Notices by Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)
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Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2017 04:33:21 UTC Maiyannah Bishop @stitchxd @archaeme I am just so fucking tired of being the bad gal over THEIR opsec violations. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2017 04:28:11 UTC Maiyannah Bishop @kitredgrave @archaeme Yes, it was Eugen and a few others at that point. Just not the whole bloated thing it became after the Eternal Spring with everyone having Official Titles to properly diffuse responsibility so no one could be held responsible. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2017 04:25:48 UTC Maiyannah Bishop @archaeme The magic envelope date is literally never seen by GNU social. They chose a method to operate it entirely out of band from ostatus. I told them this was a bad idea, but no one listened. They never do. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2017 03:59:05 UTC Maiyannah Bishop "If Mastodon sends you a message you shouldn't get, it's your fault if you accept and federate it"
How about... no. -
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, 04-Jul-2017 23:10:34 UTC Maiyannah Bishop "Thousands of images promoting goods sold on Amazon and other shopping sites have been removed after a photo-sharing service changed its terms. Ebay and Etsy have also been affected, in addition to many forums and blogs. The problem has been caused by Photobucket introducing a charge for allowing images hosted on its platform to be embedded into third-party sites. The company caught many of its members unaware with the change, prompting some to accuse it of holding them to ransom. Denver-based Photobucket is now seeking a $399 annual fee from those who wish to continue using it for "third-party hosting" and is facing a social media backlash as a consequence."
Yet another reason not to use the silo-style sites that centralize storage and self-host. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2017 00:00:35 UTC Maiyannah Bishop @vinzv TB's literally locking deleting a whole ten (10) spam emails. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2017 22:06:05 UTC Maiyannah Bishop @halcy Yeah someone else also recommended HandBrake. It's probably the best bet. These people are developers, but the video stuff is for marketing materials and they aren't going to want to learn CLI apps to muss with this. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2017 21:41:21 UTC Maiyannah Bishop Really starting to appreciate my old boss at IBM's motto of "dogfood your shit or gtfo" If you aren't going to use your own stuff, how can you expect anyone else to? -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2017 21:40:25 UTC Maiyannah Bishop I continue to be amused by people who want to discuss changes to a social network on anything but that social network. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2017 21:58:13 UTC Maiyannah Bishop @deadsuperhero Gonna be honest, the more I read of it, the less I really like it. It isn't solving any of the problems the existing protocols have, and is introducing new ones. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2017 12:15:27 UTC Maiyannah Bishop News site with not one, not two, but three fucking autoplaying videos.
This is Hell. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2017 03:14:35 UTC Maiyannah Bishop The problem with email authentication systems isn't the systems themselves usually, you can design a good email authentication system that has a good secret with strong crypto and no leaks and all that. It's not a trivial task but it isn't terribly difficult either.
The problem with email authentication systems is that most common email providers' own security less resemble plates of steel armour and more resembles a piece of swiss cheese. If even Google Mail gets compromised frequently, what are companies with less resources going to do?
The email account becomes the key. Maybe its a very strong Abloy Medeco key that is impossible to forge without specialized tools and a non-considerable amount of time. That doesn't matter if the key is under the welcome mat. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2017 07:29:37 UTC Maiyannah Bishop There's a special level of accessibilty hell for people who make thin scrollbars -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2017 01:56:51 UTC Maiyannah Bishop Am I a non-contentious person? Hell no, I'm pretty sure about 80% of English speaking Mastodon hates everything I stand for. But I'm _doing something_ - and whether they like it or not, those people who are actually _doing things_ are the ones that set the tone. Don't like that? Get cracking. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2017 01:55:41 UTC Maiyannah Bishop postActiv ultimate exists precisely because I saw everyone complaining about GNU social, and that sat poorly with me. Everyone wanted this or that or complained about this bug or that, and it bothered me deeply that no one in these discussions wer actually _doing anything_ about it, other than Hannes and Mikael themselves, so ... I did.
And, here we are. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2017 11:46:09 UTC Maiyannah Bishop @verius @archaeme @lnxw48a1 @hobbsc @bobjonkman "There's a difference between freedom of choice and free-form."
False. -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2017 22:15:30 UTC Maiyannah Bishop Current problems I, personally, have with OStatus:
1] No reliable way to poll external servers for capabilities
2] Transmission failures are not caught and there is no mechanism for retransmits
3] A considerable amount of meta-data is leaked.
4] Extensibility degrades poorly.
5] Existing implementations all disagree on the "standard"
6] A lot of stuff can be put in the fields which really should not be
7] Much larger attack surface than is neccesary for the protocol -
Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2017 18:43:59 UTC Maiyannah Bishop @verius @archaeme @lnxw48a1 @hobbsc Try runit