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@ Jerry @feddit.online

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Just a techie guy running feddit.online to allow people to communicate, make friends and acquaintances. Odd coming from a happy introvert, right? (https://jerry.hear-me.blog/about)

I also own these publicly available applications:Mastodon: https://hear-me.social/Alternative Mastodon UI: https://phanpy.hear-me.social/Peertube: https://my-sunshine.video/Friendica: https://my-place.social/Matrix: https://element.secure-channel.net/XMPP/Jabber: https://between-us.online/Bluesky PDS: https://blue-ocean.social/ (jerry.blue-ocean.social) Mobilizon (Facebook Events Alt): https://my-group.events/and more...

  • Illegal/nsfw content

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  • Peertube is run by volunteers who pay with their own money and time for the convenience of others to use it for free. People generally run it to give people social media options outside centralized corporate control.

    Why would someone put themselves in legal jeopardy and host pirated content, knowing their arrest is imminent? You can't hide your site easily.

    Porn would be overwhelmingly expensive to run because of the sheer amount of traffic, storage, and numbers of people. It would have legal exposure too and require huge moderation problems, with no return for the effort.

  • Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

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  • Yes, well stated. This is why I usually skip reading people's comments. The vast majority see everything through their own agendas and just echo words they hear.

  • How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones

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  • It's worse than you think. An IMSI catcher is not even needed to find out what phones are in an area:

    Section 3.4.1: Presence Testing in LTEhttps://www.eff.org/wp/gotta-catch-em-all-understanding-how-imsi-catchers-exploit-cell-networks

    Passive Presence Testing

    The simplest way to do presence testing in LTE doesn’t actually require someone to have what we usually consider a CSS (e.g. a device that pretends to be a legitimate cell tower). Instead, all that’s required is simple radio equipment to scan the LTE frequencies, e.g. an antenna, an SDR (Software Defined Radio), and a laptop. Passive presence testing gets its name because the attacker doesn’t actually need to do anything other than scan for readily available signals (Shaik et al, 2017).

    RRC paging messages are usually addressed to a TMSI, but sometimes IMSI and IMEI are also used. By monitoring these unencrypted paging channels, anyone can record the IMSIs and TMSIs the network believes is in a given area . In the next section, we’ll see how an attacker can correlate a TMSI to a specific target phone, as right now collecting TMSIs simply means recording pseudonyms.

    There are descriptions in the article of other ways to find phones without using an IMSI Catcher or fake tower.

  • Short video that show what Friendica can do

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  • Wow! Well done!!

  • We have lost Guppe groups

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  • I see good points in this comment, even if the analogy of their being like hashtags might be a little off.

    gup.pe groups have a 1-word description. Most of them I've been unable to assign a topic to because I didn't know what the word means or it has ambiguous meanings. Most have no posts. So they land in the "unknown" topic.

    I always wondered what I would do if someone started posting porn or hate to them. It would be a nightmare. I'd just have to block the group, I suppose.

    Frankly, instead of someone creating a gup.pe-like group, I think they ought to create a community in PieFed, MBIN, or Lemmy. gup.pe was an early experiment when there wasn't a threadiverse.

    I'm fine without gup.pe or gup.pe replacements.

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • Doesn't work that way. States agree to enforce each other's civil orders

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • On feddit.online I block both the UK and France in addition to Mississippi. However, I believe in a future upgrade, PieFed can be configured to block people from specific countries from accessing NSFW and NSFL communities (feddit.online doesn't allow NSFL communities). When that upgrade happens, I will open it again to the UK and France but keep it closed for Mississippi.

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • Why is this post NSFW???

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • I'm exhausted with all this. And it's not my fight. The fight belongs to the people of Mississippi. They elected their "leaders."

    Until I know for sure that I am not on the hook to pay a $10K penalty for each person on my servers, I've blocked all Mississippi IP addresses from logging in and registering on my Mastodon, Piefed, and Friendica servers.

    Wyoming will probably be next.

  • LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI

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  • My Mastodon instance is on the list. I try hard to block them.

    The problem with the list is that it's a target list, but not a list showing how much content, if any, they manage to process from any of the sites.

  • PieFed 1.1 is released

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  • Congratulations! And kudos!! 🎉 🎆🍾🥂 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • Banned from UnpopularOpinions for an unpopular opinion.

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  • I suppose they are frustrated because they see so many posts all day that are nothing but people calling other people names. Nothing would deteriorate a discussion faster than people just calling other people morons and adding nothing more. Imagine what the comment section would be like if all the many many many comments like yours were allowed to post. Just a bunch of posts calling other people names. Nobody would want to use the community any longer.

    I think they just have no more patience. Their rules are clear about what behavior they will accept.

    Should you be given a second chance? I think this is the central question. That's up to them and their policies, and it appears they do not allow second chances.

  • Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?

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  • They can notify the hosting company that the server is violating UK law, the registrars, and payment services. This is the fear for sites not hosted in the UK. There are inter-country agreements to support civil actions.

  • Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?

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  • Just mentioning that Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad, and with their Firefox extension you can exclude individual websites from VPN protection or set preferred server locations for specific sites. So you can stay on a UK server for UK banking sites but switch to a different country server for a social site.

    Only works on Windows for now. But maybe useful given this situation.

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • Yes, the U.S. and the U.K. have cooperation agreements for Civil actions.

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • A public enforcement action by Ofcom could make it difficult because payment processors can refuse to work with the site owner, domain registrars could be pressured to suspend the domain, and hosting providers might refuse to provide services.

    Who needs this drama?

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • Piefed.social isn't as affected because they restrict the NSFW communities. Feddit.online doesn't have the restriction, so it's more exposed.

    The fear is a complaint being made to Digital Ocean that a server they host is violating UK law. It would be much easier for DO to remove the server than to take any other action.

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • The Mozilla VPN with their Firefox extension (not yet on Linux), for example, lets you change the VPN server's country based on the domain you connect to and even bypass the VPN for certain domains. So, I believe it can be configured to select a U.S. VPN server, for example, when visiting a U.S. social site, but stay on the native connection when accessing BBC services. It uses Mullvad as the provider, actually, which is high quality. They can't be the only one.

    The Internet always seems to find ways to bypass blocks.

  • Seems like there is a problem between PieFed and the Voyager App

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  • I just applied the fix to feddit.online

  • PieFed.World is now open

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  • Likely, then, that lemmy.world has the same restriction.