Posts by __steele@hachyderm.io
(DIR) Post #AS9VP6vwOZ0vKTK2vw by __steele@hachyderm.io
2023-01-30T00:43:14Z
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@simon @timbray People talk about the ActivityPub spec a lot, but in practice the privacy story is much worse than that.Mastodon has a streaming API and any unauthenticated websocket client can connect to the 'public' feed to get *pushed* every toot - not just from that instance, but every instance federated to it as well.It significantly lowers the barrier to entry for data collection - and puts it within reach of any dummy with an ax to grind.
(DIR) Post #ASISI1Mr8XFPc3KpVY by __steele@hachyderm.io
2023-02-03T08:21:25Z
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@simon @webology Last time I did this, it would rebuild the image on every usage. Got much better performance by building the image and storing it on ghcr.io, but then you’ve got *another* pipeline