I used to think of /0 as a serious instance

I did too, which is kind of why I’m so emotionally invested in this (as far as I can care about this kind of drama, anyway). I also used to think db0 (the person/user) was alright but recent events have shattered that illusion.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that it wasn’t that db0 (and /0 the instance) let me down so much as I’m now questioning my own judgement for thinking they were ever okay in the first place.

Regardless, that stings.

It would be like if I had said “death to all traitors”, where you might even agree with my general statement, yet that statement hits quite differently when I had just previously called YOU a traitor. The two things combined are what makes it a PERSONAL attack

Exactly that. I have no idea why people refuse to see that. We learned about the transitive property in 5th grade maths, and it applies here in the same way.

dbzer0 is getting pulled by AN into a deeper axis - solidarity among leftists I believe - while AN is beginning to become another Hexbear.

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And don’t even get me started on all the logical fallacies that I see continually leveraged - goalpost shifting, taking words out of context while deliberately twisting their meaning, etc. This is all very much beyond childish, it seems rather intentional to me.

While not exclusive to them, that’s been hexbear’s MO for as long as I’ve been aware of their existence. /0 refederated with hexbear a while back and suddenly we start seeing that kind of crap from users there. Coincidence? Hardly. The same admin that pushed for and got HB refedded with /0 also pushed for /0 to refed with grad, but that effort failed. AN does fed with grad and HB, so that tracks. That admin, I believe, is the one mostly in charge of AN. I can’t blame it all on that admin because the other admins (which are mostly a full overlap with /0) are all on board.

One side of this feud just needs to pull the proverbial trigger already, de-fed, and whatever happens happens; things will balance back out on its own in time and ideally the violent crazies will have their space and normal people theirs. I’m so sick of the drama, the violent crazy people, the gaslighting, the DARVO-ing, the witch hunts, the conspiracy theories, the name calling, the purity tests, the finger pointing, and I’m not even active here that much anymore, so let that put the scale of this bullshit in perspective.

AN would like it very much pwetty pulease if they could troll users on other instances,

That’s exactly the crux of their argument, and they refuse to even ask “are we the baddies?” and instead are DARVO-ing the situation and playing the victim.

I was about to dive into that, so thanks for the breakdown. My fear was someone could just add a comma to any SSH cert and gain remote root.

but the way they handled it fucking sucks

That’s about the only legit gripe I’ve heard, and I can understand, but it doesn’t bother me too much (even if LW was my main - I only have a mod alt there I use for reports) . FWIW, they walked it back for further discussion, but I can see where they came from by acting first and announcing it later.

I abhor the inter-instance politics, and can certainly recognize that LW’s size makes it a target for blowback, but when the admins of one instance are all “murder murder murder” and explicitly point to the LW admin team as people they think should be murdered, can you really blame them?

Any time I hear Minerva without that K-Rock intro, it just sounds wrong to me lol. That, and the “That was new Deftones. Minerva is the name of that song” at the end.

Yeah, I think so.

Man, why is sharing a 10 second mp3 so hard? lol. This or a shorter version without the “world premiere” part is what I was recalling:

https://tube.dubvee.org/w/gC3pchZNmSTeZxX2V2fqrK

I was surprised that so many songs in my collection weren’t actually supposed to start out “schhhhhhhh K-Rock (k-rock)” lol

What’s the opposite of a black flag, and how are instances expected to hoist one?

I’m grumbled about LW’s size, but that was more along the lines of the spirit of the Fediverse / decentralization. Their whole argument of LW using their size to push other instances around is completely absurd. Like, WTF is LW supposed to even do if they don’t want to platform the kind of violent rhetoric that comes from any of the (and I cannot say this with a straight face) Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla members? Every time LW does anything to try to bring order or sanity or a modicum of health and safety to their instance, that’s the argument that always gets thrown around from others. It’s completely asinine and, quite frankly, tired.

And it’s not just over one user. It’s about the kind of extremist culture that comes from the very top of two of the three instances mentioned (which also have a ~90% overlap in admins). None of the other admins have a problem with calling for murder / circle-jerking over who deserves to be murdered and have been defending the “one user” vigorously if not outright engaging in the same rhetoric themselves.

Given that one side of this feud is all “violence, violence, murder” and the other side is like “nah, we don’t want to platform that”, it’s pretty hard to see what the, lol “Flotilla” is doing as anything other than trying to DARVO the situation and play the victim.

A line has to be drawn somewhere, and my only gripe with LW’s actions is that they didn’t happen sooner.

!90smusic@lemmy.world is my pet community. Basically an oldies station for Millennials.

Technically, yes. But colloquially, when we’re talking about “analytics” we mean embedded 3rd party trackers that feed to Google or another outside entity. Those are embedded much deeper in the application and track things much more invasively such as how long you hover over certain links, how you move your cursor around the screen, your viewport size, browser fingerprinting, and more.

The analytics I’m utilizing and referring to here are passive in that they’re collected anyway as part of the standard logging that happens when you access the webserver which is also part of our basic security posture. They’re not as granular or invasive but can still give you useful information about what parts of your site people use the most, how many clicks it takes a visitor to get from the homepage to where they want to be (by following the IP, URI, and seeing where that ends), how many visitors the site gets per day/week/month/etc, and such.

Logging is standard practice if you give even the slightest damn about security (read: you should), so I don’t see it as a problem. It’s what you use those logs for, how long they’re retained, and whether you sell them off.

So as long as you’re only using them for security auditing and website analytics and don’t keep them forever and don’t plan to sell them to data brokers, there’s really nothing to fret over. A good place to disclose how you use the logs, how long you retain them, and what is logged is in the site’s privacy policy.

I do the occasional website for local businesses, and I never add any analytics code/trackers. One: they rarely ever ask. And two: the one time someone did ask for it, they never once logged into it or asked for trends. Three: I’d prefer not to unless they demand it.

However, since I’m actually hosting the website for them, I can get decent heat maps from the access logs since they have the IP (which can be roughly geo-located), which URI’s are accessed (and those map to pages, and pages map to products/services), how often those are accessed, which page linked them to it or if they came directly to it (by checking the referrer header), which are most accessed (by count of the URI in the logs), and whether they’re accessing the site from desktop or mobile (via the user agent header). That can also be combined with any data from their “Contact us” form.

One reason they’ve probably never asked for it is because I provide a quarterly report for them using that passive data, and they seem happy with it.

No worries. Sounds good and def has the 90s beat sound, but the community is more for music from the 90s. Basically we’re an oldies station haha.

[Hits bong] Over water, a boat going too fast becomes a plane and a plane going too slow becomes a boat.

I don’t even like the few phones I had with the headphone jack on the top.

This would be a good post for !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world as long as you expand on why you think that.

If someone finds themselves having daydreams about murdering “the elites” or whatever, it’s time to get off social media and go take a walk outside.

Preferably to a psychiatrist who enjoys a challenge.

Is there a community about Matrix on Lemmy?

!matrix@programming.dev

Is Matrix technically part of the fediverse?

I would say no. It doesn’t use ActivityPub and is its own thing. It’s federated in that indepedent Matrix servers can talk to each other (like email or Nextcloud). So while email would be considered a federated service, it’s not considered part of the fediverse. At most, it’s like a 2nd cousin.

Who is the developer/team and do they have an active presence on the fediverse?

Matrix.org foundation (https://matrix.org/) and not sure. Maybe some of the individual contributors do, but I don’t know any off the top of my head

Bedroom eyes, you say?

This made me dig into my profile uploads where I put Gowron eyes on everything, lol

This. So much this. I don’t know why it’s so tolerated so widely here, and I hate that it’s becoming normalized. You nailed it: normal people do not behave or talk like that.