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If you work in government and are asked to remove content from websites (as a result of executive orders), please use the HTTP status code 451 instead of 404.
451 is the correct status code to use for these cases, and you'll be doing the rest of the country a service by using it.
Addendum: you should also include a Link header with the link relation "blocked-by" that "Identifies the entity that blocks access to a resource following receipt of a legal demand."
So... I can't get information due to a client-side problem? I get the literary reference, but 4xx indicate client configuration problems. Even if one's mingling SMTP codes' structure, 451 would imply a transient condition ...which feels unduly optimistic.
reading these RFCs makes me realise how precious the internet is.
I yearn for a world where we can all be this professional and unhinged at the same time, connecting our worlds through hypertext and without JavaScript tracking popups.
If this were the intended use, wouldn't this mean that every not found on a government website would be 451, unless the file was only accidentally not found?
This is mostly unnecessary hairsplitting, but I think it could be argued that semantically 451 is the correct code when the content is not removed but is blocked for YOU but not necessarily for everybody else (using geolocation or something else). I think that's why it's a 4xx client error.
So, if the pages are made unavailable for everybody (in other words, removed), I would say 404 is the correct code. Do I actually care? Absolutely not xD
Just noting we're asking people to risk their jobs because a bunch of us were too fucking lazy to vote these bastards out. I hope they do it, but I hope we all do some soul searching to ask ourselves how we got here.
I got a 451 last week, the first time I'd ever seen one. I'm afraid I don't remember which site I was trying to access, other than I'm pretty sure it was a US one.
Based on the extraordinary career of Rene Carmille, history's first known computer hacker. Much of the Vichy bureaucracy, including the operation of the deat...
I love the idea, but I suspect it's not practical. Because most of the people doing these jobs are probably not technical or digging into code, but will just be working in a CMS where they can press the "delete" button. There's probably not going to be an easy button to send a custom status code.
Good people, if you see news articles mentioning error code 451 for MAGA Project 2025 censorship chaos crusade, please update Wikipedia article HTTP 451 #HTTP451 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 Obstruct, resist the MAGAfascists!✊🤘🖖
It also depends on the playbook the service uses. I'm wondering if this and other obscure error codes aren't used more frequently to meet standards like NIST 800-137.
I’d love to hear the argument from all the tech bros who made their money on top of this protocol explaining why this time it’s wrong to use it correctly.
Legal? Unless we come up with a new error-status eg: "471 Unavailable for extra-judicial reasons", perhaps a simple "403 Forbidden" response would be more appropriate.
Clients cannot rely upon the use of the 451 status code. It is possible that certain legal authorities might wish to avoid transparency, and not only demand the restriction of access to certain resources, but also avoid disclosing that the demand was made.
Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️
@eotarchive@bird.makeup I’m so relieved this is done. I wonder if a “difference tool” could be made, so the next administration could easily see, in list form, what the current administration did to the website structure they inherited. Such a tool might make it easier to rebuild the structure. I imagine it’s not a simple matter of restoring the structure from the previous administration’s EoT Archive.
Starting to get the itch to re-do my server, as this is the year Ubuntu 20.04 LTS loses support. Was thinking TrueNAS but wanted a little more freedom with lower ports. Now thinking about using #ZFSBootMenu on Alpine as a host for converting most everything to #docker :
Yeah babe, I'll come to bed, I just first need to set my computer resources to assist in the emergency archival of the Entire United States Government, because that's a totally cool and normal thing you have to do in this day and age.
On the little server I have running here at home, I'm now helping @internetarchive back up US Government websites and data.
You can help, too:
1. Download and run the ArchiveTeam Warrior 2. Set the selected project to "usgovernment" (or select US Government from the available projects in the web interface)
I'm running Warrior as a container with podman, but there are various other ways to run it.
Thanks for making this project aware. After migrating our stuff to a new data center, I have a ton of resources I'm still paying for until I get around to collecting it. Might as well put it to some use and saving data before Trump/Musk delete it.
If you have a spare laptop or other device that you're okay with leaving on, they have a virtual machine that can be run on windows and linux. You just need to download the image and install virtual box and open the image in virtualbox. See under basic usage:
Just got mine running on docker-compose on my server. Downloaded the yaml file, pulled, run with docker-compose up -d, and allowed the appropriate ports on the yaml file through ufw. Looks like it's scanning NIH now. 😎 Probably the easiest deployment I've ever run!
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
NOAA had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
The Fediverse - the network of decentralised social network apps - has grown almost 40% over the last few weeks in terms of active users (almost all of which are new user accounts), and the increase currently shows no sign of slowing down.
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.
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.
The view of young people and TikTok users is particularly frightening at fundamental scientific findings.
For example, only 71 percent of those under 29 years old agree that vaccines have helped save millions of lives. Among TikTok users, the approval is even lower with 69 percent. More than 20 percent of young people, and around a quarter of all TikTok users, even openly doubt this decades-long insight.
Young people and the population as a whole seem to be shockingly agreed on the issue of climate change alone: only 64 percent of respondents and 67 percent of young people agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Among TikTok users, it is only a little more than half.
And the corona pandemic also remains a source of conspiracy theories. A quarter of the total population agrees with the statement that the pandemic was deliberately created by governments or elites in order to be able to control the population more. This dangerous narrative seems to be particularly widespread on TikTok: there, almost 44 percent of users agree with it.
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.
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?
"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.
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
@Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀 This is absolutely chilling, from the symbolic amount that dwarfs previous contributions to the first-time donors compelled to match it...
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!
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.
that's my thumb rule. When under the influence, you don't post anything online. Even if it's not that stupid, you might repent telling it practically all the world.
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.
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.
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 the stable branch, 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 the stable one, 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 2024.12
But 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!
I suppose my old #wifi PCI-E adapter on my desktop shot craps. Worked up the gumption to run ethernet to that that and my TV. Speed on the desktop went from 4 Mbps down to 878 Mbps! 🤯 #firstworldjoys
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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Or those dumpster fires that are the SSybertruck an Teska Semi, right?
Or how he got his ass fired from PayPall because he wanted to use Windows Server instead of Linux to run the service?
Elons incompetence has been showing for a while.