Notices by 👺防空識別區👹 (sojourn maxxing) (adiz@wl0.9ch.nl)

@Suiseiseki I am pretty certain that Haiku is free and open source. @RustyCrab

@cine It's very easy to do. @prettygood

@Suiseiseki The year is 2036 and GNU HURD finally rises to the top. Or, we all just start using Haiku. @RustyCrab

@silverpill Ah, very cool! I had no idea. Yeah, it sounds a lot more powerful. I will definitely have to get mitractl configured and setup to begin doing that and utilizing it. Being able to backup or load rules from a CSV also sounds huge! This is powerful, really straightforward and reliable kind of implementation vs. what a lot of other instance softwares do. Thanks for taking the time to better explain this stuff! I'm really excited to see the future of Mitra's evolution. @mischievoustomato

@silverpill As far as blocking out instances entirely from federation whatsoever, I think I will probably follow @mischievoustomato 's advice and configure /etc/hosts to do that. Honestly, it's kind of like that functionality doesn't even need to be in Mitra if it's already included within Linux itself.

@silverpill
> The ability to block outgoing requests will be added later. Let me know if this is important.

Blocking outgoing requests is important to me since most of those instances I have "blocked" were meant to block outgoing requests, primarily, vs. incoming. Because most of those instances are known bad-actor #fediblock bandwagon instances who get off on dog-piling and sabotaging other instances for the most minor of transgressions or ideological heresy. I've found it best practice to simply block those instances outright from the outset so that no federation takes place and one remains entirely off their "radar"---everyone's happy. One doesn't receive activities from them (they've nothing I want to see or hear) and the don't receive any activities from you (they've noting to complain about or disparage and attack you over). Otherwise, they'll go out of their way to look for problems and will then publicly crucify your instance and you'll end up on a list from which hundreds of instances will blindly follow. @mischievoustomato

@adiz @silverpill Also, really good documentation about mitractl add-filter-rule! I didn't see these docs on the repo. Looks like it functions very similar to ufw, which is quite intuitive and straightforward. Might I ask why you recommend using mitractl vs. directly modifying the config? Does it do the same thing ultimately? @mischievoustomato

I've added certain instances (e.g., pawoo.net) to my Mitra's blocked instance list within the .yaml config---however, I'm still receiving content from those instances? @silverpill, am I doing something wrong here with the config? I thought I'd done the appropriate syntax for lists in .yaml like this, per my searching online. And, the config loads fine (whereas, I've found other syntax errors result in Mitra failing to start). I am certain it's probably user error on my part...

@mischievoustomato I always restart Mitra as well. Maybe I need to move the ending bracket down a line and the top entry under the opening bracket? I didn't know it would accept comments inside the list, either. That's great for organizational purposes. I'll try doing that and restarting the service. @silverpill

@mischievoustomato I changed my config closer to what you've got both in syntax and organization. Restarted Mitra and it's running fine. We shall see, I guess? @silverpill

@RustyCrab Linus? Russian maintainers? What happened? I'm unfamiliar. I think the benefits of the open source and libre software and operating system communities are that people can and will fork and develop their own solutions---and preexisting software can be interrogated and investigated for vulnerabilities in privacy and security. These are all concepts very popular and important amongst most users of Linux and the Fediverse. There are also a lot of marginalized groups and communities in this space of tech, not only politically marginalized groups (rightfully or wrongly so, e.g., "Nazis") for whom surveillance is of paramount importance.

@RustyCrab I wonder how things like this would be enforceable or controllable within the open source community? For example, running Linux and using only free/libre software and firmware on device. Using FLOS and self-hosted networks and communications protocols.

@lanodan I forgot Hubzilla is still a thing. I've not followed any of their development nor have heard anything about/of them in a very long time. Is it a well-utilized Fediverse implementation? @sun

@lanodan @sun If memory serves me correct there's some sort of initiative with the Mitra developer Silverpill to try and create the functionality for immutable, mobile identities within the Fediverse (somehow?)...

@rat You know I'm real because I keep breaking instances and showing back up with new shit and then vanishing for like a month in strange and foreign lands. Real human behavior. Definitely not an advanced LLM trained on being fucking cool or something.

@p Block cloudlab.us to combat this? 🤔 @0461fcbecc4c3374439932d6b8f11269ccdb7cc973ad7a50ae362db135a474dd

@p It's very strange that the University of Utah would be scraping the whole Fediverse like that? @1c9dcd8fd2d2fb879d6f02d6cc56aeefd74a9678ae48434b0f0de7a21852f704

Just realized I'm sitting/leaning against the emergency exit window plug on a 737 Max. And, suddenly, I've become paranoid that it's going to vacate the airframe and take me along with it……

@iwillbite Wow, D...that's both sexist and racist. @waifu

The only thing that threatens this instance is the 100 GB storage allotted to it. The only thing threatening it would be that storage filling up. Beyond that, this thing is rock solid stable. I may have to figure out how to increase the storage on it in the future.