anderseknert, 30 days ago to vscode

I just turned off the "minimap" feature of #VSCode after realizing I've had it on for like a decade without ever looking at it. Is it useful somehow, or just a gimmick?

Migueldeicaza, 2 months ago to random

Build Gnome apps with Swift:

https://swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

vwbusguy, 2 months ago to random

Source Available != Open Source

That's not an opinion. If it's SSPL, BUSL, etc., it's categorically not "open source" according to the Open Source Definition.

bastianallgeier, 2 months ago to random

Selling stuff on EBay (Kleinanzeigen) for the first time in a long time has been an „interesting“ experience so far. My first sale was cancelled because the buyer was a fraud account. Two guys tried to get a discount of 50% on my amps for mind-blowing audacious reasons. The only sale that went smooth so far went to @webrocker and then DHL lost the package. Tom wrote about the following nightmare to get it back https://mastodon.social/@webrocker/112065117220275407

thisismissem, 3 months ago to random

Having to rewrite a significant portion of your app because it turns out the templating engine it uses was absolutely terrible.

Won't ever make the mistake of allowing handlebars to ever be used again on a project.

danirabbit, 3 months ago to random

I know a lot of people are upset about CLAs, but consider the following. I just had a meeting with a previous independent contractor who did digital marketing for my local pub. They are now claiming that they did not license their photography to the bar and it’s their IP so the business can’t use anything they shot. So there you go. You might be cool, but not everyone is cool. That’s why we need to be clear on licsensing 🤷🏻‍♀️

sass, 3 months ago to mastodon

What's the easiest way to self-host a single-user Mastodon instance? (Also interested in other fediverse platforms that may be easier to host/manage). Thanks!!!

#mastodon #selfhosted #selfhosting #askfedi #fedihelp

ErikUden, 3 months ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

To all Fedi Admins Currently Being hit with a Spam Wave:

This kind of spam is now over! Unmute all the instances no longer on my list!

I've just released v4.0.0 of The UNmute List! I'd be very happy about a small donation because I have very little time and I cannot really justify working on this list with my current schedule :mycomputer:​

There is a new type of spam, the same instances are affected as before. Those responsible in Japan are said to have been arrested.

Without further ado...

Limit these instances:

[Full List of Affected Instances Here]

Just get the list to download and import here.

Simply import this list and you'll mute the 47 worst spam instances currently known to me! I've worked on it for multiple weeks, sometimes ~9 hours at a time verifying all lists sent to me manually.

Limit first, defederate only in worst situations!

Consider re-federating with and un-silencing any of the mentioned instances once the spam is mitigated. The admins of some of these may have just been asleep when this all started.

Ban Spam Accounts via their E-Mail Domain

Block the following E-Mail Domain and whatever temp Mail provider it resolves to: chitthi.in

Just to be safe, block these ones too (same provider)

• mailto.plus
• fexpost.com
• fexbox.org
• mailbox.in.ua
• any.pink

All our spam accounts came from these E-mails.

Since you probably have some of these accounts sleeping:

https://[your-instance.tld]/admin/accounts?email=%25%40chitthi.in there just select all and press “Ban”.

Find Remaining Spammers

I've seen instances that fixed the spam issue but began being hit later again. The spammers might use new E-Mails, so here is a way to find and block them anyway:

https://mamot.fr/@vincib/111946701929274350

IP Bans and TOR

These spammers seem to be using the TOR Network as all of their IPs are TOR Exit Node IPs, hence an idea (with some collateral damage if executed) would be to ban all TOR exit node IPs for sign ups. I am personally against this idea as you'd also prevent users who simply wish to stay anonymous online (political refugees, leakers of important documents, etc.) from using your platform. For now, simply banning every user using a particular Spammer IP will not help and will merely ban users that try to stay anonymous! Not necessarily the spammers.

How To Block All Temp E-Mails in the Future

If you want to prevent this from ever happening again, you should block E-Mails from Temporary Mail providers all together:

• Here is the list of all Temp email providers (there are both blocklist and allowlist)
• Here how to install it in Mastodon
• The script that automatically pulls the list via Cronjob and imports it into Mastodon
• Script template

Because of this, hessen.social, for example, was not affected by the spam attack! They had already banned the email domain the spammers used ages ago.

In future updates on Mastodon, maybe Admins can simply click a button that says “Ban Temp E-Mail Providers” Automagically from the E-Mail Menu? There could be E-Mail categories that can be banned, such as temporary mails.

Why did this happen?

The real reason hundreds of us spent hours of our days during the spam on mitigating it is the following:

Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer

This is the full exposé @cappy has been working on regarding the February 15th Spam Attacks!

Thank you @BrodieOnLinux for mentioning this post in a video!

Good luck, everyone!
Thanks for participating in the Fediverse Experiment!

#FediBlock #FediAdmin

jgillich, 4 months ago to linux

Virtualbox on KVM? Love it

https://cyberus-technology.de/articles/vbox-kvm-public-release

#virtualbox #kvm #linux

thisismissem, 4 months ago to random

DigitalOcean's database and app platform are really leaving me disappointed. e.g., you create a database + user, but the user doesn't have any permissions on the database, so you've gotta screw around with GRANT statements until the thing works.

jgillich, 4 months ago to linux

My Kubernetes client Seabird is now on Flathub 🎉

https://flathub.org/apps/dev.skynomads.Seabird

#linux #kubernetes #gnome #flatpak #flathub

jgillich, 4 months ago to Pixelfed

Looks like #Pixelfed will get a proper container image soon! Hype 🎉

mastohost, 4 months ago to random

I will be starting the installation of Mastodon v4.2.4 on Masto.host.

There will be about 15 seconds of downtime during the upgrade.

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.4

Karlitschek, 5 months ago to community

2023 was a great year for Nextcloud. What areas of Nextcloud should we focus on in the next 1-3 years? Any wishes? Anything missing? #community #survey #Nextcloud

dsfgs, 5 months ago to random

@cas
We were just wondering. You do know that 2020 was a time of increased concentration of wealth, right?

400 billion to the top 1 percent, or something akin to that.

You have seen the money supply chart, and the quadrupling of it (in Australia, sixtupled). It is not "deranged" to talk about this stuff in the context of technology, given the types of discussions at the time, including quotes from US congresspersons. Heck Trump wanted forced sale of a tech company to Oracle. Stay well.

jgillich, 5 months ago to startup

Important lesson for founders: Make sure you get paid. I've realized we have a bunch of users with hundreds of Euros worth of unpaid bills. They've been sent multiple emails too, but even cancelling the hosting is too much to ask apparently? Every hosted app contributes to infra costs so this is doubly frustrating.

Oh well, now the policy will change from 'pay whenever you're able to' to 'pay within two weeks'.

#buildinpublic #saas #startup

thisismissem, 5 months ago to random

Okay, so, the other day we shipped a buggy Dockerfile for @pixelfed and I've been trying to fix, but I'm completely stumped as to how to test this, because I can't for the life of me connect to the server in the container.

I just get connection reset errors no matter if apache or fpm. If anyone know's Docker & PHP, help would kindly be appreciated, because I've no idea what's going wrong.

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4798

thisismissem, 7 months ago to random German

Well that's annoying. The stamps I bought last year (I don't send many letters) are €0,80 stamps.. and postage for small letters is now €0,85 so I’ve gotta use two.

alternativeto, 7 months ago to reddit

#Reddit is considering blocking Google and Bing crawlers, in order to make AI companies pay for its data, stating that “Reddit can survive without search”. Without an agreement, Reddit posts will not appear in search results anymore.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/10/reddit-contemplates-cutting-off-google-and-bing-to-monetize-data-used-by-ai-companies/

thisismissem, 7 months ago to programming

Can express.js not support async/await in route/middleware handlers? I thought it could now.. but I can't find this in the documentation?

#expressjs #nodejs

vwbusguy, 7 months ago to RegEx

The thing about coding with #regex is that it feels like I'm getting paid to do Sudoku puzzles for a living.

Tip for those who are asked to review code with regex: Rather than focusing on the regex itself, ask to see the automated tests that it is ran against and look for gaps in the tests rather than getting lost in the weeds with scrutinizing the regex itself unless there's an obvious significant performance problem.