madsen @ madsen @lemmy.world

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Turning off Comment Navigator in the settings unfortunately doesn't do anything for me wrt my volume buttons. Doesn't matter what I set it to, it still eats my volume presses and uses it for comment navigation.

This is definitely a setting that should be off by default. Hijacking hardware buttons and changing their function is a huge no-no, IMO.

Edit: Comment Navigator seems to refer to the "Done", "Hide", "Parent", etc. buttons above a selected comment.

Edit 2: Update fixed it. Thanks a ton!

Been using Bitwarden and Firefox for years and years. Never had any integration issues.

I think the source code download is automatically added by GitHub when you create a release in a project, and I don't know that there's any way to remove it. So I don't think the "source code" download is necessarily intentionally misleading, but apart from that, yeah, you're absolutely right. It is a bit of a shitty way to use GitHub.

Literally no one but you has used the word "federated" in his thread of comments... You responded to the original comment about git being decentralized by saying "it's still 1 centralized server that has the code". I corrected you, because that's not how git works, and now I'm not sure what the fuck you're on about...

Edit: Screenshot, in case you forget.

You'd still have a complete copy of the current HEAD, you'd just be missing a bunch of history depending on the depth at which you cloned.

It's really not. In your example, the meme would be decentralized — not "the internet". Also, I think you're confusing "git" with services offering "git and more" such as GitHub, GitLab, etc.

No, that's not quite how git works. Everyone who's cloned the repo has a complete copy of the code — at least at the time they cloned/checked it out. If GitHub, Gitlab, BitBucket or whatever goes away, you can keep working without it, provided that people know how to use a remote from another machine. Git really is decentralized even if people tend to use it in a centralized fashion.

Edit: Spelling.

If you don't want to see NSFW stuff from friends in your activity feed in Steam, there's a toggle for it in your account store preferences somewhere.

Ikr? That's honestly the most offensive thing about it.

Problem is that it's not historical. If a server was defederated yesterday, it doesn't appear in that list. And again, GDPR takes this stuff seriously, and "look at the bottom" is not sufficient. It needs to specify what data goes where.

I don't think email is a good example because you're in complete control of who you send an email to. However, I'm not in control of who Lemmy sends my voting data to (because I don't control who a given instance is federated with), but GDPR grants me the right to know that.

if you want data deleted, you can do that, but you’ll have to send that request to every server you (or your instance on your behalf) sent it to.

According to the GDPR an "organization" has to specify exactly who processes the user's data (i.e. every instance in a federation — past and present), and everyone that processes that data must make it easy to make data/deletion requests, to that's hopefully baked into Lemmy from the get-go because otherwise someone is going to find themselves in the middle of a GDPR nightmare sooner rather than later. It's not enough to say in the privacy policy that "user data spreads to federated instances" or something to that effect.

And given that usernames are connected to the votes, I'm pretty sure that it does not comply with the GDPR to just say that it "will place this interaction in the user's outbox and immediately deliver it on the user’s behalf to all".

Edit: Added link.

Good find, albeit a bit horrifying.

I wonder what the GDPR implications of this is. As far as I understand, even free, privately run services are required to abide by GDPR and offer data insight and deletion. They're also required to state clearly what happens to user data.

Edit: Apparently people have varying takes and feelings on what the GDPR does and does not say, so I urge you to please read the summary of GDPR data privacy here: https://gdpr.eu/data-privacy/ as well as the summary of what constitutes personal data here: https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/ It's easier to have a good and fruitful discussion if we talk about what the GDPR actually says.

I can't just spin up a website and automatically get that info from other websites, but I can spin up a lemmy instance and get that info from everyone it's federated with.