colecmac at protonmail.com colecmac at protonmail.com
Sun Feb 21 05:59:12 GMT 2021
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Thank you for chiming in mozz, I appreciate it.
Unless he submits, unwavering, to ddevault’s ultimatum to "fix" his software.
And it worked.
Not just yet! I take back my initial quick decision to remove them. I hatehaving to go back and forth on this, but I think it's important.
As the developer of Amfora, I'm genuinely unsure what to do here. I feeluncomfortable at being at the centre of this, but also intrigued at what thismeans for Gemini and its future.
I'd like to make a small correction to your email:
No, the threat is to blackhole the IP address of every amfora user, cutting
them off from a large swath of gemini and thereby crippling the client.
Drew's idea would only blackhole Amfora users who had enabled the the faviconfeature, which is off by default, to respect Gemini's one request philosophy.
However this is still a tactic I strongly disagree with, and although Drew said(on IRC) he considered "banhammering" a last resort, I don't think it should beon the table at all for clients that are not causing any server problems.
To be honest, I am leaning to keeping the feature, because it's what I want, andit's my client, goddamnit! If Drew still says he will go ahead with theblackhole then I will add a manual exception for his domains. This is obviouslyan ugly thing to do, reminiscent of WebKit Quirks[1], but I don't see anotheroption.
1: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp
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https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora/issues/199
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