Posts by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
(DIR) Post #ASv5BDB2F6xKYiuyzA by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-21T23:22:51Z
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Update:Do not join Spoutible. It's not a serious platform. It's not run by a responsible leader.Criticism is constantly responded to by attacking the critics,while never addressing the criticisms.If you are inclined to claim that some of these criticisms are unfair or biased — ask yourself what reputable company would allow itself to get bogged down in personal battles with critics and drag those critics through the mud?Ask yourself if you want to be a part of that.
(DIR) Post #ASv5BHebb6zCRamedE by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-21T23:27:28Z
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If you haven't come across the battles its founder, Christopher Bouzy, has been having with his critics, consider yourself luck.But in the past few days he's raised the status of one critic as a victim of sexual crimes as a reason why she can't be trusted, and compared another critic to Carolyn Bryant, who's false accusations led to Emmett Till's death.Meanwhile he hasn't directly addressed any actual criticisms.
(DIR) Post #ASv5BJTgofRW6JgxtY by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-21T23:31:45Z
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I wanted Spoutible to succeed. I want competition in this marketplace, and Bouzy, with Bot Sentinel, has experience in social media analysis.And so, for a long time, I've held my tongue about issues linked to him, and forgiven other issues.
(DIR) Post #ASv5BL9uZAoJJYSCLQ by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-21T23:32:49Z
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For example, I use the Bot Sentinel web plugin. I even wrote an autoresponder that would check the bot sentinel status of everyone that interacted with me, and tweet out their bot score if it was bad. I used that for a short time.But Bouzy has never disclosed how Bot Sentinel works. Now, he doesn't "have to" do that, because it's his own work.But "obscurity through security" is a central tenet that exists to describe this behavior from vendors.
(DIR) Post #ASv5BMw9xGzypU2FBg by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-21T23:33:51Z
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So I've been relying on blind faith to trust that Bot Sentinel uses some sensible method under the hood. My experience was that most of the time it seemed to be on track with my (expert) impressions of user interactions on Twitter.But it was not a good sign.
(DIR) Post #ASv5BOgdRxlkFumsGe by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-21T23:35:49Z
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And I was aware of his ventures in cryptocurrency. While some have been quick to call this work "scamming", I had been willing to write it off as a well-meaning but failed venture into cryptocurrency.While I have never considered crypto to be an honest venture, I do think plenty of professionals have gone down that road with good intentions, and have not intentionally done anything wrong.
(DIR) Post #ASyBxvrqZOq4GORCk4 by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2022-12-19T00:51:37Z
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(DIR) Post #ASyBxxZUEdLBY1rZOy by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2022-12-19T00:57:27Z
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#FreeJohnMastodon
(DIR) Post #ASzQrEnLUcXhPQYf2m by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-24T01:55:41Z
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Whoa.https://www.kyivpost.com/post/13404
(DIR) Post #AT15LkNmo07ROAfKL2 by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-24T21:01:03Z
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@emptywheel "If there is one constant in this Trump-Russia scandal, it is that no matter where you start, if you dig deep enough you’ll always end up somewhere in the Ukraine."Me, five years ago, before I had even learned to drop the "The" before Ukraine.
(DIR) Post #ATAULowC7HtunCWyWm by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-03-01T10:00:49Z
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@Teri_Kanefield You know who was doing something like this in 2016?Konstantin Rykov. He created (had someone create) media monitoring software that gave live tracking of news stories and social media on any subject. He set this up on his Trump campaign website. It was exactly what someone would need if they were going to try to manipulate news coverage using social media, to monitor what was working and what wasn't.
(DIR) Post #ATBKkPi6F9hrPJzDBw by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-03-01T19:47:56Z
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@Teri_Kanefield The software project was called "MediaFilter". Rykov ran a number of sites on this software. Here's a list of sites that were running on the same IP as trump2016.ru:donaldtrump2016.rudowjones.rugeroy.rumarinelepen.rumediafilter.runardep2016.runovosyria.ruposlanie.rurykov.rutrump2016.rutwistar.ruwarsyria.ruIncluding one on the War in Syria. This article shows a shot of that warsyria website, showing the same basic format as trump2016.ruhttps://web.archive.org/web/20151002013254/https://vz.ru/news/2015/9/30/769747.html
(DIR) Post #ATxHGRoTKfNAQUoREW by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-03-24T22:44:40Z
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@lauren Didn't Louisiana just do the same thing with porn sites?
(DIR) Post #ATxJId1koDHph6C0XY by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-03-24T23:17:33Z
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@lauren Less visitors (I assume). But a lot more sites and a lot less oversight. Porn would be the easier target if I had sinister intentions.
(DIR) Post #AU3pmQeTkPshTvJqwC by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-03-28T02:47:07Z
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Understanding the literal meaning of the Second Amendment, as the framers intended it:
(DIR) Post #AU9pJLXaNzFRPORA4O by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-03-31T00:12:38Z
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@lauren You can't put a camera in front of him without his thumbs going up. It's pavlovian.
(DIR) Post #AUlQ9E22KDjIPzdU8W by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-04-17T23:05:36Z
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Yes, the Free Software Foundation is mostly moribund and useless now. From @gardiner_bryant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoZAxDYsqqs
(DIR) Post #AXL31SMzS7oCKFcTYG by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-07-04T02:10:02Z
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Is there any social media app that attempts to unify a bunch of services? So if I wanted to post something I could edit a posting, it would show me how different services would split it into a thread, and then post to all of them at once?And unify replies into one stream too?At the moment I'm most interested in Mastodon, BlueSky, and Post (although does Post have an open API?)
(DIR) Post #AZFXhqp7SUcveRFkS8 by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-08-29T19:36:19Z
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This really isn't rocket science.
(DIR) Post #AbMCl1v0qfRdWEyqzg by thomasafine@social.linux.pizza
2023-11-01T04:14:28Z
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Apple product name tongue twisters:"The m3 Macbook Pro has only two Thunderbolt 3 portsunlike the m3 Prro Macbook Pro's three thunderbolt 4 ports".(From Mac Address Youtube Channel)And no, that's not a typo. The "m3 Pro Macbook Pro" is a product with "Pro" in there twice.