mike tigas @mtigas@mastodon.social
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devops+security lead at propublica. used to do a little journalism.
contributor at @torproject, original dev of onion browser for iOS.
he/him.
sometimes on the birdsite as @mtigas, but not *super* active on most social media these days #nobot
Joined Apr 2018
mike tigas
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on russian censorship and Tor https://www.wired.com/story/tor-browser-russia-blocks/ #tor #censorship
been trying brave's search engine lately; whipped up a Firefox/TorBrowser extension to add the .onion version to the browser:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brave-search-tor-onion/
https://0xacab.org/mtigas/firefox-brave-onion
mike tigas
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📢 Exit relay operators, we need you to upgrade to Tor 0.4.7.7 as soon as possible! This is the first stable Tor release with support for congestion control, which will result in significant performance improvements for users. Upgrade to 0.4.7.7 now.
mike tigas
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Might be worth noting in #feditips but if you set up to cross-post from Twitter to Fedi/Mastodon, disable retweets and quote replies for proper fediquette
If your posts on fedi look like "RT @/suchandsuch" people will find this spammy and likely mute you because we're trying to get away from that site and don't want to see automated interactions from there, if that makes sense.
Not trying to be mean just being helpful because a lot of folks do it and it does get spammy
If your posts on fedi look like "RT @/suchandsuch" people will find this spammy and likely mute you because we're trying to get away from that site and don't want to see automated interactions from there, if that makes sense.
Not trying to be mean just being helpful because a lot of folks do it and it does get spammy
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A few years ago I made this flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!
So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.
This is why it's important to boost good posts and use hashtags - the fediverse is fragmented and harder to search by nature.
"read this, idiot" is literally how i'm sharing everything that publishes at work from now on https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38138391/propublica-air-pollution-cancer-race-texas/
the python `ipaddress` library is super neat (& i'm so glad i no longer have to do the logic for stuff like this on my own)
IP feed is here under "Access IP geolocation feeds": https://developer.apple.com/support/prepare-your-network-for-icloud-private-relay/
threw together a tiny thing for parsing IPs against the iCloud Private Relay ip geolocation list (b/c i've been messing around with new safari): https://0xacab.org/mtigas/appleip/-/blob/main/ip.py
are there any well-maintained, decently-federated mastodon instances with onion services these days? (it looks like some under-the-hood configuration bits got sorted out earlier this year: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15501 )
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"Individual data centers were reporting dips in power usage in the range of tens of megawatts..."
src: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/
Good grief! Between this and cryptocurrency...
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is this still a thing
Cross-posting from birdsite: if you've ever used Onion Browser on iOS or if you just have o p i n i o n s about mobile security UX, please help the Onion Browser team out and take our survey!
https://okthanks.typeform.com/to/iw3KZp #tor #privacy #ios #onionbrowser
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i have some *feelings* about this as a reluctant and constantly burnt out FOSS maintainer; looking forward to reading this over the weekend https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable
- Keybase
- https://keybase.io/mtigas
devops+security lead at propublica. used to do a little journalism.
contributor at @torproject, original dev of onion browser for iOS.
he/him.
sometimes on the birdsite as @mtigas, but not *super* active on most social media these days #nobot
Joined Apr 2018
