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you mean fork him under a new maintainer?

pretty sure there’s lots of linux running there

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the only mass solution i found to this was that i installed pgadmin, logged into the db, and manually removed all the bot accounts from local_user. you should also remove them from the person table as well (you can easily find them if you do SELECT * FROM person WHERE local = true ORDER BY published DESC in the query tool), that way they don’t show up in your instance stats, but removing them from local_user would be enough to stop them from logging in.

shows the actual capacity reddit has to operate without the help of their experienced moderators who they managed to collectively piss off

which B is hard?

Only reason I see is because of phones breaking. My current Mi 10T Lite was great for the first two years, then it started getting annoying. I can no longer use Wallpaper Engine because of a stupid system update, notifications started getting stuck, sometimes it has other minor annoyances. The hardware is still fine, there’s no reason this phone shouldn’t work, but it doesn’t. Xiaomi clearly wants me to go buy another phone.

So I did. Just not from them. My Fairphone should be arriving any day now. My friend already got hers, and she got me super excited for it.

hey! i’ll have you know i’m only 26. calling me out…

i also haven’t used linux for a while but i’m currently procrastinating on setting it up on my laptop because windows modern standby hella sucks

i don’t think there’s an api endpoint for that yet. the database definitely stores it, it would be doable, but it’s not implemented yet in the backend

yeah, it’s very ingeniously limited, although i kind of take an issue with the specific consequence posited in the ending. subtracting that, i think it would be somewhat OP, but not more than rapid health regen or respawn.

who the fuck designed this?

I think it should go on the client, and the hash is pretty much a space saving measure. There are three options, as far as I see it:

1. Assign random colors every time a page is rendered. This could get confusing on repeat visits, but it would come with the added perk of ensuring the impostor has a low chance of hitting the same color as the person they’re trying to impersonate every time.
2. Assign random colors and save them on the client. This would probably balloon without an LRU data structure, but it could work.
3. Use the hash. This basically generates random colors in a predictable way, implementing #2 without having to store anything.

Given that Lemmy does a lot of reloads on navigation I don’t think #1 would work well. The hash is a quick and easy way around the complexities of other implementations.

And yeah, in theory the server could store the client secret, making the colors consistent across all devices of a user, but it has to be non-public info. If it’s public, an impersonator could target a specific person and find a collision that fools them in particular.

As an instance admin having to post ads is literally my worst nightmare. Honestly, I might just throw in the towel if that ever becomes necessary.

Do not ever open that Pandora’s box willingly. The cash advertisers give you is a honeypot, it’s something that ensnares you and sends you down a rabbit hole of “targeting” on which a whole industry of surveillance has been built in the past decades, one which you would slowly and inevitably be forced to join. On the scale of the entire internet, we need to grow up, learn to say no.

If large instances get to a point where their staff cannot afford to host them, we can maybe chip in if needed. It’s already happening a lot on Lemmy and it’s great to see that – but honestly, it’s just also not that expensive to run the platform. I hope that doesn’t change in the future.

In the long run, it’s less expensive to chip in than to watch ads. Those ads only work if they do actually have an effect on your spending (and I worked with marketing experts, you can trust them to meticulously track every single dime your site brings in for them), so you’re still making people spend money, but now you make them spend money on someone else’s product because that someone else will give you a small share, as opposed to having them spend that money directly with you. And that spending not only has to pay for the service you provide, it also has to pay for an entire industry fine-tuning the best methods to waste people’s time and deteriorate their attention spans to send them down a rabbit hole for what they should buy – in the end, you’re literally making the user experience worse and having your users pay for it.

There is only one business advantage in ads: they are a form of forced revenue. When you ask someone to buy something or donate, you’re asking for their consent. When you shove an ad in their face you’re ignoring that, and they need to resort to adblockers to gain back the control you’ve taken from them. Which is also one of the many reasons I don’t ever want to see ads on the fediverse.

yeah, the point is that if hyazinthe@feddit.de hashes to, say, blue, they can try to find a similar-looking username that also hashes to blue, therefore helping with the impersonation. if you hash a client nonce that’s different for everyone, you may hash to blue on my screen but green on yours, and there will be no relation between who hashes to which color on your screen or mine. the impersonator will have no way to guess if their name would match colors on either of our screens, and if we have, say, 25, colors, it will be a static 4% chance no matter what they do.

i guess the rewind from life is strange would be way too op. if that’s not an option. i’d probably go for the health regen

we could just be fedizens until we take that back from the FBI or a different name emerges

it already is though. you get stuff like “creator”, “mod”, or “admin” appended next to usernames, at least on the web ui (“creator” means op, idk why they worded it this way)

display names kinda run counter to this and I’m not certain they’re a good idea

i think they would be a good idea if they worked like they do on mastodon: you get the display name and profile pic displayed prominently, but you still have the full username displayed below, with the domain included.

damn, he was killing off subreddits before it was cool