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I really hope Mastodon is doing something to stop the bot attack, because I am being absolutely firehosed with new empty profiles every day.

They have no text, no profile image, no posts, and look oddly similar.

This looks autogenerated to me.

@staff @Gargron

in reply to Shiri Bailem

@shiri There's no indication there's anything wrong with these accounts except that they didn't fill out their profile and didn't post anything. That they all follow exactly 38 people is the only thing in common between them, but they are the 38 accounts recommended to new users on the first screen after sign-up. It feels like a very low bar to call someone a bot or a bot attack. Bots usually do fill out their profile with links and try to send messages.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@shiri What about having a policy to periodically purge unused/unpopulated accounts?

This way we can better defend against a bunch of “staged” accounts ready to amplify some engineered news/messaging in the future.






So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.

"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."

#UKpol #USpol #auspol theguardian.com/commentisfree/…



Interesting article on #arXiv - I wasn't aware of the early history. Quite a story!

"Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science"

wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-m…

#science #preprints #AcademicPublishing



Take your cybersecurity skills anywhere with Kali Linux on Raspberry Pi!

itsfoss.com/kali-linux-raspber…




"We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both.” - Justice Louis Brandeis


Vivaldi is right now the most popular mobile app in Norway as people seek alternatives to Big Tech. I hope you give us a try as well, if you have not already!

#Vivaldi #Apple #Android #ios #Browser @Vivaldi



So that $10B bailout for farmers.

Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence!

But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making.

usda.gov/about-usda/news/press…

Let's talk about the payoff part first?

in reply to Sarah Taber

how much of this will go to small farmers though? It seems like $10B is not that much giving the scale of the industry and the number of big corporations involved.
in reply to Frank Aylward

@foaylward To be seen. The chatter I'm hearing is "Don't worry, this is just the first tranche, there'll be more!" The first Trump admin certainly had multiple multi-billion payoffs to farmers.

Also, fwiw, most small family farmers in the US are millionaires with above-average household income. Even if the whole $10B went to small family farms, it still wouldn't be poverty relief by a long shot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ers.usda.gov/data-products/far…



This is an interesting list. I would like The Guardian or The Conversation, or someone to please start carrying more in depth international news. I want to know what is happening in Africa, Asia, South America, Oceania, Europe, etc.

Europeans Share 44 News Stories Americans Might Not Be Aware Of

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in reply to utopiArte

Also, this is a btop from an 18 core machine with 256GB of RAM with the major load being friendica, a secondary load is hubzilla, mastodon, and miskey, but friendica represents more load than the latter three combined, but it also gets more traffic than the latter three combined. But what I am getting at here, you may want to consider dedicating a physical server. I'll grant you it's busier than usual as we've just returned the server to service after three months of downtime, 7 motherbords, three power supplies, and two CPU's later.

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🌸Once Upon A Time🌸
Had a little too much fun drawing this one...my babies...

#MastoArt #oc #ocar #OriginalCharacter #wlw




Grab a bunch of boomer shooters in this bundle: humblebundleinc.sjv.io/c/57729… (partner link)


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It's no coincidence that alt-right people have taken up AI generated artwork so intensely. It allows bypassing all the ethics and care of typically left-leaning artists. To show the ability to wield aesthetics without the social values tied to those aesthetics is a power move.

This is well covered in "AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism" newsocialist.org.uk/transmissi…



April 5th : HANDS OFF EVENT


Visit : Handsoff2025.com

#April5th #NationalDayofAction #USA #SupportDemocracy



¿Ya conoces Rayhunter?

Es una nueva herramienta de código abierto de la EFF para detectar el espionaje celular.

(En inglés)
#Spyware

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet…

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Immortal Boy looks wild blending a little Undertale and OMORI together gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/immo…

#ImmortalBoy #IndieGames #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming



Free to play toy soldier Battle Royale game Mini Royale enters Early Access

gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/free…

#MiniRoyale #FPS #UnrealEngine #FreeGame

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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

That's kinda obvious. But it also doesn't take much for you to promote both.

Anyway, it's your presence/influence. Just making a suggestion. 🖖



WW2 shooter Squad 44 from Offworld updates Easy Anti-Cheat enabling Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ww2-…

#Squad44 #FPS #Linux #SteamDeck #AntiCheat



Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) Beta released gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ubun…

#Ubuntu #Kubuntu #Linux


in reply to It's FOSS

Seems to me the facial expression is changed, making the statement less angry and more matter-of-fact.

I'm going to print this, frame it, and hang it in my front hall.



This is a great conversation between Jacob Collier and Hank Green!
youtu.be/Q0_W4SWHeWY?si=hEBPQJ…


Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 28th edition for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ever…

#Amazon #PrimeGaming #Gaming #SteamDeck



A few years back I got this photo of a honey bee in flight, returning to her hive.

Had to shoot a few hundred photos just to land this one.

#bees #insects #nature



Starsector, one of the best space RPGs that's not on Steam had a huge update gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/star…

#Starsector #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming



Amazon Luna and Electronic Arts sign a multi-year deal, as Luna expands into more countries gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/amaz…

#Amazon #Luna #CloudGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I wonder how many cloud gaming services have to fail before they finally realise no-one wants this?


Ubisoft launches new subsidiary for Assassin’s Creed and other big games with funding from Tencent gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ubis…

#Ubisoft #AssassinsCreed #FarCry #RainbowSix #Gaming



Fixing a Steam Deck OLED bug for the Linux kernel 6.14 release was a major challenge gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/fixi…

#SteamDeck #SteamDeckOLED #OpenSource #Linux



New Steam Beta brings fixes for child accounts and improvements to download time estimates gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/new-…

#Steam #SteamDeck #PCGaming



Dr. Cristina Caffarra joins as a keynote speaker at #NextcloudSummit25! 🎤

A leading voice on policy and an advocate for fair digital markets, she has played an instrumental role in the EuroStack project.

#SecureCollaboration

nextcloud.com/summit/


in reply to It's FOSS

I don't use vivaldi, but I feel like it will be same to me as Brave with built-in vpn, which for me is "not what I *bad_word_censored* orderd". I do not like forced bundles, even if I like proton
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I will be at the US consulate on Saturday 05 April. Where will you be?

HANDS OFF! protests


This is a nationwide mobilization to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history. Trump, Musk, and their billionaire cronies are orchestrating an all-out assault on our government, our economy, and our basic rights—enabled by Congress every step of the way.

...If we don’t fight now, there won’t be anything left to save.

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