इंडोनेशिया राष्ट्रपति ने की पहलगाम हमले की निंदा, कहा, हमारा इस्लाम आतंकवाद को स्वीकार नहीं करता
इंडोनेशिया राष्ट्रपति प्रबोवो सुबियांतो ने जम्मू-कश्मीर के पहलगाम में हुए आतंकी हमले की निंदा की। उन्होंने भारत को समर्थन जताया। 22 अप्रैल 2025 को हुए इस हमले में 26 पर्यटक मारे गए। इस घटना ने क्षेत्र में तनाव बढ़ा दिया। इंडोनेशिया ने शांति और बातचीत की वकालत की। राष्ट्रपति ने कहा कि आतंकवाद का कोई नतीजा नहीं निकलता। भारत और इंडोनेशिया के सांस्कृतिक रिश्ते इस बयान को और अहम बनाते हैं।
इंडोनेशिया राष्ट्रपति का बयान: आतंकवाद की निंदा
इंडोनेशिया राष्ट्रपति ने भारतीय राजदूत संदीप चक्रवर्ती से मुलाकात की। उन्होंने पहलगाम हमले पर दुख जताया। राष्ट्रपति ने कहा कि इंडोनेशिया का इस्लाम आतंकवाद को स्वीकार नहीं करता। उन्होंने मृतकों के परिवारों के प्रति संवेदना व्यक्त की। साथ ही, भारत के साथ खड़े रहने का वादा किया। इस बयान ने वैश्विक ध्यान खींचा। इंडोनेशिया ने शांति की अपील की। यह रुख इस्लामिक सहयोग संगठन के पाकिस्तान समर्थन के विपरीत है।
पहलगाम हमला: क्या हुआ था?
22 अप्रैल 2025 को पहलगाम में आतंकियों ने पर्यटकों पर हमला किया। उन्होंने धर्म पूछकर 26 लोगों को गोली मारी। कई लोग घायल हुए। पहलगाम जम्मू-कश्मीर का लोकप्रिय पर्यटन स्थल है। इसके बाद भारत ने सख्त कदम उठाए। पाकिस्तान के राजनयिकों को निष्कासित किया गया। सिंधु जल समझौता रोका गया। वाघा और अटारी बॉर्डर बंद किए गए। इस तनाव ने वैश्विक समुदाय का ध्यान खींचा।
भारत-इंडोनेशिया के मजबूत रिश्ते
भारत और इंडोनेशिया के बीच गहरे सांस्कृतिक संबंध हैं। इंडोनेशिया में हिंदू-बौद्ध संस्कृति के निशान मौजूद हैं। रामायण और महाभारत वहां लोकप्रिय हैं। दोनों देश लोकतंत्र और विविधता को महत्व देते हैं। इसलिए, इंडोनेशिया का समर्थन भारत के लिए अहम है। राष्ट्रपति प्रबोवो ने आतंकवाद के खिलाफ एकजुटता दिखाई। इस बयान ने दोनों देशों के रिश्तों को मजबूती दी।
वैश्विक प्रतिक्रिया और तनाव
पहलगाम हमले के बाद वैश्विक प्रतिक्रियाएं सामने आईं। अमेरिका, रूस और चीन ने तनाव कम करने की अपील की। इस्लामिक सहयोग संगठन ने पाकिस्तान का समर्थन किया। फिर भी, इंडोनेशिया ने भारत का साथ दिया। NDTV के अनुसार, भारत ने सीमा पर सुरक्षा बढ़ाई। वैश्विक स्तर पर शांति की जरूरत पर जोर है। तनाव के बीच इंडोनेशिया का बयान महत्वपूर्ण है।
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सिंधु जल संधि निलंबन: पहलगाम हमले के बाद भारत की बड़ी कार्रवाई, जानें क्या अब पानी के लिए होगा युद्ध
पहलगाम में 22 अप्रैल 2025 को हुए आतंकी हमले ने भारत-पाकिस्तान तनाव को चरम पर पहुंचा दिया। इस हमले में 28 लोगों की मौत हुई। भारत ने जवाब में सिंधु जल संधि निलंबन का फैसला लिया। यह 1960 का समझौता था। पाकिस्तान की 80% कृषि सिंधु नदी पर निर्भर है। इस कदम से पाकिस्तान में सूखा और अकाल का खतरा बढ़ गया। बिलावल भुट्टो ने इसे लेकर भड़काऊ बयान दिया। उन्होंने कहा, “सिंधु में पानी बहेगा या खून।” भारत ने कूटनीतिक और सैन्य स्तर पर भी कार्रवाई तेज की। इस लेख में हम इस फैसले के प्रभाव और भविष्य पर चर्चा करेंगे।
सिंधु जल संधि निलंबन: भारत का रणनीतिक कदम
पहलगाम हमले के बाद भारत ने कड़े फैसले लिए। सिंधु जल संधि को निलंबित कर दिया गया। अटारी-वाघा बॉर्डर बंद किया गया। पाकिस्तानी नागरिकों के वीजा रद्द किए गए। पाकिस्तानी दूतावास को बंद करने का आदेश हुआ। जल शक्ति मंत्री सीआर पाटिल ने कहा, “पाकिस्तान को एक बूंद पानी नहीं मिलेगा।” भारत ने विश्व बैंक को सूचित किया। यह फैसला आतंकवाद के खिलाफ सख्त रुख दर्शाता है। हालांकि, भारत का मौजूदा ढांचा पानी को पूरी तरह रोक नहीं सकता। विशेषज्ञों के अनुसार, इसके लिए 5-7 साल लगेंगे।
पाकिस्तान पर सिंधु जल संधि निलंबन का प्रभाव
पाकिस्तान की अर्थव्यवस्था और कृषि सिंधु नदी पर निर्भर है। 90% खेती इस पानी से होती है। गेहूं, चावल और गन्ने की फसलें प्रभावित होंगी। सूखे का खतरा बढ़ेगा। शहरी क्षेत्रों में पानी की कमी हो सकती है। बिलावल भुट्टो ने धमकी दी कि पानी रोका तो खून बहेगा। पाकिस्तान ने इसे युद्ध की चेतावनी माना। सिंध प्रांत में विरोध प्रदर्शन शुरू हो गए। पर्यावरण विशेषज्ञों का कहना है कि पानी की कमी से समुद्री जलस्तर बढ़ेगा। इससे कृषि भूमि बंजर हो सकती है।
भारत की सैन्य और कूटनीतिक रणनीति
भारत ने ऑपरेशन त्रिनेत्र II शुरू किया। जम्मू-कश्मीर में सैनिकों की तैनाती बढ़ाई गई। ड्रोन और रात में छापेमारी तेज हुई। खुफिया जानकारी का आदान-प्रदान बढ़ा। विदेश मंत्रालय ने वैश्विक मंचों पर पाकिस्तान को बेनकाब किया। भारत ने संयुक्त राष्ट्र में आतंकवाद का मुद्दा उठाया। विदेश मंत्रालय की वेबसाइट पर यह जानकारी उपलब्ध है: भारत सरकार। भारत ने सहयोगी देशों के साथ समन्वय बढ़ाया। इसका लक्ष्य पाकिस्तान पर दबाव बनाना है। यह कदम मनोवैज्ञानिक और रणनीतिक दोनों है।
भविष्य की चुनौतियां और संभावनाएं
सिंधु जल संधि निलंबन से भारत को अंतरराष्ट्रीय आलोचना का सामना करना पड़ सकता है। पाकिस्तान संयुक्त राष्ट्र में शिकायत कर सकता है। हालांकि, भारत का कहना है कि आतंकवाद के कारण यह कदम जरूरी था। भारत को बांध और जलाशय बनाने होंगे। इससे पानी का उपयोग बढ़ेगा। जलवायु परिवर्तन भी चुनौती है। ब्रह्मपुत्र नदी पर चीन का नियंत्रण भारत के लिए चिंता है। विशेषज्ञों का मानना है कि पानी अब भू-राजनीति का हिस्सा है। भारत को रणनीतिक और कानूनी संतुलन बनाना होगा।
आपकी राय: सिंधु जल संधि निलंबन पर आप क्या सोचते हैं? क्या यह सही कदम है? नीचे कमेंट करें और अपनी राय साझा करें।
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मदरसे बंद: पहलगाम हमले के बाद PoK में फैला भारत का खौफ, सभी धार्मिक आयोजन बंद
पहलगाम में हालिया आतंकवादी हमले ने भारत-पाकिस्तान के बीच तनाव बढ़ा दिया। इस हमले के बाद पाकिस्तान ने PoK में मदरसे बंद कर दिए। पाकिस्तानी सरकार और सेना को भारत की जवाबी कार्रवाई का डर सता रहा है। इसलिए, अगले 10 दिनों के लिए PoK में सभी धार्मिक आयोजन भी बंद किए गए। साथ ही, 1,000 से अधिक मदरसों को अस्थायी रूप से बंद कर दिया गया। पाकिस्तानी अधिकारी इसे रक्षात्मक कदम बता रहे हैं। उनका कहना है कि भारत इन मदरसों को आतंकी प्रशिक्षण केंद्र मान सकता है। इस लेख में हम इस स्थिति के कारणों और प्रभावों पर चर्चा करेंगे।
मदरसे बंद: पहलगाम हमले का असर
पहलगाम में 23 अप्रैल 2025 को हुआ आतंकवादी हमला तनाव का मुख्य कारण है। आतंकवादियों ने निर्दोष लोगों को निशाना बनाया। भारत ने इसे पाकिस्तान प्रायोजित आतंकवाद बताया। इसके बाद, भारत ने कड़े कदम उठाए। सिंधु जल समझौता रद्द कर दिया गया। अटारी-वाघा बॉर्डर बंद कर दिया गया। पाकिस्तानी नागरिकों के वीजा रद्द किए गए। इन कदमों से पाकिस्तान में हड़कंप मच गया। पाकिस्तानी सेना को सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक का डर है। इसलिए, उन्होंने PoK में मदरसे बंद करने का फैसला लिया।
PoK में धार्मिक आयोजन और मदरसे बंद का फैसला
पाकिस्तान ने PoK में सख्ती बढ़ाई है। अगले 10 दिनों के लिए सभी धार्मिक आयोजन बंद हैं। साथ ही, 1,000 से अधिक मदरसों को बंद किया गया। इनमें 445 रजिस्टर्ड मदरसे शामिल हैं। इन मदरसों में 26,000 से अधिक छात्र पढ़ते हैं। पाकिस्तानी अधिकारी हाफिज नाजिर अहमद ने इसे रक्षात्मक कदम बताया। उन्होंने कहा कि भारत इन मदरसों को आतंकी केंद्र मान सकता है। हालांकि, उन्होंने गर्मी (हीटवेव) को भी कारण बताया। लेकिन, असल वजह भारत का डर है। यह जानकारी भारत सरकार की वेबसाइट पर उपलब्ध है: भारत सरकार।
पाकिस्तान में डर और सुरक्षा उपाय
पाकिस्तान में भारत की जवाबी कार्रवाई का डर बढ़ रहा है। लाहौर, कराची, और इस्लामाबाद में हाई अलर्ट जारी है। पाकिस्तानी सेना की छुट्टियां रद्द कर दी गई हैं। रिजर्व फोर्स को तैयार रहने को कहा गया। PoK में कई सैन्य पोस्ट खाली हैं। पाकिस्तानी रेंजर्स गायब हैं। अधिकारी मान रहे हैं कि भारत सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक कर सकता है। 2016 की सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक और 2019 की बालाकोट एयर स्ट्राइक इसका उदाहरण हैं। इसलिए, पाकिस्तान ने PoK में सुरक्षा बढ़ाई है।
भारत की रणनीति और भविष्य
भारत लंबे समय से PoK में आतंकी गतिविधियों पर नजर रख रहा है। खुफिया रिपोर्ट्स के अनुसार, कई मदरसे जिहादी प्रशिक्षण दे रहे हैं। भारत ने पहले भी आतंकी ठिकानों को निशाना बनाया है। अब, पहलगाम हमले के बाद भारत और सख्त रुखadopt कर सकता है। विदेश मंत्रालय ने कहा कि आतंकवाद बर्दाश्त नहीं होगा। भारतीय सेना हाई अलर्ट पर है। विशेषज्ञों का मानना है कि भारत डिप्लोमैटिक और सैन्य दबाव बनाए रखेगा। इससे पाकिस्तान पर दबाव बढ़ेगा।
आपकी राय: PoK में मदरसे बंद करने पर आप क्या सोचते हैं? क्या यह सही कदम है? नीचे कमेंट करें और अपनी राय साझा करें।
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Punjab News: पंजाब के पटियाला जिले के राजपुरा के जनसुआ गांव में एक घटना ने सबको हिलाकर रख दिया। यहाँ एक महिला को खंभे से बांधकर ग्रामीणों ने बेरहमी से पीटा और बेइज्जत किया। यह दिल दहलाने वाला वाकया 4 अप्रैल को हुआ, जिसका वीडियो सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हो गया। पुलिस ने तुरंत एक्शन लेते हुए 13 लोगों के खिलाफ केस दर्ज किया है। इस घटना ने कानून व्यवस्था और समाज की संवेदनशीलता पर सवाल खड़े कर दिए हैं।
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जानकारी के मुताबिक, महिला पर इल्जाम था कि उसके बेटे ने एक शादीशुदा महिला को भगा दिया। हिंदुस्तान टाइम्स की रिपोर्ट में कहा गया कि इसी गुस्से में ग्रामीणों ने कानून हाथ में लिया। दो बच्चों की मां को बिजली के खंभे से बांधकर चार घंटे तक पीटा गया। पटियाला पॉलिटिक्स के अनुसार, भीड़ ने उसके कपड़े फाड़े और वीडियो बनाकर शर्मिंदा करने की कोशिश की। पीड़िता ने बताया कि उसे अपने बेटे की हरकतों की कोई जानकारी नहीं थी। फिर भी, उसे क्रूर सजा का शिकार बनाया गया।
पुलिस की कार्रवाई: 13 के खिलाफ केस, तीन गिरफ्तार
घटना का वीडियो वायरल होने के बाद पटनाना सदर पुलिस हरकत में आई और महिला को बचाया। फ्री प्रेस जर्नल के मुताबिक, पुलिस ने पांच महिलाओं समेत 13 लोगों पर मुकदमा दर्ज किया। इनमें से तीन आरोपियों को गिरफ्तार कर लिया गया, बाकियों की तलाश जारी है। डीएसपी रशिंदर सिंह ने टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया को बताया कि सख्त कार्रवाई की जा रही है। पीड़िता के पिता और बेटे को भी हिरासत में लिया गया है। दोनों को कोर्ट में पेश कर रिमांड पर लिया जाएगा।
पीड़िता का दर्द: चार घंटे तक सहा अत्याचार
अस्पताल में भर्ती पीड़िता ने हिंदुस्तान टाइम्स को बताया कि उसे खंभे से बांधकर बेरहमी से पीटा गया। उसने कहा कि भीड़ ने उसके कपड़े फाड़े और मारपीट की, जिससे वह घायल हो गई। पटियाला पॉलिटिक्स की रिपोर्ट में पीड़िता के बयान हैं कि उसे कुछ पता नहीं था। फिर भी, ग्रामीणों ने उसकी एक न सुनी और उसे शर्मिंदा करने की कोशिश की। पुलिस के आने पर ही उसे आजादी मिली, लेकिन तब तक बहुत देर हो चुकी थी।
पंजाब महिला आयोग का सख्त रुख
पंजाब राज्य महिला आयोग ने इस घटना पर संज्ञान लिया और त्वरित कार्रवाई के आदेश दिए। टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया के अनुसार, आयोग की अध्यक्ष राज लाली गिल ने SSP पटियाला को रिपोर्ट मांगी। उन्होंने कहा कि 7 अप्रैल तक एक्शन टेकन रिपोर्ट जमा करनी होगी। फ्री प्रेस जर्नल के मुताबिक, आयोग ने इसे गंभीरता से लिया और दोषियों को सजा दिलाने का भरोसा जताया। यह कदम महिलाओं के सम्मान और सुरक्षा के लिए उठाया गया है।
पुलिस का वादा: दोषियों को नहीं छोड़ेंगे
डीएसपी रशिंदर सिंह ने हिंदुस्तान टाइम्स को भरोसा दिलाया कि कानून तोड़ने वालों को बख्शा नहीं जाएगा। उन्होंने कहा कि जांच तेजी से चल रही है और सभी दोषियों को पकड़ा जाएगा। पटियाला पॉलिटिक्स के अनुसार, पुलिस ने इसे मानवता के खिलाफ अपराध माना है। ग्रामीणों की इस हरकत ने पूरे इलाके में डर और गुस्से का माहौल पैदा कर दिया है। पुलिस ने कहा कि जल्द ही इंसाफ होगा और दोषियों को सजा मिलेगी।
समाज में उबाल: लोग बोले- यह कहां का न्याय?
इस घटना ने समाज में गहरी नाराजगी पैदा की है। टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया की रिपोर्ट में लोगों के गुस्से का जिक्र है। कई ने कहा कि कानून को हाथ में लेना गलत है और यह शर्मनाक है। फ्री प्रेस जर्नल के मुताबिक, सोशल मीडिया पर लोग इसे बर्बरता बता रहे हैं। यह घटना न सिर्फ पीड़िता के लिए दुखद है, बल्कि समाज के लिए भी एक चेतावनी है। लोग अब सख्त सजा की मांग कर रहे हैं।
दक्षिण कन्नड़ बंद: सुहास शेट्टी हत्या के विरोध में विहिप ने बुलाया बंद, बस सेवाएं ठप, एनआईए से जांच की मांग
कर्नाटक के दक्षिण कन्नड़ जिले में दक्षिण कन्नड़ बंद ने जनजीवन को प्रभावित किया। हिंदू कार्यकर्ता सुहास शेट्टी की हत्या के विरोध में विश्व हिंदू परिषद (विहिप) ने बंद का आह्वान किया। जिला प्रशासन ने निषेधाज्ञा लागू की। इसके बावजूद, कुछ इलाकों में हिंसा हुई। यह घटना सामाजिक तनाव को दर्शाती है। आइए, इस मामले की पूरी जानकारी समझते हैं।
दक्षिण कन्नड़ बंद: घटना का विवरण
1 मई 2025 को सुहास शेट्टी की हत्या मंगलुरु के बाजपे में हुई। इसके बाद, विहिप ने 2 मई को बंद बुलाया। सुबह से ही मंगलुरु के हम्पनकट्टा, फाल्निर, कंकनाडी और बल्मट्टा में दुकानें बंद रहीं। उपनगरीय क्षेत्रों जैसे उल्लाल, सूरतकल और मुल्की में भी बंद का असर दिखा। पुलिस ने संवेदनशील इलाकों में दुकानदारों से प्रतिष्ठान बंद करने को कहा। तनाव के बीच सड़कों पर सन्नाटा छा गया।
दक्षिण कन्नड़ बंद: सार्वजनिक परिवहन पर हमला
बंद के दौरान बसों पर पथराव की घटनाएं सामने आईं। कर्नाटक राज्य सड़क परिवहन निगम (केएसआरटीसी) ने सेवाएं निलंबित कर दीं। पंपवेल और कंकनाडी में बसों पर हमले हुए। बेलथांगडी, पुत्तूर और बंटवाल से आने वाली बसें प्रभावित हुईं। निजी बसों पर भी मुल्की और नंतूर में पथराव हुआ। डीके बस ओनर्स एसोसिएशन ने सभी बसें रोक दीं। ऑटोरिक्शा और अन्य वाहन भी सड़कों से गायब रहे।
प्रशासन की कार्रवाई और निषेधाज्ञा
जिला प्रशासन ने स्थिति नियंत्रित करने के लिए कदम उठाए। पुलिस अधीक्षक एन. यतीश ने शराब की दुकानें बंद करने की सिफारिश की। उपायुक्त डॉ. मुल्लई मुहिलन ने पांच तालुकों में शराब बिक्री पर रोक लगाई। निषेधाज्ञा के तहत सार्वजनिक सभाओं पर प्रतिबंध रहा। पुलिस ने अतिरिक्त बल तैनात किया। अधिक जानकारी के लिए कर्नाटक पुलिस की वेबसाइट देखें। प्रशासन ने नागरिकों से शांति बनाए रखने की अपील की।
राजनीतिक प्रतिक्रिया और जांच की मांग
दक्षिण कन्नड़ के सांसद बृजेश चौटा ने गृह मंत्री अमित शाह को पत्र लिखा। उन्होंने हत्याकांड की जांच एनआईए को सौंपने की मांग की। बीजेपी नेता बी.वाई. विजयेंद्र मंगलुरु पहुंचे। वे सुहास शेट्टी के अंतिम संस्कार में शामिल हुए। विहिप ने इसे सुनियोजित हत्या बताया। सोशल मीडिया पर #JusticeForSuhasShetty ट्रेंड कर रहा है। यह मामला राजनीतिक और सामाजिक बहस का केंद्र बन गया। दक्षिण कन्नड़ बंद और सुहास शेट्टी हत्या मामला गंभीर सवाल उठाता है। आप इस बारे में क्या सोचते हैं? नीचे कमेंट में अपनी राय साझा करें।
सूरत अपहरण: महिला शिक्षिका ने 11 साल के छात्र के साथ कई बार किया सेक्स, गर्भवती होने पर किया किडनैप
गुजरात के सूरत में सूरत अपहरण मामला सामने आया है। 23 साल की महिला शिक्षिका ने अपने 11 साल के नाबालिग छात्र को भगा लिया। चार दिन की तलाश के बाद पुलिस ने दोनों को हिरासत में लिया। यह घटना समाज में चर्चा का विषय बन गई। पुलिस ने गंभीर धाराओं में मामला दर्ज किया। आइए, इस मामले की विस्तृत जानकारी जानते हैं।
सूरत अपहरण: घटना का पूरा विवरण
25 अप्रैल 2025 को सूरत के पूणागाम क्षेत्र में यह घटना हुई। 23 साल की शिक्षिका, मानसी, अपने 11 साल के छात्र के साथ फरार हो गई। दोनों एक ही सोसाइटी में रहते थे। छात्र के परिवार ने पुलिस में शिकायत दर्ज की। सीसीटीवी फुटेज में दोनों सूरत रेलवे स्टेशन पर नजर आए। इसके बाद, पुलिस ने तलाश शुरू की। चार दिन बाद, उन्हें गुजरात-राजस्थान सीमा पर पकड़ लिया गया।
सूरत अपहरण: शिक्षिका का चौंकाने वाला दावा
पुलिस पूछताछ में शिक्षिका ने सनसनीखेज खुलासा किया। उसने बताया कि वह पांच महीने की गर्भवती है। शिक्षिका का दावा है कि बच्चा उसी 11 साल के छात्र का है। इसलिए, वह उसे लेकर भागी थी। पुलिस इस दावे की जांच कर रही है। मेडिकल जांच में छात्र के पिता बनने की क्षमता की पुष्टि हुई। अब डीएनए टेस्ट से सच्चाई का पता लगाया जाएगा। यह खुलासा समाज में हलचल मचा रहा है।
अनुचित संबंध और भागने की योजना
जांच में सामने आया कि शिक्षिका और छात्र पिछले दो साल से शारीरिक संबंध में थे। छात्र रोज उसके घर ट्यूशन पढ़ने जाता था। शिक्षिका ने उसे अपने जाल में फंसाया। पूछताछ में छात्र ने भी संबंध की बात कबूल की। चार दिन तक दोनों जयपुर, दिल्ली और अन्य शहरों में रहे। इस दौरान होटलों में उनके बीच शारीरिक संबंध बने। पुलिस ने शिक्षिका के खिलाफ पोक्सो एक्ट और अपहरण की धाराओं में केस दर्ज किया।
पुलिस कार्रवाई और कानूनी प्रक्रिया
पुलिस ने शिक्षिका को शमलाजी के पास एक बस से पकड़ा। छात्र को सुरक्षित परिवार को सौंप दिया गया। शिक्षिका ने भागने की योजना पहले से बनाई थी। उसने 35,000 रुपये निकाले, नया सिम कार्ड और बैग खरीदा। पुलिस ने मोबाइल ट्रैकिंग से दोनों को ढूंढा। गुजरात सरकार ने मामले को गंभीरता से लिया। अधिक जानकारी के लिए गुजरात पुलिस की आधिकारिक वेबसाइट देखें। सूरत अपहरण मामला शिक्षा और समाज पर सवाल उठाता है। आप इस बारे में क्या सोचते हैं? नीचे कमेंट में अपनी राय दें।
डॉ प्रीति यादव के नेतृत्व में पटियाला में गंदे पानी की समस्या का समाधान, अधिकारियों को दिए यह सख्त आदेश
पटियाला की उपायुक्त डॉ प्रीति यादव ने गंदे पानी की समस्या पर कड़ा रुख अपनाया है। उन्होंने ड्रेनेज, नगर निगम, लोक निर्माण और जल सप्लाई विभागों को तत्काल कार्रवाई के निर्देश दिए। नालों, नहरों और ड्रेनों में गंदा पानी रोकने के लिए ठोस कदम उठाए जाएंगे। यह पहल पर्यावरण और जनस्वास्थ्य की रक्षा के लिए महत्वपूर्ण है।
डॉ प्रीति यादव की सख्ती: गंदे पानी पर रोक
डॉ यादव ने दीप सिंह नगर, शांति नगर और बिशन नगर का दौरा किया। उन्होंने सीवरेज निकासी की स्थिति की समीक्षा की। जहां गंदा पानी बह रहा था, उसे तुरंत रोकने के आदेश दिए। उपायुक्त ने कहा कि यह समस्या गंभीर है। इसलिए, सभी विभागों को मिलकर त्वरित समाधान निकालना होगा।
नियम तोड़ने वालों पर कार्रवाई
उपायुक्त ने ड्रेनेज विभाग के कार्यों का मूल्यांकन किया। उन्होंने चेतावनी दी कि नियम तोड़ने वालों पर सख्त कार्रवाई होगी। कोई भी व्यक्ति या संस्था जल प्रबंधन अधिनियम का उल्लंघन नहीं कर सकती। इसके लिए, विभागों को नियमित निगरानी के निर्देश दिए गए। साथ ही, अधिकारियों से जवाबदेही सुनिश्चित करने को कहा गया।
सीवर और पाइपलाइन सुधार के लिए डॉ प्रीति यादव के निर्देश
पटियाला में सीवर कनेक्टिविटी एक बड़ी समस्या है। डॉ प्रीति यादव ने मौजूदा पाइपलाइनों का निरीक्षण करने को कहा। उन्होंने नगर निगम को नालियों की नियमित सफाई सुनिश्चित करने के आदेश दिए। इसके अलावा, स्क्रीनिंग कक्षों की स्थिति पर तत्काल रिपोर्ट मांगी। ये कदम व्यवस्था को और बेहतर बनाएंगे।
पर्यावरण और जनस्वास्थ्य के लिए प्रयास
पंजाब सरकार पर्यावरण संरक्षण को प्राथमिकता देती है। गंदे पानी का बहाव नदियों और नहरों को दूषित करता है। इससे जनस्वास्थ्य पर भी असर पड़ता है। उपायुक्त ने कहा कि सभी विभाग मिलकर इस समस्या का समाधान करेंगे। इसके लिए पंजाब प्रदूषण नियंत्रण बोर्ड के दिशा-निर्देशों का पालन होगा। डॉ प्रीति यादव के नेतृत्व में गंदे पानी की समस्या के समाधान के लिए और क्या कदम उठाए जा सकते हैं? नीचे कमेंट करें।
I'm making an initial version of places.pub available today. places.pub is a collection of Place objects suitable for use in geosocial applications on the ActivityPub network. Part of my work in the Social Web Community Group at the W3C has been participa
I’m making an initial version of places.pub available today. places.pub is a collection of Place objects suitable for use in geosocial applications on the ActivityPub network.
One important need for geosocial software is that all objects in ActivityPub, including Place objects, need to have a permanent URL as their id property, which shares the description of that object in Activity Streams 2.0 format. However, there isn’t a good dataset of geographical objects — countries, states or provinces or regions, cities, buildings, businesses, parks, streets — available in AS2 on the Web right now. That is slowing down experimentation in the Geosocial Task Force.
Using the service
So, I worked on making places.pub for geosocial hackers to experiment with. It’s a service that exposes places from the amazing OpenStreetMap collection of data as AS2 objects on the Web. So, given an OpenStreetMap object like the Rogers Centre Ottawa, it provides an AS2 version suitable for use in geosocial activities in ActivityPub. It also has a rudimentary search mechanism, although I think most users will want to use the Nominatim service for searching the OpenStreetMap database, and then map the IDs onto places.pub.
Once you know the places.pub ID for a place, you can use it for geotagging objects, people, activities, or using special geosocial activity types like check in, check out, and travel. There is a good list of examples on the places.pub home page, but obviously this is not an exhaustive list!
How it is built
This wasn’t my first time trying to build places.pub; I’d done two earlier versions with different architectures and the same interface. The first time out, about 7 years ago, I created a full NodeJS server that used a full mirror of the OpenStreetMap database, so I didn’t need to hit the OSM API to fetch data. It worked pretty well, but it was really expensive — hundreds of dollars per month to keep a database server of that size running and synched.
I tried a second version a few months ago, which did batch generation of AS2 Place objects from the OpenStreetMap exports, and then uploaded them to the S3 service at Amazon Web Services. This was a whole lot cheaper, but it took a long time to download, convert, and re-upload the data.
This third implementation, with source code available on GitHub, is a little bit easier than both. Instead of sloshing the huge OSM dataset back and forth, I used the version of the data stored in the Google Cloud Public Datasets system on BigQuery. This let me ignore the effort of moving data, and just focus on giving it a good ActivityPub-compatible interface using a Google Cloud Run function. It seems to work pretty nicely.
Next steps
I’d love to see some experimentation with using places.pub for geosocial activity in the social web. I’m going to work on some implementations in my own ActivityPub software. If you find problems with the software, please add an issue on GitHub or let me know on the Fediverse at @evanprodromou.
I'm wondering why it isn't preferable for OpenStreetMap to provide this data directly. Since they are the stewards and custodians of the entire data set, it would only make sense that other people on the Web depend on OSM's domain instead of a third party, no?
I’m very happy and excited to share that as of early March, I’m working with Mastodon full-time, as Head of Communications.
Pivot…
A full-time role in communications is a slight pivot for me, but I can draw a through-line across all of my experience with community, public speaking, and in developer relations – Dev Rel often contains an element of acting as a translator between parties; demystifying new technologies and APIs and explaining them in layman’s terms; connecting customer feedback to the right places inside an organisation. In the case of Mastodon, I get to draw on multiple threads of experience: working adjacent to the news and Curation product teams, and also the Policy and the Trust & Safety teams, in my previous full-time role; 20+ years of Open Source (and Open Source foundation) community experience; public speaking, and writing about tech. The best part of it all is that Mastodon, the Fediverse, and Open Source, are all things that I am deeply personally invested in, and passionate about.
I’m extremely grateful to the rest of the team at Mastodon (particularly Eugen and the leadership for trusting me with the role, and also the board of our US 501(c)(3) entity who were instrumental in the decision making processes that enabled me to become involved on a full-time basis).
Looking ahead
In terms of communications strategy, I’m working on making things less reactive, more proactive. As a small, technically-focused team we have not always been able to quickly respond to media and other inquiries. My goal is that with more bandwidth to dedicate on talking to press, organisations, etc (and by decoupling these replies from being distractions or burdens on the engineering folks) we can do more to tell the story of the Fediverse, and Mastodon, more broadly. We’ll continue to work with the community as we do so – in fact, I’m hoping to hear how we can better support community efforts to share the message about ethical, more privacy-focused social web platforms, and also looking to learn about local and cultural nuances that can help us to share our story in a strong way.
You’ll see us getting more involved at conferences, community events, and in some more formal environments as well. Feel free to get in touch, if I can help – contact information is listed on the website.
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This year, we’ve been working on improving the profile of our small maker studio – in particular, through getting out to different kinds of events.
For those not aware, for about 18 months now we’ve been building an art / maker space and studio, which is known as Forge & Craft – based in the Wimbledon Art Studios community, in south west London. The concept is that we are interested in making physical art with technology, and in particular our primary work is using pen plotters. I wrote some more about it last year.
We’ve now taken part in three Wimbledon Art Fairs at the studios (and we’ve signed up to take part in the next show, in November). These are four day open studios weekends, where you can visit us as well as exploring over a hundred (!) other artist spaces.
Since the last show in April, we also had a stall in the Night Market at Electromagnetic Field (where I also gave a talk about the history of computer art with plotters – I’ll be sharing more about the talk when the videos become available; and, we showed our machines and craft in our popup village). Two weeks ago we travelled up to Liverpool for this year’s Liverpool Makefest – we went as visitors last year, but this time, we got involved as exhibitors. It was a lot of fun! Our stand at Liverpool Makefest 2024My brachiograph and other drawing machines on display Coming up next, we’ll be at the Twickenham High Tide Festival (specifically, we will be located at Twickenham Green), on Sunday 28th July; and then, as mentioned above, we’ll also open the studio again in November for the next Wimbledon Art Fair.
Finally, as well as the talks and shows, I was really honoured to be commissioned to create some prize pieces for CommCon this year. It was a lot of fun to work with my restored, vintage 1980s Roland DXY-1100 flatbed plotter, and to collaborate with Dan to create some images of London and San Francisco for the event. CommCon 2024 LondonCommCon 2024 San Francisco We’re working on a refresh of our simple web landing page at the moment, but in the meantime, you’re free to also take a look at the shop and see the kinds of art we’re working on. We have a Pixelfed profile with images of our work, as well. If you are interested in discussing commissions or any other opportunities you have in mind, please get in touch.
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A day at a very fun maker event, Liverpool Makefest 2023, meeting back up with long-time friends and watching young people learn about both making, and more sustainable practices.
Back in May, Eugen announced that I’d joined the team at Mastodon gGmbH, to look after Developer Relations. I was helping out in different ways, and getting to know the community across different Fediverse projects, since the start of the year; it was great to be able to spend a small portion of my freelance time working on something that I personally believe in, that I’m excited about, and where I can bring relevant experience to bear in multiple areas.
The initial six month arrangement technically wrapped up at the end of November, and I thought it might be nice to reflect on what I was able to achieve over that period (I’m also excited to be able to continue this work going into 2024). Some of the work was very much “behind the scenes” / “under the radar”, so it is less straightforward to document here, but here are some of the larger and more visible outcomes.
I’d also like to use this space to again, say Thank You to the large number of developers that spend their time building libraries, tools, and full Mastodon apps, for the platform. We appreciate you!
I refreshed the GitHub organisation & project look-and-feel, setting up an organisation-level README, and links to our Code of Conduct across all of our projects.
I worked on cross-project and cross-instance collaboration channels. This is a little more difficult to document because there are a lot of channels (Mastodon, Discord, Signal, GitHub / other source control communities, face-to-face and 1:1 meetings), but I’m hopeful (and I believe) that I’ve been successful in bringing folks together in meaningful ways over the course of the year.
I attended a number of workshops on behalf of the team – the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a series on challenges to moderation and safety in distributed social networks, the Data Transfer Initiative ran an excellent conversation, and I’ve had several contacts with folks via Fediforum.
I talked about Mastodon and the Fediverse to Developer Relations-specific audiences at DevRelCon in London, and at the Dublin DevRel meetup (recording here).
I represented and spoke about Mastodon at All Things Open (alongside my personal attendance). Stickers!
An array of tech-related stickers on a tabletop, featuring Mastodon logos
I worked with the triage team that Renaud established to significantly burn down the backlog of documentation and website issues. There was a particularly large burst of activity around this during November and December, and this was also part of my 24 Pull Requests contribution this month.
there is a lot more still to do here, and contributions are welcomed. We want to rebuild the documentation website in a format that is more closely aligned with the joinmastodon.org site, and would love to have some help with that.
I secured a table for the project at FOSDEM 2024, and I will be working with Renaud and others to run that presence.
Excited to announce that the @Mastodon project will have a stand at #FOSDEM2024 … February this year was my first time at #FOSDEM, and this time I'll be there with a project I support! Looking forward to it. fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-2…
With the aim to maintain a range of different relationships and channels of conversation, I’ve also been actively having discussions with organisations and supporting groups such as IFTAS, Fastly, Fediforum, and more.
I’d love to spend more time with the Mastodon team and contribute in even more ways; from the perspective of building a sustainable freelancer lifestyle, it is only a small part of my time, and I’m open to other opportunities. Mastodon in Malta! 🇲🇹 Looking forward to 2024! FOSDEM next, and then, Princeton…
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I bridge the gap between humans and technology, whether they are end users or developers.… · Experience: Mastodon · Location: Kingston Upon Thames · 500+ connections on LinkedIn.
Last week, I had the pleasure of talking to the Dublin #DevRel Meetup, organised by my friends at Voxgig – all about Developer Relations in the era of “Community Everywhere”. I covered a range of the current and emerging social platforms where we can connect with our communities, and later in the session I talked more specifically about what’s new in Mastodon 4.2.
A small hiccup meant that after about the 5th slide the presentation was no longer being shared into the online recording, but the full slide deck is here if you want to follow along with the talk, and I’ve also got a set of notes and links for the talk online.
The organisers also invited me to talk about the new release of Mastodon, version 4.2. This is the first major version to have come out since I started helping the team, and it’s a pretty big deal as it introduces a few major features that folks have been looking for, notably opt-in search. In the second part of my section of the meetup, I talked a bit about version 4.2, and also shared a few tools that I use regularly that give me additional features and ways to keep up with the conversations around the communities I want to connect with. The notes are again available at the same link posted above.
tl;dr (aka didn’t watch / or check the notes) – there are a few third-party apps and tools that I use regularly to help me to stay up-to-date. In particular, I love (and choose to pay for) Murmel and fediview which email me daily summaries of links or conversations I might otherwise miss in the reverse-chronological timeline. I also use some browser extensions that add a few niceties to the experience, such as Graze and Streetpass.
Thanks to Sinead and Richard for having me talk at the meetup, and for continuing to support the DevRel community with great content each month – there’s also a good podcast from Voxgig that you should check out.
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Last week, I had the pleasure of talking to the Dublin #DevRel Meetup, organised by my friends at Voxgig – all about Developer Relations in the era of “Community Everywhere”. I covered a range of the current and emerging social platforms where we can connect with our communities, and later in the session I talked more specifically about what’s new in Mastodon 4.2.
A small hiccup meant that after about the 5th slide the presentation was no longer being shared into the online recording, but the full slide deck is here if you want to follow along with the talk, and I’ve also got a set of notes and links for the talk online.
The organisers also invited me to talk about the new release of Mastodon, version 4.2. This is the first major version to have come out since I started helping the team, and it’s a pretty big deal as it introduces a few major features that folks have been looking for, notably opt-in search. In the second part of my section of the meetup, I talked a bit about version 4.2, and also shared a few tools that I use regularly that give me additional features and ways to keep up with the conversations around the communities I want to connect with. The notes are again available at the same link posted above.
tl;dr (aka didn’t watch / or check the notes) – there are a few third-party apps and tools that I use regularly to help me to stay up-to-date. In particular, I love (and choose to pay for) Murmel and fediview which email me daily summaries of links or conversations I might otherwise miss in the reverse-chronological timeline. I also use some browser extensions that add a few niceties to the experience, such as Graze and Streetpass.
Thanks to Sinead and Richard for having me talk at the meetup, and for continuing to support the DevRel community with great content each month – there’s also a good podcast from Voxgig that you should check out.
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I’ve been trying out as many shiny new things as I can. There are a couple of reasons: I find that folks often ask me for opinions on new technologies; and, I have a view that unless I do try things, I may miss something that’s really interesting or that might have a future impact.
The events of last year and specifically last November when Twitter began to be burned to the ground, caused another surge of innovation and interest around possible alternatives. I’m not about to go through them all extensively in this post, but really just wanted to share where you can find me.
Where you (might) find me
Primarily, I’m on Mastodon, and have no plans to be anywhere else in particular (more about this in a moment). For the sake of balance and information, here are some other places you can find my content.
I have accounts on Post and on Hive, but barely open either app. Hive doesn’t have a web presence for me to point you at, even. I’m not sure about the policies of either platform, and neither really stuck.
I’m on Cohost. It feels very Tumblr-y. I haven’t used it very much, but I see a few interesting features, and it definitely doesn’t seem to want to be any of the other existing networks, it feels more new and different.
I’m on T2Pebble. Pebble was called T2 until today, but that was always a temporary name, which I realised. A couple of former Twitter people are involved over there. It feels very friendly, but so far I have a limited network, and drop in from time to time.
I’m on Bluesky. Back when this was initially kicked off from inside of Twitter as the notion of a new protocol that would not be corporately-owned, it was very interesting to me, and I made some small efforts to talk to Parag about it when the initial recruitment was going on, and even referred some folks for conversations (who are not involved, in the end, possibly due to being more on the “existing standards are good” side of things – I have no idea). It feels very “early-Twitter crowd, but with more late-Twitter snark and memes”. I like it, and it has some good ideas, but:
Jack Dorsey. He fooled me twice already, so I’m incredibly wary.
The team’s efforts to stand back from having any kind of political / moderation position is, in my opinion, not a good one, and likely to lead to bad things on the platform(s).
I’ll believe in the federated bit when I see it; I’m actively working in a current, large, federated environment across platforms, and it is complicated. I think there will continue to be pushback from users who just want a Twitter-like, single server, experience, vs any move towards true decentralisation.
I don’t feel like I get a lot of engagement there. As with all of these different platforms, though, there’s an argument that I don’t get a lot of engagement because I don’t spend a lot of time there, which may be valid.
I’m on Threads, because, Facebook and Instagram. It’s… OK. It started off really badly, only pushing celebs and other stuff I had no interest in. That has calmed down a lot, and I see a lot more folks I recognise from my other networks on there. I’m interested in seeing how Threads moves forward with federation and ActivityPub (and, noting that I work on the Mastodon project, I have to say that I’ve been pretty impressed with their approach and conversations around this so far). Definitely an app I pop into at least as often as Bluesky.
I’m not on Nostr. See above re: Dorsey, and I don’t love the whole blockchain element to it either.
There are links to other places I have profiles – not just on social “microblogging”-style sites – at the end of my main landing page.
The Fediverse
Fundamentally, though, I’m all in on the #Fediverse, which I believe offers far better opportunities for the future.
Mastodon in particular is really fantastic, with a number of vibrant instances and communities that align to my interests, from History to 3D Printing to Electronics to the UK. It is the site I check multiple times a day, and I’m loving it. I’ll have to share a follow-up post at some stage with some tools I use that make it even better.
Of course, I realise that it is also all about the network. I like the fact that in these ActivityPub-based platforms, I can save my followers/following easily, and migrate between instances (I’ve done that once already on Mastodon). A number of my former Twitter network are on Mastodon; some are on Bluesky, some Cohost, some Pebble, many on Threads due to Meta’s huge scale. I don’t see myself stopping using several of these interchangeably for a while. That’s OK.
A couple of additional points to round this out. I don’t use any of these services for private messaging in the way that Twitter DMs used to be a channel I relied on; I’ve moved to other, actual end-to-end encrypted messaging systems. Also, I don’t believe that any of these platforms are for “reach” as such – that was a pattern of behaviour and usage I allowed myself to think was important at Twitter. None of these are drop-in replacements for those features, if those are things you’re seeking. Be prepared to try something new!
Finally…
In case you missed it: I am NOT on X. X was never something I signed up for, and I have no interest in using it. The owner actively encourages and enables hate speech, discrimination, and all the worst impulses of humanity – literally the very opposite of what I believe Twitter offered the world in its prime.
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I’ve been trying out as many shiny new things as I can. There are a couple of reasons: I find that folks often ask me for opinions on new technologies; and, I have a view that unless I do try things, I may miss something that’s really interesting or that might have a future impact.
The events of last year and specifically last November when Twitter began to be burned to the ground, caused another surge of innovation and interest around possible alternatives. I’m not about to go through them all extensively in this post, but really just wanted to share where you can find me.
Where you (might) find me
Primarily, I’m on Mastodon, and have no plans to be anywhere else in particular (more about this in a moment). For the sake of balance and information, here are some other places you can find my content.
I have accounts on Post and on Hive, but barely open either app. Hive doesn’t have a web presence for me to point you at, even. I’m not sure about the policies of either platform, and neither really stuck.
I’m on Cohost. It feels very Tumblr-y. I haven’t used it very much, but I see a few interesting features, and it definitely doesn’t seem to want to be any of the other existing networks, it feels more new and different.
I’m on T2Pebble. Pebble was called T2 until today, but that was always a temporary name, which I realised. A couple of former Twitter people are involved over there. It feels very friendly, but so far I have a limited network, and drop in from time to time.
I’m on Bluesky. Back when this was initially kicked off from inside of Twitter as the notion of a new protocol that would not be corporately-owned, it was very interesting to me, and I made some small efforts to talk to Parag about it when the initial recruitment was going on, and even referred some folks for conversations (who are not involved, in the end, possibly due to being more on the “existing standards are good” side of things – I have no idea). It feels very “early-Twitter crowd, but with more late-Twitter snark and memes”. I like it, and it has some good ideas, but:
Jack Dorsey. He fooled me twice already, so I’m incredibly wary.
The team’s efforts to stand back from having any kind of political / moderation position is, in my opinion, not a good one, and likely to lead to bad things on the platform(s).
I’ll believe in the federated bit when I see it; I’m actively working in a current, large, federated environment across platforms, and it is complicated. I think there will continue to be pushback from users who just want a Twitter-like, single server, experience, vs any move towards true decentralisation.
I don’t feel like I get a lot of engagement there. As with all of these different platforms, though, there’s an argument that I don’t get a lot of engagement because I don’t spend a lot of time there, which may be valid.
I’m on Threads, because, Facebook and Instagram. It’s… OK. It started off really badly, only pushing celebs and other stuff I had no interest in. That has calmed down a lot, and I see a lot more folks I recognise from my other networks on there. I’m interested in seeing how Threads moves forward with federation and ActivityPub (and, noting that I work on the Mastodon project, I have to say that I’ve been pretty impressed with their approach and conversations around this so far). Definitely an app I pop into at least as often as Bluesky.
I’m not on Nostr. See above re: Dorsey, and I don’t love the whole blockchain element to it either.
There are links to other places I have profiles – not just on social “microblogging”-style sites – at the end of my main landing page.
The Fediverse
Fundamentally, though, I’m all in on the #Fediverse, which I believe offers far better opportunities for the future.
Mastodon in particular is really fantastic, with a number of vibrant instances and communities that align to my interests, from History to 3D Printing to Electronics to the UK. It is the site I check multiple times a day, and I’m loving it. I’ll have to share a follow-up post at some stage with some tools I use that make it even better.
Of course, I realise that it is also all about the network. I like the fact that in these ActivityPub-based platforms, I can save my followers/following easily, and migrate between instances (I’ve done that once already on Mastodon). A number of my former Twitter network are on Mastodon; some are on Bluesky, some Cohost, some Pebble, many on Threads due to Meta’s huge scale. I don’t see myself stopping using several of these interchangeably for a while. That’s OK.
A couple of additional points to round this out. I don’t use any of these services for private messaging in the way that Twitter DMs used to be a channel I relied on; I’ve moved to other, actual end-to-end encrypted messaging systems. Also, I don’t believe that any of these platforms are for “reach” as such – that was a pattern of behaviour and usage I allowed myself to think was important at Twitter. None of these are drop-in replacements for those features, if those are things you’re seeking. Be prepared to try something new!
Finally…
In case you missed it: I am NOT on X. X was never something I signed up for, and I have no interest in using it. The owner actively encourages and enables hate speech, discrimination, and all the worst impulses of humanity – literally the very opposite of what I believe Twitter offered the world in its prime.
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Last week, there was a flurry of interest in a new addition to the #Fediverse: Postmarks. It’s social bookmarking (like Digg, del.icio.us, or more recently, Pinboard), now with ActivityPub support. Neat!
Organising stuff, “back in the day”
Back in the 2000s I was a huge fan of a site called del.icio.us, and the original iteration of our weekly podcast – currently called Games at Work dot Biz – was named Dogear Nation. Back when Michael and Michael kicked off that show, there was a podcast called Digg Nation which tried to round up the interesting community links and trends from the week on Digg. IBM at the time had an internal version of a social bookmarking / folksonomical platform similar to del.icio.us called “dogear” (like, folding the page of a book to mark it), so Dogear Nation encouraged listeners to tag links on del.icio.us for us to discuss each week… del.icio.us was bought by Yahoo! in 2005, and eventually, went away.
Fast forward 15 years to our current podcast, and we still love it when listeners share links for us to discuss, but there’s less of an organised way to do it!
Join the Federation
A brief diversion, because I’ve not written too much about this on my blog up until now.
Unlike the centralised “Web 2.0”-based, largely corporate-owned sites that dominate the current web, the Fediverse is a set of related services that share some common protocols (ActivityPub is one, but there are others involved) and are loosely-connected. As well as each service usually having some form of “flagship” instance, it is is also very common to encourage diversity by location and interests, and often self-hosting, so it won’t be possible for an unsavoury billionaire to buy the things you use, or misuse and steal the data that you’ve put into them. Your network and your data are your own.
I’m very active across a range of sites and services that are analogous to those you might be familiar with. On Mastodon, for instance, I currently do some work with Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the project and host of two of the larger service instances; and although my original account was on one of those instances, at the end of last year I moved my account (taking the related network of connections with me) to a much smaller server run by a former coworker, mostly populated by other former coworkers, but I’m still connected with users across the rest of the Fediverse.
You can also find me on PixelFed (Instagram-like photo sharing), on Lemmy (Reddit-like groups and communities), on PeerTube (YouTube-like video channels) where I live on the diode.zone instance for makers and electronics enthusiasts, on Bookwyrm (GoodReads-like community), and so on. Basically there are a number of slices of “me” out there, in spaces where it makes sense. Essentially, if you’re on Mastodon and you’re interested in my videos, you can follow my PeerTube account from Mastodon without having to sign up for PeerTube. It’s pretty cool.
I strongly believe that federated services are the best opportunity for us to maintain a free and open Web.
– me, 2023
So, Postmarks?
Yes! Postmarks is a single-user, super small and simple server for managing your own bookmarks. When I add a bookmark on my own Postmarks server, my Postmarks account effectively publishes the new entry to the rest of the Fediverse as an activity. So, if you’re interested in what I’m bookmarking and you have a Mastodon account, you can follow @[url=https://andypiper.co.uk/author/andypiper/]andypiper[/url]@pipesmarks.glitch.me and you’ll see the new entries as they get added. If you’re not interested, don’t follow my account, and we’re all good. Oh, and it supports Atom feeds for different tags (categories), too.
Postmarks runs on Glitch – or, anywhere else you can stand up a Node.js / Express app. Personally I love Glitch, and I’ve been using it for many years now for hosting demos and trying out different projects – in fact, my main links page runs on Glitch. The Postmarks developer Casey Kolderup works there, and Casey has made it really straightforward to remix directly on Glitch, or import from GitHub there or to another service of your choice – it has very few dependencies.
Getting involved
My usual pattern for reading and saving content is whilst mobile. There’s a bookmarklet that’s part of the project, but no easy way to add it to my system for links to end up on Postmarks from my phone or tablet. I turned to Apple Shortcuts to help out. A screenshot of Apple Shortcuts on iPadOS 17 beta, showing the sequence of steps to send a link to Postmarks This does not do too much – it takes a link from the share sheet or clipboard, and opens the add bookmark page popup in a browser tab. At the moment there’s no full API for Postmarks, so this is a bit of a stopgap or workaround. Annoyingly, it will also leave you with an empty browser tab you’ll need to close, but it works.
If you’d like to try the automation, you can get it via RoutineHub, which links to the Shortcut in iCloud. You’ll be prompted to add the hostname of your Postmarks instance, and you will already need to have signed in to that site in your web browser of choice.
Beyond that, Glitch makes it easy to hack on features, because everything runs in the browser, including a code editor. So far I’ve been adding small features such as support for the nodeinfo endpoint used by other Fediverse servers, and a slightly improved Atom feed. There’s lots I can think of to add, but not so much time to play – this is giving me a chance to learn a bit more about ActivityPub internals, as well as “scratching an itch”.
I’m also playing with another single-user ActivityPub server, Shuttlecraft, but that’s a post for another day.
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I’m at Homecamp at Imperial College in London today – learning about home automation and energy monitoring. There’s an amazing group of people here. Follow the Twitter stream or watch it on uStream.
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I was pretty actively commenting from the event and taking part in the live uStream channel… others have written up some of their experiences and thoughts, so I don’t propose to say much here. My main contribution was to make a (shaky!) video of Andy Stanford-Clark’s talk towards the start of the morning – a half hour overview of his home automation projects. I’ve posted it on Viddler, and if you are interested you are very welcome to comment on it, embed it in your own sites, or add annotations on the video timeline.
[viddler id=e4676600&w=400&h=267]
The nice part about Viddler over, say, YouTube is that it let me post the whole thing as a single video rather than having to chop it up into 10 minute chunks. I’ll try to post some notes on how I went about producing the video at some stage soon.
Some very general comments on the day:
Well-organised, well-run, great venue, nice to have wireless access – thanks to everyone involved in the logistics!
A brilliant, exciting array of skills, talents and interests. It was kind of funny to realise just how many of the folks I knew of as we were doing introductions at the start, and great to find that it wasn’t only a bunch of IBM hackers – this movement is really building momentum.
I’m at Homecamp at Imperial College in London today – learning about home automation and energy monitoring. There’s an amazing group of people here. Follow the Twitter stream or watch it on uStream.
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IBM’s Chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, has been speaking to the Council of Foreign Relations in New York today. He’s been discussing how the planet is getting smarter:
These collective realizations have reminded us that we are all now connected – economically, technically and socially. But we’re also learning that being connected is not sufficient. Yes, the world continues to get “flatter.” And yes, it continues to get smaller and more interconnected. But something is happening that holds even greater potential. In a word, our planet is becoming smarter.
In the speech, Sam talks about how the world has become instrumented, more interconnected, and devices more intelligent. And he talks about how the current world crises – ecological, financial, and others – represent an opportunity for change. The next step for the globally integrated economy is a globally integrated and intelligent economy and society.
Some of the problems and solutions that are being mentioned are interesting.
67 per cent of all electrical energy is lost due to inefficient power generation and grid management… utilities in the U.S., Denmark, Australia and Italy are now building digital grids to monitor the energy system in real time.
Congested roadways in the U.S. cost $78 billion annually in wasted hours and gas… Stockholm’s new smart toll system has resulted in 22 percent less traffic, a 12 to 40 percent drop in emissions and 40,000 additional daily users of the public transport system
This is exciting for me on many levels. Let me step up through them.
As regular readers will know, I’ve become increasingly interested in pervasive computing and home automation. The little “Current Cost craze” that has swept through my group of friends at work could be seen as a mark of the individual interest in applying technology in a smarter way. I’m excited that this has widened out to a group of folks who are supportingChris Dalby’s Home Camp idea in London later this month.
First on stage were hosts Brady Forrest [http://radar.oreilly.com/brady/] of
O’Reilly Media [http://oreilly.com/] and Jennifer Pahlka
[http://blog.pahlka.com/] of TechWeb [http://www.techweb.com/home].
The buzz There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to see exactly what their energy usage is and, hopefully, modify behaviour to save electricity accordingly. The idea, simply, is that it provides real-time information about energy consumption.
The product The device itself comes in two parts. The unit that goes inside the house is a wireless LCD display which shows the current usage in watts, the current estimated cost per day assuming that usage is maintained, a bar chart with yesterday’s usage, overall KWH in the past day and month, and the time and temperature. The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.
Update: I should point out, given some comments, that we’re using an early batch of the meters and I’m not certain when they will be generally available.
One of the other features of the device is that it can be plugged in to a computer, and the data can then be captured and analysed over time. We are using some homebrew software to do this, pulling the data from the serial port (most of the meters use 9600 baud, it turns out that mine is set to 2400 for some reason).
It’s kind of scary to see some of the spikes in the graph, and just watching this has certainly made me adjust my behaviour in terms of switching things off and unplugging chargers and so on when they are not in use. We’ve all got our meters hooked up via a Microbroker, and this has been my first opportunity to really play around with MQTT technology… I’ve obviously been aware of it for a very long time, but it’s nice to have something tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating stuff.
The ideas
I have a bunch of thoughts about this. I have it hooked up to an old Linux box, but I’ve also successfully attached it to my Macbook Pro and a Windows Thinkpad. Currently the software is sending the MQTT data to a Microbroker and a Java app is drawing the graph shown above, but it would be fairly straightforward, for example, to squirrel the data locally and do some interesting analytics using Project Zero (aka WebSphere sMash) and some AJAX-y Google Chart goodness. I can also capture ambient temperature over time. It’s all just a matter of finding the hacking opportunity!
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The buzz There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to see exactly what their energy usage is and, hopefully, modify behaviour to save electricity accordingly. The idea, simply, is that it provides real-time information about energy consumption.
The product The device itself comes in two parts. The unit that goes inside the house is a wireless LCD display which shows the current usage in watts, the current estimated cost per day assuming that usage is maintained, a bar chart with yesterday’s usage, overall KWH in the past day and month, and the time and temperature. The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.
Update: I should point out, given some comments, that we’re using an early batch of the meters and I’m not certain when they will be generally available.
One of the other features of the device is that it can be plugged in to a computer, and the data can then be captured and analysed over time. We are using some homebrew software to do this, pulling the data from the serial port (most of the meters use 9600 baud, it turns out that mine is set to 2400 for some reason).
It’s kind of scary to see some of the spikes in the graph, and just watching this has certainly made me adjust my behaviour in terms of switching things off and unplugging chargers and so on when they are not in use. We’ve all got our meters hooked up via a Microbroker, and this has been my first opportunity to really play around with MQTT technology… I’ve obviously been aware of it for a very long time, but it’s nice to have something tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating stuff.
The ideas
I have a bunch of thoughts about this. I have it hooked up to an old Linux box, but I’ve also successfully attached it to my Macbook Pro and a Windows Thinkpad. Currently the software is sending the MQTT data to a Microbroker and a Java app is drawing the graph shown above, but it would be fairly straightforward, for example, to squirrel the data locally and do some interesting analytics using Project Zero (aka WebSphere sMash) and some AJAX-y Google Chart goodness. I can also capture ambient temperature over time. It’s all just a matter of finding the hacking opportunity!
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For a while now I’ve wanted to be able to check my CurrentCost meter‘s graphs on my iPhone.
Up until now I’ve been hooked up to the “Hursley mothership” and been publishing my data to a central dashboard. Unfortunately, although that draws some pretty graphs, it runs in Java and therefore isn’t supported in Mobile Safari on the phone.
This is still a work in progress, but with a combination of Ubuntu running on a Viglen MPC-L, rrdtool for gathering and graphing the stats, and the iWebKit framework for creating the user interface, I now have a simple iPhone-optimised web application which lets me view the graphs. All that’s happening here is that the data from the serial port is being dropped into rrdtool and graphs generated; and then Apache / PHP is serving up an optimised dashboard for looking at the graphs.
I just mentioned about three different topics I really should blog about in more detail (MPC-L, rrdtool, and iWebKit) but that will all have to wait.
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The buzz There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to see exactly what their energy usage is and, hopefully, modify behaviour to save electricity accordingly. The idea, simply, is that it provides real-time information about energy consumption.
The product The device itself comes in two parts. The unit that goes inside the house is a wireless LCD display which shows the current usage in watts, the current estimated cost per day assuming that usage is maintained, a bar chart with yesterday’s usage, overall KWH in the past day and month, and the time and temperature. The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.
Update: I should point out, given some comments, that we’re using an early batch of the meters and I’m not certain when they will be generally available.
One of the other features of the device is that it can be plugged in to a computer, and the data can then be captured and analysed over time. We are using some homebrew software to do this, pulling the data from the serial port (most of the meters use 9600 baud, it turns out that mine is set to 2400 for some reason).
It’s kind of scary to see some of the spikes in the graph, and just watching this has certainly made me adjust my behaviour in terms of switching things off and unplugging chargers and so on when they are not in use. We’ve all got our meters hooked up via a Microbroker, and this has been my first opportunity to really play around with MQTT technology… I’ve obviously been aware of it for a very long time, but it’s nice to have something tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating stuff.
The ideas
I have a bunch of thoughts about this. I have it hooked up to an old Linux box, but I’ve also successfully attached it to my Macbook Pro and a Windows Thinkpad. Currently the software is sending the MQTT data to a Microbroker and a Java app is drawing the graph shown above, but it would be fairly straightforward, for example, to squirrel the data locally and do some interesting analytics using Project Zero (aka WebSphere sMash) and some AJAX-y Google Chart goodness. I can also capture ambient temperature over time. It’s all just a matter of finding the hacking opportunity!
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We just presented our team’s hack for HackDay in London…
An awesome team effort inspired and led by Paul Johnston and Nigel Crawley. A mixed reality naval game from the Supernova team.
Here’s the science part.
The real world part(s) of the hack involved a DV cam feeding Nigel’s G4 iBook with a live feed of some pieces which represented two teams, “crabs” and “sharks” (cut from O’Reilly postcards). The camera rig – managed by Jon Hadley – was a highly technical setup involving gaffer tape and a borrowed tripod – thanks to Twitter! The iBook then used the TUIO protocol to update the coordinates of the game pieces to a web server.
The second RL part of the hack was my MacBook Pro rigged with Quicktime Broadcaster and Darwin Streaming Server, pointing at the game board. This provided a video feed that could be used within Second Life. This was technically challenging to set up due to issues connecting between the laptops on the BTOpenZone network… so someone donated us an Airport hub (again following a Twittered plea for help), and I shared my connection with Jim Purbrick who was then able to tunnel through to Second Life, as well as seeing my Quicktime stream. We experimented with a cheap USB webcam too, but the iSight just worked a lot better (positioning was “interesting” though!)
Meanwhile… in Second Life, the team of Jim Purbrick, Ben Hardill, Chris Mahoney and James Taylor built an amazing setup. We had a floating blimp (on Arcanum, the sim that Linden Lab had donated for the Hack Day event). The blimp contained a table which showed the live video feed of the game being played in real life. Below that, the sim was submerged. During the demo, Babbage Linden showed off the live feed, and then flew under the blimp. When he hit the floating buoy, a group of submarines were rezzed in that corresponded with the movement of the pieces in real life. Oh, and the subs were named after names found via the Yahoo! Answers API.
We didn’t quite have time to sort out the audio, but there were supposed to be some sonar noises as the subs were rezzed. Pretty easy to add, but we got moved around a couple of times prior to the demo, and had to disassemble our rig each time.
Oh, and as a complete aside – it is interesting to see the distribution of hardware and operating systems at the event. I’d say Macs dominate, Windows are probably second (I’ve only seen one running Vista but there may be more), and there are quite a few people running Linux too. Almost all of the demos and presentations seem to be run from Macs. W00t!
I had a spot on stage earlier in the afternoon as the “glamorous” helper for the MyBlogBunny hack, holding the Nabaztag – thanks Lance 🙂
[ edit 19/06 – links and photos added, minor edits ]
[ edit 21/06 – added some more links to interesting Flickr photos ]
Our stand at Liverpool Makefest 2024
My brachiograph and other drawing machines on display
CommCon 2024 London
CommCon 2024 San Francisco
A screenshot of Apple Shortcuts on iPadOS 17 beta, showing the sequence of steps to send a link to Postmarks
The buzz
The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.
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