0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Yeah. That's what I said
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
In this case, the "lemmy devs" and the operators of lemmy.ml are the same people and it's hosted within EU.
But - that's still a far cry from getting any kind of GDPR violation report going, much less getting it through the process to actual fines.
People like to bring up GDPR violations as a some kind of super-moderator tool, but it isn't that easy and it definitely isn't automated.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Effect of ActivityPub, not Lemmy. All federating systems function similarly, because it's a feature of the protocol.
If instances want, they can ignore delete requests and your content stays in their cache forever (remember Pleroma nazis from couple of years ago?) - now, that is an instance problem that might be a GDPR issue, but good luck reporting it to anyone who cares. At best you can block and defederate, but that doesn't mean your posts are removed.
The fediverse has no privacy, it's "public Internet". Probably a good idea to treat it as such.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
0xtero 9 months ago • 63%
I find it interesting that Meta Platforms, Inc., a company known for harvesting user data, is blocking some servers from fetching its public posts. They decided to implement a feature Mastodon calls Authorized fetch.
This was always going to happen. They will block agressively, because they can't have their precious advertising money mixed with CSAM, nazis and other illegal content. And the fedi is full of that.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
I hope not
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
I've been using Debian since 1.3. Haven't really ever needed anything else.
I did "experiment" a bit when the decision to go with systemd was taken, but in the end, most distros went with it and it really isn't that big deal for me.
So it's just Debian. I need a computer that works.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Who needs parody when these things write themselves
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
How is Lando higher than Rovanperä? WTF? What championship did he win? Or better.. did he actually win anything at all this year?
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Pleroma in that case I guess
0xtero 9 months ago • 87%
Gates is probably just as bad and evil as the global 0.1%:er billionaire cabal members come, but that site gave me a crackpot conspiracy brainrot.
Erin Kissane posted a long and well researched article about Threads federation risks and trust and safety issues around Meta. If you're taking part in the debate and discussions about Threads federation - or if you're instance admin on the fence - you should really read this.
0xtero 9 months ago • 96%
It's wild that a site with hundreds of millions of users, didn't invest into multiple-account deletion tools.
True start-up mentality, that one.
Just shows how our "critical" social media is really just some hasty tape and bubblegum behind the scenes to keep the front from falling apart.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
As is the case normally with these "exodus" things, most people went back to Reddit after the first month here.
0xtero 9 months ago • 50%
I guess majority on fedi are dumbasses in that case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mastodon is pretty fucked up anyway because everyone is on mastodon.social.
Adam Mosseri shared Threads roadmap for the near future. It's not entirely surprising, but looks like they're working towards "full" federation support with profile portability.
0xtero 9 months ago • 44%
Because the people signed the pact did it long time ago, before any details about Threads federation was known. It was a typical fedi kneejerk reaction.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
I still do that for meeting minutes, out of old habits, but other stuff like design notes/specs need to be e-mailed around, so it had to be something digital. Markup in text files was my solution.
I've never used Evernote, I thought it was something Mac specific?
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
I'm old school. I use text files
0xtero 9 months ago • 56%
It's a silly hashtag för instances that are in a "pact" to block Threads
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Somehow I don't think many instance admins have resources or knowhow to drive legal processes against Meta?
And while a disclaimer on the instance page might have some effect, the Federation protocol makes it hard to avoid getting a copy of the said content in your cache.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
How do we accomplish that?
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Why spend the money up front? That's just bad business.
Yeah agreed. They're building a multi-million dollar social network - why spend all that money up front when they could have just installed small anonymous Pleroma on Raspberry Pi for under 100 bucks if they'd wanted to mine our data.
I don't think fedi is their "target".
0xtero 9 months ago • 87%
I bet he does. You can block/mute influencers pretty easily and you can block the whole domain if you so wish.
He's talking about some kind of nefarious ad injection into ActivityPub objects as part of server to server activities.
0xtero 9 months ago • 75%
I think he's talking about people on his own instance.
He's Fosstodon admin, so pretty sure he knows how federation works.
0xtero 9 months ago • 58%
doesn’t mean we have to hand it to them on a silverplatter and allow them to scrape it legally
They could have just set up a simple Pleroma on Raspberry Pi and it would have been just as "legal" as any other instance. You'd need to turn on AUTHORIZED_FETCH and set up authentication on the Mastodon API, otherwise everything is public and unauthenticated (even if the instance is suspended/defederated).
But if enough instances say no, that means they are not welcome. Democracy and all
mastodon.social has already said yes. So have all the other big instances. Most of them have said "we'll wait and see". So democracy served I guess
And the last point is the dumbest: Threads will just include a revenue sharing model like Youtube does
Yeah, maybe. Who knows. I'll deal with it when it happens rather than knee-jerk years in advance. Threads has a long way to go, it's missing a lot of features to put it on par with their other commercial competitors, so I think they're going to be busy doing other things.
0xtero 9 months ago • 82%
Yeah, that's pretty much my take as well.
All the "but muh datas" pearl clutching is just annoying and frankly, ridiculous. If they wanted to mine us, they already would have. They're probably doing it as we speak. They didn't have to create a multi-million social network for it. A raspberry pi on someones desk would have sufficed. Fedi doesn't have any (/very much) privacy.
They're doing this to escape the wrath of EU privacy watchdogs. They were already fined for $1.3bn and more is coming. Running their Twitter killer on interoperable protocol is nice, because it's free and they get to point at W3C and say they're LIKE TOTALLY supporting data portability. Why would they "extend and extinguish" that? It's their alibi.
I don't like Meta. It's a shit company ran by shit people. I hope they burn in hell.
But I can't really get my panties in a twist about threads.net existing.
I'll get angry if they somehow figure out to push ads to my face.
But for now. Maybe I'll block it. Maybe I won't. We'll see.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Local mail client (Thunderbid) -> IMAP/POP -> sync.
Once done, move to a local folder and delete from Gmail.
You can just backup the Thunderbird profile, if you want to keep the mails safe
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
He can touch deeznuts
0xtero 9 months ago • 97%
Why are they still in EU? Isn't it time to revoke their membership card and benefits?
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Yeah will be interesting to see if they enable two-way federation. It's problematic for them
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Not more than it is now. Everything is already public so if they need it, they've already been collecting it. This doesn't really change anything.
0xtero 9 months ago • 94%
Will be interesting to see how they deal with nazis and CSAM from all the Japanese servers.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
You wouldn't download a train?
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Serving my car with 3rd party parts is stealing?
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Yeah, and as the article links, this is just not about media, CDs, DVDs and games. It's also about very physical products that we immediately associate as "owned" - like printers, phones, cars, tractors or even, (lol) trains. They're all locked to manufacturers parts and repair services and increasingly difficult to circumvent.
0xtero 9 months ago • 100%
Get a physical copy that doesn’t require internet activation then, assholes.
I think the point was, it is increasingly hard to find such products.
And even once you think you've bought such product, DRM makes sure it's still not really yours.
0xtero 10 months ago • 100%
Vironlainen tuli, vaikka kovasti yritin torjua kahvilla ja metallilla. Lihan, viinan ja uskonnon puutteet varmaan pudotti pisteet.
0xtero 10 months ago • 100%
Everyone should skip COP28. It's just a scam.
0xtero 10 months ago • 100%
There's thousand different stats around this, but generally most analysts place consoles slightly ahead of PC with stronger growth potential, but it depends a bit where in the generation cycle they do their measurements.
Most of this has been overshadowed by mobile gaming though.
0xtero 10 months ago • 100%
Smaller marketshare,
Pretty sure they'd release mobiile > console > PC if they could get away with it.
The PC release will be a year or so after to get people to double dip.
0xtero 10 months ago • 100%
But at least MKBHD tried to say nice things about it in his video. He really tried.
An army of fake social media accounts on Twitter and the blogging site Medium have been promoting and defending the controversial hosting of a UN climate summit by the United Arab Emirates.
So maybe everyone is already aware and I'm just behind the curve (as usual), but I ran into Mechabellum by accident the other day (I don't normally check my YouTube recommendations, so I guess I was lucky). Super fun RTS "autobattler" - you don't need billion APM skillz to play it - the action is automated - you just pick the units, upgrades and place them - and watch they mayhem (or despair). Been a while since I played something that made me go "just one more game" until late in the night. Any other Mechabellum enjoyers here?
Hello Detroit! Swedish hockeyfan coming in peace! Hockeymedia has been speculating about San Jose wanting to trade EK65 during the summer. He wants to go to a team that can make a run for the cup and compete - and that team will also have to have cap to take in his contract. Even if the Sharks retain salary, I'd guess he'd be around $8M. I've been thinking - maybe he could be a piece in Yzerplan? Does it make any sense to you guys?
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