Notices by packetcat (staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com)

What would be the cleanest way for a Mastodon instance admin to delete a large number of Mastodon accounts that haven't used since April 2017 on their instance?

Presumably this is doable with a SQL query and some Ruby invocations.

#mastoadmin

"IPv4: Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range, allowing for 16 million new IPv4 addresses. This is part of the IPv4 Cleanup Project, started to increase the number of available unicast IPv4 addresses"

https://git.kernel.org/linus/96125bf9985a75db00496dd2bc9249b777d2b19b

https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.3#Networking

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aight, I'm gonna need a drink, several in fact

#networking

Eid Mubarak to everyone who celebrates! ^_^

Libre Lounge - Episode 5: Karen Sandler and Software Freedom Conservancy

https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-5-karen-sandler-and-software-freedom-conservancy.html

This episode is really good! Just finished listening to it

WhatsApp had a form asking why you are deleting your account, I just put:

"I don't use Facebook products anymore."

holy shit RIP Mac Miller

:(

I was browsing a Peertube instance earlier and stumbled upon a copy of The Internet's Own Boy, a documentary about Aaron Swartz.

I haven't seen it before so I decided to give it a watch.

By the end of it I was in tears, I don't think I've seen anything in a while that made me cry like that.

Also, I had no idea he co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification, wow.

https://peertube.video/videos/watch/04af977f-4201-4697-be67-a8d8cae6fa7a

Today's XKCD titled "Containers" is very good. Also the alt-text.

https://xkcd.com/1988/

Backpage domains seized by feds, co-founder’s Arizona home raided

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/backpage-domains-seized-by-feds-co-founders-arizona-home-raided/

FOSTA/SESTA hasn't even been passed into law yet and this shit has already started.

Fuck this nonsense, this is going to affect Canadian sex workers as well, it is heavily used here.

If any of y'all have friends on mastodon.cloud, tell them to export any data they can and move to another instance.

mastodon.cloud has been broken (422ing) for more than a week at this point and this is not really the first time the administration of that instance has been negligent (to put it politely).

I really wish the admin would just shut down the instance or hand it over to someone else if they have no interest in maintaining it.

#mastoadmin

April is coming up so I guess lots of one year birthdays for Mastodon instances are coming up including mine

Even if you have never had a Facebook account directly or used any of their other owned service, some data about you is probably in Facebook's databases by virtue of the people you know who use Facebook and gave them their contact lists.

That is the real power of the network effect, you don't even have to directly give them your data, they can infer it via someone else.

This is the so-called "shadow profile".

Hey everyone:

This week's episode of Two Shades of Brown, @chosafine and I have a 30 minute discussion about Mastodon and federated social networks. Also included is a discussion of Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.

Feel free to gently roast @chosafine on his hot takes.

https://twoshadesofbrown.com/2017/04/21/episode-14-hope/

Boosts and feedback are appreciated, thank you for listening!