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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

While I'm liking Purelymail so far, its server-side spam filter has so far had a 0% success rate: everything it's put in junk has been good, while the one actual piece of spam I got, it missed. Re-installing SpamSieve, I guess…

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

gawd, I love this graphic https://mastodon.world/@flogzilla/114353644313474318

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flogzilla@mastodon.world ("Flogzilla") wrote:

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

My two favorite shiny objects on my desk right now. (cc: @robb)

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dumpsterqueer@superseriousbusiness.org ("tobi is writing bugs :terminal_cursor:") wrote:

hey @dansup, I had a look at fedidb the other day and noticed a few oddities it might be worth you and/or the team taking a look at:

• numbers are constantly going down, I believe because you're wrongly omitting instances that have an open robots.txt file, and so you're probably dropping entries from your database (https://github.com/fedidb/issues/issues/55). This gives the misleading impression that the fedi is rapidly bleeding out (see screenshot), but that's probably just because there's something wrong with the scraper / database.
• some softwares are missing entirely, like snac and gotosocial (https://github.com/fedidb/issues/issues/58, https://github.com/fedidb/issues/issues/49); in the latter case it was my understanding you'd added gts again after you added proper robots.txt support (https://mastodon.social/@dansup/114023569148179068) but it seems it was quietly dropped again at some point
• loops.video shows exactly the same mau as it does registered users, this seems like a bug as it's basically impossible for that to actually be the case, and it puts loops.video way higher in the "top servers" list than it probably should be

are there plans to fix these issues? It's my understanding that you've been working on fedidb stuff again because you posted some screenshots a whole ago iirc, but in the meantime perhaps it's worth pausing scraping again like you did a few months ago, and adding a notice to the top of the page that work is in progress to fix things?

one reason I'm asking is that currently on every gts instance homepage with closed registrations we link to fedidb as a "this instance is closed but you can use these tools to find an instance that is accepting registrations" sort of thing, but it's not great to link to a website that doesn't show GtS at all and has stats that look a bit bananas

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Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

Have you ever wanted to have gap-rules in your #CSS Grid layouts, similar to column-rules? The Gap Decorations specification has its first public working draft! https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/WD-css-gaps-1-20250417/

(“First public working draft” means it’s still being worked on and things in it might change, but the work has been made public and is now part of the historical record. This is a good time for the community [including YOU!] to read it and give feedback. Do **NOT** expect implementations right away.)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a reminder:

the Multiverse really *is* out to get you

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• video: be817314c75aef73.mp4

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

It's never been about Mars. It's about acquiring government contracts, money, and power, like a good little oligarch.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/17/you-know-hes-not-actually-ever-going-to-mars/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Eugenicists like to dehumanize people -- people of different ethnicities, autistic people, anyone who doesn't belong to their category of privilege. It helps that they don't know the people they want to throw in the dumpster.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/17/this-is-how-eugenicists-talk/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I have just posted a social media FAQ, detailing how I use social media, how I interact with folks, when I choose to block/mute people, where I am on social media, and other such stuff.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/

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WiteWulf@cyberplace.social ("Gary Parker :party_porg:") wrote:

Oh, this is interesting (and a little scary)

tl;dr don’t use SSDs for long term, offline storage. The data degrades after as little as two years without the drives being powered up

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

AS THEY SHOULD

https://spacenews.com/bipartisan-caucus-criticizes-proposed-nasa-science-budget-cuts/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Anyone else's YouTube home page suddenly full of giant thumbnails and channels you've never heard of before? It suddenly became almost completely unusable.

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Announcing the schedule for Real World Cryptography Paris Meetup 4!

Talks on ZK! Advanced testing for cryptographic primitives! Encrypted semantic search! And killer cryptographic audits!

All happening at Ledger's Paris HQ on April 29! Register today! https://cryptography.paris

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#Mastodon has had a nice little uptick in sign-ups and activity from #Taiwan after a facebook post recommending it as an alternative to facebook and Instagram for Taiwanese users went viral on facebook, bringing in about 20K new users over the span of two days to mastodon.social, g0v.social, m.cmx.im and a few more.

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kvuzet@kolektiva.social ("revolutionary girl erin") wrote:

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Did not know he had a middle name

jwz wrote:

Saint Acutis of Halo.

He was a kid, and now his body is coated in wax and dressed in a red track jacket, jeans, and Nikes and lies in a church in a tiny Italian hill town where people arrive on tour buses to kiss their fingers and touch the glass next...
https://jwz.org/b/ykmo

jwz wrote:

The numbers are mysterious and important.

ExponenTile:
https://jwz.org/b/ykmm

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
adamshostack@infosec.exchange ("Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:") wrote:

The most important part of CVE is not the unique number, but the funding and expertise to run a credible program that assigns a unique number. The unique number was the center of what Dave Mann called a “concordance,” and I believe this is subtle but crucial: The value of CVE is not as a database, but as a stable way to cross-reference between databases and other tools. Dave and I have had many conversations about books having an ISBN, a UPC code, a Dewey number and a Library of Congress number. They serve different goals, and are managed by different groups.

I mention the books because assigning unique numbers in a stable way is harder than you'd expect.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Harvard (with which I’ve had relatively little affiliation) has occasionally institutionally disappointed me in various ways over the years, but their strong stance against the administration’s unconscionable, fascistic bullying deserves our unqualified support and appreciation.

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

BlueSky isn’t just censoring posts in Turkey to match government demands, already happening in other countries too.

I really wish the media would stop calling it decentralised. It isn’t. It’s like calling Shell oil nature lovers, because they claim they love nature.

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kimzetter@infosec.exchange ("Kim Zetter") wrote:

Chris Krebs has quit his job at SentinalOne to launch a legal and public relations fight against Trump and the presidential memo Trump he signed against Krebs last week. "Krebs said he understood why some have kept a low profile and tried not to further anger the president. But he said he disagreed with that approach. "I don’t think this lay-low-and-hope-this-blows-over approach is the right one for the moment we’re in."

Miles Taylor who was also targeted by Trump said "the memos targeting him and Krebs were 'punishment for dissent' and that he too planned to fight back.... 'How we respond will set the tone inevitably for how others targeted by these EOs decide to respond.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/chris-krebs-trump-cybersecurity-executive-action-31cb99cb

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
somafm@sfba.social ("SomaFM") wrote:

Things you won't find on SomaFM:
"branded experiences"
"influencer activations"
"experiential marketing"

Things you will find:
"good music"
"no advertising"

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Bluesky has a lot of really nice features, and there are many compelling reasons to use it. But if a government can kick you off of it, it’s not at all resilient, and it’s definitely not decentralized.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pdbowman@social.coop wrote:

Bring Him Home artwork by Mayday Trippe
free to use noncommercially for advocacy and organizing
https://www.patreon.com/posts/126772503

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

No problem! Because Blueksy is decentralized, these users can just connect through a different relay.

Oh, wait—

#bluesky #centralized #sarcasm

https://mastodon.social/@docpop/114349307904657316

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I would instead propose:

“Elect clowns, expect a circus.”

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Hire clowns, expect a circus.”

- T. Friedman