shellsharks @ shellsharks @infosec.pub

Infosec researcher | writes @ https://shellsharks.com/

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The RSS feed should be full content now. I figured it out!

Thanks!! 🙏

You're not the first to ask about a full-content RSS feed. I can probably figure that out, but I do think the best way to "experience" the newsletter/my site in general is directly on the site 😅. Thanks for taking a look though! 🧡

Thanks for taking a look! If you want to learn more about the IndieWeb, I wrote something up a while back about it. https://shellsharks.com/indieweb. Cheers!

Hey! There was some Cloudflare related dependency issues a few days ago causing my icon pack to load slowly or not at all. I set the .js for those icons to defer so that wouldn't be an issue any more (had to learn about that the hard way). Let me know if you're still seeing weird load times.

AI brainworm

Be young. Young folk never sore

This. https://lobste.rs/

Careful though. Maybe not as "private" as you may think... a thread from @sc00bz@infosec.exchange - https://infosec.exchange/@sc00bz/111966928032512918

Careful though. Maybe not as "private" as you may think... a thread from @sc00bz@infosec.exchange - https://infosec.exchange/@sc00bz/111966928032512918

Yes. Bring back blogrolls!

I'm taking a bit more literal interpretation of "de-platform", which I agree is not the way it has been traditionally used. In my case, if a platform takes you down, you were just de-platformed =). As for the question of "what is a nazi?", 100% agree in terms of "where is the line". Yes, there are some very obvious cases that I think 100% of people would identify in the same way, but there is undoubtedly that pesky ol' gray area (which as your bulleted list makes clear is a non-trivially large area) where things start to get a little more subjective. Sure, it'd be great if companies (like CloudFlare) smell-tested things in the same way I do haha but outside of that, it is no doubt difficult to define.

A measured response to be sure. Thanks for writing it up. I'm definitely not the one who's going to tell you for sure what CloudFlare should or should not do in this case or any other cases. It's a tricky business to be in in terms of making those decisions. That said, I do think there is a line to be drawn SOMEWHERE, and because of this they would eventually need to deplatform something. If that signals to the regimes of the world that Cloudflare can be influenced than so be it, but to me (and I think a lot of the people who were going after Cloudflare during this time), Nazi's (and those sites you mentioned, e.g. Kiwi Farms) are easy to draw lines for. Good thing I'm just a dude on Lemmy and not a high powered CF exec hah!

This https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serve-up-hate-on-the-web

Covid, war, alt-right fascists, AI, TikTok, capitalism maxed out, climate change, where should I stop?

China. Also, no one is saying FB is fine, but since it’s American then gov pretty much shrugs. It was FB after all feeding the NSA yeah?

Yeah that's definitely how I approached my site to begin with. A. a place for me to write about stuff I personally want to remember and go back and look at. and B. a place where I could share information I have that I repeatedly tell others. Over time though, I found that people did indeed like to read what I had to say and found it useful. This is always a bit shocking for people who write, it's a great feeling to know others read your stuff haha. I think I'm an OK writer but I certainly have a unique-ish style. The world needs more indie writers with unique voices and styles. Too much of the Internet has become SEO farming trash and AI generated nonsense. Us "real", authentic humans have to take it back.

Why not both? I love my site and always work to make it unique. But I also like to write and have “useful” content. Check this out to find more cool things on the IndieWeb https://shellsharks.com/indieweb#explore-the-indieweb

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Because AI is the literal worst.