Counterpoint: Good?

The fediverse has no global identity system. Just like how temporary email addresses protect YOU from spam, disallowing them protects volunteer-run services like Mastodon, Piefed, Lemmy et al from spam (and trolls, etc).

I do not approve any registration applications from throwaway email providers. Also, volunteer-run services are much less likely to use your email address for nefarious purposes. Data breaches are another thing, but TBH, most of the spam I get is from spammers just spraying out to anything that’s formatted like an email address. Not sure about Mastodon, but Lemmy and Piefed do not reveal your email address to anyone (admin can only see it during singup and in the database). At least in Lemmy, the passwords are hashed, but the standard advice to use a unique password per service applies so that in the event of a data breach, the email+password combo will only compromise that single service.

I guess the moral of the story is to save the tinfoil hats for BigTech™ and show the Fediverse people, who are trying to do better, that you’re here with good intentions. As an admin, I’ve seen more spam, trolls, and n’eer-do-wells signup with throwaway emails than people who are here because they want to be here, and to a severe enough degree that I will no longer accept registrations using such services.

Might want to just use the actual article title for the post. I’m good with acronyms and context clues, but it still took me far too long to make the connection to Internal Combustion Engine and not the US gestapo.

Thanks. Added that to the blacklists of email domains I won’t accept registrations from.

Oh no! They’re stuck in the dot over the “i” in the Jeremy Bearimy.

I also had to re-upload since I realized I should have used “old” Data’s head .

Which I’m just now realizing is very close to this:

“If I’m not allowed to, neither are you. Harumph”

Huh. I do show the HTTP 400 responses in the logs for the registration attempts, but not sure why. Maybe my rate limit got triggered? (it’s set pretty low, but hasn’t changed in over a year and have had successful signups since then). I don’t show that it even created the local user, which means it didn’t even process the request.

AFAIK, nothing in my infra relies (exclusively) on my assets in the NYC DC that was down.

FWIW, I just did a test signup, and it worked.

So only things I can think of is:

1. It failed to send the verification email (I think Lemmy fails if it’s configured to send an email for a specific operation and the email server doesn’t respond).
2. Rate limit (which you’d think would have been HTTP 429 from the API, but wouldn’t be the first HTTP standard the lemmy devs didn’t adhere to).

Either way, I’ll keep an eye on it (thanks for letting me know), and again, welcome back.

On my instance?

The only issue I’m aware of is the hosted instance of Tesseract I run (for anyone to use) was down yesterday evening / last night because the hosting provider had a DC migration go terribly wrong. My main UI and API are hosted in a different DC and shouldn’t have been affected.

Just curious b/c if there’s a problem I want to fix it lol

Welcome back!

Then you really should list all of the secondary functions you plan to add to it, make sure they understand what those are, and agree to each of them: full disclosure.

If you do something on it that could get them in trouble, it’s their ass on the line, not yours.

Are you friends okay with you doing that? I would not be, especially if my so-called friend didn’t disclose the secondary operations of the device that’s in my home, on my internet connection, under my name.

Yeah, I don’t think I would like them at all. I had the audiobooks for a whole series by one author, and they were all read by the same narrator except the latest book. I couldn’t handle it; it was a real person, not AI, but they were just terrible (but still better than an AI-generated voice).

Did it do distinct voices for the characters? I could maybe see biographies being tolerable read my a machine (though ironic), but books with multiple characters interacting would be a mess. That’s one of the things I appreciate about John Lee (who narrated almost that entire series). He even used the same voices for the same characters across books.

Happy Birthday 🎂

I remember being that O’Brien…before I became this O’Brien lol

Well, minus the beard haha. 20 years in isolation, and I’d still come out looking like Joe Dirt.

Docker, .NET Core, and the combination thereof.

The most aggravating aspect of dealing with vendors at work is that they only seem to develop for WIndows. I’ll spare you my laundry list of gripes with two specific vendors, but suffice it to say, those gripes would not exist if they utilized Docker (they already use .NET Core) and didn’t target Windows specifically. Not to mention, my life would be infinitely easier and our Windows licensing budget much cheaper.

Best I can do is vodka and food coloring.

Hey, they can’t all be Siskos lol.

Am I remembering correctly, or are there actually scenes where the crew occasionally did enjoy Neelix’s cooking? Or was it just the Talaxian (plus or minus Leola root) dishes they complained about?

oh, I meant IRL lol