John Simpson

@Thracky
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Hackin’, Drum & Bass aficionado, watcher of motorcycle racing. he/him #TeamADHD and other neurodivergent things. Habitual right-clicker. Researcher @ Veracode
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Bloghttps://suchsecurity.com
John SimpsonApr 27, 2022

Yes the admins can read your DMs thing is absolutely true on any platform w/o E2E encryption but the scale and structure of the fediverse does make it more feasible for a bad admin to read *all* the DMs on their server. Also there are no real consequences to doing so.

So I would stick to just exchanging alternative contact details by DM 🙂

Lazy me also has not checked to see if E2EE DMs are in the works for ActivityPub.

John SimpsonApr 20, 2022

If anyone is interested I have a #drumnbass icecast station that generally runs 24/7 but might be down occasionally. Tends to be more on the liquid and vocal side of things but plenty of dancefloor stuff and a bit of neuro thrown in for good measure. Mostly 2018 and newer.

Check it out at
http://radio.suchsecurity.com:42069/beats.ogg.m3u if you are interested 🙂

#dnb

John SimpsonApr 14, 2022
Even though this kinda takes a bit of a shot at my employer's product, it's *very* cool to see static analysis stuff make its way into GCC: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/04/12/state-static-analysis-gcc-12-compiler
The state of static analysis in the GCC 12 compiler | Red Hat Developer

New features and a substantial reduction in false positives bring GCC's static analysis closer to being production-ready for C code.

Red Hat Developer
John SimpsonApr 14, 2022
Right, back on here again. I can only hope there's a bit more traction but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
John SimpsonApr 3, 2017
I've sorta moved over to @Thracky to do my part to help alleviate some of the capacity issues.
John SimpsonApr 3, 2017
So uhh, which instances aren't running on the equivalent of a $5/month DigitalOcean droplet?
John SimpsonApr 3, 2017
Show threadJenn FrankApr 3, 2017
@bigendiansmalls under "settings" you can export your account in this instance and import it into another instance
John SimpsonApr 3, 2017
ruh-roh. I think we should start moving to other instances sooner rather than later heh.
John SimpsonApr 3, 2017
So who's gonna start an instance focused on the infosec community? (To allow some segmentation between the local/federated timelines)
John SimpsonApr 3, 2017
I'm super interested to see how well content moderation functions on a federated service.