AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 1 day ago:
Surprised nobody’s mentioned adding a 2nd penis yet…
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 1 day ago:
It doesn’t. It’s not like this page gets used internally. They have their own internal guidelines for that.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 1 day ago:
This is not a legal contract, it’s a general guideline for users about what is or isn’t acceptable. The intent and spirit of the terms are clear, the only question is whether Google will enforce them not. If the enforcement is crappy, like what Facebook is famous for, it doesn’t matter a damn what exact terminology they use in the guidelines.
- Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok 1 day ago:
The ban already happened. There was nothing massively unpopular about it. And whoever lets the exemption lapse doesn’t have to take the heat for it, since they can just blame it on Biden.
- Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok 1 day ago:
How would you prevent that? The US can ban just ban Tiktok anytime and gain that prop stranglehold.
- Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok 1 day ago:
It’s only US Tiktok that’s under discussion for sale. Nobody’s talking about buying Tiktok globally.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 1 day ago:
No, but I think most of the people on Lemmy should know better than that.
Looks at Hexbear, .ml, and to some extent Blahaj
Oh, who am I kidding.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
This is you right now. Most of us have no idea what Misskey is.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 1 day ago:
While I hate Google, this seems like one of those much ados over nothing. They specifically mention ‘sex, gender, or sexual orientation’, which to most reasonable people would cover gender identity.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I think this post would have been a lot more enlightening had it gone into what exactly *key instances are.
- Comment on Norway urged to scrap ban on $1.8 trillion wealth fund investing in weapons makers 2 days ago:
Why? It’s certainly a good question. Why would the country be reluctant to invest in a company which they are patronising?
- Comment on Just a moment... 4 days ago:
You dropped the ‘e’
- Comment on Anyone else over April Fools being an extension of companies R&D depts 4 days ago:
Do you mean PR? Not sure how much R&D April Fools actually involves
- Comment on Japan's Sukiya food chain shuts almost all outlets after rat and cockroach contamination 5 days ago:
Japan would seriously be a perfect country to move to if not for a couple of major glaring societal issues.
- Comment on FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado 5 days ago:
peaced out before being arrested
Probably not, given the house was occupied at the time of the raid.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You’re on the fediverse, the benefits of forcing the major players to federate with smaller platforms should be obvious. It would reduce the network effect advantage they have and allow users to move away without being trapped in the chicken and egg situation they currently are.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 1 week ago:
Not me who downvoted you, FYI.
To me, a vulnerability is something unforeseen, that allows bad actors to exploit the system in an unintended manner. In this case, the system is working perfectly as designed. Just because another system decided to implement a new feature without consulting anybody else, does not make it a vulnerability. Or perhaps it does, but with the vulnerability on the side of Mastodon, since they’re the ones telling their users their post is private when it is actually nothing of the sort.
What would I call it? An unsupported feature. One that Mastodon forced everybody else to implement without asking or any respect.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 1 week ago:
I’m not sure you can make that conclusion. This isn’t a real vulnerability, and this isn’t a surprise to anybody who knows how the AP protocol works. Dansup didn’t reveal anything that was previously unknown, the blog author just has an axe to grind. It’s unfair to assume that an actual 0 day vulnerability would have been treated the same way.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 1 week ago:
more people will know and exploit the vulnerability
It’s not even a vulnerability, it’s how AP works by design, is the issue at hand here. Mastodon decided they wanted to implement something not supported by AP, and everybody else had to take the heat for not ‘doing it right’.
- Comment on Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth. 1 week ago:
What is the suggestion, then? Assuming a colony does ever get established, it’s impractical and naive to expect those who now live there to never demand land rights. The author makes good points but fails to discuss any potential solutions other than ‘stay earthbound’.
- Comment on Here, have some unpleasant knowledge about Mario. 1 week ago:
Leave the grass alone, it’s got dead Marios under it.
- Comment on Here, have some unpleasant knowledge about Mario. 1 week ago:
Proof that zombies do exist
- Comment on Here, have some unpleasant knowledge about Mario. 1 week ago:
Why? I see it on my main feed all the time, it’s just osmosis.
- Comment on Six dead including two children after tourist submarine sinks in Egypt’s Red Sea 1 week ago:
The six dead were all Russians, the local governor’s office said on Facebook.
Damn, now people are falling out the windows even below sea level.
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus 1 week ago:
Defaulting to not federating is what the major email providers currently do, and is why email has now become a centralised service that you cannot practically self host.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 week ago:
The ones who would leave, have left and been replaced. Just like any other user. Why focus on mods specifically?
- Comment on Bols 1 week ago:
How do you not take an opening like that one?
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 1 week ago:
“Users who in the past would type ‘free online file converter’ into a search engine are vulnerable, as the algorithms used for results now often include paid results, which might be scams.”
Mm hmm.
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 1 week ago:
Yes, the problem lies in companies marketing it as more than that, hence the company being sued right now
- Comment on Even the bravest retro gamer fears Sega Genesis' final form 1 week ago:
The idea of a plug-in processor is wild. Isn’t that most of the console functionality right there?