fjordo

@fjordo@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse Passport: A needed tool.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the concept, but personally I see the decentralised nature of the Fediverse as a benefit rather than a hindrance, and moving all identity functionality to a centralised system would create more problems than it solves.

  Suddenly you’ll have a single point of failure for the entire Fediverse. A very appetising target for hackers and DDOS attacks.

  An alternative that’s in the spirit of your idea would be to allow for auth delegation, i.e. if you sign in with an Activitypub ID rather than a plain username, redirect to that instance to sign in then redirect back to the instance you started from, auth token in hand.

  The nice thing about this approach is it’s basically just OAuth 2. It’s familiar, simple to implement and built in to a lot of web frameworks already. The only extra step would be advertising the server’s auth URL via the nodeinfo endpoint, which is fairly trivial to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can self host the services you need, but admittedly that’s not feasible for most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Temperatures surpass 29C as UK heads for heatwave⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Window units literally don’t exist in the UK. Air conditioning is for rich people and businesses here. Portable units are also generally terrible, they’re loud and only manage to cool a room by a few degrees C.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for recommending JShelter! I’ll add it to my list

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish there was a foolproof way of preventing fingerprinting. Disabling JavaScript unfortunately isn’t really an option, no-one builds websites with progressive enhancement in mind these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sleep with a stuffed animal I’ve had since I was a kid. I don’t think it’s that unusual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone used a virtual PO box and/or can recommend one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I lived in the US for a couple of years and when I left I signed up to Traveling Mailbox so I didn’t miss any mail at my old address. Just set up mail forwarding with USPS and you’re good to go.

  As far as the IRS goes - you can use your foreign address just fine on a 1040/1040-NR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom announces new rules to keep children safe online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I think parents should just monitor their children’s online activity. It feels silly to try and regulate the internet as a whole. That ship has clearly sailed though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Differences between humans and AI: Why The CAPTCHA May Be The Ultimate Battleground Between AI And Humans.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t matter how perfect or sloppy I pick out cars, buses, bicycles or stairs, it still makes me do at least 3 rounds before relenting. Captchas are the bane of my existence.

  Even worse is cloudflare’s infinite loop captcha that never actually lets me through. That one absolutely hates my firefox for some reason and forces me to use chrome.

  Still, I’m extremely stubborn and refuse to give up my vpn and privacy, so I just suffer through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, we’ve already seen this in the past. GDPR is a good example. Whilst I’m glad this regulation exists, it wouldn’t be necessary if megacorps would have behaved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish these companies would realise that acting like this is a very fast way to get scraping outlawed altogether, which is a shame because it can be genuinely useful (archival, automation, etc).