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Just like catcatnya, infosec.exchange just gives a black page. Up, but broken, at least in my browser.

(update) browser issue. Downvoted myself on this to lessen the visibility although some may still find that interesting so I’ll let the thread live.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/9930406

I have never used Facebook. I’m trying to understand the ways in which people are getting trapped in there. Obviously there is an addiction factor, but I’m more interested in how someone who is (hypothetically) immune to addiction might still be forced into #Facebook.

If someone needs Facebook to access something essential like healthcare, that’s what I want to hear about. To inspire a list of things that are “essential” I had a look at human rights law to derive this list:

• right to life
• healthcare
• freedom of expression
• freedom of assembly and of association
• right to education
• right to engage in work and access to placement services
• fair and just working conditions
• social security and social assistance
• consumer protection
• right to vote
• right to petition
• right of access to (government) documents
• right to a nationality (passport acquisition)
• right of equal access to public service in his country

I don’t imagine that Facebook has an essential role in supporting people’s human rights. I assume most gov offices have a Facebook presence, but there is always a way to access the same services outside of FB, correct?

I can think of a couple situations where FB access is important to reaching something essential. E.g.

• A police department recovered stolen bicycles and announced that theft victims could visit the FB page of the police dept. to see if their bicycle appears in the photos. Non-FB users were blocked from the page and there was no other means to reach the photos. Effectively, non-FB users were denied equal access to public services.

• A Danish university has a Facebook page as well as just about every single student. Facebook was used exclusively to announce campus social events and even some optional classes. Students without FB were excluded. In a sense, they were being excluded from some aspects to public education, although strictly speaking the FB exclusive events were not required to obtain a degree.

• Regarding freedom of assembly, there is an activist group in my local area fighting for the right to be offline. I wanted to join the group, but their sole presence is on Facebook, ironically. So my freedom of assembly in this case is conditioned on being trapped in Facebook.

In any case, I would like to hear more examples of what essential information or services is compromised by leaving or neglecting to join Facebook.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/8864206

I bought a Silicondust HD Homerun back before they put their website on Cloudflare. I love the design of having a tuner with a cat5 port, so the tuner can work with laptops and is not dependent on being installed into a PC.

But now that Silicondust is part of Cloudflare, I will no longer buy their products. I do not patronize Cloudflare patrons.

I would love to have a satellite tuner in a separate external box that:

• tunes into free-to-air content
• has a cat5 connection
• is MythTV compatible

Any hardware suggestions other than #Silicondust?

catcatnya.com just gives a black page. Up, but broken, at least in my browser.

(update) browser issue. Downvoted myself on this to lessen the visibility although some may still find that interesting so I’ll let the thread live.

tested from tor. Also reported down by downinspector.com.

BTW, downinspector.com is the only Cloudflare-free service of its kind, but it’s notable that noscript reports XSS scripting attempts via Google.

(edit) it came back online yesterday.

The mamot.fr website and web client seems to be up for everyone. But for the past few days the #mamot.fr API for 3rd-party apps has been unreachable. Unverified: whether Tor is a factor. It would be interesting to hear from a non-Tor user if they can reach #MamotFR from a 3rd party app.

update

mamot.fr has been unreliable for 2 weeks now for API access as well as normal web access. It’s hit or miss. Sometimes it’s up, sometimes down, slow to load, and slow to login. I’m on Tor every time so it could be some kind of tor defensive move. Like tar-pitting. I guess at this point we should consider this problem permanent. It’s much less convenient to use now.

The following fedi instances are perpetually exclusive because they sit inside Cloudflare’s walled garden:

• lemmy.world
• sh.itjust.works
• zerobytes.monster
• lemmy·ca
• lemm·ee
• programming.dev
• lemmy.zip

If you cannot reach these instances, there are many possible reasons:

• you use a VPN
• you use a browser Cloudflare discriminates against while also using Tor
• you are using a public library PC
• your ISP uses CGNAT to allocate your IP address (often in impoverished communities)
• you have disabled image loading (because you are visually impaired, or you are on a capped uplink, or you are an environmentalist), which then triggers a false positive for being a robot.
• you are a legitimate beneficial bot (Cloudflare treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots)

The listed sites will rarely be down for everyone but will often be unavailable to those in the above mentioned discriminated demographics of people.