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lambalicious

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  • Private community here on the fediverse?

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  • Ooof... right that's a very complicated position. You'd need a forum or microblogging platform that can be hosted to convenience (cheap price / gratis; ideally away from Nine Eyes and from Iran eyes). As for the media storage requirement, if your community is going to be media-heavy, that's a lot more damage on the long term: either you host the media and run the risk of delivering a lot of private info when caught (most media uploads are not sanitized for privacy, nor people know how to do that), or you don't host the media yourself and count on the users uploading it to somewhere else that you'll have to "moderately" depend on.

    If I were you, I'd think hard and long whether media (especially heavy media, such as videos) is that much important as to have to do the hosting by yourself or whichever group you are organizing. Any way you can find of getting out of that hurdle will be good for costs, for mental health (moderation etc) and for security (as I mentioned above, as well as other factors). Torrenting heavy media files or going Cuban aka.: distribute through a physical network of hidden flash drive caches, might be available options.

  • [META] Should AI disclosure tags [AI], [NOT AI] be mandated when sharing projects?

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  • Having the tags? Sure.

    Making them mandatory? Only if we have 1.- an actual process to determine whether a tag is incorrectly applied (up to a respectable level of confidence) and 2.- an adequate, *enforceable+ punishment for infringers.

  • Private community here on the fediverse?

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  • If you want a community that is, at its foundational level, private, then you don't want it to be in the Fediverse. I don't mean it in an empathetic level but rather on a technical level. There are far better tools such as forum services for small communities, and you would be not wasting the second most distinctive feature of fediverse software (that of federation).

    As for where can you have such a community, that is better split in two questions: 1.- what software to use and 2.- where to host it.

    Question 1 suggests the use of any of a myriad of forum solutions, suchas phpBB or Discourse, that can be hosted or even self-hosted; as well as suggest the use of some goof practices such as having a back-channel communication system between high-level collaborators that uses a different medium/platform (say, Signal).

    Question 2 highly involves your threat model if you want to do something that might put you and other people's lives at risk, but does not really mandate or prescribe which solutions you'd pick for question 1 otherwise. As I have not followed your conversations that closely, the most I can do is to suggestlow-tier VPS platforms that offer wide-range services (everything from forums to videoconference to blogs) so that there is less of a chance that it gets blocked; or otherwise use some sort of local net mesh (eg.: radio).

  • An extension that bypasses online age verification

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  • Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores - Ars Technica

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  • How about block com.google.android.*?

  • Fediverse Growth?

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  • I knew that lemmy having the issue of instance identity being tied to DNS was going to eventually bite it in the ass.

    It if weren't for that, it'd be as easy as migrating the instance to a different jurisdiction. Which, speaking of, is a whack-a-mole game; what we need is to set up shop in some sort of international waters jurisdiction or something that has enough soverengity and amicability that assures say the UK can't legally threaten it anymore than they can threaten a random online-delivery donut shop in Laos.

  • “Management has lost all moral compass”: Android's head of security slams Google's door

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  • It took them this long to notice?

    Pathetic

  • Mulvad ad spotted in London tube

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  • complaining about one (1) physical ad, placed in a thematically adequate place in a non-obtrusive way

  • Mulvad ad spotted in London tube

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  • It's not as if we (and they) didn't know before. UK did Brexit.

  • The European Social Stack — An open declaration

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  • Sounds cute, but it has to be implemented without the current trend of Eurofaszionazism.

    Whether you make a platform out of Mastodon, AP, Peertube, XMPP, whatever, they are no longer useful if you slap espionage, ChatControl, forced Israeli apologia or anysuch stupidity on them.

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  • Two very great points, especially the point that Fediverse platforms should not each try do everything. That's (one of many ways) how developers and users go to die.

  • It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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  • That, too. I'm happy costing money to Proton as a free tier user using the mail as an inbox, but as an actually usable storage and catalogue of incoming mail? It's a disaster.

    Things would be much easier doable if the IMAP bridge was available to the free tier.

  • It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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  • It's not possible to really anonymize whichever option if it has to be used repeatedly enough that a pattern is formed, in particular for cash. That's why one-time options are so important: because, given enough time, the past is in the past.

    Not to mention that the bitcoin option means having to buy into the scams and felonies that is crypto in the first place.

    As for lifetime subscriptions being "hard to properly price", I don't see why Proton can't consult with SDF on the matter. SDF offers a multitude of services of noticeably high involvement – heck you get shell on their servers – so I don't see how routing a tun/tap interface goes much more difficult than that.

  • It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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  • The other was the person using a personally identifiable payment method, although I’m not familiar with Proton’s policies on retaining that data.

    There is no circumstance under which Proton should have kept this data, assuming the account was old enough. Sure, you can say "credit" but I can just as well say that if Proton sells its business on the idea of keeping data secure or at as-low risk as possible, then they should offer lifetime / one-time payment options so that the payment information would have expired already or at least would not be renewed forever.

    And don't tell me that doesn't exist. I'm a user of SDF. They offer such plan.

  • It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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  • And as socialists/anti-fascists we also have orders of magnitude less money to same-put our mouths on.

  • It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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  • It's difficult for something to be a smear campaign against Proton when the behaviour of Proton is not only publicly documented, but doubled down upon. When the CEO spoke in favour of Trumpism, that's exactly what the board did, instead of kicking the CEO out. And that's just the low-hanging fruit.

    There's a saying. When people show you how evil they are, believe them.

  • Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

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  • If I ever received a vuln report from an AI, or other such glorified spreadsheet, I would promptly dismiss it then wait for a human to organically discover it on its own to consider that as proof of actual existence.

  • LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

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  • False. Browsers can announce themselves as desktop or mobile, or even advertise pre-determined fake window and screen sizes for this purpose (in Firefox it's called "letterboxed" in the hidden settings). There is no need for a server to have any of this information anyway - either the design of the webpage should be responsive by default, or the server can send specifically whichever files for styles the browser specifically asks for, perhaps falling back to a "all.css" or something.

  • Fedora Rejects Proposal To Use systemd For Managing Per-User Environment Variables

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  • Fedora rejects something from systemd

    date: April 1

    source: Phoronix

    Yeah no, good try tho. Had me hopeful for 6 seconds.