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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Passkeys rely on you holding a private key. The initial design was that a device (like a browser or computer/phone) stored the private key in a TPM-protected manner, but you can also store it in a password manager.

  This is more secure than a password because of the way private/public key encryption works. Your device receives a challenge encrypted with the public key, decrypts with the private key and then responds. The private key is never revealed, so if attackers get the public key they can’t do shit with it.

  Just be sure that your private key is safe (use a strong master password for your PM vault) and your passkey can’t be stolen by hacking of a website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes because again it’s the mismatched ram sizes and the different clock speeds. IMHO the clock speed issue is way more likely to throw things off than the different stick sizes, although neither are ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people in the stock photos real?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Personware” sounds like Elon’s brain implant plan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing whistleblower who filed a claim alleging the company retaliated against him for repeatedly reporting defects found dead in US after apparent suicide⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow you mean this guy corporatecrimereporter.com/…/john-barnett-on-why-…

  Yeah this isn’t suspicious at all /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet you’re still here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do "chest pillows" hurt for women to do?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thunk and all the silverware and glasses rattling lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This take is riddled with naivety.

  Not only will Meta read, train AI on, aggregate and datamine, and correlate this data with your real identity, but when Meta announces that “the easiest way to be on the fediverse is to just use Threads” then all the people who avoided Mastodon because it was “too complicated” to sign up, all the people who are basically already signed up because they scroll Insta all day, will go with Threads instead of spreading the load out.

  As smaller instances start to drop off under the load, under the lack of interest as threads grows and they shrink, merely mirroring the traffic of a centralized corporate entity, users start to flock to threads for its reliability and speed.

  Then Meta pulls the plug, since “no one really used this ActivityPub thing anyway, it was too technical”.

  Threads isn’t about beating “X” (lol X is in a death spiral, it’s only a matter of time), it’s about ensuring the Fediverse never rises up.

  See what happened with Google Talk and XMPP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gundam has actually always been weirdly leftist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Now do One Piece

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wireless Shower Head⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It might not be a good idea to create a device that sucks all the oxygen out of an enclosed space meant for a human during operation 💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably important to also include that personal property is not private property. Private property would be means of production such as farms or factories - they are owned by the workers collectively. You still can have a house, a bed, a refrigerator, a TV, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The opposite of "Ladies & Gentlemen" would be "Whores & Scoundrels".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Trollops and scallywags

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s going good so far 🤞🤞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is AGPL. From what I understand, that means anyone running Lemmy (or a fork of Lemmy) needs to make their source code public, even if their code changes are strictly to support their own network infrastructure.

  it really doesn’t matter though, as a corporation only needs to implement an interface to Lemmy via ActivityPub protocols; in other words it they could write a completely closed-source backend to use for profit and as long as it can poop out the correct data structures over ActivityPub to allow Lemmy instances to understand it, it will work.

  This already happens as we can see and subscribe to kbin magazines, and Mastodon users can be @'d and IIRC can reply to comments via Hoot (or whatever they call it). Kinda wild, but it also leaves the door open to literally whoever.

  I think the real interesting question is will a large corporate player be able to maintain a captive userbase? None of the doomsday scenarios play out in their favor unless they can capture users and communities - because then the usefulness of the whole thing rides on their server being available. At that point it’s reddit with more steps - they can do what they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopify Employee Breaks NDA To Reveal Firm Quietly Replacing Laid Off Workers With AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Be interesting to see how LTT responds to this. Their whole online store is powered by Shopify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who doesn’t believe Elon is taking Twitter on purpose is a fucking moron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmusks new ideas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah? Then why didn’t all the engineers decry him right then and there? Didn’t see much talk calling him out. Ya’ll just let that shit ride? Especially seeing the popularity he was building?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmusks new ideas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t think it takes a fucking idiot to be forced into spending 44 billion dollars, some of it other people’s money, to purposely destroy a social media platform because you (and the people who’s money you used) were upset how critical said platform was of you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The better machine learning gets, the more people who think everyone else is an NPC are going to be correct (at least on the internet)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That TikTok trend where people act as “NPCs” and just respond to the donation filters with the same line over and over again are gonna get wild when someone sets up an tuner to do it and then uses AI for their own voice and for random inperfections to convince people it’s still a real person behind it. Will just print money for them while they’re off doing whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does a "10 hour drive" include breaks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct, when directly replacing estimated time instead of distance, no stops is customary.

  I have no idea how many stops you need or how long they’ll be. That’s on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Famous hacker, Kevin Mitnick passes away at 59⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I still have an old computer with a “Free Kevin” sticker on it. RIP you absolute legend