Biden’s handing of something that 100% should fall in the domain of Congress to solve. So may things that historically have been attributed to the President were ultimately created and decided on by Congress and the public attributes way more power to the President than they actually have because of it.
But the public is right to do this, particularly regarding international wars like Ukraine and Gaza. The United States has not declared war via Congress since 1942. Yet clearly we have fought plenty of wars since then solely under the command and authorization of the presidency alone. Which means there is 80+ years of precedence of creating an imperial presidency that authorizes Biden to act against both Russia and Israel. He is choosing not to avail himself of the precedent. And genocide is the result.
we’re legally obligated to supply arms to Israel,
Israel is legally obligated not to engage in collective punishment, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Yet, they are doing those acts anyway. The Constitution requires Congress to declare war. Yet Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, the War on Terror, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine/Gaza demonstrate that is apparently an illusory Constitutional requirement. Laws are meaningless if there is no enforcement mechanism.
I’m fairly convinced that a good chunk of the rhetoric spouted to not vote for Biden likely originated from foreign sources to plant the Idea in people’s minds
This is undoubtedly true. And it is a sad reflection of the weakness of our system, our historical actions, and the intellectual capabilities of our citizenry that it is as highly effective as it is. Trump will destroy The West if he is elected in November. And plenty of Americans don’t have a problem with that because they don’t understand what it means. Which is a consequence of neoliberal privatization and deregulation of all social programs, including public education.
As Malcolm X said, this is Chickens Coming Home to Roost. And, unfortunately for us who live in the United States today, an innumerable number of Chickens are coming home to roost in our very near future. I wish I had been born in Denmark or Norway - at least their social democratic safety nets would allow my community to thrive as the world burns around us
<p>In a new study from the Cognitive Neurology Lab at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences in Bengaluru, India, researchers have uncovered evidence that speaking more than one language could be a key factor in safeguarding cognitive health in older adults. This research, led by Neurology Professor Suvarna Alladi and published in the journal <a href="https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.13702"><em>Alzheimer’s & Dementia</em></a>, points to bilingualism as a potential shield against dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).</p>
<p>“Dementia is a growing public health concern that calls for a global action plan. While age is a strong predictor of developing dementia, life-course experiences such as higher education, engaging in physical activities, occupational complexity and more recently, bilingualism can reduce the risk of developing dementia through improving cognitive reserve/resilience,” explained study author Nithin Thanissery, a senior research fellow at the Cognitive Neurology Lab.</p>
<p>“India is uniquely suited for the study of bilingualism, cognition and dementia. The country has a socio-linguistically and culturally diverse non-immigrant population which speaks about 122 major languages. Bilingualism is the norm in most of the communities of India including Bengaluru, Karnataka state where the study was conducted. Bilinguals switch between languages frequently, engaging the executive and attentional control systems. The constant engagement of the cognitive and neural networks that makes bilingualism a strong contributor to cognitive reserve.”</p>
<p>“Following the initial report on bilingualism and its association with delaying the symptoms of dementia by Bialystok and colleagues (2007), we carried out a series of studies that consistently revealed protective effects of bilingualism against dementia (Alladi et al., 2013, 2016, 2017),” Thanissery explained.</p>
<p>Their new investigation into the protective effects of bilingualism involved a door-to-door community survey in the urban cohort of Jayanagar, South Bengaluru. This area, known for its linguistic diversity, became the focal point for gathering data on the prevalence of dementia and MCI among the elderly population. To ensure a broad and representative sample, the survey targeted individuals aged 60 and above, residing in the area for at least six consecutive months.</p>
<p>To accurately assess bilingualism, the research team used a modified version of the Language Use Questionnaire. This instrument allowed the researchers to rate language proficiency across multiple languages based on responses to a series of questions, estimating proficiency percentages. Cognitive assessments were then conducted in the language where participants achieved a proficiency score of 70% or higher.</p>
<p>Neuropsychological testing formed the backbone of the cognitive assessments. Instruments such as the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (ACE-III) were administered to evaluate general cognitive function, alongside other tests for diagnosing dementia and MCI. These assessments were performed at the participants’ homes by a trained team comprising clinical psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and neurologists, among others.</p>
<p>Upon analyzing the data from 1,234 participants, the study found that bilinguals constituted 65% of the cohort. A striking difference emerged in the prevalence rates of dementia and MCI between bilingual and monolingual participants. Dementia was notably less prevalent among bilinguals (0.4%) compared to monolinguals (4.9%), indicating a substantial reduction in risk for those who spoke more than one language.</p>
<p>Similarly, MCI was found in 5.3% of bilinguals, compared to 8.5% in monolinguals, further supporting the hypothesis that bilingualism serves as a protective factor against cognitive decline.</p>
<p>Bilingual individuals, including those with no cognitive impairment and those with MCI, demonstrated higher scores across various cognitive domains, including attention, memory, fluency, language, and visuospatial abilities, when compared to their monolingual counterparts.</p>
<p>“In a community setting in urban Bengaluru, we found that the prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment were higher in those who spoke only one language than those who spoke more than one language,” Thanissery told PsyPost. “Bilingual older adults without any cognitive impairment had better cognitive functioning compared to their monolingual peers. These findings imply that promoting bi/multilingualism as cognitive reserve factor may potentially delay or slow down cognitive decline in the context of linguistically diverse communities with enriched language interactions.”</p>
<p>The results indicated that the protective effects of bilingualism persisted regardless of educational level, suggesting that the benefits of speaking multiple languages are not merely a reflection of higher education. Interestingly, the study also explored cognitive differences among individuals speaking two versus three or more languages, finding that while speaking more than one language offered a cognitive advantage, there was no significant additional benefit to knowing three or more languages.</p>
<p>However, the study is not without its limitations. The researchers acknowledge the challenge of accurately measuring language proficiency and the complexity of bilingualism itself, which varies widely in terms of proficiency levels, usage patterns, and the age at which additional languages are acquired. Additionally, the cross-sectional nature of the study means it can only show an association at a single point in time, not causality or long-term outcomes.</p>
<p>“We addressed the key methodological problems in earlier clinic and community studies related to bilingualism to a greater extent in the current study,” Thanissery said. “However, in order to understand the association between bilingualism, cognition and its protective effects, larger longitudinal studies need to be planned for the future.”</p>
<p>Such studies could provide more definitive evidence of bilingualism’s protective effects and shed light on the mechanisms behind these benefits.</p>
<p>“Our long-term goal is to understand how bilingualism is related to these protective effects against dementia,” Thanissery explained. “There have been several attempts to understand brain behavior correlates with healthy aging. Advancements in neuroimaging have allowed us to investigate the complexity of the structure and function of various regions of the brain which has given us a better understanding of dementia.”</p>
<p>“We also need to study the biomarkers such as beta-amyloid and tau associated with dementia in the realm of bilingualism. Moreover, we propose parallel investigations for a comprehensive understanding of the brain, cognitive mechanisms and social determinants of health linked with bilingualism. We believe that this holistic approach using multimodal methods in diverse sociolinguistic settings is essential for advancing knowledge in this field.”</p>
<p>“The impact of bilingualism in our study context were not influenced by sociodemographic characteristics such as education, occupation, and socioeconomic status,” Thanissery added. “Despite the fact that bilingualism in our study cohort independently influences cognition in old age and promotes healthy aging, this is likely to vary depending on the sociolinguistic context. This means that bilingual effects may vary depending on the sociolinguistic context in different populations.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.13702" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Protective effect of bilingualism on aging, MCI, and dementia: A community-based study</a>,” was authored by Aparna Venugopal, Avanthi Paplikar, Feba Anna Varghese, Nithin Thanissery, Divya Ballal, Rakshith Maneshwar Hoskeri, Revathi Shekar, Binukumar Bhaskarapillai, Faheem Arshad, Vandana Valiyaparambath Purushothaman, Aravind Banavaram Anniappan, Girish Nagaraja Rao, and Suvarna Alladi.</p>
Hey fellow users of the Fediverse, instance admins and platform developers. I’d like to see better means of handling adult content on the Fediverse. I’d like to spread a bit of awareness and request your opinions and comments....
Since you posted this into a self-hosting community…
You are the alternative to SquareSpace. Grab a Raspberry Pi, slap nginx proxy manager and ddclient into it, and point your domain to your home IP.
From the web development side of things? Eleventy is my pick for SSG. For a novice, the best part about using 11ty is that it supports a ton of different front end templating languages. That means you can find which one you like the best without having to hello world a million times. Keep your content as markdown and pass it into Nunjucks, WEBC, Vue, fuckin’ whatever.
Since you posted this into a self-hosting community…
I have two other websites hosted on a $5 Hetzner server (that counts as self-hosted right?). I’ve been considering adding a Wordpress, Grav, or static site to it. But as mentioned in the OP, I have to worry about the site going down if it gets a traffic surge, so I’m thinking it would be safer and similarly/more affordable to host a Wordpress site with Hostinger or GreenGeeks. Am I wrong?
Grab a Raspberry Pi, slap nginx proxy manager and ddclient into it, and point your domain to your home IP.
The U.S. Defense Department’s detailed review of unidentified flying objects, spanning from 1945, concluded no evidence of extraterrestrial visits or technology exists. Despite numerous conspiracy theories, all investigated UFO sightings were eventually attributed to misidentified earthly phenomena, without uncovering any secret alien technology programs.
A lengthy Defense Department review of U.S. government activities related to “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” more commonly known as UFOs, has found no evidence that extraterrestrial intelligence has visited Earth or that authorities have recovered crashed alien spacecraft and are hiding them from the public.
The review, publicly released on Friday, covered all official U.S. investigatory efforts from 1945 to the present and examined classified and unclassified government archives.
It was unequivocal in its conclusions, finding “no evidence that any [U.S. government] investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology.” Reports of flying objects or suspected alien craft usually turned out to have quotidian explanations: They were “ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” sometimes by well-meaning witnesses who thought they had spotted something otherworldly.
The report is likely to be scrutinized and rejected by independent investigators, former U.S. personnel and conspiracy theorists who appear convinced the government is hiding evidence of alien life and has constructed an elaborate set of classified programs devoted to reverse-engineering their technology. Last summer, a former intelligence officer who had served on a Pentagon UAP task force sparked headlines and speculation when he told Congress that the government has a secret repository of downed alien spacecraft and corpses.
The new report, compiled by the Defense Department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), directly addressed those allegations.
“AARO determined, based on all information provided to date, that claims involving specific people, known locations, technological tests, and documents allegedly involved in or related to the reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial technology, are inaccurate,” the office stated in a 60-plus page unclassified document.
Even before the report was published, critics of the office had questioned whether investigators would be hamstrung by a lack of access to highly-classified material. But the office devised a “secure process,” according to the report, working with government agencies to review so-called special-access programs that interviewees had identified, either by their supposed code names or description.
The office’s investigators were “granted full access to all pertinent sensitive [U.S. government] programs,” and when companies and contractors were identified, the office interviewed senior-level executives, scientists and engineers in those organizations, the report stated. Investigators had access to a wide range of government departments and agencies, including the Defense Department and the military services, the intelligence community — including records held by the CIA — the Energy Department, the Homeland Security Department and the National Archives.
The investigators seemed to anticipate that their work would face a skeptical audience. They argued that the public’s imagination and misunderstanding about alien visitations has been fueled by an industry of TV shows, books, movies and social media that repeat the same extravagant claims about spaceships in hangers and alien bodies in basements.
“A consistent theme in popular culture involves a particularly persistent narrative that the [U.S. government] — or a secretive organization within it — recovered several off-world spacecraft and extraterrestrial biological remains … and that it has conspired since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United States Congress and the American public,” the report stated.
Government personnel are some of the most ardent believers in that idea. The investigators interviewed about 30 people, including some who had worked on official UAP research programs, “who claimed to have insight into alleged [U.S. government] involvement in off-world technology exploitation,” the report said. In some cases, they had stumbled upon actual, highly classified programs that had nothing to do with aliens.
“Many have sincerely misinterpreted real events or mistaken sensitive U.S. programs for which they were not cleared as having been related to UAP or extraterrestrial exploitation,” Tim Phillips, the AARO acting director, told reporters.
Their conclusions were based on a sort of classified game of telephone, in which whispers of secret programs, often based on hearsay, circulated for years in the military and intelligence community.
“We saw a small group of people who knew each other, who all cited their observations as the purpose for their beliefs or for their observations,” Phillips said.
Some of those people had worked on UAP research under a Pentagon program in the early 2000s that aimed to study next-generation aerospace technologies. It had a powerful backer in then-Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who had an abiding interest in unidentified flying objects and hailed from the home state of Area 51, the secretive Air Force testing grounds that hold a central place in UFO lore. According to the report, UAP research was not part of the program’s mission, but it ventured into that territory, examining reports of paranormal activity, “creatures” and “international-dimensional phenomena.”
In 2017, the work of that outfit became public, along with videos taken from military aircraft that seemed to show UFOs flying at extraordinary speed, to the astonishment of military pilots. That exposure ushered in a new era of openness in the military and intelligence community, which began to examine UAPs — which some thought might be drones or hypersonic weapons — as a potential threat to national security and commercial aviation. Military personnel have since been encouraged to report sightings; some have later been attributed to foreign aircraft, surveillance balloons, atmospheric anomalies or simply debris floating in the air.
Confusion appeared to permeate the statements from witnesses who spoke to the AARO investigators. Some of the programs’ code names that interviewees provided turned out not to exist or could be traced back to defunct entities, the report found. One person mistakenly identified a private UAP research program as being run by the U.S. government.
Another program brought to AARO’s attention, Kona Blue, was alleged to be a Homeland Security Department effort “to cover up the retrieval and exploitation of ‘nonhuman biologics,’” the report found. In other words, alien bodies.
The origins of those suspicions, investigators found, traced back to some of those earlier Pentagon researchers, backed by Reid, who had strayed into studying UAPs.
When the Defense Intelligence Agency canceled that effort in 2012 “due to lack of merit,” its supporters proposed that Homeland Security fund a new version to investigate paranormal research, including “human consciousness anomalies,” the report found. The program, which they proposed calling Kona Blue, also would reverse-engineer “off-world spacecraft that they hoped to acquire.” The Kona Blue backers assumed that biological evidence of aliens was already in the government’s possession, the report found.
Homeland Security leaders ultimately rejected the proposal.
The AARO investigators investigated a number of specific claims, including that the CIA had been working with a company to examine alien spacecraft; that a former senior U.S. military officer had “touched the surface” of a spacecraft and had seen one “floating in a building,” presumably a military or contractor facility; and that alien technology remains in the possession of companies, not the government, as part of an effort to keep it away from congressional overseers.
Other interviewees provided accounts of their own UAP sightings, as well as claims that they had seen military personnel loading containers of spacecraft onto planes or overheard scientists discussing the presence of alien beings during the testing of specialized materials. Others claimed that people who knew about the classified activities had signed nondisclosure agreements with a provision that any breach of secrecy was “punishable by death.”
The AARO investigators found no evidence to substantiate these accounts and were able to dispute or debunk some of them.
The former military officer who was said to have touched a spacecraft denied this claim when investigators asked him about it, couldn’t remember the conversation in question and speculated that the issue might stem from a misunderstanding: He had, in fact, once touched an F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter, “an aircraft so secret Nevada folklore labeled it a UFO,” according to an Air Force publication from 2018.
The person who claimed that aliens were present during a materials test had likely misunderstood the conversation, which probably referred to “a test and evaluation unit that had a nickname with ‘alien’ connotations at the specific installation mentioned,” the report said.
What have I done?! My abomination of an idea of bridging my email and ActivityPub progresses. If you see this message, something is working! Comments replies are welcome as it's a good test of this system :) People keep saying ActivityPub is a lot like email. If it's so similar to email, could I use my email client to interact with the fediverse? Previously I did this by writing a SMTP interface to the Mastodon HTTP API. That worked. But as we probably know, the fediverse is not Mastodon; it's really ActivityPub. The real deal would be working with ActivityPub directly, not the Mastodon HTTP API. And that's now (mostly?) working! In shonky diagram form, sending looks like this: laptop --SMTP--> my_server --ActivityPub--> fediverse Replies look like this: fediverse --ActivityPub--> my_server --SMTP--> mailbox <--IMAP-- laptop my_server translates back and forth between ActivityPub messages and mail messages. For example given the message: Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:37:59 +1100 From: Oliver Lowe To: [email protected] Subject: test 2 test hello world! The following ActivityPub message is created: { "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "id":"https://apubtest2.srcbeat.com/outbox/1709703480070628170", "type":"Note", "name":"test 2", "to": ["https://aussie.zone/c/localtesting","https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"], "cc": ["https://aussie.zone/c/localtesting"], "published":"2024-03-06T16:37:59+11:00", "attributedTo":"https://apubtest2.srcbeat.com/actor.json", "content":"test hello world!", "mediaType":"text/markdown" } There's still a lot of bugs (of course) and unimplemented bits (of course). I can't call this a proper fediverse service yet. I'm going to roll with this for a bit and see how it holds up.
Darn it, you got me. I hadn’t thought about it more deeply, but now I’ll give it a few minutes.
So yeah, a lemmy UI to LKML would make the experience much better. Obviously the LKML serves two purposes: discussion and code review, for which the latter lemmy probably isn’t too well equipped, but it would help make it more approachable.
Probably to make it work there’d need to be some kind of listener. I imagine signing up to a mailinglist with an email address of the domain running your software would suffice. Incoming emails would then be converted to activitypub messages and sent to the lemmy server you control.
You’d have two classes of email addressed: list email addresses which map to lemmy communities and user email addresses which map to users on the lemmy server (which could also be remote users in the fediverse). The list email addresses are there to create posts in the lemmy community and populate existing lemmy posts (created in the mailinglist) with responses from the mailinglist (response = comment).
A user on lemmy on lemmy commenting on a post from a mailinglist would be automatically signed up to the mailinglist with a user email address that’s dynamically created (I think your email has to be signed up otherwise the mailinglist rejects it). Upon successful signup, the response would be sent using their email address to the maillinglist thread.
The other way around, a comment would show up on lemmy with email address and username of the person that responded on the mailinglist.
(10 minutes later) After writing it out, I’m not sure it’s what you’re doing and more like a bridge, but maybe it’ll inspire you. Who knows. There’s probably something I’m missing and probably this isn’t even what your intention was when you started out with this.
I’m a long-time contributor to the space, and have been here for over 15 years. I was on the Fediverse when it was literally one or two platforms, and I witnessed the whole thing grow and evolve. I’ve seen the entire thing take shape, and change with every subsequent wave of platform, user migration, and major pivot.
I also ran community management for one of the large-scale early projects here.
A huge motivating factor of mine has been to write about a nascent and evolving space that I’m passionate about, often because no one else has been writing about it. I grew my own publication, We Distribute, out of it, and it’s my responsibility to report on different aspects of what happens in the space. Sometimes, the news is ugly.
My personal blog at my domain is unrelated to that, and is more just random brain droppings based on whenever I feel like putting out personal thoughts based on my experiences. There’s nothing malicious about that.
Reports are auto forwarded without any anonymity. And yes, report retaliation bans happen from community mods.
Not just retaliation bans but also harassment and threats in DMs. Really community mods have no business being able to see who sends reports, only admins do, and even then, only admins on the homeserver of those reports, admins of remote instances should only get to know the instance it came from, nothing else.
Reports are sent to both admins and community mods, with no means of forwarding directly to admins. Community mods can snipe reports before admins see them.
I’ve also experienced problems with this on more than one occasion, mods can essentially protect bad faith users and their community from having action taken due to policy violations by resolving all reports without action. I’ve gotten around this by DMing admins directly (on Lemmy.world it can also be done by emailing [email protected]) but there should really be grandular options like on Mastodon, both for forwarding to community mods and also whether or not to forward to remote instances.
Domain blocks are always publicly visible.
Mod logs are always publicly visible in the public mod log.
I disagree with this, transparency is important because without it, it enables abusive moderation practices which are much more difficult to uncover or find out about, also domain blocks should be visible because it allows people to know which servers are federated and thus which instance they should pick. Without transparency we get the incredibly user-hostile shadow moderation that places like Reddit are known for.
For what it’s worth, if you post a story (for example) to the open internet – your blog, social media – and there is NOT a paywall or explicitly restricted access, many (if not all) publishers will consider that material previously published. That doesn’t mean it’s public domain at all, but it does recognize that the work is not private. Likewise, I’d consider any social media post being akin to posting a sign in my front yard. If someone does the work of driving by and taking pictures of the signs in my front lawn, that’s their right – unless I’m in a closed, gated community.
Then again, i see people thinking that they somehow “own” their Facebook feed, so …
GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code.::Thanks to a combination of sophisticated methodology and social engineering, this particular attack seems to be very difficult to stop.
A decentralized developer community is resilient against this sort of attack for the very reason GitHub is so vulnerable: size.
No, it’s not. Not in literally any way. Not 1%. Not 0.000000000000000001%. You don’t even get security by obscurity as a nebulous benefit because the core mechanisms are basically the same between instances.
No projects are being compromised. They’re being imitated and passed off as the real thing to the naive. You can just as easily do that on another server (including established ones by adding multiple domains to your scripts) when people expect to use thousands of different git hosts as you can on GitHub, except without the benefit of the scale of Microsoft’s expertise at handling this type of attack.
I’m all for federated git being the way forward. I’d love to see it grow into a reasonable option. But it has no benefit in any context against an attack like this.
<p>A new study from UCLA Health has illuminated the benefits of Kundalini yoga for older women at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The study, published in <em><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-02807-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Translational Psychiatry</a></em>, reveals that Kundalini yoga not only bolsters cognition and memory but also rejuvenates neural pathways, curtails the decline of brain matter, and reverses biomarkers associated with aging and inflammation.</p>
<p>These outcomes were not observed in a comparison group who received standard memory training exercises. This research represents a significant leap forward in our understanding of how holistic practices can counteract the risks associated with Alzheimer’s, particularly among women.</p>
<p>Alzheimer’s disease is a debilitating neurodegenerative condition that progressively erodes memory and cognitive functions. With no effective treatments to slow its progression, the focus has shifted towards prevention, especially in its early stages. Women, interestingly, are about twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s compared to men, a disparity attributed to factors such as longer life expectancy, hormonal changes during menopause, and genetics.</p>
<p>Kundalini yoga, a mind-body exercise integrating physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation, has emerged as a promising intervention. Its holistic approach aims to harmonize physiological and cognitive processes, making it a suitable candidate for enhancing cognitive health and aging gracefully. This led Helen Lavretsky and her team at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior to explore Kundalini yoga’s potential in early prevention of cognitive decline among postmenopausal women at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease.</p>
<p>Participants were recruited from a pool of women utilizing the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital’s services and through community outreach, with 79 individuals ultimately enrolling in the study. These women were at least 50 years old, postmenopausal, and self-reported subjective cognitive decline, alongside having one or more cardiovascular risk factors. They were then randomly assigned to one of two intervention groups: Kundalini yoga or memory enhancement training.</p>
<p>The Kundalini yoga group engaged in weekly, 60-minute sessions led by certified instructors for a duration of 12 weeks. These sessions comprised a series of exercises, including tuning in, warm-up, breathing techniques (Pranayama), Kirtan Kriya meditation, and a final resting pose, complemented by daily home practices.</p>
<p>The memory training group, in contrast, attended weekly group classes focused on teaching memory strategies, also for 12 weeks. This program emphasized verbal and visual association techniques, organizational strategies, and the development of memory habits, supported by homework assignments to reinforce learning.</p>
<p>The study employed a comprehensive suite of assessments to evaluate cognitive functions, subjective memory, mood, resilience, and quality of life at baseline, 12 weeks, and 24 weeks. Cognitive performance was measured using tests that assessed domains such as delayed recall and executive functioning. Subjective memory was evaluated through the Memory Functioning Questionnaire, while additional scales and inventories were used to assess secondary outcomes like depression, anxiety, stress, and health-related quality of life.</p>
<p>Blood samples were also taken to test for gene expression of aging markers and for molecules associated with inflammation, which are contributing factors to Alzheimer’s disease. A handful of patients were also assessed with MRIs to study changes in brain matter.</p>
<p>The researchers found that participants who engaged in Kundalini yoga experienced significant cognitive and neurobiological improvements, which were not observed in the comparison group that received standard memory enhancement training.</p>
<p>One of the key outcomes was the improvement in memory performance and subjective memory measures among the Kundalini yoga participants. These individuals reported a notable enhancement in the seriousness of forgetting, indicating a perceived improvement in their memory function. This finding is particularly significant as it suggests that Kundalini yoga could offer a meaningful intervention for individuals experiencing subjective cognitive decline, a precursor to more severe cognitive impairments.</p>
<p>However, it’s important to note that while Kundalini yoga participants saw improvements in subjective memory, they also experienced a reduction in delayed recall capabilities over the 24-week period, a finding not observed in the memory training group.</p>
<p>In addition to cognitive outcomes, the researchers found that Kundalini yoga was associated with the reversal of aging and inflammation-associated gene expression signatures. This suggests that the practice not only impacts cognitive functions directly but may also influence broader biological processes related to aging and neurodegeneration. Such findings are crucial for understanding how lifestyle interventions like yoga can mitigate the risk factors associated with Alzheimer’s disease and promote healthy brain aging.</p>
<p>“That is what yoga is good for — to reduce stress, to improve brain health, subjective memory performance and reduce inflammation and improve neuroplasticity,” Lavretsky said.</p>
<p>Moreover, the study highlighted the tolerability and feasibility of Kundalini yoga as an intervention for this population. The yoga group demonstrated high levels of adherence and minimal adverse effects, reinforcing the practice’s potential as a safe and effective strategy for enhancing cognitive health among older adults at risk of Alzheimer’s disease.</p>
<p>But no changes were observed in anxiety, depression, stress, or resilience among participants engaging in either Kundalini yoga or memory training exercises. Lavretsky suggested that the initial mental well-being of the participants could be a key factor behind this observation. Given that the study population was relatively healthy with no significant depression or anxiety at baseline, it stands to reason that the interventions might not lead to substantial improvements in these areas simply because there was less room for improvement.</p>
<p>Despite these promising findings, the researchers also acknowledged several limitations, including the modest sample size and the study’s relatively short duration. These factors may limit the generalizability of the results and the ability to draw definitive conclusions about the long-term effects of Kundalini yoga on cognitive health and Alzheimer’s prevention. Additionally, the study did not include a usual care control group, which could have provided a baseline for comparing the natural progression of cognitive decline in this population.</p>
<p>Lavretsky added that combining yoga and memory training could provide more comprehensive benefits to the cognition of older women. “Ideally, people should do both because they do train different parts of the brain and have different overall health effects,” she said. “Yoga has this anti-inflammatory, stress-reducing, anti-aging neuroplastic brain effect which would be complimentary to memory training.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-024-02807-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cognitive and immunological effects of yoga compared to memory training in older women at risk for alzheimer’s disease</a>,” was authored by Adrienne Grzenda, Prabha Siddarth, Michaela M. Milillo, Yesenia Aguilar-Faustino, Dharma S. Khalsa, and Helen Lavretsky.</p>
<p>New research published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811231224153"><em>Journal of Psychopharmacology</em></a> provides evidence that the drug MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, may have the unique ability to enhance emotional responses to positive (but not negative) social interactions. This insight sheds light on the potential of MDMA to influence social perception, opening new avenues for understanding and potentially treating conditions characterized by impaired social processing.</p>
<p>MDMA, or 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, is a psychoactive drug primarily known for its recreational use due to its unique effects on emotion, perception, and sense of social connection. Unlike traditional stimulants, MDMA is classified as an “empathogen,” meaning it promotes feelings of empathy, emotional warmth, and an increased willingness to socialize. Its pharmacological action is characterized by the release of neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, with a notable emphasis on serotonin.</p>
<p>Beyond its recreational popularity, MDMA has attracted attention from the medical community for its potential therapeutic benefits, particularly as an adjunct to psychotherapy for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health conditions.</p>
<p>The necessity for this study stems from the critical role of social processing in human mental health and the lack of effective pharmacological treatments for social processing impairments across various psychiatric disorders. Deficits in processing social feedback can significantly impact an individual’s ability to maintain healthy relationships and function effectively in society, contributing to the severity of conditions like autism, mood disorders, and schizophrenia.</p>
<p>“MDMA is known as a ‘prosocial’ compound, and there is accumulating evidence that it works to enhance psychotherapy in the treatment of PTSD,” said study author Anya Bershad, an assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA. “Yet little is known about how the drug actually affects the way individuals experience social interactions. We wanted to test the effects of the drug on one discrete component of the social interaction by asking the question, how does MDMA affect mood when individuals are explicitly told they are liked or disliked by another person?”</p>
<p>To investigate the effects of MDMA on social processing, Bershad and her colleagues conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial. Participants consisted of 36 healthy volunteers, aged 18 to 40, with previous MDMA use, ensuring some familiarity with the drug’s effects. This group underwent a thorough screening process, including psychiatric interviews and physical exams, to rule out current psychiatric disorders or serious medical conditions.</p>
<p>Over the course of the study, each participant attended four separate sessions, during which they completed a social feedback task after being administered a single dose of either a placebo, MDMA at one of two doses (0.75 mg/kg or 1.5 mg/kg), or methamphetamine (20 mg), in randomized order. This design allowed the researchers to compare the effects of different doses of MDMA against both a non-active placebo and an active stimulant drug, providing a clear picture of MDMA’s specific impacts on social processing.</p>
<p>The social feedback task, a central component of the study, was designed to simulate social interactions in a controlled laboratory setting. Participants initially created online profiles and selected profiles of others they were interested in forming a connection with, based on photographs and brief descriptions. During the drug sessions, they received feedback indicating whether the individuals they selected liked them (social acceptance) or did not like them (social rejection).</p>
<p>The researchers found that participants who received higher doses of MDMA reported significantly increased feelings of happiness and acceptance when receiving positive social feedback compared to those given a placebo. This enhancement of positive social emotions underscores MDMA’s potential to influence social interactions favorably, aligning with its empathogenic properties that promote feelings of closeness and empathy towards others.</p>
<p>“The important take-away from this study is that we’ve shown that MDMA helps people feel more positively about receiving social feedback,” Bershad told PsyPost. “This could be one way the drug acts to facilitate social connection and therapeutic rapport in the context of psychotherapy.”</p>
<p>Interestingly, Bershad and her colleagues did not observe a significant reduction in negative affective responses to social rejection with MDMA administration, which challenges some previous assumptions about the drug’s ability to dampen negative social emotions. This suggests that while MDMA can amplify positive social experiences, its impact on negative emotions in social contexts may be more nuanced or limited under certain conditions.</p>
<p>The comparison drug, methamphetamine, did not show significant effects on social emotional responses, highlighting the unique action of MDMA in the social domain. Unlike methamphetamine, which shares some stimulant properties with MDMA, the latter’s distinct impact on positive social feedback suggests a specific mechanism through which MDMA enhances social processing. This differentiation is crucial, pointing towards MDMA’s potential therapeutic applications that go beyond the general stimulant effects seen with other amphetamines.</p>
<p>“One important thing to keep in mind is that while our findings may have implications for the clinical use of MDMA, they also suggest a way in which the drug may make individuals particularly vulnerable,” Bershad noted. “Increasing positive mood in response to social feedback could facilitate therapeutic alliance on the one hand, but on the other it may put individuals at risk of being taken advantage of in certain social contexts.”</p>
<p>The study’s findings pave the way for future research to delve deeper into the mechanisms underlying MDMA’s prosocial effects and its potential integration into psychotherapeutic settings to improve social connectivity and emotional well-being.</p>
<p>“We hope to continue to study the specifics of how MDMA affects social perception and behavior and to use this information to understand which types of psychotherapeutic techniques may be most effectively used with the drug in clinical settings,” Bershad said.</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02698811231224153" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MDMA enhances positive affective responses to social feedback</a>,” was authored by Anya K. Bershad, David T. Hsu, and Harriet de Wit.</p>
As Bluesky begins to open up more and more, it’s felt more pertinent to try to wrap my head around it. To help in this, I decided to write out my rough understanding of it from its documentation, in the hopes that it may help others and myself with any corrections from misunderstandings....
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price::In its IPO documents, Reddit said the price and volume of its stock could “experience extreme volatility for reasons unrelated to our underlying business.”
We all love FOSS. Lately, many of us have expressed their disarray at hearing stories of maintainers quitting due to a variety of factors. One of these is financial....
Maybe I’m missing the point, but if you want to have union of maintainers/contributors, please go ahead, just be careful with assuming it can actually address the problem. You will never have any substantial percentage of maintainers. That’s kind of the main point of FLOSS: people do what they want to do, where they want to do.
If you want to collect data about what is used – with the goal of “not forgetting the little project with the library”, that’s also great but that’s going to be a lot of work and might be impossible to reflect. I can’t think about solution that would not be platform-specific.
Don’t get me wrong, uniting FLOSS developers along common goals, technology domains or philosophy, building communities and providing support systems is an absolute wonderful thing to do, even if you end up having what might feel like just a few projects.
<p>Have you ever felt that a political election not only tested your patience but also your faith? A recent study published in <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000449"><em>Psychology of Religion and Spirituality</em></a> examines this very question, revealing that the high stakes and polarized nature of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential elections had notable effects on individuals’ religious and spiritual struggles. The research suggests that the tumultuous atmosphere of these elections stirred significant religious and spiritual conflicts for many, indicating a profound intersection between political beliefs and spiritual well-being.</p>
<p>Prior studies have highlighted the intense emotions and societal divisions that can arise from political elections, with outcomes often evoking strong feelings of hope, anger, anxiety, or despair among the electorate. In their new study, researchers aimed to explore the specific impact of political elections on religious and spiritual (R/S) struggles.</p>
<p>“I wanted to extend our research on spiritual struggles into topics related to current events. In this study, my team and I wanted to understand whether and why U.S. adults might experience spiritual struggles in response to Presidential election results,” said study author <a href="https://psychsciences.case.edu/faculty/julie-exline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julie J. Exline</a>, a professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve University.</p>
<p>To conduct this investigation, the researchers utilized Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to recruit two separate cohorts of U.S. adults for surveys conducted after each election but before the inauguration of the president-elect. The 2016 portion of the study had 504 participants. For the 2020 election, the study included 618 participants. The surveys inquired about participants’ reactions to the election outcomes and their political and religious affiliations.</p>
<p>The study employed the Religious and Spiritual Struggles (RSS-14) scale to measure six domains of R/S struggle in response to the election results:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Divine Struggles</strong>: This domain involves conflicts or negative feelings toward God or a higher power. It includes feelings of anger, abandonment, or punishment by God, questioning God’s love or fairness, and struggles with understanding God’s presence in the face of suffering.</li>
<li><strong>Demonic Struggles</strong>: These struggles relate to perceptions of being tempted, attacked, or influenced by demonic forces or evil spirits. It encompasses fears of demonic possession or oppression and concerns about spiritual warfare.</li>
<li><strong>Interpersonal Struggles</strong>: This area covers conflicts with others about religious or spiritual beliefs and practices. It includes feeling judged, misunderstood, or rejected by a religious community, tensions with family or friends over religious differences, and negative experiences with religious leaders or institutions.</li>
<li><strong>Moral Struggles</strong>: Moral struggles involve internal conflicts about right and wrong, guilt over moral failings, and difficulties in living up to one’s moral or ethical standards. This can include wrestling with religious teachings on morality that conflict with personal beliefs or societal norms.</li>
<li><strong>Ultimate Meaning Struggles</strong>: These struggles pertain to questions about life’s purpose, the meaning of suffering, and existential doubts. Individuals may grapple with finding a sense of direction or meaning in life, especially in the face of adversity or life transitions.</li>
<li><strong>Doubt</strong>: This domain includes doubts about religious or spiritual beliefs, teachings, and practices. It involves questioning the existence of God or a higher power, the validity of religious texts, and the authenticity of one’s own or others’ religious experiences.</li>
</ol>
<p>The findings of the study indicated that presidential elections can indeed trigger or exacerbate R/S struggles among individuals. Participants reported a variety of R/S struggles related to the outcomes of the elections, with interpersonal struggles being the most commonly endorsed. This suggests that the divisive and polarizing nature of these elections not only affected societal and communal relationships but also deeply impacted individuals’ internal spiritual and moral landscapes.</p>
<p>The research highlighted specific predictors that were associated with increased R/S struggles. Notably, those who voted for the losing candidate in both elections reported experiencing more R/S struggles, indicating that the disappointment and distress of electoral defeat extended into the realm of personal religious and spiritual turmoil.</p>
<p>Other significant predictors of R/S struggle included negative reactions to the election outcomes, higher levels of religious engagement, political anger, and attributions of the election results to divine or demonic forces. These findings suggest that the way individuals interpret and emotionally respond to political events can profoundly influence their spiritual well-being.</p>
<p>“Many people experience spiritual struggles in their daily lives: These might include religious doubts, anger at religious people, moral challenges, feeling punished or disappointed by God, feeling tempted by the devil, or questioning whether life has any deeper meaning,” Exline told PsyPost. “This study, which focused on the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential elections, showed that election results can trigger spiritual struggles for some people.”</p>
<p>“In response to both elections, people reported more spiritual struggles when they were disappointed with election outcomes and had politically-focused anger at other people. Spiritual struggles were also greater for people who saw the devil or God playing some type of harmful role in the election results.”</p>
<p>Demographic factors also played a role in the intensity and nature of R/S struggles. The study found differences in R/S struggles based on religious affiliation, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. For instance, Christians and African American participants reported more R/S struggles compared to their non-religious and White counterparts, respectively. This underscores the complex ways in which identity factors intersect with political and spiritual experiences, potentially heightening vulnerability to R/S struggles for certain groups.</p>
<p>Interestingly, Exline and her colleagues found no overall difference in the level of R/S struggles between the two election years, despite the unique contexts and outcomes of each election. This suggests a consistent pattern of how divisive political climates can impact spiritual and religious experiences across different political cycles. However, the specific nature of these struggles varied, reflecting the changing political and social dynamics surrounding each election.</p>
<p>However, the study is not without its limitations. The cross-sectional nature of the study means it cannot definitively show how these struggles evolve over time.</p>
<p>“Although we had surveys from both 2016 and 2020, the surveys drew from two different groups of U.S. adults,” Exline said. “A longitudinal study, where we could survey the same group of people in response to multiple elections, would be ideal (though expensive and difficult). Also, these were convenience samples of U.S. adults who had Internet access. An important next step will be to apply these spiritual struggle ideas to political polarization in our country more broadly, vs. focusing only on election results.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-10715-001?doi=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Religious and Spiritual Struggles Around the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections</a>,” was authored by Julie J. Exline, Nick Stauner, Joshua A. Wilt, and Joshua B. Grubbs.</p>
So the moment a property breaks even, + makes “some profit”, you should no l onger need to pay for it? Only when people still “care”, in that case they should pay?
That’s not what I wrote, is it?
The problem with your idea here is that some movies/games/etc never make back the investment. That would mean that they would never run out of copyright if we did it that way. That some movies are duds also means that, on average, the rate of return on such investments is dragged down.
In a functioning market, the average ROI should be the same across the board. If something has a lower return, then people simply don’t invest in it. That’s clear, I hope. This means, that putting a cap on the profit that may be expected will reduce investments.
Obviously, the only returns that matter for this reasoning, are expected returns. Only the expected returns fund movies, etc., and that’s why the timeframe matters.
At this point, ideology (or philosophy) becomes important. One has to ask: What is property about?
There are different philosophical views around this subject, but I am really only concerned with the practical outcome. The political right tends to hold an expansive, absolute view of property rights, to the point of rejecting taxation as illegitimate. The original definition of the political right was as supporters of the monarchy. It makes sense that the right would morph into something that supports all kinds of heritable privilege or right. The anti-capitalistic right seems to have largely disappeared. They often don’t agree that intellectual property is property.
The left tends to hold more nuanced and pragmatic views. Property rights are balanced against other rights; the interests of other people and society at large. The US Constitution takes this view of copyrights and patents. [The United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
This latter view is, more or less, one to which I subscribe. Without copyright, there would be only public domain. Copyright integrates creative works into a capitalistic system by turning them into capital. Intellectual property enables people to make a profit with intellectual products. However, there is a clear limit to how much profit one may extract. One may only expect that profit, which actually incentivizes intellectual production. I actually hold the general view that all (commercial) property is only legitimate as long as it works beneficially for society.
So, I do not believe that anyone is entitled to windfall profits. I have published stuff on the web for my own reasons. Other people have found a new use for that by creating AI training datasets. I do not believe I have any moral justification to demand a share of their work.
I hope that clears it up.
Clearly you do not agree with this view. Obviously, you have some more absolutist view of intellectual property. I would appreciate it if you laid out your view of things. You don’t need to answer these question, I’m just putting them here to say what is unclear: How does one create or obtain intellectual property? What can be intellectual property and what are the limits? To what does this property entitle one?
Finally: How come that these threads bring out so much support for right wing views? Looking at other threads, I would have expected left wing views to dominate. Looking at the piracy community around the corner, I would have thought that even among the right, copyright abolitionist views would dominate here. What gives?
Training new models is already the domain of large actors only, simply due to the GPU requirements, which serve as a massive moat. That ship has sailed. There isn’t a single open source model, today, that wasn’t trained by a corporate entity first, and then only fined tuned by the community later.
<p>Have you ever wondered how your brain manages to switch gears when life suddenly changes the rules of the game? Researchers have now shed light on this very process, revealing that a key brain chemical plays a pivotal role in helping us adapt to new situations. By combining brain imaging techniques with a specially designed task, they found that dopamine, a brain chemical often associated with pleasure and reward, is also crucial in helping us learn from our mistakes and adjust our decisions accordingly.</p>
<p>The findings have been published in the scientific journal<em> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44358-w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nature Communications</a></em>.</p>
<p>Dopamine is a name that often pops up in conversations about happiness, motivation, and addiction. This brain chemical is a sort of messenger that transmits signals within the brain, affecting our mood, sleep, learning, concentration, and even our movement. But its role is far more complex than just making us feel good.</p>
<p>Dopamine is intricately involved in how we make decisions, especially in situations that require us to learn, unlearn, and relearn based on new information. The researchers embarked on this study to dive deeper into the mysteries of dopamine, motivated by the desire to understand how it influences our ability to adapt our decisions when circumstances change.</p>
<p>“I have a general interest in understanding what dopamine does in the human brain and what sorts of cognitive processes it supports,” said lead author Filip Grill, a postdoctoral researcher at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. “Dopamine is a mysterious molecule since it seems to be related to several behavioral domains including processing of motivational, cognitive, and motor functions.”</p>
<p>“The vast majority of research on how dopamine relates to behavior is done in rodents and non-human primates, since it is difficult to measure dopamine and especially dopamine-release in humans while we are actively engaged in some behavior. This kind of translation from animal to human is also something I am very interested in.</p>
<p>The study brought together 26 volunteers from the community, ensuring none had a history of neurological or psychiatric illness, drug or alcohol dependence, or any condition that would interfere with the brain imaging used in the research.</p>
<p>Participants engaged in a computer-based task while undergoing brain scans using two advanced techniques: positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This task was a reversal learning paradigm, a method used to explore how individuals adjust their decisions based on changing rewards.</p>
<p>The task was a game of guessing whether a hidden number was above or below five, with correct guesses rewarded and incorrect ones not. Unbeknownst to the participants, the rules for rewards changed during the task, creating periods of stability and volatility that mimicked real-life situations where the ‘right’ choice can suddenly become ‘wrong.’</p>
<p>The PET scans were used to detect changes in dopamine levels in the brain by measuring the binding of a radioactive compound that competes with dopamine for the same brain receptors. The fMRI scans, on the other hand, provided insight into brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow, offering a glimpse into which parts of the brain were working harder during different phases of the task.</p>
<p>The researchers observed significant findings through the PET scans, particularly in the striatum, a brain region known for its role in reward processing. They found that dopamine release increased in this area when participants faced the switch from stable to volatile rules, suggesting dopamine’s key role in signaling the need for a strategy change. This dopamine release correlated with the participants’ ability to adapt their decisions based on new information, with higher dopamine levels linked to quicker adjustment and better performance on the task.</p>
<p>“I think the general view of dopamine is that it is a kind of reward molecule but here we show that dopamine is also released when we learn from errors,” Grill told PsyPost. “Individuals that were very sensitive to their errors released more dopamine. However, these individuals were not necessarily best at the task. Instead, individuals that released a medium amount of dopamine had best performance.”</p>
<p>The fMRI data complemented these findings by showing increased brain activity in areas associated with attention and decision-making, especially after the rule change. This activity pattern suggests that the brain engages a network of regions to process unexpected outcomes and to adapt decisions accordingly.</p>
<p>“Seeing a rather strong brain–behavior correlation is quite surprising,” Grill remarked. “I hope I will get surprised again in the future.”</p>
<p>While the study’s results are compelling, they come with their share of limitations. For instance, the design of the brain imaging study meant that researchers could not compare their findings against a baseline of brain activity without the task, potentially overlooking how individual differences in dopamine levels might influence adaptability. Furthermore, the complexity of human behavior and brain chemistry means that dopamine is not the only player in this adaptive process. Future research could benefit from exploring how other neurotransmitters interact with dopamine and contribute to our ability to learn and adjust to new information.</p>
<p>The journey to fully understand the human brain’s adaptability is far from over. Future studies could explore how different levels of dopamine affect decision-making in various contexts, perhaps by incorporating tasks that simulate more complex real-life scenarios or by using pharmacological methods to alter dopamine levels directly. Another promising direction is to examine the role of dopamine in populations with neurological conditions that affect decision-making and learning, providing insights that could inform new therapeutic approaches.</p>
<p>“The study was conducted with healthy young adults,” Grill noted. “The long-term goal is to adapt the paradigm to investigate dopamine release during different behaviors in neurological and psychiatric disorders with abnormal dopamine signaling such as Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44358-w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dopamine release in human associative striatum during reversal learning</a>,” was authored by Filip Grill, Marc Guitart-Masip, Jarkko Johansson, Lars Stiernman, Jan Axelsson, Lars Nyberg, and Anna Rieckmann.</p>
Early Childhood Education - A community of ECE Educators or those interested in pre-school aged children's education & development (i.e. parents)
As the title says it’s a community based around early years learning and development, so from birth up to pre-school....
Behind the scenes, Biden has grown angry and anxious about re-election effort (www.nbcnews.com)
A call for better age-restriction and moderation/filtering on the Fediverse
Hey fellow users of the Fediverse, instance admins and platform developers. I’d like to see better means of handling adult content on the Fediverse. I’d like to spread a bit of awareness and request your opinions and comments....
Static site generator (SSG) alternative to Squarespace?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12989654...
Foundations of Amateur Radio: Technology at its finest ... (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)
By Onno VK6FLAB...
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Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024) (wedistribute.org)
Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.
My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog (jewy.blog)
cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/7623713...
Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity (wedistribute.org)
GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code. (www.pcgamer.com)
GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code.::Thanks to a combination of sophisticated methodology and social engineering, this particular attack seems to be very difficult to stop.
Attempting to parse Authenticated Transfer Protocol, or Atproto
As Bluesky begins to open up more and more, it’s felt more pertinent to try to wrap my head around it. To help in this, I decided to write out my rough understanding of it from its documentation, in the hopes that it may help others and myself with any corrections from misunderstandings....
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price (gizmodo.com)
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price::In its IPO documents, Reddit said the price and volume of its stock could “experience extreme volatility for reasons unrelated to our underlying business.”
Love FOSS and want to donate? Here's how we can do it
We all love FOSS. Lately, many of us have expressed their disarray at hearing stories of maintainers quitting due to a variety of factors. One of these is financial....
Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI::The AI community needs to take copyright lawsuits seriously.
The rise and fall of robots.txt: As unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. (www.theverge.com)