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My incident report regarding smollestbunny @ mastodon.nz

As I speak, mastodon.nz is up to 7.5k active accounts. That's bananas, crazy numbers, for a server that a few weeks ago had an order of magnitude fewer folks. I tender my heartfelt congratulations to the admins and moderators of the server; what a wild ride!

It does mean that mastodon.nz is now easily the single biggest host of the NZTwit community, and this confers hefty moderation responsibilities on a team that has expanded quickly to meet its needs. A volunteer team, mind you, motivated not by money or glory but by an interest in growing and supporting a community. Unpaid, and during their free time.

At the best of times, moderation isn't easy. Actually, mostly it sucks. Besides the day-to-day noise of defederating from openly fascistic servers, and dealing with the crappy flotsam that drifts in from the fediverse, there's the community itself. Everyone's always stepping on each others' toes, and often there's not a way to adjudicate i

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openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  description: API Spec for OTI
  termsOfService: /tos
  title: OTI API
  version: 0.0.1
components:
  securitySchemes:
      api_key:
        type: http

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function List() {}

function EmptyList() {}
EmptyList.prototype = new List();
EmptyList.prototype.constructor = EmptyList;

EmptyList.prototype.toString = function() { return "()"; };
EmptyList.prototype.isEmpty = function() { return true; };
EmptyList.prototype.length = function() { console.log('length 0'); return 0; };
EmptyList.prototype.push = function(x) { return new ListNode(x, this); };

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=TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/",REPT(" ",100)),99))

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require 'delegate'

class SimpleDecorator < SimpleDelegator
  attr_reader :context

  def initialize(raw, view_context = nil)
    @context = view_context if view_context
    super raw
  end

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def build_date_filter(earliest_date, latest_date)
  return '' if !earliest_date && !latest_date
  latest_date_query = "publicationDate > #{earliest_date}" if earliest_date
  earliest_date_query = "publicationDate < #{latest_date}" if latest_date
  if latest_date_query && earliest_date_query
    "(#{latest_date_query} AND #{earliest_date_query})"
  else
    latest_date_query ? latest_date_query : earliest_date_query
  end
end

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Extracting Workflows with DCI - Link Dump

Assorted further research links from my Ruby Nights meetup presentation.

Libraries

• Wisper
• MrDarcy by James Harton, Breccan and Eoin.
• Playhouse by Enspiral
• Surrounded by Jim Gay

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CREATE ROLE readonly LOGIN PASSWORD 'some_pass';
-- Existing objects
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE the_db TO readonly;
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO readonly;
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO readonly;
GRANT SELECT ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO readonly;
GRANT EXECUTE ON ALL FUNCTIONS IN SCHEMA public TO readonly;
-- New objects
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR owner_user IN SCHEMA public GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO readonly;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR owner_user IN SCHEMA public GRANT SELECT ON SEQUENCES TO readonly;

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AllCops:
  Excludes:
    - setup_environment.rb

# Prefer a comma at the end of a multiline, to minimise diff changes and
# enable easier rearranging of lines.
TrailingComma:
  EnforcedStyleForMultiline: comma

# Experimenting with the idea of having the `private`, `protected`

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##
# Simple Warden configuration, complex "controller"

# In config/initializers/warden.rb
Rails.application.config.middleware.use Warden::Manager do |manager|
  manager.failure_app = UnauthorizedController
end

# app/controllers/unauthorized_controller.rb
class UnauthorizedController < ActionController::Metal