Notices by Troed Sångberg (troed@ioc.exchange)

Dear @protonprivacy

"We're consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit"

Where do you think your staunchest supporters are today?

/Proton Visionary that doesn't use Reddit for reasons

(quote from the account info, they didn't even make a post of it)

#Proton

@clacke chicken + curry + banana + peanuts

Best pizza ever.

/Swede

I think there's a general need for education regarding influence operations (and my focus is on those by Russia) here on the fediverse.

1) No, Russia isn't just pushing right-wing agendas/topics. The _stated_ purpose, from 1997 IIRC, is to sow division in the west. That means that there's roughly an equal chance that a raging leftwing lunatic is on Russia's payroll as your average Tate-Musk-Trump-Orban-Fico fanatic.

2) "Doomism" is a goal. The more we are complaining on how bad things are - the more successful they are. A great way to counter these influence operations is to talk about how _good_ things are. Because there's plenty of awesomeness in our society (I'm not from the US - that's a global perspective) to share.

3) These operations are _long term_. The troll factories aren't just newly created accounts spamming out the same message everywhere. That online magazine that has published for 10 years could be a sleeper influence operation. A person _living in Germany_ spending time online just as anybody else could too.

4) You're getting influenced. Basic psychology says you cannot avoid it (the anchoring effect). The only thing you can do is to be aware of it, and actively working against the very goals of the influence operations.

Remember what those were now again?

#InfluenceOperations #Russia #MAGA #Politics

This is the next battleground. I hope all #MastoAdmin moderators are on their toes.

"The narratives propagated by these accounts are consistent with previous Doppelgänger activities. They aim to undermine support for Ukraine, sow discord within German politics, and incite gender-based animosity. The operation employs tactics such as bulk account creation, inauthentic commenting, and the use of local personas to enhance credibility."

https://kyivinsider.com/russian-influence-operations-expand-to-bluesky/

#Fediverse

I'm currently (together with meshing) getting OpenWRT up and running on the TP-Link Deco M9+ devices. I'm on the v1 hardware, he's on v2.

The v1 has an 8MB SPI-NOR plus a massive 4GB eMMC while the v2 has a single 128MB NAND.

I'm having issues with the eMMC and this is a post looking for help from other hardware hackers.

Thanks to the GPL I have TP-Link's own configuration, but it's for a much older version of OpenWRT. I'm currently stuck on;

```
[ 20.216206] mmc0: cache flush error -84
[ 20.254030] mmc0: tried to HW reset card, got error -84
[ 20.254072] mmcblk0: recovery failed!
```
(followed by I/O errors)

The mmc is otherwise detected correctly, size and partitions etc.

The TP-Link config has an;

```
sd-ldo-gpios = <&tlmm 33 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
```

... and I can find the code using it in the old OpenWRT sdhci-msm.c with the comment "Toggle SD LDO GPIO on Init".

But the current OpenWRT version doesn't seem to have such a code path.

I have no idea if this is connected to my problem, but I'm running out of ideas here. The mmc works fine if I boot the TP-Link kernel of course.

#OpenWRT #HardwareHacking

So the TP-Link GPL tarball has, in a Linux 3.14 tree, what looks like something of a hybrid between a backported mmc driver and their own development. It's newer than the one in Linux 3.14 actual, but it contains strings and code I cannot find in any subsequent Linux driver either.

Or I'm just completely missing something here that should be obvious. Why would they run a completely parallel development track - they're not exactly making their own silicon.

@dpnash @fedithom

He's south east asian. It means "luck" in his culture. You're just showing off extreme ignorance towards other cultures than your own here.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-number-88-lucky-in-China-even-though-its-a-Nazi-dogwhistle

@Infoseepage @hacks4pancakes

@element As a tax payer I want my government to use open source. Since Synapse Pro isn't, it's simply not usable for such cases.

Thank you for detailing the need for doing the same development to the open source Synapse as you have already done on Synapse Pro. I hope you do agree, it would be a pity to have to fork.

@scottjenson

I think this is where Fediverse needs to go, and I've given it some thought. A "fediverse id" (by default as today) that can be used as a point of auth to any fediverse-service.

It's something Bluesky solved very neatly and we should strive to copy it.

@nyquildotorg

@neil To add to those specific tips: A great way to get the Wireguard VPN, "Pi-hole ad block functionality" and a much more secure home network is to set up a pfSense or OpenSense router/firewall instead of regular consumer (often chinese or ISP sourced) hardware.

Well worth the investment.

@dalias Another instance moderator here. You're absolutely correct - having hidden or deleted posts etc before increases the likelyhood the user will get the boot in the future even if no single post ever would be enough in itself.

@pcottle

Why the whole mess of not doing it the correct way to begin with?

Not treating the Fediverse as equal citizens when it comes to real time information is sus.

@renchap @GossiTheDog @Gargron

@renchap

"We'll delay posting to Fediverse until our 15 minute edit window has expired" is what had me conclude they're not acting in good faith.

Unfortunately.

@GossiTheDog @Gargron @zuck @pcottle

@nopatience But it's still "just Chromium". If all we have is Safari and Chrome in the end then the web is fully corporate controlled.

@mozilla What result from the experiment is behind the decision? Cost / maintenance hours / community fit etc.

I can't imagine there being another social network with a higher ratio of Firefox users than here.

/Firefox user

@neil I stopped believing the "archiving" part when they added emulators so you could play games they hold in the browser.

I fully support archiving - and we have the "pirates" to thank for rescuing lots of our digital culture, but ... there's no need to go the extra step. It just sets up the whole thing to being banned.

Please help my gamerkid. Boost for reach.

I'm failing as a dad. He just bought a Deltaco GAM-169T bluetooth controller to use in Fortnite, on Windows.

The controller works perfectly well everywhere - but in Fortnite, via bluetooth. It works in Fortnite with the USB cable plugged in, but he bought a wireless controller for a reason.

I've tried everything I know, but since I haven't used Windows since 2008 I don't have any deep insights into what can go wrong here.

(It's not the "ignore gamepad" or "lock to mouse input" options within Fortnite - and I've made sure Steam, Xbox etc don't start up when the computer boots)

@neil My kids (three) have all gotten Internet connected tablets at the age of one. Phones at five. Computers at six.

We do not go through their devices or communications. We talk.

The eldest (then 11) installed TikTok, went down a bad rabbit hole, and through talking it through with us uninstalled it again on their own initiative and is now a vocal proponent against TikTok and its algorithms.

The best form of parenting is trust.

@bagder Surely they're offering you a bunch of money to make the fix to that specific version? :D

@dukope It looks like being pixel perfect the same as in GEM on the Atari ST. I don't know if that was Atari's or Digital Research's implementation though.