Scientists discovered that some dogs, known as Gifted Word Learners, can passively pick up language and may possess toddler-level cognitive skills.
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New, by me: The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network
Today's story is a long overdue series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you thought you knew about the security of the internal network behind your Internet router probably is now dangerously out of date.
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The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network
The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it's time for a broader awareness of the threat. The…krebsonsecurity.com
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A lot of the streaming boxes and sticks are deliberately evil. Some stupidity. The Streaming services are not good on privacy.
Sat TV boxes and Projector have no WiFi password.
The Nintendo Switch and Steamdeck have WiFi.
Router is Fritz!box with even ISP and vendor access disabled.
Today in 1983, 43 years ago: The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
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Are there any fedi servers for them?
Or, are they already setting up their own servers?
I saw my aunt this weekend. I always admired her growing up: she was a dedicated dancer, bird watcher, traveler, and general arts-enjoyer. I took up ballet and piano because I wanted to be just like her.
I just found out that she started all of those hobbies after she got sober in her 40s, shortly before I was born. Her defining characteristics, in my eyes, have occupied less than half of her life.
It was a nice reminder that you can start a new chapter of your life whenever you’d like.
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Introduction
It’s been a while, and over the past year I’ve moved and consolidated my Fediverse identities, so it felt like the right time for an updated #introduction.
I began my Fediverse journey on fosstodon.org and mastodon.art. Before long, though, I realized I wanted more control over my online spaces, which led me down the path of running my own instances. Along the way I launched jabber.social (Snikket), fairly.social (Mastodon), and snaps.social (Pixelfed). While I enjoyed building and running them, I eventually recognized that maintaining community servers long-term required more mental bandwidth than I could sustainably give.
That shift ultimately led me to #selfhosting with #YunoHost. The early learning curve—and finding the right VPS—was a bit rough, but once I got past that stage, things settled into a much smoother and more manageable rhythm.
Today, I self-host services for Friendica, BookWyrm, FreshRSS, Wallabag, LinkStack, Matrix, and Prosody, and I’m considering adding a dedicated note-taking app next.
Beyond the infrastructure side of things, I’m an aspiring 2D/3D artist and occasional photographer with a long-standing love of science fiction. Having my own corner of the Fediverse makes it easier to share works in progress, experiments, and ideas—without the pressure that often comes with larger corporate platforms.
Overall, I’m much happier being self-hosted and largely disconnected from corporate social media.
Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore Your brain's middle finger to people-pleasingwww.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...
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I like their food.
I like their language.
I like their work ethic.
I like their culture.
I like their music.
I like their dance.
I like their art.
I like that they are different than me.
I cannot be the only person who feels this way.
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Dear Fedi friends,
If you can set aside 11 minutes today, I highly encourage to watch @vkc's latest video: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."
🔗: tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAo…
It is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and should be shown in media literacy and digital literacy classes everywhere. Actually, everyone should watch it (I'm about to send it to my family and friends).
My favorite part comes up towards the end. Veronica eloquently explains (9 min 27 sec in):
"I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to those who follow us to try and break free of algorithms, which tell us what we should like, who we should believe, and how we should feel about it.
It may sound melodramatic and maybe it is, but I see the increased dependence on algorithmically-driven entertainment as a symptom of that larger problem: uber-convenience that separates us from our critical thinking.
We're learning to abandon reason for small decisions, and wouldn't you know it, now it's easier to ignore reasons for the larger ones.
I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was raised in a "mind-your-own-damn-business" household and that's where my head is at. But I do want to implore all of us to think critically about how streaming media, autoplay, and the algorithm are impacting us."
I'm super proud to be a backer of her Patreon and I cannot thank her enough for this incredible video... which comes at the perfect time, as I was already planning to set up #Jellyfin next week.
If you can, join me in supporting Veronica's work here: patreon.com/VeronicaExplains
#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #SelfHosting #independence #resist #MediaLiteracy
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yes consuming « physical » media is amazing. I love the intentionality of it, like Veronica so eloquently says.
I’d love to get into vynils but we don’t have the space in our small city apartment (already overflowing with LEGO)… my father in law has a record player… so maybe there (we go visit every week)
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✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀
"My Fediverse Starter Guide" for newbies, based on my video and articles about Fediverse software and culture.
🔗 : news.elenarossini.com/my-fediv…
mentioning @Mastodon @news @gotosocial @pfefferle @pixelfed @peertube
If you share it with friends/family, let me know how it goes and if this guide is helpful to them 🙏
#digitalliteracy #BigTech #tech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog
The Future Is Federated: My Fediverse Starter Guide
A starter guide for the Fediverse: what it is, how to join and its cultureElena Rossini
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That's actually pretty cool! I'll check those blogs. Thanks for the pointer.
After reading your post, I got very interested in Friendica due to its many features. But you have brought a good point that I should take long-term stability into account.
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