Well, that certainly would confuse you, yes.

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I suppose, it just seemed like putting the blame on the consumers rather than greedy, short-sighted executives.

Confuses them?

It’s Boost on Android.

You don’t need to use your dozens of accounts to do that. Even if you create communities on these instances with those dozens of accounts, you can still opt to use a single account to actually contribute instead of looking like a spam network. Why not do that? And no, it’s not “promoting” a small instance to make posts to other instances with them. I again would argue that most Lemmy users don’t pay attention to which instance an OP is signed up to.

Kind of hard to block you when most people do so and then assume the problem is fixed, not realizing that you have all of these accounts.

I tried telling OP that they weren’t promoting small instances simply by using them to post to other instances because most Lemmy users are already on their chosen instance to begin with just yesterday. I also told them that they were just making it more difficult for users to curate feeds since OP makes it next to impossible to block. OP didn’t care.

To address your first edit, yes, it’s a script, and yes, it did delete the site and the backups, as confirmed by the site creator. You can browse the data extracted on https://okstupid.lol/

This wasn’t “just a fun script”. The site, backups, and infrastructure were actually deleted.

Did you read the article, like at all? It would have told you the same thing:

As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists’ sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor marketplace for racists, are all offline.

The administrator of the three websites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts.

“They publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism,” the administrator wrote on X on Sunday, vowing repercussions.

The administrator also claimed that Root deleted their X account before it was restored.

Most users do not pay attention to which instance someone is on, only a vocal minority seem to care. Even less will actually join an instance from just seeing it, as they’re likely already on an instance in the first place.

So once again, it just makes it impossible for people to curate their feeds. It makes you look like a spam bot, especially with how rapidly you repost things. And the amount of accounts with the same name really make you look like a spam operation.

It does far more harm than good in my opinion, and I actively avoid upvoting any of your posts because of that. If you just created the placeholder accounts and didn’t post with them, I wouldn’t feel this way.

You seriously don’t see how crazy the screenshots above look?

Like dgdft said, if you’re using certbot, it should typically be running on the machine that your endpoints are hosted on. Enterprise solutions don’t require this, but they have other means of deploying certificates automatically and alarming if they are unable to, before they expire. My organization has dashboards showing which certs expire and when, and it triggers alarms at least a month before anything goes wrong.

High stakes automation should always have alarms on error, and since certs have set expiration dates baked into them, you can alarm far before anything goes wrong. Apparently, Riot didn’t have that.

Also, more frequent renewals make it so that people are less likely to forget it exists. Because of that, along with the possible security ramifications, 2 to 10 year certs should never be used, in my opinion. A 10 year cert will always get kicked on to the next team and it’s very possible for things to fall through the cracks.

What makes you think I don’t do this on embedded devices? I’m not about to dox my self with specifics, but I do this exclusively for embedded hardware as my job. We even do it for devices not directly attached to our network. It’s really not difficult so long as you have control of your enterprise hardware (which, you should, unless your management is terrible at their jobs). Hell, even the routers we use have this functionality built in, failure alarms and all.

If this is a problem for you, it’s probably at an organizational level, and not a technical issue.

You do know that it can be automated though, right? If you have full control of someone’s infrastructure, the quickest way to delete all of it is through a script.

I work in DevOps, this is one of the easier things to automate. It’s common for certs to be issued on a 90 day basis these days, no way that would be maintainable without automating.

Yeah, I can see it happening there, especially for graphic artists (however actual graphic design is much better than anything a model can currently spit out). Translation is surprising to me, because in my experience, LLMs are actually kind of bad at actual translation especially when sounding natural according to local dialect. So I might consider that one to be a case of dumb bosses that don’t know any better.

I’m a DevOps engineer and dumb bosses are absolutely firing in my industry. However, our products have suffered the consequences and they continue to get worse and less maintainable.

Sweet, thank you!

But why post with a million different accounts? That is the problem here. It’s not about supporting small instances when you use these accounts to post to huge instances like lemmy.world (which you do frequently). You could just create an account on a smaller instance, create the community with it, and never use it to post to a big instance.

You can do the same for the “imposter” problem you bring up, although I’m not convinced it’s really a problem. I honestly wouldn’t give a shit if someone used my handle on another instance - I only use this handle on Lemmy and no where else. If someone really started being a shitty person with my handle on another instance, I would just say that it’s not me and I have no idea who they are and leave it at that.

Like this is just crazy, man, I don’t know what else to say:

Maybe, which jobs though?

Any plans for an HA integration, maybe even as the source of the location data? I’ve been using HA for that and would prefer to not drain my phone battery further with two location services.

I wonder if OwnTracks can do it…

But why use a million accounts to do that? You can use one, and then people will actually be able to curate their feeds accordingly.