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I commented this in another thread, but thought that it could do with its own post.

It's a solid list to go off of if you want to pick a few to host. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

Overview

Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

• networks: Tor, i2p
• computing: boinc, foldingathome
• archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
• storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it's open to contributions.

Nearly 1 million Windows devices were targeted in recent months by a sophisticated "malvertising" campaign that surreptitiously stole login credentials, cryptocurrency, and other sensitive information from infected machines, Microsoft said.

The campaign began in December, when the attackers, who remain unknown, seeded websites with links that downloaded ads from malicious servers. The links led targeted machines through several intermediary sites until finally arriving at repositories on Microsoft-owned GitHub, which hosted a raft of malicious files.

Ad blockers aren't just convenient, they're necessary for online safety. Install it on your family member's devices

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39864162

FreshRSS is a selfhosted RSS feed management tool

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In this release, we have restarted to focus on features. A long-awaited feature has been added, namely sorting articles by various criteria: received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random.

A few highlights ✨:

• Add order-by options to sort articles by received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random
• Allow searching in all feeds, also feeds only visible at category level with &get=A, and also those archived with &get=Z
• UI accessible from user-query view
• New shortcuts for adding user labels to articles
• Several improvements and bug fixes

Full release details in linked post

FreshRSS is a selfhosted RSS feed management tool

In this release, we have restarted to focus on features. A long-awaited feature has been added, namely sorting articles by various criteria: received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random.

A few highlights ✨:

• Add order-by options to sort articles by received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random
• Allow searching in all feeds, also feeds only visible at category level with &get=A, and also those archived with &get=Z
• UI accessible from user-query view
• New shortcuts for adding user labels to articles
• Several improvements and bug fixes

Full release details in linked post

It's brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39411782

After moving in to our new server last month, our next large project is to set up some new Fediverse platforms. One of the most requested of those was Pixelfed, which is an image sharing platform.

You should be able to sign up here: pixelfed.ca

As with any new instance, some issues are to be expected and while we've done some testing already, please bear with us as things get going. For any support related issues with pixelfed.ca, please post in the new !pixelfed@lemmy.ca community

Edit: We have moved from pixeld.ca to pixelfed.ca!

from newsletter:

Have you ever found your mind wandering while watching a show or a movie as you become distracted once again by your smartphone? I confess it happens to me too often, requiring me to rewind to figure out what I missed — when what I should do is simply turn off my phone.

But Netflix apparently knows that most of us find it impossible to pay close attention when our phones are nearby. So the streaming giant is creating what are known as second-screen shows with distracted viewers in mind.

Today in The Conversation Canada, Daphne Rena Idiz of the University of Toronto delves into research she’s conducted on how Netflix shapes screen production in Europe, a region where the streaming giant has invested billions in original content. And, astonishingly, producers there have been told by Netflix executives to make shows that the audience can follow without looking at the screen.

She concludes: “The next time you’re watching a Netflix show and feel the urge to scroll during another repetitive voice-over, the question is: Are some shows written like this because the audience is disengaged, or is the audience disengaged because shows are written like this?”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39121040

We've been working on these for some time, and with the recent uptick in signups, we tried to finish up the first few pages so that new users could use them.

You can find them all on fedecan.ca under Guides & Resources. For those that are not familiar, this is the website for the non-profit (Fedecan) that manages lemmy.ca.

We're planning to gather some feedback on the technical Fediverse communities first, before sharing the guides more broadly, in order to catch any issues early.

If you want to add to them, feel free to reach out, and we can help you coordinate if someone else is also working on it.

The new sections:

• What is the Fediverse?
• Getting started with Lemmy
• How does Lemmy work (in detail)
• How to find communities on Lemmy
• Mobile Apps for Lemmy
• Lemmy Alternative UIs

Sections that are incomplete and relevant to new users. We have some work in progress for these, and hope to have them out soon:

• Lemmy Privacy and Security
• How to open something in my instance
• How do I block a user, community, or instance

A previously written section that didn't get posted about yet (thank you to Rooki):

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/markdown

Future plans include

• Guides for Moderators
  • Set up a new community (best practices for name, sidebar, image, banner, and getting it federated outwards)
  • Moderation Best Practices
• Guides for Admins
  • Information on our infrastructure and setup

I didn't copy in the updates this time because there are so many, and I can't tell what's important since I haven't tried this one out yet. See the link above for the changes :)

More info for those that aren't familiar

Calibre, while a fantastic tool for its age, has several problems when containerised, including its reliance on a KasmVNC server instance for the UI, which is near impossible to use on mobile and is relatively resource-heavy if you're running a small, lower power server like I am.

For many, Calibre-Web has really swooped in to save the day, offering an alternative to a containerised Calibre instance that's resource-light and with a much more modern UI to boot.

However, when compared to full-fat Calibre, it unfortunately lacks a few core features leading many to run both services in parallel, each serving to fill in where the other lacks, resulting in an often clunky, imperfect solution.

Goal of the Project 🎯 Calibre-Web Automated aims to be an all-in-one solution, combining the modern lightweight web UI from Calibre-Web with the robust, versatile feature set of Calibre, with a slew of extra features and automations thrown in on top.

start of the article:

Satellite imagery has been used extensively in open-source investigative research: from monitoring global deforestation to documenting mass demolitions in Gaza.

When we view satellite images on platforms like Google Earth, the world looks very similar to how it does with the naked eye – for example, if you were looking down at the earth from an aeroplane window.

However, satellite images can also reveal things that humans can’t see. A common example of this kind of imaging is night vision, which uses infrared light to illuminate a scene that’s not visible to the naked eye. In satellite imaging, images made using additional types of light are known as multispectral images.

Multispectral satellite images can reveal useful information about the world, such as the presence and quality of water, types of vegetation, soil health and more. In this guide, we will explain the basics of how multispectral satellite imaging works, apply it to case studies relating to mining and deforestation, and review open-source tools and resources for using these techniques in practice.