Voting will not save us, huge numbers of problems stem from fundamental imbalances in power, power which the political class require in order to impose their will (or that of whomever they serve further up the chain), even when their will is genuinely benign.

Voting just decides which people (with already powerful people/structures frequently playing an outsized role in exactly who you get to choose between) get into power, then this power both alters their brain and causes their lived experiences to diverge with those of the electorate.

Our solutions need to include a fundamental redistribution of power or we are just maintaining the conditions (a key component being the concentration of power centres, which has been dramatically accelerating for the past few decades regardless of how people have voted) that will lead us right back here. This redistribution is not going to come from people who, however pure their intentions, require power over others to fulfil these intentions.

I won’t discourage voting, ^*^ but we have to stop pretending that we just need the right rulers and everything will be fine, voting is not enough.

^*Although I do understand people; particularly in FPTP safe seats; who choose not to play their part in the theatre of pretending that we are granting them some kind of justified authority over us- if not one single vote was placed, they would just choose how to distribute power amongst themselves after all, they wouldn’t leave the seats empty to reflect the outcome of the theatre, because that isn’t where their power actually comes from. This becomes clear when you consider ideas such as designated survivors, they collectively assume power over all of us and have a clear delineation of the rulers and the ruled.^

@polishdub I have one as a remote gateway where the admin interface is publicly accessible, for my convenience.

While not great, the risk seemed acceptable - I mean these are no Fortigates or something.

“AI” IS impacting labor, but not in the ways you think. In some cases, people generating “workslop” are making their colleagues’ jobs more difficult.

This is a snippet of my video Myths of AI and Productivity, based on work we’re doing at @DAIR with The Luddite Lab. We dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor by looking at what studies actually say about AI’s impact on labor.

Full video: https://youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU

und die tickets trudeln ein mit anfragen zu dem php disaster..
die medien sollten echt mal nicht so ne fucking panik mache schieben nur weil eine drecks KI die lücken (wieder) gefunden hat. früher hat das auch niemand geschehrt. mal abgesehen davon dass die dullis die fucking message beim login portal nicht lesen in der steht, dass die patches eingespielt wurden, allen anschein nach

@hellgy haaan, even with a big bribe just to take the picture very quickly?
@eclectech @clarissawam

cross-posted from: r1b.it/post/12935

As I have browsed the Fediverse through r1b.it, I’ve noticed lots of missing content from remote communities. Some of that has to do with actual federation problems (which I have been in talks with other instance owners to fix), but most of it is a result of completely intentional behavior. Regardless of that, though, I feel as if missing content detracts from the r1b.it user experience. So, I decided to flex my programming muscles a bit and devised a solution.

For the more technically inclined bunch, you can keep reading to see how it works. For everyone else, you can just be happy to hear that you should now be getting all new content from your subscribed communities! If you have any further federation issues, please let me know. You can always @ me in !croak :)

**The nerd stuff**

Lemmy relies on an event-driven feed, meaning it doesn’t always automatically pull posts from remote servers unless someone is actively browsing or querying them. So, if a r1b.it user doesn’t actively interact with a community, the content won’t get pulled. If no new content is getting pulled, no one will interact with the community. To break this cycle, I’ve set up a lightweight Python script to automatically sync every subscribed community in the background. This script is set up as a cron job that runs every 6 hours. This script first queries r1b.it’s local PostgreSQL database to gather a unique list of every remote community local users are subscribed to. For each community it finds, the script targets Lemmy’s resolve_object API endpoint using the community’s full actor URL to refresh its metadata and maintain connection health. To keep this script from turning into a DDOS as r1b.it grows, it shuffles the community list to spread instances out and has a polite randomized pause between each request. Additionally, I plan to remove this script entirely if r1b.it ever gets big enough to federate itself naturally. py #!/usr/bin/env python3 import subprocess import urllib.parse import urllib.request import time import random LOCAL_DOMAIN = “https://r1b.it/” DB_CONTAINER = “REDACTED” DB_USER = “REDACTED” DB_NAME = “REDACTED” SQL_QUERY = “”" SELECT DISTINCT c.actor_id FROM community_follower cf JOIN person p ON cf.person_id = p.id JOIN community c ON cf.community_id = c.id WHERE p.local = true AND c.local = false; “”" def get_subscriptions(): cmd = [ “docker”, “exec”, “-i”, DB_CONTAINER, “psql”, “-U”, DB_USER, “-d”, DB_NAME, “-t”, “-A”, “-c”, SQL_QUERY ] try: res = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, check=True) return [line.strip() for line in res.stdout.splitlines() if line.strip()] except Exception: return [] def resolve_community(actor_id): encoded = urllib.parse.quote(actor_id, safe=“”) api_url = f"{LOCAL_DOMAIN}/api/v3/resolve_object?q={encoded}" req = urllib.request.Request( api_url, headers={“Accept”: “application/json”, “User-Agent”: “LemmyAutoSync/1.0”} ) try: with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=10) as resp: return resp.status except urllib.error.HTTPError as e: return e.code except Exception: return 500 def main(): communities = get_subscriptions() if not communities: return print(f"Found {len(communities)} unique remote subscriptions") random.shuffle(communities) for actor_id in communities: status = resolve_community(actor_id) if status == 200: print(f"{actor_id} FEDERATED") elif status == 400: print(f"{actor_id} ALREADY FEDERATED") else: print(f"{actor_id} FAILED ({status)") # Polite randomized pause time.sleep(random.uniform(1, 5)) print(“Sync complete.”) if __name__ == “__main__”: main()

It isn’t that surprising but it is somewhat surprising.

@stephaniewalter @eclectech @clarissawam there’s NO WAY Macha accepts to wear something like this on her head

Abstaining from voting is just a vote to let others choose for you. It does not exempt you from the system.

Vietnamese friends, help me figure out what is happening. I've visited Vietnam once, and I was surprised that a few "touristy" restaurants in Hanoi were playing Haryanavi music. I did not think much of it at the time - I thought that someone was scrolling through an Indian playlist or something. Mind you, this was NOT a Bollywood song that everyone recognizes, this was a fairly niche song that most Indians themselves would not have heard of. (MC Square's Ram Ram, for the curious) 1/3 #tootSEA

@cwebber Those look very good for 'I am not very good'.

@vampirdaddy my plan is to tell nginx to drain the connection (avoid sending more people to the backend service) and to add a command to the game that causes it to shut down once the last player left. And then start again, By pre-compiling the updated version, that only gives a few seconds of downtime which should not be visible to the outside (since all players play on the other instance).

Sadly in non-enterprise nginx that means I need to script the nginx API. But I still think I can do it.

@sl007 @antisemitismusbeauftragte @hateaid Die Liste habe ich gesehen, aber das ist doch die altbekannte Liste, die seit 10 Jahren durchs Netz schwirrt.

@eclectech @clarissawam why is @hellgy not tagued here and how do we get that little hat for your cat?

Oh

I just logged in to mastodon dot social to see what all the fuss is about

Yikes

Were they aware that smart phones exist, and that many people use them as their primary computer?

@joshmillard

I'm in Emacs, using org and switching from Jekyll to Zola.
Still smug.

Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations (AJ Vicens/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinese-linked-hackers-compromise-connectwise-target-hundreds-global-attack-2026-10-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/261022/p5#a261022p5