brothershamus

February, 2019:

Michael Cohen, the man who infamously said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump, has raised the spectre of political chaos and even violence if the man he once served failed to win re-election in 2020, telling Congress he feared there would never be a “peaceful transition of power”.

Fascism has arrived waving a flag and a bible. As the legends foretold.

Reddit did some things right, somehow. Through good decisions made by people who were probably let go later, or whatever they hashed out a workable structure for a theoretically infinite number of topics to be held and, to some extent, managed. That's good.

The bad of course is the corporate nature of it which we're seeing in all it's glory as they do all they can to goose the monetization ahead of the IPO so the executives, etc. etc.

I think Lemmy/kbin's real test is yet to come when people who don't normally post their actual thoughts (as opposed to hot takes, recycled memes, or other "easy" content like simple reactions) step out to do that - hopefully. The "test" is that they should be comfortable and happy to do it, and the userbase's test is to let them without reacting in a kind of 'default reddit' mode.

Anybody who was on a BBS or a message board or usenet or used/uses RSS or has a "home base" of a small community knows what that's like. We see it in little pockets here and there - sometimes as a new, non-reddit type of post, sometimes as a reaction against a typical reddit-type of post (who's spamming random? whatever.) But it's fun to anticipate and whenever it happens that users feel lemmy/kbin have hit their stride it will certainly be different from whatever reddit is now. How, we don't know yet. But it's set up such that it has a really good chance to be good.

They're still running Windows. It's a bad idea.

Private Access Tokens are powerful tools that prove when HTTP requests are coming from legitimate devices without disclosing someone's identity.

So I don't know the details, but it makes a couple of points that either mean this isn't the same thing as the google thing, or "attestation on the web" isn't DRM, or something else. So far as I can interpret the article, it seems to suggest the feature is "is this a safari device on ios, if yes then skip captcha" but that seems to be up to the website's discretion.

laughs maniacally in money

Firefox and ublock origin to start. Site requires Chromium? Buh bye now.

Digital Rights Management. Code that prevents you from doing what you want with the information you have.

Lol. As soon as I heard someone upload their contacts to Google I thought "welp, I'm out." And yeah, no one listened then either.

Still, we got diaspora working finally. May the force be with you.

So Say We All