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   frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 16:43:46 JST frogzone

   • Nimda

   Hi @nimda Why might no posts be appearing for the @i2p@mast(er)don.social account? I follow them now (only so i can find the post where they annouce the changover to their cloudfed website, then i will unfollow). is this instance denied their posts? masterdon.social and masterdon.online and many in the bofficial masterdon family are Fastly now.

   i find it interesting that i got not a single interaction/proof-of-visability from an insight i gave to a davidrevoy@masterdon.onilne post the other day.

   Fastly are likely sith now, tbh....can probably put them in the same category as CAGeMAFFiA (two 'F's)

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 16:43:42 JST silverpill

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     @frogzone @nimda I figured out how to add alt text to svgs but haven't added it to any icons yet. So you want it for the profile menu button, right?

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 16:43:43 JST frogzone

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     • Nimda

     @nimda @silverpill in conclusion, until svg are considered safe by Tor devs, we need (my recommendation) unicode fallbacks in mitra, for svg. Sad but true.

     (I have tried talking to Tor devs on this issue but they for whatever reason (same as above??) do not care to identify why svg could be unsafe. It MAY be a social engineering exploit rather than a computer based exploit ie. malicious websites hiding their words from search and scraping tools by drawing the letters manually with svg???)

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 16:43:43 JST frogzone

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     • Nimda

     @nimda @silverpill in fact i'm going to assume that is the expoit. an end user can mathematically adapt the svg in realtime, moving a slider such that at some point along the slider the text or svg image for that matter reads to a human. if the text is never delivered in a human readable way then it prevents bots from ever learning from the content. in fact id say it would be a very good use of technology to defeat bots, lol. but it also means you will not be able to copy paste it, also.

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 16:43:44 JST frogzone

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     • Nimda

     @nimda thanks for that and for pointing out how the interface is supposed to look, the 3-dot-menu button doesnt show in my browser. i use tor in safest mode, with the NoScript addon placed back into the toolbar (the way Tor was for years before they changed it) so i can enable javascript on a per-site basis, rather than having an all-or-nothing (aka unweildy/impractical/CPU-draining approach) that Tor Browser devs have forced on users to make it basically unusable for the next generation of privacy seekers).. This means that svg do not show. but

     i have recently shared an article on RSS buttons that also has a very intesting, if possibly a bit incomplete (i dont think it mentions unicode) about an SVG fallback system, and i think you might be interested in it. silverpill has seen it recently. btw you might be surprised on who gets a special mention in this article.

     http://undrss2l4ynldtgjjahsd2bx5oapy2vw75cowsusu5pncz76sqga.b32.i2p/rss-button-using-div-corners.html

     a few yeats ago i went through how a lot of these non-show issues can be fixed with @silverpill there are many unicode character that can be used as fallback where unicode chacters dont work a replacement png MAY, honestly i think for the sake of ease we should just try to only use unicode fallbacks even if they are not perfect replacments.

     Broadly, there does need to be a focus on fixing how Safest Mode works, for privacy-seekers, i think that sttarts withhighlighting how default settings in Tor are designed to hurt the user, for whatever reason (my guess is to make Tor a niche, geek-only tool and move people over to the worse, Brave browser, remember Tor devs are paid big money by govt these days and have to do what they are told). For Tor (Safest Mode) to be useful NoScript needs to be in the toolbar. That is how to use Tor fullstop, if we recommend this at almost every opportunity, we can assume more people will have the same issues (broken svg) and have fixes in place for them.

     There is no guarantee in the future that i will remember to look for an invisible button because i use tor the way it is most useful with NoScript.

     I hope that this post highlights a way forward. It would be nice if ppl stopped assuming that ppl use Tor without the NoScript addon in the toolbar to reenable js. Again most veteran Tor users will do this. It is therefore on us to cater to this group, and if we support the use of Tor is becmes plainly obvoius that we need to GROW this group, because tor browser is among the only ways to safely interface with a Mitra social server, or any website that requires js.

     (im using the Mitra interface atm because wizardbloat.i2p has been down for a while.)

     EDIT fix missing word "recommend"

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     Nimda (nimda@wizard.casa)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 16:43:45 JST Nimda

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     I passed the IQ test and figured you mean mastodon.social :heyface:
     Also just followed the i2p account there, and loaded their posts with picrel, no idea if bloat has that ability, but posts should be populated for you now too

     have fun

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 20:45:12 JST silverpill

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     @frogzone @nimda Let's start with most urgent ones

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Wednesday, 19-Aug-2026 20:45:13 JST frogzone

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     • Nimda

     @silverpill @nimda ideally all but yes in areas where they might not be expected are sort of urgent. Im happy to ttry and dig up the old posts that i made a few years so. if i cant find them i will report back, i wont be able to do this right now tho.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 06:24:20 JST silverpill

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     @frogzone I added alt text to profile menu icon and post menu icon. Check it out once @nimda installs the update