ocdtrekkie

Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.

GitHub: https://github.com/ocdtrekkie
Website (lol): https://ocdtrekkie.com
Sandstorm: https://sandstorm.org

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2024-08-26 20:22:47

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I mean I'd reserve the verb "fathered" for people who have actually met their kids.

2024-08-17 12:53:44

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From my understanding, a large portion of it is legal. The fediverse spews a lot of data in a lot of directions very casually, and a lot of the individuals who run servers can be kinda fast and loose about that... but to someone like Facebook that could be a multibillion dollar liability.

2024-08-15 03:12:15

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You gotta appreciate his commitment to the bit at least. He was a terrible person when he ran Google and he's still focused on being a terrible person now.

2024-08-12 16:53:29

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As someone also married to a Chrome user, I understand. But I'd at least recommend she look into the media autoplay permission.

2024-08-12 16:39:36

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Does her work computer prohibit her from switching to a web browser where ad blocking is effective?
At minimum, under site permissions it should be possible to block media autoplay.

2024-08-10 18:53:48

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I would like to loudly argue that MAU is a useless statistic and the amount of actual interactions you have is far more worthwhile. MAU is probably most useful as a metric of how focused bot accounts are interested in a platform.

2024-08-10 18:46:33

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"Your role has been impacted" is so callous.
I have been at roles where voluntary separation incentives have been offered, or people have been furloughed to reduce hours until some staff found other roles, but the whole "sudden elimination round" approach just seems designed for cruelty.

2024-08-07 02:54:23

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What makes this so much more true is that the whole Vance couch thing was fake. So now our own VP candidate is making jokes on TV based on Internet memes.
How far we've fallen. I really hope once we beat Trump we can try to grow up again a bit.

2024-08-04 22:30:04

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This would be nice but it also requires a lot more forethought: The domain is the least important part of a server. It's direct access to everyone's data, being handed to someone the users did not entrust it to.
I sort of wish there was a trustworthy "service" one could hand-off an otherwise-shutting-down instance to in order to keep it alive with clear accountability or something, but if people didn't think about that up front... shutting down might be the "safest" choice.

2024-07-30 05:45:33

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I would bet blocklists will not be super useful for election interference though. I would imagine professional trolls will all be coming from large open registration instances.

2024-07-30 05:41:28

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You will definitely want to pay attention to [@Seirdy](https://pleroma.envs.net/users/Seirdy ) and [@gardenfence](https://sunny.garden/@gardenfence ) and look into what @npub1y2r…kvzk is working on with FediCheck and CARIAD. Oli has, AFAIK, stepped a bit back out of day to day blocklist management.

2024-07-30 04:41:24

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I love the part about specifying that even if your account is banned, they'll still keep charging you for Twitter Blue unless you also go cancel it.

2024-06-29 18:54:46

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Been running stuff at work the old-fashioned way and so far the only pain point has been me occasionally having to explain to a non-tech person how the cloud will not magically make all the problems go away.

2024-06-29 16:32:19

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I don't know why we don't make the address bar yellow the week after expiry instead of a full page warning. You could do it before but then you're scaring users when a certificate is still valid.

2024-06-29 16:28:44

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Let's Encrypt is a beautiful gift of free certificates to everyone and also a horrifying single point of failure that happily issues certs to any impersonator with a lookalike domain name.

2024-06-29 16:16:52

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These idiots are more concerned about "we accidentally issued a certificate valid for one second too long", when they really should be focused on determining how to not break the web when a certificate is likely not compromised to ensure real warnings are taken more seriously.

2024-06-29 16:12:15

Hey guys, I just need to throw something out there: The folks who insist on breaking the web for inane reasons like "this completely uncompromised certificate expired less than one day ago" and not making people safer. They're building a fragile house of cards designed to place more reliance entirely on them. And the effect is largely that people from ordinary users to engineers, disregard certificate warnings as a matter of routine.
PKI controls the entire web and it's in insane hands.

2024-06-28 17:29:49

This might be a compelling option for those of us still running ancient hardware at home that still "runs fine": https://betanews.com/2024/06/27/0patch-will-keep-windows-10-secure-for-at-least-five-more-years-after-microsoft-abandons-it/
It will be less than half Microsoft's cost the first year to do the same first-party, and it doesn't look like they intend to ratchet the price up annually either.

2024-05-15 04:19:36

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Create the problem and then offer to solve the problem.

2024-05-10 02:31:55

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So the argument I have heard is basically that yes, he is autistic and that he feels irrationally compelled to defend his positions based on what his brain is processing. As a medically diagnosed autist, I understand this compulsion! I say a lot of unpopular truths (password managers are bad for security!) but I (and RMS) also have the ability to learn and accept new data. And also just when to shut up.

2024-05-10 00:25:37

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I can't even see that commenter from this server.
I try not to apply that label to him because we haven't seen actual evidence of it. But like... it would be weird for someone who isn't to have such strong opinions in favor of the topic, wouldn't it?

2024-05-10 00:16:03

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Yeah, I'm not speculating as to why, all I'm saying is there is a long and frequent history of him coming to the defense of pedophiles. It's well-documented, and mostly in written form!

2024-05-09 23:58:24

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The wild thing is that the FSF has other board members, other staff. They could do just fine without him *or even by relegating him to an advisory role*. But they are absolutely incapable of not making a guy a *board member* who repetitively and persistently defends every pedophile he can think of.
Like if RMS shut up about things not free software, he would still be gross but he keeps digging a bigger hole.

2024-03-23 04:18:05

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I mean, IMHO if you want to block anything, you should block it, but I find the idea Zuck is salivating at the idea of getting access to your toots is patently silly. Federating for them is almost certainly about antitrust and DMA compliance, with a tint of "if we're the first big company here we have an advantage" probably.

2024-03-23 04:08:05

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I look at it as providing an escape hatch. I feel like a lot of people would leave Facebook platforms but feel like they can't because someone they need to follow is there.
If people can get their must-haves from proprietary social on ethical social, they have a path to move here.

2024-03-23 03:21:28

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The notion that the fedi has all this "juicy" data when the fedi was designed to be relatively privacy-protecting from the get-go and Meta has literally hundreds of millions of users running their invasive software directly is... sort of silly.