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Rentlar

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  • Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"

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  • Following best practice would be ideal, I agree with you, but for FOSS projects I can settle for best effort, and ability to configure/correct any serious errors if it is brought up constructively. Every dev has their own biases and they make tools to fit their needs, not necessarily everyones. Like if it was by accident that a personal filter was pushed to all instances, and then immediately fixed when made public, personally, I could forgive the dev for the mistake. But available evidence shows this was not a mistake, and intentionally hiding things this dev didn't like, pushing the upstream changes without telling anyone.

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  • Interesting choice to give the developer who already violated user trust by imposing a secret blacklist the benefit of the doubt on their bigotry.

    I never did that, sorry I kind of suggested I did in my last reply, when I meant in general to devs that don’t break peoples' trust. In a vacuum, a configurable blocklist with biased defaults is acceptable, even if I wouldn't set it myself that way. Their work, their choice. However, it is specifically the concealment of the biased defaults that is the breach of trust which calls into question the dev's motivations.

    Requiring users to enable "toxic mode" in order to access queer spaces isn't evidence of bigotry to you?

    Alone, no, that would be mere speculation, if combined with the shady practice or if you have antiLGBTQ quotes then yes, I could say that fact potentially supports that conclusion. Consider that blahaj.zone is not the only LBGTQ+ safe space on Lemmy (see beehaw !lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org). Any admin or dev could have beef with Ada, not with queer folks, that could be motivation to block blahaj.zone. I never gave the tesseract dev that grace, because that blocklist with blahaj was never publicized, until the clandestine filter list was discovered and decoded.

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  • If they come out and say they don't like blahaj.zone for bigoted reasons, let them, don't support their project, done. I'll defend blahaj.zone's strictly enforced any pronoun policy as much as a dev who clearly chooses to include or exclude certain instances by default, as long as the intentions are clear, not hidden away and easily rectifiable for your needs. What I am saying is a breach of trust is worse than bigotry, which itself is worse than mere ideological disagreements. A < B < C.

    You can read into how you like the presence of certain instances/words/users on the blocklist, but putting BZ on a blocklist = bigot seems to me like a jump to conclusion.

    you are being far too charitable with an obviously bad faith actor.

    Like I said, I afford FOSS devs lots of grace and benefit of doubt, that's just me, if the issue was solely over the choice of instances being blocked by default, I'd excuse it, but that isn't the main issue. Call me too charitable, sure, it's in my nature and you don't have to be me.

    The issue is the blocklist was hidden away in base64, not documented anywhere, while constantly being updated, without any justification (like pulling from a public spamlist), and was secretly affecting every server's Tesseract frontend. It was the trust that the so-called "Toxic mode" could remove all filtering, but it didn't, and the trust that connection errors were simply configuration problems and not intentionally obfuscated filtering routines, these formed the trust that was broken.

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    Maine Democrats Replace Platner with conservative corporate Democrat

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  • Colour the article with your assessment of Troy Jackson in the post body if you like, but you shouldn't editorialize the article headline that significantly.

    I would like Jackson to be loudly progressive like Platner, which so far I have not heard too much on, and he used to be a Republican, but even in those years, he was arguing for stronger states' rights for labour. He is far from a conservative corporate Democrat, he supported Sanders over the DNC favourites and campaigned plenty with Platner.

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  • One note/minor correction, it is in the git repo: https://github.com/db0/tesseract/commits/main/static/data/policy.dat

    You can see when asimons04 changed the static base64 filter .dat file. The changes happen in completely unrelated or nondescript commits. Looking at the commit when it was implemented, it does say filter, but the error messages and code comments creating the folder indicate "cache" folder creation, when the variable name and function is for the policy, which might technically be correct, is misleading and is quite suspect to me.

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  • Like I would have zero problems with developers that do this, if they could come out clearly and document/announce: "I don't like these accounts or words, if you do then this is what you do to change it or shut it off."

    Stuff like Lemmy's word list, Piefed's default blocklist, you can turn off or change the words. Even if I think the daily vote quota is a stupid default on setting, if you're a Piefed admin and don't like that, set the limit to 10000, 99999999 or whatever. I usually have tons and tons of sympathy for FOSS devs, take their side and give the benefit of doubt in grey areas. They work for free and share it for free so I don't expect perfection or how I would want things to be.

    Undocumented shit like this, intentionally hidden is way past the line, and I have no patience for it whatsoever. You never know when this could be somehow used as an attack vector.

  • Mamdani concedes he can't arrest Netanyahu but urges U.S. to enforce International Criminal Court warrant

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  • His motorcade was coming right for us!!! Is that weed I smell coming from the vehicle?

  • Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral for AI compute

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  • This is Microsoft showing a little desperation to keep Europe from moving onto fully European cloud solutions, by integrating European solutions into Microsoft products.

    I think firms can still, for now, use Mistral independent of Microsoft, but this does put into question if Microsoft may further reduce Mistral's independence or buy it out eventually once the attention is off them.

    Government bodies in EU should keep pursuing tech stacks independent of Apple, Google and Microsoft and not let this lead them astray.

  • Trump Attacks Socialism Because He Knows Americans Want It

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  • Well the Trump administration should keep whining about it. Really they're just helping to increase its popularity, since they consider their incompetent selves as the alternative to it.

  • Taylor Farms Visited White House Before Getting Outbreak Reprieve

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  • Don't worry about the explosive diarrhea!

  • I think we can all agree...

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  • I didn't like that the US and Canadian broadcasts always had to pan to the corrupt stooge Infantino a couple times every game, during play, but I did like that I could hear the stadium crowd or my local watch party crowd boo each time.

  • AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

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  • the photographer had asked an AI platform to make the picture “look better”

  • Flock Says Its Cameras Worked 'Correctly' When Police Tracked and Ambushed Me for No Reason

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  • Yes, the Flock system is working correctly, as a tool for police to stalk and harass innocent people.

  • Sen. John Fetterman says he’ll leave the Democratic Party if it ‘officially’ becomes ‘anti-Israel’

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  • Please, DNC! Be officially pro-Jew, anti-Israel.

  • 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

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  • GKH is to me the second most important guy in the Linux world today next to LT, and he definitely deserves more credit for his efforts maintaining the kernel. Maybe Greg doesn't get as much press attention because he doesn't make as profound statments as Linus tends to.

  • Pete Hegseth Announces New Required Pentagon Testosterone Tests

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  • In other words, Pete Hegseth introduces mandatory gender-affirming tests as part of servicemember health evaluations.

  • Treasury unveils fresh photos of Trump's $1 gold coin

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  • Lol it's the Inmate #P01135809 commemorative coin. The design seems inspired by that mugshot.

  • OpenAI's Codex app has 70% GPU usage while it is “thinking” due to tiny useless animation

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  • We should go back to the 8 frame wristwatch from the old Mac days. 🕛🕑🕒🕓🕕🕖🕘🕚 perhaps that will save resources.

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    Why is the grass always greener on the other side? How do you learn to be satisfied?

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  • Since you've tried both, you can ground yourself in realistic expectations when thinking about either lifestyle.

    When someone fantasizes about something, usually they are only thinking about the nice parts of that experience. And conversely, once a person is used to their current life, the novelty wears off and people tend to take some things for granted, not realizing they're enjoying it until they don't have it anymore.

    So my suggestion is: Think about both the positives and negatives of the road you aren't taking right now, then count the blessings of your current situation, then think about where you want to take yourself from there. Don't give up on figuring out what you want, but if you're getting what you think you want but still constantly yearning for something else, you should step back and evaluate things with just a bit more of a calm and rational mind.