Fixes available in for CVE-2026-98432
https://ubuntu.com//blog/fixes-available-in-proposed-pocket-for-cve-2026-98432
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the biggest challenge we see is avoiding us/them framing, which is one of those things that it's easy to accidentally uphold while trying to oppose it.
"us" can be as bad as "them"; if we're drawing an impermeable line around ourselves and saying "not you" to people outside it, we should expect that we're not actually grappling with the existing fracture lines in society. we should expect that anyone trying to raise concerns about racism or classism or ableism will find themselves on the outside of that line, and the oppression will continue without proper discussion.
that's bad. that's not the goal.
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on a related note: a "community" is a group of people who know each other and care about each others' well-being.
so for example if we are speaking about the queer tech community, well, yeah, any time we join a new chat room it turns out we already know two or three people there. we'd imagine many of you reading this have the same experience. that is a community.
something as amorpous as "the open source community" is, um, not that. it includes people who publicly advocate for the state-sponsored murder of other people in it. that's not caring.
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Since I want to download my own discography from Bandcamp (because it's all tagged and with nice covers etc) I had to add a price to one of the albums.
On the upside, now you too can download the whole discography for the low low price of 0.50€, right on time for missing #bandcampFriday as is my tradition.
https://pgcd.bandcamp.com/
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What are you thoughts about (semi-) centralized moderation?
As the Fediverse grows, the amount and frequency of harmful spam also increases. The feudalistic structure of the network creates notable moderation overhead as every instance admin has to ban offending remote accounts and remove their content themselves, if the originating instance does not act quick enough or such delete actions are not federated properly.
An example (and my motivation for this post) are reports from the last days about accounts which post CSAM content. This is especially problematic, as media content gets duplicated to every receiving instance.
The following idea came to my mind: A software which sits on top of Activity Pub and creates a kind of court. Instances of this software are independent courts. All users can elect admins / mods of their home instance as judge. Everyone can post a case via normal Fedi posts to the court and the elected judges give a verdict via majority vote (votes are also normal Fedi comments with special formatted content). Once a case has a verdict, all instances should immediately apply the decided action against the offending content / account. This can be done via a bot which is set as an instance moderator and follows the published verdicts of a court instance the local admin trusts.
This way swift action can be applied through all instances which follow the court at once. By having periodic elections it is kept democratic.
And the task of the court is to defend universal rules all following instances agree on. Not to handle politics between instances.
What are you thoughts on this matter? Or do other approaches to solve this issue already exist?
Just as food for thought, there has also been an idea in the opposite direction - decentralize voting even more
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Guess we’re going for different goals, then.
For me in the role of an instance admin, I’d like some solution which properly cuts down on work that ends up on my plate. I’d rather have something so I can pool resources with other admins. I feel technically, it’s not all that different from your suggestion, so I’d just go the extra mile and maybe that’d be something to properly rely on. I mean ultimately one of my main responsibilities is to enforce law and the rest of moderation comes second to that. But I’d also use whatever people have to offer to at least make it a bit easier.
And nobody wants to see all the spam, nor do I want to get nasty pictures in a DM. All that stuff should disappear more swiftly.
So I discovered that old Dell Latitude (that I blogged about a while ago) is supported by #libreboot and was almost painless to get running
@DrinkyBird it was just the right amount of pain, i take it
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This is especially problematic as media […] gets duplicated to every receiving instance.
I’m not sure this is actually the case. The posts certainly do get duplicated to every instance, of course, but the media contained in them are always hosted by the originating instance, as far as I can tell. So once it is deleted from there, no one can access it anymore.
I think it’s an interesting idea though. Since you mentioned votes by members of the individual instances, I wonder how you would handle the different sizes of instances. I’m the only user of my instance, for example. I probably wouldn’t be able to be judge then, right?
The posts certainly do get duplicated to every instance, of course, but the media contained in them are always hosted by the originating instance, as far as I can tell.
Some software creates thumbnails on the server storage.
I wonder how you would handle the different sizes of instances.
That is a problem to discuss after it is decided if the Fediverse even wants such a service 😉
But I'm aware and one possibility would be to limit the number of electable judges from one instance. The upper limit must be in proportion to their user-count to be somewhat representing. But I think instances with only a handful of users won't ever get seats without the jury being way too big. Or they are so popular that they get enough votes from other instance users.
I'm still not sure about blowjob etiquette. Is it ok to ask "is this foreplay, or to the finish? If it's the latter, knock yourself out! But if it's foreplay, well... firstly, I'm already hard, it's a bit redundant, and second: the longer you go on the shorter the sex will be"
@fesshole "Conversation! Conversation! Conversatioooon! That's what you need!"
(Apologies to Roy Castle)
A lot of corporate software development has turned out to be an example of Graeber's "bullshit job". The work consists of shuffling pucks for a business hierarchy. Value comes from oligopolies, abusive business models, and strip-mining old innovations. Design exists to squeeze the customer. Next to none of the outcomes really matter. Few projects ship and those that do make the world a worse place
Makes sense that such a bullshit job would be perfectly automated by an LLM bullshit generator
@baldur It's deeply sad that Graeber - and Mark Fisher for that matter - are no longer with us. It feels like we could use their insight right now.
Second one talks about how they seem to be cognitive and psychological hazards
Why I don't use generative 'AI': chatbots are a cognitive and psychological hazard
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Today's short talks about how chatbots are a bullshit factory
Why I don't use generative 'AI': chatbots are a bullshit factory #tech #chatbot #generativeai
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While I'm waiting for the power to return, a quick reminder that I'm outlining some of my reasons for not using generative models in a series of shorts
First one gives some context, a concept the shorts audience clearly doesn't understand
Why I don't use generative 'AI': this is not a criticism of you #chatbot #agent #tech #generativeai
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Second one talks about how they seem to be cognitive and psychological hazards
Why I don't use generative 'AI': chatbots are a cognitive and psychological hazard
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While I'm waiting for the power to return, a quick reminder that I'm outlining some of my reasons for not using generative models in a series of shorts
First one gives some context, a concept the shorts audience clearly doesn't understand
Why I don't use generative 'AI': this is not a criticism of you #chatbot #agent #tech #generativeai
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So I discovered that old Dell Latitude (that I blogged about a while ago) is supported by #libreboot and was almost painless to get running
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There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen Day, November 10, 1959 in Watchmen by Alan Moore &al https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/alan-moore calendar #recurring #OTD #OnThisDay
