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Fediverse Relay server updated
I've updated the relay server back end to properly support wordpress clients pushing content to the relay. If you have a server you wouldn't mind pointing at the relay, I'd love to get some more sites on it to test it out. The address is: https://relay.argentwolf.org If you have any issues, please let me know at [email protected] thanks! If you are interested in trying the server out, you can get it here. Version 2.4.0 is in testing and will be released […]https://www.wolfandraven.blog/2026/07/fediverse-relay-server-updated/
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It's been too hot recently for energetic OSM projects, so I've focused on the small scale: using @everydoor to survey shops and services in the triangle formed by Alameda Capuchinos and Alameda Barceló.
There was plenty to be done on this 1.3 kilometres of street length: roughly 50 additions, 30 changes, and only 10 POIs confirmed unchanged.
As a bonus I got to enjoy the deep shade of Plaza Capuchinos and confirm that the drinking water mapped there is working.
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I love this idea of natural comparisons between #ProportionalRepresentation and non-PR countries around the world, noting that it's almost like having a scientific control group:
* Ireland (proportional representation) vs UK (majoritarian)
* Germany (PR) vs France (majoritarian)
* New Zealand (PR) vs Australia (majoritarian, despite using Instant Runoff Voting)#ElectoralReform #FairVote #FairVoteCanada #canada #InstantRunoffVoting #RankedChoiceVoting
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We have backups in multiple locations" and "we have backups an attacker with domain credentials cannot reach" are different claims. Only one survives contact with someone who's done their reconnaissance. https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/so-you-think-your-backups-are-secure/
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The Pacific Islands DXpedition Group (PIDXG), in partnership with Youth on the Air (YOTA), is proud to announce a DXpedition to Christmas Island in November and December 2026 that will be planned, led, and operated by the next generation of DXers.
https://www.dx-world.net/vk9xy-christmas-island-2026/
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my friend at the #Nfb convention just called me asking for $30,000 for the CyberCab lol
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Ahem.
If you'd prefer search results without the AI slop, https://lantern.co.im is open to all -- SearXNG, self-hosted, no tracking, Isle of Man jurisdiction. #DigitalIndependence #SelfHosted #NoAI -
3/3 Washington's response: gate the closed models behind vetting. Meanwhile Qwen 3.5 and DeepSeek V4 Pro ship under open weights with permissive licences. No Commerce Department letter reaches them.
The cave is open. The thieves are not coming back for more.
https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/alibaba-and-the-25000-thieves/#AIPolicy #DigitalSovereignty #ExportControls #Anthropic #Alibaba #OpenWeights
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Wrote up why lighthouse.co.im finally moved from bare metal to Docker Compose -- and why it took a toot from @adamhavelka to make me look at my own setup properly.
The short version: the bare metal wasn't ideology, it was Certbot trauma. Caddy fixed the actual problem.
One database migration did not survive the journey. Now documented so you don't have to rediscover it.
https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/bare-metal-to-docker/
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I detest customers who assume every interaction is adversarial. Seriously, I just want to make you a happy customer. You don't need to enumerate all the ways I could possibly screw you over. That just makes me wonder what a miserable life you must have to live like that.
So yes, I will bend over backwards to help you close your account. When the reps from that big company you're moving to treat you like just another idiot that's more trouble than they're worth, when you bitch about the 30 minute hold times and how your call is important to them, you will have found your true home.
Meanwhile and I'll keep taking good care of people whose lives don't suck.
Ta, now.
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3/3 Full analysis -- the oldest trick in regulatory theatre, the race they built, and what it means for every jurisdiction that wasn't in the room at Évian.
https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/the-bomb-they-built/
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For IoM professional services -- law, fiduciary, finance -- data sovereignty is a compliance question, not a preference.
Digital Isle of Man is right to promote AI adoption. But promotion without a sovereignty framework is just encouraging dependency on someone else's infrastructure.
This week's export controls made that visible. Full piece:
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This week the Telegraph gave you two AI choices: Washington's kill switch or Beijing's censorship regime. Pick a side and wait.
Nobody mentioned the third option.
New piece on The Sovereign Auditor:
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Yes, yes, it was VERY clever, oh SO clever, to make part of your drum baseline sound like a blown speaker on one channel. I'm sure that anyone who listened to more than five bars of that shit is deeply impressed. #OldFart
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3/3 The planning system forgot to ask about the water. The Secretary of State conceded a "serious logical error" in January 2026 — EIA screening relied on mitigation measures that weren't secured in the consent.
The Environment Agency is being asked to regulate what is functionally a power station that applied for permission as a warehouse.
Full piece: https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/cloud-runs-on-water/#EUPolicy #AI #Environment #DataCentres #DigitalSovereignty #WaterSecurity
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This is a supply chain story dressed as a CVE. The ecosystem was built too fast. Security assumed it would catch up. It hasn't.
Digital sovereignty without perimeter defence is just security theatre. If you're running MCP servers and you skip the proxy because 'it adds complexity,' you've already lost.
https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/badhost-mcp-sovereignty/
#BadHost #CVE202648710 #Starlette #FastAPI #MCP #SupplyChain #CyberSecurity #DigitalSovereignty #ShadowIT #Architecture
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3/3 This is the supply chain attack pattern again -- trust the tooling, lose the kingdom. We covered the Anthropic npm leak last week. Same thread. The extension marketplace is the new npm.
If your source control, your IDE, and your CI/CD pipeline all report to Redmond -- that's not a stack. That's a single point of failure with good branding.
🔗 haunted.lighthouse.co.im
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And on the Isle of Man, sixteen health-tech vendors are right now inside Manx Care infrastructure -- every one on AWS, Azure, or GCP, every one subject to US jurisdiction under the CLOUD Act -- under a governance framework that hasn't received Royal Assent yet.
Same special category data. Same missing DPIA. Same question.
haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/wheres-the-dpia/
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I'm doing more fun stuff with #musescore
I'm now doing an arrangement of I'll Be There by the Jackson 5. -
I'm live on #audiopub again, at my friend's church. Come listen to some gosple and stuff.
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I am live on audiopub writing music on #musescore so come listen if you wanna hear me get frustrated
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New piece: Moonshot AI just open-sourced a model running 300 autonomous agents for 12 hours at ~$50 total. Your paralegal costs more per hour than the entire attack. Your firewall sees nothing. Your IPS has no signature. This is Cognitive DDoS -- Distributed Denial of Staff. The Botnet Grew a Brain:
#CyberSecurity #AI #AgentSwarm #SocialEngineering #InfoSec #ProfessionalServices #Governance #ThreatIntelligence #OpenSource -
CISPE called it "sovereignty washing." That's the right term.
New piece on Sovereign Auditor: https://sovereignauditor.substack.com/p/sovereignty-washing-how-the-european
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What does "digital sovereignty" actually mean -- and what doesn't it mean?
We use the phrase a lot at @hauntedlighthouse. So here's our position, written down clearly.
Jurisdiction. Audit trails. Knowing who can be compelled by a court order to hand over your data. Not nationalism. Not isolationism. Not a routing table with opinions.
https://sovereignauditor.substack.com/p/what-digital-sovereignty-means-to
#DigitalSovereignty #DataProtection #CLOUDACT #CyberEssentials #IsleOfMan #InfoSec #Privacy #GDPR -
Standard Bank kept customers informed about the breach.
So did Rootboy.
The attacker had better incident documentation than the victim. A piece on what that actually means for IR as a control.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/standard-bank-kept-customers-informed
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We called out Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program this morning as opaque gatekeeping. Then we applied. Approval came in under an hour. A Cyber Essentials cert and three honest sentences about what you actually do was sufficient. If you do legitimate security work and haven't applied -- the barrier is lower than it looks. https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/if-you-dont-ask-youll-never-find
#CyberSecurity #CyberEssentials #Anthropic #Claude #AI #InfoSec #DataProtection #IsleOfMan
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Virginia becomes the 19th state to enact National Popular Vote for President.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has now been enacted by 19 jurisdictions possessing 222 of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate it.
#NationalPopularVote #USpol #USpolitics #ElectoralReform #ElectoralCollege #NPVIC
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New piece: Constrained by Design -- Building AI Systems You Can Actually Defend.
Why n8n + Ollama looks like a complete solution but isn't. The difference between "we used AI" and "we can prove how AI was used."
For compliance advisory, auditability isn't overhead. It's the whole product.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/constrained-by-design
#SovereignAuditor #AIGovernance #LegalTech #Compliance #DataProtection #DPA #GDPR #AuditTrail
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This week: Sam Altman says AI belongs on classified Pentagon networks and should be treated like the Manhattan Project.
Also this week: Microsoft quietly classifies Copilot as "entertainment purposes only" in its terms of service.
Both of these things are true. Simultaneously. In the same week.
New post on what that gap actually means if you work in professional services.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignauditor/p/for-entertainment-purposes-only
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For years I've been writing "Washington State" (all capitalized) when necessary to distinguish from "the other Washington", and while I am a linguistic relativist, I defer to consensus when I see it. I am shook to learn that the Chicago Manual of Style's latest edition now joins the AP Stylebook in recommending "Washington state" (no capitalization) instead.
"State" still applies when talking about the university (#WSU), or of course when using CamelCase for hashtags like #WashingtonState
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Important #Cascadia/#PNW news: a cat keeps crossing the US/Canada border illegally
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Did I run a whole half marathon just to take advantage of being able to clock up 5 new kilometres in Wandrer.earth, by running on streets closed to traffic?
No. That would be crazy.
Did I deliberately run close to the central reservations, so that Wandrer would be able to tell the route apart from parallel footpaths I've already covered? Well... maybe.
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🔒 Tailscale If it's just for you, skip the public internet entirely. Use a mesh VPN. It’s faster, encrypted, and gives you a permanent "MagicDNS" address like http://jellypi:8096.
#selfhosting #homelab #Jellyfin #RaspberryPi #zrok #Tailscale (3/3)
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Right then, the mask is off and the suit is on. Now that a professional ‘scaler’ is in the captain’s chair, it’s only a tick of the clock before the AT Protocol gets its own set of ticket inspectors.
Who’s pulling their sovereign PDS out of the official relays before they start charging for the air we breathe? Better to be a digital hermit on a Finnish server than a venture capital dividend. 🏚️💻
#Bluesky #VC #SovereignStack #Decentralised #TechSceptic #Mastodon #Enshittification -
À la recherche de :
1 Retours sur le transfert des droits S1 (CPAM 65/31) depuis l'Île de Man.
2 Conseils sur les exonérations fiscales ZFRR pour les créateurs tech en zone rurale.
3 Contacts avec l'écosystème #Cybersécurité et #AutoHébergement en Occitanie.
#SouverainetéNumérique #FrenchTech #Occitanie #HautesPyrenees #IndépendanceNumérique (3/3) -
3 Occitanie-based #CyberSecurity & #SelfHosted peers.
#DigitalSovereignty #FrenchTech #Occitanie #ExpatLife #StrategicAutonomyFrançais:
Installation prévue en Occitanie (65/31) pour 2027 sous le régime Passeport Talent. 🇫🇷🛠️
Création d'une filiale de services IT basée sur une "Sovereign Stack" : #Hetzner (Finlande), #Forgejo et #MinIO. Approche "manuelle et cloisonnée", conforme à l'EU Data Act 2026, garantissant une souveraineté numérique totale hors cloud américain. (2/3) -
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Moving from #IsleOfMan to #HautesPyrenees / #Toulouse in 2027. 🏔️🇫🇷
Deploying a French subsidiary for our IT services. Architecture: Sovereign Stack (#Hetzner FI, #Forgejo, #MinIO). No hyperscalers, no black boxes—just auditable data integrity aligned with the 2026 EU Data Act.
Looking for:
1 S1 healthcare registration tips for Manx/UK retirees in CPAM 65/31.
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@tom From what I've heard, all signs point to it likely to be a very good movie.
For anyone else seeing this thread: if you think you might go see it but you haven't watched any trailers, I'd recommend don't watch them. Just go into it with no expectations. The trailers give away a pretty big twist that was a big surprise in the book. #ProjectHailMary #PHM #AndyWeir
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@tom I joined a bunch of the Reddit and Facebook fan groups for the #ProjectHailMary book, and the unending volume of pure, wholesome enthusiasm by the fandom in anticipation of the movie is really lifting my spirits. #PHM
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So rain is back, cold is back. Dry tomorrow.
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Hey #WashingtonState and especially those in #WhatcomCounty: Call the legislative hotline today at 800-562-6000 in support of SB 6346, the Millionaires Tax. It has passed the Senate, but now needs a vote in the state House and Representative Alicia Rule of the 42nd district needs to hear we support it. Call today!
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North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT https://share.google/MP2OLjZuPqWkHaQMC
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Ha! My edit notes underlined a word and beside it I wrote "expand." After some thought, I achieved more by simply deleting the word. #IAmEditing #writing #WritingCommunity
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Immediate action needed today to help #RankedChoiceVoting in #WashingtonState ! Call the legislative hotline at 1-800-562-6000, and leave a message for your House Representatives that you strongly support bringing HB 2210 (the VOICES Act) bill to the floor before Tuesday's 5 PM cutoff!
Read more about HB 2210 here: https://fairvotewa.org/ranked-choice-voting-legislation/ #waleg #wapoli
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Love it when a preplanned server upgrade is done and dusted in 15 minutes.
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Who remembers "Washington's Great #TacoTime Divide" from SeattleMet a few years ago? https://www.seattlemet.com/eat-and-drink/2023/01/taco-time-northwest-seattle-washington
Well, here is the latest state-of-play according to #OpenStreetMap and #Wikidata brand tags, mapped via @watmildon:
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Evening at the lighthouse
Servers humming like a tide you trust.
Backups done, lights trimmed, no drama on the horizon.
Decentralisation isn’t noise, it’s cadence.
Slow systems. Clear ownership.
A light that stays on when the weather turns.
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That’s why I run a private Forgejo git.
Same git. Same workflows.
Different posture.No feeds. No behavioural harvesting.
Just version control that does what it says on the tin.Email is plumbing.
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Clear sky.
Fishing fleet riding a calm sea.
The beam turns, steady as ever.
No drama. No storm.
Just quiet infrastructure doing its job.
That’s the thing about lighthouses.
They don’t shout. They operate.#HauntedLighthouse
#LighthouseLore
#SelfHosting
#Fediverse
#NightPhotography
#CalmTech