Notices by Eugen 💀 (gargron@mastodon.social), page 15

This is the spam check system I've been working on:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/11217 #mastodev

So the thing that needed to be fixed was hitting the open file limit. Second try at the code was using a connection counter shared between all individual connection pools, so that once the limit was hit, no new connections would be established, only reused.

The flaw is obvious when it's written out like that. This allowed some pools to hog the entire limit, and prevent connections to any other servers from being established.

Deep in threading code :angery: #mastodev

I queried a list of local accounts that posted through a popular cross-poster tool within the last 7 days and who didn't post from the web UI in the same time frame, and sent them a warning/request to re-consider cross-poster usage. You know how I feel about ghost accounts and their spam in the local timeline.

In hindsight I should have checked for more apps than the web UI, because I got some false-positives--if you got an e-mail, keep that in mind.

Fun fact about the license under which the Mastodon source code is published (AGPL) is that it requires any modifications to it to be published.

No secret sauce, no proprietary features possible. Which is why commercial companies hate this license.

Want to paywall "pro" features? You can, but anyone can take your code and run it on a different server for free.

Anyway, that's quite an interesting financial choice for Gab, a for-profit entity that sells "pro" features

Just to reiterate what I just posted from @Mastodon, here is v2.9.2:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.2

Between v2.9.1 and v2.9.2, #Mastodon now has a basic moderation API, audio uploads, and admin-level domain blocks take care of subdomains automatically

Honestly, whoever has an idea for a spam detection measure for Mastodon, and by that I do mean an implementation, get in touch with me, I'll pay for it.

I've been thinking about solutions for the past few days but the more I think about them the more they appear pointless.

#mastodev

Mastodon is now on the translation platform Crowdin. So far it seems like a much better interface for translating

You can help by either submitting translations or proofreading existing ones!

https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon #mastodev

I just watched Godzilla: King of the Monsters! It was nice!

Remember that Gab is a sinking ship and they're basically grabbing onto Mastodon like a parasite in a desperate attempt to get attention from the "drama" of doing so.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gab-is-in-full-meltdown-and-founder-andrew-torba-blames-the-deep-state

Torba has no self-awareness to see how pathetic it looks that his master race ass is incompetent at making a working website so he has to resort to using software made by a Jew instead.

App devs will block their domains, server admins will block their domains, and that'll be the end of that.

So Gab has decided that their own code that they spent $5M of investor money developing is so unsalvageably bad that they're going to use Mastodon's code instead, with the added bonus of leeching off of our apps (with Gab apps being banned from app stores)

This is an early warning to fellow admins to be vigilant and domain-block them on sight, when/if they appear (unconfirmed whether they intend to federate), and to app devs to consider if blocking Gab's domains from their app is necessary.

Just FYI I have not done any more work for Purism since Todd told me the decision to not moderate Librem Social was final. I've already seen some alt right personalities on there and that's not fine with me.

I absolutely hate when people steal content from users on Mastodon. People who use Mastodon are already taking a risk using a smaller platform with a smaller reach, to take even that away is low.

Wasn't this joke originally posted by someone on Mastodon? 😦

Am I right in believing that people who like to use the multi-column UI will be able to find the setting to enable it in the preferences?

Same person who says I am not listening to users is complaining that I am working on the simple layout... :fatyoshi:

Good morning

mastodon.social is updated to master. This means the "simple layout" option is available, but I do not advise using it yet, as my latest improvements to it are not in the master branch yet.

#mastodev

Would you enjoy differently-sized headings, blockquotes, code blocks, bullet point lists and other rich text features in toots on your home feed?

(Screenshot follows in next toot)