Notices by r000t@infosec.exchange

"write a project, put it on your resume."

I did.

I did everything I was told to do.

The owner of mastodon.lol has gone on a bit of a "telling people to kill themselves" binge.

They are also upset that people are calling them names and claiming they're transphobic. This is interesting given that @nathan@mastodon.lol has previously called me the same for disagreeing with them on some minor unrelated issue.

Now that they're being called out for breaking the same rules they enforce upon others, they're leaving fedi. Forever and ever and for realsies.

Typical Akali main. See y@. Don't let the socket close on your ass on the way off the network. I'm sure Elon would love to have you. #fediblock

What exactly does a "cyber diplomat" do and why is this one so bad at it?

Folks on single-user instances: What's your current disk usage? And what's your current retention time for remote media?

If you're writing an analogy about public things that were publicly posted for public use on the public internet, and your analogy revolves around "But my wallet! But my home!", you're being intentionally deceptive.

Posting on Twitter or Mastodon or anything of the sort is the technological equivalent of getting on a soapbox at the public amphitheater with hundreds/thousands of spectators. It's the farthest thing from public. Your expectations for your private home are no longer reasonable, and it's wrong of you to expect everyone else to uphold it.

If you do not mean to shout all of your messages into a bullhorn at the park ("I just wanted a small community"), then let me make this perfectly clear: You are using the wrong software. Look into a nice, simple forum. phpBB and SMF will almost certainly do the job.

Dogpiling and (illegally) harassing people who make fedi search engines won't scale.

#consent #tech #technology #techBros #optIn #optOut #commonsense #publicmeanspublic

@FrailLeaf
It was/is part of an ongoing discussion/drama regarding a fediverse search engine.

Just btw, I'm getting tired of seeing "Twitter refugees" whine and cry that "Twitter is gone and all of my friends are gone and it's forever and ever"

No, you can log in right now and conintue to use it. *MY* access to Twitter *actually did* disappear one day through no fault of my own, and nobody cried for me.

You're a refugee because you want to be, because it's cool and vogue. I came here because I had no choice. We are not the same.

There's a really big problem with how Mastodon and Pleroma handle servers disappearing for a while.

By default, both daemons will "pause" delivery to remote instances that they haven't seen or been able to deliver to in 7 days. When delivery is paused, even sending DMs to/from test users won't result in a request being sent out.

Delivery is unpaused when you hear from the other server.

See the problem?

If a fediverse server has connectivity issues for a little over 7 days, nobody it used to federate with will send it any messages until they hear from it. And that server won't send any messages to remote servers until it hears from them.

While Mastodon has a way to manually unpause delivery, there is NO indication to the end user that they need to contact an admin to make this happen. If you were to, for example, send a DM to a paused instance after it comes up, you won't get any sort of error saying that delivery is paused, but at the same time, no job will ever be made to deliver your message.

Pleroma does not appear to have a way to unpause delivery at all, meaning that if this happens between two pleroma instances, it's essentially a suspension that neither admin can lift, or even see.

This, by the way, does not fix itself if one of the servers becomes aware of the other again through things like boosts. It *must* be manually cleared by an administrator.

How many instances can you never talk to again, because you or them disappeared for a week?

Anyway, please boost, and maybe someone who works on either project will see this. Eugen actively refuses my reports.

@tinker Nobody ever talks about all the cleanup that happens after the big battle.