Draconic_NEO

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

I don’t think it’s accurate and actually a bit disingenuous to lump WordPress and Flipboard together with Facebook/Threads, because these entities behave drastically differently, Flipboard and Wordpress are sharing their content with others on the Fediverse (plus wordpress is hosted software, people can run their own versions of it independently) without trying to compromise and manipulate users, Facebook is trying to recruit Fediverse users onto their platforms, that’s why they’re doing one-way Federation and banning Keywords related to Fediverse related platforms. To say “iT’S All cOrPOrATe” is ignoring these key facts, which is why I say it seems disingenuous.

Bad instances are going to be a struggle always, that’s just the nature of a federated network, there will always be bad actors, compromised nodes, and malicious users that we have to deal with, that’s never going to end no matter what happens. Even if it becomes infrequent it’ll still always happen.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Well you see, since Lemmy.world is a large instance, the vast majority of the Lemmy network actually. Such decisions ultimately affect everyone else because they slash your engagement severely in all affected communities.

So even on other instances the decisions of a behemoth like lemmy.world can still affect users there, in way more indirect and annoying ways.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

@bouh Lol look at you seething away, came here just to randomly attack people in a defederation thread.

I know what triggers these types of responses to defederation, many people believe that the Fediverse was some grand user choice and free speech haven. Which is an incorrect assumption, by a long shot. The fediverse since it’s beginning has never been a free speech platform, and also like all other top down servers prioritizes admins, the people who pay the bills and are liable for what happens on their server. So when servers violate these rules and all other options have been exhausted or it is clear that they will continue causing issues persistently, servers are defederated to maintain the peace and safety of their server. One thing to make clear is that all users have the choice of signing up to a different server that does federate, and if they are the victim of one of these compromised/bad-faith servers, they really should consider doing that.

That’s quite open minded and tolerant! Paradox of Tolerance

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Probably one of if not the biggest reasons people had poor experiences on Lemmy before was because they signed up on Lemmy.ml

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Btw you are also free to block any instance yourself.

Not how the instance blocking feature works. it’s a common misconception because people don’t read the docs and just assume it does what they think it does. From the News Section on Join-Lemmy:

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

It’s not an alternative or replacement to defederation, not even close. I’m really surprised this misconception still persists even after widespread adoption of 0.19.x across the Lemmy network.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

They also manipulated the modlog on their site to not differentiate between removed by mod and removed by admin. So even When something is removed by Dessalines or Nutomic it’ll still show as moderator and not admin in the mod log.

Draconic_NEO, 3 months ago

Same with plastic companies trying to encourage plastic recycling, they’re only doing it because the real solution is to ban or regulate their business.

Draconic_NEO, 5 months ago

I already know what you’re getting at but arguments in favor of breaking gender stereotypes aren’t made invalid if the person who originally made them ends up identifying as trans. I know that lots of people like to use situations like that as “evidence that people who break gender stereotypes are just trans-in-denial” and/or a justification for harassing GNC folks (r/egg_irl and r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns were especially awful about that back in their heyday) but it’s very important to recognize that GNC people are valid in their own right, and trying to generalize them as transgender is hurtful and enforces the toxic gender stereotypes that hurt people.

Oh and before someone tries to twist my words around. No a trans woman wearing a dress doesn’t enforce gender stereotypes, what enforces gender stereotypes is to say a person (i.e. a femboy) is trans because they wear a dress without their input on the matter.

Draconic_NEO, 5 months ago

Refusing to wear a sweater, jacket, hat, or gloves when it’s bitterly cold out. They claimed that “real men endure the cold” and tried to say that wearing warm clothes to stay warm makes you “Womanly”.

Nothing more manly than hypothermia and frostbite am I right guys? /s

Draconic_NEO, 6 months ago

Who wouldn’t want a world where people are able to freely express themselves and be treated with kindness. (Salty old conservatives I guess…)

Draconic_NEO, 6 months ago

Didn’t he unban and stick up for somebody who posted CSAM to the site? (I’ll try and find the article with it, if anybody else knows what it is feel free to reply with it).

Edit: Here it is

Non-Paywall version

Draconic_NEO, 7 months ago

Lemmy.World Mascot emoji would be cool

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cd300dc7-6b16-4fe9-b279-d33987b9c6cf.png

Draconic_NEO, 7 months ago

I do wonder why we didn’t defederate from them long ago, it’s not like they recently started showing signs of who and what they really are, they’ve been very transparent about their motives since day 1. Still though good it was done now before they started spamming things here (not sure if they do that or if it’s just hexbear that spams).

Draconic_NEO, 9 months ago

It’s not your fault, these people attacked and we don’t have the proper moderation tools to defend ourselves yet. Hopefully in the future this will change though. As it stands you did the best that you could.

Draconic_NEO, 9 months ago

This graph is actually wrong, lemmy.ml doesn’t have open sign ups, it just appears to because the Lemmy software doesn’t accurately distinguish between open and closed registrations, it only distinguishes between open registrations and application-based registrations. If registrations are closed it’ll look just like they are open, but we’ll just give an error message when you try to sign up which is incredibly deceiving.

I filed an issue to fix this discrepancy on their GitHub.

Another issue with this graph is that it shows lemmy.world as American but it’s actually hosted in Finland.

Draconic_NEO, 9 months ago

A more accurate depiction of raptors would have them with feathers, they’d basically look more like large birds, but with normal jaws and teeth instead of beaks.

Also many of the classical depictions, also known as skin wrapped or shrink-wrapped aren’t really great because they don’t attempt to depict the animal how they were by reconstructing they just draw skin over the structure of the bones, which is very wrong living things have cartilage and structure in their bodies that aren’t bone so we constructing from bone requires imagining and attempting to recreate that structure while using the bone structure as a starting point.

Draconic_NEO, 9 months ago

This is such a stupid argument, while you might be able to make the argument about sexual dimorphism in physical sports there’s literally no good reason why a woman shouldn’t be allowed to play chess against a man, or play chess against another woman if they are trans.

Chess is a game based on intelligence and strategy, it’s not based on strength. It seems that this decision was made primarily on the basis of sexism, either because they think that chess is ““manly”” or because they think that men are smarter than women or that women are stupid. Either way not logical, purely sexist.

Draconic_NEO, 9 months ago

IntelME is an embedded Microcontroller in the Intel Chipset (in the south-bridge chip) which depending on variations in generation, has a multitude of different features such as Active Management Technology used in IT department, clock controls and a few more things.

Because it is closed source there are security concerns about possible vulnerabilities in it which could possibly be exploited, as well as several conspiracy theories about it. Due to that hobbyists as well as certain OEMs have found out ways to disable it in attempt to mitigate these issues.

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For more detailed information on it I would highly recommend this video by CCC on the subject, it covers what IntelME does and how it was able to be disabled.

34C3 - Intel ME: Myths and reality (Youtube)

34C3 - Intel ME: Myths and reality (media.ccc.de)

Draconic_NEO, 9 months ago

It did, legacy versions of it had almost full extension support and also even allowed you to install them from storage as xpi files and poke around about:config, then they took away both of those things completely in fenix (only allowing about:config in debug versions and blocking XPI install altogether).

Draconic_NEO, 9 months ago

DDoS isn’t a high skill attack by any means, they could have also hired somebody else to do it for them (there are some really big losers out there who will waste money on something like that).

Draconic_NEO, 9 months ago

Unfortunate but very much necessary to stop the spread of their hatred. This is why it’s important to have a team of admins, so that it’s less likely that the person running the server doesn’t just disappear one day and they can continue maintaining it even if the main person isn’t there. Maybe if you’re an individual instance you can’t afford to hire a team of people, but you could get a group of friends together and have all of you work together to run it, think of it like a group passion project it’s important to make sure that something like this doesn’t end up abandoned otherwise it can cause problems for others if people start abusing it.

I know a lot of people are in doubt about how bad it is, but I went there and I looked at it and it’s honestly terrible worse than the Donald on Reddit (if anyone can remember that) we don’t want to rehost that kind of stuff on this server, we don’t want to be associated with those kinds of people, it’s not worth it. They can still have their free speech on their platform, just not on our server and we don’t have to put up with it.

Draconic_NEO, 9 months ago

As somebody who goes through the extremely hot August summer heat where I live I will tell you that no you don’t get used to the heat if you’re exposed to too much heat you’ll develop heat exhaustion, and if you keep going you’ll get heat stroke which can kill you.

What I’m wondering though is did Washington compost actually say this, or was it just made for the meme? Honestly if they did I would not be surprised in the slightest.

Draconic_NEO, 10 months ago

An old Asus Chromebox CN60, I bought it because it was dirt cheap, as should probably be expected EOL ChromeOS device.

It seems like something that would be completely and utterly useless but once I put Linux on it I was able to use it as a handy little Server. I guess I didn’t really think that it was stupid, but other people thought that it was stupid that I bought it.

Draconic_NEO, 10 months ago

There’s a third example missing from here because there are also quite a few hacker furries.

Draconic_NEO, 10 months ago

I think it’s important to defederate from threads as soon as humanly possible, their presence here will only bring us problems in the future, as has been shown by what happens when Big companies enter federated Spaces in the past (many people have already brought up Embrace Extend Extinguish already). Also like I’ve said before Meta has a really bad track record when it comes to their privacy and ethics policies, might not be in our best interest to welcome them into this family.