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Lemmy.world and another instance have been compromised
  • I work at the biggest software company in the world.
    Sure there is projects with security flaws, but at the company I work, there is zero tolerance to big security flaws in the code, we have many automated checks, as-well as manual checks.

  • Lemmy.world and another instance have been compromised
  • In all seriousness, no one is talking about this, but this is the one disadvantage of open source software being developed by volunteers, we don't know exactly how the admin accounts were hacked but the XSS stuff is really basic stuff, none of those fields were sanatised at all, and it makes me concerned what else has been missed, obviously the advantage of open source is in time this stuff can get fixed, but this is what happens when loads of people who aren't experts contribute to a site.

    In comparison to sites where there is a fully hired developer team the quality of the code is significantly better. I really hope the passwords were hashed on these instances and the hackers didn't get plain text passwords or anything really bad like this.

    One thing and credit to Ernest, as I've contributed there he does very thorough code reviews and his quality of code is very good, its why im confident kbin won't be hacked.

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    Any bold predictions ahead of Microsoft's showcase tomorrow?
  • My prediction for the Xbox Games Showcase:
    (Lets see how many I get right or wrong)

    1. Forza Motorsport (Showing gameplay, announcing a release date)
    2. Bethseda's Indiana Jones (Showing gameplay)
    3. Some mention of Redfall and its new update
    4. Avowed (Gameplay and a rough release date)
    5. Minecraft (Showing a new update or ray tracing)
    6. Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 (Showing gameplay)
    7. Forza Horizon 5 (Possibly a third expansion)
    8. Sea of Theives (Showing a new season and brand deal potentially)
    9. Halo Infinite (Showing their new Battle Royale based gamemode)
    10. Hideo Kojima Game (Some game Hideo has worked on for Xbox)
    11. Fable (Showing some gameplay)
    12. Starfield (Obviously will be shown)
    13. Gears 6 (New game shown and teased)
    14. Avowed (Possibly showing gameplay)
    15. Hollow Knight: Silksong (Gameplay)
    16. Contraband (Gameplay)
    17. State Of Decay 3 (Gameplay)
    18. Elder Scrolls 6 (Possibly mentioned, maybe some gameplay if we are lucky)
    19. New game announcement by Compulsion Games
    20. New game announcement by Inxile Entertainment
    21. Everwild (Some gameplay)
    22. Some mention of Fallout (Most likely a remaster)
    23. HI-FI Rush: New DLC
    24. Some mention of Microsoft Flight Simulator and an update
    25. Banjo-Kazooie (Reboot/Remake)
    26. Some type of remastered collection (Gears, Fable maybe?)
  • Any bold predictions ahead of Microsoft's showcase tomorrow?
  • Forza has the potential to be the best selling game on Xbox.

  • What are some of your LEAST favorite game mechanics?
    • Excessive grinding or padding in a game just for the sake of it or for microtransaction reasons.
    • Microtransaction and pay-to-win models in full price $70 games...
    • Overuse of Quick time events Press E to dodge etc etc
    • Escort missions when developers want to pad their game out
    • Terrible stealth mechanics when an enemey spots me when im standing still in a bush from the other side of the map
  • In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout
  • Reddit literally don't care. They gotta try and become profitable somehow and they will destroy their community to get there if they have too

  • In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout
  • This was basically force the admins of reddit to remove them as mods... going to annoy a lot of people but its not going to magically cease reddits operations.

  • For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
  • The good news is the tech works, the interface and user experience can be improved.

  • For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
  • I think even better, you should be able to sign into any instance via some type of centralised federated login, though I guess the argument is you can't do that in multiple email clients as email is the most popular federated example.

  • What's everyone playing? (June)
  • As someone who has never played Diablo 4, I am enjoying it.

  • For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
  • I like the concept
    But it feels very much like its been designed by nerdy developers and has had little to no-input on user friendly design.

    The federated idea can work but it needs to be more seemless than this.

    1. Communities with the same name should be merged when viewing it from any instance, so you can see all the posts from these communities, they can be moderated seperatley and for advanced users you should be able to select which communities make up the merged community.
    2. By default you should see all of the merged communities in a central place and be able to subscribe to them easily, at the moment its handled different per instance but you have to seek out these communities to subscribe or follow them.
    3. I strongly believe there should be a centralised log-in system, so you can log into any instance with an account from another instance, this means if your instance goes down your account is centralised and is safe.
  • do you think the fediverse could replace popular social media
  • The truth is if you have to explain to users how it works, its not a very user-friendly concept.

  • do you think the fediverse could replace popular social media
  • I don't know you overestimate people, I think if the Fediverse will succeed its gotta be dumbed down a lot more for people and made seemless so it works without them having to think about the various instances as much.

  • what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back
  • I always think that Discord has a huge potential to replace both Reddit and Twitch if they wanted too.

  • How many of you have pulled the plug and deleted reddit already?
  • Annoyingly, even thought I don't want to support Reddit. There is still going to be some useful things on Reddit, but I really hope most the community move over to here, or somewhere else.

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