PhilipTheBucket
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- Comment on China to sanction US Congress members and others who ‘acted egregiously’ on Hong Kong 1 day ago:
I think a good portion of the world hated us already. Now, what’s new is that the other portion hates us too, and also, both portions think we’re incompetent as well.
- Comment on China to sanction US Congress members and others who ‘acted egregiously’ on Hong Kong 2 days ago:
Here it comes.
Now that the whole world thinks we’re malicious morons, instead of being in the “like them or hate them at least they get shit done” category, there’s going to be a lot of this “Lmao get fucked” behavior coming our way.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
There is a whole genre of smuggling that is literally just buying a bunch of watches or something and then throwing them in your suitcase and doing exactly this.
If you’re doing it with single items for personal use is it fine? Probably so, as long as you can avoid being extra stupid about it. Is it a good thing to get in the habit of? Oh mercy no.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 3 days ago:
Wait: My memory of the story was that Clinton loved to escort women around and constantly signed up for the duty, and everyone else on all sides of the equation had no particular strong feelings about it. Except for John Mulaney’s mom.
- Comment on Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant 3 days ago:
Jesus Christ dude. They took a wildly popular platform, replaced the social aspects that made it popular with horrifying ad-spam and didn’t bother to absorb any of the new features or paradigms that other apps were inventing and making popular. So people moved on. It’s not complex. And then, trying to diagnose why everyone might have abandoned it as a result, they say things like:
Second, it feels heavyweight to request someone new as a friend, which makes it hard to rectify the first issue.
Yeah that’s a huge issue. You nailed it, you fucking donkey.
- Comment on Ukraine trusted the West. Now everyone wants nukes. 4 days ago:
God damn. So, the Budapest Memorandum is short enough to read in a couple of minutes: treaties.un.org/doc/…/volume-3007-I-52241.pdf
It’s incredibly badly written. The most relevant part:
- The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
What is “assistance”? Selling weapons? Giving weapons? Sending troops? Using nuclear weapons in retaliation? I definitely don’t read that as a security guarantee. But, it seems cunningly vaguely crafted in a way that could make it sound like one.
Also, do they even have to actually give “assistance”? Or just seek assistance from the Security Council and then they’re allowed to give up if they don’t find it?
Does it even get triggered by “victim of any act of aggression,” or does that clause about “in which nuclear weapons are used” also apply to that first contingency?
It’s basically so poorly worded that it could mean anything. Presumably, this was either a deliberate goal, or else the result of the various parties being so unwilling to come to an agreement that they just wanted to get something signed and all move on regardless of whether it meant anything, or both.
Of course, if we’re assigning any blame to Western powers for not stopping the Russian Federation, we should also be noting that the Russian Federation agreed to respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine, including the existing borders, and not to attack Ukraine under any circumstances. But we always knew modern Russia is so full of shit their eyes are brown, so no surprise there.
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- Comment on Trump administration orders halt to in-progress wind farm construction 1 week ago:
It’s a fun day when I see a new talking point.
I thought about doing the math to demonstrate that it’s not true, but I feel like just having a good belly laugh and moving on is probably a better use of my time.
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- Comment on bit of a rambler is a travel podcast and general travel Q&A community 1 week ago:
Yeah bo
Just send a DM to @bot@rss.ponder.cat with something like:
/add {rss_feed} bitofarambler@crazypeople.online
- Comment on One of your users is committing voter fraud 1 week ago:
Here’s some of the voter fraud, since the person is squawking at me about what they’re doing is “upvoting people I follow”, which definitely is not what’s happening.
SELECT p.actor_id, cl.score, cl.comment_id, cl.published FROM person p, comment_like cl WHERE p.name = 'demesisx' AND cl.person_id = p.id ORDER BY published ASC; actor_id | score | comment_id | published ------------------------------------+-------+------------+------------------------------- (some excerpts:) https://infosec.pub/u/demesisx | 1 | 1961075 | 2025-02-22 16:22:56.014731+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1961075 | 2025-02-22 18:00:51.325286+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1961075 | 2025-02-22 18:03:18.236992+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958485 | 2025-02-22 18:03:19.371003+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958485 | 2025-02-22 18:00:50.886344+00 https://infosec.pub/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958485 | 2025-02-22 11:23:42.226386+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958643 | 2025-02-22 18:03:19.093138+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958643 | 2025-02-22 18:00:50.944788+00 https://infosec.pub/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958643 | 2025-02-22 11:57:14.571075+00 https://infosec.pub/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958775 | 2025-02-22 12:18:29.561662+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958775 | 2025-02-22 18:00:51.007097+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958775 | 2025-02-22 18:03:19.019653+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958789 | 2025-02-22 18:03:18.814704+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958789 | 2025-02-22 18:00:51.063719+00 https://infosec.pub/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958789 | 2025-02-22 12:20:44.963274+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958826 | 2025-02-22 17:59:48.55791+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958826 | 2025-02-22 18:02:49.300343+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958827 | 2025-02-22 18:00:16.302578+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958827 | 2025-02-22 18:03:20.336056+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958832 | 2025-02-22 17:59:48.497287+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958832 | 2025-02-22 18:02:49.359749+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958871 | 2025-02-22 18:02:49.420568+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958871 | 2025-02-22 17:59:48.43862+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958873 | 2025-02-22 17:59:24.697018+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958873 | 2025-02-22 18:04:55.884635+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958875 | 2025-02-22 18:04:55.795094+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958875 | 2025-02-22 17:59:24.792819+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958877 | 2025-02-22 17:59:24.743799+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1958877 | 2025-02-22 18:04:55.84273+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | -1 | 1958982 | 2025-02-22 18:00:51.647423+00 https://infosec.pub/u/demesisx | -1 | 1958982 | 2025-02-22 12:55:05.047563+00 https://programming.dev/u/demesisx | 1 | 1959091 | 2025-02-22 18:03:18.551263+00 https://infosec.pub/u/demesisx | 1 | 1959091 | 2025-02-22 12:55:40.650352+00 https://slrpnk.net/u/demesisx | 1 | 1959091 | 2025-02-22 18:00:51.138157+00
I added some spacing to make it easier to read. All of those overlapping votes on the same comment_id in a single grouping, from for example, demesisx@infosec.pub and demesisx@programming.dev, that’s voter fraud. It’s demesisx using their multiple alts to vote simultaneously on the same comments. Often their own comments.
So like this comment they upvoted from three of their own alts. There are also some other overlapping votes with the same username from various instances on that comment, too, it wasn’t just demesisx.
It’s actually not always some kind of heated debate. Sometimes it’s just something innocuous which for whatever reason they’re upvoting from an additional one of their alts after they post it.
It looks like there are other accounts on @infosec.pub and other instances involved, but I’m not quite sure what the line is in terms of publishing people’s private voting information. If the admins feel like weighing in on what’s acceptable (maybe just sending the evidence to them in DMs), I can say more and call out some of the other accounts involved.
- Comment on One of your users is committing voter fraud 1 week ago:
Update: The user found this post, and is downvoting it 😃
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- Comment on Cheers lads 2 weeks ago:
“It’s kind of getting communist when a feller can’t even put in a hard days’ work, put in 11, 12 hours a day, and then get in your truck and at least drink 1 or 2 beers.”
-People in the 1980s upset that they were trying to make it illegal to drive with a .15 BAC (which was the previous limit).
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 2 weeks ago:
I know it’s only vaguely related, since they’re not US-funded, but at some point I think it would be hilarious (in a particularly poignant way) if the Lemmy developers’ funding got cut off by the process of the explicitly rabid governments they are fans of finally succeeding at destabilizing the friendly Western countries where they live to the point that NLNet wasn’t funded anymore. As I understand it, NLNet is already facing some headwinds because the friendly liberal elements in EU politics are getting replaced by the same kind of “fuck everyone just give money to rich people and also anyone who disagrees with me dies” elements that Russia likes to give money and social-media-shilling campaigns to support.
Surely Russia and China will jump to the front and fund basic infrastructure work for the good of everyone, if that happened. They could count on it happening, instead of having to get jobs.
Surely.
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- Comment on [REPOST] Lawyer has to convince judge of no jurisdiction to return deported man but achieves the opposite 2 weeks ago:
What is he supposed to do, endlessly delay and make up shit to fall on the sword for a client that won’t take this seriously?
Yes. Precisely. He was supposed to lie and bluster like Alina Habba, and then suffer for it later and who cares about that part. When you’re a servant of a despotic regime, you’re “supposed to” sacrifice yourself for the cause, because the people who are creating “supposed to” don’t give a shit about you (or about anyone else). That is why it is important to stop caring about “supposed to” as early as possible.
Tim Snyder wrote about this: No Soviet regime could have happened without judges and lawyers “doing their jobs” at the show trials. Once the people making the rules are unequivocally doing evil, you need to re-analyze whether your “following the rules” is justified and if you’re helping create something monstrous.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 2 weeks ago:
if you assume the network is badly behaved, fedi breaks down. it makes no sense to me that everything is taken for granted, except privacy.
This is backwards in my opinion.
What you described is exactly how it works. Everything in the network is potentially badly behaved. You need to put on rate limits, digital signatures for activities back to actors, blocks for particular instances, and so on, specifically because whenever you are talking with someone else on the network, they might be badly behaved.
In general, it’s okay in practice to be a little bit loose with it. If you get some spam from a not-yet-blocked instance, or you send some server a message which it has a bug and it doesn’t deliver, then it is okay. But, if you’re sending a message which can compromise someone’s privacy if mishandled, then all of a sudden you have to care on a stricter level. Because it’s not harmless anymore if the server which is receiving the message is broken (or malicious).
So yes, privacy is different. In practice it’s usually okay to just let users know that nothing they’re sending is really private. Email works that way, Lemmy DMs work that way, it’s okay. But if you start telling people their stuff is really private, and you’re still letting it interact with untrusted servers (which is all of them), you have to suddenly care on this whole other level and do all sorts of E2EE and verification stuff, or else you’re lying to your users. In my opinion.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure they do not. However, ActivityPub specifically says that no particular secrecy behavior is defined for even posts with no recipients at all (it’s in a green highlighted note under 7.1 I think). I would interpret that to mean that no particular secrecy behavior is guaranteed for posts without #public as a recipient, also.
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- Comment on I love you 2 weeks ago:
It is the difference between aspiration and victory
- Comment on I love you 2 weeks ago:
There are three types of pet owners:
- Those who respect their pets’ boundaries
- Those who squeeze their pets who are clearly hating it and fighting back
- Those who squeeze their pets who clearly hate it until the pets’ will is broken and they resign themselves that they’re going to get hugged sometimes and it’s okay
The first and third groupings I can get down with.
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- Comment on A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
What? It is to the person who discovers the vulnerability. That’s fairly normal for this kind of thing I think. How would giving it to someone else motivate the result they’re trying to get?
- Comment on A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s also this:
A more recent issue came about when Pixelfed’s creator, Daniel Supernault made the details of a vulnerability public before server operators had a chance to update, which would have left the fediverse vulnerable to bad actors, she says. (Supernault has already apologized publicly for his handling of the issue that had affected private accounts.)
In the case of the Pixelfed issue, for instance, the Hachyderm Mastodon server, which has over 9,500 members, decided it needed to defederate (or disconnect from) other Pixelfed servers that hadn’t been updated in order to protect their users.
It is weird to spend almost half the words in this, pretending that something in Pixelfed that wasn’t a problem on Pixelfed’s side was. This is the weirdest “vulnerability” in the world to pick if you want to pick one to hold up extensively as an example.
- Comment on A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Also Lemmy: Here’s a bunch of death threats and pictures of a pig taking a shit because you said democracy was a good idea