Interesting. Hackers are mistaking Mastodon user profile account addresses for email addresses and sending fake roundcube phishing emails to the few accounts I have on my self-hosted instance in hopes of getting credentials.

"Roundcube Found Several Undelivered Messages"

I only received it because my domain has catch-all email turned on that will forward any email for email accounts that don't exist to a special email address.

The emails come from "Restoredesk.oldfriends.live <[email protected]>", pass spf and ip 79.141.160.47. Link below, which is Dropbox owned "DocSendDotCom"

Be careful if you host your own instance and have catch-all email setup and this slips past your little grey cells.

#Infosec #Spam #Phishing #Spoofing #MastoAdmin

@coffeegeek I don't see how that will help you. If people follow your threads account from Mastodon, and the threads post has a link to your website, your website will still be visited for preview cards.

The only solution I can think of, honestly, if you want to reach the Mastodon users and Fediverse platforms that generate preview cards, is, include your link to your article like always but also include an image with your post. Your website won't be visited then for a preview card.

Sears Christmas Wish Book
#MissedFromBygoneDays
#HashTagGames

@mookie Oh, if you are interested, there is a Firefox and Chromium(Google Chrome, MS Edge, Vivaldi, and others) extension that fills posts of replies, etc, your server doesn't know about and you don't see, now that you are using Mastodon again.

It's called Substitoot

https://substitoot.kludge.guru/

For none Google Chrome Chromium based browsers, open your browser to the https://substitoot.kludge.guru/ link and use the Google Chrome link

@mookie There's talk that that and a few other customizations might be coming either through the UI or env.production file.

@mookie I easily changed my character limit to 5000. This wasn't the guide I used but it's the same tasks. Just a couple things to change in a few files. Nothing big.

It'll be nice to debug and mod the same software again with you, as you always pop up with help for me.

I've done enough stuff with Mastodon, and broke and fixed enough, since you left, I might actually be the gifter of knowledge instead of the receiver for a change. lol

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/09/2024-modifying-limits-in-mastodon-4-3/

OK: Oddly Kinky

#TheAcronymCouldAlsoMean
#HashTagGames

@mookie Did you spin up another Mastodon instance, then? I kept thinking you went to another fediverse platform. Curious about the thought process and experience with what you went from to and back to Mastodon. Did you recycle your domain to use with Mastodon, etc, etc.

Google search is trash. I went to search for a something that happened in the past regarding a famous person who recently died. The search was "His Name keywords before:YYYY-MM-DD" and different variations of it.

Because this person recently died, many news publications online had an article about him.

Due to the way sites now serve their pages, old articles were coming up with his recent death info which had nothing in it regarding my keywords or date.

I was getting results for my keywords and before:YYYY-MM-DD but they weren't about him. They were serving the results because the websites were dynamically placing his death article on every page, even archived or old articles.

#Google and the way websites serve their archives is pure #enshittification

We need "do not use for search" elements on pages, esp pages that include "What's new or trending" so articles and content is not duplicated on irrelevant pages in search results. Next week, the man's obit article won't be new or trending on the erroneous result pages.

I guess the backorder holdup is over now. #USPol I had forgotten I ordered a replacement Harris / Walz flag and it was on backorder.

@mastodonmigration I know that.

I want to know if anyone has created curated lists of accounts by subject that one can download and then import, like in Google docs, etc

@mastodonmigration Did anyone ever make downloadable lists that users can import by subject?

@noondlyt Howard Dean does an excited creepy dad scream, media drive him out of town with neg coverage.

Trump masturbates and blows a mic during a speech and I had to learn about it from SNL. #USPol It was barely a blip in the news.

@thisismissem They are used for anxiety but also used to relieve chronic pain

@thisismissem I've not heard of RSS but have heard of SSR

This indoor/outdoor tabletop firepit looks like a great ideal. Nothing could go wrong with this...🤨 Comes with an Extinguisher. Burns for 1.5 hours.

It reads, "This alcohol fireplace combines durability with portability, adding warmth and ambiance to any space. Enjoy a cozy vibe indoors and outdoors with our convenient concrete tabletop fire pits"

Fuel: 70-91% isopropyl alcohol. Flame retardant material rated up to 90 minutes of burning time

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD3MBMVW

Remember the lockdowns? Some still are lockdowned.

Due to my rare disease, for a decade before the COVID lockdowns, I was homebound. For the five years preceding COVID, I was completely homebound. I still am.

During and after the COVID lockdowns, I received more empathy from friends, family and even medical providers because they got to experience the lifestyle of a person homebound.

They experienced the bad, the good, the lonely. Learned how to make a lifestyle out of the situation and learned how to hide the intermediate sadness of it to protect others in their circle from the depressive feeling of lockdown.

Now that the lockdowns are over, and people are free to responsibly socialize again, I hope people don't forget there are millions of people homebound, some in their own circle, and make some effort to be more than a passing participant in their lives.

@dansup I don't record videos, even small ones, often, but I am getting pure pleasure watching you develop loops. I wish you great success. I used to do some vines, so, who knows what is in store. You may get my ugly mug in the fediverse, at least in short form, in the near future when it gets released.

@Gazimoff Yes, and instances that have server versions that are end of life/outdated, although, as of posting this, Codeberg is down for me right now so you can't review the code. Many instances use these scripts:

https://codeberg.org/GunChleoc/mastodon-scripts

@garrett Unless you are getting thousands upon thousands of spam messages targeting you at the same time, I don't think that is doing anything much to make your server run out of memory.

You have something else going on. I don't get hardly any spam & occasionally deal with memory issues. Mastodon is a memory hog, esp if you use ElasticSearch. It's a memory killer

@gunchleoc has a tool for spam. Maybe gunchleoc could pop in here with a link.