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Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by oblio »

djsumdog wrote: post #29
FreeHugs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is: I have yet to find a person in the fediverse that interests me. I like to read tweets from accomplished people. Successful startup founders for example. Is there anybody out there? Any links to people of significance in the fediverse?

Drew Dewalt. Richard Stevens (Diesel Sweeties) and wait ... why do you give a shit? Why do people have to be famous to be relevant? Follow random people. Remember 90s AOL chatrooms?

> Why do you give a shit? Why do people have to be famous to be relevant? Follow random people.

Plan A: Use Twitter (or other media like it).

Plan B: Change human nature.

I wish you good luck in your endeavour with Plan B, djsumdog! :)

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by arcturus17 »

djsumdog wrote: post #29
FreeHugs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is: I have yet to find a person in the fediverse that interests me. I like to read tweets from accomplished people. Successful startup founders for example. Is there anybody out there? Any links to people of significance in the fediverse?

Drew Dewalt. Richard Stevens (Diesel Sweeties) and wait ... why do you give a shit? Why do people have to be famous to be relevant? Follow random people. Remember 90s AOL chatrooms?

This comment is vintage open source jihadism.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

#33

Post by bestnameever »

luu wrote: post #25
vanderZwan wrote: post #23

What I find strange how this is presented as an either-or option between banning and not banning. You can also have an intermediate warning page. YouTube does this to any third-party website for example. Something like "Warning: JSFiddle has been abused by spammers to run crypto mining scripts. We recommend that you that you do not continue to this JSFiddle page unless you trust the source of the link" should work ju…

[Edit: whoops, misread the issue. Sorry!]

Per the text, the screenshot you are seeing is what happens when someone links to a jsfiddle using a url shortner but posts linking directly to jsfiddle are rejected.

>Twitter is rejecting posts with JSFiddle URL inside.

>If a URL shortener is used the unsafe page warning is displayed[1]

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

#34

Post by danmur »

luu wrote: post #25
vanderZwan wrote: post #23

What I find strange how this is presented as an either-or option between banning and not banning. You can also have an intermediate warning page. YouTube does this to any third-party website for example. Something like "Warning: JSFiddle has been abused by spammers to run crypto mining scripts. We recommend that you that you do not continue to this JSFiddle page unless you trust the source of the link" should work ju…

[Edit: whoops, misread the issue. Sorry!]

I think that screenshot was from a link posted with a URL shortener. Weird that it makes a difference.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

#35

Post by StudentStuff »

FreeHugs wrote: post #21
djsumdog wrote: post #14

JSFiddle is big. They tried. They voiced concerns. They asked foe help. They got a ban with no explanation. Please just join the fediverse. It's broken too, but if you get banned, at least you can open an alt on another server. Force Twitter to be irrelevant.

The problem is: I have yet to find a person in the fediverse that interests me. I like to read tweets from accomplished people. Successful startup founders for example. Is there anybody out there? Any links to people of significance in the fediverse?

Avoid the fediverse please, the point is to have a more humane environment, not follow #thoughtfluencers.

If you do join choose your instance wisely, beware that many instances block mastodon.social, freespeechextremist.com and similar for being hot messes that have no moderation. The latter instance in particular has a very persistent hellthread spambot problem, where bots sling nudes without content warnings at people constantly.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

#36

Post by scrollaway »

djsumdog wrote: post #29
FreeHugs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is: I have yet to find a person in the fediverse that interests me. I like to read tweets from accomplished people. Successful startup founders for example. Is there anybody out there? Any links to people of significance in the fediverse?

Drew Dewalt. Richard Stevens (Diesel Sweeties) and wait ... why do you give a shit? Why do people have to be famous to be relevant? Follow random people. Remember 90s AOL chatrooms?

> why do you give a shit?

Given your tone, I'm going to guess you're not asking the GP a question in earnest. You should try to think about why they might "give a shit".

Twitter's userbase is its primary feature. Not its shitty UI, not its awful character limit, and none of the stuff mastodon's various UIs are copying. Its userbase.

If you want the fediverse to succeed, you need to understand that. And you need to stop being so accusatory of people who don't use the internet the same way you do, FFS.

(And for the record, I want the fediverse to succeed, but I also use Twitter because userbase)

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by StudentStuff »

scrollaway wrote: post #36
djsumdog wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drew Dewalt. Richard Stevens (Diesel Sweeties) and wait ... why do you give a shit? Why do people have to be famous to be relevant? Follow random people. Remember 90s AOL chatrooms?

> why do you give a shit? Given your tone, I'm going to guess you're not asking the GP a question in earnest. You should try to think about why they might "give a shit". Twitter's userbase is its primary feature. Not its shitty UI, not its awful character limit, and none of the stuff mastodon's various UIs are copying. Its userbase . If you want the fediverse to succeed, you need to understand that. And you need to s…

I don't want the fediverse to "succeed", frankly its the only space for us LGBTQ+ to not be harassed, reply guyed, and screen-capped online that isn't a corporate hellhole.

Edit: "Success" in our current world seems to be defined as the transition Reddit has gone through, where the userbase has exploded, its eaten Facebook's lunch to a fair degree, but the quality of discourse and interaction has dropped like a rock.

I've stopped using Reddit, and such a change would kill my use of the fediverse.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by maaaats »

vfc1 wrote: post #7

Given the nature of the product, there is no way for the maintainers of Js fiddle to prevent it from being used to run arbitrary code, because that is what it's meant to do. It's also impossible for both jsfiddle or twitter to scan the code of each fiddle and determine if it's legitimate or an attack, so this looks like a good measure from Twitter. What is surprising is how this was even allowed so far and still is i…

Couldn't any link point to anything that runs arbitrary code? Does it matter if it's on jsfiddle or xyz.com?

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by jeena »

StudentStuff wrote: post #35
FreeHugs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is: I have yet to find a person in the fediverse that interests me. I like to read tweets from accomplished people. Successful startup founders for example. Is there anybody out there? Any links to people of significance in the fediverse?

Avoid the fediverse please, the point is to have a more humane environment, not follow #thoughtfluencers. If you do join choose your instance wisely, beware that many instances block mastodon.social, freespeechextremist.com and similar for being hot messes that have no moderation. The latter instance in particular has a very persistent hellthread spambot problem, where bots sling nudes without content warnings at peo…

Or just host your own instance where you yourself decide what you want to see or not see, and what you want to write or not to write.

Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs

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Post by onion2k »

vfc1 wrote: post #7

Given the nature of the product, there is no way for the maintainers of Js fiddle to prevent it from being used to run arbitrary code, because that is what it's meant to do. It's also impossible for both jsfiddle or twitter to scan the code of each fiddle and determine if it's legitimate or an attack, so this looks like a good measure from Twitter. What is surprising is how this was even allowed so far and still is i…

Given the nature of the product, there is no way for the maintainers of Js fiddle to prevent it from being used to run arbitrary code, because that is what it's meant to do.

There are things they could do though - such as limiting the execution time of a fiddle to a couple of minutes, or limiting the size of the code, or blocking certain calls, and so on. Users are running code that's been saved to the JSFiddle server, so it's not unreasonable to suggest JSFiddle have some responsibility to their visitors. They could make it so the code runs fine if you're the owner or if you've explicitly said it's OK to take up more resources, but defaults to running with these limits if you've just browsed to a Fiddle from a link. They could block common mining scripts (which would only work against 'scriptkiddie' attacks rather than anything sophisticated, but whatever).

There are things the JSFiddle maintainers could do. They don't have to, and in their position I might not do anything either, but the cost of inaction in this case is Twitter blocking links to their site.

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