shlee

shlee, 3 months ago to random

Sometimes posting can be used for good instead of the evil.

shlee, 3 months ago to random

ACAB Includes embattled police commissioners.

shlee, 3 months ago to random

Today I fixed the video conferencing that has been broke for the last few weeks apparently.

My office tech support didn’t understand the Cisco switch having all of those interfaces as trunk mode might explain why it isn’t working.

So took me a few minutes to diagnose… good times either way and office mates are rad

kcarruthers, 3 months ago to random

I bloody hate google meet - it is ridiculous!

shlee, 3 months ago to random

Melbourne I’m in you etc etc

shlee, 3 months ago to random

JAVA APPLETS IN <year of our lord>!

shlee, 3 months ago to random

Melbourne airport has the facial recognition M&M vending machine.

gsuberland, 3 months ago to random

I really wish mastodon would include a little icon on filtered posts to indicate if the post contains an image. there's a world of difference between "CW: lewd" and "CW: lewd" + has an image.

shlee, 3 months ago to random

@jpm I'm going to be setting up that x3550 M4 tonight. Thanks again for helping me with my DR/safety/quorum server.

shlee, 3 months ago to random

https://thehorusheresy.com/choose-your-legion

shlee, 3 months ago to random

Deleting all of my tweets... RIP to a lot of good posts

shlee, 3 months ago to random

I'm starting a single issue political party to promote MSG. It's been vilified for too long.

shlee, 3 months ago to random

HOT SINGLE UNIONISTS IN YOUR AREA!

shlee, 3 months ago to random

“i hate every class i see from bourgeoia to Bourgeoisie” is this anything?

shlee, 3 months ago to random

It's not a crime to post a stream of conscience rant on the fediverse...

but once you notice it was boosted 120+ times, it does hurt that I didn't spend 35 seconds to give it an little polishing...

I'll write a polished blog and needed to get it out of my head.

shlee, 3 months ago to random

The best thing to remember is that it took over 6 years for someone to write a spam bot…. “We cannot blame the fediverse for being soiled by the earth. The fediverse is good!”

https://youtu.be/DVd_uug_u40?si=xXoDyTiF3GYTZC0x

shlee, 3 months ago to random

And then up comes Zafo
I'm like "Yo Zafo, what's up?"
He's like "Nothin'"
And I'm like "That's cool..."

shlee, 3 months ago to random

Regarding the current spam.. the fediverse is built in a very strange way.

10,000+ mastodon servers (excluding the thousands of other services) all managed to different levels of complexity, by different people, running slightly different versions (or even different forks).

There is pretty much no coordination from a technical level to share threats or risks outside of an ever more cursed series of groupchats and discord servers..... infact mastodon doesn't even have a concept of "server to server" communication (subject to change very recently) so admins couldn't forward spammers emails/ip addresses or any kind of metadata incase of attackers using any kind of shared infra.

There is nothing not even a captcha (until recently) stopping people from spending an hour writing a few scripts to create millions of fake accounts and spamming the ecosystem.. or creating a DOS bot to upload large files on bulk and replicate those across from 10,000 S3 mirrors wasting bandwidth and money.

You could easily bankrupt most of the fediverse in a week because nobody watches their data usage and lots of people pay for bandwidth.

Now.. lots of people have been talking about making things to improve this ecosystem, but nobody has the cash to fix this problem "correctly"... but the good news? There are a few projects on the go to try to fix this.

2024 is the year of the fediverse reinventing the wheel when we're been dealing with spam on the internet since it started... but I do love a new wheel