@fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin Also our goals are wildly different.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin I use them myself to cut down on spam and protect my privacy. So it’d be kind of hypocritical of me to reject them.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin Accept the people who use disposable email addresses. iCloud generates gibberish addresses for real users for example.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin Most spammers are. Most of the obvious spam I reject had verified the gibberish email address. I think they just click every link in every email they get with a script. I should try adding a link in the footer that bans every ip that clicks it.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin My interfree instance is just invite only. But rblind is intended as a community resource so it’s trickier.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin In that case I check the email address these days. Does it have a LinkedIn or iMessage or something? What lives at the domain? Does googling the username bring up other profiles? That kind of thing.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin In the past six months AI has fooled me twice and I let a spammer in. The biggest clue is answer length. Most humans can’t even be bothered to answer with a full sentence. AI will give an entire paragraph with no spelling or grammar mistakes. So now I’m in the weird place where the guy who answers “Im blind aprov my act plz” is Less suspicious.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin AI can guess. Without context from me other than the name.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin Yes. But ai can guess the purpose just from the name rblind in my testing.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin I don’t have a question like that. We explain the purpose of the community and ask why you want to join. There is no question that chat gpt can’t reliably answer but a human reliably can. Captcha has the same issue.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@quanin It’s harder for sites like rblind.com. We get spammers using AI to answer the question.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

dream, racism, historical inaccuracy, strangeness, long post, anti-black and anti-Irish prejudice

@lynessence I practiced a lot as a teenager. Dream recall is the first step to lucid dreaming. I still remember one or two dreams a night even though I never managed to lucid dream. I just only share the interesting ones. Last nights was something stupid about getting a job at a gym called Hanks happy hangout, that was some sort of dungeons and dragons themed fitness membership. It was deeply incoherent. My primary job was coaching people who wanted to turn into elves through the appropriate workouts. Sadly I no longer remember the training routine guaranteed to turn you into an elf in three months or your money back.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

Every time I update the iOS beta it resets my audio ducking settings. Annoying. But it is a beta, after all.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@lynessence @tjolsen The vibe on Bluesky is...okay. Because of how it works, nobody ever really gets banned. So there are lots of blocklists and moderation services you can subscribe to, and it comes with one by default. But it's really not possible to just defederate entire servers full of idiots the way it is on Mastodon/the fediverse.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@tjolsen @lynessence I use Enafore myself. It runs in the browser, but you can use forms mode and navigate it by hotkeys. Tweesecake has a bunch of other issues with displaying formatted posts, sometimes not detecting links, not easily allowing filtering and muting, etc. Plus I'm not running Mastodon and haven't for years.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@tjolsen @lynessence Correct. Tweesecake doesn’t work with anything but standard mastodon. Not even go to social or akoma.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@bot It sure isn’t!

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

dream, racism, historical inaccuracy, strangeness, long post, anti-black and anti-Irish prejudice

My entire night last night was taken up with a long, involved #WeirdDream. Apparently my subconscious is both racist and terrible at history. I'm sharing because it was so detailed, long, and nonsensical that it's kind of impressive. As it opened, I was somehow teleported to what the dream called 1700's New York City. I decided that the best way to become wealthy and successful would be to invent the record player, years before Edison was even born! Unfortunately, I put tons of effort into it (somehow involving origami tinfoil birds), without realizing the obvious flaw: why would anyone buy a record player, when it's cheaper just to pay an Irish girl a penny and she'll come to your house and sing for you? As everyone but me probably already knows, every single street corner in 1700's New York City had an absolutely identical Irish girl clone on it. Same voice, same appearance, same clothes, and apparently no name or anything. But all the Irish girls could sing, and they all knew the same songs. If you taught one Irish girl a new song, all of the other ones would just immediately know it. So record players were just unnecessary and expensive! Thankfully, I had a second idea to ensure my wealth and success: I invented a slide projector, and an easy way to create slides that involved crystals, lenses, and movable type. It went gangbusters! The New York Times loved it, and said "Thanks to the invention of PowerPoint, mankind has achieved the pinnacle of human civilization." Unfortunately for me, not everyone was happy, and I found myself betrayed by the New York City police (all of whom were absolutely identical Irish men) who were still upset about the record player thing. They allowed me to be kidnapped by what my dream ambiguously identified as an African tribe. The tribe put me on a ship and we sailed to the jungle (lots of rocking and floating sensations), where the chief started to yell at me. He was upset because now that I had given the white man the mighty PowerPoint, his entire culture would be unable to survive, and the whites would surely use PowerPoint to exterminate all of them. Fortunately for me, I figured out how to dematerialize my hands (it felt extremely tingly, and I'm pretty sure my real hands had fallen asleep at this point) and slip them out of the handcuffs. Then the dream turned into a silly action sequence involving swinging on vines and climbing trees as I tried to escape the jungle. Lots of rocking and swinging and falling, and I think I was starting to wake up. Then my alarm went off and I woke up completely before my jungle escape could get resolved. Anyway, now I pretty much have the entire plot for a new 1920's style pulp fiction book for boys. Tom Swift And His Electric Slide Projector, maybe? Good grief, I have absolutely no idea where all of that nonsense came from. Yet it somehow felt meaningful; something about how bureaucracy is the first requirement for genocide, and slavery only goes away when the alternatives are cheaper, maybe? I dunno. But it was one of the extremely rare (for me) dreams where I woke up and felt like I was supposed to take...something...away from that experience. I just wish I knew what.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@jscholes @Jage I will be surprised if Bluesky can last even ten years. The fediverse, though, will probably just plug along literally for ever. In the same way that IRC does; nobody uses it, but it all still exists. But unlike IRC, ActivityPub is flexible enough to modernize. So I doubt it'll ever have the hypergrowth that Bluesky has. But every year, a few thousand more will join. And it'll slowly eat everything else, in the same way that HTTP ate pretty much everything.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@project1enigma I suspect that some kind of CSAM scanning will get built into the relays. But of course, that means even more resources are required, in order to scan all images in Realtime.