Ninji, 16 hours ago to random

I've packed my suitcase for ConFuzzled so now I need to decide which pieces of technology I want to put in my backpack

Do I bring my actual, useful laptop? Do I bring my anachronistic Windows 3.11/9x netbook? Do I bring my iPAQ or my Clié or both??

This is so difficult

Purple, 7 days ago to Furry

More art posting!

Artwork by @elenamegi

#furry #furryart

Purple, 1 month ago to random

Happy Neil banging out the tunes day for those that celebrate!! 🐁🎶❗

thememesniper, 1 month ago to random

Purple, 2 months ago to random

Found a random printer on the street and it just works ???

God works in mysterious ways 🙏🙏

Another picture of the printer, having printed the previous picture. The print is laying on top of the printer

jpm, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

What. The. Fuck? @CursedFootprint

Edit: this is not a @NanoRaptor shitpost, it’s real. Datasheet at https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/semiconductors/powerdevices/datasheets/dipipm/s-mini/ver6/pss15s92e(f)6-ag_e.pdf

ErikUden, 3 months ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

To all Fedi Admins Currently Being hit with a Spam Wave:

This kind of spam is now over! Unmute all the instances no longer on my list!

I've just released v4.0.0 of The UNmute List! I'd be very happy about a small donation because I have very little time and I cannot really justify working on this list with my current schedule :mycomputer:​

There is a new type of spam, the same instances are affected as before. Those responsible in Japan are said to have been arrested.

Without further ado...

Limit these instances:

[Full List of Affected Instances Here]

Just get the list to download and import here.

Simply import this list and you'll mute the 47 worst spam instances currently known to me! I've worked on it for multiple weeks, sometimes ~9 hours at a time verifying all lists sent to me manually.

Limit first, defederate only in worst situations!

Consider re-federating with and un-silencing any of the mentioned instances once the spam is mitigated. The admins of some of these may have just been asleep when this all started.

Ban Spam Accounts via their E-Mail Domain

Block the following E-Mail Domain and whatever temp Mail provider it resolves to: chitthi.in

Just to be safe, block these ones too (same provider)

• mailto.plus
• fexpost.com
• fexbox.org
• mailbox.in.ua
• any.pink

All our spam accounts came from these E-mails.

Since you probably have some of these accounts sleeping:

https://[your-instance.tld]/admin/accounts?email=%25%40chitthi.in there just select all and press “Ban”.

Find Remaining Spammers

I've seen instances that fixed the spam issue but began being hit later again. The spammers might use new E-Mails, so here is a way to find and block them anyway:

https://mamot.fr/@vincib/111946701929274350

IP Bans and TOR

These spammers seem to be using the TOR Network as all of their IPs are TOR Exit Node IPs, hence an idea (with some collateral damage if executed) would be to ban all TOR exit node IPs for sign ups. I am personally against this idea as you'd also prevent users who simply wish to stay anonymous online (political refugees, leakers of important documents, etc.) from using your platform. For now, simply banning every user using a particular Spammer IP will not help and will merely ban users that try to stay anonymous! Not necessarily the spammers.

How To Block All Temp E-Mails in the Future

If you want to prevent this from ever happening again, you should block E-Mails from Temporary Mail providers all together:

• Here is the list of all Temp email providers (there are both blocklist and allowlist)
• Here how to install it in Mastodon
• The script that automatically pulls the list via Cronjob and imports it into Mastodon
• Script template

Because of this, hessen.social, for example, was not affected by the spam attack! They had already banned the email domain the spammers used ages ago.

In future updates on Mastodon, maybe Admins can simply click a button that says “Ban Temp E-Mail Providers” Automagically from the E-Mail Menu? There could be E-Mail categories that can be banned, such as temporary mails.

Why did this happen?

The real reason hundreds of us spent hours of our days during the spam on mitigating it is the following:

Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer

This is the full exposé @cappy has been working on regarding the February 15th Spam Attacks!

Thank you @BrodieOnLinux for mentioning this post in a video!

Good luck, everyone!
Thanks for participating in the Fediverse Experiment!

#FediBlock #FediAdmin

Purple, 3 months ago to animals

Blessing your timeline with my cat 💕

#catsofmastodon

Purple, 3 months ago to Engineering

Anyone with memory experience here?

I'm trying to figure out the performance differences between 1Rx4 and 2Rx4 (single rank vs dual rank) memory modules.

From what I can logically conclude 2R (dual rank) should be slower, as you will have to wait a few cycles while switching between ranks, but it's incredibly hard to find information about this online.
Mostly because a lot of people confuse memory channels with memory ranks and this has poisoned the search results.

(Dual channel is faster then Single channel, but if I'm right Dual rank should be slower then Single Rank right?)

TL;DR:
Can anyone tell me the bandwidth and latency differences between 1Rx4 and 2Rx4 DDR4 RDIMM memory?

#engineering #compsci #computer #server

kiwa, 4 months ago to random

The D-Link Bluetooth access point, I think I have shared this one before here, as you can guess, I'm doing some sorting and cleaning

Purple, 5 months ago to random

Just got this sent to me 😩

Purple, 5 months ago to random

Pretty 👀

Purple, 6 months ago to Furry

Hoodie and warm chocolate on the go kinda weather 🐾

Art by @coywolfy 💕

#furry #furryart

Purple, 6 months ago to random

I present to you, Purple!

Made by the amazing @xiaoquandoki10 💕💕

Hope to show her at a con or event soon!

A picture of a purple dog fursuiter, taken from the side
Picture of a purple dog fursuiter, she's holding up her tail

Purple, 6 months ago to Furry

Oh to be a little doggy excitedly walking around with the stick she found 💕

Art by pegasuskiss@twitter.com !!

#furryart #furry

anthropy, 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

A while ago I came up with this experiment to show the impact of your brain's model of the environment on how you keep your balance and such.

It involves standing on your toes (one or two leg whichever you're comfortable with), optionally closing your eyes, imagining a heavy big tail behind your back, and moving it from left to right, while standing on your toes.

If all goes well you should feel your balance shift from one to the other leg, while you move that phantom limb around behind you.

Sominemo, 7 months ago to random

Default Windows settings for UAC is more of a security theater and it's sad.

Explainer, if you hear about this for the first time:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160816-00/?p=94105

gsuberland, 7 months ago to random

stupid fucking power meter cloud shit turned off the power to my server rack just after I tweaked some snmp stuff which, unfortunately, broke UPS alerting, so the whole rack unceremoneously powered off. for some reason this killed the primary BIOS image on my NAS, so I've had to recover and redo all the settings, and my Brocade switch lost its LAGG config and now its power supply fan won't stop running at 80000rpm. FUCK'S SAAAAAAAKE.

Purple, 7 months ago to random

Does anyone have any recommendations for portable solar panels with DC output (preferably around 12-16V)?

Looking for one that will give a raw DC voltage, not one with a USB converter or other circuits on board

Preferably it would do >15W on a sunny day

Anyone with personal recommendations? I found that the specs on small portable solar panels are often far from the truth so looking for people with experiences ^^

Crell, 8 months ago to random

PSA: #Patreon just announced they're changing their privacy policy to default all of your account info, who you support, etc. to public. You need to go into the settings and disable that. (Check the two toggles at the bottom of the Settings page to off.)

And then send Patreon a nasty letter, because default-open is just a stupid model to begin with, period.

Purple, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to security

Mastodon just released a new version fixing CVE-2023-42452 and CVE-2023-42451

However the CVE's aren't published yet and the GHSA's on Github are still set to private. Does anyone know the severity of these issues?
Is this a stop and upgrade right now, or can we properly schedule the maintenance?

#MastoAdmin #CVE #security

EDIT:

The Advisories have been made public, updating with moderate urgency seems to be recommended

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-v3xf-c9qf-j667
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-2693-xr3m-jhqr

corvidcurse, 8 months ago to art

it's Chroma!! and also drawing this I realized dromeowyrms have a borzoi energy to them....

#traditionalart #furryart #art