cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43657336

So I’ve been thinking about the whole PSKY winning the bid for WBD situation, plus a ton of other US News sites being owned and controlled by MAGA — and now that PSKY owns massive legacy brands like CNN and platforms like TikTok, it got me wondering:

What would it look like if the Fediverse built its own large-scale news station?

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And I don’t mean news apps (I know things like Flipboard already exist and are experimenting with federation). I mean:

A full-on journalism operation that is:

Fediverse-first

Hosted via PeerTube, Loops, its own website, etc.

Producing regular news broadcasts, investigative journalism, live streams, analysis panels, documentaries, etc.

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Two Possible Models

1. Professional Model (CNN-style equivalent)

A structured newsroom:

Editors, reporters, correspondents

Daily live broadcasts via PeerTube

Clip distribution via Loops

Federation across Mastodon/Lemmy/Pixelfed

Transparent funding (co-op model? public donations? instance-backed?)

Essentially: a decentralized alternative to cable news, but not algorithm-driven or corporate-owned.

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2. Amateur / Grassroots Model

Think:

Independent PeerTubers collaborating

Loop creators reporting locally

Lemmy communities functioning as distributed editorial desks

Citizen journalism amplified through federation

This could look more like a decentralized wire service, where stories propagate organically across instances.

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Alternative Idea: Federated News Aggregator

Instead of building from scratch, what if the Fediverse collaborated with existing independent outlets like:

World Socialist Web Site

Communist.red

Mother Jones

The Nation

Common Dreams

The Intercept

Jacobin

Cpusa.org

(And many others.)

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Podcasts:

The Deprogram:

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/The_Deprogram

Revolutionary Left Radio:

https://revleftradio.com/

Guerrilla History:

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/

Jacobin Radio:

https://jacobin.com/author/jacobin-radio

The Majority Report:

https://majorityreportradio.com/

Against the Grain:

https://kpfa.org/program/against-the-grain/

etc

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YouTubers:

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Hakim

Second Thought:

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Thought

YUGOPNIK:

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/YUGOPNIK

r/TankieTheDeprogram

https://www.reddit.com/r/TankieTheDeprogram/s/mJqfxpGOYK

r/TheDeprogarm

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogarm/s/Re7CYFSaSW

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Maybe:

A federated aggregator

A shared ActivityPub-based publishing layer

A “news hub” instance that boosts and categorizes content

Or something similar to the federated streaming marketplace idea I suggested before — but for journalism instead of an Amazon Prime alternative

https://lemmy.world/post/40697282

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Big Questions

Would a Fediverse news network increase credibility — or fragment it?

How would editorial standards work in a decentralized ecosystem?

Could co-op funding sustain professional reporting?

Would mainstream journalists ever migrate?

Should this aim to compete with centralized media — or complement it?

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Also: would this risk becoming ideologically siloed? Or would federation naturally diversify perspectives?

Curious what everyone thinks.

Is this unrealistic? Inevitable? Already quietly happening?

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Link to same post, but on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fediverse/s/wt59TIXVv3

The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances. But in reality, many of the messages that may have swayed the powerful regulatory agency to scrap the plan were generated by a platform that is powered by artificial intelligence.

Public records requests reviewed by The Times and corroborated by staff members at the South Coast Air Quality Management District confirm that more than 20,000 public comments submitted in opposition to last year's proposal were generated by a Washington, D.C.-based company called CiviClick, which bills itself as "the first and best AI-powered grassroots advocacy platform."

A Southern California-based public affairs consultant, Matt Klink, has taken credit for using CiviClick to wage the opposition campaign, including in a sponsored article on the website Campaigns and Elections. The campaign "left the staff of the Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) reeling," the article says.

If you're not aware of what preload is, it's a command line application that allows you to add files to ram, so they can be accessed faster by the applications that need them.

It seems to work well for what I'm using it for, which is to run games from slower storage devices, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation for a proper way to remove the files once they've been added to ram. What I've been doing is to just use htop to terminate the preload command, but I feel like this is not intended at all. Is there a better way to remove these files?

I should mention that while trying to search for a solution myself, I did see gopreload mentioned a few times. I would try this out myself, but there's no proper installation instructions, at least not any I could find that work in Linux Mint.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/552459

For a hobby of mine, there's an outdated lore wiki on Fandom. I dislike Fandom and would like to host an alternative. It's supposed to be accessible to all kinds of people.

I started with mediawiki as that's what Fandom and Wikipedia are using, so people would be familiar with page structures at least and maybe the editor.

It turned out to be a bit of a pain though. It only has unofficial container images, the documentation is outdated and (what I consider as) core functionality like WYSIWYG editor or simple infoboxes has to be added by extensions or templates. I'm in the process of setting it all up and wondering if it's worth it (and if I want to maintain it). There's so many wiki projects it's hard to keep track, what are y'all using for stuff that's used by larger communities and simple to use with close-to-default settings?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/59925291

The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.

game recognizes game

North Carolina’s Michael Phillips revealed that he had a 0.38in member in bid to reduce stigma of the condition

Hi. I'm kinda of a noob in the world of self-hosting and matrix, for that matter. But I was wondering how heavy is it to host a matrix server?

My understanding how matrix works is each participating server in the room stores the full history and then later some sort of merging happens or something like that.

How is that sustainable? Say in 5 years matrix becomes mainstream and 5 people join my server and each also join 3 different 10k+ people rooms with long histories. So now what I have to account for that or people have to be careful of joining larger rooms when they sign up in a smaller-ish server?

Or do I not understand how Matrix works? Thanks.

I have an old Sony Vaio laptop that I'm trying to get Mint Xfce to work on. I needed to use compatibility mode when originally booting from the USB in case that's relevant.

The issue I have is that after the mint logo, it's just a black screen. A hard reset and starting in recovery mode will work, but I'd like to not have to go through recovery mode every time.

I'm assuming it's a driver issue with the Nvidia card (GeForce 310M), but the Driver Manager just shows a checkmark saying no drivers needed and nothing else (I'm guessing I should be able to see current drivers or something, anything?).

I've spent the last couple of hours searching in forums and have yet to figure out how to fix it.

Tempus is an open-source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.

This app works with any service that implements the Subsonic API, including:

• LMS - Lightweight Music Server - personal fave and my backend
• Navidrome
• Gonic
• Ampache
• NextCloud Music
• Airsonic Advanced

https://github.com/eddyizm/tempus/releases/tag/v4.12.0

My last release post was for v4.6.0 so I've included whats changed since that post.

What's Changed

Highlighting these 4 features that people have wanted for some time and were well received. Added screenshots for each below

• feat: added slide out enhanced navigation for tab mode and optionally portrait mode

• feat: Android Auto: improve media service browsing

• feat: Support specifying a client certificate for mTLS auth

• feat: Playback speed controls for music

• feat: radio logos support for AndroidAuto

• feat: Port remove song of playlist from tempus ng

• fix: artist sort by name case sensitive

• feat: prefer downloaded files over network calls

• feat: Implement duration and seeking for transcodes

• feat: increase items per row on landscape view

• fix: album art now displays on android auto

• fix: give user feedback when trying to add podcast/radio on unsupported backends

• docs: Clarify Android Auto enablement

• fix: instant mix issue and continous play clean up

• chore(i18n): add missing keys, update Chinese translation and alphabetize

• chore(i18n): Update Polish translation

• feat: Ability to toggle visibility of artist biography

• chore: Add Romanian (ro) translation

• chore: French localization update

• chore: updated readme and added known issues for airsonic work around

• fix: toast for made for you click indication

• fix: sort playlist view

• feat: sort preference for playlists

• fix: use existing future when adding tracks, dialed random album track down

• fix: Check for OpenSubsonic extensions also with password authentication

• fix: Proper raw stream detection

• chore(i18n): Update Spanish translation

• feat: add configurable server timeout

• fix: Avoid crash when server has no songs

• fix: updated dialog import to address crashing on android 15

• Fix missing Replay Gain metadata from .m4a files

• fix: Improve Synced Lyrics

• feat: Add selector for playlist visibility

• chore(i18n): set links as untranslatable

• fix: Addressing some UI/UX quirks

• fix: keep observer until data is received

• fix: added dynamic application id from gradle variant

• fix: Use Bluetooth tethering connection

• fix: visual glitches on landscape navbar

• fix: radio playback "source error" on android auto

• fix: speed button overlaps with shuffle on landscape

• fix: local url used in share link instead of server url

• feat: added radio metadata to display

• feat: improve playlist chooser dialog UI

Full Changelog: https://github.com/eddyizm/tempus/compare/v4.6.0...v4.12.0

note app-tempo* <- The github release with all the android auto/chromecast features

app-degoogled* <- The izzyOnDroid release that goes without any of the google stuff.

As usual, any dev contributions appreciated as I am not actually a java/mobile dev, so my progress is significantly slower than those who do this on the daily.

Big thanks to all the folks who have been contributing. We have a new icon designed but I could use some help if anyone wants to do a PR to implement it.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40700945

> looking for a new president 
> ask RNC booth attendant whether their candidate will start a war with Iran
> he doesn't understand 
> I pull out an illustrated diagram explaining what is and what is not war with Iran 
> he laughs and says "he’s a good candidate, sir"
> elect candidate
> war with Iran

Updated a 1935 art piece by Gerd Arntz

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/59925975

Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

Found two great posts on how to take some precautions when using the Arch User Repository. To whom it may concern.

How to review an AUR package - Bert Peters https://bertptrs.nl/2026/01/30/how-to-review-an-aur-package.html

AUR Chaos malware: an analysis What happened, and an investigation of the malware - mh4ckt3mh4ckt1c4s https://www.mh4ckt3mh4ckt1c4s.xyz/blog/aur-chaos-malware-analysis/#conclusion

Did you ever think to yourself “wow, I wish QWOP had some guns in it”? They Killed Your Cat is basically that premise. Some goons killed your cat ala John Wick, and now you are running down corridors murdering those responsible. You are controlling movement of each leg manually, you are reloading your weapons

A short but relentless first-person shooter featuring manual reloading, walking, and blinking, with settings that let you customize your experience. Every “normal” action has some kind of friction, for example, to reload your gun you need to pop out the magazine, insert a new clip, then slide back the safety before shooting. You need to reach a computer terminal and interact with it in order to save. And yeah, you need to take each step individually. This looks stupid, but in a fun way, and the reviews definitely seem to be saying exactly that.