Draconic_NEO
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 1 month ago:
Ceiling fan is going and a regular fixture put in instead. This seems like a closet or storage room anyway (there are no windows), no real need for a fan like that in a space like this.
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 1 month ago:
You will likely hear the fan tear itself apart from outside of the room, such an event is absolutely loud enough to be heard from outside the door, plus the fact that the little bits of fan that are left afterwards will probably continue spinning and likely bumping into the ceiling (if it’s hanging from the wires).
- Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad 1 month ago:
Just thought I’d drop in to say, it’s possible to play it with your feet.
- Comment on TikTok sues to block prospective US app ban 1 month ago:
Yeah I don’t think this person knows what they’re talking about, they must either think ByteDance is hosting the source code on Oracle’s servers or they somehow think that binaries are the same as source code 🤷
- Comment on TikTok sues to block prospective US app ban 1 month ago:
Where did you get the idea that Oracle can see their source code? That only applies if they host their source repository on Oracle, if they host the servers there chances are it’s binaries that are hosted on the server not the source code.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Mastodon.social had a whole thing a while back where they had NDA meetings with Facebook in regards to threads federation.
It’s later come out that they are censoring Palestine content on their platform.
So yeah it’s accurate to say that the people who are collaborating with Facebook are also bad actors, in more ways than one.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t think that would really work since in order to make it anonymous it would need to be hidden from the other servers as well which would cause issues with moderation since if it’s never dealt with On the origin server a person could cause a lot of trouble with it, yeah you could have so that it would only be visible by moderators and admins but that also doesn’t really work if admins can view it since anyone can set up a server.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah that would be very difficult to implement safely, and probably wouldn’t be worth the effort since the Federated model means that signing up for an account somewhere on the Fediverse is much easier already.
Anonymous posting might have been a necessary evil on the early internet before you had all these Federated servers, but nowadays having other servers fills the role of granting easier access since you can sign up to another one where that process may be easier.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Forgejo having Federation enabled would be great since it would allow people with Codeberg accounts to contribute in self-hosted repos without having to apply or beg for accounts on them just to submit issues and pulls.
- Comment on Free Fediverse 2 months ago:
Could always try reaching out to @nm@veganism.social as they’re the person credited as the creator on the bottom of the page.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I agree, peer tube’s biggest issues so far besides the storage or the fact that there are almost no peer tube servers which offer user accounts (which isn’t needed explicitly to watch videos but makes the experience much better), and also the fact that there aren’t really any good apps to use it with that aren’t outdated or abandoned.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s not really that fundamentally different from the idea of Lemmy, the interface is just different but the idea of having communities and posts in the communities is the same.
The thing that would be tricky and would probably have the most friction would be anonymous posting since that’s where things get really ugly regarding moderation and user conduct, since a good amount are just going to be spammers and many others will be trolls and malicious users.
- Comment on So today I finally deleted the bird app 2 months ago:
I don’t think that really makes sense because revenge porn is technically porn and it’s not consensual.
So I would disagree calling something porn doesn’t imply consent, it merely describes sexually explicit material.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 2 months ago:
Probably but they certainly don’t want you to know that and almost certainly will say that you can’t.
- Comment on Regarding sublinks and feeling concerned about what is going on with it 2 months ago:
FYI Sublinks is a drop-in replacement for Lemmy, it’s fully compatible with the API and database structure, so it can simply be swapped out and aside from UI differences it’ll work Basically the same, it could even be used with the Lemmy-UI in which case there would basically be no difference in appearance and function.
Also due to the nature of Federated services as long as everything still speaks the same protocol it doesn’t matter that much the software each server uses. The community will still be accessible on those services.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
Obviously but it could become very hard to do that with Smart TVs dominating the space now.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
I get that it’s probably technically possible to bypass
Not exactly a bypass it’s more so destruction of property (your own property might I add, since there’s no clause that says you have to return it to the company at some point)
it’d actually be illegal to bypass and almost nobody would do it.
Yeah we’re definitely not at the point in time yet where it is illegal to vandalize your own things, hacking in some places, but vandalism of your own property not so much (exceptions only for rentals or leases, which TVs aren’t since you never need to return them).
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
They already have that it’s called click fraud or automated ad clicking, mostly though it’s websites that earned money from advertisers who engage in this, as a sleazy way of making more money.
Though if you want to partake in it there are ad blocking extensions that also do it. It’s not perfect but it is quite damaging to the advertising industry.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
You can tear the wifi antenna off the board, and it’ll never connect again (not just unplug it from the card, actually tear it off the pads), could also remove the shield from the Wifi module as well for good measure and it would never get a good signal ever again.
If you’re feeling really brave you could even try removing or cutting the traces connecting the Wireless module to the main system bus, has diminishing returns though since it would be very easy to short or destroy the PCI bus rendering the system completely inoperable.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
Probably injecting the ads into blank screen periods.
Maybe we should bring back screensavers, would really fuck with devices like this that look for blank screen time that would simply never occur.
- Comment on Please contribute your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! 2 months ago:
Pretendo is open source.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 3 months ago:
Yup corrupt companies likely do it all the time. Technically it’s perjury to lie in a court but outside of being caught or going to hell it’s not much of a deterrent.
There isn’t much recourse against that other than trying to skirt detection by these companies (not possible or feasible in the long term) or to be in a country that is strongly against or an enemy of the one(s) those companies are in or allied with.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 3 months ago:
Plus it allows users to anonymously Express disdain towards somebody, not just to their comment or opinion but them personally I’ve seen this happen on Reddit where people were mass downvoted for seemingly no reason other than being openly trans/queer.
- Comment on The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub 3 months ago:
Are you suggesting some sort of digital ham radio networking? That is honestly a good idea but it probably wouldn’t be well suited for a platform like Lemmy and your device would have to be listening all the time which for internet devices is fine but can be challenging with two way radios. Then there’s licensing costs since governments try to control radio spectrum usage, yes pirate radio stations are a thing but they have their own challenges. Also radio is at the mercy of the weather so that’s yet another thing to keep in mind.
So with all those challenges despite the fact that it is an interesting idea it just doesn’t seem feasible. What would be better would be coming up with more decentralized systems of trust to work on the internet, since one major point of failure is that our TLS security model is based on centralized entities, in addition to the domain registration systems.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 3 months ago:
Great question, see when instances have management level disagreements like this there really isn’t any purpose to using their communities from a remote account.
Unlike a lot of people who “migrated” I realize it ultimately doesn’t make a difference using these communities from a remote server because they are controlled by this one and ultimately will be affected by defederations and bans. So I only migrated my non-lemmy.world subscriptions to the other instance accounts and left the local ones on this account.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 3 months ago:
fair enough I guess some apps probably strip it out.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 3 months ago:
It’s in their username after the @
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 3 months ago:
try ctrl F “admin” and you’ll find them, they’re near the bottom.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 3 months ago:
If you scrolled just a little bit in that link you sent you would see that it isn’t.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 3 months ago:
They manipulated the modlog on their version to show all actions as coming from mod and not from admin, likely in attempt to hide how much is by admins as opposed to mods.