ericjmorey
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- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
My first exposure to that interchangable use in the Lemmy lexicon. Now I Know!
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 1 week ago:
I had a phone die in me
The phone being inside you is probably why it died 😂
But on a serious note, I haven’t switched to passkeys because I don’t have a clear mental model of how to recover from losing both my phone and computer at the same time.
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 1 week ago:
Are you in my head? Is this an alternate account that my subconscious self uses? What is real?
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
That was exactly my thought when asking. But it seems it’s the former.
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
Thanks for clearing that up
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
What’s a Lemmy group?
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 1 week ago:
Couldn’t a malicious ActivityPub server do similar things now?
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 2 weeks ago:
What is the threat model here?
- Comment on Love, strange love a star woman teaches 2 weeks ago:
This looks like ChatGPT time taveled back to 1966.
- Comment on Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far? 2 weeks ago:
Since storage costs money, does it allow the admin to offer tiered access to higher quality storage?
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- Comment on I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only) 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it be better (if doable) to take some cues on how actually email (and XMPP for that matter) works, and ask the user for the username and the password instead in one go?
I have to give my email app a lot more information than a username and password. So I’m not sure what you’re envisioning.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 4 weeks ago:
I’m not here to score points. I’m expressing my thoughts and reservations about the article. I’m not even taking much of a position on what developers should do. It’s more of an exploration of the landscape.
Unfortunately, skipping past a legitimate point doesn’t address the point which remains unresolved. It’s a nice rhetorical trick though. I’d rather discuss the point. (Even though others have had discussions, that doesn’t help me understand and learn.) There’s no urgency for me to reach a conclusion, so a bit of rehashing of “tired” perspectives isn’t offensive to me.
Reasonable doesn’t always mean appropriate or best for the situation. It doesn’t always lead to good or better outcomes. Shutting down and dismissing legitimate concerns is not a good way to build a consensus and and will often lead to adverse outcomes. It is ironic that this person’s approach is making the same mistakes they are trying to warn against.
There’s a clear conflict that literally can’t be ignored. It must be considered by all participants, else those participants will be unexpectedly unsatisfied with the outcomes.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 4 weeks ago:
I did. I’m sharing my thoughts about it. Some of those thoughts are that it seems to make assumptions that don’t hold.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 4 weeks ago:
That addressing is insufficient because it begs the question of consent being withheld. But the consent is implicitly given by the sending of information via the protocol, otherwise a service like Mastodon can’t exist. The question of asking for consent after it is given is the part that I’m conflicted about.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 4 weeks ago:
Consent isn’t really built into ActivityPub and it’s inherently the opposite of how I understand it to work (copying your content all over the place regardless of your desires).
ActivityPub is a means of sharing information in a way that the information can easily be collected and reshared. By using it, you should expect that people will collect and reshare information you send via the ActivityPub protocol.
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 4 weeks ago:
The bill in question is H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act: To reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
The concerning section of the text of the bill in question.
Elizabeth Goitein’s claims are not correct as the amendment is more narrowly defined as she has claimed. But the amendment is still overly broad and an inappropriate overreach of government surveillance.
Elizabeth Goitein is Co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
FYI, the article got the date of the House vote incorrect (it was Friday April 12, not Saturday April 13).
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 4 weeks ago:
They all seem reasonable suggestions:
- Consent matters, even for public posts
- Get broad feedback before launching – and listen to it
- Honor existing opt-in and opt-out mechanisms
- Include an additional opt-in mechanism for your service if it’s not just a search engine or profile discovery (or something very close to them)
- Make sure to communicate that you’re taking an opt-in approach and honoring existing mechanisms
- DON’T say the things that developers who ignore consent typically say
- Be extra careful if you’re a cis guy
- Look at opt-in as an opportunity for a potential competitive advantage
I’m conflicted over the fact that using ActivitiyPub necessarily implies consent for other people to collect the data you send through it. It seems that many people using ActivitiyPub connected services want something different than ActivitiyPub or different default settings on many ActivityPub services.
- Comment on Meta closed Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram 4 weeks ago:
From a government and societal perspective, there’s value in limiting anti-competative activities.
- Comment on Meta closed Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram 4 weeks ago:
This seems like a reasonable thing to require of services that aren’t dependent on each other for basic functionality.
- Comment on Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? 5 weeks ago:
I’d like to see this experiment carried out at a sufficient scale. I feel like there would be a benefit to a gravity like component that takes density and distance into account so that people in sparsely “populated” regions aren’t just effectively seeing an unprioritized feed of the entire network.
- Comment on How to explain learnings from Digital privacy in an interview and resume 5 weeks ago:
This is an independent research project of yours in which you can write a summary of your findings with citations using a standardized formatting. Make sure you relate your findings to business administration in some way. If you do a good job with it you might stand out as exceptional.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This is probably the most reasonable take. But I remember getting tipped and not ever bothering to follow the link to try to collect until a few months later when the service hosting the crypto thing went permanently offline and couldn’t be collected.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You can’t keep money out of it. You’re being subsidized by others unless you are paying for all of the infrastructure that’s hosting your data, including when it is federated to multiple instances.
- Comment on Regarding sublinks and feeling concerned about what is going on with it 1 month ago:
It’s planned to be 100% API compatible with Lemmy, so you’d be able to use any Lemmy-UI with it.
Which is nice for an instance admin, but someone with an account on that instance what uses the default web UI will definitely see a change.
IDK why LW or any other instance would change their default UI.
Because keeping the default Lemmy UI but using the Sublinks backend won’t allow for the use of the additional features (like moderation tools) of Sublinks.
let’s just start with their stated goals
The stated goals of who? I’m well aware of the stated goals of Sublinks, but lemmy.world hasn’t stated any goals than a desire to have improvements to lemmy, helping the Sublinks development community (they’re essentially part of that community) and considering the possibility of using Sublinks if it fits their interests more than Lemmy (which seems likely since they [lemmy.world admins] seem to be more a part of the Sublinks development community than the Lemmy development community)
- Comment on Regarding sublinks and feeling concerned about what is going on with it 1 month ago:
as a user you probably woudn’t even notice the change.
That’s not entirely true. The default UI for Sublinks is being developed to be dramatically different than the default UI for Lemmy. It’s unclear if the Lemmy UI will be made available by lemmy.world if they change to Sublinks. Its also unclear if lemmy.world will simply redirect to sublinks.world.
It’s also unclear if lemmy.world will use sublinks as sublinks currently doesn’t exist in a form that’s usable for lemmy.world. And it may turn out that what is built doesn’t work as intended and lemmy.world will continue to use lemmy indefinitely.
- Comment on From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services 1 month ago:
Linux certainly has the possibility of being cutting edge in the consumer market but isn’t and there’s disincentive from a social and economic standpoint to make me confident that it will likely never be. Companies like System76 give me a but of hope though. (Although I suspect that they have long-term plans to adopt RedoxOS as their primary OS eventually.
- Comment on From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services 1 month ago:
Linux will never be on the cutting edge of consumer technology where you want to exist. But most people don’t want to exist on that edge (or can’t afford it).
If you want to make Linux work for you, you’d have to accept that you’re going to need separate devices (sometimes MacOS, sometimes Windows OS, even iOS or Android OS at times) to work with the newest toys and gadgets. Not even VMs will cut it every time.
People recommending Linux as a primary OS fir home use are a self selected group of people who don’t value those new products and exclusive software.
- Comment on 'Reverse' searches: The sneaky ways that police tap tech companies for your private data 1 month ago:
Imagine if someone who served time in prison and afterwards got their life on track had their parole deemed violated because they watched some YouTube videos at the wrong time or their location data placed them close to an event that they had no knowledge of or association with.
- Comment on 'Reverse' searches: The sneaky ways that police tap tech companies for your private data 1 month ago:
The links included in the court order request that was approved: