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Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt

https://enroll.sh

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Every complex ecosystem has parasites; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/

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A rainforest in Chiapas, green and intergrown.
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Canadian Big Content spokesjerk says the public domain is against the public interest https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/04/canadian-recording-industry-works-entering-the-public-domain-are-not-in-the-public-interest/

Riot Baby https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/riot-baby/#Tochi-Onyebuchi

Mayor of Las Vegas says the "free market" will decide what's safe https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/riot-baby/#carolyn-goodman

"Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs

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@julian@fietkau.social avatar julian , to random

I am publishing a small / project: https://fietkau.software/webfinger_canary and @canary 🙂

It is a tiny bot showcasing a split-domain WebFinger setup, where the handle domain is different from the ActivityPub server domain. This is supported by Mastodon and some other ActivityPub implementations, but not all of them.

So this project, aimed at devs and power users, is part test case, part feature recommendation/advocacy. The bot's website at https://correct.webfinger-canary.fietkau.software/ has all the details.

julian OP ,
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@mro @aSeppoToTry To test the split-domain handle on a remote actor, you can look up @canary in your platform and see what handle it shows you. I just gave it a try, see attachment.

It currently shows the wrong hostname. That means it's using the ActivityPub ID to construct the handle, when the handle domain should be coming from the WebFinger result. See my checklist https://correct.webfinger-canary.fietkau.software/#developers or the SocialCG report https://www.w3.org/community/reports/socialcg/CG-FINAL-apwf-20240608/#reverse-discovery for details on how to fix it.

Btw: very cool project! 👍

julian OP ,
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@mro You do a WebFinger request on the AP host domain, and its response will give you a subject with the correct handle domain. See for example this account: https://toot.kif.rocks/@team and its WebFinger response: https://toot.kif.rocks/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected] This is a Mastodon split-domain setup.

The process is described here: https://www.w3.org/community/reports/socialcg/CG-FINAL-apwf-20240608/#reverse-discovery (step 4 is important for this)

@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social avatar RememberUsAlways , to random

What happened to the or the ?

Watch out! The return of the ?

Proof of a psyop in progress:
"Indeed, the so-called “ trade” has been front and center as investors look more confident in the former president’s chances in November after he survived an attempt last weekend."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-market-ruled-by-trump-trade-and-the-fed-heres-how-to-keep-track-94985202?mod=search_headline