PeerTube patched a serious SQL injection and then found out that someone had already been exploiting it in the wild. The flaw sat in the ActivityPub actor score calculation, so a malicious actor name could carry SQL straight into your database, and because everything on the fediverse talks to everything else it hopped from instance to instance like an old school worm, quietly installing a fake plugin called Google Analytics JS. Victor walks through the weekend he spent patching ten infected instances while sick in bed with a modem that had just died on him, what the attacker could and could not actually reach, and why PeerTube's plugin system is the real problem sitting underneath all of it.

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Now that we have a large enough sample size, Victor has been able to profile our resource usage to see how close we got with our pricing. Plus we rapidly go through a few of little things that we've been wanting to talk about, but never get around to doing an episode on including Victor's (disloyal) AI model, what it takes to add a new service and the economics of solo-instances.

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The boys get back to the professional business of expanding the fediverse with an initiative to get schools onto the fediverse. But first they must tackle the dual-lingual challenge of Victor's new business card.

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After a successful #FediMTL in February Victor and Paige (AKA Craig David) reflect on what they learned. For Paige's small toque covered brain of a sieve it wasn't much, but Victor as a listener gained some key insights.

Checkout the presentations: https://video.fedihost.co/c/presentations/videos

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After nearly 3 straight months of migrating the FediHost guys call time out on our generous migration policy of "Sure, we'll migrate you" when a series of small instances cause a cascading cluster of missed milestones.

Our ever changing migration policy: https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/moving-to-and-from-fedihost

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Despite embarrassing Victor in front of all his friends by installing a GUI on his home server, Paige has managed to put his shoes on outside his socks and assemble a conference. If you like both Fedi and Montreal than todays episode has, lets be honest, a few scant details wrapped in the usual FediHost fun.

February 24th in #Montreal

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Chris Alemany from Port Alberni tells his tale of politically poking the fediverse into the agenda of Canada's federal government.

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Paula Simons (Canadian Senator): @[email protected]

Following up from his previous adventure trying to get the city of Yellowknife to adopt open internet protocols Jeremy has taken his mission directly to the people with an appearance on the CBC morning show in Yellowknife. Paige and Victor react to not-lame-man Jeremy Flatt's layman explanation.

Victor and FediHost get quoted on Radio-Canada

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When people ask for their Mastodon character limit to be increased they often don't realize that custom code is required. It's one of many requests that we get for changes to the codebase of the services we host. What can we do?

Also, in the most loosely connected topic to Fediverse hosting Paige and Victor swap their favourite "independent documentaries" they've recently found on YouTube. THE PISS SAGA and Broke. Inside the Pawnshop: a world of bargaining, insults, poverty and desperation

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After a tough couple of weeks for Competing Brand a wave of migrations to FediHost has made us wonder what our policies and procedures should be on making the move.

Our documentation on how to migrate to FediHost https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/moving-to-and-from-fedihost

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