Christian Winther jippi

Detecting the real IP of a Cloudflare'd Mastodon instance

NB: This will not work for instances that proxy outgoing requests!

Reading the docs

I wanted to find a way to detect the real IP address of a Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey/etc instance hosted behind Cloudflare. How to do that? Well, it's federated, which means I can probably get it to send a request to a server of mine! And how to do that? I tried reading the ActivityPub spec. The following caught my attention:

Servers should not trust client submitted content, and federated servers also should not trust content received from a server other than the content's origin without some form of verification.

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Dashboards

Team Dashboard - http://fdietz.github.io/team_dashboard/
Geckoboard - http://www.geckoboard.com/ - Slick data dashboards.
Leftronic - https://www.leftronic.com/ - Similar, doesn't seem quite as organised looking
Dashing - http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ - Simple metric dashboards by Shopify. Widget list

Charting

HighCharts - http://www.highcharts.com/ Not very inspiring but very widely used & performant
Google Charts - https://developers.google.com/chart/ Again, not very inspiring but can be customised
Flot - http://www.flotcharts.org/ Gorgeous slick HTML5 graphs

	#!/bin/bash
	# for rundeck with mysql db

	# keep last X executions for each job
	KEEP=300

	cd /var/lib/rundeck/logs/rundeck

	JOBS=`find . -maxdepth 3 -path "/job/" -type d`

	# check if leader exist (means associated session with the )
	hasSession=$(curl -s http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/service/migration/leader \| jq -r .[] \| jq 'has("Session")')
	if [ -z "$hasSession" ] \|\| [ "$hasSession" = false ]; then
	# create session
	session=$(curl -s -X PUT -d '{"Name": "migration"}' http://localhost:8500/v1/session/create \| jq -r .ID)
	echo "session=$session"
	leaderValue=$(curl -s http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/service/migration/leader \| jq -r .[].Value \| base64 --decode)
	echo "leaderValue=$leaderValue"
	if [ -z "$leaderValue" ] \|\| [ "$leaderValue" != "JOB_DONE" ]; then
	# try to put a lock

	<?php
	function root_path() {
	return '/';
	}

	function pathify() {
	foreach ( Router::$routes as $route ) {
	$parts = [];
	if ( isset( $route->defaults['prefix'] ) && !is_null( $route->defaults['prefix'] ) ) {
	$parts[] = $route->defaults['prefix'];

	#!/bin/bash
	options=('find' 'delete')
	PS3='state your wish: '

	echo -e "\nfind/delete corrupt whisper-files"

	select opt in "${options[@]}"; do
	case $REPLY in
	[12] ) option=$opt; break;;
	* ) exit;;

	server {
	listen 8080 default_server deferred;

	charset utf-8;
	access_log /var/log/nginx/graphite.access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/graphite.error.log;

	root /opt/graphite/webapp;

	location /static/admin/ {

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

	$GearmanStatus = new GearmanStatus();
	$GearmanStatus->setStatsdConfig(array('host' => '127.0.0.1', 'port' => 8125, 'prefix' => 'gearmand', 'rate' => 1));
	$GearmanStatus->setGearmanConfig(array('host' => '127.0.0.1', 'port' => 4730));
	$GearmanStatus->setDebug(true \|\| false);
	$GearmanStatus->reset();
	$GearmanStatus->getCounters();
	$GearmanStatus->getStatus();
	$GearmanStatus->getWorkers();
	$GearmanStatus->getRawStatus();
	$GearmanStatus->transmitCountersToStatsD();