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The recent & cofirmed¹ #Google #Leak on #Github has revealed - they lied² for years:

✔ Track what users do in #Chrome #Browser & use it⁰³
✔ Store a copy of every #website & version they ever indexed⁴
✔ (Likely) Manual influence on #search results (Quality Raters)⁴
✔ Whitelist (Up-/Downrank) Covid & #Election websites³⁴
✔ Keep #domain registration information⁵

Good they already removed the company motto "Don't be evil" 😂

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@protonmail

No... I disagree...

Adding the #old #keys to the new #registrar does #NOT work.

I #waited days... (3.5 to be exact)

I had to delete the #domain to reinitialize the #keys, effectively... adding the domain as new.

As #SOON as I did... I mean within seconds... @protonmail seen it and recognized me as #owner...

All is well now... thank you for reaching out though... it is far, far more than most #services do... 👊

Long live the #ProtonEmpire... 🎉

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#Stress... switched from #googledomains to #namecheap, as to #NOT get caught in the #squarespace price hike... (I'd rather get #caughtinamosh)

All went well... 16 #domains... one fell swoop... even my @protonmail...
Or did it...? Nope... worked for a week, then... nothing.

But I followed all the instructions... all the #badges were green...!?!

Then it happen @protonmail disabled all my email accounts... ugh... now what... they can no longer #verify my #domain.

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僕の使っているコマンドラインツールの 12月13日分はawkです。Rubyで書くほど複雑ではないけれど各行処理では済まないデータの集約に便利です。

ここでは https://gist.github.com/zunda/f566e2bb85ca0616d351139363274ec5 で取得したActivityPubサーバの情報を集計してみます。先週取得した情報がタブ区切りで20231205.tsv
に保存されています。

まず、。-F\\tで入力をタブ区切りにします。

$ awk -F\\t '/^#/{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){print i,$i}}' 20231205.tsv
1
2 software
3 version
4 users_total
5 users_active_month
6 local_posts
7 peers
8 checked_at
9 error
10 nodeinfo_versions

mastodoサーバの月あたりアクティブユーザ数の平均と標準偏差を求めてみます。標準偏差は、各データの自乗の平均から平均の自乗を引いた結果の平方根として求められます。データが得られなかった場合には * が記録されていますので除外します。

$ awk -F\\t '{if($2=="mastodon"&&$5!="*"){s+=$5;s2+=$5*$5;n++}}END{avg=s/n;stddev=sqrt(s2/n-av*av);print(avg,stddev)}' 20231205.tsv
137.306 5164.52

標準偏差が平均よりずいぶん大きいです。正規分布から離れていて、平均や標準偏差にはあまり意味がなさそうですね。

ざっくり大きさ分布を求めてみます。ユーザ数の桁数で分けます。

$ awk -F\\t '{if($2=="mastodon"&&$5!="*"){print int(log($5)/log(10))}}' 20231205.tsv | sort | uniq -c
8512 0
1312 1
483 2
109 3
14 4
2 5
1080 -inf

アクティブユーザ数が1桁のサーバがほとんどのようです。

Gistcrawler to measure size distribution of ActivityPub serverscrawler to measure size distribution of ActivityPub servers - crawl-activitypub.rb

Techies who repudiate #domain name validation as a cornerstone of users avoiding malicious sites are offering security advice that is fundamentally broken.

If you think users are too dense to check the spelling of a domain before they click a link (from an email, doc, etc) then they're not going to navigate your much more complex and vague behavioral advice about what is/isn't proper in #email, either.

#pki#https#infosec