 Hi #hometown admins! To keep us up to date with this morning's Mastodon security patches I have released Hometown v1.1.1+4.0.6: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.0.6%2Bhometown-1.1.1 (This is a second release in two days, containing further bugfixes released by the Mastodon team.) I'll have a backport for people running the older Hometown version 1.0.8+3.5.5 later today when I'm not stuck on my phone at an airport. Thank you @jasmin and @misty for your help!! You can follow me on Threads as tinysubversions. I'm looking forward to figuring out interoperability with them. I'm also looking forward to figuring out ways to keep people safe from them. I'm also looking forward to figuring out if this server is going to defederate from them. (We might! We will have a discussion and take a vote.)
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Lol federation aside the site is showing me mostly content from people I don't follow so uh don't expect me on there very much  @darius I'd love to see something like List behavior for selected servers. Makes something like a sandbox for posts originating from Threads (or wherever) so it shows up in a separate column on Advanced View. Tangent: Would also love being able to add people I don't follow to lists as on Twitter. Useful for noisy accounts that I don't want in my main feed. Since I'm seeing a new wave of people saying they plan to leave Twitter, you may like my browser tool that takes the zip file of your Twitter export and returns a zip file of a web site that lets people browse and search your tweets. You can just upload the files wherever you normally host html and it'll work just fine. https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/ Example archive: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/
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 @darius Do you know of a good version of this for Mastodon posts, or a way to fit posts from my Mastodon archive into this format so I can host both in one giant searchable archive? People really need to just abandon twitter. Stay on twitter only enables fascists, bigots, racists, and assholes. Delete twitter and never look back. This person, from their name to their company name to their educational background, could easily have been brought to life from a Thomas Pynchon novel. (Edit, to be clear: he's definitely a minor antagonist 📯 ) Oh yeah I totally binged Succession (searched for information on it using the Bing search engine) I have been using a $100 temporary Android phone while waiting for my fancy phone to get replaced under warranty and the experience with the stock OS is just so so bad. Like barely usable most of the time. Even the GPS and wifi don't work well. Most people worldwide use cheap Android phones on old versions of the OS and this was a good reminder that just because my mobile app/site works well on my fancy phone, it might work hardly at all for most people.
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One can see such realities in the "Rest of World’s photography contest" https://restofworld.org/2023/winners-2023-photography-contest/  @darius out of curiosity what is the fancy phone you currently use? Aside from the clear performance difference (owing to hardware), curious if you also found a difference in the OS Software experience.  @darius Nice. First time I see also "A table of CWs in regular use around Mastodon" in an instance description. Really useful for new joiners, for sure.
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@darius I read his too quickly and thought you wrote "I fucking love defenestration". Which would also be a cool sticker. If BigCorp meets with me under NDA and says "We are going to firebomb you all" then I can't say without personal legal repercussions "BigCorp is going to firebomb us". But I can say to everyone "Let's invest in some fire suppressant. If you think about it it's only a matter of time before we are firebombed." The alternative is stay ignorant and then simply get firebombed
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@darius  What REALLY rubs me the wrong way is that the Internet and the Web (and Fedi) is built on open, freely available standards. We WANT to disclose the contents of our developements, our protocols and APIs. For a company to initiate talks with projects on the open web to require NDAs is running counter to core values in those projects. It's extremely tone deaf and a strong signal they are not interested in protecting our commons. I turn 40 this year and the weirdest thing about it is realizing that most everyone I went to high school with is 40 this year.
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@darius This has cheered me up. I've seen criticism of the #fediverse to the effect that it's populated by old geezers like me and then youngsters like you turn up. Have a great day when it happens! @darius Yeah, I tell my wife all the time, "Man, this high school friend looks old in the picture of them and their kids. Why is that, I wonder?" Doing a little victory dance because today #Hometown's "exclusive lists" feature was merged into Mastodon. Which means once it is part of a release, that is one less thing for me to maintain. Everything is going according to plan :AngelDevil: Link to github PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/22048 Link to human-facing exclusive lists explainer: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Exclusive-lists
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damn, Cormac McCarthy died https://www.npr.org/2023/06/13/598425063/cormac-mccarthy-dies-obituary  I learned about eSIM cards recently and it's life-changing. I can just... download a SIM card ahead of my trip and activate it when I get to whatever country?? Amazing [all "you wouldn't download a SIM card" references will get you defenestrated]
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  @darius I know someone who used an eSIM for their visit to a country but their home country’s provider still went on roaming, and they had every reason to believe that they could just keep their home country prover’s SIM card in. This is a comment about their home country’s provider, not eSIMs, so YMMV, but watch out for that when visiting the eSIM provider’s country. @darius They are great, but be aware of silly restrictions. For example, Samsung Galaxy devices allow either 1 SIM and 1 eSIM, or 2 SIMs, or 1 eSIM - you can't have two active eSIMs! Problem I have now is that my watch often rings and my phone (on same eSIM, shared number), doesn't...and if I answer on watch it overheats about 5 mins into a call!
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@darius @restofworld tbh attracting a disorganized upper class of individual remote workers seems a lot smarter than the normal economy-brain thing of courting a single consolidated industrial transnational employer with effectively zero-rated taxes and then slowly caving to their every demand and hollowing out social services as the local government realizes that their entire economy now depends on the whims of a single regional manager whose performance is evaluated based on tax efficiency  @darius @restofworld The term is a kind of newspeak, isn't it? Gives their huge carbon footprints, and a romantic touch.  I love how the ONLY appearance of the phrase "minimum wage" is in the little mid-article infographic listing how painfully low it is in each of these places. Nowhere in the text is anyone saying that maybe, just maybe, raising it might help solve the "nobody from here can afford to live here any more" problem. Just spotted the headline "Astronomers see 6,000-mile water vapour plume blasting from Saturn moon". Okay but can you imagine how good this would have been if it were from Uranus
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Hi all, I have made a #Hometown release that brings us up to date with Mastodon v4.0.4. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.0.4%2Bhometown-1.1.1 (I have one for v.4.1.2 coming soon.) Metaphor-a-Minute, my first Twitter bot, or at least the first one I approached as part of my art practice, would have turned 11 years old today. Collective memory on the internet is wild. Some of us are old enough to remember Twitter!! It was a whole thing for over a decade. Learn your history
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  @darius not sure what you're talking about, all I remember before Fediverse is NNTP newsgroups (and bulletin board systems before that)  |
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@darius Some of those CVEs are absolutely vicious. I thought log4j was bad!
@darius got the update running well on niagara.social. Really quite lost on how to actually find the nginx config file that to add those hardening lines to though (using proxyed external object storage). Any ideas #mastoadmin ?
Hello again #hometown admins -- there was a bug in Mastodon's security patch that caused issues in the admin panel when viewing remote accounts. They released a fix about 15 minutes ago and I am working to get a Hometown release with that fix very soon.