Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
The only way I really know how to interact / feel comfortable interacting on sites like this is so similar to a brand just posting ads on their profile, it feels like a waste and no one ever seemed to be interested in those kind of posts anyways.
So its back to macroblogging and realtime chat with me for now 👴
Yesterday I talked with some of my IRL friends about social media and online culture, their experiences with it in the past on tumblr and twitter, came to the conclusion that this social media / microblogging is not a good fit for me.
I don't think it ever was, I never really felt comfortable on facebook, linkedin, twitter or anything like that. I just got excited about the new wave of users joining Fedi (well, specifically mastodon) so I thought I would poke my head in.
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@thomasareed and some note: This is the Fediverse and CW is some kind of Mastodon hack which use the title of ActivityPub protocol.
So people participating on systems like Hubzilla, Friendica and others have no CW functionality and setting a CW is rather useless for them (and these people will never post with Mastodon CW warning)
Oops i forgot to include this link to thomas reed post https://infosec.exchange/@thomasareed/109376747868155703
IMO, pressure on #FediCulture to push CW usage closer to the "NSFW" mainstream cultural standard is not necessarily a bad thing. I acknowledge this is probably a classic straight white guy take but i think CW is weird! I honestly have a hard time believing that the CW feature / culture is as good at preventing harm as its hard-core adherents claim.
The question of what should be CW'd, what images should be fogged until click, etc, its subjective, culturally relative, and I feel like the current status quo might be a #Whiteness that has made black folks feel uncomfortable / unwelcome here.
Some of this is based on reading @shengokai takes on Mastodon and it's affordances, some of it from other posts I've seen around, I am curious what other ppl around me think.
I just published a new blog post about hardware choices for home-brew servers:
*[Shut] Up the Punx!!!*
Bomb the Music Industry
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Mastodon 4 adds a new endpoint, /api/v1/instance/domain_blocks
This endpoint contains your instance's block list in an easily machine-readable format. As far as I know, the only tool that currently uses this endpoint is the kiwifarms one.
The endpoint does not require any form of authentication, so it's very easy to scrape. I recommend editing your web server configuration to prevent access to the endpoint until there's something legitimate that uses it.
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@chanda See ya'll, this is what I mean by "toxic politeness".
This woman had a horrible experience in her first foray into the Fediverse, was treated horribly by the already-existing residents here(The same ones panicking about us Twitterers "colonizing" their perfect safe haven), and the conversation surrounding this is about whether she should be allowed to speak about it, because you all don't want Mastodon to look bad. Ya'll want it to APPEAR to be sunshine and rainbows when it isn't.
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Random people run a Mastodon instance: Bad, they can read DMs and stuff
Random people run an entire platform with zero transparency: Good, obviously better than the former, what could possibly go wrong
I believe it has the same Heterogeneous Multiprocessing design from cell phones, a combination of low-power and high-power cores, which helps a lot in terms of power efficiency especially when the software can take advantage of it.
Anyways, it's happening. The meek little SBC has grown up, it's a Real Computer now. Yes, things like graphics drivers and virtualization support are surely lacking. And it's not $35 any more. But as an affordable server platform for linux-based apps and containers, these little boards just keep getting better and better.
a user on the radxa discord quoted 18 Watts at the wall under 100% CPU stress. 4-5 watts at idle was a little bit of an underwhelming result, but it may be tune-able to get that figure lower.
RK3588 CPU has been picked up by Radxa, Orange Pi, and Firefly, and it pushes **serious** numbers on the CPU benchmarks, almost 4x better than the Raspberry Pi 4. Comes in 8GB and 16GB RAM flavors.
Listening to *It's all about the Pentiums* by Wierd Al Yankovic while obsessively researching the newest SBC releases of the year
ESRB rating: Blood and Violence (of software)
Wow this is an incredibly long and detailed read, great for desktop / integrated software developers like me to understand how these kind of attacks work and how to prevent them
So I see two ways forward for the fediverse, either:
A. Mastodon has to be refactored / rewritten to use Ruby Fibers, the non-blocking concurrency feature for Ruby
OR
B. We have to switch to a different Fediverse software that is based on a more modern software development framework.
Personally I think B might be the best option, and my money is on GoToSocial!!
These days pretty much every modern web server framework or library is based on the same non-blocking IO primitives that `nginx` invented. But Mastodon is still lagging behind on thread pools where each thread blocks while it's waiting for the remote client or server.
Mastodon doesn't fork off a new process or spawn a new thread for every request, but it's darn close to it.
How did the web evolve past this scalability challenge? It didn't necessarily involve buying a faster computer. The developers of the venerable `nginx` web server famously struck first blood when they cracked what they called the "c10k" problem for the first time. (handling 10 thousand simultaneous connections to the same server application).
This happened in the early 2000s, and the nginx server in question was consuming only about 2.5MB of RAM during the load test.
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
