ErikUden, 9 months ago to random

Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.

Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this. :trantifa:

ErikUden, 8 months ago to random

A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.

ErikUden, 6 months ago to random

I'd like to remind people that the USA passed a law promising to invade the Netherlands if any war criminals were ever put on trial in the International Criminal Court The Hague as part of the Hague Invasion Act.

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

ErikUden, 4 months ago to random

Today, on January 11th, we have to remember who died #OTD in 2013: Aaron Swartz :AaronSwartz:

You may know him from his contribution to or creation of:

:blank: • Markdown
:blank: • The Creative Commons License :CreativeCommons:
:blank: • RSS :rss: :blobcat_rss:
:blank: • Reddit

We must never forget him and his contributions to our world forever - especially due to circumstances of injustice and the cause he became a martyr for.

ErikUden, 8 months ago to random

The “guns don't kill people” crowd sure seem to think books can make you gay.

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ErikUden, 4 months ago to random

Today, 15 years ago #OTD the person or group with the fictive name of “Satoshi Nakamoto” created the first cryptocurrency named Bitcoin with the thought of it becoming a secure and fast alternative to fiat currency.

Now it's known as the most wasteful use of electricity, inefficient and limiting capability/functionality, as well as being among the most insecure and de-anonymizing ways to transfer money.

However, what Satoshi Nakamoto probably hasn't expected is how many scam-currencies would come after theirs, and how their invention would create a new breed of the most annoying people known to our species: crypto-bros.

ErikUden, 7 months ago to random

The privatization of public services and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. :blobcat_db:

ErikUden, 2 months ago to random

How much money do you think the United States has spent since 1945 on the Cold War? Sometimes they ask this question then from the back of the audience comes in answer ‘billions and billions‘. A huge underestimate – billions and billions. The amount of money that the United States has spent on the Cold War since 1945 is approximately 10 trillion dollars. Trillion, that’s the big one with the ‘T’. What could you buy with 10 trillion dollars? The answer is: You could buy everything in the United States except the land. Everything. Every building, truck, bus, car, boat, plane, pencil, baby’s diaper. Everything in the United States except the land, that’s what we have spent on the Cold War.

So, now let me ask: How certain was it that the Russians were going to invade? Was it 100% certain? Guess not since they never invaded. What if it was only let say 10% certain? What would advocates of big military buildup have said? We must be prudent. It’s not enough to count on only the most likely circumstance. If the worst happens and it’s really extremely dangerous for us we have to prepare for that. Remote contingencies if there is serious enough have the prepared for. It’s classic military thinking – you prepare for the worst case.

And so now, I ask my friends who are comfortable with that argument, including the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, why doesn’t that same argument apply to Global Warming. You don’t think it’s 100% likely? Fine. You are entitled to think that. If it’s only a small probability of it happening since the consequences are so serious, don’t you have to make some serious investment to prevent it or mitigate it? I think there’s a double standard of argument working and I don’t think we should permit it.

— Carl Sagan, An excerpt of a speech given on the 2nd of September in 1990 at the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU

ErikUden, 4 months ago to random

Why don't you understand? The human race IS an endless number of monkeys and every day we produce an endless number of words and one of us already wrote hamlet.

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

We Are 15 Million

As the network is decentralized, counting these numbers will always be inaccurate and other counting methods yield different results, but this is still something to celebrate.

As of 13:12 (GMT+1) on the 18th of March 2024, Mastodon now has 15 million user accounts.

15.000.000 people, bots, collaboratives, newspapers, coops, movements!

I believe in the ability of this network to steadily grow, but never explode in size to subsequently burst like a bubble. I believe in this approach of social networking and that it is the more human-oriented, non-commercial approach we need in order to fix our societal, personal, and political divide.

We are here because we disagree with our data being harvested in order for our “free” communication platforms to be maintained. We disagree with locking users into an ecosystem and removing our ability to choose which platform to call ours.

We are here because we disagree with profit-driven social networks entirely.

We will not leave nor settle for anything less.

Thank you, Mastodon! :mastodon: Thank you, Fediverse! :fediverse:

ErikUden, 4 months ago to random

It's so cold out, I just saw a landlord put their hands into their OWN pockets.

ErikUden, 14 days ago to random

The perfect Mastodon moderation principle

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ErikUden, 6 months ago to random

BobbyBroccoli

ErikUden, 17 days ago to random

how it feels like arguing with some of y'all

ErikUden, 6 months ago to random

If you ever feel forgotten remember Sergei Krikalev was in space during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which during that chaos forgot he was still up there. The way it was figured out the resulting SSR/country Kazakhstan still got a man in space whom they forgot was when they tried to fire him / relieve him from all his duties and realized he was in no position to quit his job (SPACE).

ErikUden, 3 months ago to random

someone just asked me why i was wearing a mcdonalds logo

ErikUden, 5 months ago to random

A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that is going on right now.

ErikUden, 29 days ago to random

Suddenly conservative America cares an awful lot about deadnaming

ErikUden, 3 months ago to random

Congrats on 50 million Fediverse Users! Special thanks to fediverse.hanbitgaram.com for creating 39.4 million users and 4.3 billion statuses over night!

A screenshot of FediDB showing fediverse.hanbitgaram.com with the many users and statuses as mentioned above. Long surpassing mastodon.social as the second place.

ErikUden, 18 days ago to random

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been threatened consequences by Israeli and U.S. officials in case it were to issue arrest warrants for war crimes in the Israel-Palestine war. [Al Jazeera]

It went so bad that the ICC needed to issue a statement that such methods of intimidations do not work and also violate the Rome Statute. [ICC]

The USA has had an on-and-off relationship with the Rome Statute, and generally doesn't recognize the ICC decisions against their own war criminals, so we may enter another phase of history where committing genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression (the four things the ICC can issue international arrest warrants for) will once again no longer have consequences.

ErikUden, 18 hours ago to random

Boss made a dollar
I made a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he's got employees
Who can't pay rent.

When boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
That's when we fight
And take our lives back.

ErikUden, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random German

Hallo alle Fedi-Admins die Probleme mit Spam haben!

Die Mute-Liste 2.2.2

Ich habe die Spam-Liste aktualisiert und ~104 zusätzliche Instanzen gefunden, die weiterhin spammen! Ich habe, mit viel Hilfe von anderen Fedi Admins, die Instanzen in einer Liste zusammengestellt, die sie stumm schaltet und nicht von ihnen deföderiert!

Ich würde mich sehr über eine kleine Spende hier freuen, da Ich wirklich hart und lange an der Erstellung dieser Liste gearbeitet habe, was Ich angesichts meines aktuellen Zeitplans kaum rechtfertigen kann! Dankeschön!

Es gibt eine neue Art von Spam, die gleichen Instanzen sind betroffen wie vorher. Die Verantwortlichen in Japan sollen verhaftet worden sein.

Downloaded die Liste hier.

Anleitung und Erklärung zur Liste.

Ist diese Liste importiert ist ein Großteil des Spams vorbei. Das ganze ist für euch leicht, geht mit einem klick! Zudem wird keinerlei Instanz für immer geblockt, keinerlei Follower etc. zerstört oder deföderiert, sondern nur stummgeschaltet. Das ist sehr leicht umkehrbar.

Ihr könnet diese Liste einfach importieren, indem ihr auf https://yourinstance.tld/admin/export_domain_blocks/new geht und yourinstance.tld durch die Domain derer Instanz ersetzt, von der ihr der Administrator seid!

Alternativ könnt ihr auch auf Einstellungen => Moderation => Föderation => Importieren drücken, um diese Liste zu importieren.

Beachtet, dass zwar alle Instanzen mit einem Klick importiert werden können, dass aber diese Instanzen einzeln entfernt werden müssen, wenn der Spam vorbei ist.

Beachtet auch, dass es nur Sinn ergibt, diese Liste zu importieren und die Spam-Instanzen stumm zu schalten, wenn ihr euren Spam lokal und nachhaltig blockiert habt, wie hier beschrieben.

Auf ein Spam-Freies Fediverse :apartyblobcat:​ !

#MastoAdmins #FediBlock #Spam #Spamwelle #Fedimins #FediAdmin #FediAdmins FediAdminDE