@Gargron Gargron that sounds pretty serious.

@Gargron Had to put the server on mute. There were too many spam messages at once on different channels.

First thing I do when I join a discord "server" is to turn off those broadcast mentions.

@Gargron thats not a compétition but i listened 31,466 minutes of music but is not a compétition

We're talking about an account that was created through normal means, that is not really distinguishable from just any random account, but contains something like "hello 1.2.3.4|" in its bio. The way they seem to be used is that some botnet software checks the profile to get its commands that way. It is not a Mastodon vulnerability and I don't think its specific to Mastodon either.

@Gargron
Blackholing a site that's Alexa ranked 20k and has 600k users because #LooksLikeBotnet is a very hetzner thing to do. But can't argue with their prices so ...

@Gargron no worries..shit happens.. nice to be back! x

@Gargron we are as thomas aquinas, arguing about the nature of the soul.

@Gargron Kinda weird that they didn't just decide to adopt ActivityPub (which IIRC Jack Dorsey explicitly mentioned as an option when Bluesky was announced!) after *two years* of working on the topic. Assuming, of course, they're serious about the idea in the first place...

@Gargron Identity in what sort of context?

@Gargron Ah well... at least you made me google it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3

I agree, bad idea.

Decentralized yes.
Blockchains...? Just say no!

@Gargron Normally I don't like copyright and I really don't want it to exist in the case of something like Lord of the Rings where the creator is dead but I'm kinda glad it exists just this one time

@Gargron I seem to remember reading it, but it was a few eons ago. I may have to re-read it, and the other 6 in the series.
In order, they're:

1. Foundation
2. Foundation and Empire
3. Second Foundation
4. Foundation's Edge
5. Foundation and Earth
6. Prelude to Foundation
7. Forward the Foundation

@Gargron Waay better that I expected.

@Gargron Not to spoil things, but I found the first episode to be the highlight of the season.

@Gargron https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008 for when you wish to start fearing the IKEA store.

@Gargron SCP-muh-ballz

@Gargron I love SCP 3000 and recommend it to most friends who are SCP-curious

@Gargron Getting good screenshots is like the third hardest part of iOS development, I swear.

@Gargron sounds promising!

@Gargron I understand why you guys are going after the iOS market first, but it's pretty painful to swallow the fact that an open source service would create for a closed source ecosystem first

@Gargron I've been using a cast iron pan for 2 or 3 years, and have found it to be a better "non-stick" pan, given time to season, than the ones claiming to be that. No bits of non-stick stuff coming off either.

@Gargron Understandably.

@Gargron
The oldest pan there was 140 years old though?

@Gargron pop music has been doing this same shit for years

@Gargron neat!

@Gargron well thanks for forever transforming my girlfriend's life by introducing her to djent

@Gargron I have known this band for many years because of mutual friends and acquaintances... Just found their CD demo about a week ago and put it on repeat!

@Gargron are you this bothered by all types of NFTs, or just the "jpeg" type?

I'm wondering if you don't see any value in an decentralized, permissionless naming system (e.g, https://ens.domains/, https://unstoppabledomains.com/) which could be beneficial for the Fediverse. For instance, it would solve identity and account portability.

@Gargron that emoji is how i feel about life in general

@Gargron Still upset birdsite killed all my random avatar generators as "potentially automated behavior."

That would be useful

@Gargron let’s see if this works

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/05/twitter-users-facebook-outage-instagram-whatsapp/

@Gargron another reason why I usually just link to their text version instead.

e.g. https://text.npr.org/1051553451

Maintenance complete. There's now a 1 TB headroom for the database to grow 🙂

@Gargron Ooooooh yeah \m/

@Gargron ✊ ← I still don't get this one

@Gargron ‘slightly smiling face’ may or may not be the weirdest description of an emoji, but it is the weirdest description of one that I see on a regular basis, typically in any toast notification I get with the description rather than the actual image.

@Gargron The actual laughing emoji looks like a misnomer too. Unicode really needs a fixup.

@Gargron ikr \m/