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- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances 6 days ago:
You said you were done responding, so at least have the dignity of demonstrating a little bit of honesty where it is most apparent.
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances 6 days ago:
It seems
Any “privacy” improvements from random instances are not part of the core code structure
The privacy improvements are from the ActivityPub protocol. The author cites them.
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances 6 days ago:
Don’t be a jackass and don’t spam.
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances 6 days ago:
The trouble with the thing you quoted twice in a row - unnecessarily padding out your post - is that saying “Mastodon may not be perfect” does not cancel out Pixelfed’s massive security issue.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Non-malicious servers aren’t supposed to do what Pixelfed did.
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances 6 days ago:
Search that specification for “private.” You’ll find precisely one reference to it…
It might be better to look for what the article mentions: “manuallyApprovesFollowers”, and it is explicit about what to do when that value is set to true. I don’t understand how you’re confused by it.
Mastodon, in general, is regarded as careless with safety.
Regardless, two wrongs don’t make a right, and I found the description of how to properly handle a security issue as discussed in the article to be appropriate. For example, collaborating with administrators of large instances.
The “security issue” is created on Mastodon’s side
Are we reading the same article? I realize this isn’t the first time you implied this, but I thought I must have been mistaken.
From the original post: “Importantly, your Mastodon or GoToSocial instance isn’t handing your private posts to any random server, just because it asks.”
Mastodon is behaving. Pixelfed was not. Pixelfed fixed the security issue because it was their issue…
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances 6 days ago:
I looked at your comment before reading this article, and you make several bold statements that the article dispels
A fork of Mastodon created a new abstraction for “private posts”
The author of the article links to the official specification which was made for ActivityPub. This does not appear to simply be “some fork of Mastodon”, but if it is, please provide a citation.
they’re trying to blame Pixelfed for not adopting their homemade standard
See previous comment
It’s fixed in 1.12.5
The article also goes into great lengths about how the security update was handled poorly, with inappropriate communication along the way. It contrasts this with a correct update.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 weeks ago:
I see what you did there
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 weeks ago:
It’s been a while since I watched a documentary about him, but apparently it was both… Either way, incredibly horrid treatment.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 weeks ago:
I blame 4chan’s constant harassment of the man for his speech and early death. They invaded his live streams and gaslit him into believing, among other things, that he was in a relationship with someone else. Collectively, I think they’re responsible for his suicide.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 weeks ago:
“Ford, last I checked, was not a bastion of the left.”
The Ford Foundation is located in New York City at the Center for Social Justice
The Ford Foundation is one of the primary foundations offering grants that support and maintain diversity in higher education
duckduckgo.com/?q=Ford+foundation
cc @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 weeks ago:
the vast majority of the comments just read what the op wrote and not what was said
What part of my post isn’t something he said
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
Just keep in mind: your upvotes on Lemmy are visible to anybody who runs a Lemmy instance.
God help us if Elon Musk figures out how to run one.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 4 weeks ago:
Is this for human beings, or is it for Google to show their investors to prove that AI is totally going to revolutionize something eventually?
Screw Google either way, I’m not going to use their search engine either way, but this doesn’t feel like a product they are genuinely committed to releasing. Maybe I’m wrong, and in that case, screw them even more.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Cromite on Android checks both those boxes. Ad blocking isn’t great, but the developer isn’t Brave.
Firefox + uBlock Origin might be better if you haven’t tried that specific extension before. It works more than okay for me, but I realize YMMV and that’s especially true for non-flagships
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 4 weeks ago:
Discord knows everything about its users. Why don’t its users get to know about the future of their app
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 4 weeks ago:
The hardest part of using Matrix is basically everything about Matrix. They’re an unholy combination of Slack, Discord, and Signal… And not very good at any of those things
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Eich is out of touch with reality and so are you
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 4 weeks ago:
It definitely sounds a tad dehumanizing, and I’m not sure if that’s intentional or not…
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
I think this is just a CEO likening personal opinions to racial oppression. The example he chose might be a little ironic too.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Ungoogled Chromium does a really good job of taking Google out of Chrome, so far less skeezy. None of that cryptocurrency stuff either.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 4 weeks ago:
You can probably bribe a tech-savvy friend to do it for you with a fraction of YouTube’s yearly cost
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 4 weeks ago:
With YouTube Lite, customers will be able to watch videos across verticals like gaming, fashion, beauty, cooking, news, and more, ad-free
Oh wow. They’ll remove some, but not all, ads!
[T]he new tier won’t offer several benefits in the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription, like downloads, background play, or the ability to watch music videos ad-free.
Price-gating downloads seems pretty evil. The feature doesn’t cost Google any extra money. It could even save them a little server strain if a user wants to watch the same video repeatedly. But clearly, this is where Google’s surveillance pays off: they know what people want, and they know to demand an extra $6/month for it.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
For a native English speaker who understands everything he wrote: you’re 100% correct. It is a core dump.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
He was discovered by 4channers and harassed up until his death. His choice of language, and mental deterioration, were due to them in no small part
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
It’s a bit worse than that, the term started with a slur attached
Glowie, also known as a Glown*****, is a slang term popular on 4chan’s /pol/ board used in reference to CIA or other governmental agents posing as ordinary 4chan users…
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Has been since he got ousted from Mozilla for funding anti-gay stuff
- Comment on Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe 4 weeks ago:
You mean a company with deep ties to Elon Musk’s biggest personal enemy Sam Altman?
No way. I’m sure it will be fine, just like the CDC website
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
If I’m reading their financial records correctly, the year he left Mozilla was the year he was paid the most, even though he didn’t stick around for most of it. So this retelling of history is, at best, incomplete…
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Maybe he’s jealous he’s not as rich and powerful as his ideological peer Marc Andreessen, who turned proto-Firefox from a university project (Mosaic) into a company (Netscape)…
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