Kevin Karhan :verified:

@patrick they even have the audacity to #spam #Admins & Single-User - Instances!

RaymondPierreL3

“In my 35-year association with the University – more than half of those as a staff member – I have not seen such a lack of vision, such a vacuum of ideas, such general disorganisation, nor such cavalier decision-making about institutions and programs built up through hard work over decades. The end, I am afraid, will be an ugly one.” (Frank Bongiorno - ANU)

#ANU

There is nothing new to the corporatisation of #TertiaryEducation except for the extent of destruction it has wrought in what should be an environment of excellence in pedagogy and research. The sector has faced many perils ever since its religious beginnings in the Middle Ages and yet managed to survive and even thrived on occasions. But the debunked neoliberal thinking of today, along with its market-driven imperative in an age of run-away corporate capitalism might drive our universities back to the brink of collapse in a new kind of politically manufactured dark ages (if the US is any guide to our immediate future).

I truly hope that saner minds will prevail in Aus and that we may eventually (though not too far in the future) pull back from the dark.

Not sure what I’m trying to say here… I fear we are getting more illiterate by the day… more receptive to propaganda… reverting back to a society fetttered by their lack of education… (not in a happy place right now, thinking about how we are failing on so many levels with higher education being the only way out of this mess)

Read more of Bongiorno’s rebuttal of the ANU #BeanCounters’ proposal to compensate for their past decision which resulted in the financial mess they are asking #academia (staff and students alike) to pay for. The #Chancellery and #Admins ought to be subjected to similar cuts as the fairest of ill-advised solutions. Fairer would be to sack those people who got ANU in this mess in the first place, wherever these people hide.
(That was a rant!)

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/c

Change proposals risk relegating ANU to middle-ranking regional uni

Well known historian and long-time ANU staff member,…

johnmenadue.com
AndyGER :verified_coffee:

#fediverse #mastodon #admins

This is the second time this account (or a similar one, because I blocked the first) comes up with this message of "verification" with a link stating he would be official.

I am concerned ...

Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

Please do say or write some nice things to your administrators, as today it's System Administrator Appreciation Day

sysadminday.com/

Most of the time, you won't notice, that there is somebody working very hard so that you don't notice.

#SysAdminDay #Admins #Administrator #SystemAdministrator

System Administrator Appreciation Day

sysadminday.com
Friedemann

#KI randaliert im Netz 🤖🪓#Admins halten dagegen 🦸

Meine @campact -Kolumne aus Mai ist heute tagesaktuell dabei!

> Herzlichen Dank an alle Admins, die unermüdlich dafür kämpfen, uns Nutzende und den Planeten vor der Gier von KI zu schützen. Ich hoffe, dieser Text ist ein Beitrag für mehr Verständnis zu diesem Thema.

👉 blog.campact.de/2025/05/ki-ran

#SysAdmins #SystemadminAppreciationDay #FediAdmins #AI #KIScraping
#AIScraping #TDM #AdminLeiden #MastoAdmin #DataPoisoning #aitxt #GPT #GreenIT

Admins gegen KI-Bots

KI wird von einigen regelrecht vergöttert, während…

Campact Blog
John :au: :60: :05: :12: :GP:

#admins look out for these #spammers joining your #instance to post:

amolshinde5546@gmail.com

salokhesahil234@gmail.com

Jul 15, 2025, 23:01 · · · 1 · 0
Seemarc

Vor 20 Wochen den Vlog von @chriz entdeckt, fast alle Videos beim Spätdienst durch gespielt - seine Lives, ich bekomme es einfach nicht gebacken live dabei zu sein.
Ich finde er sollte ein MS Sharepoint nutzen das ich die Termine ins Evolution bekomme #DuckUndWeg #AoW ❤️
#Tipp für alle #KMU #Admins mit Schmerzen und ein Weg in die #Freiheit

George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Heads up #Sharkey #admins when #upgrading...
If you have a lot of
#data in your #instance #database, running pnpm run migrate might fail because one or more of the ALTER TABLE... statements might actually timeout on your #PostgreSQL server!

To fix this, attach yourself to your
sharkey database and enter the following...

ALTER DATABASE sharkey SET statement_timeout = '10min'; ALTER ROLE sharkey SET statement_timeout = '10min';

...and try the pnpm run migrate command again.

#SharkeyAdmin #InstanceAdmin @sharkey@sharkey.team

Wulfy

Question to #mastodon instance coders and #admins

Do you care if we manually reduce the size of a shitty image eg:
from 9MB to 250KB to save you storage space (and thus "donate" to the cost).
That's an ~X 36 decrease in storage.

Or does the system minimise the image storage automagically?

Friedemann

Wer sich über die vielen tollen Informationsangebote im Internet freut, sollte wissen:

#KI 🤖 randaliert im Netz – #Admins halten dagegen, damit wir Menschen ungestört surfen können.

Lest mal, wie Admins ihre absolut frustrierende aber unsichtbare Abwehrarbeit gegen KI beschreiben – im Blog von @campact:
👉 blog.campact.de/2025/05/ki-ran

🙏 @flberger

❗Nicht vergessen: 25. Juli ist #SysAdminDay

#FediAdmins #KIScraping #AI #AIScraping #TDM #AdminLeiden #MastoAdmin #DataPoisoning #aitxt #GPT #TDMRep

Admins gegen KI-Bots

KI wird von einigen regelrecht vergöttert, während…

Campact Blog
Montag

Fediverse Statistik

Spannend, was ist denn in den letzten Wochen im #Fediverse passiert? Ich habe mal wieder in die Föderations Statistik meiner kleinen Instanz geschaut und bin etwas überrascht über die Anzahl der monatlich aktiven Nutzer die meine Instanz kennt. Fast fünf Millionen, so viel waren ja lange nicht mehr monatlich im Fediverse aktiv. Und 21 Millionen Nutzer insgesamt. Das könnte auch erklären, warum meine Instanz in letzter Zeit so zäh läuft und leicht überlastet wirkt. Sieht die Statistik bei anderen #Admins und #Instanzbetreibern ähnlich aus oder ist da irgendeine Spam-Instanz aktiv und verfälscht die Statistik?

Derzeit kennt dieser Knoten 23.782 andere Knoten (mit 4.677.762 aktiven Nutzern im letzten Monat, 2,575,556 aktiven Nutzern im letzten halben Jahr, 21.745.161 registrierten Nutzern insgesamt) von den folgenden Plattformen:


#Admin #FediAdmin

Linux Professional Institute

What matters to #opensource professionals?

Discover how to attract and retain #FOSS pros at your organization. Check out the 2025 Open Source Professionals Job Survey Report by @osjobhub and #LPI to understand what the pros value: lpi.org/4wj6

#OSJobHub #LPI #developers #sysadmins #admins #tech #techadjacent #Linux #freesoftware #IT #OSPJSR

Asta v. Schröder

Dear community,
my friend is thinking about joining Mastodon and/or the fediverse. Specifically, she is looking for the #spanish speaking #archeology community!
As we all know it is notoriously difficult to find a server that matches our preferences (language, region, interests, moderation policies...)
Aggregators like www.joinmastodon.org or #fedigarden rely on server #admins to register their instances (*cough I would not have found fedihum there)
edit: thank you! You helped a lot!

Mar 27, 2025, 20:44 · · · 109 · 0
Friedemann

Hi #Admins 👋,

Can you give me quotes that explain your fight against #AIScraping? I'm looking for (verbal) images, metaphors, comparisons, etc. that explain to non-techies what's going on. (efforts, goals, resources...)

I intend to publish your quotes in a text on @campact 's blog¹ (DE, German NGO).

The quotes should make your work🙏 visible in a generally understandable way

¹ blog.campact.de/author/friedem

#TDM #MastoAdmin #DataPoisoning #aitxt #GPT #TDMRep #Kudurru #Nightshade #Glaze #FediAdmins

Friedemann Ebelt

Friedemann Ebelt engagiert sich für digitale Grundrechte.…

Campact Blog
Mar 12, 2025, 17:42 · · · 2 · 0
Free Teks for sale, cheap

Many of you might be unaware that Mastodon has zero proactive moderation tools, and only prods #admins to respond to annoyances after they happen. Seen a spam 1000 times? Doesn’t matter! You’re going to see it 1,001 because you can’t block it in advance! Want to ignore Fediverse Chick? Too bad! Heaven forbid we match regexps in posts or usernames. Or have built in shared blocklists. Or, well… anything.

That’s how we end up with bizarro stuff like github.com/freeradical-dot-zon. We’re on our own.

GitHub - freeradical-dot-zone/spamhammer: DIY spam blocking the brute force way

DIY spam blocking the brute force way. Contribute to…

GitHub
FreeSchool=W🔁rk & Friendship!

Loops terms could good for FOSS...? (Loops = video like TikTok, SnapChat, TikTok, Snapchat, and Vine alternative)...

@Sup3rN0va I see this part of the terms as possibly or initially as a good thing...

This post is a quick look to give you a reply and remind myself to talk about it, but I'm still open to reasoning and not being to reactive about it at all here...

So here's my reasoning...

...basically a kind of "ladder of priority" and what Dan (in my thinking) might have put first almost as a protective condition or wrapper around it all.

If you imagine a ladder and the top being first / most important as the priority, then as you go down the ladder the lesser priority things can come into actin BUT first / top things then protect things those things inside or down the latter it which basically what licenses do as #termsandconditions.

So it makes sense (if I get this right) that #Loops NEVER could be used by commercial entities against itself and LOOPS is 'not free' in that sense to do more of the same #enshitiffication we see with other software / take overs / free work to Google etc for their fake support to do the same bad things inside another wraper left uncheck by good people (it's normal good people give it away / don't expect ideas to be robbed / exploited) while I don't mean over-doing it but initially yes maybe so it's not weaponised again or dumb / uninterested users just moving on to the next thing for doing same proprietary work / living in their life...

➡️ Side Example (maybe not best)... but look at Mastodon

It's like Mastodon how millions of people are use it for posting Google links and Youtube etc...

Serving Google as ad-farm basically by proxy ! It's honestly VERY VERY DAMAGING in terms of sheer money to wrong people - Imagine if @Gargron said "You have to try use free open source alternative links also as a choice in posts... or use our own filter / cloaking mechanisms to stop feeding users to google and our users to the wrong people," because it is a economic thing in the end or inevitably ... despite you being free to use it - you must protect it from being used badly also.

To protect from corporations AND the bourgeois users wo are "not-really-interested-in-FOSS-all-the-way" and who-don't-care a lot (just 'users' and in way) to make sure people don't use FOSS in the worst ways... free ad-farms I think is a good example.

So while Loops aims to be an open #Fediverse #alternative to #TikTok, #Snapchat, and# Vine, I've always thought there was a flaw in much of software like giving hammers to people without training (just put your email here allows a lot bad work too in posting) since "They" (the vultures, un-foss people, Modern Capitalism and it's degeneration of "death-is-a-kind of-growth" way then people so end up fake / uneducated etc and will do the daily damage which is seriously millions per day to wrong side.

And lack of educators or admin, or groups of people to help on fediverse is bad and a weak point..

Too many not to go wrong and even help "produce" weak users of uncaring kind or stagnation once they signup and think that's about it in terms of Mastodon and their job from Twitter etc.

If Mastodon had for example alternatives to youtube like (like @invidious - it at least has to have an auto-generated alternative link or first option... to avoid being exploited

Google is making a killing from Mastodon link$ leaving the UNCHECKED CURRENTLY - not to mention #trackers and #US / #USA webspace increasingly a security threat / bad space / #AWS Amazon etc

So long story short is without continual education or cut-throat terms and conditions (to compensate nobody reading or educating others) FOSS can "make" users a bit dumb at the start (which I admit is a huge step to getting there but we shouldn't stop there in #progressing / could help all those doing existing massive work) so not sure of words/

But words like "less stagnation" and "less ignorant" / "more educated personally" people (including #admins that think usage is enough but could be helped more on servers) then something of a massive fail-safe has to happen (probably in license as users can't be trusted to read / understand / do).

THOSE ARE THE MAIN POINTS.

Many things like #Loops or any vanilla #Mastodon type thing shouldn't really be federated in non-same #systems and side example is Mastodon again having a #help #system but not inside itself to suggest or improves things but ONLY USING #Microsoft #Github or another system / 3RD PARTY which isn't good enough / weak in itself <--- could be wrong but I think it's about right)

So a few big things / weaknesses which Loops and @dansup might inoculating / making sure of here to 🚫 stop / block ⛔ 'viral' things actually being a virus (advert farm / anything used badly).

It's a harsh reality to deal with.

Love to hear your thoughts.

FreeSchool=W🔁rk & Friendship!

"All your EU Website servers are now mine! / belong to USA!"

⬆️ - Some evil baddy in the future as a #server #rugpull ⬆️

#Trump #Musk #Zuckerberg #etc

#Admins who are using #AWS #Amazon servers for their backends in #US #airspace beware! ⚠️ 🛩️ 💥 ☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 💀 ⚠️

#AllYourBaseAreBelongToUS (A)

Calling All #Caturdays #Cats on #Caturday

🖼️ Pictured: #2001 #ZeroWing game screen meme with added text to say similar message which is "All your #EU Website server space are now mine / belong to USA"

(the A is add to US originally to make "USA" as the "US" bad guys in this context)

#AYBABTU / #AWS #Amazon #Bezos / #USPol #Trump #Musk #Zuckerberg #Webspace

#Airspace 🚨 #Privacy #Security

#FREESCHOOL (HASHTAG) 4MORE...

Mar 01, 2025, 18:15 · · · 0 · 0
Kevin Karhan :verified:

@GossiTheDog @ajsadauskas OFC, we groomed generations of #TechIlliterates (#Users and #Admins) to use that garbage and everyone who didn't lick the boots got yeeted.

It's called #BrainDrain!

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Feb 23, 2025, 22:58 · · · 3 · 0
Rémy 🍃

Je crois que je viens de découvrir un faux compte ( profile pic de thispersondoesnotexist.com/ ) qui poste des liens vers des sites de cagnottes, où les photos de cagnottes ressemblent elles aussi à des images de thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Le compte a été créé il y a environ un an, possède une semi-activité ( quelques messages tous les deux mois, sans vraiment de cohérence entre eux ), et s'est réveillé.

Chers autres #admins d'instance #Mastodon, vous avez déjà vu ça ? (détails en PM sur demande)

Chose rigolote : le logiciel qui gère la cagnotte est le même dans les deux cas, iraiser.com/fr/

#mastoadmin #fediblock