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- Comment on How should one access their servers when in China if at all? 4 months ago:
It's definitely warranted as a random person.
See https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/262444/should-i-worry-about-compromised-firmware-when-reinstalling-an-os from an admin point of view and also https://www.binarydefense.com/resources/blog/running-malware-below-the-os-the-state-of-uefi-firmware-exploitation/ for a technical discussion on how such compromises work and can survive even a new OS reinstall.
Also note that things like your mac address could be leaked out and collected (as per https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/turn-off-your-wifi-when-you-dont-need-it-and-other-tips-on-how-to-prevent-hacking-and-tracking/ ) though Apple specifically has a private mac address spoofing feature to combat this. A lot of this collection is automated, as to cast as wide a net a possible.
- Comment on community not federating 5 months ago:
So an hour later, while logged out (in incognito mode) I am seeing your post on https://slrpnk.net/c/woodworking@lemmy.ca and can find it on your home instance directly at https://slrpnk.net/post/14701745 - this is in addition to seeing it on https://lemmy.ca/c/woodworking and directly on the magazine's instance at https://lemmy.ca/post/31909201
Also, the post likewise shows up for me when I view your profile on either your home instance at https://slrpnk.net/u/technomad or on the magazine's instance at https://lemmy.ca/u/technomad@slrpnk.net (and again, that's logged out and in incognito mode).
Finally, I see your post on lemmy.world in the same three places - the magazine https://lemmy.world/c/woodworking@lemmy.ca , your profile https://lemmy.world/u/technomad@slrpnk.net , and the direct post itself https://lemmy.world/post/21403325
Sometimes posts from lemmy.world take up to three days to federate to my instance, so an hour isn't too bad really.
- Comment on No-fault evictions banned and break-lease fees capped under sweeping reforms in Victoria 5 months ago:
For older units, Ontario (in Canada) enforces a very low rent raise cap, probably specifically for this reason.
(Alas, for newer units, the conservative government lifted this, so if one rents a newer unit in Ontario (say built after 2018) then one can still be kicked out by this loophole.)
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 5 months ago:
Coming from someone who successfully did exactly that - because it's quite tough. Immigration to most countries is quite competitive and expensive, with a lot of hoops to jump through. Those who can do it typically are much better off than the average Tommy and Gina (edit: Bon Jovi for those downvoters who don't get the reference).
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 5 months ago:
Unfortunately, true. Countries in the Anglosphere generally don't allow immigration at all past the age of 50 or 55 unless you're married to a citizen or something, so odds are good you aren't even eligible to get in by the time you hit midlife.
And going outside of the Anglosphere requires becoming fluent in a language other than English - and even then it's not so easy to immigrate.
Of course, one can always head to Svalbard - they don't require work visas or residence visas, as per https://www.sysselmesteren.no/en/entry-and-residence/ - but it's pretty cold that close to the North Pole. Plus you'd have to learn Norwegian.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 5 months ago:
Ditto, but this is actually a bonus for me.
"Didn't you see my email and message last evening?"
"Not until I got in today, because it came after I had logged off and I can't see that stuff on my personal phone because, you know, IT policy."
- Comment on The 3G network is about to shut down for good, so what will stop working from Monday? 5 months ago:
This is really buggered.
What they should have done is added 3498 as a number to call, using the same emergency routes as 112 and 000. Then migrated 3498 to 4G only so users could call that and test if they could make 4G calls over the emergency line or not.
If there's some technical reason that they all had to be moved (like, you really can't test until 3G and older are turned off) then at least users can test post-cutoff by attempting to call 3498 instead of by spamming the real emergency lines. That's still pretty bad, but at least they'd find out right away without having to either 1) disrupt emergency services for a non emergency or 2) find out during an actual emergency that it doesn't work
- Comment on [Question for admins] How do you feel about your users requesting content or account removal from other servers. 5 months ago:
So I'm not sure where I fit in. I run my own instance, but it's a single user instance that only serves me. Also, I currently don't run any magazines (communities) of my own.
If I was the user on Instance A asking on Instance B ... well that means Instance A is my own, and I obviously wouldn't get in trouble with myself.
If I was the admin on Instance B - a user from elsewhere was asking me to remove such content on mine - I'd go ahead and do it. Not worth the potential headache or ramifications that would come with refusing.
I think in general, the admin on Instance A would not be upset with the user. If anything, in this situation the user is probably trying to delete their account and history, so the admins of Instance A would be thankful that the user went to instance B and saved the admins the headache of trying to contact other federated instances themselves to coordinate a manual deletion. (The only thing worse than dealing with a GDPR request is trying to get others to help you deal with a GDPR request - particularly without pay.)
- Comment on A little essay I wrote about "mods are power tripping" 5 months ago:
I'm not sure that even Lemmy has a monopoly on the fediverse anyways. But outside of the fediverse, breaking up the tech monopolies and enforcing net neutrality are steps in the right direction.
For the fediverse specifically, I'm not sure. One thing that might help is to make user accounts and magazines (communities) more portable. So if one signs up on the wrong instance, it's easier to move to a friendlier instance. Currently, some folks seem to set up their own instance specifically for a community that they have planned explicitly to avoid this problem (but that makes it even harder to get a new owner if the mod-admin abandons the instance).
Of course, the technical bar to setting up and running your own instance is a bit higher than just signing up to, for example, fedia.io (And that's just if you want to run vanilla - you generally have to be an actual software dev if you want to customize the software that your instance runs.)
But coding software, and moderating a community, or an entire instance, are all different things and I suspect that there's not much overlap with the first one and the other two. So I don't have any good solutions either, just suggesting that if the fediverse required everyone to set up their own instance to join, we'd likely be in a pre-Eternal September phase.
- Comment on Is a filter for muting Lemmy 'power users' possible? 5 months ago:
Ah, if only kbin.social hadn't gone done, I would too be post 1-year mark. I replaced that one with my own instance, but that makes me look younger than I should be...
- Comment on Is a filter for muting Lemmy 'power users' possible? 5 months ago:
Hmm, but wouldn't forking lemmy require you to create your own instance?
- Comment on Woman wedged upside down between boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve phone in regional NSW 5 months ago:
Yup. So happy to see she was rescued with only a few minor bumps and scratches in the end.
- Comment on Australia environmental groups just won a huge legal victory 5 months ago:
This is welcome news indeed!
- Comment on Not my King, Australian senator Lidia Thorpe shouts at Charles 5 months ago:
I applaud her spirit and agree with her that a peace treaty should be concluded.
- Comment on Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1) 5 months ago:
I appreciate the author taking a swing at this topic.
Agreed, me too. Also, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts regarding this - they're very insightful.
It's hard to pick out values that we all share because of the inherently chaotic nature of it. Perhaps that's a value tho - diversity.
I agree. I don't think it's realistic to expect all of the fediverse to adopt a set of core values, not any more than we can expect all of the internet to adopt a core set of values. Certainly, there's no one in a position to enforce them from the down top, at the very least.
most apps have between ghastly to ok accessibility.
I want to start off by saying that I respect you and your opinion very much. I think this is a serious point of concern, especially considering that a major reason given for the exodus that happened from a major website back in July 2023 occurred in part due to fear of loss of accessibility (which was an unintended consequence of API restrictions). r/blind moved to the fediverse primarily because of this point.
So basically, a failure here really feels like it would have serious ramifications for the fediverse.
There's certainly groups on Mastodon who are keen on privacy, consent and accessibility but if you look at the features of the apps and how they're constructed I don't feel like those are really core values.
Agreed - but that just means there's room for something new. Hopefully from the diversity of groups that you alluded to above, a privacy minded group with dev skills will arise with a new entrant to the fediverse here.
ActivityPub is a privacy nightmare
I've been doing some thinking about this. One (not yet fully fleshed out) thought I had was if content was retained on the original server (the one the community/magazine is based in) and others receive a new "CONTENT_LINK" type of ActivityPub message that points back to the original server. A good app/web UI can then fetch from the link to display the content - but this would happen client side and be meant to be analogous to a web browser fetching a page from a web server. I wrote more about what I had in mind in https://lemmy.world/comment/12109601
No billionaire can buy the fediverse and shape it in their singular vision.
This is a positive IMHO.
There's a pretty strong anti-capitalist theme that comes up a lot.
That's true. Time will tell if things like sub.club are able to move forward
The federated nature of things means people can find their own instance to call home, one that suits them and their kin
I'd call this, the power of community
without losing access to all the goodies of the wider network.
And this, going global.
Is this a value? What is the word for it? Self-actualization?
I think this is usually termed "having the best of both worlds".
I should point out though that this isn't entirely true. I don't think that we can really say that this applies to folks who made their home on exploding-heads or lemmygrad, for example.
- Comment on 'An affront to dignity': The system allowing people with disability to be paid $6 an hour 5 months ago:
Ouch! Yep, I stand corrected.
Incidentally, might this be the article that you read?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/08/30/subminimum-wage-disabled-workers/ - Comment on 'An affront to dignity': The system allowing people with disability to be paid $6 an hour 6 months ago:
Good question!
I essentially self-host my own pyfedi instance ( pyfedi is to piefed.social as lemmy is to aussie.zone ) - and thanks to srv.us I do it for free! (Well, I have my own internet connection that's subsidized and run the software on an old spare laptop at home, so still free overall, but srv.us just provides the permanent domain name.)
Alas, the price of not paying for a persistent and unchanging domain name is not being able to choose the domain name.
- Comment on 'An affront to dignity': The system allowing people with disability to be paid $6 an hour 6 months ago:
Wow. Even the US doesn't have it this bad.