@blake@infosec.town

blake

@blake@infosec.town

A software developer with a passion for the powers, rights, and freedoms of users. Developer of dahliaOS, LucidLog, Bodacious, and more. Sometimes tries to design and write. Cool tech enthusiast.

Likely to post about #FOSS, #FreeSoftware, and #OpenSource (specifically, my various projects), radio stuff, and some other technology-related stuff. For my climate activism and solarpunk adjacent stuff, see my alt account linked below.

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  • My profile picture is not up to date, even though I just took some for this purpose
  • Recovering from being a lot of bad things, still have more to go. Keep me in check please

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evan, to random
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

Can the President create a rock so big even He cannot lift it

blake,

@evan Evan you're drunk go home /hj

blake, to fediverse

I think either I or someone else had this idea before, maybe someone with more spoons than me can build it: a federated Thing directory, powered by .

Some aspects of such an app:

  • No "content" would be hosted there. Instead it would point to where it should be, which could include federated platforms like Peertube, in which case it would "boost" instead of "link."
  • It wouldn't be built directly compatible with Mastodon (i.e. it wouldn't use Notes for published links). It might just be coincidental.
  • It probably wouldn't use WebFinger because there's not much of a point. (I guess it could use it to refer to users, but that sounds out of scope, and potentially confusing as link collections would probably exist too)
  • Each directory (instance) would search itself by default, and it could probably use a minified index to determine when it should try searching another directory, which would be done on that directory.
  • Metadata included, but not passed around.
  • Directories (and/or collections?) would have their own set of key-words which other directories would use to know when to search that directory. There would be a hard cap for how many are stored for each directory, although maybe it could be adjustable.
  • The intent is to make things like Fediverse instances and media streams discoverable in a decentralized way. It's not built for things like article sharing (like Lemmy) or bookmarks (like Postmarks), and that use should be discouraged.
  • Each entry would include a key or a hash to verify or decrypt the content with. Hashes aren't needed if the entry points to something content-addressable, i.e. DIDs or IPFS. Also they'd probably be "highly recommended," maybe penalized if it's not included or something, instead of outright required, since media streams likely won't be signed nor will they be hashable by its nature as perpetually changing.
blake, to random

I want to play #CitiesSkylines2 but from what I've heard, it doesn't run worth a crap on even the highest end gaming computers. Cities: Skylines on my Steam Deck already suffers, although from what I've heard it too is practically unplayable if you have a complete city (I do not). I doubt CS2 would run well enough even on cloud gaming. And I really don't want to waste my money to find out.

blake, to random

picked its side: it's a search engine for the alt-right. It has done so by refusing to listen to subscribers who are endangered (!!!) by their decision, by playing the AI card some time back, and by refusing to do remotely the right thing in other scenarios (i.e. fighting COVID misinformation).

Not to mention, declaring COVID or gay rights "political" is a tell tale sign that you're closeted right wing. Which is what the founder did. He's no different from Eich, he just doesn't want to admit it.

@Seirdy was the shining beacon of ethics and reason in that thread. I love and appreciate that they framed it as a business growth decision, something that they could maybe understand, but unfortunately it seems like they decided queer folk are not their intended audience.

hrefna, to random
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

We really need better safety tools and better feed algorithms.

@hrefna Also known as: don't interact with me if you aren't famous enough for me to follow or didn't pay your dues by following me. Don't post publicly, maybe?

blake,

@hrefna Wow. Yeah, we really do.

Also, what the hell is "digital supremacy"?

rklambo, to random

Throwback to Verizon early 2000s: can you hear me now fediverse?!

blake,

@Jerry @rklambo Not yet. That's coming next, probably very early next year.

blake, to random

Hey, I found some Interesting Signals on my SDR at ~851 MHz! I think it's mobile data, probably an old kind. It looks like the band is or could be also used by police. I'm not sure.

Characteristics:

  • It's frequent, but not constant
  • It hops frequencies
  • Sounds like a probably-digital signal
  • Multiple signals of this kind can be transmitted at once, on different frequencies
  • Most of the time, the signal is short, but sometimes there's a long, occasionally-dropped signal
  • It broadcasts from near and far, since I can see faint versions of the same signals on the waterfall too
  • Bandwidth is about 12.5 kHz
  • Haven't seen one past about 859.492 MHz
blake,

@SpaceLifeForm @ai6yr It doesn't sound like any of the trunks listed on the SigidWiki. It does fit the characteristics though.

edit: the correct mention is probably @ai6yr

dansup, to FediPact
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

Is This Love?

Shining light on the current events by adding them to the sidebar, oh what will we track next?

https://fedidb.org/

blake,

@realsimon @dansup fedi.buzz

blake, to random

2024 is going to be the Year of Interoperability, thanks to chiefly the EU's efforts.

These things will cause other things to happen, other services to federate, new clients and servers may appear... Personally, I'm thrilled and excited! I'm still cautious, though, and I still believe we need to ramp up our personal safety and mod tooling to account for the inevitable growth.

blake, to random

Not my quote, but:
Who the fuck votes no to a ceasefire?

blake, to random

I think the mobile tower closest to my work isn't working right today. I was limited to SMS/MMS (and maybe calls) earlier, but now at least data is working.

And today's a slow day too.

blake, to random

If I block someone, I don't want to see them, ever. So why does (and ) show them in boosts and replies?

andrewfeeney, to random
@andrewfeeney@phpc.social avatar

Apropos of nothing

blake,

@andrewfeeney Unless this was created specifically for the error message: WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU PASSING 56 ARGUMENTS TO ANYTHING

blake,

@andrewfeeney I can't think of any syntax that would allow this but in all honesty, I don't doubt it...

blake,

@andrewfeeney That definitely seems like a TS/JS error, not just in the absurdity of circumstance.

blake, to random

Contracts that prevent you from striking should be illegal.

That's it. That's the toot.

tannerman, to music
@tannerman@mastodon.online avatar

From the @internetarchive, 2 hours of in-store #Christmas music heard at #Kmart in 1974 - perfect as you start your decorating! https://archive.org/details/KmartInStoreMusicChristmas1974

#Music #DeadRetail

blake,

@tannerman
I'm trying to figure out why there's a TRACK asking for security to a specific section. It's perfectly between songs. Why is it there??
@internetarchive

hrefna, to random
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

Person A: "I am building a tool to help with some challenges on the fediverse."

Person B: "How dare you build a scraper and violate the consent of so many users."

…what the hell did I just stumble into.

blake,

@hrefna if solving the problem involves violating consent, it's maybe not a problem worth solving.

However, bullying Meta or others won't work. Nor will blocking them. It's still best to assume that everything you post on the Internet is public.

thisismissem, to fediverse
@thisismissem@hachyderm.io avatar

oooh, that's cool: https://activitypub.academy/

blake,

@thisismissem this is really cool! I think this is sort of what Pubkit is supposed to do (and I think it would do it better).

As it turns out, it (and/or Mastodon) does keep Firefish's extra Misskey fields, so you can see Misskey reactions in the log.

Can someone using or react to this linked post please? I want to see what they look like.

blake,

@thisismissem thanks for the help @tulpa. It looks like Misskey and Pleroma, and therefore their forks, implement reactions incompatibly. I threw them into a document for reference. Personally, I prefer Misskey's method since it falls back to a Like where reactions aren't supported, which makes sense to me.

https://md.blakes.dev/s/PKQnoUn50

blake,

@thisismissem @tulpa I got it but it didn't show up on the Activity Log! Probably because my computer was maybe asleep, and it only receives them to the log when you're connected to the web app -- they're not actually "logged."

blake,

@thisismissem Something else I like about this tool is, I believe, it's open-source and self-hostable, so I could deploy it myself on, say, aptester.blakeslabs.com.

It definitely feels like a ripe abuse vector for bots.

blake,

@thisismissem I think I'd do it by IP (v4 only?) and block VPNs and Tor exit nodes from creating accounts. Heavy (rate) limits on sending activities as well. It's supposed to be quick, easy, and expendable.

Also emails are easy to create, that provides next to no abuse protection.

blake,

@crepels @thisismissem @tulpa It does reconnect but it doesn't get what was received when one was offline.

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