Halt and Catch Fire

(Federated) email didn’t survive. It got completely subsumed by the major providers who now have control over everything email related. It’s now impossible to run your own email server since none of the major providers will deliver your email without your mail server having first built a reputation.

The fediverse analogy would be if 99.9999% of users were on Threads and you couldn’t interact with any of those users from any of the small independent fediverse servers. Frankly, that’s exactly what it looks like is happening.

It’s not reading the contents of RAM via EM emanations, it’s using the EM emanations caused by certain memory access patterns as a side channel to exfiltrate data. Of course, that data could be anything, including whatever is in RAM, but the point is that you need to be running the code that generates the necessary memory access patterns to transmit the bits of data. This is not like TEMPEST where you can reconstruct a video display just using the emanations.

Thanks! I was racking my brain trying to think of where I knew it from, and after seeing the page that you linked I’m almost certain that it’s After Burner that is causing my brain to trigger the 80s association.

You can tell just from the font that this book is from the 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjLVSEhB5DI

Are you using the Import/Export Settings buttons in the settings page?

If you can reproducibly crash an instance then you should definitely file this as an urgent security issue in the lemmy repo so it can be fixed: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

Are you one of the three proposers mentioned in the git repository?

closest current one I can find is

⛥

or

⬠

No, “we” don’t.

This is not a federated bandcamp, it’s a platform for bands to do marketing across mutliple various social networks from one web portal.

ITT: Rust programmers rewriting the joke in Rust.

This is great! Some feedback on UI:

• The first thing I did was click ⇩ on a post and it prompted me to log-in. This is confusing because I thought I could train the recommender without having to log-in. It took me a minute to find the “Like/Dislike” buttons because they require an extra click to open the post menu. Maybe make the Like/Dislike a bit more prominent and accessible, and find a way to differentiate between the controls for training the recommender and the upvote/downvote actions on the post itself. Or even better, make them the same thing so there’s only one pair of controls and if you’re not logged-in then upvoting just boosts the recommendation but doesn’t actually send the upvote action to the post.
• Please use actual links (<a href=""></a>) for post navigation so that I can tell my browser to open a link in a new tab. Usually I middle-click to do this (in Firefox) but since the post title and content only respond to javascript events, I can’t middle click to open in a new tab. Clicking the post opens it in the same window.
• Add text content of posts, or at least a button to expand the text content. Right now text posts are just the post title and I have to click through to read the content.
• Add alt-text (tooltips) to your buttons. I know what the standard share/bookmark icons look like but it helps to have tooltips to be sure.
• Add a link to open the original post (on the origin server). Every fediverse UI has this. If you have it too, I couldn’t find it.
• Allow me to see (and drag) the scrollbar of the main content frame.
• Add a refresh button (maybe at the top of the feed) so that I can generate more recommended content without having to actually reload the page in the browser.
• When clicking a community name, I get the community page but I can’t press the back button to go back to the feed.
• If I “dislike” a post, I don’t expect to see it again after a refresh, or ever.

Also, it’s a bit late to change it now, but the name is very 2009-internet-startup.

He was in the airport, remember. Not in a local market.

I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out.

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True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make.

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I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this.

He wants to take away a budget option from developing countries where people can’t afford the expensive version of the proprietary technology, and he wants Apple to be the one to do it?

Fuck this guy.

Postel’s Law is relevant here. Conservative in what you send (simplify the schema of the data on the wire) and liberal in what you receive (put the complexity for interpreting that data in the client).

A bunch of Street Fighter games

SF Zero 3 (called Alpha 3 in the West) is my favorite. Zero 2’ (Alpha 2 Gold in the West) is also very good.

SF Collection has a great port of Super Turbo along with the aforementioned Zero 2’.

Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter and X-Men vs. Street Fighter are also well worth a play.

My Steam Deck does a fine job of emulating Saturn!

Saturn is out though.

Why?

i’m sick of this “the fediverse isn’t for the masses” sentiment.

The previous commenter didn’t say anything to indicate that is their opinion. They said:

many of us are on the fediverse because we want to get as far away from anything that even remotely resembles, copies, piggybacks off of, or otherwise has anything to do with corporate-owned, centralized, ad-infested, user-hostile, privacy-invasive, social media platforms.

Which one of

• corporate owned

• centralized

• ad-infested

• user-hostile

• privacy-invasive

is synonymous with “the fediverse is not for the masses,” in your opinion?