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Jerry

@Jerry@hear-me.social

admin/owner of this Boston-area Mastodon instance, https://hear-me.social. A liberal who also follows conservatives who use facts to form opinions & are good people. I want my beliefs challenged. I hate when people agendize everything. I play around with Linux.

I also own:
Alternative Mastodon UI: https://phanpy.hear-me.social
Peertube instance: https://my-sunshine.video
Bluesky PDS: https://blue-ocean.social (jerry.blue-ocean.social)

he/him/his

#StarTrek #ScienceFiction #Linux

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18+ kimerwinbc, to random

hi. I'm new here

Jerry,
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@kimerwinbc Hi. Welcome.

You might want to post an introduction using the hashtag.

Because Mastodon doesn't have an AI to push posts to people, people follow both hashtags and people, so their timelines have exactly what they are interested in reading.

I hope you like it here!

Jerry, to Humor
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Jerry, to animals
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Best photo shoot
https://my-sunshine.video/w/ow5GTi7dJYBcDosFfj7ni5

Jerry, to prochoice
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Jerry, to Humor
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Well done!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/05/10/boat-mural-fence-seaside-california/

dansup, to random
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I'm debating reviving my official pixelfed hosting service idea, it's not a regular host service though!

Rather you'd bring a S3, Hetzner, Linode, DigitalOcean API key to our service

We would provision or otherwise manage (1-click updates, automated backups) your instance while allowing you to maintain total control over ownership of the underlying server and data

I'm thinking $5-20 a month for this, and it would allow admins a new level of peace of mind while maintaining total control

Wdyt?

Jerry,
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@dansup I maintain many personal servers (Mastodon, email server, Bluesky PDS, DNS, VPN, WordPress, Nextcloud, Peertube) and several more!, that I'd welcome having a Pixelfed instance that someone else would maintain for me. I'm just out of spare time.

I've thought of setting up a Pixelfed instance, but just haven't had the weekend time to do it.

So, yep, I'd sign up.

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No, this isn't from the Onion.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/hertz-is-charging-tesla-model-3-renter-277-fee-for-gas-wont-back-down

Jerry, to Humor
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A missing truck driver was last seen at his rig. The police spent two weeks looking for him throughout the province, finally finding him when they looked inside his rig.
🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

#Bonehead #WeirdNews #humor

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/lush-body-found-in-truck-1.7196616?ICID

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Felicia Day fans, she has turned on the Federation option for her #Threads account @feliciaday where she has 257K followers.

#FeliciaDay

Jerry, to random
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The one and only Bette Midler presents, Eau De Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvUyOFgVZI&t=57s

Jerry, to random
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Interesting visual perspective.
30-second video

https://my-sunshine.video/w/wu2Z2HaM9aSPFcAShnAgRt

sol, to random

Hey there y'all! I'm Sol (although that's a pseudonym), I'm a musician and a student in the New York area, and I'm very new to Mastodon and similar sites.

I use all pronouns, so don't worry about accidentally using the wrong ones.

I'm bisexual, but I do have a partner, so don't hit on me lol (thats a joke btw)

uhh yeah I might sound weird at times, I'm VERY neuroatypical, I have ADD (ADHD minus the hyperactive) and maybe Autism or at least a lot of autistic tendencies (looking back on that, it sounds a bit rude towards people actually on the spectrum , i mean no harm i just dont know how to word things better)

Somethings i like:
Books
Minecraft
Music
Any kind of computer science

Thanks for looking at my words, and have a good day!

Jerry,
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@sol Hi Sol. Welcome to the server and to Mastodon! If you have questions, just ask!

Jerry, to random
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Pregnant women in Missouri, Texas, and Arkansas aren't allowed to divorce. For many reasons, this is terrible for abused women.

So, how is it that women keep voting for Republicans? How much abuse is needed to get these same women to make decisions for their own good, and for the good of their progeny?

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/03/1247838036/divorce-pregnant-women-missouri-abortion-marriage-abuse

dansup, to random
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Omg, I fucking love Digital Ocean ❤️

Hands down the best hosting provider for devs and fedi admins

https://m.do.co/c/4ef5c2bc7dc9

Jerry,
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@dansup I'll second this.

I've been running multiple separate servers on DO for years and never had an issue (Mastodon (2 servers), Peertube, WordPress, WireGuard VPN, mail server, Phanpy, Bluesky PDS, and a general web server) with never a problem. I also use 2 DO Managed Postgres DBs and a DO Managed MySQL DB. Everything runs fast. Their support is excellent. They have many excellent tutorials.

Once they contacted me because I forgot to close a port in the firewall a few hours after I forgot to close it, so they do security scanning as well.

Scaling to a larger server, to get more disk space, or a larger DB is just a click.

Automated backups.

I think they are worth the small extra cost.

kurtsh, to random
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Attention Mastodon.

These are omg delicious.

That is all.

Jerry,
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@kurtsh Thanks for mentioning this. I have diabetes Type II. I just ordered both flavors from the Abottstore. I'm looking forward to trying them!

Jerry,
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@kurtsh

Oh, my. You have it a lot worse than I do.

I'm able to stay off drugs, for now, by careful diet and a lot of exercise. I hope I never have to do insulin.

Yeah, a lot of experimenting.

Best of luck!

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Jerry, (edited ) to random
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UPDATE on 216.106.86.232 :

Every few seconds, it's doing the following GETS. I'm getting about 2,000 calls per hour from this IP.

https://hear-me.social/packs/media/images/friends-cropped-40409bf96999902fa49757ebce824ce6.png

https://hear-me.social/api/v1/streaming?stream=public:local&access_token=O6luKbPRJV0FlTvhCSqn6z4wNwkUJMxUPgD7xMn4fsc

https://hear-me.social/api/v1/announcements

https://hear-me.social/api/v1/notifications?exclude_types[]=follow_request&since_id=79462

Is anyone else getting traffic from 216.106.86.232 ?

I will open a report with the ISP

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I'm putting this under because I've noticed that since 12 PM EDT yesterday (30-Apr-2024), API requests coming in from 216.106.86.232 have been returning 500 errors constantly from my server. No other 500 errors were being returned.

I blocked the IP at the Cloudflare firewall and now the 500 errors have stopped. There were more than 93K 500 return codes in total until now!

I have no idea what the requests are, and it's too late at night to do more research, but I'm passing this along to other Admins as a warning and to see if anyone else is seeing similar behavior.

@Gargron

Here's what I see in Cloudflare for the last one hour before blocking the IP address. Notice all the requests returning 500 are from this single IP. There are no page views. It's all API requests. And 500 errors stopped after I blocked it.

Any insights would be appreciated.

Jerry,
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@freiheit
Thanks for doing this.

I'm going to try to see, this weekend, what they have in the payload. It might be an innocent mistake. Or, it may be malicious, and then I too will file a complaint.

I may also open a problem with Mastodon. Mastodon should not return a 500 error unless there really is a problem with the server. It probably should be returning some type of 400 error instead. It's possible I didn't configure something correctly, although I think it's likely a Mastodon issue they didn't account for.

On the weekend to-do list.

Jerry,
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@waffles
Being behind Cloudflare, it's not that easy. I only see which reverse proxy people come in from. I don't have their originating IP address.

And if they are doing something like this, they probably used a VPN to login and set up an account to hide their IP.

There's an ID though in one of the API calls, and I'm wondering if it is actually an ID that could be used to identify the account in the database they are trying to referene, which might be their own? I was thinking of investigating this on the weekend.

Jerry,
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@waffles
Hmm. I am going to save this! Thanks.

But, I put in my server information that I don't track IP addresses, and so I can't use it on this server.

Jerry,
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@waffles It is for other servers I run!

Pix, to random
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I have fully transferred, finally! Rawr!

Jerry,
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@Pix Welcome to the server! It's great to have you here!

kurtsh, to random
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One of my greatest regrets about getting old that no one told me about was I can no longer eat spicy foods without paying for it later.

Tapatio & Cholula & Green Jalapeno Tabasco used to be may favorite condiment. Now the bottles collect dust.

Sob.

Jerry,
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@kurtsh There's so much more ...

Jerry, to PoliticalHumor
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It's a legal conundrum

Jerry,
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@6G All his lies were to protect Trump, not himself

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