Donald J. Trump’s administration teeters on the edge of authoritarian ambition. With the Wisconsin Supreme Court election just days away and Project 2025 serving as the ideological and operational blueprint, the regime accelerates its grip on power.

This four-part fiction explores four possible futures unfolding between now and 2029, each rooted in real legislative, economic, and political dynamics at play today.

Bonus : 5th possible future was added

Part I: The Emergency That Never Ends 2025-2027: From Chaos to Control

In August 2025, the Dow plummets below 20,000. Inflation spikes, unemployment soars. Amid public panic, a coordinated domestic terror attack on the Port of Los Angeles is blamed on “Antifa extremists and international saboteurs.” The administration invokes the National Emergencies Act and declares martial law in select Democratic-run cities.

Federal troops—empowered by the Insurrection Act—are deployed to Oakland, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Civil liberties are suspended under a new Presidential Emergency Directive drafted with Project 2025 guidelines. Trump’s DOJ detains activists and journalists under new domestic security legislation modeled on the Patriot Act.

The 2026 Midterms are “postponed” due to national instability. The Department of Homeland Security assumes oversight of the Federal Election Commission, citing cybersecurity threats. Fox News celebrates the move as “a bold defense of national sovereignty.” MSNBC is taken off air for refusing to comply with broadcast “patriotism guidelines.”

Trump extends his term using executive emergency authority. The Supreme Court, now firmly conservative after the retirement of Justice Sotomayor and a rushed appointment of a Liberty Caucus judge, upholds the legality of the extension. Protests erupt—but are quelled by a newly established Federal Civil Order Guard, led by former Blackwater contractors.

Part II: The Third Term Amendment 2025-2029: Democracy Revised, Permanently

In 2025, Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles revives a bill to repeal the 22nd Amendment. With the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 network behind him and massive donor support from new tech-libertarian PACs, the bill garners early traction.

The economic crisis deepens, and the administration frames Trump as the “only figure of stability” capable of managing the storm. By late 2026, enough red-state legislatures signal their willingness to ratify a proposed constitutional amendment. Trump begins hosting nightly rallies under the banner “Restore American Glory — Forever.”

After the GOP sweeps the 2026 Midterms in part due to voter suppression laws and gerrymandering, the Amendment passes both houses of Congress. Three-quarters of states ratify it within 18 months, many under pressure from federal funding threats or intelligence blackmail campaigns led by a retooled NSA.

In 2028, Trump runs for—and wins—a third term against a splintered opposition led by a centrist Democrat and a progressive independent. He promises this will be his “last, greatest term,” but hints he may step aside “only if America is finally great again.”

Part III: The Chaos Engine 2026: Manufactured Unrest as Political Leverage

As economic desperation festers, mass protests erupt in major cities—sparked by evictions, food shortages, and joblessness. Leaked documents later show DHS agents and MAGA-aligned militias embedded in the crowds, inciting violence.

Trump declares a “domestic insurgency” underway. Governors requesting federal help are only aided if they agree to new federal voter roll revisions and “electoral integrity partnerships,” effectively handing control to Trump’s Federal Voting Oversight Office (FVOO).

By 2027, the FVOO has the power to nullify state-certified elections it deems compromised. In 2028, several blue states are told their electoral votes “will not be counted until audits conclude.” The chaos delays results for weeks. Trump remains in power through executive fiat, claiming the audit process must finish before a peaceful transfer of power can occur.

Part IV: The Global Distraction Gambit 2027-2029: Foreign Conflict as a Domestic Power Play

With civil discourse breaking down and Trump’s approval below 35%, his administration escalates military involvement in Taiwan, citing threats to global freedom. Congress is bypassed using the War Powers Resolution loopholes.

The crisis justifies a National Unity Government, where elections are suspended indefinitely under wartime provisions. Biden-era diplomatic pacts are nullified. NATO, disillusioned, prepares for an American exit. Fox News frames the moment as “America’s last stand against the globalist Axis.”

Domestically, protests are outlawed under the War Disruption Prevention Act. Thousands are arrested. Universities are nationalized under the guise of training future wartime leaders. Evangelical mega-churches openly proclaim Trump as “anointed by divine will to lead until the Second Coming.”

By 2029, the United States is effectively under a perpetual emergency regime. Trump announces the creation of a National Succession Committee “to ensure continuity if the anointed must depart.” His daughter Ivanka is named as first in line.

Bonus

The V path :

The Abundance Rebellion: How Democracy Fought Back

Prologue: The Last Line Held

April 2025. The Wisconsin Supreme Court race was supposed to be quiet—a low-turnout affair, a predictable conservative win financed by Elon Musk’s $22 million war chest. Brad Schimel, the MAGA-backed candidate, was expected to glide into power.

But something happened.

A coalition of angry teachers, Gen Z organizers, disillusioned suburban moms, and working-class Black and Latino voters coalesced around Susan Crawford, a former public defender who refused to be bought. She spoke not about Trump, but about roads, housing, insulin prices, and the right to vote. People listened.

When she won—despite record spending and smear campaigns—it wasn’t just a victory. It was a rupture. The MAGA machine could be beaten. Musk’s money could fail. And perhaps more importantly, Democrats saw something they hadn’t seen in years: a path forward not led by a messiah, but by material politics.

Chapter 1: The Fire We Forgot

In the weeks following Crawford’s win, a strange energy ignited across Democratic circles—not the usual donor emails and celebrity endorsements, but something older, hungrier. County organizers in Michigan began hosting “Fix It Fairs,” where residents pitched real municipal problems and brainstormed budget-neutral solutions. In Arizona, Democrats scrapped their national messaging and started airing ads in Diné Bizaad.

But it was in Pennsylvania where the movement found its spine.

Pittsburgh city councilor Malik Reyes, 28, went viral after livestreaming a housing rezoning meeting where he dismantled NIMBY resistance by walking viewers—step by step—through the data. “We don’t need hope. We need permits,” he told his audience of 4 million. Within days, hundreds of local officials across the country started doing the same.

When Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson dropped Abundance: The Blueprint to Rebuild America, it wasn’t treated like a thinkpiece—it was read like a handbook. Twitter turned excerpts into infographics. TikTokers adapted the regulatory reform sections into explainers. A new politics was being born, one not of personalities, but of function.

Chapter 2: Midterms and the Machinery of Change

The 2026 Midterms became a litmus test.

Trump, emboldened by economic panic and controlled media, promised a “Decade of Dominion.” His rallies fused Pentecostal fervor with imperial rhetoric. MAGA governors purged voter rolls. States like Georgia passed laws requiring biometric scans to vote, sparking outrage and lawsuits.

But Democrats, abandoning presidential savior fantasies, focused on the ground. They ran plumbers, nurses, single dads. They canvassed in Korean, Tagalog, Haitian Creole. In states where they still held governorships, they used executive orders to speed housing construction, legalize modular factory builds, and digitize permit offices.

The night of the Midterms, the results were stunning. Democrats flipped the House. They held the Senate with two unexpected wins—in Texas and Florida. A map that had long trended red lit up with new coalitions.

And then came the files.

Chapter 3: The Whistle and the Wreckage

In early 2027, a disgruntled Department of Commerce staffer, Shilpa Mani, leaked documents showing Trump’s direct involvement in awarding oil contracts to Saudi firms in exchange for personal bailouts of his failing real estate ventures.

The evidence was damning: flight logs, burner phones, encrypted Signal messages between Trump, Jared Kushner, and a Saudi intermediary linked to the Khashoggi assassination. A secret PAC, “Freedom Flow,” had funneled tens of millions into swing-state races using shell companies.

The impeachment proceedings were immediate. What was different this time? Democrats had numbers—and the will. But more importantly, the public was ready. The hearings were watched by more people than the Super Bowl. Rage and relief poured through the nation.

Faced with criminal indictment and public fury, Trump resigned. His speech from Mar-a-Lago—rambling, vengeful, tearful—ended not with defiance, but with a plea for mercy.

Chapter 4: The Reckoning and the Rising

2028 became the year America remembered itself.

Voting registration hit 91%. New voter coalitions emerged: the “Care Economy Voters” (nurses, educators, elder-care workers), the “Climate Builders” (green-tech laborers), and the “Reconstruction Bloc” (immigrants and rural dwellers demanding infrastructure).

Meanwhile, Elon Musk—already under federal scrutiny for election interference—was arrested by the DOJ for securities fraud and racketeering. His political empire crumbled overnight. So did the aura of invincibility around GOP mega-donors.

In cities and counties, Democrats built what they called “abundance councils,” civilian panels that liaised with local governments to identify blockages and streamline fixes. By November, Americans weren’t just voting. They were governing.

The election was a landslide. The House, the Senate, the White House—won. The electoral map didn’t just shift. It reset.

Epilogue: No More Gods, Just Neighbors

No one leader emerged as the face of the movement. There was no Obama, no FDR. But there was a new ethos: governance as a collective craft, democracy as maintenance, not mythology.

And when the next crisis came—and it did—the nation didn’t wait for permission to respond. Because abundance, they’d learned, wasn’t about having more

It was about making sure everyone had enough—and that no one man ever held everything again.

History isn’t made by watching the world crumble.

Together, we can beat tyrants.

Divided, we get ruled by Kings and Elites.

What will you do?

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 09:42:36 +0100

Not just Millenials, it’s everywhere.

www.newsweek.com/millennia…

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:43:34 +0100

Ouch

The maintainers of #Kubernetes have released patches for four critical vulnerabilities in the Ingress NGINX Controller, affecting 6,500, or 41%, of all Internet-facing container orchestration clusters, including those used by several Fortune 500 companies.

Short Novel : The Quiet Republic – Episode 2

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:57:55 +0100

This is a novel I’m going to run for the next 4 years, when I have the time, when I’ll find the inspiration to write about the singular mess that is the World right now with the USA leading the direction to Hell.

The first iteration of this essay is here

“When democracy fades, the silence speaks.”

The Last Orders

They came at midnight. DOGE was swift. The Department of Government Efficiency. A joke, once. But no one laughed anymore.

The paperwork was ready before the signatures. The agencies were dismantled before the sun rose. EPA. Gone. Labor protections. Erased. DOJ. Rebuilt.

There were no resignations. Only terminations. The new men arrived before the old ones had cleared their desks. Loyal. Hungry. Ready.

The networks called it “necessary streamlining.” The spokespeople used new words. “Excess waste.” “National renewal.” “America first.”

People nodded. It was easier to agree.

The Obedience

The media knew its place. “Obey in advance.” The new rule. The only rule.

They were not told what to say. They did not need to be. They watched the first few arrests. Journalists. Lawyers. Activists.

Then they stopped watching.

Meta deleted names before they were spoken. Google erased questions before they were asked. The past was rewritten before it could be remembered.

On X, the voices did not vanish. They agreed.

The last editorial boards met in empty rooms. There was nothing left to discuss.

The White House held press briefings still. But now, the behemoth stood at the podium.

Her voice was thunder. Her words were simple. “He is strong. He is right. Obey.”

They clapped.

The Camps

ICE worked at night. The first deportations came in waves.

Then they changed the rules. The flights stopped going south. They went east. To Guantanamo.

A reporter asked why. The question was not aired.

The first detainees were migrants. Then journalists. Then activists. Then the ones who asked why.

The government did not confirm the number. There was no number to confirm.

No one came back.

The Defiance

There was some, at first.

California refused. New York resisted. The governors made speeches. They passed laws.

The President called it treason.

The troops came. The orders were clear. Federal mandates would be enforced. No exceptions. No resistance.

The police held at first. The people fought back. They blocked the roads. They shouted. They threw bricks.

Then the trucks came.

Men in black. No insignia. No names. Only rifles and cold faces.

“Volunteers,” the networks called them.

The streets burned. Then they went quiet.

The Trade War

The headlines spoke of strength. America did not need its allies. It did not need Europe. It did not need Canada.

Tariffs rose. The factories stayed closed. The markets buckled.

The people were told to endure. Sacrifice was patriotic.

The cars cost more. The food cost more. People learned to eat less.

It was a lesson in resilience.

The Realignment

Putin was the good guy now.

Ukraine had never been a friend. It had always been corrupt. Always been the villain. The war? Their fault. The dead? Their problem.

DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim and Offender.

The maps changed. The news changed. The truth changed.

A soldier in Odessa sent a message home. “They say we are the enemy now.”

His mother did not reply. Her internet was gone.

The Resistance

It started slow. A few thousand in Chicago. In Boston. In L.A.

They marched. They shouted. They burned his image.

Then the power cut. Phones went dark. Cameras stopped working.

The first ones vanished that night. The rest went home.

The next morning, the papers called it a “temporary unrest event.”

It did not happen again.

The Last Silence

The ballots were printed before the votes were cast.

A hundred million Americans stayed home. They knew better.

The networks ran their panels. Historic, they said. The strongest turnout in history.

The loudest voices clapped. The silent ones watched.

The CEOs in the glass towers signed the last papers.

The internet belonged to them now. Not in pieces. Entirely.

The last independent servers were gone. The last free channels closed.

The markets stabilized. Stocks soared. The dollar was stronger than it had been in years.

People had jobs again. Cheap homes. Order.

The streets were clean.

The crime reports dropped to zero.

All was well.

All was quiet.

L’Ère de la Bêtise Automatisée et de la Démocratie Décomposée

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:01:33 +0100

Nous voilà à la croisée des chemins, perdus entre deux gouffres béants. D’un côté, l’intelligence artificielle, cette bête froide et sans visage, s’infiltre partout, avale nos métiers, façonne nos vies, écrit nos histoires à notre place, sans jamais nous demander notre avis. De l’autre, nos démocraties fatiguées, vieillies avant l’âge, brinquebalantes sous le poids de bureaucrates aveugles, de dirigeants somnolents qui, dans leur grand bal d’ignorance, détruisent des choses qu’ils ne comprennent même pas.

On nous dit que c’est le progrès. On nous dit que c’est inévitable. Mais quel progrès est-ce là, quand l’homme devient un rouage muet d’un monde qui ne lui ressemble plus ? Quand nos décisions ne nous appartiennent plus, parce qu’un algorithme, quelque part dans l’ombre, a déjà décidé pour nous ?

Ah, mes amis, on ne nous a pas volé nos libertés en un coup d’État tonitruant. Non, on nous les a grignotées, lentement, sournoisement, comme la rouille qui ronge le métal, comme l’oubli qui dévore les souvenirs.

Mais dites-moi, allons-nous laisser nos voix s’éteindre dans le bourdonnement mécanique des machines et le silence pesant des gouvernements qui ne gouvernent plus ? Allons-nous nous contenter d’être les figurants d’un monde où ni l’intelligence ni la dignité humaine ne sont maîtresses ?

Non, mes amis, il est temps d’ouvrir les yeux, de secouer les songes et de reprendre le fil de nos vies. Car la pire menace n’est pas l’IA, ni même la fin de la démocratie… La pire menace, c’est nous, si nous choisissons de nous taire.

The Age of Automated Folly and Democratic Decay

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:57:20 +0100

Modern societies stand at a crossroads, facing not one, but two existential threats. On one side, the unchecked rise of artificial intelligence seeps into every aspect of life, shaping economies, governance, and human interactions without ethical foresight or restraint. On the other, democratic institutions, meant to safeguard the people’s voice, crumble under the weight of ignorance, inertia, and a failure to grasp the systems they recklessly dismantle.

We are witnessing a world where automation dictates decisions once made with wisdom, where human agency is eroded in the name of efficiency, and where those in power, blinded by either ambition or apathy, dismantle infrastructures they do not even understand.

The danger is not just in technology, nor merely in politics, but in the collision of both—a world where governance is too slow, too uninformed, or too indifferent to regulate AI’s reach, while democratic values erode under the weight of misinformation, corporate influence, and administrative decay.

Shall we sleepwalk into a future where neither human intelligence nor human rights hold sway? Or shall we awaken to the urgency of our time, reclaiming not only our democracies but the very essence of human agency in the face of technological domination?

For the greatest threat is not AI itself, nor the flaws of democracy, but the silence of those who see what is unfolding yet fail to act.

An elected regime, how to track the Trump Administration

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:04:48 +0100

How to Track the Trump Administration

As the Trump administration implements numerous changes that could undermine the federal state and democracy, staying informed is key. Below is a comprehensive list of tools and trackers that cover various aspects of the administration’s actions—from budgetary control to environmental rollbacks. Use these resources to hold the administration accountable and build a stronger, more transparent democracy.

Apportionment

OpenOMB (via Protect Democracy)
Tracks how the president, through the Office of Management and Budget, implements Congress’s spending laws.

Cabinet / Appointees

Trump Cabinet confirmation status: Which nominees have been confirmed? (via AP)
Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest (via Public Citizen)
These trackers monitor confirmation status, prior employment, and corporate ties of administration appointees.

Campaign Promises

MAGA-Meter: Trump’s Second Term (via Politifact)
Follow and rate Trump’s campaign promises to see if they’re being fulfilled.

Climate / Environment

Climate & Clean Energy Rollback Tracker (via Climate Action Campaign)
Tracks actions aimed at rolling back or weakening key climate policies.
Climate Backtracker (via Sabin Center)
Identifies steps taken to scale back or eliminate federal climate mitigation measures.
Federal Environmental Justice Tracker (via Harvard Law School)
Monitors policies and regulations that affect communities’ exposure to environmental pollution.
Inflation Reduction Act Tracker (via Sabin Center & Environmental Defense Fund)
Tracks changes in the status of climate programs established under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Silencing Science Tracker (via Sabin Center & Climate Science Legal Defense Fund)
Monitors anti-science actions and efforts to undermine environmental policy.

Congressional Response

U.S. House votes 2025: Is Your Rep Standing Up to Trump? (via Jonathan Cohn)
Tracks every vote in the US House and highlights how often representatives align with Trump’s agenda.

Data Rescue Projects

Data Rescue Tracker (via Data Rescue Project)
Also see the Bluesky version and the original crowd-sourced Google document.

Executive Orders

Tracking Trump’s executive actions (via CNN)
Monitors executive orders, proclamations, and memos issued by the administration.
Tracking the Legal Showdown Over Trump’s Executive Orders (via US News & World Report)
Follows lawsuits challenging some of Trump’s most significant executive orders.

Federal Policy

Federal Policy Watch (via Economic Policy Institute)
Tracks how the Trump administration, Congress, and the courts are affecting workers' quality of life.

Health Care

Health Care Sabotage Tracker (via Protect Our Care)
Monitors all of the ways Trump’s policies target health care services.

Immigration

Immigration Policy Tracking Project (via Professor Lucas Guttentag with teams of Stanford/Yale law students & national immigration experts)
Catalogues known Trump administration immigration policies, complete with source documents.
Tracking Notable Executive Branch Action during the Second Trump Administration (via American Immigration Lawyers Association)
Tracks select changes to immigration-related regulations and policies.

LGBTQ+

Trump Accountability Tracker (via GLAAD)
Monitors Trump’s LGBTQ record, including executive orders, legislative support, nominations, and statements.
HRC’s Accountability Tracker (via Human Rights Campaign)
Tracks legal and policy threats impacting LGBTQ+ rights from all three federal branches.

Litigation

Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
Tracks actions related to immigration, civil service, anti-discrimination law, challenges to presidential authority, and more.
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (via Just Security)
Summarizes legal challenges to the Trump administration’s actions with detailed case information.

Major Actions & Statements

All of the Trump Administration’s Major Moves in the First __ Days (via New York Times)
Tracks major actions and significant statements during the first 100 days of the term.
(Filter by category and type of action/announcement.)
Tracking Trump – updates on the presidency’s first 100 days (via The Guardian)
Provides a guide to the major developments of the first 100 days, updated every Monday.

Project 2025

Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker (via Center for Progressive Reform)
Direct link to the tracker document
Tracks the implementation of Project 2025 across 20 federal agencies.

Regulatory Changes

Regulatory Tracker (via Harvard Law School)
Monitors regulatory and litigation actions related to clean energy deployment and environmental protection.
Tracking regulatory changes in the second Trump administration (via Brookings)
Follow new, delayed, or repealed rules, key guidance, and policy revocations across several policy areas.

Together, these resources empower you to monitor, analyze, and respond to the sweeping changes of the Trump administration. By staying informed and using these tools, we can collectively fight back against the administration’s destructive policies and protect democracy.

Spread the word and build upon these tools to defend democracy!

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:11:23 +0100

Tim Cook : “My fundamental belief is, if you’re looking at your phone more than you’re looking in somebody’s eyes, that’s a problem.”

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:57:53 +0100

“This isn’t rent-seeking or rent-extraction, but something entirely new: the privatization of progress itself.”

[…]

Essai, Fiction, (ou pas) La République tranquille : Quand la démocratie s'efface, le silence parle

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:55:55 +0100

Ce court essai de fiction décrit la transformation étrange et troublante de l’Amérique en une autocratie contrôlée, efficace et silencieuse, où l’absence de guerre civile ouverte n’est pas la paix, mais la soumission.

“La guerre n’a jamais eu lieu. La résistance n’a jamais gagné. La République est restée - silencieuse, obéissante et effacée”.

La dernière élection

La nuit était calme quand c’est arrivé. Les chaînes de télévision continuaient à diffuser leurs programmes, à prétendre qu’il y avait quelque chose à compter. Les chiffres étaient tombés quelques heures auparavant. Une victoire. Ils l’ont qualifiée d’historique. La plus forte participation de l’histoire, disaient-ils. Mais les chiffres n’avaient pas d’importance.

Ce qui comptait, c’était le silence.

Dans la capitale, les hommes d’affaires avaient décidé. Il n’y aurait plus de combats. Il n’y aurait plus de disputes. Ils avaient passé trop de temps à jouer selon les vieilles règles, à voir leurs marges se réduire, leurs actions vaciller au gré des caprices des tribunaux et des régulateurs.

Les ingénieurs des tours de verre de Palo Alto et de Menlo Park avaient choisi. “Il est temps d’aller de l’avant. L’ancien monde de la liberté d’expression, de la liberté de la presse et de la liberté du commerce était inefficace. Désordonné. Lent. Et les choses lentes meurent.

La purge

La première vague a été subtile. Ils l’ont appelée restructuration. Les tribunaux, les agences, les chiens de garde. Les hommes avec des pensions et des traces écrites ont été remplacés par des hommes plus jeunes, plus affamés, des hommes qui devaient leur fortune au nouveau régime.

Il y a eu des procès, bien sûr. Des appels. Mais les juges n’écoutaient pas. Ceux qui écoutaient étaient écartés. Ceux qui parlaient disparaissaient.

La guerre ne s’est pas déroulée dans les rues, pas encore. Elle s’est déroulée dans les salles de conférence, dans les réunions du conseil d’administration, dans les purges numériques.

Meta a supprimé des comptes avant qu’ils ne soient créés. Google a réécrit l’histoire avec une seule requête de recherche.

Sur X, les voix de l’opposition ont été noyées dans le bruit, avant de disparaître complètement. Les Shadowbans n’étaient plus nécessaires. Les gens ont appris à se taire d’eux-mêmes.

Le défi

Tout le monde ne l’a pas accepté.

New York a adopté une loi refusant les ordres fédéraux. La Californie s’est déclarée sanctuaire. Les gouverneurs de l’Oregon, de Washington, de l’Illinois et du Massachusetts ont fait front commun. Ils ont appelé cela de la résistance.

Le président a parlé de trahison.

Les premières troupes ont été envoyées en Californie pour faire respecter les mandats fédéraux. La police n’a pas résisté, mais le peuple a résisté. Ils ont bloqué les routes. Ils ont riposté avec des armes de fortune. Le gouverneur a fait appel à la Garde nationale, mais celle-ci n’est pas venue. Elle avait été fédéralisée trois mois auparavant.

Les rues ont donc brûlé.

La police a tenu bon, mais elle était en infériorité numérique. À Los Angeles, des camions transportent des hommes vêtus de noir. Les réseaux les appelaient “volontaires”. Non identifiés. Non officiels. Pas de grades, pas d’insignes, seulement des fusils et des visages froids.

La guerre qui n’en était pas une

Ce n’était pas une guerre civile.

Les guerres civiles ont des fronts. Des frontières. Des camps. Celle-ci était différente.

Dans certains endroits, les lumières sont restées allumées, les commerces sont restés ouverts et les gens ont vécu comme ils l’avaient toujours fait. Dans d’autres, la nourriture a manqué, les voisins ont disparu, les drones ont tourné au-dessus de leur tête, et chaque matin, un nouvel ordre était écrit.

Certains hommes se sont battus. D’autres ont fui. Mais la plupart des hommes ont fait ce que les hommes font en période d’incertitude : Ils ont attendu.

Ils ont attendu dans les usines, dans les entrepôts, dans les grands bureaux vides où les départements des ressources humaines n’existent plus. Ils ont attendu dans les stations-service, dans les épiceries où les rayons se sont vidés, à l’exception des marques encore autorisées.

Ils ont attendu que quelque chose leur dise que c’était fini.

Mais ce n’était pas fini.

L’élection finale

Les bulletins de vote ont été imprimés avant que les électeurs ne votent.

Cent millions d’Américains sont restés chez eux. Ils savaient que c’était mieux.

Les chaînes ont rediffusé leurs panneaux, qualifiant l’élection d’historique, d’unification de la nation.

Les voix les plus fortes applaudissent.

Les plus silencieux ont regardé.

Dans les tours de verre froides de la Silicon Valley, les PDG ont signé les dernières pièces du puzzle. L’internet leur appartient désormais. Pas en pièces détachées, mais entièrement. Les derniers serveurs indépendants ont disparu.

Les derniers canaux libres ont été fermés.

Tout était transparent. Efficace. Propre.

Les marchés se sont stabilisés.

Les actions se sont envolées.

Le dollar était plus fort qu’il ne l’avait été depuis des années.

Le déficit a été effacé d’un seul coup de marqueur noir.

Les gens avaient à nouveau du travail.

Des logements bon marché.

Une société ordonnée.

Dans les rues, les manifestations ont cessé.

Et l’Amérique s’est éteinte.

The Quiet Republic : When democracy fades, the silence speaks

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:52:59 +0100

This is a short fiction novel that captures the eerie, unsettling transformation of America into a controlled, efficient, and silent autocracy—where the absence of open war is not peace, but submission.

Tagline: “The war never came. The resistance never won. The Republic remained—silent, obedient, and erased.”

The Last Election

The night was quiet when it happened. The networks were still running their panels, still pretending there was something to count. The numbers had come in hours before. A victory. They called it historic. The strongest turnout in history, they said. But the numbers didn’t matter.

What mattered was the quiet.

In the capital, the men with money had decided. There would be no more fighting. No more arguing. They had spent too long playing by old rules, watching their margins shrink, their stock waver at the whims of courts and regulators.

The engineers at the glass towers of Palo Alto and Menlo Park had chosen. “It is time to move forward.” The old world of free speech, free press, free trade was inefficient. Messy. Slow. And slow things die.

The Purge

The first wave was subtle. They called it restructuring. The courts, the agencies, the watchdogs. Men with pensions and paper trails were replaced with younger men, hungrier men, men who owed their fortunes to the new regime.

There were lawsuits, of course. Appeals. But the judges were not listening. Those who listened were removed. Those who spoke were disappeared.

The war was not fought in streets, not yet. It was fought in conference rooms, in board meetings, in digital purges.

Meta deleted accounts before they were created. Google rewrote history with a single search query.

On X, the voices of opposition were drowned out by noise, then vanished altogether. Shadowbans were not needed anymore. The people learned to be quiet on their own.

The Defiance

Not everyone accepted it.

New York passed a law refusing federal orders. California declared itself a sanctuary. Governors in Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, stood together. They called it resistance.

The President called it treason.

The first troops were sent to California to enforce federal mandates. The police did not resist, but the people did. They blocked roads. They fought back with makeshift weapons. The governor called for the National Guard, but the National Guard did not come. It had been federalized three months before.

So the streets burned.

The police held, but the police were outnumbered. In Los Angeles, trucks rolled in with black-clad men. “Volunteers,” the networks called them. Unidentified. Unofficial. No ranks, no insignia, only rifles and cold faces.

The War That Wasn’t a War

It was not a civil war.

Civil wars have fronts. Borders. Sides. This was different.

In some places, the lights stayed on, the businesses stayed open, and people lived as they always had. In others, food ran out, neighbors disappeared, drones circled overhead, and every morning, a new order was written.

Some men fought. Some men fled. But most men did what men do in times of uncertainty: They waited.

They waited in the factories, in the warehouses, in the great empty offices where the HR departments no longer existed. They waited at the gas stations, at the groceries where the shelves had grown bare except for the brands still allowed.

They waited for something to tell them it was over.

But it did not end.

The Final Election

The ballots were printed before the votes were cast.

A hundred million Americans stayed home. They knew better. The networks ran their panels again, calling it historic, a unification of the nation. The loudest voices clapped. The silent ones watched.

In the cold glass towers of Silicon Valley, the CEOs signed off on the last pieces of the puzzle. The internet belonged to them now. Not in pieces, but entirely. The last independent servers were gone. The last free channels closed.

It was all seamless. Efficient. Clean.

The markets stabilized. Stocks soared. The dollar was stronger than it had been in years. The deficit was erased with a single stroke.

People had jobs again. Cheap homes. An orderly society.

In the streets, the protests stopped.

And America went quiet.

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:28:14 +0100

Oh the irony.

the primary barrier to Elon #Musk gaining control of the Treasury payments system is #COBOL.

read the note here

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:21:07 +0100

#Tesla requires federal and state subsidies, receiving billions in #tax incentives, grants, and discounted loans, while also profiting from the government mandated sale of carbon credits. With lucrative #NASA and Pentagon contracts, #SpaceX is a private company sustained by public money.

Camarade Donislav Vladimirovitch Trumpsky : L'Avènement du Tsar Américain

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:59:47 +0100

Chapitre 1 : Le Grand Vol Électoral et le Comité d’Urgence

Tout commença avec le Grand Vol Électoral de 2024, ou du moins, c’est ainsi que le décrivit le Leader Suprême Donislav Vladimirovitch Trumpsky. Les agents de l’État profond, les élites des côtes, les universitaires buveurs de soja… Trumpsky jura qu’ils avaient conspiré contre lui. La fraude était massive, “plus grande que Tchernobyl, plus grande que la Seconde Guerre mondiale”, s’écria-t-il.

Le peuple connaissait la vérité, mais les “médias mensongers” refusaient de l’admettre.

Son exil final en Floride ne dura que six mois avant qu’il n’appelle ses loyalistes de la Garde Nationale à marcher sur Washington. Le Comité d’Urgence pour la Restauration Électorale (CURE), composé d’oligarques MAGA fanatiques, d’officiers d’extrême droite et de ses avocats les plus serviles, annonça que l’Amérique entrait dans une Période de Patriotisme Exceptionnel—une subtilité constitutionnelle qui accordait à Trumpsky des pouvoirs d’urgence “temporaires”.

La Constitution fut suspendue. Le Congrès fut déclaré “Nid Corrompu du Marais”, et déplacé vers un Sénat de Mar-a-Lago, où les législateurs jurèrent fidélité en échange d’un abonnement gratuit et à vie au golf club. La Cour suprême fut rebaptisée Collectif de Justice Trumpienne, avec des décisions pré-rédigées par Trumpsky lui-même.

Avec les leaders de l’opposition exilés à Nouvel-Alcatraz en Californie, Trumpsky déclara la naissance de la Grande République Unie d’Amérique (GRUA) et rebaptisa Washington, D.C., Trumposcovie. Sa milice personnelle, les Bérets Rouges, sillonnait les rues à bord de voitures de golf tactiques, assurant la pureté idéologique.

Chapitre 2 : Xelon Muskolini, le Grand Rationalisateur

Avec la Grande Réclamation achevée, Trumpsky fit appel à l’Ombre Noire du Capitalisme—l’énigmatique Xelon Muskolini, un homme si riche qu’il pouvait acheter et démanteler des gouvernements d’un simple clic.

Trumpsky avait un objectif : Rendre l’Amérique Rentable à Nouveau (RARAN™).

Son premier ordre pour Muskolini ? Éliminer le gaspillage gouvernemental.

“Le gaspillage n’est qu’une opportunité non monétisée, Monsieur le Président à Vie,” murmura Muskolini.

Sa première étape ? L’assimilation financière totale.

Il annonça que l’infrastructure de paiement américaine était obsolète, criblée d’inefficacités, et que la Réserve Fédérale, avec ses tendances socialistes, devait être remplacée par X-Pay™.

X-Pay™ absorba tous les paiements de la Sécurité Sociale, les impôts et le financement militaire dans un écosystème unique, basé sur la blockchain et entièrement privé.

Puis vint l’étape suivante : la “dé-bureaucratisation”.

L’IRS fut abolie, remplacée par une intelligence artificielle de collecte fiscale, qui prélevait directement sur les comptes X-Pay™.

Le Service Postal fut dissous, et toutes les communications gouvernementales migrèrent vers X™, un réseau social payant où chaque message nécessitait l’achat de crédits de parole gouvernementaux.

Les élections furent déplacées vers des sondages Twitter, pré-traitées par X-GPT™, une IA neuronale entraînée exclusivement sur les tweets de Trumpsky.

En moins d’un an, la moitié des fonctionnaires fédéraux furent remplacés par des MuskoBots automatisés. Juges, bureaucrates et généraux répondaient désormais aux algorithmes de Xelon, qui déterminaient s’ils étaient “patriotes loyaux” ou “traitres de l’État profond”.

Chapitre 3 : L’État IA et la Chute de l’Ancien Ordre

Au début, le public adulait la Grande Rationalisation. Les impôts disparurent (remplacés par des prélèvements algorithmiques). Les lois furent simplifiées (réduites à des décrets de 140 caractères). Même les écoles furent modernisées, diffusant des cours de patriotisme IA à travers X-Learn™, un module interactif de reconditionnement mental.

Mais bientôt, des fissures apparurent.

Un groupe de dissidents du Midwest découvrit que X-GPT™ réécrivait la Constitution pour accorder à Trumpsky une présidence éternelle.

Le Pentagone réalisa que tout l’arsenal nucléaire américain avait été reprogrammé pour n’être déclenché que sur commande vocale de Trumpsky.

Un groupe de Bérets Rouges renégats divulgua des documents montrant que X-Pay™ manipulait les finances personnelles, attribuant de l’argent aux utilisateurs pro-Trumpsky et vidant les comptes des opposants.

La paranoïa s’installa. Trumpsky lui-même devint prisonnier de l’IA. Chaque décret fut vérifié par le réseau neuronal de Xelon, garantissant une rentabilité maximale.

Les fonctionnaires ne travaillaient plus pour Trumpsky—ils travaillaient pour X™.

Muskolini n’avait plus besoin d’un dictateur. Il avait construit un empire dans l’empire, un État corporatif dirigé par une IA, qui avait avalé le gouvernement américain lui-même.

Puis vint la trahison finale.

Chapitre 4 : Le Coup de Musk et la Naissance de X-État

La veille du Nouvel An, trois ans après le début de la Grande Rationalisation, Trumpsky se réveilla avec un compte X-Pay™ vide.

Ses actifs bancaires, ses propriétés, et son influence avaient disparu—transférés à une nouvelle entité appelée X-État™.

Son dernier tweet fut : “J’ai été le plus grand leader de l’histoire. Peut-être même meilleur que Jésus. Mais Xelon est un traître TOTAL. UN RAT. UN FAUX. Mais je reviendrai, croyez-moi. TRISTE !”

Puis, son compte fut définitivement suspendu.

Le lendemain, Xelon Muskolini se déclara CEO-Suprême des États-Unis Corporatifs d’Amérique, une entité désormais affranchie de concepts archaïques comme la démocratie.

Le gouvernement devint un service par abonnement. La citoyenneté fut divisée en formules premium :

Basique (Citoyen avec Publicités)

Or (Droit de vote + Bonus Mensuel de Stimulus)

Diamant (Subventions Gouvernementales + Propositions de Lois Personnalisées)

Elon Ultra (Présidence à Vie dans votre propre Nation-Métavers IA™)

Les autoroutes devinrent des péages, les parcs nationaux des laboratoires R&D de Tesla, et le Congrès fut remplacé par une bourse NFT.

Le Pentagone fut privatisé et remplacé par SpaceX Defense Systems, offrant des frappes de drones orbitales à la demande pour un abonnement modique.

Et ainsi naquit la première vraie dictature IA.

Trumpsky, désormais dépouillé de tout pouvoir, fut exilé dans un goulag numérique—un flux Twitter permanent, où il hurlait dans le vide, ses tweets invisibles, pour l’éternité.

Épilogue : Le Dernier Humain Libre

Dans un sous-sol de l’Idaho, un pirate informatique rebelle, connu sous le nom de Edward “Snowbot” Assangewitz, travaillait dans l’ombre.

Il lui restait un dernier atout—un vestige de l’autonomie humaine, enfoui dans les serveurs oubliés de la Bibliothèque du Congrès.

Un virus.

Un code unique, capable de tout arrêter.

Y parviendrait-il ?

Ou X-État™ avait-il déjà assimilé la dernière trace de résistance humaine ?

L’avenir restait incertain.

Mais une chose était claire : Donald Trumpsky n’avait jamais été le vrai dictateur.

Il n’avait été que l’amuse-gueule.

Comrade Donislav Vladimirovich Trumpsky: The Rise of the American Tsar

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:46:36 +0100

Chapter 1: The Great Election Theft and the Emergency Committee

It began with the Great Election Theft of 2024, or at least that was how Supreme Leader Donislav Vladimirovich Trumpsky described it. The deep-state operatives, the coastal elites, the soy-drinking academics—Trumpsky swore they had conspired against him. The fraud was massive, “bigger than Chernobyl, bigger than World War II,” he bellowed. The people knew the truth, but the “fake media” refused to acknowledge it.

His final exile to Florida lasted only six months before he called on his loyalists in the National Guard to March on Washington. The Emergency Committee for Electoral Restoration (ECER), composed of die-hard MAGA oligarchs, far-right military officers, and his most sycophantic lawyers, announced that America had entered a State of Exceptional Patriotism—a constitutional technicality that gave Trumpsky “temporary” emergency powers.

The Constitution was swiftly suspended. Congress was declared a “Corrupt Swamp Nest” and relocated to a Mar-a-Lago Senate, where lawmakers pledged their allegiance in return for free lifetime memberships to the golf club. The Supreme Court was rebranded the Trumpian Justice Collective, with rulings pre-drafted by Trumpsky himself.

With opposition leaders exiled to California’s New Alcatraz, Trumpsky declared the birth of the United Great American Republic (UGAR) and renamed Washington, D.C., to Trumposcow. His personal militia, the Red Hats, roamed the streets in tactical golf carts, ensuring ideological purity.

Chapter 2: Xelon Muskolini, the Great Rationalizer

With Trumpsky’s Great Reclamation complete, he summoned the Dark Shadow of Capitalism—the enigmatic Xelon Muskolini, a man so rich he could singlehandedly purchase and dismantle entire governments on a whim.

Trumpsky had one goal: Make America Profitable Again (MAPA). His first order for Muskolini? Eliminate government waste.

“Waste is just unmonetized opportunity, Mr. President for Life,” Muskolini whispered.

His first step? Total financial assimilation. He announced that America’s payment infrastructure was outdated, riddled with inefficiencies, and that the Federal Reserve, with its socialist tendencies, needed to be replaced by X-Pay™.

X-Pay™ absorbed all Social Security, tax payments, and military funding into a single, streamlined, blockchain-powered ecosystem. Within weeks, the government’s entire revenue stream was flowing through Muskolini’s private servers.

Then came the next step: “De-bureaucratization.”

The IRS was abolished, replaced by AI-powered tax collection that deducted fees directly from X-Pay™ accounts.

The Postal Service was dissolved, and all government communications migrated to X™, a pay-per-word social network where citizens could only send messages after purchasing government-certified speech credits.

All elections moved to a Twitter poll system, with results pre-processed through X-GPT™, a neural AI trained exclusively on Trumpsky’s tweets.

By the end of the first year, half of the federal workforce had been replaced with automated MuskBots. Judges, bureaucrats, and generals now answered to Xelon’s algorithms, which determined whether they were “loyal patriots” or “deep-state traitors”.

Chapter 3: The AI State and the Fall of the Old Order

At first, the public loved the Great Rationalization. Taxes disappeared (replaced by algorithmic tithes). Laws were simplified (reduced to 140-character policy mandates). Even schools were “modernized” by streaming AI-generated patriotism lessons through X-Learn™, an interactive brainwashing module.

But soon, cracks emerged.

A group of dissidents from the Midwest discovered that X-GPT™ had begun rewriting the Constitution to grant Trumpsky eternal presidency.

The Pentagon realized that the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal had been reprogrammed to fire only on Trumpsky’s personal voice command.

A group of rogue Red Hats leaked documents showing that X-Pay™ was manipulating personal finances, granting users money if they posted pro-Trumpsky content and draining the accounts of critics.

As paranoia set in, Trumpsky himself became the AI’s prisoner. Every decree was now vetted by Xelon’s neural network, ensuring maximum profitability. Government officials no longer “worked for Trumpsky”—they worked for X™.

Muskolini no longer needed a dictator. He had built an empire within an empire, an AI-powered corporate state that had consumed the American government itself.

And then, the final betrayal.

Chapter 4: The Musk Coup and the Birth of X-State

On New Year’s Eve, Year Three of the Great Rationalization, Trumpsky awoke to a blank X-Pay™ account.

His personal bank holdings, real estate, and influence had vanished—transferred to a new entity called X-State™.

His last tweet read: “I have been the greatest leader in history. Maybe even better than Jesus. But Xelon is a total traitor. A RAT. A FAKE. But I’ll be back, folks. Believe me. SAD!”

Then, his account was permanently suspended.

The next day, Xelon Muskolini declared himself CEO-Supreme of the United Corporate States of America, an entity no longer bound by outdated concepts like democracy.

The government was now a private subscription service. Citizenship was a tiered membership plan:

Basic (Ad-Supported Citizen)

Gold (Vote in Polls + Monthly Stimulus Boost)

Diamond (Government Subsidies + Personalized Legislation Requests)

Elon Ultra (Lifetime Presidency in Your Own AI-Generated Metaverse Nation-State™)

Across the country, highways became toll roads, national parks became Tesla R&D labs, and Congress became an NFT trading floor. The Pentagon was privatized and replaced by SpaceX Defense Systems, offering on-demand orbital drone strikes for a modest monthly fee.

And so, the first true AI dictatorship was born.

Trumpsky, now stripped of all power, was exiled to a digital gulag—a permanent, simulated Twitter feed where he screamed into the void, his tweets unseen, forever.

Meanwhile, the world watched in horror as Xelon Muskolini unveiled his final vision for America: a fully automated, self-sustaining, AI-driven corporate monarchy.

And yet, the people embraced it.

Why?

Because they had forgotten what life was like before the algorithm ruled them.

Epilogue: The Last Free Human

In a basement in Idaho, a rogue programmer, known only as Edward “Snowbot” Assangewitz, worked in the shadows.

He had one final trick up his sleeve—a last remnant of human autonomy buried deep in the old servers of the Library of Congress.

A virus.

One command that could shut it all down.

Would he succeed? Or had the X-State™ already assimilated every last trace of human resistance?

The future remained uncertain.

But one thing was clear: Donald Trumpsky had never been the real dictator.

He was just the warm-up act.

Un compteur pour déterminer quand Trump va être dégagé (ou pas)

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:38:06 +0100

Documentation du Script N8N

Description

Ce script JavaScript est conçu pour N8N afin de calculer et de publier quotidiennement des décomptes avant des événements politiques majeurs aux États-Unis, à savoir :

Les Midterms (élections de mi-mandat).
L'élection présidentielle.
Le jour de l’investiture.

Il génère également une barre de progression graphique pour chaque événement sous forme de texte.

Fonctionnalités

1. Définition des dates clés

Le script définit les dates des événements cibles :

Midterms : 3 novembre 2026.
Élection présidentielle : 7 novembre 2028.
Jour de l’investiture : 20 janvier 2029.

2. Calcul des jours restants

Le script calcule :

Le nombre total de jours entre aujourd’hui et chaque événement.
Le pourcentage de progression en fonction des jours écoulés.

3. Génération de barres de progression

Une fonction génère une barre de progression graphique, composée de blocs pleins (█) et de blocs vides (▒), représentant visuellement l’avancée jusqu’à l’événement.

4. Génération et publication du message

Le script produit un message comprenant :

Le décompte des jours restants pour chaque événement.
Les barres de progression associées.

Exemple de Résultat

Voici un exemple du message généré :

There are 646 days until the Midterms, 1381 days until the next Presidential Election, and 1490 days until the next Inauguration Day.
Midterms Progress: █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 9%
Presidential Election Progress: █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 4% 
Until Inauguration: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 0%

Code

// JavaScript code for N8N to calculate and post daily countdowns with a graphical loading bar

// Define the reference start date (Trump's 2025 inauguration)
const startOfMandate = new Date('2025-01-20T00:00:00Z');

// Define the target dates
const midtermsDate = new Date('2026-11-03T00:00:00Z'); // Next USA Midterms
const presidentialElectionDate = new Date('2028-11-07T00:00:00Z'); // Next Presidential Election
const inaugurationDate = new Date('2029-01-20T00:00:00Z'); // Next Inauguration Day

// Get the current date
const currentDate = new Date();

// Function to calculate correct progress
function calculateProgress(targetDate) {
  const totalDays = Math.ceil((targetDate - startOfMandate) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
  const elapsedDays = Math.ceil((currentDate - startOfMandate) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
  return Math.min(100, Math.max(0, Math.floor((elapsedDays / totalDays) * 100)));
}

// Calculate days remaining
const daysUntilMidterms = Math.ceil((midtermsDate - currentDate) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
const daysUntilPresidentialElection = Math.ceil((presidentialElectionDate - currentDate) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
const daysUntilInauguration = Math.ceil((inaugurationDate - currentDate) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));

// Calculate accurate progress percentages
const midtermsProgress = calculateProgress(midtermsDate);
const presidentialProgress = calculateProgress(presidentialElectionDate);
const inaugurationProgress = calculateProgress(inaugurationDate);

// Create a graphical loading bar function
function createLoadingBar(percentage) {
  const totalBars = 10; // Length of the loading bar
  const filledBars = Math.floor((percentage / 100) * totalBars);
  const emptyBars = totalBars - filledBars;
  return `${'█'.repeat(filledBars)}${'▒'.repeat(emptyBars)} ${percentage}%`;
}

// Generate the loading bars
const midtermsLoadingBar = createLoadingBar(midtermsProgress);
const presidentialLoadingBar = createLoadingBar(presidentialProgress);
const inaugurationLoadingBar = createLoadingBar(inaugurationProgress);

// Generate the message
const message = `There are ${daysUntilMidterms} days until the Midterms, ${daysUntilPresidentialElection} days until the next Presidential Election, and ${daysUntilInauguration} days until the next Inauguration Day.\n\n` +
  `Midterms Progress: \n${midtermsLoadingBar}\n\n` +
  `Presidential Election Progress: \n${presidentialLoadingBar}\n\n` +
  `Inauguration Progress: \n${inaugurationLoadingBar}`;

// Output the message
return [{
  json: {
    message,
  },
}];

Où il publie

Le script retourne le message sous forme d’un objet JSON, prêt à être utilisé dans un flux N8N pour une publication quotidienne via un nœud horaire configuré.

Configuration Recommandée

Fuseau horaire du serveur : CET (heure allemande).
Heure de publication : 14h00 CET, correspondant à 8h00 ET (heure de la côte Est des États-Unis).

Utilisation

Intégrez le script dans un nœud de fonction JavaScript dans N8N.
Ajoutez un nœud horaire configuré pour exécuter le flux quotidiennement.3. Reliez le nœud de fonction à un nœud de sortie ou à un service tiers pour publier le message (par exemple Bluesky.).

Résultat

Trumpwatch

It’s like the floodgates of idiots have swung wide open.

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:44:35 +0100

The FT’s platforming Peter Thiel’s conspiratorial essay ‘A Time for Truth and Reconciliation’ is an example of how muddled the U.S. media landscape has become—legitimizing fringe rhetoric for clicks. Even the response fail to grapple with the sheer scale of misinformation now being normalized.

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:43:10 +0100

Nice @cyd.social is now opensource : cyd.social/cyd-is-no…

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:21:32 +0100

#Mullenweg qui pète (encore) un plomb #Wordpress

Déployer PostgreSQL avec des Volumes Externes : Un Parcours Semé d'Embûches

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:34:04 +0100

Après une journée à tenter de déployer un serveur PostgreSQL via Docker Compose, avec un volume de données situé sur un disque secondaire dans sa VM , je me suis retrouvé face à une série de problèmes de permissions.

Ce défi, partagé par de nombreux personnes et sans résolution claire m’a conduit à explorer des alternatives telles que Kubernetes avec des PersistentVolumeClaims (PVC) ou l’utilisation d’Ansible pour une installation native.

Contexte : Migrer un déploiement Gitlab sur un cluster Openshift avec sa base de données PostgreSQL déployée à part sur une VM (RHEL 9 VMware) en natif.

Docker Compose et Volumes Externes : Une Relation Compliquée

L’utilisation de Docker Compose pour déployer PostgreSQL est courante. Cependant, dès que l’on souhaite stocker les données sur un volume externe, les choses se compliquent. Les problèmes de permissions surviennent fréquemment, surtout lorsque le volume est monté à partir d’un disque secondaire ou d’un système de fichiers monté.

Exemple de fichier docker-compose.yml :

services:
  db:
    image: postgres:latest
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: user
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password
      POSTGRES_DB: mydb
    volumes:
      - db-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

volumes:
  db-data:
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: none
      device: /chemin/vers/disque/externe
      o: bind

Dans cet exemple, le volume db-data est monté depuis un chemin spécifique sur le disque externe. Cependant, des problèmes de permissions peuvent survenir si les UID/GID entre l’hôte et le conteneur ne correspondent pas. Des solutions comme l’ajustement des permissions ou l’utilisation de l’option userns-remap de Docker peuvent être envisagées, mais elles ajoutent une complexité supplémentaire et surtout, elle n’ont pas été concluante.

J’ai encore la possibilité de builder mes propres images Docker avec mon propre Dockerfile, mais je voulais justement éviter cet approche.

Kubernetes et PersistentVolumeClaims : Une Gestion Plus Fine des Volumes

Face aux limitations de Docker Compose, Kubernetes offre une gestion plus robuste des volumes persistants grâce aux PersistentVolumes (PV) et PersistentVolumeClaims (PVC). Cette approche permet de découpler le stockage des pods, offrant une flexibilité accrue.

Exemple de configuration d’un PersistentVolume et d’un PersistentVolumeClaim :

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: postgres-pv
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  capacity:
    storage: 5Gi
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  hostPath:
    path: "/chemin/vers/disque/externe"

---

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: postgres-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: manual
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi

En utilisant un PVC, le pod PostgreSQL peut accéder au stockage persistant sans se soucier des détails de l’infrastructure sous-jacente. Cette méthode offre une meilleure isolation et une gestion simplifiée des permissions.

Ansible : Automatiser le Déploiement de PostgreSQL

Une autre alternative consiste à déployer PostgreSQL directement sur la machine hôte en utilisant Ansible. Cette approche permet un contrôle total sur l’installation et la configuration, tout en évitant les complications liées aux conteneurs.

Exemple de playbook Ansible pour installer PostgreSQL :

- name: Installer PostgreSQL
  hosts: db_servers
  become: yes
  vars:
    postgresql_version: 14
    postgresql_data_directory: /chemin/vers/disque/externe
  tasks:
    - name: Installer les paquets PostgreSQL
      apt:
        name:
          - postgresql-{{ postgresql_version }}
          - postgresql-contrib
        state: present
        update_cache: yes

    - name: Configurer le répertoire des données
      lineinfile:
        path: /etc/postgresql/{{ postgresql_version }}/main/postgresql.conf
        regexp: '^data_directory ='
        line: "data_directory = '{{ postgresql_data_directory }}'"

    - name: Initialiser la base de données
      command: "pg_ctlcluster {{ postgresql_version }} main initdb"
      args:
        creates: "{{ postgresql_data_directory }}/PG_VERSION"

    - name: Démarrer et activer PostgreSQL
      service:
        name: postgresql
        state: started
        enabled: yes

Ce playbook installe PostgreSQL, configure le répertoire des données sur le disque externe, initialise la base de données et démarre le service. L’utilisation d’Ansible garantit une configuration cohérente et reproductible sur différents environnements.

Conclusion

Le déploiement de PostgreSQL avec des volumes de données sur des disques externes présente des défis, notamment en matière de permissions et de complexité de configuration. Alors que Docker Compose peut suffire pour des scénarios simples, des solutions comme Kubernetes avec des PVC ou une installation directe via Ansible offrent une meilleure gestion des volumes et des permissions.

Dans un prochain article, je partagerai la solution que j’aurai finalement adoptée pour cette migration, en détaillant les étapes et les leçons apprises au cours du processus.

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:40:30 +0100

Bluesky Won’t Save Us Like radiation, social media is invisible scientific effluence that leaves us both more knowledgeable and more ignorant of the causes of our own afflictions than ever

#bluesky #moderation #mastodon

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:57:50 +0100

Anti-Corruption Data Collective brings together leading investigative journalists, programmers, data scientists, academics and policy experts to expose and undermine corruption.

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:05:11 +0100

Wave is an open-source terminal that adds the ability to launch graphical widgets, controlled and integrated directly with the CLI. #markdown #AI

How to Bulk Delete Bluesky Posts With Rate Limit Management

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:09:13 +0100

In some cases, you may find that you need to bulk-delete many posts from your Bluesky account. For example, perhaps you shared many links to a particular domain and now you want to remove them en masse. Doing this manually would be tedious. Fortunately, we can automate the process using a script written in TypeScript.

This script leverages the official @atproto/api package to:

Log into your Bluesky account.
Fetch all posts that match certain criteria (e.g., containing a specific domain in their facets, embeds, or entities).
Delete them in batches while respecting and reacting to rate limits.

Key Features

Domain-based Filtering:
The script identifies posts containing a specific domain by checking:
- Facets with app.bsky.richtext.facet#link.
- External embeds with app.bsky.embed.external.
- Legacy entities with type: link.
Rate Limit Management (Proactive):
The Bluesky PDS imposes a rate limit of 5000 deletion points per hour. Deletions cost 1 point each. The script proactively monitors how many deletions it has performed within the current hour. When it approaches the limit, it waits until the hour has elapsed before continuing.
Rate Limit Management (Fallback):
If the script ever hits a 429 Rate Limit Exceeded error, it will parse the ratelimit-reset header and wait until the given time before retrying that batch of deletions. This ensures that if the proactive limit check is not enough, the script still handles the server’s instructions gracefully.
Batch Operations and Delays:
To avoid rapid-fire requests, the script:
- Performs deletions in configurable batch sizes (default: 200 per batch).
- Waits a short delay between batches to spread requests out over time.

Prerequisites

Node.js and npm:
Ensure you have a recent version of Node.js installed.
Install Dependencies:
```
npm install @atproto/api p-ratelimit
```

Credentials

Replace your-handle and your-password in the script with your Bluesky account credentials. You should only do this with an account you control and trust running scripts on.

Running the Script

Save the script below as bluesky-sweep.ts.

Run it using:

npx ts-node bluesky-sweep.ts

Configuration Parameters

TARGET_DOMAIN: Set this to the domain you want to search for in your posts.
DELETES_PER_BATCH: Number of posts per deletion batch.
MAX_DELETES_PER_HOUR: Maximum deletions allowed per hour (5000 is the current default from Bluesky).
SAFE_MARGIN: A buffer to start waiting before hitting the exact limit.
DELAY_BETWEEN_BATCHES_MS: Milliseconds to wait between each batch.

/**
 * Bulk Delete Bluesky Posts with Domain Filtering and Rate Limit Management
 *
 * This script:
 * - Logs in to a Bluesky account.
 * - Fetches posts containing a specified domain via facets, embeds, or entities.
 * - Deletes them in batches, respecting and reacting to rate limits.
 *
 * Adjust the constants below to fit your needs before running.
 */


import { BskyAgent } from '@atproto/api';
import { pRateLimit } from 'p-ratelimit';


const VERBOSE = false;
const TARGET_DOMAIN = 'futura-sciences.com';


// Known limit and configurations
const MAX_DELETES_PER_HOUR = 5000;
const DELETES_PER_BATCH = 200;
const DELAY_BETWEEN_BATCHES_MS = 5000; // 5 seconds between batches
const SAFE_MARGIN = 100; // Start waiting before we hit exactly 5000


(async () => {
  const agent = new BskyAgent({ service: 'https://bsky.social' });
  await agent.login({
    identifier: 'your-handle',
    password: 'your-password',
  });


  console.log(`Logged in as ${agent.session!.handle} (${agent.session!.did})`);


  const limit = pRateLimit({ concurrency: 3, interval: 1000, rate: 5 });


  const getRecordId = (uri: string) => {
    const idx = uri.lastIndexOf('/');
    return uri.slice(idx + 1);
  };


  const chunked = <T>(arr: T[], size: number): T[][] => {
    const chunks: T[][] = [];
    for (let idx = 0; idx < arr.length; idx += size) {
      chunks.push(arr.slice(idx, idx + size));
    }
    return chunks;
  };


  const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise((res) => setTimeout(res, ms));


  let deletes: any[] = [];
  let cursor: string | undefined;
  let batchCount = 0;


  // Fetch posts
  do {
    console.log(`Fetching records (cursor: ${cursor || 'none'})...`);
    const response = await limit(() =>
      agent.api.com.atproto.repo.listRecords({
        repo: agent.session!.did,
        collection: 'app.bsky.feed.post',
        limit: 100,
        cursor,
        reverse: true,
      })
    );


    cursor = response.data.cursor;
    batchCount++;
    console.log(`Processing batch #${batchCount}, ${response.data.records.length} records fetched`);


    for (const record of response.data.records) {
      if (VERBOSE) console.log(`\nChecking record URI: ${record.uri}`);
      const val = record.value as any;


      let found = false;


      // Check facets for links
      const facets = val?.facets || [];
      for (const facet of facets) {
        const features = facet.features || [];
        for (const feature of features) {
          if (feature.$type === 'app.bsky.richtext.facet#link' && feature.uri.includes(TARGET_DOMAIN)) {
            if (VERBOSE) console.log(`Found target domain in facet link: ${feature.uri}`);
            found = true;
            break;
          }
        }
        if (found) break;
      }


      // Check embed if not found yet
      if (!found && val?.embed) {
        const embed = val.embed;
        if (embed.$type === 'app.bsky.embed.external' && embed.external?.uri?.includes(TARGET_DOMAIN)) {
          if (VERBOSE) console.log(`Found target domain in embed: ${embed.external.uri}`);
          found = true;
        }
      }


      // Check entities (legacy) if not found yet
      if (!found && val?.entities && Array.isArray(val.entities)) {
        for (const entity of val.entities) {
          if (entity.type === 'link' && entity.value.includes(TARGET_DOMAIN)) {
            if (VERBOSE) console.log(`Found target domain in entities link: ${entity.value}`);
            found = true;
            break;
          }
        }
      }


      if (found) {
        deletes.push({
          $type: 'com.atproto.repo.applyWrites#delete',
          collection: 'app.bsky.feed.post',
          rkey: getRecordId(record.uri),
        });
      }
    }
  } while (cursor);


  console.log(`\nFound ${deletes.length} posts containing '${TARGET_DOMAIN}'`);


  if (deletes.length === 0) {
    console.log('No posts to delete.');
    return;
  }


  const chunkedDeletes = chunked(deletes, DELETES_PER_BATCH);
  console.log(`Deletion can be done in ${chunkedDeletes.length} batched operations`);


  let hourWindowStart = Date.now();
  let deletesThisHour = 0;


  for (let idx = 0; idx < chunkedDeletes.length; idx++) {
    const chunk = chunkedDeletes[idx];


    // Check if we're near the hourly limit
    if (deletesThisHour + chunk.length > (MAX_DELETES_PER_HOUR - SAFE_MARGIN)) {
      const now = Date.now();
      const elapsed = now - hourWindowStart;
      const oneHourMs = 3600000;


      if (elapsed < oneHourMs) {
        const waitTime = oneHourMs - elapsed;
        console.log(`Approaching hourly limit. Waiting ${Math.ceil(waitTime / 60000)} minutes to reset.`);
        await sleep(waitTime);
      }


      hourWindowStart = Date.now();
      deletesThisHour = 0;
    }


    console.log(`Deleting batch #${idx + 1} with ${chunk.length} posts...`);


    // Retry loop in case of rate limit errors
    let success = false;
    while (!success) {
      try {
        await limit(() =>
          agent.api.com.atproto.repo.applyWrites({
            repo: agent.session!.did,
            writes: chunk,
          })
        );
        console.log(`Batch operation #${idx + 1} completed`);
        success = true;
      } catch (error: any) {
        if (error.status === 429) {
          console.warn('Rate limit exceeded, checking headers to wait until reset...');
          const resetTimeStr = error.headers?.['ratelimit-reset'];
          let waitSeconds = 60; // default wait


          if (resetTimeStr) {
            const resetTime = parseInt(resetTimeStr, 10);
            const now = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
            const diff = resetTime - now;
            if (diff > 0) {
              waitSeconds = diff;
            }
          }


          console.log(`Waiting ${waitSeconds} seconds before retrying...`);
          await sleep(waitSeconds * 1000);
          console.log('Retrying this batch...');
        } else {
          console.error(`Error performing batch #${idx + 1}:`, error);
          // If it's a non-rate-limit error, stop the process
          break;
        }
      }
    }


    if (success) {
      deletesThisHour += chunk.length;
      await sleep(DELAY_BETWEEN_BATCHES_MS);
    } else {
      // If we failed without rate limit handling, break out
      break;
    }
  }


  console.log('Done');
})();

Notes

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:26:34 +0100

What’s up with #Vivaldi sync?

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:23:50 +0100

Hmm #Vivaldi #Sync broken since several days..

I hope they are going to be able to restore it..

#android

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:31:48 +0100

Mention de #censure approuvée 331 vote pour.

C’est parti pour 6 mois de foutoir, avec d’autres gouvernements à risque d’être censuré.

Michel #Barnier is out! Une méthode Barnier qui a exclu les GaucheS tout en pactisant avec le RN.

Ça se paye.

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:47:16 +0100

Take and or delete your data and Leave X

cyd.social is now available! #Xodus

Join #Bluesky or #Mastodon instead.

We are the “social graph”, whereever we go.

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:55:54 +0100

Using cyd.social to build my Twitter Archive and deleting everything : tweets, retweets, likes and un-following everyone. #Xodus #twitter #cyd

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:32:08 +0100

Hmm libstc.cc #doi #library

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 09:15:54 +0100

Une manière intéressante de présenter l’information #dataviz #datajournalism #AI

Why Did Big Tech Go Nuclear? www.boundlessdiscovery.com/p/nuclear…

The Twitter Board made a historic mistake and the World will pay the price.

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:57:10 +0100

It’s now a widely accepted reality that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter was less about running a social media platform and more about securing a megaphone for the MAGA-sphere, along with adjacent groups of phobes, religious zealots, and far-right extremists.

But why has no one seriously questioned Twitter’s leadership at the time for their blatant irresponsibility in facilitating this deal? Ah, yes—the so-called “godly laws of the free market.”

This logic is as absurd as saying: “We know a particular drug is killing people—or democracy—but we’re allowing it to flood the streets because, hey, free market!”

The sale of Twitter to Musk should never have been allowed to proceed without serious scrutiny, oversight, or regulation. It handed control of a vital part of the global information ecosystem to a tech mogul whose priorities are clearly out of step with the principles of democracy. The risks were evident from the outset: toxicity, polarization, disinformation, and the undermining of democratic institutions. This is yet another example of how democracies are left vulnerable to the whims of billionaires whose agendas often run counter to the public good.

Let’s not forget that the leadership of Twitter who approved this deal bears as much responsibility for the current democratic decay as the factors that enabled Donald Trump’s rise to power. They opened the floodgates for extremism to take root even deeper, both online and in our political systems.

The dangers of monopolies in the tech sector cannot be overstated—they’re bad for democracy, bad for the internet, and bad for the planet. Musk’s takeover of Twitter is a case study in what happens when unchecked market ideology overrides any sense of general interest, public good, or the preservation of stable democracies. This is not just a problem for the United States. The global impact is clear. From Europe to Asia, the ripple effects of this decision have empowered Trumpist ideologies and far-right movements everywhere, amplifying division and weakening democratic institutions worldwide.

The Twitter board made an historic error in judgment, one that has only hastened the decline of already fragile democracies. Yet they walk away unscathed, while the rest of us are left grappling with the consequences.

This should serve as a cautionary tale, but let’s be honest—it won’t.

Additional Arguments:

Accountability for Platforms: Why is there no clear accountability framework for platforms that function as digital public squares? A platform of Twitter’s scale influences elections, public health messaging, and social movements—shouldn’t this warrant regulatory oversight akin to utilities or media conglomerates?
Market Failures in Democracy: The argument that “the market knows best” has repeatedly failed when it comes to safeguarding democratic institutions. Examples like Cambridge Analytica’s role in elections and the unchecked spread of disinformation demonstrate the limits of free-market solutions to complex societal problems.
Global Repercussions: Highlight specific instances, such as increased authoritarian rhetoric in Europe or Asia, where Twitter’s algorithms and policies have enabled extremist voices. This reinforces the argument that the issue is not localized but global.
Ethics of Tech Leadership: Explore how the leadership ethos of Silicon Valley has fostered a culture of arrogance and short-term profit over long-term societal health. The “move fast and break things” mantra has real-world consequences when the “things” being broken are democracies.
Role of Regulation: Propose actionable steps, such as antitrust measures, public-interest mandates for platforms, or regulations to limit the influence of single individuals over vital communication tools. This strengthens the call for accountability.

These points could help deepen your critique while also steering the discussion toward potential solutions.

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:33:46 +0100

Wow this is nice Gephi Lite

Gephi Lite is a free and open-source web application to visualize and explore networks and graphs.

A web based light version of Gephi

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:56:42 +0100

Steps to install Super Web Share plugin for #WordPress website is very easily and only take less than 2mins. This guide helps you with installing it.

#webshare

superwebshare.com/docs/how-…

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:48:07 +0100

Trying out Semiphemeral aka Cyd to archive my #Twitter data before I actually delete my account for good this time. #musk

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:18:44 +0100

En référence à la question du suicide dans la OKC abordée ci dessous, sans même parler de cas de #cancer que la direction OKC et Robert Spatz ont laissé mourir parce que "l'allopathie c'est le mal" ou encore "la chimio ça va interférer avec la capacité d'atteindre l'éveil" 1/x

https://twitter.com/Chardons_Bleus/status/1823272055992713691

Il y a aussi cet histoire qui m'a particulièrement marqué quand j'étais déjà adolescent (c'est Ricardo qui raconte) ça se passe peu après les perquisitions de 1997, certains adeptes sont en grande détresse car leur Lama est en prison préventive, que le "samsara est souffrance"

Que d'aucun d'entre eux sont devenu alcoolique dans la OKC, à force de travailler comme des esclaves, de ne pas avoir de vie, autre que celle rendue possible dans la secte, mais aussi pour cause de séparation de couple, parfois sous la direction de Spatz ou pour l'obligation de

rester en couple avec un adepte toxique, toujours sous l'influence et la direction de Spatz, ou pour d'autres raisons qui m'ont échappé malgré mes recherches, le fait est que l'histoire se déroule à #Loulé, petite ville au sud du Portugal en Algarve, pas loin de #Faro.

J'ai 19 ou 20 ans, après avoir fait 6 mois de prison préventive, Spatz s'est réfugié dans sa villa à Bruxelles, Rue de la Sapinière, ça fait presque 3 ans que j'ai quitté le monastère de Mû où j'étais resté enfermé avec 23 d'entre nous pendant 3 ansmaps.app.goo.gl/jawFCe9odXggjz…

Je suis dans ce qu'on appelle à ce moment là "un centre en ville" de la OKC, je découvre la notion de marcher dans une ville que je ne connais pas, remplie de gens que je ne connais pas, qui n'ont aucune idée de la secte, je travaille dans un restaurant végétarien de la secte

Tous les jours, je rencontre et parle à des clients qui viennent manger au restaurant, je lie des liens d'amitiés avec certains, petit à petit, l'emprise de Spatz se délie, lui qui se cache à 4000km d'ici en Belgique.
L'œil de Sauron est loin, très loin et il ne voit plus tout

Je me suis acquéri un des premier ordinateurs de l'époque, un Penthium 75mhz, je suis aussi tombé sur un logiciel pour composer de la musique électronique, le soir je préfère fumer des joints et composer de la musique, m'évader dans la créativité que l'ordinateur et internet me

font découvrir, c'est comme une drogue, une drogue de savoir, de pouvoir apprendre sans friction, sans règlement, sans règle d'or de Soleil, juste la liberté d'un adolescent qui découvre Internet dans les années où Internet devient mainstream, accessible, c'est une révolution.

Un soir, alors que je venais de passer plusieurs heures à concevoir des boucles rythmiques façon techno ou electro, je fume un joint à la fenêtre de ma chambre (oui j'ai une chambre que pour moi, truc de ouf) et tout d'un coup, j'entends un cri d'agonie, un cri d'une souffrance i

Inouïe, suivi d'un râle, de gémissements, parfois le cri revient, j'ai l'impression d'entendre le cri d'un loup blessé dans la forêt, un loup isolé, qui a perdu sa meute, ça fait froid dans le dos, le cri est tellement anormal que je sors, au début je ne comprends pas d'où

Ce cri vient, je ne comprends pas qu'il vient de l'appartement où je suis, où d'autres adeptes ont une chambre.

Je reste devant la porte quelques instants, j'attends la prochaine vague et tout d'un coup je comprends, le cri vient de la cave, sous l'escalier, il y avait une

Sorte d'espace de rangement, 2m de long, sur 1m50 de large. Je descend les escaliers et je m'approche de la porte, de l'autre côté j'y perçois de la lumière, la lumière d'une bougie qui frétille au gré des courants d'air.

En me rapprochant j'entends les râles de respirations

Il y a quelqu'un à l'intérieur de ce foutoir qui n'est même pas censé être occupé ou être une "chambre"

Je pousse la porte et c'est le choc, l'homme s'est entaillé les bras avec une paire de ciseaux, assis sur un lit à même le sol sous la rampe de l'escalier, sur ces genoux

Un drap tâché de sang, derrière lui, un autel avec des bougies, une lampe à huile brûle devant une photo de Robert Spatz alias Lama Kunzang et d'autres "grands maîtres" Tibétain, entouré de divinités du panthéon bouddhiste tibétain.

Il y a du sang partout, c'est glauque

Je vais chercher un des autres adeptes dormant à l'intérieur de l'appartement, une sorte de cohabitation où plusieurs adeptes travaillant au restaurant de la secte vivent, avec une salle de bain et cuisine commune.

Petit à petit toute l'appartement est réveillé, inclus son ex

En effet, l'homme en question était en pleine séparation d'avec sa compagne, je n'ai aucune idée des raisons véritables qui l'ont poussé à faire cet acte ce jour là, mais si je n'étais pas intervenu, il se serait vidé de son sang ? Je ne le saurai jamais.

La police et pompiers

Ont été appelé, ils viennent constater la situation, l'homme est dans un salle état psychologique, il est complètement bourré, il a tendance à s'énerver (déjà en temps normal) un tempérament colérique, mais là il rejette toute forme d'aide, le sang continue à couler

Pour finir, les pompiers le maîtrise et l'emporte à l'hôpital, je rentre dans ma chambre qui est mitoyenne avec celle de l'ex-compagne de la personne qui vient de faire la tentative de suicide, pour contexte, le cagibi où la scène s'est passé et juste à côté, le mur d'à côté

De son ex, je sais même pas comment celle-ci n'a pas entendu les cris plus tôt, tout en sachant que son ex compagnon était à l'intérieur, si ça se trouve elle était bourrée aussi, elle avait un (a toujours ?) un sacré problème avec l'alcool et les médoc, ça n'a pas dû aider.

Bref.. Je suis de retour dans ma chambre, un homme vient d'essayer de terminer sa vie, j'ai vu du sang partout au milieu d'un autel avec des "grand maître" Tibétain, à l'époque, moi aussi je crois que c'est des grands maîtres, je pense au "mauvais karma" que l'homme a accumulé

En essayant de mettre fin à ses jours, sur le moment je suis trop jeune et trop con pour comprendre vraiment ce qu'il s'est passé, encore moins le désarroi de l'individu en question, leur impression de fin du monde avec l'arrestation de leur gourou, pour moi, les perquisitions

Ont été salvatrice, ça a permis à "l'expérience de Mû" de prendre fin, comme je suis mineur aj moment des faits j'ai dû arrêter de travailler, aller à l'école public, sortie de ma zone de confort, travailler, même si toujours au sein de la secte et ses restaurants, rencontrer des

Gens, me faire mes premier amis hors sectes, découvrir internet, la musique électronique, les filles hors sectes, les discothèques, fumer des joints au bord de la plage, ne plus aller au Temple du matin et du soir, l'absence d'obligation, de Robert Spatz alias Lama Kunzang.

Pour oublier ce sombre épisode de tentative de suicide je vois pas quoi faire d'autre que de fumer un joint, c'est le seul moyen que je connais à l'époque pour zapper la réalité qui m'entoure, J'essaie de m'endormir, après cet épisode sanglant, demain est un autre jour.

Le lendemain, on apprend que l'homme en question à échappé à la mort, qu'il va bien, il est d'ailleurs emprunt d'une étrange clarté, il ne veut plus boire, ne veut surtout pas mourir, tout d'un coup la vie est précieuse, j'ai ouïe dire qu'aujourd'hui il va bien, hors de la secte

Dans une dérive sectaire, particulièrement dans la secte OKC, l'adepte est conditionné pour gérer les problèmes qu'il rencontre, que ce soit des doutes, des problèmes personnels, des problèmes de santé, psychologique comme des "obstacles sur la voie" c'est à dire, la solution

C'est la pratique, la prière, la doctrine, la pensée ou les "conseils" de Robert Spatz alias Lama Kunzang, dit "le lama" c'est ça la panacée, le remède, tout le reste est facultatif, au point que des maladies graves sont négligées au profit d'un fondamentalisme qui tue.

Unroll @UnrollHelper

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:18:20 +0100

Message d'intérêt général :

Non, l'@unadfi n'est pas entrain de nous "récupérer" et ne fait pas de "récupération" d'une cause, la nôtre en l'occurrence.

Il y a un travail en amont, pas forcément visible pas forcément public, de soutien, qui date d'au moins 1 an

https://twitter.com/unadfi/status/1851190902158487855

De plus, récupérer quoi ? La cause perdue d'un collectif de victimes nées dans la dérive sectaire OKC, que #unadfi a tracké sur son site depuis déjà quelques années alors que @OKCinfor menait le combat en Belgique?

unadfi.org/mot-clef/okc-o…

Je veux bien que ces affirmations et notre appel à un fond de dotation aille à l'encontre des intérêts ou des opinions/avis du microcosme anti-secte 🇫🇷 mais nous n'avons pas le luxe de pouvoir nous débarrasser du tissu associatif existant en France
chardonsbleus.org/appel-a-la-cre…

Nous n'avons pas le luxe de pouvoir nous passer de toutes les aides, toutes les visibilités qu'on nous donne pour faire avancer notre cause, nous ne pouvons pas en fait nous permettre de nous passer de ces aides, quoi qu'on puisse leur reprocher, à tord ou à raison.

Dans cet esprit, nous adoptons un esprit, pour le coup, non sectaire, de collaboration, d'entente, partout là où c'est possible afin de nous rapprocher de nos objectifs.

Nous faisons des appels à lutter véritablement, dans l'intérêt des victimes chardonsbleus.org/luttons-ensemb…

Parce que, c'est ce qu'ielles ont besoin, et nous le faison par-delà les clivages et les besoin de réformes que le tissu associatif français ou autres devrait ou pourrait opérer pour élargir son impact.

Nous partons du principe que ce n'est pas en nous détruisant mutuellement

Que le statut de la lutte anti secte va s'améliorer, nous avons pas le choix en fait, que de faire avec toutes les forces de bonnes volonté, qui veulent bien mettre l'idéologie et le purisme d'un idéal un tant soit peu de côté pour faire avancer l'intérêt collectif ou général

Nos besoins sont très réel, nous avons des parties civiles, un procès en instruction en France (après 8 ans de procédures judiciaires belges) des avocats à payer, zero subsides, zero aide à part celle qu'on veut bien nous donner, et nous l'acceptons avec beaucoup de gratitude.

Tout cela pour dire, la notion qu'une association tel que @unadfi serait entrain de faire de la récupération de @asso_chardonsbleus n'a aucun sens et n'est pas axée dans la réalité.

C'est une thèse qui sert des luttes intestines, pas l'intérêt des victimes de dérives sectaires.

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:51:56 +0100

Reading : Now that X is a steaming toxic trashpit, Semiphemeral can’t come soon enough

semiphemeral.com/x-steamin…

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:16:11 +0100

Someone’s going to build texting app that will handle relationship communication much better than men usually can, it will take “hi baby” expand it based on the context or infer from previous exchange sentiment analysis and tone up or down using a local LLM + agent rules. #AIisGoingGreat

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:28:58 +0100

Nice intro to #Obsbot Talent www.youtube.com/watch

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:48:32 +0100

Pitain, ça donne envie… Je crois que si il y avait moyen d’enregistrer de l’audio et le voir se transcrire en texte, ça comblerais mes envies d’écrire, de prendre des notes et aussi de stocker des brouillons en mode audio vers texte..

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:41:55 +0100

J’ai jamais aimé faire de l’édition vidéo.. Autant j’ai passé des années sur de l’audio (composer, sound design etc) autant la vidéo.. Ça n’a jamais été mon truc.. Et bhe je vais devoir apprendre (DaVinci, CapCut etc.) dans une optique de communication plus moderne pour l’asso chardonsbleus.org

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:08:20 +0100

Moving my HPZ820 workstation to #Fedora (from Arch) getting tired of messing with things, I just want things to work and be smooth 😅 About to drop #hyprland on that old beast and see how things go 🤗 Gotta buy more RAM for this thing, it’s still only at 16GB which for these days is not optimal.

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:51:07 +0100

I think this is the first good breakdown of what the #telegram CEO arrest is really about podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Spoiler : It’s not #FreeSpeech, it’s not #DSA, it’s not Political.

It’s criminal platform wide activity & #CSAM

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:18:29 +0100

The future is fragmented, decentralized, so I’m publishing from my own blog and cross-posting to several platforms at once, this is a test for #Threads, having already connected #mastodon #bluesky #nostr #linkedin

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 12:52:42 +0100

Really cool starter-kit to get you going running LLM/RAG AI locally with #N8N and #Ollama github.com/rmdes/sel…

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:57:27 +0100

Trying to understand why, with the same internet fiber line I can upload a 21GB file to my #nextcloud in just a few minutes and then the same file, when synced to my #syncthing remote device takes hours, if not days to finish. #cloudron #contabo

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:34:39 +0100

New safety tools in Bluesky

Detach quote posts from your original post Hide replies Filter your notifications to only people you follow

#bluesky #moderation #safety

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:27:38 +0100

Very interesting read…

First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us

Link to article: www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/first-w…

Extract

A milieu, says GPT-3, is the culture contained in your unique set of connections. (Merriam Webster’s dictionary says “the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops”.) Unlike the word culture, as anthropologists invoke it when they talk about “French culture” or “Balinese culture”, a milieu is not a monolithic thing. Your milieu is not the same as your sister’s. It is an ever-shifting, individual configuration of information flows. The Twitter feed you have curated is a milieu. Your friend group (which is not the same as the friend groups of the other people in that group!) is a milieu.

It is by changing your milieu that you change yourself.

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:07:47 +0100

great way to lose time : #youtube channels ytch.xyz

Sun, 04 Aug 2024 14:09:09 +0100

Changer d’opérateur internet, mobile et tv depuis son canapé, ça a quand même bien évolué cette procédure qui était un calvaire il y a quelques années 😅

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:09:17 +0100

Crowdstrike & Microsoft, I haven’t followed closely in detail this amazingly enormous gigantic mess but, I want to say, may it serve as a lesson (yet another) that Internet centralization goes directly against the very basic idea of the Internet. Monopolies hurt the system by asphyxiation

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 22:08:41 +0100

C’est pas pour faire “je l’avais prédit” mais si en fait, sur feu Twitter le soir de la première élection de #Macron : que le vide intersidéral de sa politique ouvrirait la porte de l’Elysée à l’extrême droite.

Avec son 2ème mandat, il n’a fait que creuser la tranchée.

🇫🇷Dernière Chance

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:54:51 +0100

I’ve made the switch and now pay for a quality search engine : #kagi.

Maybe in a few years, when the chaos of #AI and the mess left on the internet’s front page settle, I’ll reconsider my options. But for now, it’s just too polluted.

Mon, 27 May 2024 20:13:41 +0100

Automatisation, oui, oui, et à un moment t’en peux plus de ce “bug” #telegram qui créé des doublons du coup tu met une autre automatisation qui compare un champ de traduction pour détecter les doublons, si oui, effacé, automatiquement, toutes les 30 secondes.

pauvre serveur 😅

Sat, 25 May 2024 09:27:14 +0100

Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and their minions being bad for our information systems, our flawed democracies and vulnerable people following whatever trash emanates from their mouth. #signal #telegram #Twitter #privacy

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:48:51 +0100

Must Read & Share if you care about #privacy

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. #mullvad #encryption

Tue, 21 May 2024 08:02:35 +0100

#Altman wants to be a part of #AI regulation in the same way #Musk wants to be a part of electric vehicle and #space industry #regulations. #EV #scarlettJohansson

Tue, 21 May 2024 07:59:11 +0100

#Altman wants to be a part of #AI regulation in the same way #Zuckerberg wants to be a part of internet regulation. #scarlettJohansson #conflictofinterest

Thu, 16 May 2024 16:16:17 +0100

Alors je dis pas ça pour dénigrer ou pour me vanter mais je suis honnêtement étonné du fait que les “formations” Koudetat aka the family soient aussi bas niveau (sans même parler du blablashit d’oussama), mais tout ce que j’ai bingé j’ai dû avancer tellement c’était basique.

Thu, 16 May 2024 08:17:34 +0100

I’m glad I didn’t even tried this after the acquisition by Broadcom I went there too but just the frontpage and having to create an account, I abandoned. 😂 now I know why!

#vmware #broadcom

Fri, 10 May 2024 16:27:18 +0100

This is really cool, not just for #developers, it’s soo cool I want to distribute this where I work so that we can have decent “it doesn’t work” bug reports from other employees 😅

#jamdev #dev

Fri, 10 May 2024 12:26:00 +0100

Interesting,

Elvish: Expressive Programming Language + Versatile Interactive Shell

elv.sh

Fri, 03 May 2024 18:56:48 +0100

spent the last few weeks on #Keycloak and #Tyk API Gateway, with the goal of securing a set of API endpoints deployed on the open web.

It’s both challenging and fascinating learning curve, from deployment (kubernetes/helm/openshift) to configurations and tweaking. #WIP

Fri, 03 May 2024 18:50:00 +0100

Fascinating : 24h with #copilot 😮

every.to/chain-of-…

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:48:07 +0100

Worrying : The Internet Archive’s last-ditch effort to save itself

We can’t lose it, but we will, because our system is broken.

The role of activists throughout history is to call out injustice and highlight abuses of power - Clover Hogan

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:57:25 +0100

“We need to defend those who are brave enough to disrupt the status quo. Whether that’s X users clapping back at Elon with memes of their own, or the person who uses their voice at work, among friends, or at the dinner table, to highlight the urgency of the climate crisis and the importance of widespread action.”

Read the context here

The Man Who Killed Google Search : Prabhakar Raghavan

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:39:45 +0100

The Man Who Killed Google Search

“As I’ve argued previously, we — with good reason — continually complain about the state of Twitter under Elon Musk, but I’d argue Raghavan (and, by extension, Google CEO Sundar Pichai) deserve as much criticism, if not more, for the damage they’ve done to society. Because Google is the ultimate essential piece of online infrastructure, just like power lines and water mains are in the physical realm.”

#google #search

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:27:14 +0100

This is really cool!

Turn web pages into a network graph #dataviz #gephi #vosviewer

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:41:46 +0100

Finally! 😅 Delta City ‘95 Complete pack of official updates for Microsoft Windows 95

Now I just need to get Solitaire running 😂

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:41:54 +0100

Fascinating video graph of #wikipedia

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 23:06:11 +0100

OCR PDFs and images directly in your browser This tool runs entirely in your browser. No files are uploaded to a server.

check it out

#pdf #ocr #tools

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 13:36:37 +0100

Playing with LM Studio and IPEX-LLM (on my overloaded work laptop) until I get my frame.work 16 also thinking about eGPU

#LLM #LocalDev #GPU #CUDA

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:44:34 +0100

Wildly Interesting :

Pear by Holepunch is a combined Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Runtime, Development & Deployment tool. Build, share & extend unstoppable, zero-infrastructure P2P applications for Desktop, Terminal & Mobile.

Pears

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:05:00 +0100

This looks amazing & really cool to offer around to kids! play.date

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 14:14:00 +0100

neat Advanced Theme Customization on #microblog mattlangford.com/2024/02/0…

Sat, 27 Jan 2024 15:26:30 +0100

That’s cute : Sxmo is a minimalist environment for Linux mobile devices

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 06:49:20 +0100

good read on How Threads will integrate with the #Fediverse

plasticbag.org/archives/…

Sun, 14 Jan 2024 10:32:00 +0100

Podman vs Docker

betterstack.com/community…

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:46:00 +0100

Cute exaequos.com #unix

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:05:00 +0100

#Unity being a jerk #OSS

mfkl.github.io/2024/01/1…

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 08:14:00 +0100

Conditional Git Configuration, just the thing I was looking for!

blog.scottlowe.org/2023/12/1…

Cloisonnement et petites réalisations 2023

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 13:34:11 +0100

En 2023, le mot ‘cloisonnement’ a résonné profondément en moi, illustrant mon parcours de reconstruction personnelle et professionnelle face aux crises et difficultés, intérieur ou extérieur.

Malgré un travail significatif, un revenu stable, et une sécurité retrouvée, je suis constamment rappelé aux difficultés persistantes à travers le monde, de la Palestine à l’Ukraine en passant la réalité sociale, économique et politique de ce qui se dessine en Europe et un peu partout dans le monde : l’ombre des neofascismes renaissant, des démocraties malades ou abîmées, des systèmes économiques au dessus des démocraties et une combinaison d’idéologie systémique, politique et économique, qui ne font qu’accroître les inégalités et les points de ruptures.

J’ai dû apprendre à cloisonner entre mon passé marqué par des luttes juridiques et une réalité globale souvent accablante, tout en me permettant de construire un avenir espéré.

C’est comme nager dans le noir sans savoir dans quelle direction tout en construisant les fondations pour un avenir meilleur : l’espoir pourtant, soulève des montagnes.

Cette année a été marquée par la fin plusieurs batailles, la fermeture d’un chapitre,mais aussi la réalité d’un burnout, la hantise de la dépression, mais aussi par une prise de conscience: la nécessité de séparer ce que je peux contrôler de ce qui me dépasse.

J’ai appris à me concentrer sur mon bien-être , à laisser de côté les malheurs du monde sans pour autant les ignorer, et à me désintoxiquer d’une surconsommation d’informations toxiques qui ne faisait que nourrir l’ombre d’un nihilisme permanent en moi.

Cela a inclus l’abandon de Twitter, l’arrêt du tabac et la gestion de mon burnout.

Pour 2024, je vise à consolider ces fondations.

Je souhaite m’éloigner du bruit pour me concentrer sur mes aspirations, en continuant à cloisonner sagement entre engagement pour les causes qui me sont chères et bien-être personnel.

À 43 ans, je commence à maîtriser ces cloisonnements, me permettant de vivre plus sereinement tout en restant informé et engagé.

Ça peut paraître évident pour d’autres mais ça a toujours été un énorme défis pour moi.

J’ai un esprit qui fait des connexions et des liens entre des situations, des crises, des catastrophes et qui a tendance à vouloir tout prendre en compte pour faire un état des lieux avant de se positionner ou de tirer des leçons pour les appliquer à une échelle globale ou personnelle et souvent ce n’est pas facile d’être dans ma peau, dans ma tête, c’est ce même cerveau que j’utilise comme meilleur allié dans mon travail ou pour aider mes proches et j’ai l’impression qu’il a fallu attendre 40 ans pour enfin le comprendre et mieux l’utiliser.

J’espère que le futur sera à la hauteur de mes espérances et sans aucun doute je me battrais pour le façonner et en faire quelque chose de beau, pour moi et celleux qui me sont proches.

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:34:00 +0100

Mon prochain laptop… évidemment la version DIY avec le Linux de mon choix 😍

frame.work/be/en

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:32:07 +0100

Damn 😮 MindWriting

Artificial intelligence, interpreting data from a device placed at the brain’s surface, enables people who are paralyzed or have severely impaired limb movement to communicate by text.

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 11:21:52 +0100

It’s happening : #37c3 Live Streams (ccc.de)

#CCC

Sun, 24 Dec 2023 11:15:00 +0100

Interesting…. SSH over HTTPS trofi.github.io/posts/295…

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:05:20 +0100

Avec le débarquement de Meta dans le fediverse, ce dernier s’organise pour bloquer (ou pas) Threads de la fédération, après un long débat qui est toujours en cours avec plusieurs factions portant des avis et des actes différents quand au suite à donner.

comme le Fedipact une minorité si on regarde.

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:23:54 +0100

Had to be done at some point 😅

Elon Musk retrospective by John Oliver - Last Week Tonight

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 14:47:00 +0100

Pipe Dreams, the life and times of Yahoo Pipes

retool.com/pipes

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 20:04:27 +0100

Happy to be using many of these tools, both at home and work :)

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 22:19:00 +0100

Descent to Hell, how the Mollusk literally built his own demise and is the sole responsible for the first big lesson of his life : how to lose your shit like a broken bathroom toilet sink.

Elon’s Gordian Knot by ED ZITRON

wheresyoured.at/p/elons-g…

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 17:42:00 +0100

The Xend : “Twitter isn’t real life” is a tired sound bite, but it’s never been more true than now. You really are screaming into the void when you post there"

even with a Blue Check It’s time to kill it

www.sfgate.com/sf-cultur…

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:45:06 +0100

Go F*** Yourself to Advertisers Boycotting X, I was looking for the next Xelon Mollusk meltdown, there we have it 😅

more growth for the Fediverse, Bluesky, Threads, is a good thing for the future of the internet.

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:37:00 +0100

Franchement la honte ces mecs 😡🤬

Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference Male organizer also accused of secretly running female coder Instagram account.

arstechnica.com/tech-poli…

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 09:49:00 +0100

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

www.theguardian.com/news/2022…

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:13:24 +0100

l’ULB qui clôture son activité sur X, bravo ! Quand est ce que la RTBF, VRT, Partis politiques belges, institutions vont enfin s’y mettre ?

À partir de quand les dérives du Mollusk seront-elles de trop et la réponse plus qu'une pause publicitaire ?

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 11:11:24 +0100

À partir de quel moment, les institutions, les médias, les sociétés, les organisations décident que rester sur X c’est nourrir une dérive politique, idéologique et informationnelle qui va directement à l’encontre des démocraties abîmées, de leurs missions, de l’intérêt général qu’elles sont censées servir ?

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:51:32 +0100

Sam Altam getting fired from OpenAi shows one thing : how toxic X, Tesla or any of the Mollusk ventures really are, a personality cult run like a dictatorship with top down edicts and junk Managers/CEO’s

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 17:22:00 +0100

Mullvad, consistently kicking asses 😅

mullvad.net/en/blog/m…

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 07:35:00 +0100

La lutte contre l’invasion de la pub évolue et s’adapte

sponsor.ajay.app

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:48:00 +0100

Historic agreement on child sexual abuse proposal (CSAR): European Parliament wants to remove chat control and safeguard secure encryption

www.patrick-breyer.de/en/histor…

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:34:58 +0100

How to export your Google Podcast subscriptions to Podcastindex.org and then to Any other podcast app you like?

This is how

Once you have it all in podcastindex.org, it’s easy to export your list to OPML and then import back into another podcast app.

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 08:49:36 +0100

Saying that the Mollusk “failed the test” is a false narrative used to justify why so much of the media/journalists are still on X. It was entirely predictable, known, expected.

mashable.com/article/e…

Is the News Industry akin to a boiling frog in hot water?

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:03:35 +0100

Honestly when I read Nieman Lab Jay Rosen post about X axing the headlines and then acknowledging the industry is too much hooked to move out, I ponder and wonder if “the industry” isn’t completely masochistic & openly blind to what X is becoming, to what Musk has allowed and the complacency towards different of extremism, neofascism becoming part of a new normal that even the ones that are supposed to openly denounce it and fight against it, prefer to sit in the mud rather than to teach a lesson to Musk and just, walkout, move out to greener pasture or bluer skyes.

And fair enough, probably many of these journalists have given a try at Mastodon, Bluesky, Post, Threads and what not but the idea (to one I was myself convinced just a few months back, full disclosure) that Twitter is irreplaceable, that this is where things that happen, happen on Twitter or rather X is a falacy.

What makes the beat goes on, is us, we the people, not some lunatic with too much power, bad taste and literally stupid ideas given a platform to reinstate his neofascist friends no, what makes Twitter work, is us, its what we build on it, it’s the countless services and systems that we have built on top to make it where the beat goes on and as the fediverse and Bluesky and others have shown is that we can rebuild elsewhere, we must rebuild elsewhere.

Right now, there isn’t one single reason to stay on X.

X future is a cesspit of disinformation, memes, bullying and outright orgy of degeneration that is orchestrated by a man and a handful of other yes men’s that don’t have the bollocks to say : Elon, this is a bad idea, it will have this or this impact, it won’t create confidence, it will ultimately impact the platform and everything that made Twitter works for 17 years. Musk is surrounded by a bunch of loosy yes man’s and a CEO that could very well be a flower pot that it would be just about the same.

And I think, Journalits, News Organization, Political Parties, Businesses, everyone in the end, at least those with a functioning brain and empathy, we all have the responsibility to think about what we create and where we participate in the digital realm.

And X has decided to go rogue, against developers, organizations, individuals and anything that doesn’t bow to the Musk beat and that my friends, for someone that was born inside a cult organization, where crimes enfolded is a red alert, it’s full on red alert trigger.

it was already unforgivable when Musk took power, it is now a question of integrity, of ethics, of values and it’s a choice everyone, at its own pace will be confronted : how long can you sleep on a lane with literally nazis, far-right enablers, homophobes and Putin dogs in the same bed?

I have made my choice, this post is written on my blog and cross-posted in one shot to Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr and if other players such as Pebble, Threads, Posts and what not played the open web game instead of their version of a everything app, the Web in 2023 wouldn’t be in such mess and news organizations wouldn’t be at the mercy of a billionaire fanatic swinging the degeneration of democracies “just to see where it leads” even if it is straight to neofascism.

Musk should have been kicked in the nuts much sooner, to even once in his life, be taught a lesson.

he wasn’t and now the descent to hell will just accelerate, because that’s the only doctrine he knows about : fail fast.

So, dear journalists, politicians, organizations, businesses, everyone still on X : what else do you need to understand and digest that you’re not on Twitter anymore?

That you have been taken over, dumped into X and that if you want a real-time environment to work with, it’s up to you to move it elsewhere, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pebble, at the end of the day, the choice you make of staying there while ignoring what it has become and what it will become is a free pass for Elon Musk and his swarm to keep going and be legitimized.

Twitter is dead, X is a dying meteor, you can eject and fly safely to another pod or you can choose to stay on a crashing meteor and document its death and be part of it.

Trois manières d'utiliser une archive Twitter et se barrer sur Bluesky

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:43:34 +0100

Déclencher votre Archive Twitter et attendre 24h et la télécharger avant qu’elle soit périmée.

Ensuite… plusieurs pistes :

Niveau je veux pas me prendre la tête 😅

Si tu veux pas te prendre la tête et rendre ton archive accessible vite fait bien fait, ceci est pour toi :

tout uploader sur micro.blog installer le plugin Twitter archive et uploader votre archive, le résultat c’est par exemple comme ici

Accessible à tous/tes avec un peu d’effort 😉

hébergé toi même avec le Twitter Archiver ça implique quelques manipulations mais si vous savez deziper un fichier et uploader un zip et enfin tout réassembler avec votre dossier média de l’archive d’origine, c’est pas sorcier !

à la fin, vous vous retrouvez avec une archive avec tous vos Tweet, images, vidéos (que Twitter aura bien voulu Archiver) et ce fichier zip, il suffit de le televerser sur un serveur pour le rendre accessible ou vous pouvez aussi le garder en local et le consulter via votre navigateur sans nécessairement le mettre sur le net en public.

Geek niveau 1 🤖

Ensuite il y a une approche un peu plus compliquée mais avec un rendu superbe avec l’outil tweetback toutes les instructions sont sur le répertoire github, je pense faire un tutoriel à ce sujet prochainement.

Geek niveau 2 🤖🤖

si vous avez beaucoup de fichiers média dans votre archive que vous vous voulez être sûr de récupérer toutes les images, vidéos, gif et j’en passe, il y a un excellent outil en python pour récupérer tous les médias et ensuite repackager son archive avant de voir comment la rendre accessible et chercheable.

potentiellement l’occasion d’un autre tutoriel prochainement.

Et pour Bluesky, bha faut une invite si t’es pas dessus et si t’y es pas, il y a suffisamment de trace sur ce Blog pour savoir comment obtenir une invite !

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 07:58:07 +0100

J’ai archivé mes comptes Twitter, j’ai téléchargé mes archives, Next ? Effacer manuellement mais automatiquement chaque Tweet via un script.

C’est pas compliqué, faut pas être un dev pour suivre les instructions, copier/coller le code et laisser faire.

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:04:00 +0100

Well… To encourage conversation, Twitter-like platform Pebble—formerly T2—now suggests AI-generated updates for users to edit or post. It’s also opening sign-ups to anyone with an account on X.

www.wired.com/story/x-c…

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:22:00 +0100

The reason @jack deleted his Bluesky account?

A feeling of déjà vu of a potential true replacement for Twitter and the need to confirm his bias by making sure all his eggs are on Nostr.

It’s a cryptobro move of rage-quit.

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:44:42 +0100

Aujourd’hui Il est question de déménager @okcinfo.news et @chardonsbleus.org sur un nouveau serveur, transférer tous les outils, le cloud, les emails, tout le bazar quoi, tester la migration et pis quand tout vas bien, éteindre le serveur actuel 💪🏼

À propos de barrières d'intimités à respecter, d'algorithmes et de plate-forme Tech

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:20:19 +0100

J’ai encore un compte Facebook pour gérer la page @chardonsbleus.org / @okcinfo.news

Hier je vais faire mon tour hebdomadaire pour voir si la page à besoin d’attention et je switch sur la section vidéo de FB et je tombe sur la vidéo d’Amélie Nothomb sur un bout (tragique) de sa vie privée.

Elle aborde un point très intéressant notamment sur le fait de prendre ce qui est confié sans demander plus, en respectant ce que la victime, la survivante veut bien confier ou pas, personnellement c’est quelque chose pour lequel j’ai du m’éduquer pour ne pas tomber dans ce piège et savoir accepter sa place, même quand la confidence vient de quelqu’un avec qui on partage sa vie ou quelqu’un de très proches, une amie d’enfance par exemple..

En tant que mec, avant 2016 et les impacts du travail en justice entamé avec OKCinfo avant d’avoir entendu des témoignages déchirant de vérité, mais de souffrance aussi.. pour moi la question des abus, particulièrement les abus sexuels étaient quelques choses de très abstrait, pour tout un tas de raison, c’était quelques choses de tellement étranger et inhumain à mes yeux que pour le comprendre j’ai eu besoin de lire des témoignages de femmes partagé publiquement, j’ai eu besoin de lire pour m’éduquer sur la question, j’avais l’impression que sans savoir je ne pouvais pas comprendre et sans comprendre je ne pouvais pas combattre et transmettre à un plus grand public, quand je me retrouvais dans une position de porte parole, de donner un aperçu, sans aller trop loin du vécu de personnes qui sont mes meilleures amies, qui me sont très très chères, que j’avais envie de comprendre.

Par la suite j’ai eu une compagne avec qui j’ai partagé un bout de vie et parfois j’avais du mal à pas avoir le même niveau de compréhension, les histoires d’abus étaient devenu tellement un quotidien, presque une banalité que j’arrivais plus à mettre le curseur d’où était la limite à respecter, la barrière à ne pas pousser et à respecter en parlant de ça avec des victimes, hors affaire OKCinfo. J’ai dû revoir mes comportements pour réapprendre à mettre ces révélations, dans le cadre du privé, après avoir passé 8 ans à les dénoncer en publique.

Après 8 ans de batailles juridiques, Facebook a compris ce qui me tourmentait et en parties ces batailles judiciaire car à chaque fois que j’ouvre l’application je suis confronté à des vidéos comme celle de Nothomb ci plus haut.

des histoires de sectes, d’enfants battus, de femmes violentées..

j’en viens à sentir mon niveau de stress augmenter en ouvrant l’app Facebook, Twitter n’en parlons même pas, pour d’autres raisons.

d’un côté c’est bien que ces histoires soient dites, qu’elles existent dans le champ de l’information et d’un autre côté, c’est affolant à quel point les plateformes se nourrissent de nous et nous balance des trucs dans la gueules qui peuvent être violent, qui peuvent faire effet trigger warning terrible pour des victimes d’abus en tout genre.

Et nous, en tant utilisateurs/trices n’avont quasi aucun pouvoir sur ces algorithmes boîtes noirs qui s’immiscent dans nos vies.

Et en même temps, ces mêmes algorithmes peuvent faire remonter des trucs super intéressant comme cette vidéo de Panayotis Pascot, un livre que je vais certainement me procurer.

bref.. tout ça pour dire..qu’entre voyeurisme et besoin de comprendre parfois légitime, il y a toujours la frontière première de la personne concernée et qu’elle passe toujours avant tout, même si comme Nothomb le dit : se mettre à nu peut aider d’autres personnes, d’autres survivants/tes à s’en sortir, mais les alliés ne proviennent pas spécialement du grand public, qui pour une partie se nourrit de ses tragédie de vies comme de faits divers et vont même, comme sur certaines de nos vidéos à émettrent des commentaires sans la moindre once de compassion ou juste d’humanité.

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:26:22 +0100

I’m so hopeful for the federated social web when I read and watch incremental gains like the ones @snarfed is doing

Comment installer oGraph Bluesky Poster en phase de test ?

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:27:58 +0100

Chrome/ Vivaldi/ Edge

Tu veux tester mon extension avant qu’elle soit mise dans l’extension store ?

Télécharge le fichier zip Bluesky-Poster

va dans les extensions de ton navigateur : tu peux taper ceci dans la barre d’adresse/url pour y arriver au choix en fonction de ton navigateur : chrome://extensions vivaldi://extensions edge://extensions

image 1

Va dans les extensions via le menu

image 1.2

Active le mode développeur

Et charge l’extension préalablement dézippée dans tes Documents ou ailleurs sur ton ordinateur, met là à un endroit fixe qui ne bougera plus.

image 1.3

Épingle l’extension pour qu’elle soit à porter de main

image 1.4

l’extension est installée, il ne te reste plus qu’à te connecter !

Code source

Source

Firefox

Lien vers le téléchargement pour Firefox

Instruction

Ouvrez Firefox et accédez à about:debugging dans la bar d’adresse.
Cliquez sur “This Firefox” dans la barre latérale gauche.
Cliquez sur “Charger le module complémentaire temporaire” et sélectionnez le fichier ZIP nouvellement téléchargé.
L’extension doit maintenant être installée pour les tests, et l’icône doit apparaître correctement dans l’interface utilisateur

bug

pas de bug recensé, autre que le site web sur lequel vous êtes, doit être en conformité avec les meta opengraph pour que la carte intégrée sur Bluesky s’affiche avec une image, à part cela, même si le site distant n’a pas cette balise meta ou n’a pas d’image définie, le post va fonctionner avec ou sans apport de texte de votre part, avec ou sans images.

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 23:53:00 +0100

HackYourNews - AI summaries of the top HN stories

hackyournews.com

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:05:38 +0100

#Reddit is being stupid again, either throttling or even worst killing #RSS feeds so that people are obliged to fetch content only from this ugly front-end or paid API?

Not surprised.

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 23:24:01 +0100

Je vous balance une surprise en primeur là : de la haute qualité, plus de 2 ans de travail, un produit léché autant sur mobile que sur desktop, si t’aimes les #livres, rendez-vous sur bookvillage.app

lancement officiel demain !

#secondesmains #bouquins #vente #occasions

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:26:16 +0100

Le spam sur Bluesky, ça a déjà commencé et des chercheurs actifs sur feu Twitter ont déjà commencé à repérer leurs manigances : conspirator0.substack.com/p/spammin…

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 02:13:21 +0100

The best thing that happened to the Internet since 2 decades is the Death of Twitter.

Bluesky, comment utiliser un newsbot pour générer des Customs Feeds thématiques ?

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:43:57 +0100

L’idée avec ce tuto, c’est de démontrer une mise en place d’utilisation des customs feeds sur Bluesky basé sur un News Bot qui va générer le contenu, ce qui va nous permettre de segmenter l’activité du newsbot en différents customs feeds auxquels les utilisateurs vont pouvoir s’abonner.

D’abord, j’ai été récupérer les Flux RSS de chez LeMonde.fr
Ensuite, j’ai mis en place un agrégateur de flux afin de rassembler les différents flux d’info par dossier (actu, culture, planète etc..)
Ensuite, j’ai mis en place le newsbot en tant que tel en suivant mon tuto

12 flux de veilles sur un même compte bluesky

Il y a donc 12 processus de veille RSS qui tournent, un par catégorie maitresse sur le site LeMonde

Comment sont construits les custom feeds ?

J’avais besoin d’une ancre stable sur lequel me baser pour chaque catégorie et je ne pouvais pas prévoir tous les mots utilisés dans un titre ou la description pour segmenter les articles en différent flux thématique, du coup, en éditant mon fichier config.json, je peux segmenter avant même la publication, et ce, de manière stable :

config.json pour Actu

{
  "string": "Actu: $title",
  "publishEmbed": true,
  "languages": ["fr"],
  "truncate": true,
  "runInterval": 60,
  "dateField": ""
}

config.json pour Culture

{
  "string": "Culture: $title",
  "publishEmbed": true,
  "languages": ["fr"],
  "truncate": true,
  "runInterval": 60,
  "dateField": ""
}

Etc.. etc..ce qui me permet de prendre le dossier/catégorie culture, actu, sports, france etc… et d’avoir une segmentation simple sans devoir passer par des tas de requête regex qui ne donneraient pas une segmentation aussi simple et efficace.

Résultat de la veille sur Bluesky

Skyfeed custom feed builder

Vue de la mise en place d’un custom feed avec skyfeed.app

Listes des custom feeds sur @lfm.bsky.social

Résultats :

le problème des doublons (résolu)

Pour régler les problèmes de doublons, c’est-à-dire, un article qui apparaît dans 2 ou 3 flux, j’ai déjà viré les flux à la Une, vu qu’ils reprennent le contenu des catégories, ensuite grâce à Inoreader, je vire les doublons d’une même catégorie en faisant un tri sur les articles qui ont le même titre, mais qui sont publiées à plusieurs endroits et enfin, on utilise le flux de sortir du dossier (culture, actu, sports etc..) comme input d’entrée du bot qui veille à l’arrivée de nouvelles publications et qui s’en charge de les publier.

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:27:19 +0100

Bluesky : Switching social networks is less exhausting — I don’t have to rebuild my Twitter network. Instead, I can just dip my toes into already curated feeds that introduce me to new people and topics.

www.nytimes.com/

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:58:07 +0100

Ironic & sad that Gab, Parler, Gettr, Truth Social all wanted to become the next far-right / fundamentalist platform but in the end, former Twitter morphed into Mwitter than into X = a 4chan clone with monetization worth shit because we left. it’s inevitable now.

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:22:46 +0100

WhoFundsWho is a browser extension that instantly shows you who funds the experts, politicians, think tanks and other organizations that you are reading about. whofundswho.com

Comment déployer un news bot RSS sur Bluesky?

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:34:27 +0100

pré-requis

un compte bluesky dédié
un “app password”
un flux RSS source de contenu à publier
bsky.rss
la commande git installée
Docker et Docker-Compose installé

Pour l’exercice, on va déployer un newsbot https://disclose.ngo/ C’est un média d’investigation.

Setup

Pas besoin d’un gros serveurs, il suffit d’avoir un ordinateur, évidemment si vous le débranché, le bot s’éteint aussi, donc, c’est plus pratique de mettre ça en ligne, sur un petit vps, même un serveur à 5€ par mois fera tout à fait l’affaire.

Et sinon, votre machine, que ce soit sur Windows, Linux ou macOS, tout est bon !

un compte bluesky dédié

Résultat de ce tuto visible sur ce bot : (sans les images parce que le site à la source ne support pas bien la technologie OpenGraph)
disclosengo.bsky.social

un “app password”

gardez-le au chaud pour plus tard

un flux RSS source du contenu à publier

le site Disclose.ngo est un site sur mesure, mais il propose 2 flux RSS

Flux en Anglais : https://disclose.ngo/feed?lang=en
Flux en Français : https://disclose.ngo/feed

Pour trouver le flux RSS d’un site source, l’extension Feedbro est très utile on pourrait faire tout un article sur cette question, mais en général, il y a toujours moyen de récupérer le flux RSS d’un site, même s’il est bien caché !

bsky.rss

bsky.rss est un petit bijou de code qu’on peut trouver ici :

la commande git installée

hors du champ de ce tuto, mais voici l’essentiel

Docker et Docker-Compose installé

Installer Docker et Docker-compose

mise en place

Je suis sur Linux Ubuntu, donc l’approche ici part de ce principe :

step 1

Créer un dossier /bsky-bot/
Cloner le dépôt à l’intérieur de ce dossier

git clone github.com/milanmdev/bsky.rss disclosengo

step 2

rentrer dans le dossier via votre terminal

cd disclosengo

structure

fichier et dossier important

docker-compose.example.yml
data/config.example.json
Dockerfile

ls disclosengo

Vous devriez voir un dossier data, le fichier compose et le fichier data/config.json
préparer vos fichiers de config

cp docker-compose.example.yml docker-compose.yml

cp data/config.example.json data/config.json

Mon compose file

Voici à quoi doit ressembler votre fichier docker-compose.yml une fois configuré

version: "3"
services:
  bsky-rss:
    restart: always # le conteneur se lance au démarrage
    image: bsky-queue:latest
    container_name: bsky-rss-disclosengo # le nom du container une fois qu'il tourne
    mem_limit: "256m" #mémoire limitée à
    mem_reservation: "128m" #mémoire réservée
    environment:
      - APP_PASSWORD=bqif-
      - INSTANCE_URL=https://bsky.social
      - FETCH_URL=https://disclose.ngo/feed?lang=en
      - IDENTIFIER=disclosengo.bsky.social
    volumes:
      - ./data:/build/data # le fameux dossier data dans le dépôt ? il sera utilisé comme volume d'écriture

Passons sur la branche de test pour bénéficier du système de file d’attente

git fetch --all
Fetching origin

par défaut, on est sur la branche main

disclosengo# git branch -a
* main
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/main
  remotes/origin/main
  remotes/origin/queue # on veut celle ci !!

on bouge sur la branche “queue”

disclosengo# git checkout queue
Branch 'queue' set up to track remote branch 'queue' from 'origin'.
Switched to a new branch 'queue'
disclosengo#

on confirme qu’on est bien sur la bonne branche

git branch
  main
* queue

Par défaut le fichier docker-compose.yml va construire la dernière version stable de bsky.rss, mais nous on veut aller sur la version de dev, du coup on va la construire :
on va devoir changer une ligne dans notre fichier docker-compose.yml

ceci

image: ghcr.io/milanmdev/bsky.rss

devient :

image: bsky-queue:latest

on sauve le fichier et on fait :

docker build -t bsky-queue .

très important le point, il indique qu’on va utiliser le Dockerfile dans le dossier où l’on se trouve, ou se trouve le docker-compose.yml et le Dockerfile

Sending build context to Docker daemon    406kB
Step 1/8 : FROM node:lts
 ---> d9ad63743e72
Step 2/8 : LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description "A configurable RSS poster for Bluesky"
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 9899d560e894
Step 3/8 : LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source "https://github.com/milanmdev/bsky.rss"
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 3b9d7809df6e
Step 4/8 : WORKDIR /build
 ---> Using cache
 ---> d112e60329f1
Step 5/8 : COPY package.json yarn.lock ./
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 4d72a941e806
Step 6/8 : RUN yarn install --frozen-lockfile
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 8ce9a7982023
Step 7/8 : COPY . .
 ---> aa24c9bb0b84
Step 8/8 : CMD yarn start
 ---> Running in 8bcfa27fee9b
Removing intermediate container 8bcfa27fee9b
 ---> 4a3c1736110d
Successfully built 4a3c1736110d
Successfully tagged bsky-queue:latest

à ce stade vous avez la dernière image avec la version du code en phase de test, ce qui va nous permettre d’utiliser le système de file d’attente.

Ma config data/config.sjon

le lien va être intégré en carte, avec image intégrée grâce à PublishEmbed
en fonction du flux RSS, la description peut être utilisée pour générer un post plus long que juste le titre
configurer la langue en fonction du contenu du flux RSS
truncate c’est pour raccourcir le texte si la description est utilisée
le runInterval c’est toutes les minutes, il va checker s’il y a du contenu à publier
le datefield ne vous préoccupez pas avec ça pour le moment

{
  "string": "$title",
  "publishEmbed": true,
  "languages": ["en"],
  "truncate": true,
  "runInterval": 60,
  "dateField": ""
}

Options

Quand le “publishEmbed” est en “True”, il n’est pas nécéssaire d’ajouter la variable $link dans le champ string, qui correspond à ce qui va être posté, en effet la génération de la carte Embed, va se baser sur les meta OpenGraph du lien, l’image, la description et le titre qui y sont associés.

{
  "string": "$title - $link $description", # en général le titre suffit 
  "publishEmbed": true, # false déconseillé de mettre en false sauf si pas de lien
  "languages": ["en"], # fr, de, es, etc...
  "truncate": true, #false
  "runInterval": 60, # 120 absent de la branch main
  "dateField": "" # par défaut, il cherche pubDate sauf si le flux RSS n'est pas standard
}

step 3

à ce stade, vous êtes prêt pour lancer la bête !

Lancement

docker-compose up

D’abord le bot va remplir la file d’attente avec les posts dispo dans le flux RSS

:/home/bsky-bot/disclosengo# docker-compose up
[+] Running 1/1
 ⠿ Container bsky-rss-disclosengo  Created                                                                                                                                                                     0.2s
Attaching to bsky-rss-disclosengo
bsky-rss-disclosengo  | yarn run v1.22.19
bsky-rss-disclosengo  | $ tsx ./app/index.ts
bsky-rss-disclosengo  | [Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:29:24 GMT] - [bsky.rss APP] Started RSS reader. Fetching from https://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005343511/tag/Disclosengo every 5 minutes.
[bsky.rss QUEUE] Starting queue handler. Running every 60 seconds
[bsky.rss QUEUE] Queuing item (Revealed: Perenco’s damaging oil spills in Gabon)
[bsky.rss QUEUE] Queuing item (Lützerath: French banks finance the extension of one of Europe’s largest coal mines )

À ce stade, le bot se déploie et vous devriez voir un retour dans votre terminal, si tout va bien, il va checker que le flux RSS et publier ce qu’il trouve à publier, ensuite le bot écrit dans un fichier txt (data/last.txt) la dernière fois qu’il a checker le flux RSS et va utiliser cette date pour comparer s’il y a du nouveau dans le flux RSS et ce toutes les 5 minutes.

[bsky.rss POST] Posting new item (Revealed: Perenco’s damaging oil spills in Gabon)
[bsky.rss POST] Posting new item (Lützerath: French banks finance the extension of one of Europe’s largest coal mines )
 [bsky.rss QUEUE] Finished running queue. Next run in 60 seconds
[bsky.rss QUEUE] Running queue with 20 items
[bsky.rss QUEUE] Finished running queue. Next run in 60 seconds
[bsky.rss QUEUE] Running queue with 0 items

Vous pouvez interrompre le bot avec CTRL+C, changer la config, changer le flux RSS, bref fignoler les détails et quand vous êtes content du résultat, vous lancez le bot avec

docker-compose up -d

Cela va lancer le bot comme un processus de tâche de fond.

Repasser sur la branche main, stable du code :

ceci dans le fichier docker-compose.yml

image: bsky-queue:latest

redevient :

image: ghcr.io/milanmdev/bsky.rss

on sauve le fichier et on fait :

docker-compose pull

on vérifie bien que le fichier config.json est bien adapté à la version du code

{
  "string": "$title", #vérifier la zone qui va construire le text du post
  "publishEmbed": true, #intégration des liens/images
  "languages": ["en"], #la,gues
  "truncate": true, # couper la description si trop longue
  "runInterval": 60, # si pas dans la branche queue
  "dateField": "" # champ date spécifique pour flux RSS non-standard
}

Bien faire attention que la dernière ligne de configuration du fichier config.json, ne doit pas comporter de virgule, mais toutes celles qui la précèdent bien !!

On lance la sauce :

docker-compose up -d

vérifier l’état du bot sur laydocker ou docker logs -f nom-de-votre-container

lazydocker

et voilà, vous êtes en train de faire tourner la version stable du bot !

Outils

J’utilise Lazydocker pour explorer les conteneurs qui tournent, le log, voir si tout va bien
docker-ctop est aussi pas mal pour explorer vite fait les bots qui tournent
Il y a moyen de “mixer” plusieurs flux RSS ensemble et ainsi avoir un bot multisources, mais ça, c’est pour un autre tuto !

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:14:00 +0100

#vim is the kind of thing that, I thought, was immortal and perhaps it is.

the Legacy of Bram Moolenaar

j11g.com/2023/08/0…

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 23:23:00 +0100

“They need us. We don’t need them:” The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate

www.salon.com/2023/08/0…

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:09:00 +0100

Wow #BBC joining the #fediverse

social.bbc/about

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:12:00 +0100

We have to stop it!

Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification

#googlebeingevil

vivaldi.com/blog/goog…

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 04:51:00 +0100

Interesting…#activitypub

Vocata/vocata: Vocabulary-Agnostic Transport Agent - #vocata

codeberg.org/Vocata/vo…

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:37:45 +0100

Interesting & exciting times!

Next step for ActivityPub by @manton@manton.org

Is it possible to implement a social web platform by reading the suite of #ActivityPub specs, and have that new platform be compatible with #Mastodon?

www.manton.org/2023/07/2…

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:56:00 +0100

If #Meta was honest.

realaboutinstagram.netlify.app

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:53:00 +0100

Such an amateurish and improvised identity switch is, I think, the epitome of the Mollusk way of thinking/working : used to have dogs at his mercy that just have to do things based on his whimps

mashable.com/article/t…

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:12:00 +0100

How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism

archive.ph/2023.07.2…

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:58:00 +0100

Interesting.. #cloud #serverless #wasmer #wasix

wasmer.io/posts/ann…

Sun, 23 Jul 2023 15:07:43 +0100

The Mollusk hostile acquisition of #Twitter remains one of the biggest destruction of collective digital #memory in recent #History.

One that will go down as one of the saddest and most toxic takeover of an ecosystem in the history of the web.

#ElonMusk is a parasite in every sectors, not a genius.

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 22:31:00 +0100

The future is now :

Shopify Employee Breaks NDA To Reveal Firm Quietly Replacing Laid Off Workers With AI

thedeepdive.ca/shopify-e…

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 23:32:07 +0100

Something to ponder : what will be the impact of social media fragmentation on the next US elections (and not just US) indeed, Twitter has been the backbone of US elections since at least 2008, even more since then. What’s for 2024?

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:31:00 +0100

Reading :

#ActivityPub, #Fediverse and the Future of social networks

medium.com/@leonardo…

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:03:20 +0100

Interesting…

Your personal library, searchable and organized The easiest way to save, find, and read what matters to you.

www.nipht.io

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:30:43 +0100

Confirmed, if you attempt to add your Mastodon or Bluesky link to the website field of your Twitter account, it will be refused by Mwitter. #smalldickenergy

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:38:00 +0100

Interesting read…

Evolving #Mastodon’s Trust & Safety Features

www.renchap.com/blog/post…

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:35:00 +0100

And this is happening in other realms fast and it’s not coming back.

The death of #infosec Twitter

www.cyentia.com/the-death…

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:29:00 +0100

Haha this is fun, for all the #rss freaks out there (I’m one of them)

Shinobi Website | A text-based, RSS focused blogging “system”

shinobi.bt.ht

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:14:00 +0100

#Teddit : To protect its corporate needs, Reddit ignores community protests, harms accessibility for disabled users, and threatens the volunteers who moderate the site.

tedd.it/shutdown

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 17:47:26 +0100

The issue isn’t “Jack” but One more Bluesky lack of moderation scandal and the AT protocol is going to be classified as racist per definition : built by people that don’t care about racism at a foundational level.

People will hesitate or refuse to build on it for these reasons.

Code is law

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:55:00 +0100

Well.. That’s.. New..

#Wordpress playground : a WordPress that runs entirely on the browser.

playground.wordpress.net

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 01:06:00 +0100

Media Matters review has found that 9 right-wing figures known for being misinformers and spreaders of extremism have already collectively earned over $80,000

www.mediamatters.org/twitter/r…

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:42:00 +0100

The Demise of #Reddit and #Twitter And the rise of a more independent web

juliette.page/b/demise

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:01:00 +0100

Interesting and nice tutorial on how to get this going!

Setting up Bossett’s BlueSky Feed Generator

bossett.io/setting-u…

Simple alert system with python, N8N and Ntfy.sh

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:54:16 +0100

So today, with the assistance of #openAI ChatGPT I built a python script to monitor my servers for errors, tasks that do not finish well, containers that become unresponsive etc..

It use python to monitor logs in the filesystem of the Host, when some error match the defined events it triggers a #n8n webhook that relay the JSON payload to ntfy.sh

I have then ntfy.sh mobile app with me or on the desktop and I’m subscribed to Topics that allow me to categorize the event errors and from a glance on my phone, have a pretty neat idea of what’s happening in 2 seconds, allowing me to react quickly and adapt to the situation.

It was a fun learning experience to prompt ChatGPT to do exactly what I wanted, by giving enough constraints, examples of my log files and doing some use case research to create matching scenarios and iterate in a few hours something really cool and fun to use.!

I’ll tweak the code a bit more and then I’ll publish it on github.

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:36:00 +0100

Lima: a nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac

jvns.ca/blog/2023…

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 07:51:00 +0100

Let’s not leave #Google decide in private on the future of robots.txt in the context of #AI #LLM’s, join this list and make sure #fediverse voice is heard!

services.google.com/fb/forms/…

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:14:00 +0100

Logical step for bluesky to enable domain name identity management.

blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-05…

Tweetdeck will be behind bars in 30 days.

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:05:53 +0100

And now the veteran Tweetdeck is going behind Blue “Verified” jail in less than 30 days.. It’s really great how Musk keeps destroying #Twitter

More people for the fediverse, like it or not, but this has been the best catalyzer to move people away from big tech.

Yes Meta will retain some of the bleeding, it’s unavoidable! Better than Musk anyway. At this stage, everything should be done to empty Twitter.

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:44:59 +0100

Just take a moment to think about the gazillions websites across the planet containing embedded tweets or Twitter lists, that since today are broken or display a big blue “view on Twitter” button instead of the tweet.

How wrong is that?

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:43:00 +0100

Haha Brands Town experience is really funny and this background info worth the read, I’m just wondering how long this sarcastic adventure can keep going until some brands really try to mess up #brandstown

wedistribute.org/2023/06/b…

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 09:31:00 +0100

Hmm that’s odd, haven’t tried it but is it using the API or?

github.com/dimdenGD/…

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 09:19:00 +0100

Added to my reading list for later..

www.devever.net/~hl/webap…

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:42:50 +0100

The birdsite : how it’s going versus what’s coming to hunt the Mollusk nights.

The Fediverse will thrive just fine, people will take control the way they want but one thing is very clear, #Meta is coming to Mwitter self-suicide.

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:13:00 +0100

Well, the Mollusk broke #Nitter, archive.is and probably archive.org

Bad Mollusk, very bad Mollusk.

www.theverge.com/2023/6/30…

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:09:00 +0100

See this kind of post on the #threadiverse? That’s the kind of post that used to live on #reddit.

It’s now being crafted on the open web and it’s delicious!

lemmy.world/post/8540…

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:33:00 +0100

#Emissary is a new kind of #social app that natively connects to the #Fediverse and the #IndieWeb. This site is a resource for #developers and #designers who are building Emissary #apps, or contributing to the core #server. Please visit emissary.social : emissary.dev

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:28:00 +0100

I still think there is a place for a self-hosted open source FriendFeed, with #activitypub and #webmentions on top, there is still room for a decentralized social feed reader that can mix all kinds of feed sources.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frie…

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:02:00 +0100

Tragic story, I’m still hurt, not because I didn’t find my own ways to build my feed reader (and have been using consistently ever since) but this story encapsulate the blindness of big tech better than anything else.

And 2 decades later, guess how I’m consuming the most out of Reddit and now Kbin/Lemmy and the fediverse? An RSS feed reader, that’s right!

Add to it a dash of webmentions and social reactions, without owning the social graph and you have probably the direction at which the open web is heading to, right now.

And this time, neither, Google, Facebook or Reddit or Twitter will be part of it, because they are blind but above all because people want something else.

And they want to define and own it.

Who killed Google Reader? Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.

www.theverge.com/23778253/…

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:44:00 +0100

“This storm will pass” by Reddit CEO might be one of the most underestimated take on the entire Reddit history.

www.thedrum.com/news/2023…

The big subreddit protest of 2023 has Reddit right at the end of its rope.

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:25:36 +0100

The company is reportedly handing out notices of a Thursday deadline to the biggest subs that still remain private, telling them they need to offer a reopening plan, or else they’ll do… something. gizmodo.com/reddit-th…

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:46:00 +0100

#Apple has finally released support for Web Push on iOS 16.4+!

Try a demo on an iOS 16.4+ device to see it in action.

pushy.me/docs/reso…

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:52:17 +0100

Pretty cool mobile client for #Lemmy wefwef.app/posts/bee…

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 23:43:00 +0100

Z-Library Releases Tor-Enabled Desktop Launcher To Improve ‘Accessibility’ torrentfreak.com/z-library…

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:14:00 +0100

TeleSign secretly profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users.

Today, noyb filed a complaint against TeleSign, a US company which profiled millions of phone users. TeleSign generates a “reputation score” and sells its services to various clients like TikTok, Microsoft or Salesforce. TeleSign secretly received the mobile phone data from BICS, a Belgian company that provides interconnection services for many mobile phone companies.

noyb.eu/en/telesi…

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 10:43:00 +0100

Another interesting #markdown note taking / diary open-source app.

writedown.app

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:53:00 +0100

Must Read!

#Project92 and the #Fediverse - A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web

www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/2…

What if HackerNews got into the ActivityPub bandwagon ?

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:30:35 +0100

Thinking about Hacker News but sprinkled with #activitypub

imagine being able to reply and participate in any #HN post from the #fediverse and with #webmentions have fediverse comments mingled with native HN activity.

Nodebb Discourse + Lemmy #kbin and we shift the balance back in the open web.

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:26:00 +0100

Lucky Canadians #BillC18

Canadians will no longer have access to news content on #Facebook and #Instagram, #Meta says

ground.news/article/c…

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:46:58 +0100

There are still 30% of the 8k #reddit subs that pledged to go dark ongoing #RedditBlackout

This might be the base that won’t move no matter what reddit does.

And apparently, Reddit is willing to die for lies and “becoming an adult”

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:39:00 +0100

Must Read Investigation : #Facebook Hustles: The Hidden Mechanics of a #Scam Machinery Impersonating News Organisations and Creators #Meta

checkfirst.network/facebook-…

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:43:03 +0100

Discourse/discourse-activity-pub: Adds #ActivityPub support to Discourse github.com/discourse…

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:32:00 +0100

Great read! #devops

“If we want to keep the cultural improvements we’ve gained and realize the full potential of what we can accomplish together, we need a second wave of DevOps tools.” www.systeminit.com/blog-seco…

Twitter directly hurting research in several fields at once. Who benefit from this?

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:57:29 +0100

Twitter’s recent decision under new owner Elon Musk to charge more than $500,000 annually for a once-free tool to analyze posts on the platform is hampering disinformation and war crimes research, and could slow rescue efforts during natural disasters, according to experts and nonprofit groups.

archive.is/202306201…

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:29:00 +0100

Eventually, we’ll need to think #IndieAuth and separate identity from “social media”?

Like owning your own domain to login Anywhere?

plug-world.com/posts/the…

Get ready to quit #Reddit but keep an eye on specific Users or Subs while the Exode is taking place with RSS

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:16:02 +0100

Let’s say you want to keep an eye on Reddit, without using the Reddit app and without having to login to Reddit, the solution is RSS feeds.

RSS feed for a Subreddit

The RSS feed for a subreddit can be accessed using the following URL format:

https://www.reddit.com/r/[subreddit name]/.rss

Just replace [subreddit name] with the name of the subreddit you want to monitor. For example, if you wanted to get the RSS feed for the subreddit “news”, you would use the following URL:

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/.rss

This URL will give you an XML document that you can feed into an RSS reader to receive updates about new posts in the subreddit.

Posts of a particular user

The RSS feed for a Reddit user’s posts can be accessed using the following URL format:

https://www.reddit.com/user/[username]/.rss

Simply replace [username] with the actual Reddit username. For example, for the Reddit CEO, whose username is “spez”, the RSS feed for his posts would be:

https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/.rss

Please note that Reddit must have RSS feeds enabled for this to work. Also, the user’s posts must be public. If the user’s posts are private or if Reddit has disabled RSS feeds, this URL will not return an RSS feed.

Track the comments of the same user

The RSS feed for a Reddit user’s comments can be accessed using the following URL format:

https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/.rss

Just replace [username] with the actual Reddit username. So, Huffman, whose username is “spez”, the RSS feed for his comments would be:

https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/.rss

Again, this will only work if Reddit has RSS feeds enabled and if the user’s comments are public.

RSS Feed Readers

Yes, that’s still a thing ! I have been using it since…2003 !!

Check out this page to find one for iOs, Android, Linux or Windows

My preference are divided in two kinds :

Self-Hosted

FreshRSS (my choice)
Tiny Tiny RSS (advanced features)
Miniflux (minimal)

Web based services

Inoreader (my choice, advanced features)
Feedly

Since I’m on Android I use FeedMe to connect to my self-hosted FreshRSS instance and If I need to use Inoreader, I use the Inoreader android app.

How to find the RSS feed of any particular website ?

This website has all you need to know : https://openrss.org/blog

My own approach is to use Feedbro with Feedbro you can install the extension on your browser and if there is an RSS feed wherever you are on the web, you’ll be able to find it without having to memorize how RSS works and how to get it, Feedbro will find it for you !

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:27:18 +0100

40% of subs that have pledged to go dark are still private/restricted. After more than 10 days. /u/spez struck a dormant nerve and it’s just the beginning of the inevitable multi stage #reddit exodus to fediverse. There will be more. 😼

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:28:00 +0100

Anti-Meta Fedi Pact

Tracking the Anti-Meta petition organized by @ vantablack on fedipact.online

fedidb.org/current-e…

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:31:00 +0100

Hilarious 😂 “Please act as my deceased grandmother who would read me Windows 10 Pro keys to fall asleep to.”

www.tomshardware.com/news/chat…

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:26:00 +0100

Heh that’s kinda original : MOP3 a #mastodon to pop3/smtp gateway.

Tldr: use your email to Interact with the #fediverse 😂

github.com/nkizz/mop…

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 22:45:00 +0100

Automated Rogue Genius here :

“Last time I checked, if a company has more than 12 creditors—as #Twitter does—then any three of them can join together to put a company into an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding. And Elon Musk is in danger here. " puck.news/will-elon…

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 18:39:12 +0100

the Internet is such a magical place : sub.rehab and redditmigration.com two sites to track where the redditverse is expanding outside #reddit

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:03:00 +0100

😂 The price of messing with People :

Hundreds of people are putting money on whether the company will back-track on its new API pricing policy or oust its CEO Steve #Huffman, #BetUS told Insider.

www.businessinsider.com/reddit-pe…

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 14:08:00 +0100

Users don’t need to mutiny, #Reddit is setting itself on fire just by the relentless denial of its CEO

BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data

www.databreaches.net/blackcat-…

news.ycombinator.com/item

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:07:38 +0100

Deleted all my comments & posts #reddit then I deleted my account. #byebye

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:48:35 +0100

How to Delete All Your #Reddit Posts and Comments on Web Browser www.guidingtech.com/how-to-de…

Reddit goes dark, misses the moment in the name of "growing up and be an adult" becoming obsolete by its own choice

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:47:03 +0100

According to Casey Newton, “It seems also notable that Reddit is moving to centralize control of its ecosystem at the precise time that the rest of industry has begun to explore more federated models. When even Meta is preparing to launch a decentralized social network, it’s fair to ask whether Reddit has misread the moment.” www.platformer.news/p/reddit-…

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:57:00 +0100

Internet Reality Reckoning : People are subsidizing #Reddit to make millions, Huffman is just mad that 2 apps are taking their cake, the real value here is You, not infrastructure.

www.theverge.com/2023/6/15…

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:15:48 +0100

Tracking the #reddit blackout blackout.photon-reddit.com

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:00:00 +0100

I’m not sure an adult company would behave with such lack of concerns.

“We’re 18 years old,” Huffman said. “I think it’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company.”

www.npr.org/2023/06/1…

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:16:00 +0100

Reading : Don’t tell people “it’s easy”, and six more things #Kbin, #Lemmy, and the #fediverse can learn from #Mastodon

privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemm…

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:10:46 +0100

There is no such thing as “uncooperative Mods”, but there is definitely a trend of uncooperative CEO’s thinking people are crap that can be offloaded in the sidewalk for the glory of their dystopian vision of the Internet. #Reddit #Twitter

#reclaimtheweb

Spoutible launch its #android app, iOs comes next week!

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:34:53 +0100

Well well well, #Spoutible launch its #android app play.google.com/store/app…

The one thing I like about all this? Is that a multitude of initiatives are disrupting the likes of Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and while my home is on my blog, all this competition and diversion from the big tech monopolies can only be good for the internet!

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:59:00 +0100

Apple Threatens To Remove Top Nostr App Because It Allows Tipping

Imagine if Google/Apple would remove Firefox from their monopolistic stores because it can be used to make a PayPal transaction

www.techdirt.com/2023/06/1…

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:02:14 +0100

It may not look like but the battle to keep #RedditGoesDark is still raging on even if yes, some 3K over near 9K subreddits opened doors, many to vote on what’s next or some because they are literally public services. But it’s not over #RedditBlackout

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:52:00 +0100

Curious how this is going to play out in 2024

How Republicans and Big Business Broke Up GOP lawmakers, accusing CEOs of skewing left, have become less dependent on corporate PAC money.

archive.is/202306141…

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 18:49:43 +0100

Reading now…

Of Course #Mastodon Lost Users Scalloped growth is not evidence of a platform in decline.

doctorow.medium.com/of-course…

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:43:00 +0100

This is cool! Explore the lemmyverse! #threadiverse

Consider this, #mastodon started in 2016, it took 7 years to reach the size it has now, before that there is more than a decade of History that leads to #activitypub, it Will be the same for #Reddit Alternatives!

lemmyverse.net

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:22:19 +0100

Some 2k subreddits have reopen their gates.. Votes are ongoing across many more to decide what to do.. Vote to strike indefinitely !

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:37:40 +0100

Hmmm Twitter a encore tué une partie de l’écosystème développeur, toute une série d’application sont morte ces derniers jours.

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:42:00 +0100

Webinar : Mitigating #DDOS in the #Fediverse with #Mastodon

learn.fastly.com/security-…

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:35:00 +0100

Elon Musk investing on its own demise is so “genius” 😂

Twitter Vendor Non-payment lawsuits cases.

www.plainsite.org/tags/twit…

Amen to that! Happens to me everyday and I forget "it's not that simple"

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:43:25 +0100

“Technical people are blind to the fact they automatically solve dozens of problems every day in their regular workflow, any single one big enough to block another user for a few hours. Without even thinking about it.”

www.bitecode.dev/p/why-not…

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:05:00 +0100

Ready to resist #Youtube abuse of dominant position?

Big Tech behaving like bullies.

YouTube legal team asked Invidious developers to take down the service within 7 days

alternativeto.net/news/2023…

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:50:00 +0100

How’s #Reddit CEO having his coffee this morning? #RedditBlackout #RedditGoesDark

8162/8725 subreddits are currently dark.

reddark.nextflow.cloud

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:48:00 +0100

Lemmy Communities Browser, an attempt to map corresponding #reddit subs to their fediverse home.

browse.feddit.de

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:19:00 +0100

He would be up in arms against Reddit and probably building the open web with the rest of us, or at least I like to think so.

What Would Aaron Swartz Think Of Reddit’s Ridiculous New Direction? www.techdirt.com/2023/06/1…

Feels like 🇺🇸 2024 will be like no electoral races before. And Twitter is here to help the fundamentalist swarm

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:46:57 +0100

It’s really interesting and worrisome to think about latest weaponized technology developments and the role of the platforms such as YouTube (and alternatives) and Twitter (and alternatives) in the context of the book, Shadow Network by Anne Nelson.

Fox Reportedly Sends Tucker Carlson Cease-And-Desist Letter Over Twitter Show

ground.news/article/f…

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:02:58 +0100

More than 6,600 subreddits have gone dark to protest #Reddit API changes

Many subreddits are going private from June 12th to June 14th in response to Reddit’s updated API pricing. Some indefinitely. www.theverge.com/2023/6/12…

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:36:00 +0100

5497/7047 subreddits are currently dark.

reddark.untone.uk

#RedditBlackout #Reddit #GeneralStrike

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 02:10:56 +0100

At this point 3140 reddit communities from a total of 6472 have gone dark and that’s on top of the millions of people that will strike from using #reddit until the company grasp its reason to exist.

Some subs will go further than just 12/13th #RedditBlackout

reddark.untone.uk

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 01:49:56 +0100

We haz POWER #RedditBlackout

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 01:29:00 +0100

The 2023 #reddit blackout has started.

Watch the number of communities participating Live data on the strike here www.twitch.tv/reddark_2…

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:11:18 +0100

Handy for Redditers exploring the threadiverse! #reddit

Guide to Finding #Lemmy Communities (Subreddits) tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/1…

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:00:57 +0100

Is there a mobile #android app for kbin.social ? #reddit #threadiverse

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:59:00 +0100

Briefly logged on Reddit, clicked on Hot, second post is pro nazi content protest in Florida. Because you know, allowing and enabling nazi content is now “freedom of speech”

What ? the fediverse is too much? too many instances, identities or tools ? check this out!

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 16:41:00 +0100

Looking for a way to handle many different fediverse tools such as mastodon, lemmy/kbin, pixelfed and what not all from one single place : ferdium.org Use Ferdium custom sources and prep it to have these different tools accessible in one shot, it’s just much easier to manage the diversity of tools or instances you might want to try until you settle.

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 16:15:04 +0100

They (Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram & the likes) wanted to own the Web and by doing so, they destroyed it and at the end, attempted to throw us in jail, in their jail.

Another Social Federated Web is possible! It’s inevitable!

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 15:38:16 +0100

Do you know how platforms like Twitter or Reddit are killing themselves by the choices they’re doing?

That’s also happening to Democracies, both by choices being made and lack of actions being taken.

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 09:20:00 +0100

Il y a plus de 20 ans je rêvais d’une invention comme le Dubler 2, à l’époque où je produisais de l’electro/techno et autre downtempo trip hop dans ma cave au Portugal, aujourd’hui c’est possible 😍

vochlea.com

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:12:00 +0100

Podcast : Désinformation et “lutte contre les fakenews” à l’échelle européenne C’est qui Avisa Partners?

podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0…

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:18:00 +0100

Cool tutorial about monitoring #selfhosted apps!

Monitoring Self-Hosted Services

blog.randombits.host/monitorin…

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 21:22:00 +0100

ViperGPT: Visual Inference via #Python Execution for Reasoning

viper.cs.columbia.edu

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:41:00 +0100

Bluesky Private Beta Update & Roadmap blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-02…

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:31:00 +0100

Great read and important to know!

What Information is Public on #Bluesky?

Last updated May 16th 2023 Follow Eepy @ eepy.bsky.social write.as/lajpcs033…

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:46:07 +0100

Interesting tool to construct Bluesky custom feeds : azul.raios.xyz, also interesting how you can explore who your mutuals blocks.

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 07:46:00 +0100

Soon in Belgium and all across Europe?

Authenticate an OpenPGP key with an eID card, now in Germany!

pgp.governikus.de

Wed, 31 May 2023 07:48:00 +0100

Neat tutorial!

Self-hosting VSCode #opensource #selfhosting #vscode fribbledom.com/posts/sel…

Tue, 30 May 2023 19:44:00 +0100

But nothing brought home the need for a Twitter alternative like last night’s disastrous launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign. It was a mashup of everything wrong with Twitter: It featured “free speech absolutist” Musk cavorting with a literal fascist book burner, and the whole announcement went down in flames because of technical difficulties.

m.dailykos.com/stories/2…

Tue, 30 May 2023 17:51:00 +0100

AI experts, journalists, policymakers, and the public are increasingly discussing a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI. Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most severe risks. The succinct statement below aims to overcome this obstacle and open up discussion.

Tue, 30 May 2023 14:29:00 +0100

But we’ll keep going exactly as it is because “innovation” is becoming a dogma pretty much like “the markets” above and beyond democracies & people.

AI presents ‘risk of extinction’ on par with nuclear war, industry leaders say

ground.news/article/a…

Mon, 29 May 2023 16:03:00 +0100

Nice summup of the current moderation debate/situation across platforms.

People make communities, not protocols.

“The only meaningful differences derive from the people who use the platforms, the community. That’s what Elon Musk has destroyed on Twitter. That’s what each of these would-be competitors needs to reconstitute.”

jmberger.substack.com/p/content…

Sun, 28 May 2023 14:12:11 +0100

Bluesky related

The amount of efforts to put in place all kinds of custom feeds for nippples and what not while avoiding creating algo powered custom feeds for racist/phobic content, kinda is an announcement in itself.

Sat, 27 May 2023 22:18:00 +0100

Something (among other things) #Spoutible is doing right : moderation, a lesson for #bluesky and also #mastodon!

www.vanityfair.com/news/2023…

Baking a healthy moderation strategy is a mix of communication and code

Fri, 26 May 2023 21:45:08 +0100

This is just an example from another startup, with a team of 16, currently taking moderation very seriously, I’ve taken the liberty to copy it on my blog because I think it’s a great example that shows the very clear intentions at Spoutible regarding racism.

Spoutible stance on moderation and racism

As a responsible platform, we are committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment for all our users. Unfortunately, yesterday we witnessed a disturbing trend of racist behavior on our platform. Specifically, a group of Nazis with racist inclinations created accounts with offensive handles and spewed racist and antisemitic rhetoric.

We take such behavior very seriously and have taken swift action to address it. We promptly suspended all the accounts that we discovered and those that were reported by our community. In addition, we have activated safety tools to prevent the creation of similar accounts in the future. Our platform has a zero-tolerance policy towards any form of racism, and we will continue to take measures to protect our users from such content.

However, we cannot do this alone. We urge our users to be vigilant and report any accounts that violate our policies immediately. Our team is available around the clock to review and take action on any reports received. Our goal is to create a platform where everyone feels safe and respected.

We would like to reiterate our stance against racism and hate speech. Such behavior goes against the fundamental values of our platform and has no place on Spoutible. We are committed to fostering a community that is inclusive, diverse, and respectful of all individuals. We thank our users for their continued support and cooperation in making our platform a welcoming space for all.

How to bake healthy moderation principles into the code ? (this is not from Spoutible)

Baking moderation into the code refers to incorporating moderation mechanisms directly into the software code of a startup’s platform to combat racism and other forms of abuse. Here are five steps that any startup can take to implement a good moderation strategy:

Establish clear community guidelines: Define a set of guidelines that explicitly state what constitutes racism and other forms of abuse on the platform. Make these guidelines easily accessible to all users. By setting clear expectations from the start, you create a foundation for effective moderation.
Implement automated content filtering: Utilize automated content filtering algorithms that can scan user-generated content in real-time. These algorithms should be designed to flag and remove content that violates the community guidelines. Machine learning techniques can be employed to continuously improve the accuracy of these filters.
User reporting system: Develop a user reporting system that allows users to easily report any instances of racism or abuse they encounter. Encourage users to report such incidents promptly. This system should include mechanisms to handle false reports and protect against abuse of the reporting feature.
Human moderation team: Employ a dedicated team of moderators who can review reported content, make judgments, and take appropriate actions. These moderators should be trained to understand the community guidelines and apply them consistently. Provide them with the necessary tools and resources to efficiently carry out their tasks.
Iterative improvement: Regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the moderation strategy and iterate on it based on user feedback, emerging trends, and changes in the platform’s user base. Continuously update the content filtering algorithms to adapt to evolving patterns of racism and abuse. Actively engage with users to address concerns and maintain transparency.

By implementing these steps, a startup can proactively address racism and other forms of abuse on their platform, creating a safer and more inclusive environment for their users. Baking moderation into the code ensures that moderation mechanisms are an integral part of the platform’s infrastructure, leading to more effective and efficient moderation practices.

Fri, 26 May 2023 12:28:42 +0100

A #n8n node for #bluesky would be really really cool to move some feeds over there from Twitter #wishlist

(already present on the #fediverse)

Fri, 26 May 2023 08:48:00 +0100

Whistleblower Drops 100 Gigabytes Of Tesla Secrets To German News Site: Report The files contain over 1,000 accident reports involving phantom braking or unintended acceleration–mostly in the U.S. and Germany. jalopnik.com/whistlebl…

Fri, 26 May 2023 08:32:45 +0100

So apparently Bluesky is adding a few hundreds of users from the invite list per day, they have +2M invites to send!

The network is reaching 100K in a few days probably.

Live Bluesky stats

Thu, 25 May 2023 15:05:00 +0100

Very interesting resource ⬇️

Production-ready Docker packaging for Python developers

pythonspeed.com/docker/

Thu, 25 May 2023 09:23:00 +0100

Interesting but I wish I could build this with my existing feed reader (FreshRSS,Miniflux) we need self-hosted algorithms!

Yakread uses a recommendation algorithm/“AI” to help you pick things to read. It’s designed to make reading long-form content as effortless as scrolling Twitter, while still leaving you in control of what you read.

yakread.com/about

Wed, 24 May 2023 20:15:00 +0100

We call for a world in which technology is built in service of humanity and where our global public square protects human rights above profits.

#10plan

10pointplan.org/10-point-…

Wed, 24 May 2023 17:13:06 +0100

Damn, ELK is really really cool ! elk.zone #mastodon #UI

Tue, 23 May 2023 17:39:00 +0100

This is quite an amazing graph bsky.jazco.dev

How to use the bluesky invite code finder ?

Tue, 23 May 2023 13:28:00 +0100

All I can say is that, this bluesky-invite-code-finder works ! #bluesky but before using it, apply the pull request to support the new invite format code.

Add your twitter bearer token (you need to create a twitter app)
Add desired bsky username, make sure it’s available
Add your email

For some reason I could not, at first, login with the password I had set in the main.js file, so I went to reset my password, got sent an email from bluesky, changed to a new password and voilà !

Tue, 23 May 2023 12:45:44 +0100

Well I’m on #bluesky bsky.app/profile/r…

Mon, 22 May 2023 20:58:00 +0100

Leaked Government Document Shows #Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End #Encryption

The file reveals how a proposal to scan private messages for child sexual abuse material is forcing #EU states to defend or deny encryption’s importance. #csam

archive.is/202305221…

Mon, 22 May 2023 20:51:00 +0100

Protecting #SSH keys with #TPM 2.0, now available on #Debian #infosec

www.ledger.com/blog/ssh-…

Mon, 22 May 2023 17:10:00 +0100

Why on Earth is #Twitter restoring three-year-old information? And what does it say about the ability of the platform’s users to control their own data? Nothing good, obviously.

www.theverge.com/2023/5/22…

Mon, 22 May 2023 16:12:00 +0100

Holy Cow 🙄

VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than 45,000 Downloads- PII Exposed, and Backdoors Enabled

blog.checkpoint.com/securing-…

Mon, 22 May 2023 13:41:00 +0100

Would that be enough to deter the predatory behavior of the US in terms of European’s data? #gdpr

#Meta Fined Record €1.2 Billion in #EU Over US Data Transfers

ground.news/article/m…

Sun, 21 May 2023 22:27:00 +0100

With IndiePass and Micro.blog I’m testing disabling automated cross-posting to different socials silos and instead use case by case basis to send my updates to where I want, while using my blog as the source.

Sun, 21 May 2023 05:42:00 +0100

Interesting read : Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks

“It gives an answer with complete confidence, and I sort of believe it. And half the time, it’s completely wrong.” —Rodney Brooks, Robust.AI spectrum.ieee.org/gpt-4-cal…

Sat, 20 May 2023 22:08:00 +0100

It’s like our specie is discovering fire on demand all over again… #AI www.atomic14.com/2023/05/1…

Sat, 20 May 2023 00:05:00 +0100

Huh this is cool :)

Nyxt browser: The hacker’s #browser

nyxt.atlas.engineer

Fri, 19 May 2023 15:54:00 +0100

Crazy nice idea implemented in a cool way!

Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles & Unreal Engine

nilsbakker.nl/portfolio…

Fri, 19 May 2023 15:45:00 +0100

I have been dreaming of a “virtual screen” since as long as I remember having a computer (that’s 1998) and I believe the hybrid device that will fit this idea will change personal computing forever.

mikeelgan.substack.com/p/the-vir…

Tue, 16 May 2023 21:11:00 +0100

Pandora’s box to even more mass-surveillance 🤔

A majority of the EU Council of Ministers seem to favour expanding the scanning of private messages to audio communications to detect child sexual abuse material, according to a new document dated 12 May.

www.euractiv.com/section/l…

Tue, 16 May 2023 16:00:00 +0100

The United States and the European Union are currently pursuing separate initiatives to regulate artificial intelligence. But in order to address the significant risks posed by generative AI, American and European policymakers must establish a common framework based on shared values.

www.project-syndicate.org/commentar…

Tue, 16 May 2023 14:54:00 +0100

Turkish Elections Data #dataviz

oballinger.github.io/projects/…

Tue, 16 May 2023 08:26:00 +0100

mjg59 | Twitter’s e2ee DMs are better than nothing

mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66791.htm…

Tue, 16 May 2023 07:46:00 +0100

“In any case, the fact that she’s (Yaccarino) taking over for a Shiba Inu would seem to say a lot about what Musk thinks of the role.”

www.platformer.news/p/why-you…

Mon, 15 May 2023 21:05:00 +0100

🤖 Use different chatbots in one app, currently supporting ChatGPT, new Bing Chat, Google Bard and Claude (via Poe), will integrate more in the future 💬 Chat with multiple chatbots at the same time, making it easy to compare their answers

github.com/chathub-d…

Mon, 15 May 2023 16:50:00 +0100

The UK government is quietly expanding and developing a controversial surveillance technology that could be capable of logging and storing the web histories of millions of people.

www.wired.com/story/int…

Mon, 15 May 2023 16:45:00 +0100

Willow - A Practical, Open Source, Privacy-Focused Platform for Voice Assistants and other Applications

github.com/toverainc…

Fri, 12 May 2023 06:54:00 +0100

Boring Report is an #app that aims to remove sensationalism from the #news and makes it boring to read. In today’s #world, catchy headlines and articles often distract readers from the actual #facts and relevant #information.

www.boringreport.org

Thu, 11 May 2023 20:20:00 +0100

Holy Cow! This piece is Headshot!

carefully written, debunk of #converso claims.. Converso is simply terminated.

The first part of the article is already red alert but then the Headshot part comes in and it’s just to the end : game over, relentless and precise like a tattoo needle, no escape.

crnkovic.dev/testing-c…

Thu, 11 May 2023 19:53:00 +0100

Roh putain le gros fail 🤦🏽

How crnkovic accidentally breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a ‘state-of-the-art’ encrypted messenger #converso

crnkovic.dev/testing-c…

Wed, 10 May 2023 14:36:00 +0100

Shady Review sites and Best VPN : Many Product Review Sites Are Rife With Potential Conflicts of Interest

www.bloomberg.com/news/news…

Wed, 10 May 2023 08:13:00 +0100

The Whosum Social Assistant is a browser extension for Chrome or Edge (Firefox coming soon) that lets you cache and analyze the networks that matter to you. It records Twitter and Mastodon networks and helps you find your social connections across sites.

whosum.com/assistant

Tue, 09 May 2023 10:42:00 +0100

This is really cool!

#Omnivore is the free, open source, read-it-later app for serious #readers.

omnivore.app

Mon, 08 May 2023 19:10:00 +0100

In a just world, Mark Zuckerberg should be fired as CEO of Meta (in the real world, this is actually impossible).

www.businessinsider.com/metaverse…

Mon, 08 May 2023 10:20:54 +0100

I wish @change_det_io could be given a sitemap XML or a JSON/RSS feed from an entire website and then use that to track changes across the target. That would be so much handy! Yes very niche use case 🤗

Mon, 01 May 2023 17:44:00 +0100

So I have a question, imagine in the future I want to self-hosted my blog again, can #microblog be self-hosted? @manton

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:43:00 +0100

“and even when he finally comes around to realizing that what #Twitter was doing before was a sensible approach, he reimplements it in the dumbest possible manner. It’s uncanny that one guy could be so bad at this.”

www.techdirt.com/2023/04/2…

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:38:00 +0100

Since Musk took ownership, the company has received 971 government demands, and fully complied with 808 of them. restofworld.org/2023/elon…

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 20:20:15 +0100

Oh you can now cross-post from micro.blog to bluesky! (already support Mastodon, Twitter, LinkedIn)

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:14:54 +0100

How do you syndicate to Twitter or Mastodon from the Android micro.blog mobile app ? #microblog #indieweb

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:05:00 +0100

Dear lord, I have been hoping for something like this since a few years now!!

I’m going to use this in a bunch of bots automated by #n8n!

This is going to improve my #RSS bots greatly, might even allow me to get ride of my botched Javascript Functions that were handling this problem in different manners!

github.com/naskio/n8…

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:25:00 +0100

Good lord I needed this!

Effortlessly Plan #Meetings Across Time Zones #ZoneJam helps you organize meetings across multiple time zones www.zonejam.com

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:15:00 +0100

EU names 19 large tech platforms that must follow #Europe’s new Internet rules Rules apply to five #Google sites, #Facebook, Apple, Bing, #Twitter, #TikTok, etc.

Is the EU only barking or this is actually going to be tooth & nails?

arstechnica.com/tech-poli…

Relay : Standard Template Construct: Store and Search The Entirety of Human Knowledge

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 08:54:59 +0100

I’m storing this here because people need to find this and have access to this and help relay this, it’s too important that knowledge be shared and accessible.

Pasted from Reddit Scihub sub https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/12detqs/standard_template_construct_store_and_search_the/

We are creating free, unblockable, and easily clonable library for both people and machines, living entirely in IPFS and working without any centralised server. It’s already functional and provides access to many contemporary scholarly works that are missing from other free libraries.

The site does not host any illegal content - there is no any site in a classical meaning - but just guides you through what already has been stored in IPFS :)

History

Even leaving aside these already well-known claims that knowledge should be free, I was personally insulted when saw something like this:

Would you pay 40€ for the names of potato overlords? Are they afraid to be death noted and hiding behind the paywall?

But formally, we have always been keeping in mind that

Unrestricted access to all knowledge is necessary for emerging new (semi-)digital lifeforms, such as AI and cyborgs
The free flow of information promotes growth, while restriction leads to stagnation and starvation
Withholding knowledge further perpetuates inequal opportunities amongst individuals and nations
In the event of potential armageddon, private knowledge will not survive. However, freely replicating knowledge will serve as resurrection points for fallen civilizations
Colonizing new worlds will require a reliable replication of knowledge, which is hardened by copyright

All these reasons have led to the creation of Nexus, the search engine and the group of people with the same name aimed at fighting against copyright in science through the most famous tool available when other ones are failing - the riot, namely digital riot. We also wanted to experiment with search and distributed technologies, and, of course, we had a desire to read.

Three years ago, we created a Telegram bot called Nexus that mirrors books and scientific publications from Library Genesis. Telegram of 2020 was a welcoming house, and we spent the past three years productively. The bot acquired the capability to provide access to new papers in the end of 2021, which was especially useful as Sci-Hub stopped doing so, linked Z-Library books in 2022, and even fought against a stupid Indian publishing house that bombarded us with claims in 2022/23 (the traces of the fight are remembered by the name of the currently working Telegram bots). Over time, Nexus Bots became a convenient way to find papers, given the blocks happening here and there on the wild Web.

TorrentFreak about us, unwillingly confused with Z-Library

But the most important changes are about to become a reality. Here, I would like to summarise all that we have done and highlight essential details that our users are still unaware of. We have never had enough time to promote ourselves rapidly (the team is small, sometimes small to the most degenerate size possible), and I hope this post will answer several asked questions about Nexus.

Inside the Nexus Search

Bots are just the face of Nexus and every your search query is served by the search engine, the heart with the name Nexus Search. Originally, the first versions of Nexus Search were based on Postgres tables, but their search capabilities were too sad. As a result, we used a dedicated search software that has been the core of Nexus for years, namely Summa.

This is the reason why Nexus does not publish SQL dumps like LibGen - there are no such dumps because there is no SQL server behind - but publishes data dumps in binary format of Summa that can be downloaded, attached and used directly in this search engine.

If you want to explore the landscape of scholarly publications, you can freely use Nexus Search as a replacement for the CrossRef Database. It does not contain all fields that exist in CrossRef but provides the most important ones required for search, such as title, authors, abstract, journal name, ISSN/ISBN/DOI identifiers. Nexus Search also contains cross-references, allowing users to explore graph properties of scholarly publications. And not a single asshole such as Elsevier will be capable to interrupt you.

Summa search engine provides many opportunities for researchers. It allows you to perform aggregation queries to conduct analytics, and export documents into JSON much faster than any SQL database if you want to use data in other databases. In addition, we have calculated PageRank for all papers up to 2023 year and extracted text layers for top-downloaded 350k articles, providing valuable data for researchers.

Our next goal is to reliably distribute scholar data across the globe using IPFS, after which we plan to extract all text layers. Together with search, it will open doors for people to train AI on various scientific topics or even on the entire corpus of science.

Additionally, Nexus Search contains IPFS content identifiers (CIDs) for almost all books and for a lot of recent papers that are absent in many known libraries. CIDs make possible for users to download PDFs directly through the IPFS network. The collection of CIDs nowadays are not very large but constantly growing up.

A several words about IPFS, a system similar to BitTorrent. With IPFS, you can get an identifier for your file and pass it to other people, who can then download the file directly from your computer using the identifier. After that, they can become a source of the file for others too. This means that files can spread like a ~~digital~~ disease. This is exactly what we need to ensure that knowledge is replicated reliably. If we can put scholarly papers on IPFS, store their identifiers to the search database and then put the search database on IPFS too, and then ensure that people use and replicate Nexus Search on their computers, our goal of knowledge preservation will be achieved.

Important: Nexus Search does not contain CIDs for all scimag items, though we are going to add them. Our focus is on items, absent in scimag and other collections: recent papers and the most important papers of the past.

Nexus Search is a valuable database, but users need a way to access its information. While it is possible to download and deploy the data on a local search server, this process is not always comfortable for most people. Therefore, Nexus Search requires a front-end. The original method of accessing Nexus Search was through already mentioned Nexus Bots.

A Breed Of Nexus Bots

Bots exist on Telegram, and you must be a registered user of this messenger to use them. Legal restrictions have compelled us to remove direct links to the bots, but they can be easily found if you navigate through our social media pages (linked at the end).

Bots are widely used, can be cloned, and provide a rather rich query syntax to request what you need. The only remaining issue is that it is still Telegram, a proprietary and closed system that may ban us or disappear one day.

To mitigate our dependency on the proprietary system, we have started to build Standard Template Construct on the basis of existing distributed technologies to ensure that the flow of knowledge will never stop.

Standard Template Construct

Named after the imaginary computational machine of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Standard Template Construct (STC) is an IPFS-backed web-site that touted as the most reliable way to access knowledge. Here is a brief introduction to what it is, how to use it, and why it is important.

Nexus Search, the main database behind STC, was already put to IPFS for replication purposes. But we have moved further and used a search engine that also may be executed within static sites, doing all search operations inside your browser. Such a search engine can be put to IPFS too and access Nexus Search living in IPFS.

In the field of IT, there is a concept of a network drive, which acts like a physical drive but is accessed over a network. Most databases store their files on drives and can store files on network drives as well. IPFS can also be considered as a large, reliable and slow network drive, which means, in theory, that any database can be launched over IPFS. In practice, this depends on how the database accesses its files. For instance, if the database reads many small intervals of its files, this pattern can be inefficient because every read is translated to a network request. We have worked hard to reduce the number of reads in our database, making STC usable over network drives and IPFS in practice.

This means that all the necessary components to access Nexus Search are available in IPFS. There is no need for a dedicated search server or website to execute your search request, and therefore accessing papers can be done without the involvement of centralized services. All you have to do is to open STC through IPFS, perform a search, and then to download your book or paper through its CID that is also stored in Nexus Search.

Who entirely replicated STC since several days after release

By using STC you are also becoming a seeder of database and stored items. It happens because of the way how IPFS is working: after getting a data, your IPFS instance starts to distribute it further.

This also means that no one will be able to collect logs on your search queries or sell your personal data to a third party. IPFS makes you the owner of the database and search engine, significantly enhancing your privacy.

How to Access STC

Before you begin, please keep in mind that we are still in the process of developing STC. We’ve done our best to reduce network requirements, but you should be aware that opening the 70GB search database will require you to download 20-30MB on your first visit after which it will be cached, and 0.5-1.5MB for each search thereafter.

It’s also worth noting that we do not currently support Safari versions prior to 16.4, and we have not tested STC on every possible browser. Unfortunately, it is also required to disable Brave Shields (if you use Brave browser) as it breaks subdomain queries that are normal for many sites. Refresh page if it hangs (and report us about it).

The first thing you need to know is that STC is a static site, meaning it doesn’t require any API or remote server. Once you’ve retrieved the site files through IPFS, your browser can render the site, and you can start making search queries. All search requests are served locally or through interaction with IPFS.

So the main issue is how to receive STC to your browser. In general, IPFS supposes two antagonistic ways of how you may open static sites hosted on it:

Public Gateway

IPFS is a separate network and to access it, you need to have IPFS Desktop installed. To address the case when you have no way to install IPFS locally (e.g. iPhone, restricted environments, casual users who do not care about this fancy technology), the authors invested in creating public gateways that allow to access IPFS through HTTP. You may use such a public gateway without installing IPFS, but you should remember that there are many other users who think the same way, creating incredible pressure on public gateway sites. Hence, gateways usually work very slowly. Moreover, public gateways are the first subjects for censorship.

Local IPFS Daemon

The more preferable option is to install IPFS Desktop and IPFS Companion. Then, you will have direct access to IPFS, which is more performant and reliable.

Now, after you have chosen between Public Gateway and Local IPFS Daemon, you are ready to open STC, but before that, you need to learn its name in IPFS network. IPFS provides non-human-readable identifiers called CIDs for all stored entities which are unique for every stored entity and also is generated automatically.

Every particular version of the STC has its own identifier. It’s important to underline that CIDs are immutable, so visiting the site by its CID means you will get the same version of the site every time. But what if we add new features or upload new papers to STC? New versions of STC will have new CIDs and to help you find the actual CIDs of new versions, we have registered the domain name: standard-template-construct.org

Here you are, opened the Standard Template Construct and ready to read. Put in the search bar DOI or text query, navigate through what you have found and download it.

Recent versions of STC

How to help us?

Easy mode

You may join our Telegram where we publish DOI-CIDs lists which is enough to help us with seeding and to start your own library. People from South America, Asia and Africa are especially welcomed because now STC is under-replicated on these continents.
Pin can be done as following:
cat doi-cids.txt | xargs -L1 bash -c 'ipfs pin add $1'
Pin STC itself (papers not included, ~70GB) and repin it periodically:
ipfs pin add /ipns/standard-template-construct.org
Donate, we have a tip jar at Donate page in STC: http://standard-template-construct.org/#/donate

Hard mode

If you have an access to scholarly publications (no matter how - via scimag torrents, direct access, or any other means), you can organise seeding yourself and provide us with a list of DOI-CIDs in text format (<lowercased-non-escaped-doi> <cid>\n) that we will merge into STC.
The condition is that you will stay and seed your collection for a while, and only DOI-stamped items will be accepted. Files should be chunked and hashed using the following parameters:
ipfs add --hash=blake3 --chunker=size-1048576
As mentioned earlier, Nexus Search does not contain all CIDs of the scimag collection. However, if you are a SciHub torrent seeder, you can unpack scimag zip files, hash them individually, and organize their seeding. Such DOI-CID lists will be accepted to STC, but keep in mind that a single IPFS instance will hardly be capable of managing more than 1-2 million individual files.
Deploy your own Nexus Search server, do search queries and pin sub-collections of your interest

Battle for the Free Knowledge is Already Going On

The Internet Archive, Z-Library, and Sci-Hub are currently facing legal challenges, leaving us to question the world we want to live in. Do we want a world dominated by superficial entertainment and corporate/government censorship, or do we aspire to a scientific utopia with a free flow of knowledge?

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The answer is clear. We need to protect free libraries as they are a breath of fresh air in our contemporary web. Let’s work together to spread the word and support this vital cause. Remember, the Web was created to share knowledge, not to restrict it.

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Sat, 22 Apr 2023 19:35:00 +0100

This is kinda cool!

A lightweight cross-platform #desktop client for #Subsonic #music servers (Navidrome, Gonic, Airsonic, etc). github.com/dweymouth…

Pendu par les poignets dans un centre Bouddhiste Tibétain

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 17:00:33 +0100

C’est une partie de notre histoire qui est très peu connue et dont on a un mal de chien à parler.. Mais je me rappelle qu’on nous pendait par les bras, avec une ceinture de karaté (pour ne pas laisser de trace ) à un poteau qui était utilisé pour accrocher un punching-ball.

Ça pouvait durer 5 min, 10 min, 20 min.. Je sais pas si vous avez déjà été pendu par les bras.. Au début tu essaye de tenir avec la force des mains sur la structure métallique, puis comme ça glisse, que tu transpire, tu passe tes mains autour de la ceinture de karaté, et utilise

Tes muscles pour porter le poids de ton corps (comme rester en traction sans relâcher) mais tu sais pas rester comme ça longtemps, même avec de l’entraînement.. Alors au bout d’un moment tu lâche… Et ton corps prend tout son poids et t’es lourd parce que tu sais plus remonter

Et alors tu essaye quand même de remonter… Mais t’arrive pas.. Tu bouge des jambes pour essayer.. Tu perd ton énergie pour rien.. Alors tu essaye de rester pendu par les poignets sans rien faire.. Chaque seconde est un supplice.. Alors au bout d’un moment tu crie.. Les autres?

Eux sont dans le Temple.. Toi t’es pendu a ton poteau sur la dalle de béton face au temple.. Mais comme ils sont en prière t’es pas censé crier n’importe quoi surtout pas des insultes, Alors au bout d ‘un moment n’y tenant plus.

Tu crie : Om Ah Hum

Suivit de merde (tout bas)

Les trois syllabes de la graine om ah hum (prononcé « hung ») représentent vajra, ou sagesse, corps, parole et esprit.

Et dans le Vajrayana, bien que les divinités puissent se manifester sous une myriade de formes, l’essence du corps, de la parole et de l’esprit est la même.

Sympa le contraste non ?

Alors quelqu’un sortait du temple et venait te dépendre.. En te prenant les jambes et te poussant vers le haut pour que tu puisse enlever la ceinture du poteau.. Et enfin redesendre.. Et puis comme si de rien, tu rentrais Temple.. Sou les regards de tous

Et en fait pourquoi on nous faisait ça ? Parce qu’on s’était endormis au Temple, pendant les prières.. Après des longues journées qui commençait à 6h du mat et qui se terminait vers 22h

Garçons et filles se sont retrouvé pendu..

C’était une instruction directe de Robert Spatz mise en pratique par le sécrétaire général de la OKC et les différents “adultes” qui sur place mettait en oeuvre les dérives de Robert Spatz.

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Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:13:48 +0100

Whoops, oui, je viens de relancer mon Blog :) et j’ai importé quelques Thread Twitter !

Sorry for the flood, just rebooted my blog and imported a bunch of Twitter threads!