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hi. i'm ๐ธxkeeper๐ธ (aka "x" / "revya"). i'm ... me. i make a lot of bad jokes, so be ready for that if you follow me
i run https://jul.rustedlogic.net , a cool forum you should definitely join
i am on a lot of other places on the ~fediverse~
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lewd: @X
programs: @Xkeeper
headmate: @Knives
headspace misc.: @beach_haus
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~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!
If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
irc is #500pieces on efnet
thank you (boosts very appreciated)
love 2 get banned from my own website for the crime of using hexadecimal numbers in my url
mod_security blows. hopefully dreamhost's timeout is still an hour like i remember or this is gonna suck
@HTHR that's cool, I made a fox bort
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it would be nice if there weren't horrible people so we didn't have to worry about this sort of thing. that's my thought.
with a centralized system like twitter, you don't have this problem as much; you can still scrape timelines, sure, but you can't totally pretend to be someone else barring goofy tricks with handles and avatars, and there's no concept of "private post but unlocked account" (so you can't just follow and magically see things that are otherwise hidden) ... hmm
i would say there's a decent amount of value in "black hat thinking" like this; trying to figure out how one would attack people (without necessarily doing it) and the potential effects of such
you can't really stop this kind of attack outside of doing e.g. awoo space's whitelisted federation, and even then i don't know if that blocks /anything/ or just the "federated" timeline(s)
depending on how much the system trusts the results from an api, you can make a follower bot that pretends to be a human, has several posts of "recent" activity (could just be faked), fooling people into allowing it to follow them and/or approving following requests ...
it's interesting to think about
idk. still weird to think that, while open source / federation is cool and all, all it takes is one rogue node and all your public shit (or even private stuff, in some cases) could be out there in the open, and there's not much you or anyone can do until it's too late
mastodon should probably have a 'defcon' mode where all of your posts are temporarily set to 'locked' and/or "deletion" of them is federated out. destructive, but could be useful in some cases
i am super ultra tired today and mostly want to do a sleep
Even fortune cookies are socialist these days
someone please take the computer away from me
in a public forum like this, with no ability to separate things into different conversations or threads, no content is too important for a cw.
just do it.
(note that this does not mean everything /needs/ one, just that "too important" is no excuse.)