Arun Raghavan @louiswu@toot.cat
Open source developer on the GStreamer and PulseAudio projects. Enjoy poking at low level system plumbing, and jumping fences between layers.
My main insight theme from Saturday AM at #LFNW:
Hard things are hard.
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I did an ad-hoc talk on how event loops work -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo01c4n2h78
Hit me up for questions and comments!
a boot loader except it helps you put your shoes on
May I draw your attention to this hilarious example of fooling an image recognition algorithm with a small patch of carefully engineered noise?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02608
I added a C++ GNOME Application template to Builder using Flatpak and Meson.
Right now, #Conservancy's bkuhn is verifying donations for credit to our match. Spoiler alert: we're close; a few more donations today will take us over the top! Last chance to take advantage of the generous match from PIA & Anonymous
I just went around and did some basic nmap-ing on the most popular Mastodon instances, and there's some seriously sketchy stuff in there. Publicly reachable Postgres servers, tons of open internal HTTP ports, SSH with password login, multiple Mastodon instances that seem to be running on mail server VMs, …
I guess if you're just running a single-user instance for yourself, sure, but those are all 2000+ user instances.
My dear friend @way created http://tooter.today/ to help people pick a Mastodon instance that suits them!
technical note about this tech as I see some confusion/misconceptions:
Admins of your instance have complete control over your account. Really, we can read all the posts (including DMs) and we can even impersonate/hack your account with ease.
Make sure you trust your admins.
Here on toot.cat we have a CoC that applies to both admins and non admins. Admins are expected to abide by the CoC and not oppress users as well.