Watercooler - Q1 2018 #192

We’re pleased to officially announce that Flattr is currently completely free to use for all. To really grow Flattr into a solution that makes both creators and contributors happy, we know that initially we should bare [sic] some costs to make this happen, so with this said, we’re committing to incur all the processing and payment fees so that it’s completely free for you to use.

Changaco · 2018-02-17T11:19:00Z

Updates feature and a new design are live! - Open Collective

Changaco · 2018-02-20T08:40:21Z

January 2018 Investors update – Open Collective

Changaco · 2018-02-20T08:53:53Z

Ending Bitcoin support - Stripe

Changaco · 2018-02-22T11:59:25Z

Block Fraudulent Test Donations - Donorbox

Changaco · 2018-02-25T08:19:35Z

The path to sustainably working on FOSS full-time | Drew DeVault’s Blog

Changaco · 2018-03-01T11:54:34Z

New release: Piranha | MANGOPAY API Docs

New functionality included in this release

Great news for our clients operation in the UK and US. We are now able to give you an AVS (Address Verification System) score by card transaction. AVS compares the billing address of the transaction with the registered address of the card holder. This strong anti-fraud tool requires few changes with additional parameter to send us. Please find here a little set-up guide.

When doing a 3DS authentication, users receive a text message on his mobile phone which needs to be enter on the authentication page. We are now able to bring more transparency by displaying your name (Client.name) both on the sms message and on the authentication page.

As of last release, we are continuously improving the card fingerprint feature by bringing a new list to find every preauths done with a same unique card.

Changaco · 2018-03-08T09:08:02Z

https://twitter.com/Changaco/status/971672229321805824

Ça y est, je reçois désormais l'équivalent d'un petit #RevenuDeBase pour mon travail sur @.liberapay et autres projets libres ! Un grand merci à tous mes donateurs ! Prochaine étape : un SMIC.

Me soutenir : https://fr.liberapay.com/Changaco
Soutenir Liberapay : https://fr.liberapay.com/Liberapay

Changaco · 2018-03-08T09:35:29Z

https://mastodon.cloud/@Changaco/99647565315471663

Changaco · 2018-03-08T09:54:52Z

https://framasphere.org/posts/4698592

Changaco · 2018-03-11T09:53:47Z

F-Droid now supports Liberapay

Changaco · 2018-03-13T17:32:30Z

Everyone can now run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers

Pricing: $0.50 per month per million requests, with a $5 monthly minimum covering 10 million requests.

Changaco · 2018-03-16T13:33:05Z

Our primary Mastodon account is completely lost.

The 16/03/2018, during the update to Mastodon v2.3.1, this instance has crashed and lost all accounts, media and toots. I'm totally sorry for all users. It just a fucking nightmare...

trebmuh · 2018-03-16T14:48:33Z

Oh shit! :-/

kindlyfire · 2018-03-16T15:24:14Z

Rip backups, if there even were any

kindlyfire · 2018-03-16T15:30:02Z

We can transform the secondary account into the primary one and create a backup account again ? Then post something explaining the change. I run my own instance if you want (runs on a pretty beefy machine)

Changaco · 2018-03-16T15:40:14Z

Already done.

https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99694111285023482

Our old Mastodon account is dead. Please follow this one instead, as well as our new alt account @Liberapay@mstdn.io.

RIP https://mastodon.rocks/@Liberapay

trebmuh · 2018-03-16T17:44:56Z

French translation : https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99694821063795287

Changaco · 2018-03-16T17:57:40Z

I've retrieved from Google's cache two pages of the list of Mastodon accounts we were following, and started following them from our new account.

revi · 2018-03-17T08:43:36Z

To prevent such bad thing affecting us, maybe we should export data regularly ($mastodon_url/settings/export seem to have "You follow" table in csv.)

Changaco · 2018-03-17T15:25:27Z

Someone pointed an HTTP scanner at da.liberapay.com. They used Tor to hide.

select * from rate_limiting where ts >= '2018-03-17 14:00:00' order by ts;
                  key                  | counter |              ts               
---------------------------------------+---------+-------------------------------
 ...
 add_email.source:34628                |       1 | 2018-03-17 14:49:53.673391+00
 add_email.target:sample@email.tst     |       2 | 2018-03-17 14:49:53.764993+00
 add_email.source:34629                |       1 | 2018-03-17 14:49:53.767659+00
 sign-up.ip-addr:77.247.181.162        |       5 | 2018-03-17 14:49:55.089199+00
 sign-up.ip-net:77.247                 |       5 | 2018-03-17 14:49:55.092264+00
 sign-up.ip-addr:23.129.64.102         |       5 | 2018-03-17 14:51:24.782915+00
 sign-up.ip-net:23.129                 |       5 | 2018-03-17 14:51:24.785225+00
 sign-up.ip-addr:176.126.252.11        |       5 | 2018-03-17 14:52:20.407804+00
 sign-up.ip-net:176.126                |       5 | 2018-03-17 14:52:20.409995+00
 sign-up.ip-version:4                  |      15 | 2018-03-17 14:52:33.019539+00
 sign-up.ip-addr:178.17.170.196        |       4 | 2018-03-17 14:52:35.801775+00
 sign-up.ip-net:178.17                 |       4 | 2018-03-17 14:52:35.804325+00
 sign-up.ip-addr:65.19.167.130         |       3 | 2018-03-17 14:52:45.49881+00
 sign-up.ip-net:65.19                  |       3 | 2018-03-17 14:52:45.501251+00
 sign-up.ip-addr:185.38.14.171         |       3 | 2018-03-17 14:52:51.264668+00
 sign-up.ip-net:185.38                 |       3 | 2018-03-17 14:52:51.267178+00
 sign-up.ip-addr:192.42.116.13         |       5 | 2018-03-17 14:53:20.954052+00
 sign-up.ip-net:192.42                 |       5 | 2018-03-17 14:53:20.956788+00
 sign-up.ip-addr:66.70.217.179         |       2 | 2018-03-17 14:53:25.803805+00
 sign-up.ip-net:66.70                  |       2 | 2018-03-17 14:53:25.806318+00
 ...

Changaco · 2018-03-25T11:15:38Z

Our Medium account and all its posts have been blocked for bogus reasons. https://medium.com/@liberapay

My email to Medium support:

We neither use nor write about crypto currencies, so I request that you restore our account immediately.

Blocking access to accounts and published stories for bogus reasons is unacceptable behavior, you can expect repercussions.

trebmuh · 2018-03-25T11:22:58Z

Did you received an explanation about why they blocked it?

Edit: answer here https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99744414079487371

jorgesumle · 2018-03-25T11:27:08Z

We don't accept cryptocurrencies [...]

There was this text, I can read from the Spanish translation («No aceptamos criptomonedas, y no pensamos cambiar eso en un futuro próximo.»). I didn't know they censored people for talking about cryptocurrencies.

I think it's a good time to solve #136

Changaco · 2018-03-25T11:38:11Z

https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99744324870271197
https://twitter.com/liberapay/status/977872191797841920

Today's lesson: Medium is bad. They've suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories for bogus reasons and with only 12 hours notice.

jorgesumle · 2018-03-25T12:21:24Z

Spanish translation

Lección del día: Medium es malo. Han suspendido nuestra cuenta y bloqueado el acceso a todas nuestras historias publicadas por razones falsas y con un aviso de solo 12 horas.

@liberapay/media-managers, can you publish #208 (comment) and this translation? Right now, I only have a Diaspora* password.

trebmuh · 2018-03-25T12:25:47Z

In French on Mastodon: https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99744506201672777

Changaco · 2018-03-25T12:48:33Z

@jorgesumle I've added you to the Mastodon group, you should have access to the passwords of our accounts now.

Changaco · 2018-03-25T14:47:30Z

I've improved Liberapay's Wikipedia page a bit.

Changaco · 2018-03-25T17:59:22Z

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16672203

Changaco · 2018-03-25T18:00:49Z

Response from Medium's support:

Thank you. We have reviewed your account, and it is now reinstated.

Changaco · 2018-03-25T18:25:57Z

https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99745922397657868

Our Medium account has been reinstated.

Thanks to everyone who offered to help with hosting our blog elsewhere. We were already planning to set up our own thing for various reasons (including Medium's complete lack of support for translations). Of course we'll toot a link to our new blog as soon as it's up.

https://twitter.com/liberapay/status/977976301914021888

trebmuh · 2018-03-25T19:54:28Z

In French on Mastodon : https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99746277545464741

jorgesumle · 2018-03-25T20:24:53Z

In Spanish on Mastodon: https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99746410286716397

Changaco · 2018-03-26T09:20:36Z

https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99749448303038891

Special thanks to the following cool folks whose answers to our toot about Medium were offers to help us: @write_as @johnonolan @lord @sheogorath.

trebmuh · 2018-03-26T11:57:26Z

On Mastodon in French: https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99750073381440720

jorgesumle · 2018-03-26T16:10:31Z

On Mastodon in Spanish: https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99751075182123150

Changaco · 2018-03-26T16:17:20Z

@jorgesumle I deleted that because two of the mentions were broken. The toot doesn't make much sense if it doesn't actually link to the people we're thanking.

Copy:

Damos las gracias sinceramente a las siguientes geniales personas cuyas respuestas a nuestro toot sobre Medium fueron ofertas para ayudarnos: @write_as @johnonolan @lord @sheogorath.

Changaco · 2018-03-27T08:01:33Z

https://www.facebook.com/Liberapay/posts/959091627582578

In case some of you are trying to #DeleteFacebook, here's a reminder: we're also on Diaspora* (https://framasphere.org/u/liberapay), Mastodon (https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay), Twitter (https://twitter.com/liberapay), and Medium (https://medium.com/liberapay-blog).

Changaco · 2018-03-27T12:30:15Z

I've created a "JavaScript" label so that potential contributors can easily find issues related to JavaScript code.

Changaco · 2018-03-28T14:14:17Z

https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99761400653752838

@Jelv @geekonaut It would indeed be great to see other developers join our team. However right now our income is still too low to pay even one person to work full time on Liberapay, so we're looking for contributors who can afford to work on a project that doesn't pay their bills, or people who live in areas where €400/month is a decent amount of money.

trebmuh · 2018-03-28T14:57:26Z

(no need for a French translation for this one)

Changaco added the Watercooler label Jan 3, 2018

Changaco mentioned this issue Mar 17, 2018

Update links to our social network accounts liberapay/liberapay.com#1014

Merged

Changaco mentioned this issue Mar 17, 2018

Tor and rate limiting liberapay/liberapay.com#1015

Closed

Changaco closed this as completed Apr 1, 2018

Watercooler - Q1 2018 #192

Watercooler - Q1 2018 #192

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