vera grey :verifiedplural: (@[email protected])

hot take: my aggressive use of ad-blockers and notification filters is a health accommodation my constellation of health issues means that any kind of distraction makes it difficult to go back to the thing i’ve been distracted from. each new stimulus is increasingly frustrating, and just serves to pull me away from doing anything at all which means that modern computing is an incredibly hostile place: any link i click is a roulette wheel of ads, cookie notices, newsletter signups, support chat popups, and god knows what else. apps on my phone beg for notification permission so they can insert advertisements into my day-to-day life, they flash promotional material alongside the actually useful thing you downloaded it for, they change out their interface design on a whim. i have an Apple Watch, to remind me to stand up while i work my desk job and otherwise avoid becoming even more sedentary. i only allow three kinds of notifications on my watch: health/activity-related notifications like stand and med reminders, texts from my partner, and notifications about flight delays. nothing else is so important as to steal my attention in the most intimate way i allow. but the Apple Watch settings assume that any new app that gains notification permissions should be sent to my watch, which means i have to remember to turn those off every time i add a new app to my phone with notifications, or have my attention stolen from me by some fuckoff who decided that the same medium i use to remember to take my pills or hear from my spouse can be used to ask me to buy more books, or listen to some random bullshit on the expensive radio, or buy some random tchotchkes, or subscribe to my fucking cat food dispenser. so i have to choose: either put up with this bullshit, or recuse myself from an otherwise genuinely useful service. and more often i choose the latter, because it’s usually not worth the bullshit tax. (it’s why i don’t play a lot of games on my phone - a lot of them nowadays are vehicles for in-app purchases or funnels to make you watch ads to sidestep an artificial roadblock, and the experience has soured my perception against the genuinely good ones.)

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@vfrmedia @gettie Point is that #Telco regulations stems from #Telegraphy and #Postal operations, and whilst there are legitimate reasons for #regulators to disconnect phone lines (otherwise #robocalling and #SMS-#Spam would be even more rampant than #eMail-#Spamming!)

  • Which OFC also intertwines with "#LawfulInterception" and the means of Governments to exercise control.
    • So anything claiming #security must inherently acknowledge the unfixable #insecurity of the #PSTN and completely cease using it and it's per-design compromised Infrastructure as a matter of principle.

That's why any "#secure communications" treats it as a hostile network and not to be trusted!

  • And that's not even scratching the surface that countries try to outlaw #anonymity - starting with #Prepaid - #SIM - Cards.
    • Because those traditionally had no reason for "#KYC" as there was no means for a customer to incur #debt or commit #fraud against the telco that provided said services, so there was [and IMHO still is] no "legitimate interest" in demanding any #ID for those, as any crime committed would be investigated with the existing #Govware inside the networks and thus found out.

@carolina ja, und wegen sowas - samt #Spamming der #WHOIS-Einträge - rate ich von #GoDaddy ab.

  • Zumal die sich auch konsequent weigern, #AbuseReports zu bearbeiten!

Ich kann #ClouDNS empfehlen weil dort kann mensch quasi alles editieren!

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@rayglittersoft At least #IRCs that I know of have proper #moderation tools to prevent #spamming and shit like #CSAM links.

  • It's really fucking sad to see that by all accounts I could get from folks in the day that even #AnonOps's #IRC was more able and willing to swing the #BanHammer.

Cuz #discord doesn't remove messages from #banned / deleted users, and instead let repeat offenders stay against wrongful claims by the then-CEO, so accounts with 240+ recorded cases of CSAM distribution remain on the platform and not get banned with something that no legitimate hoster would accept.

  • And with "legit" I mean even stuff like #CyberBunker because CSAM is something everyone but #ClownFlare and #RBN will not just fire clients, but turn *them and their data in to law enforcement just to evidently not being an accomplice in said crime!
Discord’s Most Disgusting Problem is Getting Worse…

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Idiot #spamming #HashtagHighjacker
Fuck off.

@can @daniel since #Spamming is illegal in #Germany but #Cops won't do shit, I just look up their next competitior, ask them if they want to send the offender a costly cease and decist and if so provide them with evidence that this was indeed #ColdMailing.

  • Sadly noone ever offered me a cut in return...

#FuckTheSystem = #LetThemFight each other!

@txtechnician @gattaca I mean, #FaxSpam is a real thing.

But like #SMS #Spamming and #Robocalling it's not much of a concern in #Germany because @BNetzA quickly terminates offending numbers.

@Dendrobatus_Azureus personally, I think it's high time that #ISPs will force customers to take #ITsec seriously and terminate connections upon abuse reports.

Not that I'd take #AbuseReports by #RogueISP|s like #CloudFlare serious anyway but I've yet to find any #ISP that doesn't allow them to terminate services at any time without warning if the services are used against their ToS and every #B2C / #consumer ISP explicitly bans #DDoS, #malware distribution and #hacking in said Terms of Service.

  • And yes I've seen cases where ISPs (most notably #DTAG) did terminate connectivity following a malware infection and #Spamming from a consumer's #DSL line.

Sounds harsh but #LackOfAccountability & #LackOfConsequences got us here!