Notices by rysiek@mastodon.technology

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Yes, #BlueSky, a "crawling indexer" is exactly what I want in my social media:
https://atproto.com/guides/overview#achieving-scale

Note that the crawling indexer is made necessary for things like "likes, reposts, followers".

As in, a crawling indexer is necessary for basic functionality of BlueSky, apparently.

Compare to #ActivityPub, where no such hard requirement exists, even though a service that relies on crawling to provide recommendations (for example) could exist.

Just Stop Oil protesters throw tomato soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers masterpiece
https://news.sky.com/story/just-stop-oil-protesters-throw-tomato-soup-over-van-goghs-sunflowers-masterpiece-12720183

This has nothing to do with fighting the climate crisis and everything to do with vandals feeling entitled to destroy cultural works, using climate crisis as a justification for their vandalism.

I strongly believe we need radical action to stop the climate catastrophe, but I feel actions like these are *counter-productive*: they make it easy to dismiss all climate activism as "vandalism".

And to add insult to injury:

> They threw the contents of two tins of Heinz tomato soup

Seriously? They couldn't even find a can of Campbell's?!

@onepict or art in general.

Looks like #Telegram leaks usernames in #TLS SNI:
https://nitter.it/fo0_/status/1580146963579740160

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TLS SNI is sent in *clear text*, because it is a mechanism that informs the server hosting multiple websites on a single IP address which TLS certificate to present to the client.

Putting username in SNI makes it *trivial* for anyone listening on the wire to track who and when is communicating with Telegram servers. Add some timing analysis and one can reason about who is talking to whom.

Metadata kills.

#Infosec