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@ sovietknuckles @hexbear.net

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  • This Week in Rust #520

  • Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections

  • But one of the requirements of eIDAS 2.0 is that browser makers trust government-approved Certificate Authorities (CA) and do not implement security controls beyond those specified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

    State-mandated backdoors seem bad

  • Who's That Pokémon?

  • Edit: Not sure why, but many instances don't show crossposts out of dbzer0.

    In order for a post to show up as a crosspost, it must use the exact same URL, rather than re-uploading it each time. It looks like each crosspost so far has used a separate URL except your !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone crosspost.

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  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    sovietknuckles [they/them, undecided] @hexbear.net
    CW: chaser username

    Hexbear: Not pro-LGBTQ+, the Israel of Lemmy instances

  • v thoughtful suggestion, I had not considered

  • "Thanks, I'll add a note to make a schedule"

    makes schedule never

  • Is there a Fritter alternative?

  • Vivek Ramaswamy Wants to Raise Voting Age to 25 (or have a "competency test" for people 18-25)

  • So we're scrapping the 26th amendment, huh?

    Our current supreme court considers constitutional amendments to be unconstitutional, so I wouldn't be surprised if they rule in favor of scrapping it

  • Demerara Rebellion (1823) - New General Megathread for the 18th of August 2023

  • @Dolores@hexbear.net responding to your comment in an old megathread here, since that mega is locked:

    very confused, is this a bug or does that comm have basically no upvotes? i'm seeing the highest at 3? how'd that get on anyone's feed?

    Votes from before federation don't get federated, so old posts look like they don't have votes until more people vote on them. It looks like there's some votes now, though.

  • Sleeping Ducks rule

  • Hmm,

  • The prosthetic goes out way too far. Actual Bernstein:

    I tried to find a comparable profile shot from Maestro, but they seem to be avoiding showing his direct profile, I couldn't find one in the trailer

  • Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal

  • Threads can only display ads on their app

    What is stopping them from adding ads to the website?

    if lemmy.world adds ads, people can just not use the lemmy.world website

    That's what I imagine happening, a few people can't stand it and leave or use uBlock, and the rest of the userbase gets served ads

    As far as i know they cant force other apps to show ads

    Not unless ads are a footer or something in post or comment content. That's an intellectual property gray area, I wonder what will happen.

  • Why is bash --login running

  • You can avoid that notification by switching to i3

  • It would appear lemmy.world has blocked the largest piracy instance

  • They're totally going to run ads

  • Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal

  • However Meta decides to serve ads on Threads or Threads content. Whatever it takes, Threads will definitely do ads, as they are owned by an advertising company, but we don't really know how LemmyWorld will do ads until those ads are live.

  • New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises

  • It's not the vaccine, but while you're waiting, Covixyl (a nasal spray) is available over-the-counter and reduces viral load/severity for 4 hours

  • New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises

  • To anyone else waiting until the new vaccine is available in September, consider protecting yourself in the meantime with Covixyl, which is a nasal spray. It doesn't keep you from getting COVID, but it reduces the viral load for 4 hours, so if you do get COVID, it will be less severe (though you should still get Paxlovid at that point regardless).

  • Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal

  • [...] it sounds like you're arguing that the downtime is because of massive user registrations and not from an attack like they said themselves [...]

    I have no idea where their downtime is from. If it is DOS-related, though, they would protect against it using a DDOS protection service like CloudFlare, which costs $$$

    Lemmy.world hasn't done anything to suggest they would be a significant privacy and security risk to users, at least not yet

    They have, though. The LemmyWorld admins doxxed a user who they believed (incorrectly) to be Hexbear admin CARCOSA@hexbear.net. Source: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1754850

    [...], pushing ads to federated servers or collecting and selling user data would absolutely change that I guarantee it.

    We'll see, but the larger they grow, the more permanent they get, and ads only affects that so much.

    I didn't and won't go as far to accuse the instance owners themselves of being behind the attack but I won't say it isn't a user from Hexbear because nether you or I can prove that it isn't.

    Hexbear is not more suspect than other instances, and there is no reason to name-drop Hexbear, alone, in particular. If they're being DOSed, then whoever is responsible is most likely involved in a community that has a culture of DOSing in general, like a Chan, maybe the same one that has actively been responsible for vandalizing Lemmy instances.

  • Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal

  • How do they expect to serve ads to people with that abysmal uptime that they have.

    The probably see it differently, that their uptime is limited by their funding, and additional revenue would help uptime.

    Maybe it will maybe they'll be financially successful but I bet they're probably also going to get defederated and therefore not platform successful.

    The current logic I've seen about why instances continue to federate with LemmyWorld is that they're "too big to fail", the same logic applied to Threads, and I don't see ads changing that. If Threads uses a more PR-friendly way of running ads when they inevitably do, maybe LemmyWorld will copy whatever ad-serving method that is.

    [...] and that's probably just from one person from hexbear who's pissed at them, [...]

    You probably saw someone else say this, rather than making it up yourself, but Hexbear does not DOS anyone, please don't repeat misinformation

  • emoji @hexbear.net
    sovietknuckles [they/them, undecided] @hexbear.net

    :so-far:

  • Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal

  • They're not risking legal troubles unless they receive and don't comply with a DMCA takedown request. Like I said elsewhere, this is about making their site friendly to advertisers.

  • fediverse @hexbear.net
    sovietknuckles [they/them, undecided] @hexbear.net

    How long until Hexbear shows up on join-lemmy.org/instances?

  • labour @hexbear.net
    sovietknuckles [they/them, undecided] @hexbear.net

    "We’ve Changed the Game": Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract

    teamster.org /2023/07/weve-changed-the-game-teamsters-win-historic-ups-contract/
  • fitness @hexbear.net
    sovietknuckles [they/them, undecided] @hexbear.net

    FDA panel unanimously backs over-the-counter birth control pill, teeing up approval

    archive.is /OJ2Wa