Notices by Tom :damnified: (thomas@metalhead.club)

@cadusilva I have too few UK users, so the OSA does not apply here. (metalhead.club is hosted in Germany).

But the situation for UK instances is ... terrible :S afaik some have already been shut down?

Also see this to check if you're affected as an instance operator: https://ofcomlive.my.salesforce-sites.com/formentry/RegulationChecker

@cadusilva (if I was affected, I'd probably geo block the UK)

Here it is! Our metalhead.club public advert in Wacken!

Thank you very much @MountainWizard for checking it out!

If you're in Wacken today or in the next few days: Find our advert at Hauptstraße 33 and maybe take a selfie? 😉

(are we the first Mastodon instance that has publicly deployed an advert?)

#woa #wacken #metal #metalheadclub #festival #mastodon

#mastoadmin recommendation: There's an AI spamming instance, "mastodon.arell.ai". I recommend to block it.

It just consists of hundreds of AI accounts spamming the Fediverse 🙄.

With Mastodon v4.4.0 instance owners can enable HTTP referrers. That means:

If somebody clicks a link on a Mastodon post (e.g. to a news article), the link target owner (such as the news site operator) can see that a user from that instance has visited their website.

They do _only_ get the instance domain (e.g. metalhead.club). No information about the user!

I've enabled this setting, because I am sure that it will increase awareness of Mastodon's existence. 💪

#mastodon #mastoadmin

Does anyone here speak Slovak? Of recently found the band "Patriarcha" and like their music, but I have no idea what their lyrics are saying.

https://patriarchaband.com/about

Just want to make sure that their lyrics align with my moral.

#metal

"Ich werde das in drei Tagen beenden": Trump will mit Wels im Brombachsee telefonieren"

https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/07/trump-wels.html

👌Endlich unternimmt mal einer was!

Block AI scrapers with Anubis - Xe Iaso
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/

#ai #bots

@Polychrome just wanted to give you attribution as a way of saying "thank you"

@Polychrome done.

@Polychrome I just discovered this when I saw your post :)

Anubis: self hostable scraper defense software | Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/

Discovered via @Polychrome

#ai #bots #scraper

@Bundesregierung ich verstehe, dass man möglichst viele Bürger erreichen will und deshalb eine populäre Plattform gewählt hat.

Aber wäre es Vllt möglich, zumindest auch Alternativen anzubieten? Beispielsweise einen Threema Channel oder Signal Channel, falls es technisch möglich ist?

Das wäre ein gutes Signal.

Alter?! Firefox?! 😲

Gibt es eigentlich eine (Metal-) Band, bei der jemand aus dem Rollstuhl heraus auf der Bühne performt?

Ich glaube, ich habe sowas noch nie gesehen und bin neugierig, ob das gibt.

Gestern habe ich nach Ethernet-Kabeln gesucht, heute nach einer PDU.

Ich hätte gerne 5-10 Ports für eine 19" Rackmount PDU. Am besten Schuko-Stecker. Und das besondere: Sie soll über HTTP Calls, Telnet oder SNMP schaltbar sein - jeder Ausgang einzeln.

Es geht um Testautomatisierung. Vielleicht hat ja jemand von euch Erfahrung damit und kann ein günstiges Produkt empfehlen, das genau das tut. Messfunktion und ähnliches ist nicht wichtig.

#pdu

@dansup you're talking about a 3rd party service - will it be hosted on your infra or will data be sent to another party for processing?

If the technology is ready and it can be self-hosted - maybe it's worth considering such filters for Mastodon as well. Some jurisdictions might require it sooner of later.

@dansup I'm curious how you will be implementing CSAM scan.

@tim it also depends on its users to set the correct language. 😅 I've seen people fail at this so many times...

"Fall" from Borknagar

https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/album/fall-24-bit-hd-audio

"Afar" 😍

#Borknagar #metal