After receiving the news, I was devastated… I can't imagine losing my leg 💔 and living in such harsh conditions.
I suffered a severe leg injury, including a fractured femur, extensive tissue damage, and nerve damage with limited sensation and mobility. Tests revealed shrapnel inside my leg and a metal plate extending from my pelvis to my left knee with a significant fixation error. This requires urgent surgery to avoid amputation.
The pain is unbearable, and the hospital told me I need the operation within 10 days, or I may lose my leg 💔 🙏 $100 has been raised out of $600. $500 remains. I am the sole provider for my family… Please don't abandon me 💔 Your donation or even sharing this post could save my leg 🙏😭 chuffed.org/project/133500-sup… @aral #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
Hello everyone , My name is Diyaa , I am 28 years old, and I live in Gaza—or at least, I used to. I am the sole provider for my family of 9 people, including my wife.
I joined #mastodon on New Year’s Day, with no idea what to expect
I found somewhere totally different to other social media. No ads, no algorithm, and a massive number of really nice people. Thank you all for making me feel welcome and comfortable in this unique place you call the #fediverse
But the best part is how much you all like cats (because me too)
Here’s Molly, sitting between my knees and staring at me until I give her treats
Did you know that, if you like #AI (in the sense of seeing the upsides in addition to the downsides), you may be widely treated like scum in the #Fediverse as of the time of writing?
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).
Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan
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Is there still hope? Your donations are our only lifeline.
From southern Gaza, we appeal to your hearts… We live amidst hunger and destruction, and all we ask for is dignity and food for our children.
"We want people who are new to Mastodon and the Fediverse to be able to discover and connect with interesting accounts, without having to understand the details of decentralisation."
Already available on mastodon.social, and other servers running the latest code.
Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. Our latest blog post explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵
https://blog.joinmastodon.
About 20 minutes ago, I started the build for Hubzilla 11.2; as usual, it will be available for all to enjoy, and update their own instances after about an hour or so, so please don't update until then.
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).
Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan
A consortium consisting of multiple interested parties including Murena, i.e. /e/ OS, iodéOS, and Volla, is working on an open source alternative to the Google Play Integrity API, which is to be offered on smartphones that are not running a Google-certified Stock ROM.
For those who do not know, the Google Play Integrity API is Google's official security and anti-abuse framework that lets Android apps verify that they are running on a genuine, i.e. unmodified device, installed from Google Play, and not being tampered with.
Sadly, this framework tends to discriminate against Custom ROMs, i.e. operating systems that are not running Google's apps and services, no matter their actual device security state.
Full Google Play Integrity is tied to the ROM being certified by Google, and running Google apps and services - many banking and government apps make use of it right now.
The consortium around UnifedAttestation wants the new framework to rest on three foundations:
it will be part of the operating system, apps can add support for it with a few
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A consortium consisting of multiple interested parties including Murena, i.e. /e/ OS, iodéOS, and Volla, is working on an open source alternative to the Google Play Integrity API, which is to be offered on smartphones that are not running a Google-certified Stock ROM.
For those who do not know, the Google Play Integrity API is Google's official security and anti-abuse framework that lets Android apps verify that they are running on a genuine, i.e. unmodified device, installed from Google Play, and not being tampered with.
Sadly, this framework tends to discriminate against Custom ROMs, i.e. operating systems that are not running Google's apps and services, no matter their actual device security state.
Full Google Play Integrity is tied to the ROM being certified by Google, and running Google apps and services - many banking and government apps make use of it right now.
The consortium around UnifedAttestation wants the new framework to rest on three foundations:
it will be part of the operating system, apps can add support for it with a few lines of code
operation of the validation service will be decentral
an open test suite for checking and certifying operating systems on specific devices
The whole thing will be open source, developed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Developers of Scandinavian government apps have already indicated interest, considering the project a first mover for Europe.
Personal comment: I think it's good that there is now validation service for government & banking apps that is not tied to Google's infrastructure, and more crucially does not require Google's apps and the Play Services to be installed.
"...Different people disagree. Different contexts clash. Feedback exposes gaps..."
Sigh; this is exactly what I miss not having the old #Twitter anymore.
I have contacts here on different continents, in different walks of life and stages if life, but we have to admit that--in contrast to the old Twitter--we live in a (luckily) "sanitized #DMZ" 1): those with opposing #AlternativeFacts-indoctrinated,..
Fedify is a TypeScript framework for building ActivityPub servers that participate in the fediverse. It handles the heavy lifting of federation—HTTP Signatures, JSON-LD processing, WebFinger, and m...
(Although remember that nothing is private on Mastodon. Your private mentions/direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted so your instance admins – and anyone hosting a hammer to their knees – could be reading them all. If you want to talk privately, use Signal or Delta Chat. Never share sensitive information on “private” messages on Mastodon. That goes double for our friends in Gaza.)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).
Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan
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Meet Fedibook!
The idea came from thinking about what it actually takes to get regular users onto the fediverse. Mastodon is great (i love it), but the follow-based model feels unfamiliar to some.
Yesterday I found Interstellar which has this feature. I assume mainly because it is not only a Lemmy app, but also a PieFed one, which has this feature in the reference frontend (AFAIK).
Are there other Lemmy apps or frontends that support thread merging?
