Notices by :PUA: Shlee fucked around and (shlee@aus.social), page 5

Regarding the current spam, the fediverse is built in a very strange and beautiful way.

With 10,000+ Mastodon servers (excluding the thousands of other services), all managed to different levels of complexity by different people, with their own opinions on how things should be handled, running slightly different versions (or even different forks).

There is pretty much no coordination from a technical level to share threats or risks outside of an ever more cursed series of group chats and Discord servers... In fact, Mastodon doesn't even have a concept of "server-to-server" communication (subject to change very recently) so admins couldn't forward spammers' emails/IP addresses or any kind of metadata in case of attackers using any kind of shared infra.

There is nothing, not even a captcha (until recently), stopping people from spending an hour writing a few scripts to create millions of fake accounts and spamming the ecosystem, or creating a DOS bot to upload large files on bulk and replicate those across 10,000 S3 mirrors wasting bandwidth and money. (Why is there 10,000 S3 buckets? because people will scream and cry it's *centralisation* to only have 4000 S3 buckets with a little deduplication.) Won't somebody think of the ideology.

The fediverse is amazing wasteful of peoples time and money... and we can build some "shared services" such as Jortage (or a CDN for the fediverse) to remove a lot of wasteful compute and bandwidth.. as well as increasing safety at the same time which is another cost. The mental burden on the tens of thousands of moderators in our ecoystem putting out the same fire on their instance and being unable to help the other instances... imagine a massive global team of people having to do the same thing over and over because there isn't any way to support each other (by design?).

You could easily bankrupt most of the fediverse in a week because nobody watches their data usage, and lots of people pay for bandwidth....

Now, lots of people have been talking about making things to improve this ecosystem, but nobody has the cash to fix this problem "correctly"... But the good news? There are a few projects on the go to try to fix this.

2024 is the year of the fediverse reinventing the wheel when we've been dealing with spam on the internet since it started... But I do love a new wheel.

like every healthy relationship, communication is key.

The only reason the fediverse works, is because there are infinitely more good actors, than bad actors. It's goodwill and best intentions... and I love it, but we need to help ourselves.

Embracer says it's looking out for shareholders after cutting almost 1,400 jobs

"Our overruling principle is to always maximize shareholder value in any given situation" :trebuchet:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/embracer-says-it-s-looking-out-for-shareholders-after-cutting-almost-1-400-jobs

Are you a freelancing "full stack webdev"?

Do you think $10-20k AUD is an acceptable quote to build something more than POC and less than MVP? Could you build something "SAASy / multi user with 2-3 personas"?

Do you also want to help my charity build a fundraising platform? Do you have experience with payment processors stripe/paypal/etc? Specifically with monthly scheduled payments.

I could absolutely find somebody on upwork with stricter outcomes, but I'd rather support somebody local and/or in my community.

I don't care about language, but it needs to be something clean that follows best practices that other people can be onboarded onto if the project grows.. so please don't pick essoteric shit.

I'm currently putting together a pitch document, but DM me if you're keen to be forwarded it.

@snarfed.org@snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

Classic.

@dansup @pixelfed I’m in this post.

Report by the institute of holy shit no way bro studies.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/10/adopting-rightwing-policies-does-not-help-centre-left-win-votes

Just watched “the creator” or it should be called Bad Runner.

2/5 stars. Wonderful VFX work. They needed to hire good editors.

@pfefferle @shlee@shlee.fedipress.au Thank you! I would have never noticed that help button tbh.

might be worth including it in the "See a list of ActivityPub Template Tags." as well.

@shlee@shlee.fedipress.au hey @pfefferle what can I do to make the URL of the blog actually clickable?

[ap_permalink] seems to render as text?

I'm going to write something longer as the admin regarding Threads.. but for now, I'm hoping to encourage the Mastodon developers to develop this place in a way that shifts a little of the authority from admins to users about what they can/cannot see, and how your toots & content is/isn't shared (similar to the opt-in for full text search).

Claire already has a plan in the works to allow people who want to see Threads to opt-in, and those who don't can tell Threads to get stuffed...

and as a whole, I'd feel better being in a situation where everybody here can "Choose their poison/risk" instead of me forcing your hand. We will see how the future holds.

(I'm never going to remove the restrictions on nazi instances, but in regards to Threads, I'm going to choose safety and my moderator team for now). Threads needs to earn my trust.

NO MASTERS. NO ADMINS.

Reference PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26904

What is a Skyrim? Is this a sex thing?

@HistoPol @tchambers yes, your own toots are indexed for you.

CVE-2023-41064 is going to require patching everything that renders WebP images. Every browser/electron apps/mobile apps like telegram/Flutter apps/etc etc

Welcome to the modern software supply chain!

@dansup @pixelfed I see a future in a 501(c)(3)

@dansup @pixelfed Maybe that's worth the crowdfunding.... start a foundation

@dansup @pixelfed I never expected text only posts support in pixelfed! Interesting!

@emilygorcenski @toolbear Ruby runs a cyber security company…. Himself?

#LK99

@gmate8 @dansup he didn’t?