Notices by Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)
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Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2017 16:59:33 UTC 
Maiyannah Bishop
I just don't see how it's funamentally different from ostatus. The problems it has are the same as ostatus has. The features it adds aren't of interest to me except the privacy features, but I don't think they're implemented in a way which adds real privacy, and basically I am going to be the bitch that stubbornly refuses to implement something at all if it doesn't offer real privacy, because people are GOING to get burnt if it's not real privacy. Right now it is trivially easy to do SIGINT on Mastodon's implementation of private messages for instance, and you have a lot of activists on that platform. It is deeply socially unresponsible to offer security that isn't going to be up to the level of threat. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2017 07:47:38 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
@deadsuperhero I literally could not use the GIMP for my press production and images on HLA. It doesn't have the stuff I use to ensure it prints well on both web and proper print. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2017 23:22:52 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
That one article everyone is passing around is so incorrect about so many things that I don't think it's worth my time to really go over it. It's obviously a commentary made from a position of ignorance and seems mostly to exist to cast shade on GNU social. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2017 20:50:34 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
If you want to engage in some Fediverse introspection, ask yourself: why is it Mastodon that is the locus of the negative dicussion in the other corners that exist? Why not hubzilla, diaspora, friendica, or so on? There's plenty of competing projects. Except those projects aren't competing and never have been really. There's a lot of overlap, and even instances where those projects share code and developers, and have collaborated on standards. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2017 22:20:36 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
@hakui If you need an appeals process for an instance, what you're actively admitting is you're treating symptoms (people being improperly blocked) rather than causes (the abuses of power that result in people being improperly blocked).
You don't need a formal appeals process for things such as circumstances changing. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2017 17:43:16 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
Love or hate it, Hubzilla's model is probably the only workable one presented that actually offers privacy. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2017 17:34:10 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
It's kind of funny how now that Mastodon doesn't have to ride GNU social's coattails any more it's downright hostile to it. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2017 17:25:28 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
If your default assumption is not that every person available is going to read your messages on a federated microblogging platform, you are going to end up having a bad time. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2017 12:40:48 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
You know it probably wouldn't be a too terrible a task to make a text mode client for GNU social in Commodore Basic, if you had or wrote a tcp thing for it. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2017 11:42:12 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
One thing I have noticed about one instance - pawoo or its userbase seem to be creating completely empty accounts on remote servers just to try to pull content from pawoo there, I have just deleted over a thousand accounts on HLA and Plateia which only existed to try to bring content across our server block. Be aware, fediverse admins! -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 21:58:30 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
!postActiv is less than 10$ off its next goal too with that generous pledge increase, you can help push it over if you like what we're doing :) #postactiv -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 06:10:35 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
@munin I've my sanitized with salt and fire Windows 7 partition and when it goes proper EOIS/EOL/whatever I'm just going to be a Linux gal I guess, you could not pay me enough to deal with Win 10's problems. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 08:14:11 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
For those !postActiv admins out there: pawoo.net seems to be engaging in a lot of data mining and that kind of pulling from databases via the API. If you wish to be proactive about protecting the privacy of your issues, you might want to block them or consider measures to limit their API access. The latter is very technical with the current state of the codebase however (I will have to consider proper much less complicated means to do so) If you wish to block them, you can get the current IPs from a DIG of their addresses. As always, the decision to block, impose other sanctions, or do nothing, is on individual instance admins, but do be aware they're doing that kind of thing. #postactiv -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 06:52:12 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
Well, first things first, Plateia didn't explode in fire. So there's that. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 05:07:18 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
@munin Its mostly just iptables management and some stuff like recording brutes and syn flood stuff but if your general threat level is low to moderate it's pretty fine. Even if it's at higher levels if you don't have the money or just want something thats easy to sysadmin with a lot of intervention it works well with a few other pieces. In general I'm fond of it because I'm one of those Unix philosophy people. The less any given app tries to do the happier I am with it. I have been unhappy with other firewall managers I've tried because they tend to get their thumbs in many more pies than just the firewall. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 04:04:08 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
@deadsuperhero @zacanger NPM dependency hell is 2001 Linux all over again. I wonder when we'll have an Aptitude/YUM analogue for NPM. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2017 05:44:28 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
@sungo @munin "Hey guys, how can we make javascript more shit?"
*pause, furitive glances, in the corner, someone pipes up*
"How about we make them manage dependencies?" -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2017 03:41:58 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
If you have to say that you're neutral in a matter, you most definitely are not. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 06:24:20 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
Not really sure I have much trust in a big company to go in a good direction with Mastodon, but it can't be too much worse than the mainline. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2017 22:52:47 UTC
Maiyannah Bishop
@takeshitakenji She seems single-handedly convinced she can fix all of Eugen's code. I wonder if she's right. It'd be nice to have a not-shit version of Mastodon.
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