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- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 1 day ago:
Mario’s brother, a good plumber (takes the shit out).
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 1 day ago:
Reddit protip
Add the special referal code “Luigi” to your posts to get extra engagement and feedback from prominent and influential Reddit members!
- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 1 week ago:
Danke.
- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 1 week ago:
Okay but where is the video? To share.
- Comment on It seems some higher level moderation of communities may be required 2 weeks ago:
…Why is there a conservative magazine in lemm.ee to even begin with?
This sounds pretty easy to nip in the bud. With a bulldozer.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 3 weeks ago:
The fact that it’s exactly what they want.
Trump won with the popular vote: thhose want to be fascists. And those who don’t vote, well they just confirm a fascist in power.
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 3 weeks ago:
name:en: Gulf of Mexicostupid_name:en-US-confederate-bootlicker: Gulf of Amerikkka
That should suffice.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 3 weeks ago:
By all means do. It’s not like much of value is lost at this point.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 3 weeks ago:
Are you okay?
- Comment on Important News - Geoblocking of the UK 4 weeks ago:
Ooooh that makes lots more sense.
And it’s also lots more stupid. Oh well. Carry on, internet!
- Comment on Important News - Geoblocking of the UK 4 weeks ago:
Complying with the act would mean we would either have to implement Age Verification for all users to access the site,
Isn’t that just the usual
[ ] Yes I totally swear I’m over 13checkbox? - Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 4 months ago:
They didn’t even hand me a uniform or a qt cap, and they work with Node.js despite several warnings; I ain’t representing shit.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 4 months ago:
If you work for a company, you’re a representative of that company.
I’m not. Corporate is paying for my work (and barely, at that, given current rates), not for my ethics or for my ethical standing before other people who might not work at the company. If you believe otherwise, you might have been brainwashed by corporate-paid education.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 4 months ago:
So, lemme get this straight: Wikipedia is being censored (worldwide, might I add) because a party complains that they are reported of as being accused of a thing, or because of the thing itself?
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 4 months ago:
Well, given the kind of company, it’s not like you’d obtain a consent if you asked. They’re too busy getting that Israeli money.
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 4 months ago:
Frankly, one of the big reasons why I like the Fediverse is that you don’t have to depend on the source keeping up their stuff - we get our own copies. That includes both the text (the posts) and the media (the images), and to me, that’s one third of the point of the entire thing. If I wanted an image that can only be seen at the dumpster cage that is Twitter, I’d
go over thereshrug and move on.Of course that’s not always workable because storage is (despite everything) not cheap, medias grow large (I can eg.: understand saving pictures, but heaven forbid trying to save a video) and there’s still not a good way to deal with “”“problematic”“” storage. So, my recommendation and expectation would be something that functions like Option 2: Proxying Images. Basically, we download our own copy but only store it “while it matters”.
How to Supplement Options
Now, maybe some proposals I would lift to have their feasibility studied. Any combination of one or more of these could, if implemented, help in enhancing or even supplantting the chosen method for storing remote media. I personally see them more as a means to enhance Option 2.
- Only save copies of images (perpetual or proxy) that are below certain thresholds: file size, resolution, trusted hosts, etc… Sure, that still means you have to download every image at least once to evaluate it, but at least we get some sort of automated guarantee that for “easy” stuff, we won’t be filing more connections than necessary. The big win of this option is that lemm.ee is not paying for the larger resource cost of fetching larger images after their post is made. I’m guessing the main drawback would be the bikeshedding required to decide which images get saved locally.
- Related option to the above: only save (perpetual) thumbnails or smallened versions of images, never the real ones. Would pretty much instantly cover the case of eg.: most memes. The big drawback I can see to this is managing those images for deletions would be harder unless a Lemmy instance can keep a searchable map of hashes from each image to their thumbnail and vice versa.
- Require that any image is linked from an imagehost or filehost that is trustable for durability. Big drawback: notoriously more effort (and potential loss of privacy) for users means this actually disincentivizes posting rich content.
- Pool up resources and get some cooperative work going with some other instance(s) to set up a shared proxy agent that downloads the images for us, so that lemm.ee doesn’t have to host the images but can have the clients fetch them without sacrificing privacy. I feel this one incentivizes posting rich content because you can get some level of assurance that it’ll remain available and be “cheap” to access from across the Fediverse, but requires more instances to chip in.
- Images? Pfff. Text is where it’s at.
- Comment on Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. 5 months ago:
I mean, you are not entitled to people being soldiers in your war against Big Tech. Like, I’d be totally for it, but some other time, nowadays I’m resting and being creative. Speaking of, not everyone here laps the crotch of Spotify et al. I’m a proud (but modest) pirate.
- Comment on [Instance] Kbin.run down 6 months ago:
Pros: you get to be your own boss.
Cons: you get to be your own employee.
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 6 months ago:
By being moved to the main Wordpress branch, where everything has been known to be hackable since 1999, rather than staying in Tumbr’s however-modified branch where probably some exploits don’t work or have unexpected results.
- Comment on [Instance] Kbin.run down 6 months ago:
Oh fair point.
Feel free to hire the admins then!
Wait, that might have come out wrong… - Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 6 months ago:
Oh boy my tumblr will be now 518% more hackable!
- Comment on [Instance] Kbin.run down 6 months ago:
to make the whole ecosystem more mature and professional?
Feel free to hire the devs?
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 6 months ago:
WebGL
I wish Firefox had a per-site or per-domain preference for WebGL (as well as for wasm, etc), the same way we have per-site cookies or notifs preferences. It’d help clear most issues regarding this.
- Comment on How to fix CrowdStrike BSODs in three minutes — fix requires manual changes, but they are simple 7 months ago:
Here I was hoping that the solution was so simple as “install Linux” but even with the now more modern installers that takes more than 3 minutes.
- Comment on 2024-07-18 lemm.ee downtime 7 months ago:
Totally healthy servers have a right to rest every once in a while too. Thanks for keeping us notified!
- Comment on Hes alive so this meme is OK right? 7 months ago:
I’ll give you one (1) pity point for jumping right to the low hanging tree category for personal attack.
- Comment on Hes alive so this meme is OK right? 7 months ago:
¿Biden competent? He’s probably gonna die of old age by Jan 5, and if not, is going to be ordering who knows what crap with his dementia on Jan 6…
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext 7 months ago:
luck? I have a $5* wrench.
* (Actually a $7 wrench. Inflation is murder around here.)
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext 8 months ago:
But that can be said of any of the other such called factors:
A yubikey can be stolen
A fingerprint can be scanned and distributed
So its not really an argument against passwords (or passkeys, or passwordless, or whatever marketing want to call them these days).
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext 8 months ago:
Isn’t the idea that not everyone has access to your biometrics?
There’s honestly no need to make computers ask people for piss scans:
something you know
A password
something you have
Access to the password
something you are
The person who knows the password