Aral Balkan

Social oncologist. Makes small things. Unapologetically anti-genocide. Warning: May not fit your taxonomy.

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2026-10-29 15:01:04 UTC

Research engineer at Torment Nexus, Inc., resigns, citing ethical concerns.

2026-10-29 12:24:18 UTC

I thought this was parody. Apparently not.
#apple #design #fail
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/117/524/179/055/201/503/original/1bd2143742f347bf.jpeg

2026-10-25 09:55:07 UTC

We can’t fight these fires one by one (of course we must right now). The long term solution:
Strip the @nprofile…fu0r of its legislative power and give it to the EU Parliament where it belongs. No idea how you’d even start that process, though. If this overlaps your area of expertise, please feel free to pipe up or to take the initiative (with no illusions that this will happen overnight).
(The EU Parliament is currently a toy parliament. The only parliament in the world that cannot legislate.)
CC @nprofile…5x9q
#democracy #humanRights #EU
#nevent1q…6rjp

2026-10-24 11:17:56 UTC

Hey, @nprofile…fu0r, fuck you too.
***
On Wednesday, EU Member States approved a change to the GDPR that would put the profit-making interests of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX over European's fundamental right to data protection. According to the approved text, processing personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be lawful. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens “in the context” of AI. Schrems: “Under the agreed text, the profits of AI companies would typically trump European’s fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans.”
https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-approve-digital-expropriation-europeans-ai-companies
#privacy #humanRights #EU #BigTech #corporatocracy #fascism

2026-10-24 10:55:51 UTC

First they blurred out a pro-trans t-shirt…
Poppies, though… They’ll never blur out the poppies, will they?
Welcome to the BBC: the respectable face of fascism.
#nevent1q…jv32

2026-10-23 11:11:07 UTC

“Not all Israelis”
“Only democracy in the Middle East”
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/14/do-any-of-these-israeli-candidates-support-a-palestinian-state
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #StopIsrael #BDS #StopTheGenocide #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #FreePalestine

2026-10-22 20:47:46 UTC

Excellent point.
#nevent1q…cu9p

2026-10-22 11:46:09 UTC

So all you static site folks are running the absolute latest nginx, right?
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4237420/f5-rushes-out-emergency-nginx-patches-for-three-critical-flaws.html

2026-10-21 20:33:05 UTC

The problem isn’t this technology or that technology, people, the problem is capitalism. The problem is authoritarianism. The problem is a system of normalised hierarchy and privilege.

2026-10-21 13:19:40 UTC

Those who ignore the plight of the Palestinians today are destined to be the Palestinians of tomorrow.
If you don’t think you’ll be next, you’re living in a privilege-fuelled fantasy world. Your inaction is showing them exactly what they can get away with when they finally turn their attention on you.

2026-10-18 15:32:09 UTC

You have to be a bit of an idiot to report @nprofile…uquf as a “scam” to me but, then again, no one said genocide-loving Zionists were smart. Evil, yes. Smart? Not so much.
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/117/462/631/960/873/743/original/197d93031d597315.png
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2026-10-16 08:17:16 UTC

“The order to restrict Ukraine’s military-grade Starshield satellite communications system came directly from inside the White House, according to a Reuters investigation published Thursday, Oct. 15, revealing that Washington moved to limit technology essential to Ukraine’s battlefield operations and defense against Russian drones.”
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/87219

2026-10-11 06:47:24 UTC

Hey folks, @nprofile…0sa5 has received an offer from University College Birmingham and is trying to find someone from the admissions team or an academic member of staff who could advise her on her situation, particularly regarding the UK government’s requirements for evacuating students from Gaza and whether the university could offer any flexibility with the financial deadlines she’s been given.
Any of you know anyone there who can help?
#UK #UniversityCollegeBirmingham #Birmingham #Gaza #Palestine #university

2026-10-11 06:42:52 UTC

Every country that’s a member of the ICC should be preparing joint sanctions against the US right now. https://idf.social/@arjen/117416255209101662
#nevent1q…ydyl

2026-10-10 10:23:30 UTC

The Onion to Reality Pipeline is now basically just a washer.
#nevent1q…3prr

2026-10-08 11:09:39 UTC

Of all the cuntish things you can do as a web developer (and believe me, there are too many to count), putting your fucking cookie notice under what appears to be an “Accessibility Settings” popup has to take the cake.
#deceptiveDesign #web
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/117/404/976/941/659/587/original/ad9ed2921a1c5c9c.png

2026-10-08 06:41:03 UTC

The coloniser doesn’t get to determine the bounds of acceptable resistance of the colonised.

2026-10-08 06:24:42 UTC

AZAB: All Zionists Are Bastards
#israel #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #AZAB #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #BDS #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine
#nevent1q…gndh

2026-10-06 10:00:22 UTC

Imagine creating the whole universe then discovering you have a fetish for ape genitals.

2026-10-05 21:36:32 UTC

In a world of Ed Sheerans, be a Ms. Rachel.
https://vimeo.com/1233170371

2026-10-05 08:41:06 UTC

Being absolute fucking assholes was promised to them 3,000 years ago.
https://vimeo.com/1232945414
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

2026-10-04 10:24:26 UTC

Enforcing artificial scarcity when we finally have the technological capability to become post-scarcity is what’s leading us into a future of true scarcity.
And if you think artificial scarcity is bad; wait till you experience true scarcity. It’s not going to be fun. You think the petrol wars are bad? Wait till the water wars.
All easily avoidable. But we’d clearly rather have billionaires than a sustainable future.

2026-10-04 10:15:31 UTC

If everything that’s made with it is free of copyright and available as free and open source. Not just the model weights; all of it. So Antrophic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, etc., are forced to release all their software as free software.
In other words, if we get rid of copyright altogether for everyone and all tech and all information enters the commons. Of course, that would also take implementing universal basic income, universal healthcare, housing, etc. (i.e., a proper social safety net).
(You’ll never legislate for anything remotely approaching that. You’re just shilling for Big Tech. And no matter what anyone says, you’re going to do what’s in your neoliberal interests, like always. Like you’re doing with Chat Control.) https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117381410942959608
#nevent1q…6qhg

2026-10-02 07:29:09 UTC

Tech bros are like “I built this!”
Dude, you didn’t build diddly.
The labour your capital captured built it; you just took credit and made sure the resulting work was kept out of the commons. The only thing you did was enclose human potential to benefit the few instead of the many.
This is what capitalists do: they reduce human potential into a resource to be farmed within a zero-sum game, thus stealing from all the possible other futures of humanity.

2026-10-01 07:03:49 UTC

“American Jews’ continued support for Israel is very bad for Jews. We must wake up.
…
Israel’s character is plain: it is a militarist ethno-state, not a democracy. And its only answer to its fundamental problem — what does a Jewish state do with the indigenous Palestinian population? — is to entrench apartheid and ethnic cleansing, passing laws that give Jews greater rights. And waging endless wars with those who resist.
…
My community in its official dimension has demanded that politicians and media figures accept the slaughter of 20,000 children
…
For three generations, my community — one of the most liberal, privileged, educated demographics in the U.S.— has enforced foreign-policy and cultural orthodoxy on Israel by way of the Israel lobby. “We became part of what is perhaps the most effective lobbying and fund-raising effort in the history of democracy,” as Dershowitz wrote. You were an antisemite if you supported Palestinian human rights. You shut up about Israeli massacres or you lost your career in journalism or the arts. You got canceled like Jimmy Carter for calling apartheid apartheid.
…
This is a Jewish crisis because Jewish communal support for a pariah state could make pariahs of Jews.
…
Thankfully, elements of the Jewish community are fighting back. They call for universal human rights and adherence to international law, not “Jewish sovereignty.”
…
We are winning over more Jews day by day for a simple reason. People recognize Israel’s monstrous behavior.”
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/american-jews-continued-support-for-israel-is-very-bad-for-jews-we-must-wake-up/
#israel #usa #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

2026-10-01 06:50:05 UTC

Don’t listen to this communist bullshit – Elon Musk will save us all.
#nevent1q…k503

2026-09-30 18:20:29 UTC

I shit you not, this is real.
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/117/361/372/669/859/272/original/30280cd144ae4d79.jpeg

2026-09-29 20:51:59 UTC

Web developers being cunts, exhibit number 3,928,452.
#deceptiveDesign
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/117/356/306/060/415/989/original/c726c1805bb33bd5.jpeg

2026-09-29 13:08:38 UTC

Oh for fuck’s sake, people!
Capitalism is an extinction threat. Corporations are an extinction threat. Militarism and religious lunacy are existential threats. Tech in the hands of, created for the purposes of, and being employed for the benefit of these institutions is an existential threat.
No, the fancy autocomplete built on stolen labour isn’t going to bring about the end of the human race. But while your attention is being misdirected there, all those other things just might. Both directly and via proxy through habitat loss. And quite possibly with the help of aforementioned fancy autocomplete.
(Don’t worry, extinction is unlikely. We’re only talking about billions dead, possibly the end of civilisation, and a very different, much harder, and much less comfortable existence for almost everyone. So, yeah, not that bad, right?) https://noc.social/@GeraldKutney/117350818254836765
#nevent1q…jujv

2026-09-29 12:40:37 UTC

“One interviewee describes targeting people who are running toward a food distribution site. Another guesses that his body count numbers in the thousands … Yuval Abraham, who conducted the interviews and co-directed the movie with Rachel Szor, asks one of the subjects if he realized that he was taking part in a genocide. This interviewee has already said that he found the work to be fun, because staying up late with your buddies, working toward a common goal, is fun. Now he agrees calmly, indeed casually, that yes, he has been taking part in a genocide.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/opinion/naza-film-gaza-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1E.nIJr.owvCsewKgSX9&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Via @nprofile…c68m
#israel #NAZA #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #BDS #FreePalestine

2026-09-29 12:19:15 UTC

Just remember, when it all comes crashing down, that it wasn’t that we didn’t know; it was that we didn’t care.

2026-09-28 16:00:17 UTC

*smdh*
🤡 @nprofile…fu0r 🤡 @nprofile…87tr https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01M2MQXYZ177XDMX349PBFG7Z2

2026-09-28 10:24:12 UTC

We’re at the “evil is good, actually” stage of capitalism.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/rakVcO7hfT
#capitalism #fascism #BigTech

2026-09-28 09:43:15 UTC

It’s genocide complicity all the way down.
#nevent1q…uys3

2026-09-28 00:13:20 UTC

“Only democracy in the Middle East”, ladies and gentlemen.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #BDS #FreePalestine
#nevent1q…4049

2026-09-27 13:43:24 UTC

👏 👏 👏 This.
https://www.reddit.com/r/coybig/s/8aqDxfj7NP

2026-09-27 10:14:27 UTC

German “antifascism”
#germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #ICJ #Palestine #Gaza #FuckGermany #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/117/342/474/528/665/242/original/eccce52b1a7bbfbb.jpeg

2026-09-27 10:06:36 UTC

Ah, Germany… once a nation of genocide, always a nation of genocide, apparently.
#germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #ICJ #Palestine #Gaza #FuckGermany #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
#nevent1q…9cgp

2026-09-27 09:54:02 UTC

Ah, Western Values™ on full display again, I see.
#nevent1q…hw96

2026-09-26 17:07:55 UTC

Ireland: We support Palestine.
World: Enough to forego a football match?
Ireland: Now let’s not go crazy here.
All words. No action. Sounds about right.

2026-09-26 08:02:31 UTC

“In ‘The Last of Us’ universe, rising temperatures cause Cordyceps to evolve and adapt to human body temperatures. Concerningly, this somewhat parallels real life. Climate change is another risk factor for fungal diseases that has given rise to a worrisome pathogen. ‘What does concern me as an infectious disease physician is a relatively new fungus called Candida auris,’ says Roberts. ‘This fungus spreads person-to-person, which hasn’t really been reported before.’ First identified in 2009, the fungus thrives in higher temperatures and may foreshadow the growing dangers of evolving fungal species. Once C. auris gets into the bloodstream, it can cause severe infections. … ‘It emerged 10 years ago, all of a sudden, on multiple continents,’ he says. ‘This is why we think climate change was likely one of the reasons it came about.’”
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/the-last-of-us-apocalypse-is-not-realistic-but-rising-threat-of-fungal-pathogens-is/
So… more data centres, then?
#climateChange

2026-09-26 07:36:37 UTC

“As Benjamin Netanyahu boomed his tirade to the United Nations General Assembly, there were many things you could hear.
Lies, obviously. Hatred, as you’d expect. But something else: the fall of the West.
As an Israeli prime minister evading an arrest warrant took to the podium, a walkout organised by the Palestinian delegation began. Every country involved belonged to the Global South.”
https://archive.is/20260926051556/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/26583834.benjamin-netanyahus-un-speech-lays-bare-wests-moral-collapse/
Via @nprofile…j229
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide

2026-09-26 07:18:04 UTC

So, when I call them “People Farmers”…
#nevent1q…43xm

2026-09-25 07:06:08 UTC

Without privacy, we are property.
#privacy #humanRights

2026-09-25 06:24:42 UTC

Ireland = Big Tech’s bitch
EU = ?
“AI: EU Member States plan ‘digital expropriation’ of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data ‘in the context of AI’ should automatically be lawful. There seems to be wide informal agreement by many Member States. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens ‘in the context’ of AI.” – @nprofile…5x9q
https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-plan-digital-expropriation-europeans-interest-ai-companies
Hey, @nprofile…fu0r, you Big Tech’s bitch too? Shall we just do away with all this “human rights” and “democracy” malarkey and let you guys breathe a little?
#ireland #eu #BigTech #GDPR #AI #privacy #humanRights #democracy

2026-09-24 09:19:03 UTC

“Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage.”
I’m gonna need a smaller fucking violin.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/israel-water-shortages-destruction-gaza-treatment-plants-pollution-sanitation-crisis
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

2026-09-21 18:45:05 UTC

But they’re not fascists or anything.
#nevent1q…75n9

2026-09-20 15:02:47 UTC

Were Sheeran around in the 1940s, he’d be trying to build bridges between victims of the Holocaust and Nazis.

2026-09-05 10:35:46 UTC

You want heroes? You won’t find them in Marvel films. These people are true heroes.
Bravely sailing in to the heart of a genocide knowing that previous attempts have faced rape and torture at the hands of Israeli barbarians.
#nevent1q…m56p

2026-09-03 18:30:21 UTC

Land of the free to shut the fuck up.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/israel-boycott-university-ban-bill

2026-09-03 09:47:58 UTC

If you’re on local Facebook/WhatsApp groups in #ireland, please spread this. (I’ve neither so I can’t.) Let’s make a showing they can’t ignore.
#nevent1q…qed8

2026-09-03 09:30:28 UTC

Mark the date, folks.
#ireland #trump
#nevent1q…qed8

2026-09-01 12:13:33 UTC

Oh, great. Just looked at Hetzner’s new pricing for VPS servers:
CPX22 (dedicated vCPU): €7.99 → €19.49 (+143.8%)
So that’s fun. I guess one way to ensure the Small Web doesn’t happen is to make it prohibitively expensive for people to have their own servers.
(Before anyone mentions it, prices of single-board computers are also increasing and shipping hardware is an even bigger challenge.)
If anyone knows cheaper EU-based hosts, please leave a comment.
It’s so much fun to constantly have the rug pulled out from under you while you’re trying to make progress.

2026-08-29 10:48:02 UTC

The EU has a narrow window in which it can come out – in word and deed – as unapologetically anti-fascist and, in no uncertain terms, make it clear that we will not kowtow to a fascist US.
There will be repercussions but I fear the alternative will be far, far worse.
Are you listening, @nprofile…fu0r? We’re not just talking about Euros and cents here. Can you understand what’s truly at stake?
#US #fascism #EU #antifascism #humanRights #democracy

2026-08-29 10:32:46 UTC

One US company – Digital Identity, Inc. – controls 271 TLDs (~42% of all TLDs).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital
This is fine.
It’s not.
And that’s why the Small Web will be using Web Numbers.
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
And you should seriously be thinking about this and at least have a contingency plan given what happened this week with the fascist US government designating Autistici/Inventati – an anti-fascist Italian .org providing internet support to activists – as terrorists, sanctioning them, and knocking them off the Internet.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/u-s-designates-palestine-action-masar-badil-and-autistici-inventati-as-terrorist-groups/
If you’re serious about sovereignty, @nprofile…fu0r, you should be at DEFCON 1. And if your sovereignty plans don’t include decentralisation across the board, we are well and truly fucked.
This doesn’t just concern domains. If you’re an anti-fascist or anti-genocide org or group, the fascist US government can designate you a terrorist group and sanction you thereby cutting you off from banking, hosting, and almost all other infrastructure providers with zero due process in the EU.
PS. In case you’re wondering, this is the full list of TLDs controlled by Digital Identity, Inc.:
Business
• .limited
• .ltd
• .management
• .network
• .partners
• .sarl
• .services
• .solutions
• .ventures
• .support
• .associates
• .business
• .careers
• .center
• .consulting
• .company
• .enterprises
• .gmbh (company with limited liability, German legal entity)
• .group
• .industries
• .international
• .企业 (enterprise)
Education
• .academy
• .church
• .education
• .institute
• .mba
• .school
• .schule (school)
• .university
• .degree
Entertainment
• .bingo
• .bet
• .casino
• .dating
• .dog
• .events
• .games
• .movie
• .lotto
• .show
• .singles
• .theater
• .actor
• .band
• .dance
• .live
• .poker
• .rocks
• .studio
• .video
• .游戏 (games)
• .娱乐 (entertainment)
Financial
• .accountants
• .capital
• .cash
• .claims
• .credit
• .creditcard
• .estate
• .exchange
• .finance
• .financial
• .fund
• .global
• .holdings
• .insure
• .investments
• .llc
• .loans
• .money
• .report
• .tax
Fun Domains
• .cool
• .exposed
• .fail
• .black
• .red
• .gripe
• .jetzt (now in German)
• .ninja
• .blue
• .pink
• .wtf (WTF means usually "what the fuck" in internet slang)
• .life
• .green
• .pet
Healthcare
• .care
• .clinic
• .dental
• .dentist
• .doctor
• .healthcare
• .hospital
• .rehab
• .rip
• .surgery
• .vet
• .vision
Home and Construction
• .plumbing
• .lighting
• .repair
• .tools
• .cleaning
• .builders
• .construction
• .contractors
• .works
• .glass
• .parts
• .pro
• .supplies
• .supply
• .tires
Legal
• .legal
• .attorney
• .lawyer
News and Information
• .bio
• .chat
• .directory
• .fyi (for your information)
• .info
• .memorial
• .tips
• .reviews
• .news
• .media
• .today
Photography
• .camera
• .equipment
• .gallery
• .graphics
• .photography
• .photos
• .pictures
Political and Military
• .democrat
• .republican
• .vote
• .army
• .airforce
• .voto
• .navy
• .family
Real Estate
• .apartments
• .camp
• .community
• .condos
• .farm
• .house
• .immo
• .land
• .lease
• .maison
• .properties
• .rentals
• .villas
• .haus (house)
• .mortgage
• .immobilien (property)
Sports and Fitness
• .bike
• .coach
• .football
• .golf
• .hockey
• .pro
• .run
• .soccer
• .team
• .tennis
• .training
• .ski
• .futbol
• .rocks
• .expert
• .guru
• .fan
• .fitness
Style and Fashion
• .boutique
• .clothing
• .diamonds
• .florist
• .furniture
• .gold
• .jewelry
• .salon
• .shoes
• .style
• .toys
• .watch
• .moda (people/organizations interested in fashion and style)
Technology
• .codes
• .computer
• .domains
• .systems
• .technology
• .engineer
• .engineering
• .energy
• .mobi
• .solar
• .software
• .网站 (web)
• .移动 (mobile)
Travel and Geography
• .travel
• .city
• .cruises
• .flights
• .guide
• .holiday
• .asia
• .irish
• .place
• .reise (travel)
• .viajes (trip)
• .tours
• .town
• .vacations
• .reisen (travel, plural or verb)
• .voyage
• .cab
• .limo
• .zone
• .world
• .taxi
Shopping and Retail
• .bargains
• .cards
• .cheap
• .coupons
• .deals
• .delivery
• .direct
• .discount
• .express
• .gifts
• .gratis (free)
• .plus
• .shopping
• .tienda (store)
• .sale
• .promo
• .kaufen (buy)
• .market
• .auction
• .forsale
• .商店 (shop/store)
Food and Beverage
• .cafe
• .catering
• .coffee
• .kitchen
• .pizza
• .recipes
• .restaurant
• .vin (wine)
• .wine
• .fish
• .pub
Marketing and Communications
• .agency
• .digital
• .email
• .marketing
• .media
• .productions
• .social
• .studio
#USA #US #fascism #AutisticiInventati #TLDs #ICAAN #EU #antifascism #tech #technology #freedom #democracy

2026-08-28 16:58:28 UTC

🥳 Two Friday releases:
• Auto Encrypt v6.1.0 - https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#readme
• Auto Encrypt Localhost v11.1.0 - https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost/#readme
This is a code quality improvement release.
Both modules now use a common x509 package (@small-web/x509) and I’ve managed to reduce third-party runtime dependencies to one in Auto Encrypt (temporal-polyfill – which I’ll remove in the next major version when I bump up the minimum Node version to 26) and zero in Auto Encrypt Localhost.
This has reduced the code surface considerably and should make things easier to audit, going forward.
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #AutoEncrypt #AutoEncryptLocalhost #releases #TLS #SSL #web #dev #JavaScript #NodeJS

2026-08-28 09:41:35 UTC

“The BBC directory general… Matt Brittin, who arrived at the BBC after 10 years leading Google in Europe”
🤦‍♂️
#nevent1q…jyhc

2026-08-28 08:40:31 UTC

So maybe launching with small-web.org and having small-tech.org is not a good idea after all…
So what are safe TLDs? Is there even such a thing? Any TLDs not controlled by the US in one form or another? Any anti-fascist TLDs.
Hey @nprofile…fu0r, maybe this is the sort of thing you should be looking into given all your “digital sovereignty”, talk, hmm? Pretty easy one to fix this one.
#nevent1q…2zey

2026-08-23 08:15:26 UTC

“The El Nino has blossomed. It is off the charts. Usual measures of El Nino have blown past prior record levels in the period with good data, even though maximum effects are still several months in the future”
https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2026/The.Bigger.Problem.2026.08.21.pdf
You’ve heard of slowly boiling frogs? We’re doing the boiling. And we’re the frogs.

2026-08-19 12:02:23 UTC

If I had to summarise capitalism in one word it would be “enclosure”.
That’s literally everything these bastards are about. Taking something that belongs to us all, building a fence around it, and calling it “mine.” (And if you don’t like it, “say hello to my little friend…”)
That’s literally the whole of their bullshit philosophy.

2026-08-19 07:11:30 UTC

ICC stands for International Criminal Court.
Think about that for a second. Take all the time you need.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvnl0elz47o

2026-08-19 06:47:16 UTC

“ECB economists warn households to brace for stock market ‘correction’”
You heard ‘em, folks… time to sharpen your guillotines.
https://www.independent.ie/business/ecb-economists-warn-households-to-brace-for-stock-market-correction/a/160151547.html

2026-08-19 06:19:00 UTC

Remember folks, we absolutely must have war and billionaires but we can easily do without bread and pasta.
#nevent1q…k88a

2026-08-18 07:49:33 UTC

Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/18/sydney-waverley-library-removes-book-how-to-sell-a-genocide-from-shelves-ntwnfb
“Denial is an integral part of genocide and includes the secret planning of genocide, propaganda while the genocide is going on, and destruction of evidence of mass killings.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #australia #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

2026-08-15 07:36:39 UTC

Your daily reminder to not use block lists from anonymous* ban-evading trolls whose dozens of sock-puppet accounts have been suspended on servers across the fediverse and whose blocklists include me as well as every verified Palestinian from Gaza on Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org)
Block this sorry excuse for a human being who is personally complicit in genocide by trying to erase Palestinian voices on the fediverse while Israel works to silence them permanently in Gaza.
* Adam, you’re not as anonymous as you might think. And what you’re doing is despicable.
#fediblock #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified @nprofile…qlpj https://fairy.id/@Linux/117095103447119013

2026-08-14 07:49:23 UTC

This Ordinary Abundance site (https://ordinaryabundance.com) is making the rounds so it’s probably a good time to inform you that the people behind it are billionaires and ex-Facebook folks, etc.:
https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/abundance-and-growth/
As lovely as that site seems it’s actually propaganda. The real message is “be grateful for all that capitalism has given you and stop trying to stand in our way as we pursue infinite growth on a finite planet for the enrichment of a handful at the expense of everyone else.”
(Not shown in that lovely house are the lack of universal healthcare, the homeless people on the street outside, or the bombs paid for with your taxes that are being used to commit genocide as we speak.)
#ordinaryAbundance #coefficientGiving #billionaires #capitalism #propaganda

2026-08-14 05:45:03 UTC

Hi everyone,
We are aware of a Gaza Verified member who has made multiple other accounts and is sending what appear to be automated direct messages.
We have spoken to him and asked him to delete these accounts and stop the automated messages by end of today and to confirm that he understands that this behaviour damages the reputation of the hundreds of other Palestinians on Gaza Verified and Gaza Verified itself and to promise not to do so in the future.
We apologise if you’ve been contacted in this way. Our verification verifies that someone is a Palestinian from Gaza. It is not a character reference (we can no more vouch for the character of every Palestinian than we can for the character of every USian). However, we have rules clearly set in our guide (https://gaza-verified.org/guide) and these are there to protect the accounts of our friends from Gaza from being reported and thus limited/suspended.
So, please, if you need to mute or block an account, do so. If you’re a server admin and you notice mass automated messages, you’re well within your rights to limit or suspend an account but if it’s not automated, please contact us so we can talk to them and explain why what they’re doing isn’t in their long term interests. Many of you already do and I thank you for it.
Please also realise that there are hundreds of Palestinians who are Gaza verified and they are all suffering through genocide and many are watching their families starve or die due to lack of access to modern medicine (again, because Israel has bombed all the hospitals and doesn’t let aid through as part of its ongoing genocide).
In many Western countries, our governments are directly complicit and, many times, profiting from Israel’s genocide.
Whatever you do, please don’t judge the entirety of something by the actions of a few and please try and keep things – namely Internet etiquette and genocide – in perspective and ask yourselves what you would do if you were in their shoes.
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #mastodon #fediverse

2026-08-13 12:43:02 UTC

- reply

@nprofile…cmq0 Yeah, that’s bullshit. People are still connected. We have verifications calls and @nprofile…uln5 talks to @nprofile…tarl and @nprofile…8rpw from there every week. And I have also.
I can’t believe that people even fall for these ridiculous lies.

2026-08-13 08:51:51 UTC

“Gotta hand it to those humans, though, they reported on their own extinction until the bitter end.”
“Didn’t do anything about it, though?”
“Nah, wasn’t really their vibe.”

2026-08-12 20:37:18 UTC

- reply

@nprofile…z6pc Yeah, no, that sounds very dodgy. Which account are we talking about?

2026-08-11 09:53:14 UTC

Oh, no, not the economy!
#nevent1q…czu7

2026-08-10 06:32:23 UTC

And when Mark Zuckerberg buys a house, he also buys the three houses around his house. When folks like him tell you “privacy is dead”, they’re talking about your privacy, not theirs.
#nevent1q…vn4r

2026-08-07 11:51:10 UTC

- reply

@nprofile…mvm4 I just received this email, titled “Your recent Mastodon post” from @nprofile…wpkg on behalf of the Codeberg “Presidium”:
***
Dear Aral Balkan
In your Mastodon post at <https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117041803584140945> you publically criticized a repository that was hosted on Codeberg, despite linking to an issue thread in which it was made clear that the content should be reported through our usual internal channels for moderation. The repository in question was reviewed by the moderation team and removed. We understand that you suffered reputational damage as a result of this repository’s content, but this does not justify damaging the reputation of Codeberg e.V. in turn. The moderation team is still a volunteer operation and sometimes it takes a few hours for someone to be available to deal with reports or to ensure that consensus exists.
We therefore warn you not to make posts of this kind that could damage the association’s reputation in future. Acting against the interests of the association can be grounds for exclusion from the membership (§5 (5) of the by-laws). If you have issues with content posted on our site in future, please report it to our moderation team at abuse@codeberg.org. In general, reports sent to that email address will usually receive a reply describing what action was taken once the moderation team has considered how to deal with the reported content.
Kind regards
Presidium
***
So, I have a problem with this.
My post in no way damaged the reputation of Codeberg. It publicly asked them to do something about it and to state, publicly, where they stand on an issue. An issue, may I add, that has to do with real people facing actual genocide as we speak. Not to mention I thanked them for making the right decision (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117043586669877395). If anything, until this email, it made the organisation look better. Unless, of course, opposing certain genocides is something that damages reputations in Germany.
I do not agree with the public issue being closed either. An issue was reported and the response was not “oh, this is serious, we’ll look into it”. It was, rather, “you reported it wrong. Report the same thing at this other place instead.”
And that other place is an entirely opaque internal system where no one gets to see what decision-making process is employed.
This is not the transparency that should exist in a member-run organisation.
So at the end of the day, I am the one being threatened with being removed from membership while the person who is actively trying to harm genocide victims (https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/) is still welcome on Codeberg?
This is a very insidious form of bothsidesism and, I can only imagine, is to ensure that I keep quiet in the future and to create a chilling effect where we cannot discuss certain things publicly for fear of reprisals.
Well, that won’t be happening.
I am sick and tired of people who cannot provide a proportional response when asked to choose between people harming genocide victims on the one hand and those trying to protect them on the other.
If this means I cannot be a member of Codeberg, so be it.
Let me know if I’m not welcome there and I will leave.
And you can show the world that Linux-Is-Best is welcome and I am not. If that’s who you are.
#codeberg #israel #germany #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #fediverse #mastodon #transparency #ethics #morals

2026-08-07 06:11:33 UTC

“Jews are execrable insects with parasite-hijacked brains.”
– Gad Saad, Zionist, at the World Symposium Against Antizionism
Zionism is antisemitic and always has been antisemitic.
To conflate antizionism with antisemitism is, itself, antisemitic.
Zionism is fascism.
Antizionism is antifascism.
(Oh, does it matter that he was only talking about “the wrong kind of Jews” – those who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people – while denying that a Holocaust survivor couldn’t possibly be a Holocaust survivor because they do so? Yes, actually. It makes it even worse.)
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/inside-the-world-symposium-against-anti-zionism-where-contempt-for-muslims-and-leftist-jews-took-center-stage/
#israel #zionism #fascism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #StopIsrael #FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza

2026-08-06 07:18:31 UTC

What was that about shithole countries again?
#nevent1q…cr4q

2026-08-05 07:49:52 UTC

Dear @nprofile…mvm4,
According to the anonymous Linux-Is-Best account, I am a scammer and Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org), which I made and help run, is a scam, and every person from Gaza we verified using video calls – all 303 of them, by last count¹ – is also a scammer.
(Please see: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2971)
This presents a problem because I am also a part of the Codeberg organisation as an active member with voting rights.
And the Gaza Verified source code is hosted on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/small-web/gaza-verified.org
(We’re clearly a very transparent scam operation that believes in FOSS, etc.)
So, if Linux-Is-Best is right, you are harbouring a known scammer in your organisation. Furthermore, by allowing the source code of the scam on your site, you could be held liable if you know of the scam but do nothing about it.
So, please:
1. Either remove me as an active member (and give me notice so I can cancel my direct debit and have time to migrate my account and projects elsewhere), or
2. Take down the libellous claims by this anonymous troll who is causing real harm to people facing genocide in Gaza (and who is thus, himself, complicit in genocide).
So I’m either a scammer and I should not be allowed to be part of the Codeberg organisation or the anonymous Linux-Is-Best is a libellous, genocide-complicit troll and should not be welcome at Codeberg. Because both of these cannot be true at the same time.
I’ll leave it to you to decide who you would rather want associated with Codeberg.
It shouldn’t be a very difficult decision to make.
¹ https://gaza-verified.org/people/
#Gaza #GazaVerified #genocide #libel #LinuxIsBest #fediverse #mastodon #Codeberg
#nevent1q…rqp3

2026-08-05 06:34:23 UTC

Am I antifascist? Of course. Why, what are you?

2026-08-04 07:38:28 UTC

Dear @nprofile…mvm4,
As an active member, I’d like to know what action will be taken against LinuxIsBest – the person mentioned below – and his account.
He is using Codeberg to spread Zionist lies about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org) and attempting to get people to mass block verified accounts of people on the fediverse facing genocide in Gaza at the hands of Israel.
As an anti-fascist organisation, I can only assume this goes against what we hold to be acceptable behaviour on our platform.
Thank you.
#genocide #Israel #zionism #hasbara #Gaza #GazaVerified #codeberg @nprofile…6n7u https://tldr.nettime.org/@katzenberger/117032929588578289

2026-08-03 17:50:23 UTC

Please help boost this if you can.
Thanks!
#mastodon #fediverse #fediblock @nprofile…6n7u https://tldr.nettime.org/@katzenberger/117032355562237286

2026-07-31 17:45:29 UTC

Humanity: the last chapter.
Via @nprofile…4twq
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/117/015/834/105/565/520/original/d00c5a7996d59cc3.jpeg

2026-07-31 07:42:46 UTC

What the fuck is wrong with you?
#nevent1q…gx58

2026-07-30 07:26:11 UTC

So how’s everyone enjoying the profit-to-extinction pipeline?

2026-07-30 07:06:23 UTC

Almost as if we shouldn’t be trusting vital scientific research to factory farms for human beings or something.
#nevent1q…vg7n

2026-07-29 09:31:35 UTC

“Please keep me out of this drama.”
The drama: an ongoing genocide.

2026-07-28 09:57:52 UTC

Ah, finally, what we’ve been asking for for years: a browser setting (ideally, mandated by law to be on by default – that’s how it should be implemented to have the most effect) that sends a proper “do not track” signal that’s not a request but a legal obligation.
If this passes, and in the form described above, I do hope it also gets enforced (unlike, say, the half-arsed enforcement of GDPR). @nprofile…pf23 https://townwizard.net/@jardo/statuses/01KYKBB5RCDJB3ZA3ZQ5CX4JAZ

2026-07-28 09:46:15 UTC

Capitalism is cancer and corporations and billionaires are its tumours.
And the most successful among us are those gainfully employed to tend to the largest tumours.
Unless we fundamentally change this system, we can’t fix any of the existential threats facing us.
Humanity has cancer and we’re celebrating tumour growth instead of taking immediate and decisive action to rid ourselves of the disease.
#capitalism #cancer #corporations #tumours

2026-07-28 07:31:21 UTC

They’re suffering through genocide, you sick fuck. @nprofile…2qq7 https://social.vivaldi.net/@NetscapeNavigator/116987165992050985

2026-07-27 17:09:53 UTC

We have the winner for our Fediverse Asshole of the Year award.
This sorry excuse of a human being has made a list of all the people who are verified to be from Gaza and facing genocide. Why? So you can block them.
If you ever wonder who your jailers are going to be in the coming age of fascism, it’s going to be psychopaths like this son of a bitch right here.
@nprofile…34l4, are genocidal assholes like this welcome on @nprofile…60xv’s server. Does this go against your terms of service? Will you be taking any action against this account?
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #vivaldi #mastodon #fediverse #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine @nprofile…2qq7 https://social.vivaldi.net/@NetscapeNavigator/116987332249412310

2026-07-26 06:17:27 UTC

Capitalism: I want you all dead.
Centrists: I can fix him 😍

2026-07-25 12:40:28 UTC

This could hang in a galactic museum as a one-photo summary of the human race and its eventual extinction. @nprofile…ffm3 https://mstdn.fr/@Grrr/116979861291321915

2026-07-24 13:03:11 UTC

Hey #Ireland, I have an idea: How about we declare this son of a bitch persona non grata and then he can go and try to sue the whole damn nation if he’s able.
What a dickhead.
https://www.thejournal.ie/peter-thiels-dialog-is-suing-powerscourt-hotel-over-cancelled-conference-7111485-Jul2026/
#PeterThiel #dickhead #billionaire #Palantir #Ireland

2026-07-23 10:09:03 UTC

Looks like there’s a Mastodon identity verification scam going around.
Good rule of thumb: if a web site asks you to verify your identity, you close that browser tab.
The scam letter looks like this (thanks to @nprofile…mg3q):
***
We detected suspicious activity on your account and have temporarily restricted access. Your new posts are currently visible only to you. To restore full access, please complete the verification process using the link below:
🔗 ‪<shortened link removed but you can report UPDATENOTIFICATION.CLICK to https://globaldomaingroup.com/report-abuse for it to be taken down>
If you do not verify within 24 hours, your account may be deleted for guideline violations. Successful verification will grant you a badge to enhance your visibility.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
The Support Team
***
Do NOT click any links if you receive such a message and inform your server admin.
#mastodon #scam #updateNotificationClick #fediverse #warning
#nevent1q…k0cw

2026-07-23 06:34:29 UTC

The machine will take anything you give it. And all it asks for is everything.
Don’t feed the machine.

2026-07-22 15:01:24 UTC

Mozilla: “why do people keep judging us by our actions and not our words?”

2026-07-22 09:57:49 UTC

Companies that cannot state for the record that they are anti-fascist are fascist. There is no middle ground. You can’t be somewhat fascist. You either are or you aren’t.

2026-07-22 09:53:45 UTC

If I say “the Nazi Bar” and you know exactly which web site I mean and you’re still on it…
🤔

2026-07-22 07:38:27 UTC

We should be banning surveillance capitalism in general; not accepting a toxic, manipulative, unsafe norm for everyone but children while depriving them of any ethical alternatives that might otherwise exist.
Instead, this is what we get when we have clueless/corrupt neoliberal politicians creating legislation.
https://ar.al/2018/11/29/gdmr-this-one-simple-regulation-could-end-surveillance-capitalism-in-the-eu/
#nevent1q…vnxa

2026-07-21 19:23:17 UTC

I’d say let’s fund it from the commons with the EU funding an independent org to maintain such a fork but I don’t see that happening with the muppets in charge at the moment who think W Social is the best thing since sliced bread.
#nevent1q…wcgs

2026-07-21 18:52:43 UTC

Oh look, it’s Mozilla… being Mozilla.
#nevent1q…9efr

2026-07-20 20:19:11 UTC

The world is literally split between people who are justifying genocide and folks who strongly believe no one should be commiting genocide.
Same species.
Blows my fucking mind.