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  • ...and, more importantly, none of the donations go towards Firefox development. Instead they go towards "causes" that Mozilla Foundation finds worthy, and usually they have nothing to do with the open web.

  • They're two separate(ish) issues.

    But it's still a bad idea to use national TLDs for stuff that has nothing to do with that nation.

    Granted, is ICANN wasn't just a money-grabbing machine with no forward thinking they wouldn't give nations clearly "generally desirable" gTLDs, but since they did already that doesn't mean they should be misused.

  • I had a similar issue and in my case it ended up being some AMD crap (I think an updater or something) that probably didn't install properly or something.

    IIRC I just ended up disabling the scheduled task that was running it and that was the end of it.

  • ...especially when they don't bother to fix years (sometimes decades) old bugs.

  • That would give random strangers (at least partial) control over what is indexed and how and you'd have to trust them all. I'm not sure that's a great idea.

  • This is cool but it'll be a nightmare to update.

    Also, chances are that if you use Alpine the person using your image already has the base layer downloaded, so your image might actually be "bigger" for most people.

  • Man, please, learn to read. My whole point is that you should not care about what people upvote.

    So once again: if you are okay with the original comment/post - which means you are fine with keeping Nazis on and what they have to say on your platform - then you should be okay with people who "react" on that content.

    Or maybe you aren't fine with it, so you should delete the offending post or comment, and then you won't be bothered by the reactions either.

  • Sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me. I wonder if he could still fight it. Sure doesn't sound too bad until you realize that it's literally only to make an example out of someine while ruining his entire life for a crime with no victim.

  • I think that if you allow that question in the first place, voting on it should not have any consequences either.

    Besides, despite what most people instinctively think it's better to see what you disagree with so that you can keep your eyes on it rather than forcing it into hiding and knowing nothing (again, in moderation - you probably don't want to run an actual Nazi instance, so if it does bother you you should moderate that post/comment).

    And mistakes still happen; it's easy to accidentally upvote/downvote something by mistake, to misunderstand someone, etc. So yes, I do think banning people based on what they up/downvote is a bad idea.

  • Yep, exactly my thoughts. Unfortunately very few developers really think (about related but not completely adjacent code) when they implement stuff (and that's when they are even "allowed to" by the task requirements) and even fewer have true knowledge of security and common pitfalls and whatnot to avoid such issues.

    And even when you have those you still need good practices and code reviews where the rest of the slip ups is caught.

  • perfect example is when a nazi says “based” in response to an article about someone being racist and it gets like 20 upvotes. I don’t think anyone reasonable would be against a banwave on something like that.

    I would absolutely be against that. Voting should not be bannable outside of vote manipulation itself. If the content is offending, remove that (and possibly ban the user), but not people who vote on it. That's just stupid "guilty by association" nonsense. And besides, voicing stupid opinions (in moderation) is still better than suppressing free speech.

    Lemmy just chooses to hide them to prevent the “chilling effect” where people feel afraid to vote honesty for fear of repercussions.

    I find that kinda stupid as well. It leads people to think that their votes are private when literally anyone can view them with a bit of work. Sure the chilling effect sucks but it's better than misleading people. At the very least they should be warned when they sign up.

  • Ehh their engineering simply seems to be subpar. I've read some of the CVEs and if they followed best practices the issues should've never happened. It doesn't inspire confidence.

  • Good to know which company should be avoided for buying home appliances. I really hope the notice will be the first thing to show ope when you search their name + HA Integration.

  • I'd like to add that even if you use full disk encryption and have to enter a password to unlock it they could just install a modified loader that captures your password. Though it's not necessary something I'd worry about from them.

    Heck if they wanted, they could use your machine to mine crypto if they wanted to. Or ransom it with encryption of their own. Or get you in legal trouble in so many other ways like putting incriminating files on your machine.

    All of that is unfortunately true about any anticheat and pretty much any software you use, really.

    Obviously not if you run it unprivileged in a separate OS, but the vast majority of users don't even use more than a single (usually not password protected administrator) account.

  • For the people who do find out about it and it hooks them enough sure, it's not really forgotten or underrated. But I still think it's kinda obscure / not well known?

  • Why not judge these instances on their own merit though? If what you say becomes true and is so problematic and rampant that it needs addressing, you can block that instance. But doing so preemptively seems petty and counterproductive at best.

    What if there is an instance that selectively reposts from Threads only decent, thoughtful discussions?

    Oh and as a side note; if you're worried about stuff getting more mainstream, toxic and polarized that's kinda inevitable if you want more people using the fediverse, that's just how it is when lots of differently thinking people are in one place.

  • It's even simpler than that; you probably pay for your SIM credit online / with a card, which is much easier to tie to a person than using cell towers for tracking.

  • Firefox has a profile manager (the thing that's also exposed to about:profiles). Run it like firefox -profilemanager and you'll get a profile switcher.

    Run firefox -profilemanager -no-remote if you want to open multiple different profiles at once (only the original one without "no-remote" will open new tabs when you click on links outside the browser). You'll probably want to make a shortcut for different profiles though, not sure from memory what it is (but probably -profile ProfileName) and then you can easily use profiles.

    The support is actually pretty decent, just kinda hidden. You don't get a profile switcher because the browsers are completely separate, they don't really know about each other.