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@elfi@pixie.town
- Pronouns
- she/her, fae/faer
- Location
- Canada
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and 
, and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS
Joined Feb 2020
If you're in Discord communities that store data in Discord and only Discord, start exfiltrating that stuff elsewhere just in case people leave the community over the NFT announcements and delete stuff as they go; or worse, close the community entirely.
If they don't, congrats, you exfiltrated data locked onto one proprietary platform and freed it.
If they don't, congrats, you exfiltrated data locked onto one proprietary platform and freed it.
if you run an open source game project you should just put "TRANS RIGHTS" in the main menu so all the shitty members of the community leave in a huff over that
Randomly wondering if Spiral Knights is still around...
the state of the internet is stressful
Honestly wondering how feasible it would be to just drop everything and hide out on IRC forever.
... none of the people I wanna chat with would follow, and my brain worms would get upset at the silence.
begpost, please boost and share, CW house arrest, unjust conviction and sentencing, i fucking hate the courts
Please please PLEASE boost and share and donate this fundraiser for my friend's partner, who is currently serving a house arrest sentence for bullshit trumped up charges. He needs all the support he can get at this time. Fuck the courts, fuck the cops 
proposed experiment to mess with the transphobic harassment scraper
We've been discussing how the transphobic spammers are finding targets and a current hypothesis is that they're using a scraper to find the string "trans" in people's bios. For instance it seems I got on the list for having "translator" in my bio.
So if you want to try and prove or disprove this hypothesis and possibly mess up their scraper, I suggest putting the word "trans" somewhere in your bio. Since it's easier to adapt the scraper to get get around trans being part of a word (like "translator" or "transistor"), it might be helpful to add both the words "trans" and "transgender." Example sentences:
"I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights."
"I may not be trans but transgender hating script kiddies are too incompetent to tell the difference."
Obviously do this ONLY if you're okay with potentially getting on the trans list. If you don't want to receive spam I suggest turning off DMs and notifs from accounts you don't follow.
If we can't stop the harassment at its source yet, we might be able to dilute or grow the list past usefulness, and hide our trans friends through sheer numbers so they can't be as easily singled out.
hardening mastodon against scraping
fellow masto instance admins of the fediverse:
by default, mastodon is leaky as fuck and there are a bunch of ways that data can be scraped and indexed from a mastodon instance
there are a few steps you can take to harden your instance against this; since there's an ongoing harassment campaign against trans masto users, now is a good time to review this
the following is not exhaustive, but it's a good start
1. Enable 'Secure Mode' on your instance. Without secure mode turned on, any of the activitypub endpoints of your instance can be scraped without http authentication -- this includes user profiles and users' public posts. This makes it ***absolutely trivial*** for a scripter to scrape all of the profiles of your instance denizens and look for keywords.
From the mastodon docs: 'When secure mode is enabled, all GET requests require HTTP signatures as well.'
It's insane to me that this isn't enabled by default. To enable it, see the 'AUTHORIZED_FETCH' parameter here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#basic
This makes it more complicated to scrape, since scraping traffic now has to come from an instance that uses http signatures, and not just from some random asshole's computer.
2. Toggle some config options in preferences => administration => site settings. Here you can turn off the profile directory, disallow unauthenticated access to public pages, etc. See the screenshot below this post for the settings I use. You can make up your own mind about how strict you want to be here, but I think turning off the profile directory and the public timeline is a great idea.
3. Recommend your users disable DMs from people they don't follow. This is under preferences => notifications.
Any stuff I've missed, stuff you'd like to add, feel free to reply to this post.
Thanks for reading!
If you could potentially be harmed or triggered in any way by images of violence and gore linked with the attacks on NB and trans fedi folk right now, I highly suggest you temporarily turn off notifications and DMs from people you don't follow. You can find these settings in your preferences under notifications at the very bottom.
Stay safe.
Bluh, I need a new keyboard. Multiple keys are sagging on this one and fuly half of the silkscreens have rubbed off on the letters
Anyone got recommendations for curve/split ergos on a low budget?
people need to relearn every once in a while that your spiritual practices need to be important to you using means and ideas that resonate with you. you pick up and keep what helps you and toss the rest. its not about a set practice of rituals you must adhere to OR else. do you want christians? thats how you get christians.
im not mad tbh. anything that destroys the overly polished aesthetic white earth goddess mystic that gives off hella terf vibes
we're at the point in the pandemic when all the mystics have become jaded with their own tarot decks and people have decided that feral divination with fridge magnets, screaming, rotting leaves, and taco bell hot sauce packets are the way forward
if you boil a funny bone, you make a laughing stock
The #Meta plot thickens! Turns out that #Facebook doesn't actually own the name Meta because it belongs to another company that's currently in stealth mode.
That didn't seem to stop Facebook from publicly announcing the name change and branding, quite the Zuck move. 
Meta (the real one) have posted a public letter about this on their front page. I'm linking the Archive copy because the front page will be eventually replaced by an actual website:
🔗 https://web.archive.org/web/20211103213225/https://meta.company/
#fediblock rakket.app - a user is literally compiling a list of trans users, for clear nefarious purposes :/
beeping.town service suspended indefinitely
hello i am putting beeping.town in suspended animation for the time being
the SSL certificate expired in august and i haven't had the time to go in and fix it, nor am i particularly enthused about doing so. so i'm going to shut down the instance and take a disk image backup
if you are the operator of a bot on beeping.town and want an account export, DM me at @ili and i'll see what i can figure out
apologies for the inconvenience
- Pronouns
- she/her, fae/faer
- Location
- Canada
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and , and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS
Joined Feb 2020
