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shlee

@shlee@aus.social

Says good morning in the evening!

Admin of aus.social. Direct action charity founder. Cloud/Cybersecurity/Infosec engineer.

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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,
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Sorry for the horrible grammar, but this mostly came out as written.

We're on an adventure and building the path as we go.

And for the love of god.. do not "threat modal" the fediverse... you'll ruin your night

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I really want to see succeed. But I don't see many videos slide across my feed. It feels like PeerTube videos don't achieve wide federation.

I think this is because people don't follow as many PeerTube accounts and because PeerTube accounts don't post as often as Mastodon or other microblogging accounts.

Consider this... there isn't much downside to following all PeerTube accounts that you come across and boosting their posts because they are few and infrequent.

shlee,
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@limebar For peertube to succeed.. we need to start a global co-op with lots of storage/bandwidth servers replicated all over the world.

We need network engineers in high places to host servers for cheap/free for hundreds of TBs of data... both storage and bandwidth

and I cannot wait for it.

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The problem with internet fights is everybody wants to get the last word.

Let them have the last word as a treat.

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The best thing to remember is that it took over 6 years for someone to write a spam bot…. “We cannot blame the fediverse for being soiled by the earth. The fediverse is good!”

https://youtu.be/DVd_uug_u40?si=xXoDyTiF3GYTZC0x

shlee, to random
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Embracer says it's looking out for shareholders after cutting almost 1,400 jobs

"Our overruling principle is to always maximize shareholder value in any given situation" :trebuchet:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/embracer-says-it-s-looking-out-for-shareholders-after-cutting-almost-1-400-jobs

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Our mods can't stop won't stop. I cannot thank this group enough for being dedicated.

:loveandsickle: @AusSocialMods

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shlee, to random
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Chef selection :chef: :chef_kiss: :chefkiss: :discoursechef:

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Is it on?

shlee, to random
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NZ Bunnings has changed its name to Hammerbarn.. amazing

edit: It's not just that one store!! https://www.bunnings.com.au/diy-advice/kids-craft/kids-diy-resources

These stores are: Keperra QLD (the store that originally inspired the episode!), Blacktown NSW, Carrum Downs VIC, Munno Para West SA, Cannington WA, Glenorchy TAS and Glenfield NZ.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/bunnings-or-kids-tv-show-bluey-why-nz-bunnings-store-has-changed-its-name-to-hammerbarn/S4KAKEABNJDGPIMZP44VKEAAEU/

shlee, to random
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So photoshop ABSOLUTELY has a ai bullshit now. There is no "give this woman a crop top and tig ol bitties" button.

"AI generated this photo" is not a lie... maybe they prompted it to "remove the background and clean up the woman" or something but they didn't even use those words.

https://youtu.be/KiqkclCJsZs

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HOT SINGLE UNIONISTS IN YOUR AREA!

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ACAB includes lobster cop. (that bastard messed with the wrong frog)

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Appears Epic Games was a victim to a Data Breach by Mogilevich

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I'm starting a single issue political party to promote MSG. It's been vilified for too long.

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I’m in a rut.

Excited Cat GIF

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Another triumph Template for future meme'in

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Just broke up a fight in the Melbourne cbd… what an adventure.. I’m buying myself a treat

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Dear Labor, tax me more you cowards!

(I don't have a problem with lowering taxes on the lower income earners, but the ideologically war on tax is based on the very real assumption that governments are not spending taxes efficiently... lowering tax vs increasing tax is an easier fight when the taxes are leveraged for an increased social good etc etc).... I think it's generally accepted that Australia has a lot of fraud and waste in government spending so? who's going to argue against getting money that would otherwise be pissed against the wall

Unrelated, Adelaide where is my fucking extended tram network

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Redmart (Singaporean) supermarket was popped?

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:shinji_chair: :shinji_stare: :shinjiposting:

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Is the curly Wurly getting smaller? Or did I simply get it older?

shlee, to random
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"IGN: Fantastic Four: Forget a Big-Name Star, Doctor Doom Should Be Played By MF DOOM"

shlee, to random
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Deleting all of my tweets... RIP to a lot of good posts

shlee,
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https://redact.dev/ seems like winner... it's deleting my tweets

Please no hacky

shlee, to random
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Today I fixed the video conferencing that has been broke for the last few weeks apparently.

My office tech support didn’t understand the Cisco switch having all of those interfaces as trunk mode might explain why it isn’t working.

So took me a few minutes to diagnose… good times either way and office mates are rad

shlee,
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This is a story about modern day IT people living their entire careers in the cloud and SAAS products. Never having to learn more physical stuff so it’s fun to teach people.

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