#indieweb 2020-07-15

2020-07-15 UTC
KartikPrabhu, wolftune, KempfCreative, [tw2113], sp1ff, krjst, nickodd, opal, [fluffy], dckc, kensp, [KevinMarks], IWSlackGateway, [jgmac1106], [mapkyca], kensp1, hs0ucy, gxt, markoong, markong, joshghent and Lucas-C joined the channel; nickodd left the channel
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Lucas-C Hi!
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Lucas-C I just wanted to relay the info here: I have written a short article about Webmention & Pelican on my blog -> https://chezsoi.org/lucas/blog/pelican-pingback-and-webmentions.html
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Lucas-C Many thanks to all the community for building great protocols & tools like this one!
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Integrating Webmention with my blog" https://www.kappawingman.com/posts/webdev/2020/07/15/integrating-webmention-with-my-blog/
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[schmarty] Neat!
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jacky nice!!!
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Loqi [indienews] New post: https://chezsoi.org/lucas/blog/pelican-pingback-and-webmentions.html (from https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/4b5e2a14-5bd4-4bfb-80fb-667f6dd99ab1)
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[fluffy] @lucas-c: In searching for linkback implementations did you happen upon Pushl? It supports both pingback and webmention and I’d like to think the code quality is at least pretty adequate. 🙂
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[fluffy] I don’t know how difficult it would be to use with Pelican directly but the intention is you point it at your rss/atom/h-feed feed and it does the rest.
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[fluffy] That said as a Pelican-specific thing this looks pretty nice.
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[chrisaldrich] What is Pelican?
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Loqi Pelican is a Python-based static site generator https://indieweb.org/Pelican
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[chrisaldrich] And that Pelican plugin is already on the page! 🎉 for writing about it on their website: Lucas-C++
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Loqi Lucas-C has 1 karma over the last year
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[chrisaldrich] Great to see a few Pelican articles within minutes of each other...
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[tantek] yooooo heads-up https://twitter.com/search?q=twitter+employee+panel
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[tantek] check your twitter accounts!
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[tantek] AKA why "Bill Gates" is trending
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[tantek] https://twitter.com/inteldotwav/status/1283505569198944261
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@inteldotwav This is HUGE if the internal hack is true. If an admin/employee panel gives direct access to users account at the level that allows them to tweet and pin tweets, you should SERIOUSLY reconsider what you do and what you post on twitter, as well as your future on the platform. (twitter.com/_/status/1283505569198944261)
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[tantek] Same: https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1283508716655054848
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@IanColdwater if someone tries to say anything nice about cryptocurrency, my account has definitely been hacked (twitter.com/_/status/1283508716655054848)
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[tantek] 😂 https://twitter.com/McGrewSecurity/status/1283504644619108352
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@McGrewSecurity Whoever hacked the Twitter employee panel please check the box to exclude my account from seeing promoted tweets (twitter.com/_/status/1283504644619108352)
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jacky y'all heard of https://blockpartyapp.com?
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[tantek] I just heard of it today!
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[tantek] Haven't checked it out yet. WDYT?
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[tantek] I mean not a good look lol
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[tantek] Uh, some of those rotating messages on the home page are not a good look
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[tantek] https://block-party-static.s3.amazonaws.com/images/site/rotating-harassment-tweets.gif
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[tantek] It makes it look like that's a sample of what's on the service!
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jacky lol yeah - it's more like what it'll block
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jacky so far it looks very nice
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jacky linked to screenshots in #indieweb-chat
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jacky I think it's a necessary service
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jacky interested to see where it goes
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sknebel one would think that once the wave reaches heads of state and presidential candidates its time for a maintenance window...
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[tantek] AOC++ https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1283513914597298178
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Loqi AOC has 1 karma in this channel over the last year (2 in all channels)
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@AOC Hey everyone - there seems to be a large Twitter attack right now targeting large accounts. Please be vigilant about any bitcoins scams and do NOT click on any suspicious links. Just in case, if my account tweets any bizarre links related to cryptocurrency, do NOT click on it. (twitter.com/_/status/1283513914597298178)
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jacky AOC doing the work of @Support or @Twitter lol
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[tantek] Ok I have to quote tweet that
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[chrisaldrich] waits for @jack or @twitter to start tweeting that "nothing is wrong" and the problem/hack has been solved...
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OberstKrueger[m] Has @jack always had #bitcoin in his profile text...?
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[chrisaldrich] Ha! Looks like @jack has become a major bit coin fan recently... look at all those tweets!
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[tantek] ok here we go 🎯
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beko 🍿
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[tantek] yolo
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jacky OberstKrueger[m]: for the last year
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OberstKrueger[m] Bad timing then on his part ot be tweeting Bitcoin stuff recently, heh.
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aaronpk oh no my POSSE was rejected from twitter
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aaronpk wait
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aaronpk i can't tweet on the website either
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beko so they did pull the plug? =)
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aaronpk apparently
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[tantek] just made it lol
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aaronpk "This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later."
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[tantek] even with my "manual" UI
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aaronpk literally clicking the "reply" button on twitter i see that popup
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OberstKrueger[m] https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1283526400146837511
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@TwitterSupport You may be unable to Tweet or reset your password while we review and address this incident. (twitter.com/_/status/1283526400146837511)
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aaronpk oh snap
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OberstKrueger[m] I saw something elsewhere that indicated it's for verified accounts only.
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aaronpk oh i am a verified account
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beko aaronpk: wouldn't worry that much. they'll probably only go for the really huge accounts.
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[tantek] so wait can anyone else here tweet or is it all shutdown?
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[tantek] or have only verified accounts been flipped read-only? (that would be ironic)
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[chrisaldrich] I was able to send a test tweet a couple of minutes ago...
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[chrisaldrich] after aaronpk's report
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[tantek] ok then I won't bother posting again. thanks [chrisaldrich]++
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Loqi [chrisaldrich] has 24 karma in this channel over the last year (56 in all channels)
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KartikPrabhu [tantek]: yeah no tweeting from the web interface for me
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KartikPrabhu I wonder if bridgy works :P
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[tantek] are you verified KartikPrabhu?
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KartikPrabhu nope
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aaronpk huh
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[tantek] alrighty then maybe they did flip the switch.
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[tantek] waits for the TikTok
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beko hm. seeing a verified account post ~7m shy.
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KartikPrabhu https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/1283522373430513672
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@meyerweb @dansinker Rumor is Twitter itself was compromised internally, not the individual accounts. Somebody basically got root on an internal management tool or something. We’ll see if that’s confirmed… /cc @vikkie (twitter.com/_/status/1283522373430513672)
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KartikPrabhu oh also nvm I can tweet
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KartikPrabhu It seems only verified users are frozen
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KartikPrabhu this is some high-level troll (or orc): https://twitter.com/thegoodgodabove/status/1283530562913869826
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@thegoodgodabove TWITTER HAS LOCKED VERIFIED ACCOUNTS FROM TWEETING! THE AGE OF THE BLUE CHECKS IS OVER! THE TIME OF THE ORC HAS COME (twitter.com/_/status/1283530562913869826)
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[tantek] 💀
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[chrisaldrich] I was able to POSSE using Brid.gy a few minutes ago, so that doesn't seem to be down atm.
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[chrisaldrich] The gray suggested words "What's Happening?" on Twitter never seemed so prescient to me...
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KartikPrabhu just possed https://kartikprabhu.com/notes/twitter-lockdown-haircut
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Loqi [Kartik Prabhu] Why is @twitter lockeddown!!!!? I need a haircut!!!!
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jacky yeah it's only verified accounts
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jacky makes me curious if the vuln's related to that or since verified users are a smaller groups so it's "safer" to block them
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OberstKrueger[m] More potential damage if other non-Bitcoin stuff starts coming from verified accounts.
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[tantek] aaronpk, can you retweet? https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/1283528365173948416
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@internetofshit Hello verified users, you can't tweet, but you CAN retweet, so I'll help you out (twitter.com/_/status/1283528365173948416)
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[tantek] (see also that thread 😂 )
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aaronpk hahahaha
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Loqi nice
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KartikPrabhu also need the numerals
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[tantek] should a just done . and - and made everyone do morse lol
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aaronpk https://inessential.com/2020/07/15/zillion_times_easier
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[tantek] POSSE copy: https://twitter.com/brentsimmons/status/1283534944493502470
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@brentsimmons Reminder: it’s a zillion times easier to hack Twitter and take over accounts of Apple, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, and others than it would be to hack their separate websites. Distributed systems are safer. (twitter.com/_/status/1283534944493502470)
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[chrisaldrich] This is a great way to give voice the small, weak, and marginalized. Maybe *that*'s the point of this hack?
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KartikPrabhu [chrisaldrich]: is it? or will it be all the eggs and robots?
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sknebel https://twitter.com/NateSilver538
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[tantek] amazing
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[chrisaldrich] Harry McCracken has apparently taken to retweeting his old messages: https://twitter.com/harrymccracken
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[chrisaldrich] Anyone using this as an excuse to go back to Plurk? 😉
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Frosti Hello! I'm at the Elm City web camp, joined from another New Hampshire coding program, nice to meet you all!
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jacky o/ welcome
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[jgmac1106] Hello frosti....glad to see you...frost has an awesome micro.blog account