The annoying nerds who said you should install Linux, use decentralised social media, use Signal secure messenger were right.
Control of our own computing is a prerequisite for freedom.
The internet *is* real life.
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TikTok users particularly susceptible to Russian and Chinese misinformation, study finds
The Chinese system is superior to democracy and climate change is not man-made: disinformation and conspiracy narratives are widespread among the German population - especially among young people and TikTok users, a new survey by the Gemran Allensbach Institute on behalf of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung shows.
Ahead of Germany federal elections in Feb. 23, there is growing concern about foreign disinformation in the country. The German government is concerned that foreign states will deliberately influence public debate. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns against false reports and manipulation.
The representative survey by Allensbach Institute now shows that young people and TikTok users are particularly vulnerable.
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Although a small majority of respondents say that misinformation in the media is a big problem, only 44 percent of them say it is easy to recognize them.
Thus, 30 percent of the respondents do not recognize that Russia is deliberately spreading disinformation, and around 40 percent do not identify China as an actor that deliberately circulates false information.
The results show that young people are much less suspicious than older ones. For example, 42% of people under 29 doubt that Russia is deliberately spreading false information; in the case of China, more than half do.
TikTok users doubt the prevalence of misinformation at 50 percent in Russia and 59 percent in China. TikTok users are therefore significantly less suspicious than consumers of other media.
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The survey of certain disinformation narratives confirms this picture.
Only around 78 percent of those surveyed fully or rather "agree that Russia is conducting an internationally unlawful war of aggression against Ukraine. In the group of under 29-year-olds, this approval is still significantly lower at 69.7 percent. Among TikTok users, only 66 percent.
It is also a matter of concern that more than one third of all TikTok users believe that Russia has a greater interest in peace in Ukraine than the West. In the general population, only 18 percent believe this, while among young people it is 23 percent.
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The susceptibility to disinformation narratives is equally clear when it comes to whether China is a dictatorship. While around 81 percent of Germans agree with this statement, the figure is only 67 percent in the group of under 29-year-olds. Around a third of TikTok users even believe that China is not a dictatorship.
Almost 30 percent of Germans also believe that the autocratic Chinese government system is "more efficient and successful" than Western democracies. Among TikTok users, the figure is significantly higher at 42 percent.
Doubts about vaccines, climate change and pandemic
The view of fundamental scientific knowledge by young people and TikTok users is particularly frightening.
Only 71 percent of people under 29 agree that vaccines have helped save millions of lives. Among TikTokNutzers, the approval rate is even lower at 69 percent. More than 20 percent of young people, that is one in five, and around a quarter of all TikTok users even openly doubt this knowledge, which has been established for decades.
On climate change alone, young people and the general population seem to be shockingly unanimous: only 64 percent of respondents and 67 percent of young people agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Among TikTok users, it’s just over half.
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Desinformation: Desinformation unter jungen Menschen
Kritik an der Demokratie und Leugnung des menschengemachten Klimawandels sind verbreitet – besonders bei jungen Menschen und TikTok-Nutzern. Das zeigt eine Allensbach-Studie im Auftrag der FNF.Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung
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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Ukraine's F-16 Pilot Downs Six Russian Cruise Missiles in Historic First - Newsweek newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-f-…Ukraine's F-16 Pilot Downs Six Russian Cruise Missiles in Historic First
"For the first time in the history of the Fighting Falcon, an F-16 fighter jet destroyed six Russian cruise missiles in one combat mission," a post read.Brendan Cole (Newsweek)
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I've seen some people suggesting that the donations by tech companies and their CEOs to Trump's inaugural fund aren't unusual and are in fact routine and similar to what was given to Biden and... nope
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Tech CEOs' Donations to Donald Trump, Joe Biden Inaugurations Compared
The CEOs and their companies have donated millions to Trump's upcoming inauguration.Andrew Stanton (Newsweek)
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Astronomers focus on the sky, but it’s worth looking around our planet, too! This image, for instance, was taken from Pukará de Quitor, a fortress built 900+ years ago by the Licán Antai community, also known as Atacameños, not far from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. What a perfect frame for the Licancabur #volcano!
Learn more: eso.org/public/images/potw2501…
📷 ESO/A. Ghizzi Panizza
#archaeology #astrodon #astronomy #science
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An award-winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post has announced her resignation after a cartoon depicting the newspaper's billionaire owner groveling before Donald Trump was rejected.
#USPolitics #press #freedom #political #cartoon
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free pressAnn Telnaes (Open Windows)
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Friendica 2024.12 released
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Interrupted Fern” 2024.12. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains the fix for the broken installation wizard.The highlights of Friendica 2024.12 are
- added exporter for prometheus,
- we dropped the support of OStatus (the predecessor of ActivityPub) after evaluating the amount of active servers/contacts that are still only using this protocol, and deprecated the fancybox addon
- Friendica is now REUSE compliant and supports FEP-67ff
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumblr and BlueSky.How to Update
Updating from old Friendica versions
If you are updating from an older version than the 2023.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version as it contained some breaking changes.Pre-Update Procedures
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.Using Git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on thestablebranch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.12 release would be
cd friendica
git pull
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
cd addon
git pull
If you want to use a different branch than thestableone, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
Using the Archive Files
Due to unforseen changes in the CI not possible at the moment.Post Update Tasks
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script
bin/console dbstructure update
from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none with 2024.12But the development branch is currently rather unstable and should be used with caution as the development diverged far (for Friendica terms) from the now stable branch. We will let our very valued ALPHA testers when the dev team things that the development branch is stable enough again.
How to Contribute
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
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𝓟𝓮𝓽𝓮𝓻.𝓣.𝓙. 𝓦𝓪𝓾𝓫𝓮𝓷 ⁂ likes this.
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If we're in a simulation, then this would be a great troll by the admin. 🙂
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Interned String Buffer Full
I switched my fpm over to 8.0 on Friendica, the same as my Nextcloud instance. Ever since I've been getting a notification about my opcache.interned_strings_buffer becoming full. I've increased the memory in php.ini, but it seems like it almost immediately fills up no matter the memory I give it (I have tons of RAM so can experiment). I
Seems like it caches one string to be applied over and over again to improve performance. I wonder if there are some strings generated in Friendica that are always unique and therefore always would fill up the buffer.
Doesn't seem like it's affecting anything yet, but didn't know if that's a bug or a feature.
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I don't know if this says more about AI or about how generic and auto-tuned modern pop music is. 😂
Apparently sharing from Twitter is getting to be broken. Reminds me i still need to leave it. 😅🙃
Tech companies are ruining their apps, websites, internet
Google, Amazon, Meta, and other big tech companies are making their core products worse and ruining everything from apps to the internet.Ed Zitron (Insider)
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Thought I'd write an #introduction for all those #newhere from the Musk exodus:
I'm an analytical chemist. I've hosted my own #Friendica node (instance) at my home since 2018, shortly after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. From there, I got bit by the #selfhosting bug and am now hosting my own #opensource replacements for many FAANG services.
Welcome all to the #fediverse ! If you are thinking about self-hosting and have questions, would be happy to help as able!
#introductions
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in reply to thelucky8 • • •JFC, this is terrifying:
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in reply to thelucky8 • • •It's hilarious how these "studies" completely ignore the nonstop domestic propaganda. People are completely brainwashed to the point that they support genocide but somehow china/russia is the problem. It's so transparent and so gross. Fuck this imperial trash.
Have more Palestinians or Israelis died in war? Half of Americans don’t know, poll says
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For the few months that I have been here you have been flooding the comms with 1 or 2-sentence messages like this one and literally every single of them conveys one and the same narrative. Are you really this braindead or do you need the 50 cents so urgently for always the same derailed comments?
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