Posts by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
(DIR) Post #9jxG4OWBybU4Unqnlg by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-18T00:31:58.176230Z
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@o0karen0o This isn't new. I'm pretty certain I've seen reports of remote hacks on infusion pumps going back ten years or so.
(DIR) Post #9k17Riy9z40vd3p0ro by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-19T20:20:45.563573Z
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@Gargron Keep your money. We went that route with email and the best we ever came up with was heuristics (learning algorithms), but the spammers soon found ways around even that. The only way to stop spam is to not allow it in the first place. You achieve this by closing off any communications path that isn't controlled by whitelist or moderation. There is no other way. Maybe you can find one but I've been fighting these guys for 25 years now(*) including my work in this space for large commercial providers(**) and that's the conclusion I arrived at.* Google "green card spam".** Google "America Online". We blocked spammers. We applied learning algorithms using ~100 billion samples of known spam to seed the algorithms. We tracked them down and took them to court. We took their ISPs to court. And still they came.
(DIR) Post #9k2N8QV6Dd3NGv0bdg by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-19T23:39:51.724007Z
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@Gargron @onan World domination isn't my goal. Been there, done that. I would rather use a spam resistant small network (and I do) than a huge network full of crap and abuse any day of the week. In fact that is precisely why I have a minimal (and "burnable") fediverse presence these days and keep it completely isolated from my real social network.
(DIR) Post #9k2N8QiDQrXrvb955E by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-20T08:26:33.998453Z
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@Gargron @onan The real advantage of Zot networks is that you can have promiscuous permissions just like Mastodon - if you want. But if you get tired of spam and nazis and dickpics and whatnot you can change the permissions to something more suitable for your needs. You can moderate or prohibit or even allow comments and wall posts from some people or everybody or nobody. It's all up to you. "One size fits all" never worked for shoes and it certainly doesn't work for social network permissions.
(DIR) Post #9k3MGyvuB7hZaB1SXg by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-20T23:15:44.621295Z
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"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."-- John Gilmore
(DIR) Post #9k5uDvUyHCmqot3iPg by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-21T22:42:31.772235Z
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So fediverse developers - who collectively represent a consortium of the planet's marginalised communities, is/are creating new tools to de-platform marginalised communities. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where this is going to lead.There is another way.
(DIR) Post #9k5uDvsiqtmm0YAgQy by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-21T23:15:51.346167Z
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Let's simplify. Any tool you create to de-platform white supremacists can be used by anybody to de-platform anybody else and whatever ideas they represent. Regardless the nuances of this precise situation, the end result is the same.
(DIR) Post #9k7cEV6cTog2OXiFdY by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-23T00:26:56.153404Z
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@bob @gemlog To be fair, what I said was that blacklisting doesn't scale. When I refer to whitelisting it also has nothing to do with domains, as our relationships are typically with people and not with servers. The reason why most fediverse implementations have to resort to domain blocking is because of the promiscuous comment permissions. This is the real problem - and it will eventually kill the network; unless changed. You don't actually need to let anybody in the world dogpile onto any of your public posts. Yes, a network needs discovery to grow, but this can be accomplished with groups and other FOAF techniques rather than opening spam and harassment gateways that you can drive an armada of starships through. You can moderate or leave a group and FOAF is the best discovery mechanism there is by far - which is why FB focused on that. Nothing you can do about promiscuous comments except block, block, block, and block some more. Eventually most people will tire of blocking and like email they'll just give up and resign themselves to live with the spam and abuse or they will leave the service to regain their dignity. You can centralise the blocking when you run into the scalability limits, but then you've got a centralised network and all the associated problems.
(DIR) Post #9k88xnSqGe7OtfkXui by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-23T06:46:50.037606Z
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@kaniini @kaikatsu @anna That's something Hubzilla has but unfortunately won't federate outside Zot. We needed this long ago when people "forgot" to tag their porn with nsfw. This way other community members could tag it after the fact and it would get "collapsed" just as if the author tagged it. *But* there are several layers of safeguards and *permissions* to prevent abuse of the feature and this isn't something that would translate into ActivityPub. That said, In Osada one could comment on such a post and add a nsfw tag and there's an option to collapse an entire conversation if any comments in the thread have such a tag. If you don't like it, you can disable the option. This would be pretty easy to implement in ActivityPub networks and doesn't require any additional protocol support.
(DIR) Post #9k9Mik2CKWHmQrxj6W by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-23T20:55:36.024061Z
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@measlytwerp Permissions. You don't let anybody on earth walk into your living room and start punching people. Yet your software allows anybody on earth to comment in your social stream where they can start figuratively punching you in front of their friends and yours. Sure you can block them, but often this is after you've already got a bloody nose. Close the front door and only let your friends inside your living room.
(DIR) Post #9k9NVWtby1orsED5CC by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-13T23:19:41.001196Z
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@maxim It's really pretty easy - if you meet a Russian you want desperately to shag.
(DIR) Post #9k9O1Kn4ViJfb0Jhmi by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-13T20:54:21.388607Z
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@maxim @dankwraith TBH I never thought Twitter had a chance with 120 but people seem to latch onto lame stuff and then find ways to justify it.
(DIR) Post #9k9aUO9cHZvHsMTydc by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-23T23:23:58.806147Z
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The only thing that has changed is that a new generation of web developers have grown up and started to systematically dismantle everything we did a generation ago to stop these bastards when they nearly killed the open web the first time. We had to sacrifice free/open/unmoderated public spaces because this is how they got in our faces to do their dirty deeds. Spammers, scammers, hate groups, malware providers, and a whole host of other self-interested parties drawn by the promise of infinite/global reach for their message; whatever it might be. We can't go back - the age of innocence is long gone. Ironically the best anti-abuse tool we had was "buddylists" which later evolved into "social networks" and more recently de-evolved back to where we started. It's more convenient to pretend that everybody can get along in public. We can't.
(DIR) Post #9k9fQOmwTwD6SInGuO by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-23T23:52:22.811262Z
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@jonah Not at all. Facebook became a spammer, scammer, *and* malware provider.
(DIR) Post #9k9gAyJiiepnxzKiJc by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-24T00:32:11.022371Z
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@mathew> That may not seem like a very long list, but I’ve yet to find any system that can check all the boxes.You might take a look at Zap. Expiry and feed order are built-in (core) apps that can be enabled if you want them. Everything else on your list is default behaviour.
(DIR) Post #9kA7rhepETifVonys4 by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-24T05:38:55.252704Z
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@kaniini @aussocialadmin So your definition of greylist is essentially site level moderation. Interesting. I probably wouldn't implement it but I don't need it either. With nomadic identity, site controls are meaningless.
(DIR) Post #9kBNJrHEknBRvRcCwa by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-24T20:10:48.482396Z
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@kaniini @null @lain @igeljaeger Just send a bloody update activity like we do and get on with your life. 99.999% of the time it's a simple typo or clarification and the existence of the uncorrected copy on other projects isn't a big deal. Inconvenient yes, but just another incompatibility of hundreds; some of which represent privacy issues or the loss of the ability to easily migrate to other servers and actually are a big deal.
(DIR) Post #9kBOIQtLT5p1l1KAAS by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-24T20:22:57.968531Z
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@kaniini Going back even further I like "Norwegian Wood" by the Beatles. A lovely tune wherein a girl doesn't sleep with a guy on the first date and he burns her house down.
(DIR) Post #9kBQhmBvc5DqxuEF6W by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-24T20:49:47.226154Z
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@sean How do you know they were actually dreams?
(DIR) Post #9kEF5AwuNkApNUgH5M by macgirvin@pleroma.fr
2019-06-26T05:21:32.802303Z
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@kaniini @shlee @0x1C3B00DA @dansup https://shop.coles.com.au/wcsstore/Coles-CAS/images/1/1/8/118521.jpg