Notices by (◕‿‿◕) zoe!?! (zoe@sleeping.town)

2 days ago: audio is leaked saying that zuckerberg is extremely mad over the democratic candidates trying to push for breaking up facebook

6 hours ago: facebook quietly changes policy about false and misleading info, saying political ads are no longer fact-checked. at about the same time Trump begins to put up false and misleading ads

it's no longer "the algorithm", social media is being intentionally manipulated to push for political situations where the rich stay in power

holy SHIT

"Google Says Malicious Websites Have Been Quietly Hacking iPhones for Years"
(this involved 0days)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwne5/malicious-websites-hacked-iphones-for-years

(original blogpost: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-dive-into-ios-exploit.html)

hey can i have some extra money, i just got notified i couldn't finish a payment by paypal and i would like to have something to eat for today ;;

https://paypal.me/0x53

Honestly I don't think these people get that we both understand and are fine with the fact that our posts, someday, will disappear

Nobody but them is expressing concerns over this, and instead of just downloading their own posts to keep backups, they've taken it upon themselves to "save us" from what they deem to be a "threat to the safety of our data"

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(note: to be fair a lot of them seem to be more motivated by "well I can so why shouldn't I?" and not...any reasonable concern, but those people are what I call "dipshits" and i'm just going to ignore them for the purposes of this post)

Here's a copy of their peers as of the current date.
If your instance is connected to any of the relays on this list, you know any of the people running these relays, or your instance itself is on this list, please alert your administrator. https://files.smooch.computer/x/2019-08-16_17-55-55.txt

Please make sure to block fedichive.tk, they've connected to every activityrelay running on the fediverse. You can do this either by using admin utilities or blocking the current IP, 71.234.189.151

Domain block https://fedichive.tk/

IP is 71.234.189.151

Amazon quietly removed a line from its transparency report saying it had "never participated" in the NSA's PRISM program.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/amazon-prism-transparency-data/

ip location lookup lookup: reverse engineer what version of the geoipdb someone's using based on what country they think certain ips are in

please block both sinblr.com and cyzed.com

the sinblr admin has seen fit to set up a gab instance and is letting gab-types run about on there

other than the fact that the donate link on cyzed directs to sinblr, you can see that they're hosted by the same person here: http://archive.is/yDSV6

1. request /api/v1/instance. if contact_account has the keys "is_pro" and/or "is_verified", then it is running gab social or a variation.

that isn't super reliable, as they may change the keys or a contact_account may not exist, which leads me onto my second check:

2. check the response to "/users/[username].json", where any valid username on that instance goes in [username]. if a json-ld namespace named "gab" exists, then it is running gab social or a variation

i dont know what mood this is but mood

Hey VSauce. Michael here.