Mark Shane Hayden @msh@coales.co

Lots of new people out there... #welcome

Here are my #introductions

I'm a nerd from #YYC (Calgary, Canada) into #FOSS software, #Linux and a bit of #BSD among other things. I host my own email and web including the mastodon instance https://coales.co as a hobby.

I work on #python stuff like #flask, #django and #tryton personally, and professionally in the field of #automation #SCADA .

Also big advocate of #openhardware.

I'm kind of libertarian but closer to Chomsky than Rand.

Hmm...

Apparently in AWS you can make it so an IAM user can start EC2 instances and stop EC2 instances but *not* be able to reboot/restart them...like reboot is a totally separate and unrelated action.

I suppose the opposite is a probable use case (allowing reboot but not stop if you don't trust your users to leave important instances running) but I can't figure out the use of the other way around.

NO REBOOT FOR YOU. You must shut down first, then ponder the meaning of life before you start!

...anyways I'm getting very amusing spam invite requests now, by way of Russia, literally all from 5.188.210.0/24 and all putting ads for shitty websites in the comment.

And the account name ALWAYS ends with "mus".

Joemus
Lisamus
Paulmus
Tinamus
Benmus
...and so on-mus.

I'd block that IP range but it isn't enough volume to bother and it amuses me. Like, what's the point of this spammer? It's an absurdly low effort attempt on their part.

Since my quiet little instance was getting a number of spam accounts signing up but not confirming, and deleting unconfirmed users rather foolishly spawning thousands of tasks to announce to the fediverse users none of them should know about, I decided to make new users request an invite.

This has been good. Now these spam signups show as "pending" instead of unconfirmed so I can reject without clogging up my sidekiq (still not sure why unconfirmed is different)...

So I'm listening to "Rise" by Herb Alpert and @squirrel thinks I'm on hold with someone on the speaker phone 🤣 #TijuanaTuesday

All the mojo that ever existed, or will ever exist, came into being in the 1970s.

If you are lucky enough to have any mojo at all do not squander it.

I'm finding the amber monitor aesthetic of my terminal sessions reduces eyestrain and generally keeps me mellow, perhaps due to the warm nostalgic feeling it evokes.

#MellowYellow #ScreenshotSunday

What it says in my job description: dev-ops

What I really do: dev-oops!

So I occasionally get garbage user accounts being created by spambots that are never confirmed, presumably because they don't have access to the email address that the confirmation link was sent to. I try to delete these on a regular basis.

Except that for each unconfirmed user deleted THOUSANDS of "delete actor" tasks are created to notify the whole known fediverse of the user deletion. WHY?? Unconfirmed users should NEVER be known outside the local instance right?

How am I to fully enjoy this nice Chianti when the census has been cancelled and the grocery store has completely run out of fava beans?