kromonos

joined 3 years ago
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cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/188396

Since known bullying instances like mastodon.art, tenforward.social, hackers.town, artisan.chat, cloudisland.nz, rage.love, szmer.info, mstdn.social, stop.voring.me, eldritch.cafe, cultofshiv.wtf, weirder. earth, social.cosmick9.net, and their stupid lemmings continue to run lies and hate-speech against me, and now at Mastodon the possibility is given to blindly import any blocklists from these narcissistic sociopaths with their beloved #FediBlock bullshit, I don't see any valid point in contributing to Fediverse anymore and will concentrate on other things.

Therefore, I will shutdown fapsi.be without replacement at the end of February.

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Clever Code? Sounds like a company 🫣

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Never heard of them. What do they do?

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 4 points 2 years ago

With a separate notebook in the following format:

pagenr:linenr - note

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I expected a whole gtk/qt theme, but it looks like it's just a wallpaper?

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 4 points 2 years ago

Even if everybody says, that the pandemic is "over", I'll wear my mask on trains, bus, while shopping, and so on. Because I don't think, that the pandemic is over and ppl just making it worse when they stop wearing masks.

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I ordered several times from https://stickerapp.com/ and was always very happy with the result.

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Why did you do this?"
"Because I can" 😂

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 4 points 2 years ago

I would say so too, if it was more than just a hobby. Nevertheless, anybody can add the Creative Commons license to their work as long as it is their own work.
Hobby bloggers like to make this their own. But I understand the point you're making.

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And I'm running several lawsuits against individuals because of copyright infringements. So it definitely matters enough.

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you. Copyright infringement also matters when private individuals are affected. E.g. when a private person uses CreativeCommons, MIT, or GPL license. CreativeCommons is mostly used for text.
In addition, you need to read the TOS of the platform to see if they do not take the rights, as Facebook does, for example.

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is a privacy community on on lemmy.ca: !privacy@lemmy.ca

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 5 points 2 years ago

Simply ban the IPs & the accounts of the abusers while enforcing the rules, and it shall be clean after a while.

That would work. But banning the IP would mean banning whole instances, because spam does not only come from the local instance. Banning the user by username does work for 5 minutes, before they register a new account.
Since nobody who's hosting a Lemmy instance is paying a professional moderation team, which is 24/7 available to ban spam, it's almost impossible to react in time.

I don’t know how it works in lemmy, but each instance could go and have a word filter (if the post contains a blacklisted word, it would be held for review).

This word filter is called slur-Filter and is available. Nevertheless, this has been criticized by outsiders very often and Lemmy as a whole was made bad.

I am Not Talking about the software feature, I am talking about why the 5,000 or so users who have an account at lemmy are unable to speak & interact with each other.

I don't think it's particularly beneficial to criticize Lemmy because some instance blocks others, but applaud Mastodon for “moderation”, on which a hashtag is highly valued that “recommends” blocking entire instances because one person has a problem with another on another instance.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by kromonos@fapsi.be to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
 

cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/161886

A few days ago, a page was published in the Fediverse where you could check which Mastodon instance is blocking whom in the Fediverse. This was made possible by a programmer who used the new Mastodon API introduced in 4.0 and automatically read out the blacklists of the instances.
The information about who blocks who is in many ways more than just interesting for those who want to choose an instance. As it was already written in a German thread about the topic, it would be helpful to know whether you reach your target group at all, if you register on an instance.

 

Especially with the rush from Twitter, there are more and more bots and crawlers coming up from the Fediverse that just can't manage to send a correct UserAgent.
Many apps, which want to make usage of several platforms, just submit the framework they use for their connection. Like python/1.2.3, Dart/1.23 or http.rb/1.2.3.
The biggest problem with this behavior is, that I as the operator and administrator want to secure the system, but I would lock out legitimate software by targeting only the UserAgent. Especially the python/1.2.3 in particular, but has also attracted malicious attention many times in my log files.
I'm really grateful, that Lemmy developer decided to use a customized UserAgent, so that I as admin can directly see what request it is and where it comes from. That makes it so much easier to make the decision of harm or no harm.
On my servers, I started to block all requests with a “default” or empty UserAgent, but I wonder, how it's possible to fix this issue in general? Any ideas?

 

Cross posted from https://fapsi.be/post/111920

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