Those extremist idiots who hate and will attack everyone and anyone who doesn't think like them are giving us a bad name on BlueSky, Reddit, and beyond (wait a couple of days for the tech press to bash us once again)
You know who I'm talking about. The ones who want to dictate how the Fediverse should be managed even though they don't understand the first thing about federation (do they even know that Mastodon is not the same thing as the Fediverse?)
Spoiler alert: the whole Fediverse is based on opt-out. Privacy is almost non-existent here.
The ones who confuse Mark Zuckerberg with its users. The ones who hate BlueSky for no reason whatsoever, but they sure hate it.
The ones who want the Fediverse to be a closed space where only they decide who is allowed to communicate with whom.
I'm really really mad at them right now.
The damage they're doing to all of us is big, believe me.
The worst part? I'm sure they enjoy us, as their goal is to turn as many people away from the Fediverse as possible, most of us (the sane users) included.
Dear friends of the #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse,
Bytedance is connecting to our server every few seconds. As I don't understand why and, more, I've already had problems with their rude behaviour, I've added this rule to nginx.conf:
case sensitive matching
if ($http_user_agent ~ (Bytespider)) {
return 403;
}
case insensitive matching
if ($http_user_agent ~* (bytespider)) {
return 403;
}
A self-proclaimed industry leader in mobile app data analytics is being accused by the Federal Trade Commission of secretly collecting consumer data such as name, location, economic status, hospital visits, etc. And then selling that information to advertisers, insurers and political campaigns. The @ConversationUS reports:
I reached this site via @cryptohagen but I'm sure there are a lot of families out there who wll find the #DataDetox kit for young people useful, so here you go:
Another issue comes to mind: Can we really do nothing to stop what UCEPROTECT has been doing for years? Is it acceptable for them to put entire IP blocks on a blacklist, asking for money for rapid delisting without any real reason? Obviously, we can't stop UCEPROTECT, but we can prevent them from causing us harm. Frankly, I don't believe any sound-minded person would use that blacklist, but users often worry when they see themselves listed on blacklist checkers. It would be appropriate to act collectively and ask blacklist checker services to ignore responses from UCEPROTECT.
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