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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Folks, I’m just putting the finishing touches on an update to the Gaza Verified site that will make signing up for verification as easy as signing in with your Mastodon account (with none of the manual adding of the verification link to your profile that proved to be a stumbling block for many).

I’ll be reopening sign ups today once I’m done with that.

In the meanwhile, please remember that there are folks in Gaza who are suffering through an ongoing genocide at the hands of Israel and its Western allies (US, UK, and the EU) so if you can help, please do:

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

None of us are an international agency and we can’t help everyone but you can help improve one person’s life and that of their family and that means something too, especially when the international agencies that should be helping are being prevented from doing so by Israel and the US.

#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #israel #usa #uk #eu #genocide #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Right, so what works perfectly in dev and staging is failing in production (and this with Kitten, which I’ve taken such aims to ensure runs the same way everywhere). Anyway, it seems like the session is getting lost after the oAuth return from Mastodon.

Will debug after I’m back from the gym. Will likely delay release to tomorrow.

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

OK, so quick update on the Gaza Verified web site:

Bloody oAuth :)

Anyway, so now I have it working in production also (and managed to get the browser to treat my dev environment like production by using Kitten’s place1.localhost alias instead of localhost, thereby getting it to enforce SameSite = Strict on cookies).

Long story short, I am now setting the session cookie to lax prior to the call and back to strict afterwards and also, in the process, implemented state checking via a nonce.

I still want to test it further, improve a few things, and make sure I haven’t missed any edge cases so I’ll be releasing the new site and opening video call registrations tomorrow.

Apologies for the two-day delay but the new site is going to remove the only remaining barrier we had to signing folks up which was the technical issues they were encountering while trying to add the Gaza Verified link to their profiles. That will now be done automatically and the flow is basically:

a. Enter your Mastodon server instance (e.g., mastodon.ar.al)
b. Press a button
c. Authorise Gaza Verified

And boom, you’re scheduled for a call.

💕

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AhmedAziz🇵🇸🍉
AhmedAziz🇵🇸🍉
@ahmedaziz1118@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@aral My friend, I urgently need your help. I want to update my information with you; this is a new account and a new campaign.

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Richard Quinn
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@rq4c@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@aral

Thank you, Aral, for the brilliant work you are doing on this.

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@rq4c 💕

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Γιανίρης
Γιανίρης
@iriyan@kolektiva.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Verified as in the ground in #Gaza and legitimately a Palestinian, not an Israeli nationalist.... OK

But please explain, if we send funds through 1 of the digital money transfer systems Israel is not blocking, how are the funds received and how are they utilized? Are babies dying from hunger and thirst and next door someone has water, food, medicine and IS SELLING IT in exchange for FUNDS?

Food, water, medical supply shortages are not the same as lack of funding for available resources. That is a political problem, for the hungry to solve against those guarding supplies.

If #Hamas did exist would they allow such practices (even if it is a middle east tradition to hustle for every bite of bread).

If you can't explain this then all this support and funding is going straight into IDF for arms and their benefit.

Please don't tell me you trust the integrity of Paypal or WesternUnion or that there are functional ATM networks in the rubble

@aral

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