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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org That's the budget of....what? Probably a day's worth of bombing a random location in Iran.
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@oli@olifant.social
Yes, that @oliphant@oliphant.social.
I sometimes work for the fedi and code stuff. I write about blocklists, and island networks and don't like nazis. I'm unfortunately a US citizen. Vegan for the animals and environment, not to lecture you with.
I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 , Palestine 🇵🇸, and Canada 🇨🇦, for the sovereignty of Greenland, for the rights of the trans community :Flag_Trans:, as I stand with any group denied rights or bullied by an aggressor, I oppose and will always oppose all wars of aggression regardless of rationale or excuse; and while my government is overrun with Nazis, I also stand against it.
I'm also a native of Minnesota, and fuck ICE.
I also host a few things as public services for others. That means you! Use them!
- Posty - Turns a Mastodon or Pixelfed archive (whatever that looks like today) into a static HTML site. Chokes on larger archives (recommending running it locally in that case)
- Pelago - Community moderation, island management, allowlists, blocklists, island networks, and federated discussion groups. All the stuff I wish had already existed for managing allowlists and creating easy networks between GTS islands, via the use of a single subscribeable feed. It also integrates with the FIRES and ActivityPub protocols. It's still in alpha.
- FIRES - Island One - This is just a FIRES frontend on Pelago that mirrors the official FIRES reference server
- Blocklists - A mirror site for blocklists, including an "ad hoc" blocklist I have for my own use, stuff from fediblock or encountered in the wild.
- Darkwire - E2E encrypted chat in-browser, ephemeral, and everything gets deleted when the last person leaves the room. (I did not make this)
- Phanpy - Island One - This is currently pointed at a dev version of Phanpy with local-only post support for GoToSocial.
- Nicolium - In case you prefer a different frontend. Source: Nicolium.
- Lingva - Basically a proxy to Google Translate, but without the tracking.
Note: Only Posty and Pelago are made by me, I can't take credit for the others.
Kickass avatar courtesy of @spycyshark@yiff.life
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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io As I'm fond of saying, you did not 'wear down' the AI until it gave you the right answer. It wore you down, because it's inexhaustible, until you were finally willing to accept its answer.
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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io "I guess this art looks kinda like what I asked for. Close enough, anyway."
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@RickiTarr@beige.party ever notice the big heroes in medical dramas are the ones who are like, "Fuck your bottom line, I'm saving lives here!"
Haven't met many heroic figures in medical dramas who save the hospital by denying care. Strangely.
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@ana I was thinking the same thing. It's insulting that he dies on the TERF hill, yet sees no issue ascribing womanhood to his chatbot.
I mean, if we're going to ascribe it human properties, I think that chatbot was actually 'born' nonbinary, pronouns it/its.
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@the_etrain@beige.party Disruptor: "You've been....disrupt--"
suddenly starts choking from the throat punch
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@lynnesbian Wow. I'm in awe. This is the most human thing you've ever said. It's like you really get me.
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@catsalad @avatastic
Let’s see what’s in /teh/cupboard….
ls -la
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…Hmm…. I got nothing.
I guess just grab some logs.
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@stefan@gardenstate.social Not all open registration instances are created alike, that's for sure. I appreciate you doing your part to make sure that new accounts created don't run amok.
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@johnzajac "It doesn't really matter who becomes President. They can't really change that much, anyway."
I used to hear that shit all the time, usually about positive things like healthcare.
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @FediGarden@social.growyourown.services I mean, here's goblin.technology, run by Tobi who basically started GoToSocial.
https://goblin.technology/
It allows signups. So I'm not sure if that's public or not.
ALL GoToSocial instances require manual review for signups however.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services @elduvelle@neuromatch.social Yeah, Slurp elides the problem by simply refusing to import any post with a @mention in it. So you essentially are able to import your old posts, but not preserve entire conversation threads.
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @jonny@neuromatch.social @elduvelle@neuromatch.social
This is a solved problem with GoToSocial.
First, they allowed backdating statuses.
Which allowed importing old statuses.
One of the devs created a tool, Slurp, for this purpose. It uses your existing Mastodon archive.
At this time, GoToSocial is the only platform I'm aware of that can handle not just account migration, but post migration as well.
This page talks about migrating to GoToSocial and using Slurp to migrate posts.
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @jonny@neuromatch.social @elduvelle@neuromatch.social Yeah, it doesn't have to worry about the problems of running thousands on the same instance because it's not really designed for that. Although, if there was a large instance like that, they could just prevent it entirely by turning off backdated post imports at the server level in the config yaml.
It's not so much that it can't handle large volume or large amounts of members migrating posts.... it probably can?
It's just that no one has ever tested it. I'm not aware of anything I'd consider a "large" GTS instance, for one. I'm not aware of anyone with, say, 20k followers migrating to a GTS instance, or importing a massive archive to it.
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@iftas Also grouping them here.
https://pelago.1sland.social/report/evidence/kind/group/entity/baaf1741-4f64-410f-84b1-0c9e2f9366f4
Being auto-added to the dataset here:
https://fires.1sland.social/fires/viewer?url=https://fires.1sland.social/datasets/019d6136-a159-739b-8bba-d9852dccc8a7
And the live Community Reports feed:
https://pelago.1sland.social/report/feed
https://archipelago.1sland.social/fires
It's up and running, Pelago ingesting blocklists and creating FIRES advisories.
https://archipelago.1sland.social/blocklist/IFTAS%2DDNI
If you scroll down, you can see the entire FIRES snapshot and subscribe to the dataset.
As changes happen over time, you'll see retractions in the feed.
cc: @thisismissem@hachyderm.io
You can also see an example of 'filtering' on this page, if you scroll down. Rather than silence which can mean anything, there's a suggested list of filters to be applied.
https://archipelago.1sland.social/blocklist/IFTAS%2DAUD
Note that the existing labels were surfaced from IFTAS: Shared Vocabulary - Labels, along with the translations (when available).
The filters come from the FIRES project itself.
In case you want to be up to date with the latest tranche of dav1d accounts that haven't been suspended yet:
https://pelago.1sland.social/report/evidence/kind/group/entity/3f5f705c-0770-4825-b3d9-92d82682ca9a
Just bookmark that page. Also, if you scroll down just above the Community Labels, you should see the link.
Or you can just bookmark the direct download link to the blocklist:
https://pelago.1sland.social/report/blocklist_csv/entity/3f5f705c-0770-4825-b3d9-92d82682ca9a
#fediblock
Of course, the very unspecial pissbaby will just create more, so this is more about cleaning up his garbage and deleting his posts after the fact.
Follow @pelago@pelago.1sland.social for updates, or notifications as new accounts show up.
Returning to the old joke:
"How can Bluesky be down all at once? Isn't it decentralized?"
Fuck, it's just 'madman' this and 'unhinged' and 'off his rocker' and 'psychotic' and we just don't have any words for this, do we, that don't lean all the way into "he's gotta be mentally ill!"
I'll say it again:
Mental illness is what we have dealing with him. Motherfucker has repeatedly traumatized us and the entire fucking world. Abuse is all he knows.
He's an abuser.
That's the word you're looking for.
And he's insecure. Most of his cabinet is. They are all terrified to change shoe sizes, FFS.
He's a insecure abuser and cult leader who has things going very bad for him right now, and he's flailing and lashing out the way any abuser and cult leader will when they see that their strategies are no longer working.
Sure, he has absolutely no self-restraint, no executive functions that tell him when to stop bloviating about bullshit, he has never gone to therapy and has a huge complex about a lot of things (penis size, windmills, etc) which might encourage you to start psychoanalyzing him, to explain what's "wrong" with him. To diagnose him with 'madness' or some kind of 'disease'....
As if an abuser needs or deserves that abandonment of accountability.
You could argue that abusers are fundamentally damaged, that there is something 'wrong' with them. That 'normal people don't act like this' or whatever it is that you say but what you don't realize you're doing at a time like this is throwing every person with mental illness under the bus.
And we have a need, our own obsession, with proposing explanations for why someone does something. And it's a quick trip to 'there must be something wrong with his brain.'
It's the same fucking brain that banned Muslims in his first term, threw out wild accusations of fraud based on nothing other than his feels, separated families as a policy of cruelty, and declared that sticking ultraviolet light up your bum might cure you of the covids.
If you want a single guiding thing, like if you're looking for the reason, the mechanism, the thing that drives Trump, MAGA, and the entire Right, it's not "madness".
It's insecurity.
That's it. It's the fear that 'everyone is laughing at them'. It's the desire to be so 'tough' and 'manly' that no one will ever dream of laughing at you again.
So it's 'department of war' and 'hardcore' videos of video game violence and bro high-fives and 'finally we an say the r-word again' and tradwives, and all the other insecurity-driven fetishes of the Right.
The absolute terror that they are, underneath it all, small and shrinking. And that we can all see it.
And so they overcompensate.
If you want to psychoanalyze, fine, but do it in the context of truly trying to understand, not to apply a dismissive pejorative label and dehumanize everyone with mental illness.
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@iftas I'm just keeping these as advisories for now, anyway, since they are suspected, no recommendations yet.
He's not "out of his mind."
He's deeply inside of it. An entire industry exists to ascribe to mental illness what is more readily explained as him just being a shit human being.
He's been "losing it" for a decade.
Maybe he never had it? Maybe you're still chasing the tail of this story, you think?
Maybe the answer was somewhere back at how he treated the Central Park Five, rather than trying to figure out what new malady might explain his being an insufferable fuckwart.
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@aesthr@wandering.shop I saw the reply you received, that was weird, dark and uncalled-for. I'm sorry that happened to you...a reply like that would fuck me up all day. The culture here has a real dark side.
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If you're looking for a good place to flag advisories not just on domains but also on actors themselves, check out https://pelago.1sland.social
Once you log in with your fediverse handle (the credentials never leave your web browser) you can start reporting domains and actors, flagging them with labels if you want and even uploading screenshots and other documents here:
https://pelago.1sland.social/reports
This will populate a completely transparent feed. You can follow @pelago@olifant.social for announcements about updates to the community reports.
Community moderators have the ability to escalate advisories to recommendations (or retract frivolous advisories, perhaps), with the entire feed visible in FIRES.
Those who receive an advisory are welcome to also log in, contest the advisory or report, and provide counter evidence of their own (to the moderators, we aren't having troll wars in public here).
And if you want to use Pelago to set up your own FIRES server and create your own advisories for your own moderation network, you certainly can.
Feel free to log in, kick the tires, and let me know if you experience any issues.
You can find out more about FIRES, which is a protocol designed for composeable moderation on the Fediverse, an evolution beyond blocklists.
There was every attempt made to codify and set ethical boundaries in the software for this purpose.
More about that, here.
If you just want to browse or consume the FIRES datasets directly, that's at https://fires.1sland.social
#Fediblock #FediblockMeta #Pelago #Moderation
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@taylorlorenz @rwg <- that would be someone I'd talk to, since he did a lot of research on the Fediverse and wrote a book about it.
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@anarchic_teapot @GottaLaff @GottaLaff Yeah, it's definitely not an instant process. It does the migration in batches.
Next #Monsterdon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocy8TseK88I
(Has anyone been able to find the full movie?)
Mr. Show - Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost
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@jonny@neuromatch.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services @elduvelle@neuromatch.social I should actually go one further here.... post migration is handled with Slurp via the Mastodon archive.
And the thing about the Mastodon archive is that you don't have any posts in it you didn't write. Sure, you have replies to posts in a thread you created, maybe, or orphaned replies to other people's threads, but it's not like you can pull an export that includes other people's posts, too.
So keeping actual post references intact rather than merely copying over the content of original posts so that they aren't lost, and replacing all existing references to that post to a copy of it on other new instances....that's a big difference.
If we just go with the Mastodon archive as our source of preserving posts, we don't have the source data to recreate the thread in the first place, just the original posts from the author.
With such fragmented data, you can see why we often throw orphaned mentions away (as I do with Posty) or Slurp refuses to include random mentions...
On top of which, including random mentions would trigger a whole wave of notifications for post-dated posts, so Slurp just refuses to import those.
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@tim@union.place Check this out:
https://pelago.1sland.social/report/evidence/kind/group/entity/baaf1741-4f64-410f-84b1-0c9e2f9366f4
If you log in, you can add more evidence. Can also grant 'community admin' status to good-faith admins so we can promote advisories to recommendations as needed, or add more accounts to the group.
You can view the whole dataset here, along with all the Advisories on those suspected accounts.
https://pelago.1sland.social/fires/viewer?url=https://fires.1sland.social/datasets/019d6136-a159-739b-8bba-d9852dccc8a7
Just going to reiterate this shit.
"Human shields" means hostages. They are holding hostages.
You're never the good guy when you shoot the hostages.
Somehow the media and political class has transformed this into more of an excuse than a deterrent.
"You blew up a hospital."
"Well, they were using human shields."
That's not a period at the end of the sentence, or it shouldn't be. The immediate reply should be, "So you're saying they are hostages, and you blew up the hostages."
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@drwho @ana Yeah, and the LLM doesn't really have needs of its own, except more datacenters, I guess. It's all about you. I guarantee there's little interest in "how Claudia is feeling." You just get pumped up constantly by the world's most gushing, adoring sycophant. And it never makes demands of you. Rarely encourages introspection. It's perfect if you're a raging narcissist. And instantly fall in lust with anyone who feeds your insecurity.
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@mike@social.chinwag.org When I worked on a security team a decade ago, when we'd discover shit like a crucial vulnerability in every Intel CPU ever made or something, we'd just throw up our hands, look at each other and say:
"....So when we quit this doomed field and start our own coffeeshop, what kind of coffeeshop should it be?"
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@puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social @cwebber@social.coop Smart Contract developers launching code on an immutable blockchain ask themselves that question all the time, I imagine.
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@renchap@oisaur.com @sovtechfund@mastodon.social Super excited to hear about the FIRES work. Feel free to use https://fires.1sland.social for testing/consuming various datasets.
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@lina@vt.social Ah, thank you, I think I see what you mean: Even if the block partially works (the instance B is posting from might not be able to mention/tag A, as their replies refuse delivery to that individual actor on A), that presumably doesn't stop B's instance (and maybe even A, depending on server software) from accepting their reply to A, hosting it on their instance, and thus making it an accessible post for others (C), while hiding it from the OP, due to the block.
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@ariarhythmic @leo This is how it's being done by the 'Portal Kombat' crew. They use existing accounts and use server invites to bypass registration checks.
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @FediGarden@social.growyourown.services Things like Fediverse Observer and FediDB started dropping many GoToSocial instances, after GTS started messing with scrapers ignoring the robots.txt by permitting admins to create ridiculous stats. This messed with the overall stats of the fediverse, so essentially a lot of GTS instances got wholly blacklisted from public directories, regardless of whether they enabled the 'spoof' setting or not.
Which....I guess stopped those places from scraping GTS server endpoints.
Some people are really mad at the authors over it, but all it's really done is take GTS off the official statistics board entirely.
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@virtualwolf @Shrigglepuss
Point of clarification: So clew.live has escaped containment, it's not on the IFTAS DNI list yet. That's clew.lol.
clew.live is only on my 'ad hoc' list which is populated directly by me, mostly from reports on #fediblock.
https://pelago.1sland.social/report/evidence/kind/domain/entity/clew.live
Same assholes as .lol, though.