Gregory's Server
"Representatives from the Mastodon project didnโt immediately respond to an email asking if they shared the criticsโ concerns."
Wait, what? I didn't receive no e-mail from Ars Technica. Where did they send it?!
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Now I'm getting worried the Mastodon iOS app welcome screen will be so good people won't want to leave it. Not sure if I should show it just yet. Don't want to spoil the surprise...
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 Make the about screen an even better one, and make it only accessible after you've logged in. Just to reiterate in relation to Gab getting hacked, Iโm not aware of any vulnerabilities in Mastodon at the moment and based on what I have seen in their code modifications the vulnerabilities they have are the ones they themselves introduced (along with never porting security patches from us)
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 @Gargron Are you in touch with @conservancy or other free software organizations about Gab violating AGPL by taking their Git repo down yesterday? (Arguably the violation goes further than that because they've not even been linking to that repo from their main site.) Context: https://mastodon.social/@angdraug/105822631688097080 Would you mind giving a heads up should you be able to point out the introduced vulnerabilities? Would you mind giving a heads up should you be able to point out the introduced vulnerabilities? Addressing the elephant in the room but it's a literal elephant and you are talking to it @Gargron ๐ ๐จ Being able to build the official Mastodon app for iOS in xcode and play around with it in an emulator to the see the results of weeks of UX and engineering work is a pretty amazing feeling
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 @Gargron Hey, you going to add direct support for APNs to the Mastodon code base or will you use the relay approach? "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%" https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/ Turns out it's inefficiently parsing 10 MB of JSON every time you load the game
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@Gargron If their anti-cheat software doesnโt notice an extra unsigned DLL hooked in, they may as well just not have any at all because itโs clearly not going to even slightly slow down someone with malicious intent.
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@Gargron we watched earlier this evening and the show is definitely getting intriguing @Gargron Everyone tells me to check it out, but is it actually worth the asking price of Disney+? Come to think of it, I don't use any streaming platforms, except YouTube. "Remain Calm: the fox is still in the Firefox logo" https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/the-fox-is-still-in-the-firefox-logo/ I have seen posts getting this wrong even on here.
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@Gargron I'm guilty for complaining a lot about lots of things, having said that, I can see from going to the provided link that they may not remove the fox but that doesn't mean they can't take the life out of the fox; minimalizing its features is a way of minimalizing its actual identity, if you ask me. @Gargron I like it. After finding out, that she's norwegian, I can remember Norway and the Fjords and imagine the olden days with the viking ships. Thanks for posting it. @Gargron Sounds like a job for the greatest pleasure of mankind, the nap. @Gargron I read someplace recently that you could just switch the cam off and use audio only, and nothing of value would be lost โ not to mention the huge bandwidth savings.
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 @Gargron any time you think "I would like some chocolate chip cookies" is an appropriate time to bake chocolate chip cookies. Do you think you can easily summarize your server's rules in a flat list of bullet points? That would make it simpler for mobile apps to display and easier for people to read
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 I probably could but that would remove the very important framing of it as a list of Things That May Harsh The Adminโs Buzz. It would also remove the short TL;DR at the end that summarizes the general thrust of the rules with a bit of humor.
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@Gargron a cock shape will float on its side with a bollock sticking out of the water. Saved you the effort. 
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@Gargron I honestly donโt see a point in it unless theyโre going to stop updating regular ol pleb overwatch  |
@Gargron lmao that's wild, honestly when I read that bit I just assumed you didn't want to wade into Gab's shitshow (which is perfectly reasonable)
@gargron did they specify in the article whether the email was sent to a Mastodon related email address? ,
@Gargron may I ask for the link of the ars article in question?