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Emelia

@thisismissem.social

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Corruptress of protocols, working on trust & safety tech, open-source contributor. You've probably used tech I've contributed to. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 I'm on the Fediverse: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem Bridged: @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · Apr 24

So a not too well known thing about me: I'm the co-author of the Client ID Metadata Documents internet draft that Bluesky / AT Proto uses for OAuth.

This document came about due to my work on Mastodon's OAuth implementation.

If you'd like to support my work: support.thisismissem.social

Support Emelia Smith (@thisismissem)

Fund her work on the Fediverse, improving trust & safety and other open-source contributions

support.thisismissem.social

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 4m

What's this app?

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 5m

Apparently a full release in the next 3 weeks.

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 22m

Woah, this is mildly scary: How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview' blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost...

How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'

I was 30 seconds away from running malware, Here's how a sophisticated scam operation almost got me, and why every developer needs to read this.

blog.daviddodda.com

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tree🌴 @tree.fail · 1h

How about enabling IPv6 and DNSSEC on plc.directory? I'm quite surprised that it isn't already, given how crucial PLC is for #atproto

plc.directory doesnt support IPv6

https://dnschecker.org/ipv6-compatibility-checker.php

plc.directory doesnt support DNSSEC
https://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/plc.directory

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 1h

There was a minor acknowledged outage earlier, but it lasted all of maybe 5 minutes

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

you have the right to not hang out with assholes. you deserve not to hang out with assholes. you are under 0 obligation to socially interact with assholes in your free time.

it is truly terrible that our culture tricked so many people into thinking that they’re obliged to be friends with assholes!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

we have spent the last decade witnessing a national epidemic of “it should be illegal to not hang out with me just because I’m a mean asshole” behavior

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 10h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 1h

Maybe I can fill in blanks?

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 2h

That sounds like a tough blog post to write. Especially one to get correct.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 2h

Yeah, hopefully my talk that I'll be putting out sooner might clarify things. Or it'll freak a bunch of people out.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 2h

Where tf did they get such wrong information from?

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Why @why.bsky.team · 3h

Some people seem to think that "decentralized" means "I can never have the reach of my posts restricted in any way ever" and that's just not a workable definition.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 2h

Nope, this is scraped my email from somewhere. Or bought it from a data broker (even though I've Incogni apparently cleaned that address from datasets)

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 2h

Yeah, it's certainly not unique to ActivityPub, but it's by far more pronounced.

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 6h

Yeah, exactly this. And you *know* it's written by AI too, because it just name drops your last N roles or something to "personalise" the email.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 7h

Well, it's a dead email I usually leave as a honeypot to see who's scraping my information

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 7h

So a company reached out to me looking to hire me in a trust & safety engineering role. Which, normally that'd be fine, excepting this company reached out on an email that hasn't been public in like a decade, when my email is *right there* on my website.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 8h

isn't that kinda the new billionaire bunkers pitch?

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 9h

Story pitch: a billionaire's security detail dispose of him in the wake of an apocalypse and hide in his shelter. But it quickly becomes apparent that he was working on something much worse, and if they don't find a way to stop it the last remnants of humanity will come to an end ...

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 8h

Everyone who gets into social software ends up speed running the same problems and learnings. Some slower than others.

Twitter had the trust & safety infrastructure that was dealing with and they gutted it due to Elon's conspiracy theory beliefs, without actually realising what he was seeing.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 8h

(FEPs exist for the first, a FEP will exist for the second)

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 8h

I mean, ActivityPub doesn't mention servers at all really. There is a "server to server" protocol, but it doesn't actually define the notion of a "server", it only defines actors.

That's also why there's actually no "instance actor" that's easily discoverable and no "moderation actor" either.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 9h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 10h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 8h

Treating myself to a burger tonight following some good news, and hoping it doesn't KO me tonight or wipe me out for the next few days.

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 8h

I mean, yeah, you can, but you're not wanting to say "to" 500 people when the message is public.

It's a side-effect of server inbox vs individual inboxes.

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Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 16h

Micropayments face furious opposition from banks and payments processors, who stand to lose money.

In my naivety I used to think that crypto (the perfect solution from a tech pov) would make micropayments possible at last.

But so far good ideas have been no match for greed and stupidity.

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 16h

There is a similar conversation to be had about paywalls.

Yes, they are annoying. Yes, once upon a time we were promised micropayments for articles.

But “information wants to be expensive”. Of course it does. It has real value. It requires work.

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