X creates a mastodon instance. Not one that bridges to X or federates X to the fediverse, but a native Mastodon instance. Do we have the same complaints about "consent" with them becoming part of the fediverse?
Is it the company that is objectionable, or the fact that it's not a native fediverse app that is the problem?
@jerry I think it's a bit of both. And it's also about red flags.
If somebody sets up and independent fedi instance, the potential "splash damage" is rather small.
If somebody sets up an instance and says "freeze-peach" in the moderation rules, that's a red flag.
If somebody sets up a proxy between the rest of fedi and a currently-defederated "freeze-peech" instance, that's a serious red flag and clear disregard for decisions already made by fedi regarding that instance. Borders on malicious.
@jerry the way I see the BS bridge thing is: a lot of people on here made a conscious decision to be on here and to opt-out of corporate platforms, for many different reasons (sanity, safety, etc).
Creating an opt-out bridge between here and corporate platforms (BS to me is a corporate platform until clearly proven otherwise) is like setting up a proxy between the rest of fedi and a known, defederated freeze-peach instance.
It completely disregards decisions made by a lot of people on here.
I am thinking about setting up a wholly stand-alone instance that federates with nothing to get out of this treadmill of complaints about consent when someone stands up a new instance or a new bridge or...
@jerry@kpwn Perhaps any complainers should be directed to move to infosec.space. We can call it airlocking, and infosec.space should have a policy of suspending any domain that even one of the 72 users requests. Before you know it, they will have that unfederated instance.
@grendel84 when shooting macro to get the fine detail (which Mastodon sadly largely compresses out), even very tiny apertures have a shallow dof. Backing up and using a small aperture will put the whole flower in focus, but it loses a lot of detail
@jerry@grendel84 This method also allows greater control of the field of focus. You can get a deep field with a far steeper falloff in sharpness than you could get with a smaller aperture. This can help the subject stand out from other things even slightly in front of it or behind.
In that regard, I’ve always found it similar to flash sync offset adjustment and stroboscopic flash (multiple pops in a single exposure). Those give you control over where in a motion path the subject is sharp from the flash.
ok, need some feedback: It appear that pixelfed is moving in the direction of mariadb, away from postgres, and the current issues appear to stem from my us of postgres. I've been contemplating a move to the domain infosec.pics, which would essentially be starting over. There is no (as far as I know) working way to migrate pixelfed accounts from one server to a different server. I don't like the idea, but I also don't like the idea of a persistently partially broken instance, either.
We have 323 total accounts and 26 active accounts, so while the blast radius may be small, it's a complete PITA for those 26 people.
Ah. Thanks for the clarification. In this case, I have no proverbial skin in the game, so I have no opinion other than make your life easier, and thank you for your excellent service!
Federation on pixel.infosec.exchange is a only partically working. I am not sure if it's a recently intriduced bug, or if I've done something wrong, or if it's relate to my use of containers, but I'm working on it, but no ETA to fix yet.
I took pixel.infosec.exchange offline to fix the new critical cve in pixelfed. Since pixelfed doesn't work well with docker, I am also moving to a vanilla/bare metal install, so it'll take a while to complete. My apologies.
ok. pixel is back up, but I hacked together another containered version with the update because redis not installing correctly on ubuntu and I need to take a break before I launch that server into the sun
I have had several people that received the ban hammer recently grousing about how it goes against my air of “kindness” and the quote I have in my profile. I firmly believe in the importance of being kind to other people. But there are limits.