Aral Balkan

“I should own every house and everyone should rent from me. PS. I stole all the furniture.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization

#BigTech #rentiers #AI

RE: https://mas.to/@aljazeera_gotgrip/117528802269973042

“Why do they hate us?”

It must be your fucking freedom that they’re jealous of. Can’t think of any other fucking reason, can you?

I’m not one for celebrity blah blah but really sad to hear of Patrick Stewart’s passing – he seemed to be a genuinely lovely human being :(

RE: https://mastox.eu/@FranceskAlbs/117524756608642411

Odd, Google seems like such an ethical company otherwise.

Can we just lock these dickheads in a room and give them all guns?

https://fortune.com/2026/10/22/palmer-luckey-dire-wolfe-billionaire-lamm-warhound-200-million-dogs-cloned/

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/117495666124027674

Hey

, when you find a moment from selling us out to US Big Tech and violating our fundamental rights, maybe take a look at this? I hear Temu has cheap spines you can order if you need any.

Hey,

, fuck you too.

On Wednesday, EU Member States approved a change to the GDPR that would put the profit-making interests of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX over European's fundamental right to data protection. According to the approved text, processing personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be lawful. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens “in the context” of AI. Schrems: “Under the agreed text, the profits of AI companies would typically trump European’s fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans.”

https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-approve-digital-expropriation-europeans-ai-companies

#privacy #humanRights #EU #BigTech #corporatocracy #fascism

“Not all Israelis”

“Only democracy in the Middle East”

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/14/do-any-of-these-israeli-candidates-support-a-palestinian-state

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #StopIsrael #BDS #StopTheGenocide #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #FreePalestine

RE: https://mas.to/@jschwart/117485401994854647

Excellent point.

So all you static site folks are running the absolute latest nginx, right?

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4237420/f5-rushes-out-emergency-nginx-patches-for-three-critical-flaws.html

The problem isn’t this technology or that technology, people, the problem is capitalism. The problem is authoritarianism. The problem is a system of normalised hierarchy and privilege.

Those who ignore the plight of the Palestinians today are destined to be the Palestinians of tomorrow.

If you don’t think you’ll be next, you’re living in a privilege-fuelled fantasy world. Your inaction is showing them exactly what they can get away with when they finally turn their attention on you.

You have to be a bit of an idiot to report

as a “scam” to me but, then again, no one said genocide-loving Zionists were smart. Evil, yes. Smart? Not so much.

“The order to restrict Ukraine’s military-grade Starshield satellite communications system came directly from inside the White House, according to a Reuters investigation published Thursday, Oct. 15, revealing that Washington moved to limit technology essential to Ukraine’s battlefield operations and defense against Russian drones.”

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/87219

Hey folks,

has received an offer from University College Birmingham and is trying to find someone from the admissions team or an academic member of staff who could advise her on her situation, particularly regarding the UK government’s requirements for evacuating students from Gaza and whether the university could offer any flexibility with the financial deadlines she’s been given.

Any of you know anyone there who can help?

#UK #UniversityCollegeBirmingham #Birmingham #Gaza #Palestine #university

Every country that’s a member of the ICC should be preparing joint sanctions against the US right now. https://idf.social/@arjen/117416255209101662

“‘We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,’ Rubio said in a video address posted to social media. ‘The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC.’”

https://apnews.com/article/us-icc-trump-rubio-4ea3555403e3c695d8f81dc473515d9b

You know guys, courts are just one way of seeking justice. There are others. You keep dismantling the peaceful ones and you see what happens, you fascist pieces of shit.

#unitedStates #fascism #internationalLaw #ICC

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117413272070980330

The Onion to Reality Pipeline is now basically just a washer.

Of all the cuntish things you can do as a web developer (and believe me, there are too many to count), putting your fucking cookie notice under what appears to be an “Accessibility Settings” popup has to take the cake.

#deceptiveDesign #web

The coloniser doesn’t get to determine the bounds of acceptable resistance of the colonised.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/117401551466729243

Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains!

https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

#WebNumbers #SmallWeb #SmallTech #decentralisation #DNS #ICAAN #gTLD

If everything that’s made with it is free of copyright and available as free and open source. Not just the model weights; all of it. So Antrophic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, etc., are forced to release all their software as free software.

In other words, if we get rid of copyright altogether for everyone and all tech and all information enters the commons. Of course, that would also take implementing universal basic income, universal healthcare, housing, etc. (i.e., a proper social safety net).

(You’ll never legislate for anything remotely approaching that. You’re just shilling for Big Tech. And no matter what anyone says, you’re going to do what’s in your neoliberal interests, like always. Like you’re doing with Chat Control.) https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117381410942959608

There are infinitely many ways to be confidently wrong on a subject.

Tech bros are like “I built this!”

Dude, you didn’t build diddly.

The labour your capital captured built it; you just took credit and made sure the resulting work was kept out of the commons. The only thing you did was enclose human potential to benefit the few instead of the many.

This is what capitalists do: they reduce human potential into a resource to be farmed within a zero-sum game, thus stealing from all the possible other futures of humanity.

RE: https://mastox.eu/@mehdirhasan/117363513888883505

Put that motherfucker in the middle of the corpses of the 20,000 murdered Palestinian children and see if he can make a determination then.

“American Jews’ continued support for Israel is very bad for Jews. We must wake up. … Israel’s character is plain: it is a militarist ethno-state, not a democracy. And its only answer to its fundamental problem — what does a Jewish state do with the indigenous Palestinian population? — is to entrench apartheid and ethnic cleansing, passing laws that give Jews greater rights. And waging endless wars with those who resist. … My community in its official dimension has demanded that politicians and media figures accept the slaughter of 20,000 children … For three generations, my community — one of the most liberal, privileged, educated demographics in the U.S.— has enforced foreign-policy and cultural orthodoxy on Israel by way of the Israel lobby. “We became part of what is perhaps the most effective lobbying and fund-raising effort in the history of democracy,” as Dershowitz wrote. You were an antisemite if you supported Palestinian human rights. You shut up about Israeli massacres or you lost your career in journalism or the arts. You got canceled like Jimmy Carter for calling apartheid apartheid. … This is a Jewish crisis because Jewish communal support for a pariah state could make pariahs of Jews. … Thankfully, elements of the Jewish community are fighting back. They call for universal human rights and adherence to international law, not “Jewish sovereignty.” … We are winning over more Jews day by day for a simple reason. People recognize Israel’s monstrous behavior.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/american-jews-continued-support-for-israel-is-very-bad-for-jews-we-must-wake-up/

#israel #usa #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117316639240506131

Hey folks, looks like I won’t be making it to Dark Prague tomorrow, as planned.

There was a misunderstanding about flights and accommodation and we haven’t been able to get it sorted.

I guess the good thing is that I have a new talk ready and waiting for the next conference I’m speaking at :)

Was really looking forward to it but, Small Technology Foundation being a tiny not-for-profit, we really can’t afford to be out of pocket for speaking at events. (Any honorariums we get for speaking at events go to support our work. I sometimes waive mine for tiny community events but for conferences with sponsors and budgets, this is one way that you can support our work while getting an inspiring talk about an alternate tech future that embraces human rights and democracy.)

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #DarkPrague #speaking #conferences

Web developers being cunts, exhibit number 3,928,452.

#deceptiveDesign

Oh for fuck’s sake, people!

Capitalism is an extinction threat. Corporations are an extinction threat. Militarism and religious lunacy are existential threats. Tech in the hands of, created for the purposes of, and being employed for the benefit of these institutions is an existential threat.

No, the fancy autocomplete built on stolen labour isn’t going to bring about the end of the human race. But while your attention is being misdirected there, all those other things just might. Both directly and via proxy through habitat loss. And quite possibly with the help of aforementioned fancy autocomplete.

(Don’t worry, extinction is unlikely. We’re only talking about billions dead, possibly the end of civilisation, and a very different, much harder, and much less comfortable existence for almost everyone. So, yeah, not that bad, right?) https://noc.social/@GeraldKutney/117350818254836765

Just remember, when it all comes crashing down, that it wasn’t that we didn’t know; it was that we didn’t care.

We’re at the “evil is good, actually” stage of capitalism.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/rakVcO7hfT

#capitalism #fascism #BigTech

RE: https://todon.eu/@faab64/117345027833012641

“Only democracy in the Middle East”, ladies and gentlemen.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #BDS #FreePalestine

👏 👏 👏 This.

https://www.reddit.com/r/coybig/s/8aqDxfj7NP

RE: https://mastodon.social/@delta_fsociety/117342486065905210

“How is it a genocide if their population is growing?” asks the totally normal, definitely not genocidal Zionist.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #mastodon #fediverse #hasbara #zionism #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

German “antifascism”

#germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #ICJ #Palestine #Gaza #FuckGermany #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ron_swanson/117245613984042495

Ah, Germany… once a nation of genocide, always a nation of genocide, apparently.

#germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #ICJ #Palestine #Gaza #FuckGermany #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Ireland: We support Palestine.

World: Enough to forego a football match?

Ireland: Now let’s not go crazy here.

All words. No action. Sounds about right.

“As Benjamin Netanyahu boomed his tirade to the United Nations General Assembly, there were many things you could hear.

Lies, obviously. Hatred, as you’d expect. But something else: the fall of the West. As an Israeli prime minister evading an arrest warrant took to the podium, a walkout organised by the Palestinian delegation began. Every country involved belonged to the Global South.”

https://archive.is/20260926051556/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/26583834.benjamin-netanyahus-un-speech-lays-bare-wests-moral-collapse/

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117325356932250166

So, when I call them “People Farmers”…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/117330299030931528

Fuckers arresting the wrong people. Because fuckers.

Without privacy, we are property.

#privacy #humanRights

“Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage.”

I’m gonna need a smaller fucking violin.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/israel-water-shortages-destruction-gaza-treatment-plants-pollution-sanitation-crisis

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Flying to the Czech Republic next week to speak at Dark Prague.

If you’re going, do come by and say hi (and ask for a Kitten sticker) :)

https://dark.events/events/prague/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #DarkPrague #speaking #conferences

Quoting a billionaire on social issues is like quoting a malignant tumour on cancer.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/117292076738613718

Baron Watson of Wyre Forest joining Palantir, you say?

To think, this cunt was fashioning himself as a defender of human rights in technology.

You might be seeing in “news outlets” that Robert Kraft will be donating to Gaza.

It’s what we used to call “a lie”.

Not sure what the cool kids call it today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Macklemore/s/nQAsFAhFHO

#israel #edSheeran #robertKraft #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Macklemore #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #BDS #FreePalestine

RE: https://front-end.social/@hdv/117285970784191758

An idea to kick things off:

Expel all surveillance capitalists from the W3C.

Here are some off the top of my head that are actively working with authoritarian regimes to destroy human rights and democracy to start you off with:

• Amazon • Oracle • Meta • Google • Microsoft • IBM • Softbank

Thoughts?

#W3C #humanRights

“I’m apolitical” = “I’m a privileged little asshole who doesn’t give a shit about anyone less fortunate than me because fuck you, I got mine.”

“A group of pro-Israel lawyers is urging the UK government to label Doctors Without Borders a terrorist organisation over its work in Gaza.”

https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/16/uk-lawyers-for-israel-want-doctors-without-borders-branded-a-terror-group/

Zionists are evil. It’s just that simple. There’s no nuance to this. And there’s no nuance to genocide.

You either oppose these evil fuckers or you’re one of them. There is no middle ground. Pick your side and accept the consequences (and yes, not picking a side is picking a side).

#israel #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #DoctorsWithoutBorders #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you don’t have to be a saint to oppose injustice.

You can be a regular, everyday person – flaws and all – and still oppose genocide.

It’s amazing to me that a rapist, war criminal paedophile is president of the US and we’re ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths and yet anyone who opposes fascism has to have never made a mistake their entire lives or it’s a gotcha moment.

You can fuck right off with that bullshit.

A man is repeatedly kicking a small child in the street.

Fascist: urges the man on; maybe lands a few kicks themself.

Apolitical/centrist: is neutral, watches; doesn’t take sides.

Antifascist: punches the man in the face until he stops kicking the child.

Just so you understand the differences.

Fuck Ed Sheeran, fuck Pink, fuck Robert Kraft/Kraft Group – #BDS. Thank you, Macklemore, and Free Palestine!

“Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don’t lose sight of that. … Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words “Free Palestine” and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn’t get past his public facing, “I don’t take sides.”

And I get why people don’t. Taking a side can cost you. Money, brand deals, sponsorships, festivals, private shows, relationships and access. I’ve lost all of those things. But there is no neutral position between the oppressor and the oppressed. When one side has the bombs and bottomless financial and military support from America, refusing to take a side doesn’t leave you in the middle.

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I’m sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, “Free Palestine” becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that’s why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying “Free Palestine” gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn’t protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn’t the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn’t disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there’s a phrase in Arabic:

لا شكر على واجب

“La shukra ala wajeb.” There is no thanks for a duty.

That stayed with me. Because that’s what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn’t, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people being displaced, starved and killed while the world debates which words we are allowed to use to describe it, how those words make us feel, and whether our discomfort matters more than the people living through a genocide.

I didn’t need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say.

Free Palestine.

But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I’ve ever been on.”

– Macklemore

#israel #EdSheeran #Pink #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #Macklemore

What the fuck? Vimeo telling me I need to submit to age verification to keep using my account that I pay for?

What stratospheric levels of bullshit is this?

Fuck you, Vimeo. As painful as it will be, you just lost a customer. Fuckers.

“The only democracy in the Middle East.”

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/israels-minister-culture-revoke-citizenships-naza-directors-1236860821/

#NAZA #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine

“The IDF listens to all Gazan phones, so they know where people are and whether children are home. They know who’s in an apartment just before the missiles hit, and they hear the screams after the explosions. They even coined a phrase – ‘Where’s Daddy?’ – to describe listening in on a child’s phone, determining when their father will be home, and then sending a missile to kill them all. As one solider matter-of-factly says about a 12-year-old, ‘You hack her phone, and then you kill her.’”

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/naza-review-1236857356/

#israel #genocide #Gaza #NAZA

Gaza Verified verifies, through video calls, that people are from Gaza and facing genocide.

Why do you think they’re forced to ask for help?

I’ll tell you:

Because the rest of the world has failed in its moral duty to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide and help them.

Because the US (#1 arms dealer to Israel) and Germany (#2 arms dealer to Israel) and other “Western” countries are complicit in this genocide.

So maybe think about that. And then think about what you just said.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #USA #Germany #EU #complicity #Gaza #Palestine #fediverse #mastodon #GazaVerified #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

https://pandas.social/@panda/117262389183713472

RE: https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/117258015385159892

These useful idiots are playing straight into the hands of fascists and Big Tech.

“But the market”

– Famous last words, Homo Sapiens

Just cancelled my

subscription after 7 years because while they’re free to fund someone (DHH) who wants to ethnically cleanse Europe (https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1password-funds-ethnic-cleansing/), I’m also free to not have my money be used for that.

If you’re on macOS/iOS, here’s how I migrated without losing any data and without any noticeable degradation in my experience¹.

TL;DR: To migrate from 1Password, I used StrongBox to create my KeePass Database file without losing any of my data and I’m going to be using KeePassium to manage it and, separately, heylogin for authenticating with web sites in the browser.

Read on for detailed instructions:

1. Export your data from 1Password8 in 1Password Unencrypted Export (.1pux) format: https://support.1password.com/export/?mac

Note that this is unencrypted. DO NOT store this file in your iCloud Drive, Dropbox, etc., and remember to delete it when you’re done with the import.²

(I put it in my home folder.)

2. Download StrongBox, a native macOS client for KeePass Database files: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/strongbox-password-manager/id897283731

3. Launch StrongBox and select File → Import → 1Password → Import 1Pux and select the file you exported from 1Password.

4. Choose a strong password for your database and save the file. This is where you can save it to iCloud Drive to have your encrypted database synced between your Mac, iPhone, etc.

You could leave it there and use StrongBox but I wouldn’t recommend it. It has the best importer so that’s why I used it but the app is owned by Applause Group, which is VC-funded so it will enshittify.

The good news is that once you’ve exported your data from 1password and have your KeePass Database, it’s yours. You can use different apps to edit it, provide autofill, etc.

One of those apps is KeePassium (https://keepassium.com/) by an independent developer (Dr. Andrei Popleteev). So, to continue our guide:

5. Download KeePassium (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keepassium-keepass-passwords/id1435127111) and open your database using that client and uninstall the VC-funded StrongBox once you’re done with the initial import).

Again, you can stop here.

But, since I had the export, I thought I’d also try heylogin – a zero-password password manager only for logins that’s based in the EU: https://heylogin.app/

They have a novel solution that integrates really well with browsers and has been working great for me so far (in the past hour) :)

So, there you have it: I had seven years of data in 1Password (actually, likely far more as I was using it before it was a subscription) and I was able to migrate away in about ten minutes. (It’s taken me longer to write this.) You don’t have to stay locked in if you don’t agree with their ethics.

Good luck! :)

(Remember to write a note and tell them why you’re cancelling and to share your own experiences in this thread.)

¹ After you import your data, go through it and check that you have everything.

² Actually delete it. Command+Backspace then right-click the Trash and Empty Bin.

#1Password #OnePassword #password #passwordManager #DHH #fascism #EU #Europe #ethnicCleansing

The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.

Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.

The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.

#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117217788169794641

You want heroes? You won’t find them in Marvel films. These people are true heroes.

Bravely sailing in to the heart of a genocide knowing that previous attempts have faced rape and torture at the hands of Israeli barbarians.

Land of the free to shut the fuck up.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/israel-boycott-university-ban-bill

RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulmurphy_td/117206338979769041

If you’re on local Facebook/WhatsApp groups in #ireland, please spread this. (I’ve neither so I can’t.) Let’s make a showing they can’t ignore.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117198356684713169

“The point is that judges like Johnson and Plaschkes – faithful servants not of justice but of the British state – know that no jury will convict activists trying to to stop a genocide if it is framed in those terms. So these judges must rig these trials to keep the jury as ignorant as possible of the relevant context: that the British state is persecuting peace activists for embarrassing it over its collusion in genocide.”

What if I were to tell you that Trump could knock any (or all) of over 20 million¹ European web sites off the Web tomorrow by picking up the phone to one US organisation: Let’s Encrypt.

We desperately need an independent, not-for-profit ACME provider in the EU paid for by our taxes.

CC

#sovereignty

¹ This is just based on one firm’s analytics (https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/LetsEncrypt/EUROPE). Others put LE use at 50-60% of all web sites.

#TLS #web #EU #tech #sovereignty #US #fascism

Barbarians.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsSource/s/rcuA2s2VLP

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #WestBank #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Oh, great. Just looked at Hetzner’s new pricing for VPS servers:

CPX22 (dedicated vCPU): €7.99 → €19.49 (+143.8%)

So that’s fun. I guess one way to ensure the Small Web doesn’t happen is to make it prohibitively expensive for people to have their own servers.

(Before anyone mentions it, prices of single-board computers are also increasing and shipping hardware is an even bigger challenge.)

If anyone knows cheaper EU-based hosts, please leave a comment.

It’s so much fun to constantly have the rug pulled out from under you while you’re trying to make progress.

I am seeing reports of a small number of #GazaVerified accounts hounding people who have donated in the past with posts at the rate of “one every few minutes”.

This has to stop.

If you’re doing this, your servers will suspend your accounts and we will not step in to help nor will we reverify a new account.

This is harming everyone on #GazaVerified and the reputation of Palestinians in general and we won’t be tolerating it.

And the people who sympathise with the cause and have donated in the past do not deserve to be harassed in this way.

Please stop.

#Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse

The EU has a narrow window in which it can come out – in word and deed – as unapologetically anti-fascist and, in no uncertain terms, make it clear that we will not kowtow to a fascist US.

There will be repercussions but I fear the alternative will be far, far worse.

Are you listening,

? We’re not just talking about Euros and cents here. Can you understand what’s truly at stake?

#US #fascism #EU #antifascism #humanRights #democracy

One US company – Digital Identity, Inc. – controls 271 TLDs (~42% of all TLDs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital

This is fine.

It’s not.

And that’s why the Small Web will be using Web Numbers.

https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

And you should seriously be thinking about this and at least have a contingency plan given what happened this week with the fascist US government designating Autistici/Inventati – an anti-fascist Italian .org providing internet support to activists – as terrorists, sanctioning them, and knocking them off the Internet.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/u-s-designates-palestine-action-masar-badil-and-autistici-inventati-as-terrorist-groups/

If you’re serious about sovereignty,

, you should be at DEFCON 1. And if your sovereignty plans don’t include decentralisation across the board, we are well and truly fucked.

This doesn’t just concern domains. If you’re an anti-fascist or anti-genocide org or group, the fascist US government can designate you a terrorist group and sanction you thereby cutting you off from banking, hosting, and almost all other infrastructure providers with zero due process in the EU.

PS. In case you’re wondering, this is the full list of TLDs controlled by Digital Identity, Inc.:

Business • .limited • .ltd • .management • .network • .partners • .sarl • .services • .solutions • .ventures • .support • .associates • .business • .careers • .center • .consulting • .company • .enterprises • .gmbh (company with limited liability, German legal entity) • .group • .industries • .international • .企业 (enterprise)

Education • .academy • .church • .education • .institute • .mba • .school • .schule (school) • .university • .degree

Entertainment • .bingo • .bet • .casino • .dating • .dog • .events • .games • .movie • .lotto • .show • .singles • .theater • .actor • .band • .dance • .live • .poker • .rocks • .studio • .video • .游戏 (games) • .娱乐 (entertainment)

Financial • .accountants • .capital • .cash • .claims • .credit • .creditcard • .estate • .exchange • .finance • .financial • .fund • .global • .holdings • .insure • .investments • .llc • .loans • .money • .report • .tax

Fun Domains • .cool • .exposed • .fail • .black • .red • .gripe • .jetzt (now in German) • .ninja • .blue • .pink • .wtf (WTF means usually "what the fuck" in internet slang) • .life • .green • .pet

Healthcare • .care • .clinic • .dental • .dentist • .doctor • .healthcare • .hospital • .rehab • .rip • .surgery • .vet • .vision

Home and Construction • .plumbing • .lighting • .repair • .tools • .cleaning • .builders • .construction • .contractors • .works • .glass • .parts • .pro • .supplies • .supply • .tires

Legal • .legal • .attorney • .lawyer

News and Information • .bio • .chat • .directory • .fyi (for your information) • .info • .memorial • .tips • .reviews • .news • .media • .today

Photography • .camera • .equipment • .gallery • .graphics • .photography • .photos • .pictures

Political and Military • .democrat • .republican • .vote • .army • .airforce • .voto • .navy • .family

Real Estate • .apartments • .camp • .community • .condos • .farm • .house • .immo • .land • .lease • .maison • .properties • .rentals • .villas • .haus (house) • .mortgage • .immobilien (property)

Sports and Fitness • .bike • .coach • .football • .golf • .hockey • .pro • .run • .soccer • .team • .tennis • .training • .ski • .futbol • .rocks • .expert • .guru • .fan • .fitness

Style and Fashion • .boutique • .clothing • .diamonds • .florist • .furniture • .gold • .jewelry • .salon • .shoes • .style • .toys • .watch • .moda (people/organizations interested in fashion and style)

Technology • .codes • .computer • .domains • .systems • .technology • .engineer • .engineering • .energy • .mobi • .solar • .software • .网站 (web) • .移动 (mobile)

Travel and Geography • .travel • .city • .cruises • .flights • .guide • .holiday • .asia • .irish • .place • .reise (travel) • .viajes (trip) • .tours • .town • .vacations • .reisen (travel, plural or verb) • .voyage • .cab • .limo • .zone • .world • .taxi

Shopping and Retail • .bargains • .cards • .cheap • .coupons • .deals • .delivery • .direct • .discount • .express • .gifts • .gratis (free) • .plus • .shopping • .tienda (store) • .sale • .promo • .kaufen (buy) • .market • .auction • .forsale • .商店 (shop/store)

Food and Beverage • .cafe • .catering • .coffee • .kitchen • .pizza • .recipes • .restaurant • .vin (wine) • .wine • .fish • .pub

Marketing and Communications • .agency • .digital • .email • .marketing • .media • .productions • .social • .studio

#USA #US #fascism #AutisticiInventati #TLDs #ICAAN #EU #antifascism #tech #technology #freedom #democracy

A little tribute to Tim Curry at karaoke tonight.

https://vimeo.com/1222239330

RE: https://piaille.fr/@benjamin/117171947304939705

So maybe launching with small-web.org and having small-tech.org is not a good idea after all…

So what are safe TLDs? Is there even such a thing? Any TLDs not controlled by the US in one form or another? Any anti-fascist TLDs?

Hey

, maybe this is the sort of thing you should be looking into given all your “digital sovereignty”, talk, hmm? Pretty easy one to fix, this one.

“Turkey said on Friday it would seek an Interpol red notice for the ‌arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a domestic criminal case linked to an attack on activists seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-seek-interpol-notice-netanyahu-gaza-flotilla-case-2026-08-21/

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Netanyahu #warCriminal #StopIsrael #flotilla #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/117132546974367520

Cue doing absolutely jack shit about it in 3… 2…

If I had to summarise capitalism in one word it would be “enclosure”.

That’s literally everything these bastards are about. Taking something that belongs to us all, building a fence around it, and calling it “mine.” (And if you don’t like it, “say hello to my little friend…”)

That’s literally the whole of their bullshit philosophy.

ICC stands for International Criminal Court.

Think about that for a second. Take all the time you need.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvnl0elz47o

“ECB economists warn households to brace for stock market ‘correction’”

You heard ‘em, folks… time to sharpen your guillotines.

https://www.independent.ie/business/ecb-economists-warn-households-to-brace-for-stock-market-correction/a/160151547.html

Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/18/sydney-waverley-library-removes-book-how-to-sell-a-genocide-from-shelves-ntwnfb

“Denial is an integral part of genocide and includes the secret planning of genocide, propaganda while the genocide is going on, and destruction of evidence of mass killings.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #australia #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

I’m sorry, what’s an “extremist official” in a government commiting genocide? Do we categorise people who commit genocide as extremist and non-extremist now? Do the extremist ones commit extremely more genocide? @headlines_bot https://m.ai6yr.org/@headlines_bot/117106685328690664

RE: https://mastodon.social/@riverbirchtree/117099674446276439

You made it possible for

to leave Gaza and study in Milan. Now you have the chance to reunite her with her sister.

What do you say, Fediverse?

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #fediverse #mastodon

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117099047191436018

Vampires lying about how much blood they drink, you say? Well, I never!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DaveWhittle/117098068814675000

Fewer disposable barbecues and more data centres should fix this right up.

One of our Palestinian volunteers from Gaza*,

, is getting married today.

Please wish her all the best and, if you can, help her as she starts this next chapter of her life by donating to her fundraiser:

https://chuffed.org/project/161851-help-aya-go-to-uni-and-survive-in-gaza

I wish you all the happiness in the world, Aya. Your grace, humanity, and selflessness are an inspiration for us all.

• https://gaza-verified.org/team

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified