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Maybe share this around Fedi as an intriguing possibility:

generalstrikeus.com/

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WARNING! This image may trigger PINSecurity. From an analysis of 3.4m PIN code leaked from several data breaches informationisbeautiful.net/vis…

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My #Friendica instance just produced an error that a PHP process ran out of its 512MB allocation. What is it doing?

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I was wondering if it was a plugin. Is that 1k posts per connected bluesky account?


(Sorry, there doesn't seem to be a way to notify just the local instance)

The server is already running out of disk space! I'm swapping out the object storage from DB to an object store, which should fix the problem and probably be snappier. The site may run a bit slow during the migration but it seems to be a transparent process.

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Most of it is images from the people I follow, I imagine. But this isn't a dedicated server, either. I run a bunch of stuff on it.
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Unlike the mostly-public Mastodon, this doesn't have an option to serve directly from S3. It makes sense. So this will be a purely internal change.


repebble.com/

This is super exciting for me. I'm still wearing a Pebble Time Steel with the Rebble firmware and this can only do good things for it.

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If you get a Pebble Time Round, they're pretty attractive and are still alive through the Rebble project (rebble.io/). Pebble Time Steels are easier to come by, they're slim too, but not as nice.
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OK, the first thing that's frustrating is that smart watch product listings don't seem to include the diameter of the watch face in the same units that a normal watch would. I know the maximum face diameter that works on my wrist in mm, but how does a screen size of 1.1 compare?

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Attention Troubleshooters:

If you ever feel stressed out, overwhelmed, and helpless, just take a breath and find one thing you can do to make another Citizen's day just a little bit better.

But don't take too long, or you will be terminated for neglecting your assigned mission.

#ttrpg #mentalhealth

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Friend Computer, you are so right. Just yesterday I disconnected the spycams and mics in a citizen's living unit (yes, including the bathroom) and they were so grateful they gave me 4 BTC!
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@dshan
How wonderful.
4BTC is almost exactly the fine for tampering with Computer property.

Thank you for confessing your crime. Your loyalty has been noted.



The generations after Gen X obviously should have been Gen XI, Gen XII, Gen XIII, Gen XIV, and so on. We could also have retconned previous generations as Gen IX and Gen VIII.

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Public Social Media

The choice is clear.

Mastodon
Owned by: No one and everyone
Structure: Public non-profit
Number of distributed nodes: Thousands
Post length: 500 characters and more
Can edit? Yes

Bluesky
Owned by: Venture capitalists
Structure: Corporate for profit
Number of "distributed" nodes: One
Post length: 300 characters
Can edit? No

#PublicSocialMedia

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Today's #DynDNSHistory brought to you by @jtk , who asks about early or interesting abuse-related issues.

There's lots here so this one will be a thread...

The first one that jumps to mind is credit card fraud. This isn't really surprising/interesting in the later days, but what surprised me was that people used stolen credit cards even when we were just taking donations.

Like, really? You're going to abuse some kids who are just trying to run a free service? Not cool.

1/?

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Once we started doing paid services, the credit card fraud really picked up - in some cases it just seemed like they were using us to check stolen cards before using them for something bigger, other times they were really trying to get services.

I never quite understood the logic of the second one - you have to know it's not gonna last for long when you're using someone else's card. But maybe people don't notice and report the fraud?

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This one led to some of the most interesting things about abuse - getting surprising new domain names! When someone bought a domain with a stolen credit card, there was usually no way for us to cancel the registration (eventually we could if we caught it fast enough, but by the time there was a chargeback it'd for sure be too late).

So, we figured - we paid for these, I guess they're ours now! I don't remember any specifics, but there was definitely some weird ones in there.

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in reply to Tim W RESISTS

I don't remember if we ever turned any of them into actual customer domains for our free services - I don't THINK any of them happened to be good for that purpose.

Credit card fraud was a huge pain back then (not that it isn't now) - there wasn't nearly the range of intelligent analysis and risk assessment that's out there today. And as I recall we got chargebacks via fax (or had to respond via fax, maybe both). The bad old days...

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Next time on #DynDNSHistory I'll talk about credit card processing - it was so much more complicated than just getting a Stripe account those days.

The hoops and shenanigans we had to go through as a small start-up doing online card processing in those early days were wild.

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Oh, I'd love to hear more about credit card processing. I'm working with a start up Member owned Co-Op and we're trying to find an economical way of accepting SNAP benefits. It's literally the only reason we have our Heartland account, and we lose money every month in fees.
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@lisagetspolitik I know less about anything specialty today, bit I know (or at least used to know) a lot about the landscape of 20 years ago! 😀
in reply to Tim W RESISTS

we’re they using you as a registrar / reseller?

I never knew that DynDNS was in that line of business.

in reply to DrScriptt

@drscriptt yeah we started off as an OpenSRS reseller and then moved on to being an accredited registrar. Domain registration was generally a combination with our DNS for your own domain services.


One cool thing I have to call out for #Friendica is that there's a section for "Quiet Sharers" that highlight posts from accounts that don't post very often.
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I think your "latest" only applies from the time you started following, but if you go to my profile, you can see everything you have access to. Some of this is probably bound by federation etiquette - if you were to follow someone on another server, the system wouldn't download everything they'd ever posted.

The bullseye icon also shows all the conversations on the server you have access to.



I've been trying to settle in a bit on Friendica. Grouping my relationships into "Circles," reminiscent of G+. Unlike Mastodon, there doesn't seem to be any hashtag lists, which I miss. The interface would accommodate them though, I think.

Losing nearly all my followers is kind of tough. There's no Mastodon -> Friendica migration. On the other hand, maybe it's like a mark-and-sweep gc. The followers who actually wanted to follow me still are.

I'm still intending this to be a public instance, but I want to do some theming and policy work before I start putting it on directories.

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Update: There is a section for "saved searches" that support hashtags.


I created this Friendica instance to be my new home now that octodon.social is shutting down in a bit. I was hoping some people would follow me from Facebook but you can guess how that's going.

I think I actually prefer the Friendica interface for my Fedi content. That was unexpected.

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Huh, Octodon is shutting down? Weird, but I guess I haven't heard anything from them in quite a while.

Guess that's my backup account out, then. Not that I've really used that one since setting this one up.



Hello World!


This is my first public post on the new site! Here's hoping for a new Internet future.