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shlee, 3 months ago to random

Classic.

shlee, 11 months ago to random

Reddit is experiencing the VC dilemma.... Your startup is allowed to have core features and limited growth, and the end user experience is generally better that way in the long term...

VCs require infinite growth and that's unsustainable, so once the users run out.. they look to find cash any way they can like the privatisation of the APIs.

Patreon had the same problem. It had one job, then it suddenly started posting about microloans.

VC money, not even once.

shlee, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Happy Mastodon 4.2.0 Day! :420:

To celebrate the release of the long awaited major upgrade, I've written a short blog with a list of the hard work that Big G, Claire, Renchap and the rest of the Mastodon community have completed over the last few months!

https://shlee.fedipress.au/2023/mastodon-4-2-0-post-toots-everybody/

(I'm sure I've missed some improvements/features. Feel free to @ me and I'll update the list)

#mastoadmin #mastodev

shlee, 15 days ago to random

"I joined a bunch of landlord groups to subtly manipulate them into being better people - It’s actually kinda working"

https://www.thisisalot.com/unhinged-opinions/i-joined-a-bunch-of-landlord-groups-to-subtly-manipulate-them-into-being-better-people/118/

shlee, 10 months ago to Futurology

People talk hard about blocking Threads because of numerous privacy issues / surveillance capitalism reasons.

but, I'm likely blocking them for much more boring reasons.... They have hundreds of TBs of storage, unlimited bandwidth and a marketing budget (5 million people signed by in the first few hours).

#Meta has the ability to simple price administrators out of the market - using the classic method of just outspending your enemy with a dumptruck of money - Simply by existing in the same ecosystem as us, they can and will increase our server/storage costs until admins like myself drop out. (THANK YOU PATRONS/SUPPORTERS)

If I wanted to open communicate with #Threads -- I fear I simply won't be able to play the same game as them for very long.... and I foresee plenty of other admins dropping out for that reason

shlee, 3 months ago to random

Regarding the current spam.. the fediverse is built in a very strange way.

10,000+ mastodon servers (excluding the thousands of other services) all managed to different levels of complexity, by different people, running slightly different versions (or even different forks).

There is pretty much no coordination from a technical level to share threats or risks outside of an ever more cursed series of groupchats and discord servers..... infact mastodon doesn't even have a concept of "server to server" communication (subject to change very recently) so admins couldn't forward spammers emails/ip addresses or any kind of metadata incase of attackers using any kind of shared infra.

There is nothing not even a captcha (until recently) stopping people from spending an hour writing a few scripts to create millions of fake accounts and spamming the ecosystem.. or creating a DOS bot to upload large files on bulk and replicate those across from 10,000 S3 mirrors wasting bandwidth and money.

You could easily bankrupt most of the fediverse in a week because nobody watches their data usage and lots of people pay for bandwidth.

Now.. lots of people have been talking about making things to improve this ecosystem, but nobody has the cash to fix this problem "correctly"... but the good news? There are a few projects on the go to try to fix this.

2024 is the year of the fediverse reinventing the wheel when we're been dealing with spam on the internet since it started... but I do love a new wheel

shlee, 6 months ago to random

"Find yourself a man who looks at you like this courtroom artist looks at SBF"

shlee, 2 months ago to random

https://www.askamanager.org/2024/03/the-fake-union-organizer-the-lemon-zest-and-other-machiavellian-triumphs-at-work.html

shlee, 8 months ago to mastodon

Sealions? on my instance!

"They're just asking questions."

#mastodon

shlee, 11 days ago to random

shlee, 8 months ago to random

CVE-2023-41064 is going to require patching everything that renders WebP images. Every browser/electron apps/mobile apps like telegram/Flutter apps/etc etc

Welcome to the modern software supply chain!

shlee, 8 months ago to random

Some quality agitpop from Melbourne.

via https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1638j4u/is_this_a_formal_yarra_trams_communication_bold/

shlee, 5 months ago to random

I'm going to write something longer as the admin regarding Threads.. but for now, I'm hoping to encourage the Mastodon developers to develop this place in a way that shifts a little of the authority from admins to users about what they can/cannot see, and how your toots & content is/isn't shared (similar to the opt-in for full text search).

Claire already has a plan in the works to allow people who want to see Threads to opt-in, and those who don't can tell Threads to get stuffed...

and as a whole, I'd feel better being in a situation where everybody here can "Choose their poison/risk" instead of me forcing your hand. We will see how the future holds.

(I'm never going to remove the restrictions on nazi instances, but in regards to Threads, I'm going to choose safety and my moderator team for now). Threads needs to earn my trust.

NO MASTERS. NO ADMINS.

Reference PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26904

shlee, 1 month ago to random

Broken Hill friends

video/mp4

shlee, 3 months ago to random

A long time ago I wrote a linked in bot to follow anybody who looks at my profile..

11,596 Connections later and the bot was finally detected by their team. Congratulations LinkedIn SOC

shlee, 3 months ago to auspol

Royal commission into why governments never enact into any of the recommendations from previous royal commissions. #AusPol

shlee, 7 months ago to random

Have you all tried not being blocked by discord?

shlee, 7 months ago to infosec

Pizza Hax.
#infosec

shlee, 1 month ago to random

People keep mistakenly saying Mastodon when they really mean “the Dansup extended fediverse ecosystem”.

Cc @dansup

shlee, 17 days ago to random

Mastodon Admins, I highly recommend looking at sportsbots.xyz -

This instance is a twitter bridge cloning sport tweets that was using more than 1Tb of storage (1/9th of my total storage for a handful of accounts)

#Mastodev #Fediblock

shlee, 11 hours ago to random

Love to see it

shlee, 2 months ago to random

For any Australian infosec people... Tickets for #BSidesCbr2024 are now on sale :yeeclaw:

https://events.humanitix.com/bsides-canberra-2024

shlee, 1 month ago to random

My charity is throwing a 69 hour long charity livestream from a venue in Sydney this weekend. http://donate.generozity.charity

Live on twitch http://twitch.tv/generozity from tomorrow at 9am

shlee, 21 days ago to random

As somebody who is on the board of multiple not for profits…. “Mastodon has known entity on board” is not the hot take you think it is.

It’s self evident people want this place to be better and it is… but building a better place requires developers putting food on the table.

At worst, it’s kind of a condemnation that the community as a whole failed at the financial support side of the project to back up our ideology… Better mutual aid for the developers might have driven a different path.

Complaining about the NFP having capitalists is not praxis… NFPs have rich well known people on them to give confidence to other rich people…… it’s not a conspiracy

The important element is influence. What influence do we have over the project? How can we capture more?

(This is not support of the board members)

shlee, 3 days ago to random

Is anybody good at editing STLs? I have a modal I want to negative cut some text and a SVG logo onto the back.

I'll happily throw a few bucks because I've tried and failed to get the Blender Boolean cut to work!