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nitter.net is currently replaced with a message about the C&D until zedeus (lead dev) gets legal advice on how to proceed. Other instances are probably ok for now (or at least until an API break). Not a great sign for anyone else who hosts it, but hopefully it gets resolved without development permanently stopping.

nitter.net is currently replaced with a message about the C&D until zedeus (lead dev) gets legal advice on how to proceed. Xcancel.com is ok for now (or at least until an API break). EDIT: xcancel.com was also C&D-ed and is now down

also shout-out to the most visually obnoxious gif I could find xD

it’s not even timed correctly at all

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1358432/nitter-project-received-cease-and-desist

Cease and desist

On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project’s repository.

nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I’m seeking legal advice and won’t be commenting further on the specifics for now.

Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.

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— zedeus, 25 August 2026

Photo source: Official website/instance— Archive.

More info: GitHub issue 1442.

This is so me, omfg 😭

I swear, every person in every transition timeline EVER looks so much happier than before. And it’s just so wholesome, omg 😭💜
Funnily enough, I’d also say most people look much younger 😆

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Apple today said it is reversing its decision and will not change the email domain used for the iCloud+ Hide My Email feature. Emails sent using Hide My Email will continue to use the same icloud.com domain that Apple uses for standard iCloud emails. In June, Apple said it would unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email under a single private.icloud.com domain.

This is good news, should they not try the same trick at a later date.

I wrote a blog post about encryption.

Unusual request, so let me be straight about what it is before I ask for anything.

The short version: I pay for MLB.tv, but the league geo-restricts games depending on the IP you watch from. The one setup that unlocks every game (no local blackouts, and none of the “this game is a Netflix/Roku/Peacock exclusive” carve-outs) is MLB.tv International, which needs a UK or EU IP. I’ve built a small Raspberry Pi that lets my stream appear to originate from a home internet connection over there, and I’m looking for someone willing to plug one into a spare ethernet port and forget it exists.

The honest part: this works around MLB’s geo-restrictions, which is against their terms of service. I’m doing it with a fully paid subscription to watch games I’ve already paid for, but if that’s not something you want on your connection, totally fair, no hard feelings, stop reading here. I’d rather you pass than feel misled.

Still with me? Here’s everything.

First, the thing you actually care about: it barely touches your connection

It is NOT a 24/7 relay, and it does NOT stream whole games through your line. MLB only checks your location at the moment a stream starts. So my usage is:

• I switch it on only at game time, for a game I’m actually blocked from.
• The stream starts, the check passes, and after under ~5 minutes I switch it back off
• The game then keeps playing over my own connection, not yours.

Net effect on you: a WireGuard handshake and a few minutes of video per game I watch. A few MB, not hours. I use a Home Assistant script to enable/disable the VPN Client in UniFi, so it’s guaranteed to shut off after a few minutes. No accidentally leaving it on forever and using your connection

Why a residential UK/EU IP, specifically

I’ve already done the homework, and residential is the only door left open:

• I already run this through a family member’s connection in the US, and it works flawlessly. But a US IP still leaves me blocked from national-broadcast games (the ESPN/Fox/Peacock/Apple/Netflix exclusives), because those are carved out of US MLB.tv at the product level no US IP fixes them. MLB.tv International has no such carve-outs, hence UK/EU.
• Commercial VPNs are blocked. I tried Mullvad, Proton, Nord and others… MLB blocks their IP ranges outright; streams fail to start.
• Datacenter/VPS IPs are blocked too. Hetzner, OVH, etc… same story, flagged as non-residential and refused.

A real residential connection is the only thing MLB treats as a legitimate viewer. That’s why I need a person with a spare port, not a server I can rent.

How it works (the technical bit)

• The Pi runs WireGuard, dialing outbound to a small cloud relay I rent (it never listens for inbound, so your router never needs to forward a port to it).
• It also runs Tailscale as an independent, outbound-only management door, so I can maintain it without ever asking you to touch it.
• The OS is a hardened Raspberry Pi: deny-all-inbound firewall, key-only SSH, no passwords over the wire, automatic security updates, and self-healing tunnel watchdogs.

   [ my home, Starlink / CGNat ]  
          │   WireGuard  (encrypted, outbound)  
          ▼  
   [ small VPS I rent ]   ◀─ only forwards encrypted frames; sees nothing  
          │   WireGuard  (encrypted)  
          ▼  
   [ My Pi in your home ]   ── dials OUT only, never listens; firewall blocks your LAN entirely  
          │  
          ▼  
   [ your home internet ]  ──▶  MLB.tv  (only ever sees your residential UK/EU IP)  

   ( my paid stream flows back up the same path to my TV — I switch the tunnel  
     off after the first few minutes, so most of it never crosses your line )  

What I’d send, and what you’d do

A Raspberry Pi in a small case. You give it power (~3–5 W, ~£0.50/month of electricity) and one ethernet port. That’s the entire job… no router config, no port forwarding, no software on your devices, no accounts.

What it can’t do on your network

The firewall denies all inbound, and for forwarded traffic it drops every private-network destination before allowing anything out. In plain terms: traffic from my tunnel physically cannot reach your LAN… not your PCs, NAS, printer, or router admin page. It can only reach the public internet.

Two things make trusting me cheap:

• Put it on a guest/IoT VLAN if you have one. Isolating it costs it nothing and then the guarantee above is enforced by your gear, not my word.
• Unplug it whenever. Nothing on your end depends on it.

Trust but verify

Send me your SSH public key and I’ll set you up a read-only account. One command, sudo host-verify, prints the live firewall rules, the tunnel status, and every connection the box currently has open — so you can confirm all of the above any time. That account can’t change anything or reach the rest of the box; it’s there purely so you don’t have to trust me blind. Happy to walk through the whole config with you too.

What’s in it for you

Mostly my genuine gratitude willingness to reciprocate in kind: host something for you, help on a homelab project, or whatever feels fair.

If you’re in the UK or EU and up for it (or just have questions) reply or DM. Cheers, and thanks for reading either way.

Hey, Maya —

First off, congratulations on becoming an “outdoors person.” Three years ago, you thought mosquitoes were government drones. Now you own boots with names like “Expedition Carbon Ultra GTX.” People change.

I’m happy for you.

Which is why I’d like to offer you fifteen thousand dollars to pretend you never invited me.

Seriously.

Take it.

Use it for backpacks, trekking poles, tiny titanium spoons, or whatever mysterious economy hikers have built among themselves.

I simply cannot spend my Saturday voluntarily climbing a mountain whose greatest achievement is being taller than the parking lot.

Good day everyone!

I finally got arround to hosting my own lemmy instance and I decided to make it all about my island. You are free to look (TW: Spanish).

So to help start things up I decided I’d grab an RSS bot and populate a couple communities with local newspapers. This one seems to be very promising as all the others I’ve found had the typical unmaintained errors and had 2+ years on their belt.

So now that I’ve had one tool on my belt I wonder what’s in everyone’s toolbelt. What do you use to manage the instances?

Tefuda ga Oome no Victoria, episode 8

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Interesting new European mobile wallet provider.

Vladimir Putin will seize private companies that do not defend themselves against Ukraine’s drones.

Using special powers, the Kremlin will take control of assets and assume formal ownership of businesses deemed to have insufficient protection against attacks or to have failed to carry out adequate repairs.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed on Tuesday his intention to visit Israel soon, underlining the firm’s objective to double its staff in the country from the current 5,000 employees.

The company, which six years ago bought the Israeli networking firm Mellanox recently announced a mega campus in northern Israel in Kiryat Tivon.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly subpoenaed several major Wall Street lenders to glean more information about their role in the near-collapse of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness.

Regulators are seeking insights into Situational Awareness’s trades, use of leverage and communications with the investment banks, which include Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup and Bank of America, according to Reuters, citing a source familiar with the matter.

Situational Awareness plunged from about $45 billion to around $10 billion in late July after it was hammered in last month’s tech sell-off.

The hedge fund, led by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, was forced to unwind much of its publicly listed portfolio of large, concentrated, levered positions — which included SK Hynix and CoreWeave — after losses sparked several margin calls among its prime brokers.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe ​visited Russia to attend meetings in Moscow on Tuesday, according to two US media outlets, in what is believed to be Ratcliffe’s first known trip to Russia since taking over as US spy chief. The reported visit comes as US-brokered talks aimed at ending the Ukraine war have stalled.

Today i learned that manjaro has, in parts, german roots and is maintained by a german company. For that i, as a german myself, want to strongly apologize in the name of the german people!!

As a big Elden Ring person with an additional 600 hours in Nightreign, the FOMO of FromSoftware’s next multiplayer experiment, The Duskbloods, being a Switch 2 exclusive was hitting me hard. That is, until I actually played it: I spent the majority of the closed network test held over the weekend confused about what the hell was going on, and even when I finally learned, I wasn’t particularly impressed.

To be fair, the network test wasn’t built to make a great first impression. It was limited to one map, six playable characters, no build customization, solo queue only, and seemed to only have a portion of its intro tutorial. I also experienced borderline unplayable input lag from the Switch 2’s docked and handheld modes, which meant I was fighting the basic controls for longer than I’d like.

Assuming the final game will have all of that fixed and more, I might end up liking The Duskbloods in the end. Elden Ring Nightreign didn’t click for me for close to 20 hours, and when it did, I dug it so much I spent the first half of this year playing it daily, even climbing to the highest level of its ranked mode. The Duskbloods might reveal itself to be a masterfully created vampire multiplayer game, but as it stands right now I think it’s an aimless mess of intriguing systems that don’t cohere into anything worth PC gamers buying a $500 (for now) console for.

Koukaku Kidoutai: THE GHOST IN THE SHELL, episode 8

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Lately, the process of accessing apps and websites has grown dizzying. “I’m in password hell,” a colleague confided to me recently. “Every login attempt is playing the lottery.” The problem is not just the sheer number of digital accounts, all of which require their own password, ideally unique and unguessable (which usually also means un-memorizable). It’s the pileup of solutions to that problem: all of the different layers of software offering to remember your passwords, the six-digit codes sent to your phone, the authenticator apps, the passkeys.

wanted to make something like this for a while. so now since i’m on a throughput train, i made it. horray.

* inspired note

• the visuals are heavily inspired by the style and abstractions used in rational animation videos. their king and the golem vid is fantastic

now it’s too late, i did it, i posted this and you cannot stop me.
no thoughts, just post. made a related pres on the topic yesterday so i’m in that headspace

i wish you a wonderful day where you are allowed to show nuance.

Hi there! My name is Alina, I’m Ad Monetization Manager from Dsail.

Saw your comment about HTML5 games and monetization. I manage H5 publishing and ad monetization, and we’re currently looking for new web games and domains to partner with. If you have a live demo or domain ready, drop me a link! I’d be happy to run a quick monetization audit to show you what kind of ad revenue it could generate, and see if there’s an opportunity for us to collaborate.

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