Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

@dentangle https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/422

@dirtwizard666 I'll wait for the librarians to call it but I'm standing ready

@notplants @mayfirst @abekonge

In my limited experience, internal risk is way more relevant. Or at least I think people tend to severely underestimate it, and overestimate external risks.

I guess "oopsie" is one, but infighting and abandonment might be even more likely.

@notplants @mayfirst @abekonge

Well, this started out talking about security culture and practices. It kind of sounded to me like you were referring to internal risk, not external risk.

An example of an internal risk was when the person who operated kolektiva was raided by the cops and all the backups were seized.

DDOS is firmly in the external risk category. Besides the LLM scraper bullshit, I'm not convinced that DDOS is that big of a deal. It's very illegal. It's very expensive, and can't go on forever.

I have some ideas around how small servers can mitigate DDoS attacks, It's obviously an area of active development with Anubis, etc. And I think the development may continue with even more evasive solutions.

@notplants the primary risk is "oopsie", not malice or subterfuge IMO. Backups are the primary defense.

@notplants It's not a problem if you know the people in person.

@reese

@gabek Well, hey, I hear, uh, nolan lawson (read the tea leaves) has a good emoji picker. And I got some ”kinds these days" friendly image uploading code right here: https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/image-gallery

But no, jokes aside, totally understand the desire to avoid maintaining a matrix client.

@gabek To be fair I also have issues with matrix, I won't disembowel you or anyone else for choosing something else. I still have a password for that rocket chat in my password manager.

@gabek I wanted to integrate matrix with a easy to access low friction web app, similar to a support portal like you're talking about.

I was able to get it to work by creating a separate Matrix Synapse instance which had guest accounts enabled. Then I used f0x's custom matrix client which only ever joined one room and automatically created a guest account whenever you visited the web page.

It was very hacky but it did work and it allowed people to post links and things like that.

I don't have a demo of it up anymore. I turned off the feature because it wasn't needed anymore, but the code still exists.

https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/workspace-on-demand/src/branch/main/frontend_chat.go

https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/workspace-on-demand/src/branch/main/frontend/static/chat

f0x's original matrix-streamchat codebase:

https://git.pixie.town/f0x/matrix-streamchat

@skyfaller I made one that just had potassium and magnesium cuz I figured most ppl already get too much sodium anyway from american food. I used citrate salts from nutrition store. But also mine was not specifically for electrolyte, it was an energy drink

You can read nutrition facts labels to get good info on how much of what mineral is in stuff. Then match that up with how much "dose" you want in each liter of liquid

@skyfaller thelounge