@ekis@mastodon.social
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ekis

@ekis@mastodon.social

shipwrk'd & coma-tose
drink'n fresh granatapfel muttersaft

security researcher, open-source hardware+software engineer, ⚧dimensional slider, paradoxically lucid, bruja cibernética, exile, formally–trained geneticist, netzwerk hexe, bi-polar 2 witch-apologist, amateur mycologist, glitch witch, katzenamt Bürokrat, day–dreamer, night-timer party–crasher

+poorly conceived original #music
+stupid posts in english, español, and deutsche

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philpem, to random
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Slightly surprised to see a message this morning claiming there were some unsold tickets for 37c3... and it was true. I'd have thought it'd be booked up solid and the few cancellations changing hands as soon as they went on sale.

ekis,
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@philpem Is it in person this year?

streetsblogmass, to random
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Breaking news: Electric have arrived in Boston, will be available to ride later today:
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/12/20/electric-bluebikes-have-arrived-in-boston

ekis,
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@streetsblogmass Are they free for everyone to ride whenever they want to? Because I'd like that, are they offering that?

tess, to random
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Just saw a post that contained the line: "most of the people on Mastodon are here for ideological or privacy reasons"

I want to be clear: I'm here to talk to cool people and shitpost.

I do care about features, because they make it easier to talk to cool people and shitpost.

ekis,
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@tess I think I'm doing it wrong, I'm here to spread communist propaganda.

kissane, to random
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Do the people stating that Meta can’t possibly “monetize” posts originating from other fedi services not believe that Threads users are going to experience, for example, Mastodon posts as part of their Threads timeline…which is algorithmically populated and will get monetized as soon as Meta flips ads on?

Is there any documented reason not to believe that this is not the most likely outcome?

ekis,
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@kissane It depends on if you think all ad revenue should move through a single service and be distributed to its users in a centralized way

Or if you think it would be better to have many severs of varying sizes taking and potentially redistributing revenue.

From ads, but also donations+other models. But lets assume that advertising takes the biggest share

The revenue would be less, since they would be operating smaller scale; but they could also collectively bargin with the advertisers

ekis,
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@kissane And it makes sense that instances may eventually pay their top users that bring in advertiser money.

The key difference would be how the money enters and exits the system.

When we assume both are using ActivityPub.

My question is, do you think Meta has the talent to make use of ActivityPub faster than all the hackers being attracted to it after realizing what it is; I know who I'd bet on.

radiofreefedi, to random
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Huge mid week music update. We borrowed Santa's bag and it had heaps as tunes!

more and new from your friends:

@jonnyfallout
@ekis
@xylander
@keefmarshall
@wohosheni
@jasondidner
@DFFSoundSystem (preview)
@socool
@flavigula
@limebar vs @flockofnazguls
@negativeplayers
@mikefurtak
@unwoman

and please welcome to RFF:

@JeSuisUnHombre
@attksthdrknss

All channels, playlists, directory and follow file updated.

listen/submit/contribute:
https://radiofreefedi.net

ekis,
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@radiofreefedi @jonnyfallout @xylander @keefmarshall @wohosheni @jasondidner @DFFSoundSystem @socool @flavigula @limebar @flockofnazguls @negativeplayers @mikefurtak @unwoman @JeSuisUnHombre @attksthdrknss

Thank you for including me with so many talented artist. I really appreciate the support, and hope if people do listen to my music that they know its all free. Downloads are enabled.

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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I'll address the comments about Liz Cheney by telling you what Harvard Professors Ziblatt and Levitsky say about how democracies die and how they are saved.

(The book is fabulous and was quite timely when it came out in 2018)

Basically, they said this (page 299):

When one of the candidates (in this case, Trump) goes off the deep end and embraces autocratic methods, what will save the nation is Republicans to switch and vote Democratic . . .

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ekis, (edited )
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@Teri_Kanefield I'm not angry with Cheney

I think he should be hanged like the ppl at the Nuremberg trials

Not even for massive corruption, the 12 billion USD in cash "lost" on pallets- but for the war crime of invading Iraq that led to genocide, creating a power vacuum that allowed ISIS to form

Liz Cheney benefited from these crimes and could not be in office w/o wealth generated from those crimes

For me tho: its just that she is a bland politician and the weird heredity system we now allow

ekis, to sysadmin
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Most people know what "Google Dorking" is; terrible name by nerds who probably don't even "dork"over

Leveraging the fact that most are bad at their job, resulting in indexing sensitive files

My preference is finding the / mostly things

But here is one of my favorite demos:

intitle:"Index of" ".ssh" OR "id_rsa" OR "id_dsa" OR "id_ed25519" -id_rsa.pub -id_dsa.pub -id_ed25519.pub

Success = You can likely now into a

ekis,
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In the future I will post some of the most hilarious thing I have found "dork"ing

Nothing illegal, just weird, odd, or comedic things

There is a lot out there but posting the most interesting things would get you arrested

So, obvio don't look for that! But when you inevitably still try, use

And when you find that really interesting thing you really really want to show other people: definitely do not post it!

ekis, to music
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I wrote a free album: 'since you been gone'

Collection of various types of short electronic songs I wrote, quite quickly, a travel journal of sorts

Download free @
https://shehackedyou.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/shehackedyou

Nothing special

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

how i feel when I ssh using my mobile phone

A video of man riding on a small bicycle

ekis,
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@nixCraft Wait, you put a private ssh key on your phone then on a server somewhere have it set as an authorized key?

This type of behavior.. I could try to find a video that properly expresses the shock I feel (and ever so slight glee), but I will let my text suffice.

ekis, to random
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Several recent studies have shown that well-being seems to level out and plateau at about 75,000 USD/Year.

Happiness and well-being seem to remain essentially unchanged past 120,000 USD/Year.

Meaning that the US, and most likely the world, could literally buy everyone in the country, and possibly the world, happiness.

We just choose not to, a fact I find rather depressing.

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platymew, to philosophy
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Well, i've tried to make a case for politically correct and , but i got shut down rather rudely with an unsophisticated troll-ish post, on .

See: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/13082

Why does (some) - Free, as in , , need a bias?

Why is it "too heated", to discuss including everyone else?

Perhaps not perfect, but i think i've made a pretty reasonable case.

. . .

ekis,
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@platymew I think you have a reasonable case.

I personally find the whole putting Christmas themes seasonally on software a level of complexity to open source software that just does not belong and potentially (and has in the past) introduced issues.

But if we are going to insist on leaving that useless and potentially dangerous code in, might as well make it a setting and let people pick, or something else more rational and fair.

psoul, to SanFrancisco
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    ekis,
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    @psoul What medium do you prefer? Like a drawing tablet, or traditional inks/penicils/etc and paper?

    ekis,
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    @psoul Wow, you have a real talent for making the most out of markers

    This reminds me a lot of those fantastic scientific diagrams you can find from the older generation of scientists

    Look forward to seeing more

    Do you have aspirations for comic books?

    I always smear everything, so I prefer a drawing tablet. Ppl knowing I make art buy me supplies I have to give away b/c they don't seem to understand I have tried a lot of different mediums and settled on one

    But it is sweet none-the-less

    ekis, to random
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    Nervous 🫦

    Waiting in a family justice center for a hearing regarding a restraining order. I have so little faith in the justice system, it has failed me over and over. I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with the justice system.

    Hope today goes better than my past experiences

    daringfireball, to random
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    Verizon Gave a Woman’s Phone Data to an Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email
    https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/12/09/verizon-handed-data-to-stalker

    ekis,
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    @daringfireball I'm dealing with a similar problem with harassment. Where the person is a bar certified lawyer, so he can use Lexus Nexus to illegally look people I know to harass them and I can't prove it.

    He has access to a lot due to his social status, including financial resources to waste on harassment.

    I tried contacting the bar but I know other lawyers and the response is often "being an asshole doesn't violate any rules".

    Death threats are even just considered bad personality traits

    Codeberg, to random
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    Sorry for decreasing average uptime from 99.97% to 99.64%.

    We are still investigating the root cause for the downtime. It looks like it started within our file system.

    ekis,
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    @Codeberg Mastodon instance?

    Too many files open at once? It is a flaw I tried to point out with the vanilla mastadon and even when I proposed a fix.

    Even in the face of evidence, I was given explanations that reveal a severe lack of knowledge about Ruby/Rack/Rails. Was told greater optimizations could be had elsewhere, despite the change was very simple, quick, and introduced massive improvements.

    I have to build a bigger following to overcome the politics of such claims unfortunately.

    ekis,
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    @the_moep Oh, far more interesting. I typically just use git with remote SSH servers, but it is nice to have an ethical place to put organizational code.

    What did you build the web-client in? Another Ruby/Rails project?

    I will definitely be looking into this, I have been obsessed with similar projects for a long time.

    Sorry to derail, I should have investigated the context further.

    ekis,
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    @the_moep I'm familiar with Gogs and Gitea, I found Gittea last time I looked at it a bit bloated for my taste, and was leaning towards Gogs for my own projects I was sharing with others. So I'm excited to learn about a fork from that project.

    I appreciate you taking the time to provide details even though my original post was a complete derailment. Thanks!

    Tusky, to random
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    Tusky is looking for contributors!

    The team has lost a few contributors this year for various reasons, and we need your help building a kick-ass Mastodon app!

    While we would also appreciate more technical contributors, we are specifically looking for:

    • a person who can manage or help with our social account
    • a project manager who can help us draft a Code of Conduct

    Please help us spread the word 😊

    ekis,
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    @Tusky So Tusky is a client for ActivityPub or a server?

    Or is it a combination of the two?

    Where is the source code located?

    Any particular goals? Like an activity pub application framework, or like an extension of vanilla mastodon client functionality?

    slothrop, to random
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    ekis,
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    @slothrop to make drugs appear at peoples houses, and free music to appear on their hard drives?

    But I think we may have lost the plot on those.

    tzimmer_history, to random
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    Donald Trump, American Dictator

    Nothing is ever inevitable. But every political analysis needs to start from the recognition that there is an eminently plausible – and fairly straightforward path – from here to autocratic rule.

    New piece – A deep dive into the “dictatorship” debate:

    🧵1/

    https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/donald-trump-american-dictator

    ekis,
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    @tzimmer_history It seems odd how everyone never seemed to care that George HW Bush was head of the CIA, became president, then his son became president with the same cabinet

    And the amount of corruption, murder, war, and theft under these two leaders, was that not a threat to democracy?

    Seems odd to treat Trump like he is uniquely evil, when he is more likely a symptom

    And if he is an existential threat then why would Biden be a good choice to run against him? Why not try to win?

    taco, to tesla
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    I hope everyone is following that sympathy strike in Scandinavia because it’s getting even better by the day.

    Norwegian unions have now joined Swedish and Danish ones.

    The Danish pension fund has announced its going to dump it’s Tesla shares.

    Finnish unions are talking about joining.

    And now this:

    ekis,
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    @taco The power of solidarity strikes is not to be trifled with.

    alda, to devops
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    My take on these days is that there are no clever and elegant solutions out there for small scale infrastructure needs, even if those are the majority of the backend systems out there.

    So many things are invented for large-scale and high demand services and then supposedly tickle down to smaller systems.

    The thing is that I don't need a real-time job scheduler for my Rails app image processing pipeline. I really just need a cron job that runs every 10 minutes or so during office hours.

    ekis,
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    @alda I agree with you completely; but I have to argue that people continue to use devops because it leads to massive security issues. I love when they include their private SSH keys in their chef files.

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