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awesome-osint
- OSINT List Repository Including Specialty Search Engines for Use in Penetration Testing and Other Purposes
- Seeking For OSINT Tools
- Hey guys a little upset (divorce post)
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NAACP sues Minneapolis, alleging covert social media surveillance by cops
You can even get in on the fun yourself!
- Can someone help me understand what is OSINT good for, and also a list of curated resources to get into it?
- What are some good websites for osint??
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who was in the wrong here?
Linking them together? Probably some form of Open Source Intelligence.
- Learning from and paying the vigilantes
- Hey I'm new not sure if it has been mentioned before but there is a great web based OSINT Resource, tools from EVERY CATEGORY.
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Maigret: an easy-to-use and powerful OSINT tool for collecting a dossier on a person by username instant from thousands of sites.
Please note that using maigret from github you violate the copyright of the Snoop Project (because its database is illegally used there - the most valuable thing in this software).
Mastodon
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Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?
Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/)
Looks like what you describe, doesn't it?
> Social networking that's not for sale.
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Alt Text box can't fit one screenshot of text
Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268
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Open source at Fastly is getting opener
Through the Fast Forward program, we give free services and support to open source projects and the nonprofits that support them. We support many of the worldโs top programming languages (like Python, Rust, Ruby, and the wonderful Scratch), foundational technologies (cURL, the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, OpenStreetMap), and projects that make the internet better and more fun for everyone (Inkscape, Mastodon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Terms of Service; Didnโt Read).
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Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
Mastodon DMs have absolutely no privacy: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079
For a decentralized protocol doing things right is much more important than doing things fast, it is very difficult (and in a lot of cases impossible) to break backwards compatibility.
- External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by Email Change
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Ask HN: Best practice for posting links to large Mastodon threads?
Postmortem on what happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39305884
The v1 API of Mastodon limits the size of the tree that it will expand for users who are not logged into the server: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb . I am guessing that this or some similar limit applies to threads being returned to unauthenticated users of the web UI. It just arbitrarily stops expanding the replies at some point, including the main thread from the OP.
If a thread is truncated, users expect it to expand automatically and autoscroll when you hit the bottom. In my desktop browser, that does not occur, and there is no indication that there is more to see. This is the situation of the web interface as of Mastodon version 4.2.5.
The issue is very sensitive to observer conditions. If you are logged into the server, the behavior is different. If you use a Mastodon app instead of the web, the behavior might be different. As the tree expands, the cutoffs become different. If you look at the thread on a different Mastodon server, the tree is different because every server has its own view of the Fediverse.
HN needs a best practice for linking to Mastodon threads in a way that provides a consistent experience to HN readers. The average Mastodon server would be crushed by hundreds of HN readers grabbing the entirety of a huge thread all at once, so this might involve some thread-unroll-and-cache service. I tried https://mastoreader.io/ but it did not solve the problem.
Alternately, we push changes into the Mastodon web UI to warn users when they need to click to see more and assume that people will get used to the navigation.
Suggestions?
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CVE-2024-23832 Mastodon Vulnerability: Remote user impersonation and takeover
Fixed in Mastodon v4.2.5 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.5
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Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
>You can defeat the Affero clause by putting the software behind a proxy, for example
Could someone elaborate on this? This is NOT my understanding of the license, and it seems absurd considering e.g. Mastodon is AGPL but the standard install requires a reverse proxy[1]. If using a proxy defeats Affero, why would the Mastodon team do this? Are they stupid?
[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/dist/nginx.co...
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You Can't Follow Me
Mastodon is free and open-source. Go ahead and add the flag:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING....
- Change Referer value to something generic such as "urn:activitypub:Mastodon"
What are some alternatives?
holehe - holehe allows you to check if the mail is used on different sites like twitter, instagram and will retrieve information on sites with the forgotten password function.
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
sherlock - ๐ Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
Misskey - ๐ An interplanetary microblogging platform ๐
seeker - Accurately Locate Smartphones using Social Engineering
Lemmy - ๐ A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
PENTESTING-BIBLE - articles
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
social-analyzer - API, CLI, and Web App for analyzing and finding a person's profile in 1000 social media \ websites
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
osint - Collections of tools and methods created to aid in OSINT collection
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working