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Sir Keir Starmer worked with criminals!

https://youtu.be/UpRIW7i0gG8

#comedy #satire #funny #funnyvideo #keirstarmer #politics #ukpolitics

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"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

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[SPAM] One for your block list


Hello !Friendica Admins

If you don't like endlessly-long Wordpress posts, filled with advertisement, you may want to block this:

ebookfriendly.com 	Spam: Dedicated sales/ marketing host that mostly distributes amazon affiliated links en masse

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holodeck program for hugs

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Out of megalopolis,
The moment of finding oneself,
On mountainous waters in far away borderland.

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Correct permission for /var/lib/php/sessions ?


Hello !Friendica Admins

What's the correct permission for /var/lib/php/sessions?

On this VPS's Debian 11 the permission was set to 600 and it caused this error log entries like this:

[error] 278592#278592: *61 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Notice:  session_start(): ps_files_cleanup_dir: opendir(/var/lib/php/sessions) failed: Permission denied (13) in /var/www/friendica/src/Core/Session/Type/Native.php on line 54" while reading response header from upstream, client:

I've temporarily changed it to chmod 777 -R /var/lib/php/sessions/. The owner remains unchanged as www-data:www-data.

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Actually, I didn't explain it correctly. On my system, owner: group of /var/lib/php/sessions is root:root, but the files in that directory are www-datat:www-data, as I run Friendica under www-data.

Unfortunately 733 and 773 still bring up the error message on my system, whereas only 777 seems to work.

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@Andy H3
Then something else might be the reason. In my case all the contents in /var/lib/php have ownership of root:root, my webserver runs as www-data and php-process runs as a different user again and I also have 733 733 (more precisely 1733 on the sessions folder) and file permsions of 644
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@Andy H3
Does your php-process have proper access on the whole path? Remember: to able to access a folder properly executable permission is the minimum for the folders as owner or the group the account has to be member of.
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Thanks @Rebeka Catalina

Yes, sounds like something might be causing it. I have to investigate this further later on. I'm out of time now, unfortunately.

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@Andy H3
Well... I give an example:

in my case the user of the php-process does not own any of the directories, nor is the account member of a group that owns the directories. That means that "others" need to have the permission to access every directory on the whole path - so beginning from /.

This can be done by setting 0755 for /var, for /var/lib and the /var/lib/php.
As next step you can set all the directories in /var/lib/php to 0755:

cd /var/lib/php
find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

and then as last step for the directories set /var/lib/php/sessions with chmod to 1733. On Debian systems this is per default the only directory with sticky bit set below the /var/lib/php directory.

All the files in /var/lib/php are 0644

cd /var/lib/php/
find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;

Afterwards it should work.

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@Rebeka Catalina thank you very much for the detailed explanations! ๐Ÿ™

I will try this tomorrow and will report back.

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@Andy H3
I made two mistakes in my explanation above:

- file permissions are 0644
- permission for the sessions folder 1733

I'm a bit tired today ๐Ÿ˜€

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@Rebeka Catalina No worries! I'll try once I'm back home in a week or so.

Thanks for your tremendous efforts. Have a good holiday. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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@Rebeka Catalina I think I finally got it working!!

So each directory up to /var/lib/php is set to 0755 and all are owned by root:root.

But /var/lib/php/sessions/ is now set to 0700 and is owned by www-data:www-data.

I checked the following:

cat /etc/php/8.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf |grep www-data

and saw this:

user = www-data
group = www-data
listen.owner = www-data
listen.group = www-data

So this rather strict setting of the session directory is possible with the appropriate owner:group settings.

Thanks to your hints Rebeka, I understand more now about UNIX file types and their notations, as well as sticky, SGID and SUID bits. ๐Ÿ‘

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So it might really be that my PHP packages aren't provided natively via the distro, but instead by https://packages.sury.org/php/.

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Mastodon.ie blocks threads.net.

We use authorised fetch in server config to prevent posts from our members appearing on blocked servers.

We have no plans to block other servers based on their decisions about Facebook/Meta.

Being commercial is still fine once you're not hurting anyone.

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Our decision to block Threads is based on Metaโ€™s history of non-moderation of harassment, abuse and disinformation campaigns, their psychological experiments on non-consenting people, as well as their data collection business model.

We want Mastodon.ie to remain safe for individuals in a way that Metaโ€™s business model would not permit.

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Systemd hooligans... ๐Ÿ˜ฒ Who would have thought that... ๐Ÿ‘‡


Unfortunately our telegram chat channel has been taken over and vandalized by yet another systemd hooligan. We have survived all such aggressions so far.

The new channel is:
http://t.me/devuanorg

This change doesn't affect anyone on IRC.




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For some selected accounts AP support is enabled. I can see some traffic in the log files but not that much.

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COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.

This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.

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Great piece!!

Iโ€™ve been low-key obsessed with the problem of space junk since I wrote this piece back in 2020 about the boom in private sector space activity: https://newrepublic.com/article/160303/monetizing-final-frontier

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๐Ÿค˜ ๐Ÿค–

I'm really glad you wrote that piece -- this issue needs a lot more attention

Absent good regulation, companies and governments are gonna turn LEO into escape-velocity scene from WALL-E


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We updated our Terms of Service.

This includes significant modifications to sections 4. Provision of Service and 5. Termination of Service.

For further information please see here: https://friendica.hubup.pro/tos


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Meta is looking to make their platforms compatible with the fediverse. This sounds good in theory, but in reality, it will allow them to make their own closed-source implementations of fedi, which will of course be way more popular, and eventually make them not compatible with the rest of fedi. Google did this with XMPP, and Microsoft did this with their file formats that only Microsoft Office can handle properly. There's a more detailed retelling here: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

So, in summary, if the admin of your instance wants to make it compatible with Meta's platforms, you have to convince them not to. The fediverse is (apparently) confusing enough for most lay people as it is, they shouldn't also need to know which instances can't communicate with Meta, or why that's even a good thing.

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You do you, but I've decided to domain block threads.net.

Even though I doubt what I post would be of much interest to many threads users, and even though I am unlikely to see much by way of threads-originated traffic, I am unpersuaded that mega-instances are a good thing, and while I love seeing people's small businesses here, I'm very much unsure about larger corporate instances.

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The beauty of the Fediverse is that โ€œyou can do youโ€ in exactly this way.
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Facebook (Threads), in particular, is a serious threat. If instances cooperate they risk being rolled over by a Microsoftian manipulation of behaviours, standards, and expectations through sheer numbers.

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I would very conservatively guess that 80-90% of all online โ€œcourses" will be entirely LLM generated from this point on. Be very careful before you spend your $ folks.

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@Joan Westenberg Isn't that kind of the point? From example watch Jules White's video lecture on Prompt Engineering (on coursera for free*) how he wrote basic examples and used an LLM to incrementally develop them further.

Aren't the real issues how LLMs were trained: i.e. whether by using stolen data or with carefully curated open source data? Or, how much existing biases get amplified in LLMs?
Or even more broadly, how much the deployment of AI will improve or impoverish everyone's lives? How much mission-critical decision making should be allowed for AI? ....

I'm beginning to think that we need much, much more dialogue before we jump onto the bandwagons of condemnation or celebration.

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On a Teams call.

Someone once explained to me that Teams is the way it is because it's fundamentally a fileshare system rather than a videocall app, and this fits: it feels *exactly* like trying to use a filing cabinet to make a phone call.

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Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is ventoy

If you need to boot from different .iso / other image files routinely, ventoy is a lifesaver. You install it onto a USB stick, and then copy the image files onto the USB stick.

When you boot from the USB stick, you boot into ventoy, and then choose what .iso you want to load.

It even handles Secure Boot.

https://ventoy.net/en/index.html

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this sounds cool ... Have used TFTP and netboot.xyz ... But having all this on a USB stick sounds better in some situations... Will definitely check it out


So the story continues, students trying to use ChatGPT for their assignments. I just wonder how they get it to hallucinate so easily... ๐Ÿ˜

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In the US, Zelenskyy is meeting with representatives from factories making weapons for Ukraine, and talking about his deep felt gratitude towards the US workers, who are producing the weapons which allows Ukraine to defend itself.

Politically this is a brilliant move, which clearly illustrates how helping Ukraine is tied closely to US employment. Zelenskyy is effectively making anti-aid equal to anti-US workers โ€” a position which will be very expensive for Republicans to take.

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So as usual and nothing new, America's wealth is partially blood money. ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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This looks like fun!

In North America, we have rails-to-trails, turning old rail lines into bike and hiking trails.

In #Japan, they kept the rails...

The Kamioka Line, discontinued in 2004, is now a โ€œrail-mountain bikeโ€ attraction known as โ€œGattan Go!!โ€

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@macjustice itโ€™s probably too snowy and cold to go at this time of the year (and itโ€™s a bit of a mission to get to) is why I canโ€™t do this _right now_ https://rail-mtb.com/en/
itโ€™s the perfect match for my short-ish memory that, being afraid of heights, I still conjure up the energy to go on some of Japanโ€™s more famous bike tours like shimanamikaido
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