.world hasn't defederated from either of these two instances. They've blocked .world users from accessing those 3 communities from .world. You, as a .world user can still access any community across those 2 instances, aside from the 3 mentioned. Any users on those instances can still access .world communities.
I’ve seen the controversy where lemmy.world defederated from 2 piracy instances.
No they didn't. They blocked 3 communities from 2 different instances. All other communities on those instances are available to .world users and .world is still available to all users on those two instances.
Blocking individual communities is not the same thing as defederating from those instances.
I dunno man, when it comes right down to it, who are any of us really? Y'know?
I'm not saying they are or aren't. I'm simply saying that we all know the big media companies go after people at the drop of a hat. They recently tried to get reddit to expose the identities of people discussing piracy over there. To their credit reddit told them no and defended themselves legally. And that's the issue. The media companies can accuse anyone of anything if it even slightly smells like piracy and the target has to legally defend themselves. This is fine if you're a multibillion valued company. Not so fine if you're just some guy who just wanted to run a Lemmy instance out of his own pocket.
I don't know about you but engaging a lawyer and going to court to defend myself would be a massive financial drain. And to risk that on simply the hope that a court might find in my favour is far too big of a risk. Then add on all the unwanted public exposure, the internet notoriety etc. Fuck that.
That's a bit naive, knowing what we know about the sharks that run the large media corporations. For your average instance owner, it's not a question of being found not liable, it's the fact that you as an ordinary guy with an ordinary life and an ordinary income suddenly have to defend yourself legally with all the exposure and expense that entails, from day one.
Nothing. It's just 3 communities on dbzero that are blocked and as far as I know, they're only blocked on .world. There's no defederation so you as a user signed up to dbzero can still participate in any .world community and any .world user can still interact with communities on dbzero apart from the three named.
Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.
If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don't blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won't put them in the legal firing line.
Also, installation instructions that don't assume you're already an expert.
Are all their apps/backend open source? They have a github repo but it's not very clear what's open source or if its partial open source or what. I think it's just their mail app and windows desktop app.
If that is this case, they're asking their users to have a lot of trust in them.
Fantastic work. Now uninstalled the other clients I was trialling :)
Better that than making no difference at a club going nowhere.
If someone posts from Mastodon to Lemmy, then yeah, that content is now part of Lemmy.
They're only saying the quiet part out loud. Most christians don't believe in or act in accordance with what jesus was purported to have said and haven't done for a very long time.
Sure, there's always periodic swings, but overall the graph is heading steadily downward for xtians. Over 90% of US citizens identified as christians in the early 90's. It's now 63% and at the same time, atheists have risen from practically zero to nearly 30%.
Globally, the same pattern is seen and whilst they'll always be periodic swings up and down, overall the global trend is still going down and there's no real reason to suppose that will reverse.
Islam on the other hand, is growing. It'll probably outstrip xtianity worldwide sometime in the next 25-30 years and atheism will probably decline overall as Islam increases.
Crematoriums in the uk are non denominational. If youre religious, then a priest officiates. If not, a humanist or whatever.
I think you might be seeing American xtianity as representative of the whole. But even in America, a time will come in the next 60 years or so when xtians aren't anything but a minority. Services will change, things will move on. Its inevitable.
In the UK, Christianity is no longer the majority, falling below 50% of the country for the first time. Only 5% of those attend church.
In the US since 2007 Christians have dropped from 78% to 63% whilst atheism has gone from 16% to 29% of the population (https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/how-u-s-religious-composition-has-changed-in-recent-decades/)
xtians are in terminal decline already.
You might've noticed no posts by the bot today. The log did record an error and it seems that because lemmy.world has had no choice to go behind cloudflare until the script kiddies get bored with their ddos attack on the database, the bot isn't making it past the cloudflare challenge, which is not surprising.
I'll leave it up and running and hopefully .world can ease back as and when the ddos attacks retreat. Hopefully at that point the bot will resume normal activity.
Hi :)
A couple of days ago I set up a bot account on lemm.ee using the Lemmy Mega Bot code. This bot grabs an RSS feed and posts new items from it lemmy.world/c/metal - there's never more than 2 a day.
Today it failed to post anything at all. I checked the logs and there was an error I didn't fully understand so I talked to the author of the script. They suggested that this could be happening if .world had set up a Cloudflare challenge script (due to the ddos attacks), so I'd just like to confirm if that is the case and .world is using a Cloudflare challenge?
Thanks!
We tasked the Netherlands based security firm Radically Open Security (RoS) with performing the third audit towards our VPN infrastructure.
"RoS discovered a number of new findings, and we would like to thank them for their thorough and detailed report. They stated , amongst other things that: that whilst they found some issues, that: “The Mullvad VPN relays which were the subject of this test showed a mature architecture…” and “During the test we found no logging of user activity data..”
I was thinking of creating a bot that took the RSS feed of album reviews from the Angry Metal Guy site and posted new album reviews to this Community. The site seems to post one or two a day on average.
But obviously, I'd like to hear people's thoughts on this idea. Not everyone loves bots so I'd like to gauge community reaction before I just go ahead on do it.
EDIT: Upvotes and favourable comments are a good sign so I've created it. I did a dry run to store all the historical reviews so everything the bot posts now should be brand new. This also means you might not see a new post for the next 24hrs depending on when AMG next update.
If it misbehaves let me know! And if it's awful or annoying I can easily disable it.
from the album Зямля Пад Чорнымі Крыламі: Кроў (The Land Under The Black Wings: Blood)
Dymna Lotva are a Belarusian band who had to flee their homeland following persecution from the pro-Putin gvmt. They're currently based in Poland. Their music is about the attacks on their homeland by extremists.
Off their just announced new album 'This Heathen Land' out in October.
Newark Local Council (Newark is in Nottinghamshire) has been a Tory stronghold for a long time and the local council meetings there were always started with a christian prayer, despite not all the councillors and certainly not all their constituents, or even a majority of them, being christian.
In the recent local elections, in Newark as in most of the UK, the Tories got absolutely rinsed and dropped from holding 29 out of 39 seats to 14.
In a mark of progress and recognition that the majority of people in the UK are not christians and holding prayers before meetings designed to serve the public is, at best, unrepresentative, the new majority leaders have scrapped the prayer requirement, saying:
>“...[C]ouncillors will now be asked to spend a moment before the full council meetings in contemplation of the business of the meeting, or other matters from the wider community which may impact on our residents. It is felt that this being a replacement for pre-meeting prayers demonstrates the way in which the council wishes to work to be inclusive of, and truly representative of, all our communities.”
Newark are now the third Council to do this, along with the Isle Of Wight Council and Congleton Town Council.
This is a good step forward and I hope more Councils start being reflective of the communities they've been elected to serve.
Bonden the champion pugilist? Davies who once beat up a bear? Padeen who breaks limbs for fun?
Quite a few people over the years, whilst fully accepting that I was an atheist, were puzzled as to why I extended that to Satanism. There's a variety of reasons for me. Firstly, whilst I'm not interested in theistic religion, I do like the 'religion' part of that phrase. The word 'religions' Latin root word is religiō which means an individual virtue of worship in mundane contexts; never as doctrine, practice, or actual source of knowledge. The ancient Roman's used it not in the context of a relation towards gods, but as a range of general emotions which arose from heightened attention. So to me a religion is a personal thing, practiced by an individual or as part of a group that concentrates on the self and the realities of life. No gods necessary. That way of seeing religion fits in very well with atheistic Satanism, which is comprised of a lot of fiercely individual people who in this one aspect of their lives come together.
I also don't have much time for theistic religions, particularly the 'big 3' Abrahamic ones (Islam, Christianity and Judaism). Learning about them as a child (In the UK, state schools are legally mandated to have Christian content/worship every day) it appalled me the amount of logical gymnastics people used to justify the hate and cruelties I saw exhibited in their religion in the name of what I saw as a petty, vainglorious, needy child of a diety. By the age of about 8 I knew I was an atheist but I also resented the fact I and my peers were repeatedly indoctrinated in this mess of contradictory, violent, difference-hating theism.
But at the same time, I also knew I quite liked the idea of community that an organised religion could offer. I just didn't know what my community was. Then when I was around 11 years old, I read John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost and I read these lines;
>From their own mouths. All is not theirs it seems; One fatal tree there stands, of Knowledge called, Forbidden them to taste. Knowledge forbidden! Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? can it be sin to know? Can it be death? and do they only stand By ignorance? is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? Oh, fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin! Hence I will excite their minds With more desire to know, and to reject Envious commands, invented with design To keep them low, whom knowledge might exalt Equal with Gods. Aspiring to be such, They taste and die: what likelier can ensue?
It is Lucifer who speaks these lines. In Milton's two pronged tale of the Fall of Satan and the Fall of Humanity, Satan learns of Adam and Eve and resolves to destroy them via knowledge in order to have a measure of revenge on god. Milton was a product of his time and wrote his epic as a cautionary tale but when I read those lines I saw:
>Knowledge forbidden! Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? can it be sin to know? Can it be death? and do they only stand By ignorance? is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? ... Hence I will excite their minds With more desire to know, and to reject Envious commands, invented with design To keep them low, whom knowledge might exalt
And I thought, 'He's right! Why would a god make knowledge death? A sin?' I agreed with Milton's Satan that this was an envious command, made to keep humanity low. So now I had both words to put to my feelings and ideas and also a (literary but obviously non existent) figure to assign them too. Milton's Satan embodied that idea of Adversary, someone who stands against. And Milton's Satan didn't stand silently, he offered humanity knowledge, or at least knowledge of how to gain knowledge. Humanity by and large values knowledge. It's seeking after knowledge that has given us advancements (and, yes, detriments too) that have given us the potential and ability to live longer, be healthier, find out things about the Universe we live in. Milton's Satan, it seemed to me, gave us nothing less than the desire to pursue science, whereas god wanted us to stone people to death that didn't worship him and only him.
So, from that point on, I was both an atheist in the sense that I don't believe in gods, demons, ghosts or monsters but also a Satanist in order to not only passively not believe but also to be openly adversarial to beliefs that oppress people. For a very long time, I genuinely thought I was the only person who had this mix of atheism and Satanism but then I first found The Satanic Temple and then, when I found out just how problematic their leadership is, I walked away and then I eventually found The Global Order Of Satan, where there aren't awful people and the desire to effect change and help both ourselves as individuals and stand with people being oppressed is the core of our religion.
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A poll by YouGov(educational data starts on page 15) shows that Religious Education (RE) is seen as either 'not very important' or 'not important at all' by 58% of British people.
In the UK, RE is a mandatory subject and it's clear most people see it as increasingly irrelevant. Most of us who suffered through these lessons know they're not really about educating someone about religion, they're stealth christianity lessons. I can't recall one RE lesson as child where we discussed any other religion or the basis for religion at all.
I personally wouldn't mind RE if it were not just christian indoctrination under the guise of education. If pupils were taught about a wide range of religions and non-religions and non-theistic religions. At least it would be interesting then.
The vast majority of the money the Order generates, whether through the Shop or donations goes to good causes in one way or another. For example, the Daily Mail newspaper recently violated the copyright of our UK Order, which they settled. We regifted the money in it's entirety to MermaidsUK (one of the oldest Trans supporting charities in the UK) and The Sophie Lancaster Foundation (a charity tackling hate crimes in the UK) so if you buy something from us, it will go towards something good for real people in difficult situations. No Order members take any form of reimbursement or salary.
Our official site has an online shop which ships products all over the world (including The Vatican of course), so if you want to let people know how you feel about faith based arguments, or be open about your allegiance to Lilith or greet someone Satanically or annoy the locals with a well placed sticker then we have you covered :)
And your doggo too.
Alt text for image: A small dog curled up on a blanket wearing a wooly hat branded with the Sigil of Lilith.
Theyre coming to my area later this year apparently. I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on the quality of service?
Also, the Linksys router they provide - can you manage your own DNS? Their documentation isn't clear.
Cheers :)
I'm fairly certain that I was not the only person in the world who thought to himself, "Did they just yoink the entire Internet and bundle it together
From the article:
"I know for a fact that Wikipedia operates under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which explicitly states that if you're going to use the data, you must give attribution. As far as search engines go, they can get away with it because linking back to a Wikipedia article on the same page as the search results is considered attribution.
But in the case of Brave, not only are they disregarding the license - they're also charging money for the data and then giving third parties "rights" to that data."
