AwesomeLowlander @ AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works

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Keeping this place free of Reddit bullshit would be nice

Who died and made you ultimate arbiter of what content we can have on lemmy? There's a reason the voting system exists. If anything, you're the 'Reddit bullshit' and huh, I guess that makes me the challenger.

We all need attention or reassurance sometimes. We don't however need to be an asshole, so why are you being one?

Bacteria can eat wood and paper. That doesn't mean they disintegrate on the shelf. Environmental conditions would still have to be right for that to happen.

peaced out before being arrested

Probably not, given the house was occupied at the time of the raid.

You're on the fediverse, the benefits of forcing the major players to federate with smaller platforms should be obvious. It would reduce the network effect advantage they have and allow users to move away without being trapped in the chicken and egg situation they currently are.

Not me who downvoted you, FYI.

To me, a vulnerability is something unforeseen, that allows bad actors to exploit the system in an unintended manner. In this case, the system is working perfectly as designed. Just because another system decided to implement a new feature without consulting anybody else, does not make it a vulnerability. Or perhaps it does, but with the vulnerability on the side of Mastodon, since they're the ones telling their users their post is private when it is actually nothing of the sort.

What would I call it? An unsupported feature. One that Mastodon forced everybody else to implement without asking or any respect.

I'm not sure you can make that conclusion. This isn't a real vulnerability, and this isn't a surprise to anybody who knows how the AP protocol works. Dansup didn't reveal anything that was previously unknown, the blog author just has an axe to grind. It's unfair to assume that an actual 0 day vulnerability would have been treated the same way.

more people will know and exploit the vulnerability

It's not even a vulnerability, it's how AP works by design, is the issue at hand here. Mastodon decided they wanted to implement something not supported by AP, and everybody else had to take the heat for not 'doing it right'.

To keep it secure from the servers themself would require users to handle the encryption. See PGP for an idea of how much uptake that's likely to get. If you mean for the servers to handle the encryption, that's already the case, and the issue right now is that servers are privy to what users do, and by nature are a 3rd party in the convo.

Shh, this is the Internet, we don't do nuance here.

What is the suggestion, then? Assuming a colony does ever get established, it's impractical and naive to expect those who now live there to never demand land rights. The author makes good points but fails to discuss any potential solutions other than 'stay earthbound'.

Leave the grass alone, it's got dead Marios under it.

Proof that zombies do exist

Why? I see it on my main feed all the time, it's just osmosis.

It’s also petty pretty easy to spot whether an image is AI or drawn made.

Doubt. Most studies have shown that people are horrible at actually picking out AI art. You suffer from selection bias because you don't realise which ones you didn't spot.

its not art and can never replace actual art. When you compare for example an anime art of someone who actually drew it and the AI image, the drawn art is 9 out of 10 times better.

That implies it's solely about quality? At the inevitable point where AI gen gets better than drawn art, is the AI gen image now art too?

We can predict a disaster 2 centuries in advance, and yet accelerate the onset of the disaster until it's almost too late to avert it. What makes you think humanity would do anything useful if they had a thousand years? We'd just revert to our old behaviour because the urgency wasn't there any more.

Defaulting to not federating is what the major email providers currently do, and is why email has now become a centralised service that you cannot practically self host.

The ones who would leave, have left and been replaced. Just like any other user.

I was reading it as libertarian, and my mind was going to a totally different place

Yeah. How much of that progress, as a result of sustainability focus, came about solely in the past 2 decades? You're proving my point, that we just don't do something about future problems until it's become a today problem.