hendrik
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- Comment on What's up with lemmit.online? 30 minutes ago:
Well, I can't see anyone disagreeing for the last 7h... But sure, it's likely going to happen. Have a nice day. Thanks for the info.
- Comment on What's up with lemmit.online? 45 minutes ago:
Is there an OnlyFans bridge, or what are we talking about?
- Comment on ewintr.nl - building a personal, private ai computer on a budget 8 hours ago:
By the way, these Tesla P40 are super old. From 2016 or something. It's the common trick to buy them used to get a lot of VRAM for cheap. But I think you should really know what you're doing before investing several hundred bucks into something like this, as it comes with consequences.
- Comment on Digital management post-life 8 hours ago:
I'm still a bit split on this. And whether the complexity and reliability is good enough for the use case... I mean if you don't need N-out-of-M, but it's just two people, cut something in half. Same if it's N-out-of-N people, you just need to make some puzzle pieces and hand them out, we don't really need fancy maths for that. But I guess encrypting something would work, too. Just use a program or algorithm that's likely still around when it's going to be used. And you can always add a sheet of paper or PDF with instructions. Maybe save the executable file to to decrypt it somewhere if the solution requires software.
- Comment on Digital management post-life 11 hours ago:
Nice. Thanks. Seems I've missed some Harry Potter themed stuff. That gave me an idea... Take (or write) an Arduino library (or SSS implemeted in plain C, instead of Go), flash it on a microcontroller like an ESP32 and you have some actual, physical horcroxes. I'd have to think about the form factor, and whether they need displays, or act as a USB thumb drive... But they could light up once you get like 3 of them in bluetooth proximity and reveal the secret. Other than that I think it needed to be part of some well-maintained password vault app. Or be a web service, so people don't need to worry to get some old computer code running.
- Comment on Digital management post-life 19 hours ago:
Sure. I believe that could be done with minimal effort. Either by a smarthome solution, a script on a wifi router, a script in the autostart of the laptop someone uses every day, or like tasker on a phone. But you need to get it right. Or it'll fire once you're on a 14 day trip through Europe (and absent from your house and computer), phones can be lost or replaced... And you kind of want to make sure it's robust enough so it actually works once needed, and that might be decades from now...
- Comment on Is it against the rules of most sites to expose a troll by mentioning an alias they use, even though it's been proven that said troll lies about everything about themselves? 19 hours ago:
Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I sometimes can't differentiate between our drama here, and some 8 year olds. I'm not sure. I'd say things like power abuse, or harassing or attacking other users counts as bad. The Musk example is just them proving to be an idiot. But idiots aren't uncommon here... I dunno. Thanks for raising awareness. I don't think it's that bad but I'm not reading through it all at this point.
Concerning your initial question (and now that I know a bit more detail)... I think it'd still be wrong to doxx them. Like publish their real name. But if they have an alt account, and you see them using that to do bad things... I'd say it's okay to call them out on that. Mainly since they're a high profile person here, wield power in one of the largest communities. So they have to abide by higher standards. But you can't leak their IP address or real name or something for just being a liar, that's just too much and a different level.
- Comment on Is it against the rules of most sites to expose a troll by mentioning an alias they use, even though it's been proven that said troll lies about everything about themselves? 20 hours ago:
Depends. Do you like vigilantism? Then go ahead. If not, try reporting it to the moderators first.
- Comment on You should not email midnightman123@yahoo.com 20 hours ago:
Yeah, this thread is weird. Completely different up/downvote ratio than the other one. And seems it's now entirely about email and PGP 🤔
- Comment on Digital management post-life 20 hours ago:
Well, I always dreamt about encrypting my master keys to all my digital heritage with some threshold scheme encryption like Shamir's secret sharing. I believe there is some Linux tool available: http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
That way N out of M of my friends would have to gather after my passing, combine the puzzle pieces and be granted with access to my stuff.
There are easier ways, though. You can just write down a password and include it with your last will, seal it and have a notary take care of it. I'd create a seperate administrator account/password for that.
You could set up two factor authentification and give them one factor now, and have the other factor stored with your things so they can collect it after your passing. Doesn't need to be complicated, create a password with 30 characters, split it in the middle and you have two factors.
There are online services for these kind of things. Or you can run some dead man switch yourself. I'm not sure what kinds of projects someone would use for that.
- Comment on You should not email midnightman123@yahoo.com 21 hours ago:
Nice attack. But does this have any real-world consequences? I mean the attacker is decrypting their own email here, as far as I understand. This shouldn't be possible. But it doesn't really do harm, does it? I mean they wrote that text themselves, so they already know what's in there?!
- Comment on Why your headphone batteries don't last as long as new ones. 21 hours ago:
Isn't the chemustry of lithium batteries like well understood for quite some time now?
- Comment on [deleted] 23 hours ago:
How about you give them the reference number on the letter, a sentence "I do not own that car any more." And gently point them at the fact that the person the license plate is registered to might own the car? But I'd say this is fishy. How would they address the letter to you unless the license plate is registered to your name and address? Certainly not by the car's color or model...
- Comment on If I’m mostly attracted to men, is it «wrong» to consider myself pan? 1 day ago:
By the way, "queer" is an umbrella term. It is correct, since it means someone isn't heterosexual. Or cisgender. So gender identity is mixed in as well, next to sexual orientation. But it doesn't really say anything specific. Could be a gay person, or a straight person, or a bisexual person or even someone who has multiple partners or is asexual. So for example if someone wants to know what kind of people somebody else is into, it's kind of a useless description. Could be anything. Or nothing.
- Comment on How prevalent is the topic of mental health in America compared to Germany? 2 days ago:
Same, same. I don't think you can compare the two, unless you've experienced it yourself. I mean it's gotten worse here. But still, it seems to be entirely different levels. I can still get appointments. People don't just die from diabetes like they used to in the USA. We can just call an ambulance and aomeone will treat your broken arm. It'll work just fine without private insurance. And you don't even need a lawyer to challenge the hospital bill. You can bear a child without being in debt for the rest of your life... There are issues. And we're not as good as some neighboring contries. But I don't think the situation compares to what I read from across the ocean.
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 2 days ago:
Though, I'd argue if we were awesome and had something truly nice to offer, we'd grow on our own. And not just if someone else messes up and becomes unbearable. But it's complicated.
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 2 days ago:
Idk, Lemmy also inreased it's userbase by a factor of 30, mainly from a single event. It had like 1,500 MAU before summer 2023 and now we're at 45k. So I'd say it could be a bit more than your estimate.I kinda agree though, it'll stabilize at a lower number than during a hype period. And I hope we've learned from the past and drama that happened.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 3 days ago:
I don't think that'll work. Asking for consent and retrieving the robots.txt is yet another request with a similar workload. So by that logic, we can't do anything on the internet. Since asking for consent is work and that requires consent, which requires consent... And if you're concerned with efficiency alone, cut the additional asking and complexity by just straightforward doing the single request.
Plus, it's not even that complex. Sending a few bytes of JSON with daily precalculated numbers is a fraction of what a single user interaction does. It's maybe zero point something of a request. Or with a lots of more zero's in-between if we look at what a server does each day. I mean every single refresh of the website or me opening the app loads several files, API endpoints, regularly loads hundreds of kilobytes of Javascript, images etc. There are lots of calculations and database requests involved to display several posts along with votes etc. I'd say one single pageview of me counts like the FediDB collecting sttats each day for like 1000 years.
I invented these numbers. They're wrong. But I think you get what I'm trying to say... For all practical purposes, these requests are for free and have zero cost. Plus if it's efficientcy, it's always a good idea not to ask to ask, but outright do it and deal with it while answering. So it rally can't be computational cost. It has to be consent.
- Comment on How prevalent is the topic of mental health in America compared to Germany? 3 days ago:
I think it's a general issue with our healthcare system. And the lack of doctors and hospitals is more pronounced in rural areas. But basically the same thing applies in the city. And not just for mental therapy. You often also get to wait for a MRT, if there's something wrong with your foot... I'm not an expert on this. But I guess we could do way better. And I hear that a lot, that someone had to wait for therapy for relatively normal physical issues. And similar things apply to related professions. One home for the elderly next door, just closed a year ago. Not because we don't have elderly people anymore or anything, there is quite some demand. But they just didn't have enough employees to do the work.
- Comment on How prevalent is the topic of mental health in America compared to Germany? 3 days ago:
I'm from Germany, too. But judging by what comes across the ocean via the internet... A lot of Americans seem to talk about their anxiety, depression and how it affects them...
- Comment on Do you like the Mastodon approach of consistent branding for different instances? 3 days ago:
I think the sane approach is: the developers offer one good theme and branding that is the default setting and works well out of the box. And instance administrators can then either be lazy and leave that in place, or (better) go ahead and tweak their place to their liking. Decorate it, make it unique if they like. I think it shows how much effort someone put into something. But on the other hand, you often can't mess with 20 different free software projects and change the CSS code just for the sake of it. I think it's also fine to just leave some things on a good default setting.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 3 days ago:
Hmmh, I don't think we'll come to an agreement here. I think marriage is a good example, since that comes with lots of implicit consent. First of all you expect to move in together after you got engaged. You do small things like expect to eat dinner together. It's not a question anymore whether everyone cooks their own meal each day. And it extends to big things. Most people expect one party cares for the other once they're old. And stuff like that. And yeah. Intimacy isn't granted. There is a protocol to it. But I'm way more comfortable to make the moves on my partner, than for example place my hands on a stranger on the bus, and see if they take my invitation...
Isn't that ho it works? I mean going with your analogy... Sure, you can marry someone and never touch each other or move in together. But that's kind of a weird one, in my opinion. Of course you should be able to do that. But it might require some more explicit agreement than going the default route. And I think that's what happened here. Assumptions have been made, those turned out to be wrong and now people need to find a way to deal with it so everyone's needs are met...
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 days ago:
I just think you're making it way more simple than it is... Why not implement 20 other standards that have been around for 30 years? Why not make software perfect and without issues? Why not anticipate what other people will do with your public API endpoints in the future?
There could be many reasons. They forgot, they didn't bother, they didn't consider themselves to be the same as a commercial Google or Yandex crawler... That's why I keep pushing for information and refuse to give a simple answer. Could be an honest mistake. Could be honest and correct to do it and the other side is wrong, since it's not a crawler alike Google or the AI copyright thieves... Could be done maliciously. In my opinion, it's likely that it hadn't been an issue before, the situation changed and now this needs a solution. And we're getting one. Seems at least FediDB took it offline and they're working on robots.txt support. They did not refuse to do it. So it's fine. And I can't comment on why it hadn't been in place. I'm not involved with that project and the history of it's development.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 days ago:
Yes. I wholeheartedly agree. Not every use is legitimate. But I'd really need to know what exactly happeded and the whole story to judge here. I'd say if it were a proper crawler, they'd need to read the robots.txt. That's accepted consensus. But is that what's happened here?
And I mean the whole thing with consensus and arbitrary use cases is just complicated. I have a website, and a Fediverse instance. Now you visit it. Is this legitimate? We'd need to factor in why I put it there. And what you're doing with that information. If it's my blog, it's obviously there for you to read it... Or is it!? But that's implied consent. I'd argue this is how the internet works. And most of the times it's super easy to tell what's right an what is wrong. But sometimes it isn't.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 days ago:
I guess because it's in the specification? Or absent from it? But I'm not sure. Reading the ActivityPub specification is complicated, because you also need to read ActivityStreams and lots of other referen es. And I frequently miss stuff that is somehow in there.
But generally we aren't Reddit where someone just says, no we prohibit third party use and everyone needs to use our app by our standards. The whole point of the Fediverse and ActivityPub is to interconnect. And to connect people across platforms. And it doen't even make lots of assumptions. The developers aren't forced to implement a Facebook clone. Or do something like Mastodon or GoToSocial does. They're relatively free to come up with new ideas and adopt things to their liking and use-cases. That's what makes us great and diverse.
I -personally- see a public API endpoint as an invitation to use it. And that's kind of opposed to the consent thing.
But with that said... We need some consensus in some areas. There are use cases where things arent obvious from the start. I'm just sad that everyone is ao agitated and seems to just escalate. I'm not sure if they tried talking to each other nicely. I suppose it's not a big deal to just implement the robots.txt and everyone can be happy. Without it needing some drama to get there.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 days ago:
True. Question here is, if you run a federated service... Is that enough to assume you consent to federation?
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 days ago:
I think it's just one HTTP request to the nodeinfo API endpoint once a day or so. Can't really be an issue regarding load on the instances.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 days ago:
Did someone complain? Or why stop?
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 4 days ago:
Some more: Getting shot at after committing crime or other online activities. Or a sepsis from cutting yourself with the old, dusty, yet sharp metal parts.
- Comment on LemmyLink - A Reddit to Lemmy Bridge Bot 4 days ago:
How does it know in which community to post?