natalie 🥼 null / is on Nostr

retro tech office lady
open source (hard|soft)ware dev
vr is irl
animegao kigurumi appreciator
weird music enjoyer
hobby phone network admin
literally a #vtuber be sure to follow me for #vtuber content #vtuber
follow requests ok

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2024-09-10 18:50:57

instead of how i used to need to convert all my flacs to alac so itunes would play them, now i would need to convert them to au :sunmicrosystems:
RE: https://mastodon.mit.edu/users/Eggfreckles/statuses/113109500728758053
#note1s6t…pnly

2024-09-08 21:21:01

https://x.com/GeGeGek_/status/1832778479601107397
https://drive.nya.social/files2409/webpublic-d917b243-0224-4232-a392-9b586412df17.webp

2024-03-13 21:12:02

🔥🔥🔥
https://drive.nya.social/files2402/0f370e86-80cf-4d32-aa63-6cf04c3d8101.mp4

2024-03-13 18:11:04

average data destruction company
https://drive.nya.social/files2402/32555811-41a5-46ed-821b-2486a3591383.jpg

2024-03-12 14:55:32

https://twitter.com/__niffler__/status/1767078536605741545
https://drive.nya.social/files2402/67c637d7-8fe1-46e5-b738-81d265417b70.jpg

2023-12-06 03:11:24

there is currently a bot inside MIT IP space, address 18[.]4[.]38[.]176, scanning fedi at large. i have confirmed this with 5+ unrelated instance admins, large and small instances, across mastodon/misskey/pleroma/akkoma.
the bot is poorly behaved. i have observed it making repeated requests, multiple times per second, for the exact same paths (the paths being, generally: user profiles, specific posts, and sometimes following links in posts). returning 403s does not stop this activity. one of my domains received hundreds of additional requests despite replying with 403 to all of them. i have also seen it make requests for paths containing html tags - seems like a badly written parser. the purpose of these requests and what data is being gathered is unclear.
PTR on the ip returns sts-drand03.mit.edu. a quick web search for "mit drand" brings back https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/david-g-rand and his personal website: https://davidrand-cooperation.com/ (note: other IPs in the /24 also have names in the PTR which match up with names of MIT faculty, but only the .176 IP appears to be involved in this activity).
seems he's doing research into "misinformation" and "fake news" on social media. he also appears to be on fedi! so @npub1sqr…qs4m, given this activity is sourced from an IP with your name on it, could you share the purpose of this traffic? what data is being collected and how is it being used? do you plan to respect robots.txt or identify yourself in your useragent? is there a process for instance admins to opt out of this activity other than blocking the source IP?

2023-09-10 06:43:09

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@npub1gcn…penp what? heat pumps are very common here

2023-09-10 06:41:29

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@npub1gcn…penp does anyone actually believe this or is it pure strawman like it seems

2023-09-10 06:37:41

why is there "doubts or resistance to heat pumps"

2023-08-23 19:05:46

this is the peak of audio electronics. there is simply no better, simpler, or more cost-effective way of building a four-source input switcher and volume control than this
https://drive.nya.social/files2308/6a36fa3f-4966-41fe-a62e-e5d4b9ddf06c.png
https://drive.nya.social/files2308/78923b5e-9801-47dc-910c-d0c644052768.png

2023-08-22 06:10:52

https://drive.nya.social/files2308/b6538079-f460-4e80-9968-298405f7b70f.png

2023-08-12 14:53:27

yup same
https://drive.nya.social/files2308/073796ae-4d55-4be8-88cb-7b8d7a2f9d0c.png

2023-08-10 12:03:44

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@npub1ysu…2jyl you become their personal tech support ;p

2023-08-10 12:00:25

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@npub1ysu…2jyl even if the games themselves require some messing around with wine, it's probably worth it to avoid dealing with the rest of windows lol

2023-08-10 11:57:24

installing windows to a usb drive to try vr things on this laptop and so far this has gone way worse than fighting with nvidia drivers under linux