Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m reminded of stories I’ve heard of graduate students hiding a note and some cash in the pages of their theses that they submit to the university, just to see if anyone bothers reading it and takes the cash. They return years later to find it still there.

  With open source, the code is all there ready for review by anyone, as long as you have the technical knowhow and patience to review the code you use. But like reading the terms and conditions for everything we use, how many people actually take the time to go through all that code?

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  • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some people do and at least you can, which makes it much better than proprietary software, where it is impossible to find out, if they didn’t include a direct pipeline to whatever three letter agency asked them to do it.

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• n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Quick, Louis Rossmann next! Who knows who that off the rail New Yarker will do next!

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