MostlyHarmless
@MostlyHarmless@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale is coming(Today), along with voting in the Steam Awards 11 months ago:
I played it on Steam Deck. It was great. Act 3 was a bit slow, but I didn’t mind.
I am thinking of getting it on console so I can experience it with better resolution
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 11 months ago:
This article is so misleading. XMPP died for the same reason all technology dies. No one used it. Even if Google hadn’t ever used it, it would still be dead. I know this because Google Talk and ALL Google chat apps are dead. WhatsApp killed them all.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
I’m not saying it’s different. I’m saying that the current plan in no achieves the goal of keeping the fediverse open and out of the control of large corporations.
If you want to know how to prevent them from taking control, you better start working out the specifics of how they will do that. Otherwise your actions may end up helping them.
No one seems to have considered the possibility that Facebook are well aware of what people think of them. That they looked at the technology and thought “we don’t have to do anything, those idiots hate us so much they will do the job for us and give us the private marketplace we desire”
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
How? Everyone says some form of this, but never gives any details of how they will do that. Or how defederation will prevent that.
You are afraid that they will control the marketplace, and then turn around telling everyone to defederate, which just gives them a walled garden marketplace on a silver platter.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Ah, so just fear mongering and hoping that the fear based knee-jerk reaction isn’t actually playing directly into their hands.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
What point was that? If you don’t join Threads, they don’t have your data. They do have everything you publish to the Fediverse though, no matter what you do.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
They can already harvest the data. Nothing on the ActivityPub is private
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Yeah, yeah, parrot the line and then please explain how?
Extending means making extra functionality that others haven’t implemented, so that your offering is more attractive. You use it to build a walled garden. Defederation just skips that step and does it for them. They don’t even have to extend.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Because every time this argument starts, someone mentions how they don’t want the fediverse to go down the xmpp path, and the argument has its origin in this article
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
I would like to point out that xmpp still exists. Google Talk does not. WhatsApp killed xmpp, not Google
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
But it doesn’t keep him away. Defederation means they consume all of the data from ActivityPub, you consume none of theirs. You are creating a walled garden for them that makes it harder for Threads users to leave.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
How is Threads going to breach your privacy by federating with your instance? How is de federating from Threads going to protect your privacy?
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 11 months ago:
The heat released into the atmosphere has to go somewhere. The only place it can go is to be radiated into space
- Comment on Stable Diffusion XL Turbo can generate AI images as fast as you can type 11 months ago:
Humans have asymmetric features. No one is symmetrical
- Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed 11 months ago:
No, wrong. Still two factor because your fingerprint plus your device.
These authentication methods aren’t as simple as the two factor Google Authenticator 6 digit number. They are cryptographically secure keys. Even if someone finds out what the token is, they still cannot send a valid request because they cannot generate a digitally signed request using the private key locked in your device’s hardware, unlocked by your biometrics.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed 11 months ago:
And still useless unless they also steal your phone. You are still safe from the hackers on the other side of the planet
- Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed 11 months ago:
If someone has physical access to you and your device, they are getting in
- Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed 11 months ago:
Biometrics are two factor, because you need the fingerprint and the device they unlock.
You can’t use the device without the fingerprint and you can’t take someone’s fingerprint then use them from a different device.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed 11 months ago:
Biometrics are perfectly fine! We probably don’t even live in the same country, I’m not going to get a hold of your fingerprints.
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of what the biometrics actually do. The biometrics only unlock the device and give access to the security key. Once unlocked it’s exactly the same as using a yubikey, and far better than an authenticator app, as they use a crypto key, not a 6 digit number.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed 11 months ago:
Unless I meet you in person, I’m not going to get your biometrics. The point of these is to protect your accounts from the global Internet.
- Comment on Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from you 1 year ago:
No, Chrome is based on Safari.
Apple took khtml, which was developed by the KDE project, and created Webkit. Google then forked Webkit and created Chrome with it.