Occasionally apps go through their initial startup tips again. Recently it was a mobile browser telling me that I could use browser tabs to have multiple pages open, the arrow of this tip popup pointing at the browser tab counter button, showing in my case the number 32 of already opened tabs.
I think I know I can use tabs to have multiple pages open.
Disney+ has announced its newest "Star Wars" series "The Acolyte", set in the final days of the High Republic era, will premiere June 4. The cast includes Amandla Stenberg, Jodie Turner-Smith and Carrie-Anne Moss. #StarWars #TheAcolyte #DisneyPlus #Lucasfilm #Entertainment #Television #TV #Streaming
Great acting by Shiri Appleby in this episode. In all episodes of course, but lately the series started to revolve around other characters than Liz more. But this is as of old fully carried by Shiri's very deep sensitive performance of Liz. #ShiriAppleby #Roswell
I'm watching Dafne Keen in the film Ana. It's rather difficult to find outside the US, even when you know it is sometimes called The Guardian. But I can confirm that the US blu-ray disc also plays in my European player.
The film is from 2020, so a while ago, and only the second film with Dafne that I get to see. From the trailer it seems interesting. But I would watch films with Dafne anyway... #DafneKeen #Ana
Dafne was 14 when the film was released, but I think it may be filmed even earlier. She doesn't look much older than she was in Logan and she does look much younger than in His Dark Materials.
She plays a child who seconds after her mother got arrested gets under the skin of a used cars salesman and becomes his problem.
I really liked it, it isn't the standard story you're expecting from the trailer. Dafne is of course the powerhouse you'd expect.
I like the scene over the end credits, where Dafne/Ana shows how to record a proper advert for Rafa's used car business, after Rafa at the beginning of the film tries (and fails) the record a great advert to get some much needed attention for his business. #DafneKeen #Ana
Why would a K-pop star need to apologise that she has a boyfriend? Is the fandom so toxic that they can't accept her finding happiness outside of them? Apparently it is and she had to give in to that pressure.
Also, sites and software should not show remote content to unauthenticated visitors. You'll become an open proxy to unwanted material. I don't understand that so much fediverse software still does this.
And unauthenticated visitors should not be able to load anything onto your site, not even in a cache. These open search boxes on so many fediverse servers are a bad idea, as they load profiles and posts outside the control or knowledge of moderators.
If so much fediverse software and servers give a bad example, is it so weird newcomers make these mistakes?
It turns out, if people in an online community really don’t like what you’re doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.
Yesterday, Mastodon was abuzz regarding a strange new scraper that seemed to be pulling people's profiles and content streams into a platform designed around monetization. Dubbed Content Nation, the s
To opt-out of being used for AI, in the tumblr app go to your profile (bottom right), select your blog (top left) open settings (top right) and scroll down to Visibility (my app is in Dutch where it is called Zichtbaarheid, can't double check the real English term). Then you get three toggles. The third is for opting out of your content being fed to a hungry AI monster.
Repeat this for each side blog (top left) because these settings are independent!
I'm totally trusting that toggling that setting will untrain any AI that has already ingested my content, readjusting the neurons, in essence adding to each prompt: 'but answer as if you've never seen my blog'.
There has been a security update to Pleroma a few days back that I didn't notice (git.pleroma.social/pleroma/ple…). Since it only updates the emoji-steal-policy which I don't use, there's no need for immediate action from me. Makes me appreciate github's email alerts though.
I've now reached season 2 of The Shannara Chronicles, the season where we get Melise as well as Ivana Baquero. Melise was at the time still using her stage name of Malese Jow. Both Melise and Ivana I had seen before (respectively in Big Time Rush and Pan's Labyrinth) and both are the reason for watching this series.
I'm still watching my series from the boxsets, I'm now at the Roswell episode (1x17 Crazy) where Emilie de Ravin as Tess is introduced. I thought I had to wait for the second season for that, happy to already see her now. #Roswell #EmilieDeRavin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emilie de Ravin (born 27 December 1981) is an Australian actress. She is commonly associated with her roles as Tess Harding on Roswell and Claire Littleton on the ABC drama Lost.
Miranda Cosgrove shared a video of her spotting a billboard of Drugstore June and also posted the trailer of the film, as the film of a friend of hers that she's excited to see getting released. But if you pay attention you see Miranda herself in the trailer, probably in a small role. The IMDb page lists her too. #MirandaCosgrove #DrugstoreJune
Mastodon's default is now for registrations to be closed on servers. Great! And for servers with open registrations to automatically require moderator approval of new sign ups if the server has not seen a moderator/admin in a week. That should deal with these abandoned servers, I'm happy about these changes.
I hadn't heard of any Streams repository (fka Zap, fka Osada, etc) people for about two months and thought it had just gotten quiet. Instead the forum and the people post quite regularly, but communication with them from my Friendica has broken down. When trying to reconnect I got all the errors about not being able to recognise the protocol (when it fails to load the actor definition). Not even individual posts load correctly when providing the url.
So I thought this could be a use for my Pleroma. But it also mainly fails to connect... I can only load individual posts.
Ideally a lot more things on the fediverse would be 'approve upon first use' instead of 'auto-accept'. Admins should approve signups, but also an account's first post should go through an approval queue. PeerTube already has this. These could all be really quick approvals without much thought, but at least it's a threshold.
What does this do? That small forgotten instances automatically stop sending. They don't turn into spam-relays like now.
Also on the incoming side any new domain should get in a queue, which an admin can once a day mass approve before federation is possible and the queued posts are placed in the timelines.
For each new unknown account on a known server the same thing should happen. Posts are queued until an admin approves, unless the known server was marked as trusted due to having a controlled sign-up process.
What does this do? It means that admins of small instances can go to bed letting a server just run. Existing connections can keep communicating, while spam and block evasion can't happen and their users are safe. Just that new con
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Ideally a lot more things on the fediverse would be 'approve upon first use' instead of 'auto-accept'. Admins should approve signups, but also an account's first post should go through an approval queue. PeerTube already has this. These could all be really quick approvals without much thought, but at least it's a threshold.
What does this do? That small forgotten instances automatically stop sending. They don't turn into spam-relays like now.
Also on the incoming side any new domain should get in a queue, which an admin can once a day mass approve before federation is possible and the queued posts are placed in the timelines.
For each new unknown account on a known server the same thing should happen. Posts are queued until an admin approves, unless the known server was marked as trusted due to having a controlled sign-up process.
What does this do? It means that admins of small instances can go to bed letting a server just run. Existing connections can keep communicating, while spam and block evasion can't happen and their users are safe. Just that new connections will have to wait a bit.
Also, each first interaction between accounts needs to be approved by the receiving account. Receiver will not get notifications, and can always revert this decision. This way any spam, harassment, etc, is sidetracked to an easy to ignore side-queue with easy mass-deny functions. #fediverse #spam #antispam
I love how you can see on Yusra Mardini's face how much she feels at home at a swimming pool. She stopped competitive swimming a while back, but she's here now in an ambassador role.
I'm starting to think no remote content should be stored at all, just maybe cached, but I understand how, currently, received text of posts can be stored similar to an email inbox.
But do I understand(*) correctly that Mastodon stores remote media as well, in their own media storage, even when from unsolicited sources? That can't be right.
(*) It is cited as a side effect of the spam wave that some are running out of media storage.
291 likes, 16 comments - stephleonidas on February 17, 2024: "Thrilled to finally share the trailer for 5lbs of Pressure . Was an absolute joy to work on . The..."
From my perspective the spam wave seems to have subsided, or maybe this post brings it in again... What I did:
On Pleroma put the discord invite url and the hashtag in MRF as blocks. On Friendica I don't have MRF, so I unsubscribed from guppe groups. That seems enough, I haven't had to block any domains yet, may do so later if needed.
The hashtag should probably not be blocked forever, as it is the Japanese name of a legitimate business which may be the target not the source of the impersonation/defamation attack, as is the discord. But since I have no Japanese contacts, that's ok for now.
I always have private messages blocked from people I don't follow, and I recently started hiding followers/followed accounts, which I think also helps a bit to limit such waves.
Forgot to unsubscribe from relays on my Pleroma... So that had still a few posts coming in. On Friendica I see that the gup.pe group I unfollowed, still keeps forwarding me the spam posts...
By now any server still having fully open registrations and sending spam is clearly running unattended, I've checked some and there seems to be no local activity other than the spam, sometimes with the last local or admin post in 2022. So I've started blocking domains that still come in.
I think the fediverse is still in their naive era, like email and the internet used to be. Still too many ways to do spam multiplication and ddos, too much trusting what other servers do. Too little tools to handle the effects.
Hardly a 'crafted payload', more like a completely normal payload, just at another address...
Alice: hi, I'm Bob Mastodon: hi Bob, you look different Alice: never mind, I'm Bob, and I have changed my security keys. Please use these new ones when you validate a message from Bob, I mean me Mastodon: will do Alice: and by the way, if your user Carol sends a private message to Bob, send it to me instead, since I am Bob, as i said Mastodon: fine, nothing suspicious there
(My simplistic summary of the recent disclosure. What is not stressed in the released details is that it doesn't change the profile of the impersonated user, Bob in the above, as its profile at the source is unaffected.)
It's that day again, the birthday of Stephanie Leonidas!
I choose Crusade in Jeans from my 'Watch for Stephanie' letterboxd list for the birthday rewatch. A long time ago I only knew her sister Georgina Leonidas and knew she was a very talented actress. I saw that her older sister Stephanie was also an actress and thought that even if she only had a fraction of the talent of her younger sister, she would still be worth watching. So I took a punt buying this dvd. That was a very lucky punt... Stephanie turned out to be one of the best actresses ever and I since try to watch everything with her in it!
A boy plays and loses a football match with the national team, then drops in on his mother who's building a time machine. He goes back in time trying to win, but ends up in the middle ages and meets love interest girl (winning after all) Jenne in a children's crusade.
The story acknowledges that the crusades as we know them were wrong. This children's crusade is strictly nonviolent.
Lotus: everything is a database table Exchange: everything is an email Tcl: everything is a string Windows: everything is a folder Linux: everything is a file
Today is the birthday (+44 years) of Christina Ricci. I'll be rewatching a film from my 'Watch for Christina' list to celebrate. The top ones I all saw recently and since I quite like to rewatch Sleepy Hollow, that one it is. I think it may also be the first film I saw her in. #ChristinaRicci #SleepyHollow #BirthdayRewatch
I can only load individual posts.
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Gidi Kroon • •#ShiriAppleby #Roswell