Notices by Emma (ipg@wetdry.world), page 5

computers are crazy fast nowadays and yet slower than ever

thanks Bill!

BORN TO XMPP
XML IS A FUCK
Federate Em All 1999
I am Jabber man
410,757,864,530 SENT STANZAS

i'd like to apologise to all the serious and smart people following me expecting me to provide like. breathtaking commentary on the state of the tech industry and nuanced discussion about the PowerPC architecture and i'm just here talking about "Timulating my Fort" and "what if i made the Wii display funny pictures"

so on #Bluesky, rather than going with the well-documented and defined webfinger protocol, behind the .well-known directory, decided to make their own shit for verifying domains via HTTP (to change your handle to the website, proving your ownership of it)

thus, somebody took the S3 bucket name "xrpc" and now is s3.amazonaws.com on the platform

going great

https://bsky.ipg.gay/profile/s3.amazonaws.com/post/3juud6zh5ur2n

do not trust hello.coop and their verified identities, or their verified.coop and press.coop instances

they use their "verification" service to make a false claim of association for accounts such as BBC and NPR at their press.coop instance, despite them not being at all official

they then use a fake checkmark badge and tag their Twitter mirroring accounts on press.coop with this verification to mislead people into thinking they're official

LINUS TECH TIPS GOT HACKED

facebook was involved in the XMPP massacre of the early 2010s, do not let them near the fediverse.

can't wait to see a bunch of "Oh man, Twitter is dead!" from accounts that have not posted here in months, and then watch them fade back into inactivity after Twitter comes back up

elon charging $8p/m for longer posts vs Mastodon Glitch Edition, Akkoma, Calckey etc offering that fo free

I love music everyone say thank you music

I NEED TO MOVE TO THE WOODS AND BECOME A FARMER

Here is your secret password recovery code!

:blahaj::apartyblobcat::Stuff::yeah::WOWZA::scuttlebug::happypete:

Make sure to keep it safe and don't share it with anyone!

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
THIS IS MY

do people actually think a pirated version of a game requiring admin privileges is a normal and safe thing

i've got bad news for you buddy...

torrents are so fucking cool i hate how they're basically only known for piracy

something i just realised is that in a way, 2 self-hosted XMPP or Matrix users talking to each other reveals more metadata to ISPs and law enforcement (and a man-in-the-middle)

rather than "this user is talking to people on [platform]" and (if they are law enforcement) having to ask [platform] for access to metadata (which could be rejected), they have immediate access to see "Hey, this user on [self-hosted single-user domain] is talking to this user on [self-hosted single-user domain]"

definitely something to keep in mind if that kind of thing is in your threat model

Remember What They Took From You.

you won't believe it. this fo. Fop this fox is overee covered in SNOG ?