@mkljczk@mstdn.io
On the one hand its Gargrons right to allow whatever services he wants to access his API. This is no different than blocking a fediverse server. That said I think its unfair to call this a DDOS or even a misuse of the API.. In fact I'd say this is the very purpose of an activity pub endpoint, so anyone can access the data and interoperate with the server as they see fit.
@xorowl@mastodon.technology @jimpjorps @Gargron
Welcome and enjoy. It is very freeing not to have a limit. It was the first feature we implemented here :)
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This is my (third) Mastodon account I've created. I made this one so I could write longer posts. My main account is @vital876@mastodon.social.
qoto.org's theme looks awesome. I feel like I'm on a spaceship of some kind. The character limit is 65,532? That's crazy high!
@strawberryfieldsforever I made the account! Oh my goodness. That character limit is nice to see! 🎉💃
@stux Im not sure you can call it misusing.. isnt the whole point of an open protocol so people can use it to do things exactly like this (ping it to get info they wish to display)? It seems its just popular, nothing malicious about it.
@pipe I think she would like that :)
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@trinsec They never even came close to overthrowing anything.. because aside from one or two nut jobs most had no intention to overthrow anything.
yea thats mostly true. Keeping in mind in each case we are talking about one specific vaccine, not all of them, there are real elevated risks of heart inflamation (which may lead to heart attack), and even blood clotting and other issues. AZ for example is no longer recommended as a vaccine in some countries except in special cases due to risk of blood clot.
I never claimed there are no risks. But generally the risks are smaller than the risk of covid as far as the evidence shows. Moreover my point before about comparing VARS to background still applies. If someone comes in with a heart attack a doctor would have no way of knowing if that specific case was due to the vaccine or not, only by looking at vars and normalizing against the background can we see if, more generally, it increases risk of heart attack, inflamation of clotting (and in some cases it does, though not to such an extent as to be worse than risk of the virus, as in, very minimal risk).
@vital876@mastodon.social
Yes it could be. Could also be causing your dick to drow an extra 12 inches... anything is possible :)
Point is the way we determine if it is likely (not just possible) is by looking to see if the report in VARS (or other sources) occur more often than in the general public. Without comparing it to the general public the data in VARs wont tell you anything.
@vital876@mastodon.social
Yes it can... So whats the point of the question then? or what does that show?
@vital876@mastodon.social
Vaccines sure can cause a heart attack, potentially. I am not saying that no heart attacks are caused by the vaccine. I am saying that you have no way of knowing if it is caused by the vaccine or not on a case by case basis.
@vital876@mastodon.social
@freemo
Those insane people have a confirmation bias. If you say they are correct, their confirmation certitude will strenghtened, if you say they are false, they will refuse to agree that they are wrong, and often argue that those are tactics to silent them or abuse them etc...
You can't argue with a 12 years old on the net, same goes for whack job conspiracy theorist which lack the critical thinking to admit other thesis or posibilities other than their own, just like a 12 years old.
Yea its certainly just certain people, not all tech works... im a tech worker and I am certainly closer to the enthusiast.
@vital876@mastodon.social I suspect its more of an ego thing. These sort of people usually have no education or means to understand the subject. They compensate for the insecurity this would cause by convincing themselves they are smarter than all the people in the world who dedicated most of their life to learning and studying. They go so far as to try to paint studying and learning as a corruptinginfluence.
Its just insecurity, nothing more, nothing less.
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