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@elebertus@eigenmagic.net tbf, if you’re not testing your well water then you’re playing roulette with your health because a lot of ground water isn’t potable 😢
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@waffles@masto.yttrx.com
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I grew up with BBSs, forums and small internet. usenet, fidonet, etc. I miss small internet. I love small internet.
I post about the people and things that bring me joy.
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automating the signup process feels critical for an open registration instance.
over the past couple of months i’ve been iterating on a simple little app that receives web hooks from mastodon on signup and reports. it:
- checks email and ip reputation of the signup
- sends a welcome message if both are clean
- holds back on welcome message if either are bad and messages me
- suspends any suspicious signups after an hour if they haven’t posted or followed anyone
- immediately suspends if both email and ip are bad, and blocks the cidr range of the ip to prevent future signup attempts and blocks the email domain
for clean accounts, the system will auto silence new accounts after several reports, and send the account a dm why it was silenced with a link to a help website on how to get unsilenced
this hasn’t removed the human aspect of moderation, but man, it means i can sleep at night without bots totally trashing the system with spam.
what are other admins doing?
https://waffles.yttrx.com/posts/welcomebot-and-abuse-hooks-update/
edit: code and install guide https://waffles.yttrx.com/posts/welcomebot-for-your-own-instance/
went to my favourite restaurant in seattle yesterday ( https://www.moonlightcafeseattle.com/ ) and it was completely filled with a giant family gathering, but were still doing takeout.
while waiting for my order, the owner sat with me and we did shots together and chatted about about veganism - man, she’s the absolute best and i love this place so so much.
running bastille pkg ALL upgrade -y and getting stuck in a bug where pkg is trying to upgrade itself but never does.
a quick little fix of: bastille cmd $JAIL env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=yes pkg bootstrap -f and some manual spot checking to ensure that some packages didn't get removed (like postfix was removed... :/ )
@tommertron@masto.yttrx.com just raised the post limit on yttrx. fyi
listening to some #whitestripes vinyl that i picked up from amoeba records in the haight-ashbury neighbourhood of san francisco last month.
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@support@toot.community i'm surprised that the genuine people are that high -- my small instance gets a lot of spammer signups that are super easy to tell, and weekly i suspend a bunch of bad accounts early before they can do much harm.
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@badnetmask@hachyderm.io its a debian system, but fwupdmgr doesn't get BIOS updates *shrug*
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@mmeier@social.mei-home.net you don’t need to attach a second pi to *each* — the pikvm can multiplex!
https://docs.pikvm.org/multiport/
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@dev@ricard.social I got my own selfhosted gitea instance running a few weeks ago, with the runner mostly working! It's jus time to cut ties with GH since i dont use 99% of its features
i'll ping you if i run into any problems!
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@neuronakaya@mastodon.social i think we should normalize this more. plus, there’s always adoption
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@hiro@social.lol behold, my highschool student id. i’m glad you’ve seen them live! they were a lot of fun— also always happy to find another pavement fan out in the wild :)
RE: https://indieweb.social/@indiewebadmin/116937318392458395
i thrive on the tears of suspended spammers. i’ve blocked so many this week
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We've closed signups on indieweb.social for the weekend after a huge increase in attempted spam sign ups.
We aren't the only instance going through this. Please show your support to the amazing moderators across the Fediverse! 💙 ☁️
#FediAdmin #SpamWave #Moderation #Admin #Indieweb #FediMod #MastoAdmin
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@megabyteghost@masto.hackers.town GNOME Software (via PackageKit) often shows Flatpak/Snap updates alongside apt packages, which is likely what you’re seeing. (i’m not a regular gnome or debian user but i remember seeing the same thing at some point in the past)
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@support@toot.community hahah, yeah we’re also on john mastodon but our domain name is quirky enough that real humans usually skip us ✌️😅
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ming found a photo booth (she has a second sense for these things), i got really drunk before eating any solid food, we dropped into an anarchist bookstore and ended up at a really nice vegan spot before heading home
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Efilroftsul/116908942776990108
i legit cackled
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@tommertron@masto.yttrx.com @gnomon@mastodon.social what was the pass/fail rate? (ie, how many did you toss into the ecycle bin?)
i quite enjoy my job and am not currently looking for other opportunities, but i occasionally daydream about getting a city job as a computer toucher.
the idea of having a much more chill work environment, likely being unionized, and just turning the crank to help out citizens navigate their city's bureaucracy sounds really nice at times.
https://www.nyc.gov/content/pitcrew/pages/
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@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe anytime i see your boys i think of this video
https://masto.yttrx.com/@waffles/116876274985257816
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116914623057028233
curious how FOSS projects that have a no LLM policy would handle a PR that came with an ai developed fix along with the report.
(literally have no idea if any of these bug hunters ever bothered to try to fix the issue.. just curious if the project maintainers would bend their stance)
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You don't see people from the frontier models brag about how many vulnerabilities they FIXED, only how many they FOUND.
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@stux@mstdn.social it’s all about convenience. i started with torrents when it was more convenient than cable tv and physical rentals. then streaming came to canada and *it* became more convenient. now its flipped again and im back on the high seas 🏴☠️🫡
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@tommertron@masto.yttrx.com i think about these kinds of apps all of the time — im so happy that we’re breaking out of reliance on spreadsheets for more artisanal solutions. sure, a spreadsheet is the tool that can do anything, but I dont know if that means it can do anything well. i like the idea of artisanal solutions like this, especially since its powered by sqlite and can have a couple of sql queries generate all of the data in csv if you ever wanted to move the data back to a spreadsheet.
i am “matt’s script archive” years old
https://www.scriptarchive.com/
idk who this is for, but:
curl -s "https://peteftw.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:pete@peteftw.com"
now does a thing
i didnt sleep at all last night — got a bunch of work done, so i took today off as a sick day to try to recover;
of course i’m now sitting in bed watching youtube and drinking coffee (8:35am) which is not helping with this whole not sleeping thing.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/116954317926627289
heh. i watched about 80% of the 2000s battlestar galactica series on an ipod classic— torrenting the show and transcoding it to fit on the device then watching the show every day on my lunch break. you’d think that would absolutely destroy the viewing experience but i was still enthralled by the show so
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
gross - the flingo/SambaTv ACR is atrocious. it’s amazing how much snitchware is built into modern televisions.
https://jmason.ie/2026/07/18/163818a.html
the field museum is huge!
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@dev@ricard.social you've inspired me to do the same -- although i don't have nearly as many repos!