For for how much heavy handed their initial reaction was, I’m surprised that Reddit doesn’t take more aggressive actions. Spez has the loudest voice on highest pole, yet so far he only managed to anger everyone.

Fuck Spez.

Facebook makes a product that squeezes every last drop from your privacy? Nooooooo waaaay!

Everyone commeting here saying “good, we will switch to X” is absolutely stupid. This law means no iMessage, no Signal, no WhatsApp, no Telegram, no secure encrypted messaging for anyone.

For as much as I love Lemmy, its obvious that it is an early software. Mark my words, that’s not the last privacy threat it will experience.

“Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”

“Hopefully not homeless.”

…this is literally something an intern could write in a single afternoon.

From my experience, if you keep declining yourself stuff like that, you are setting up yourself to fail. Have that pizza, just remember to not go and stuff yourself to the point where you can’t walk because you’re full. Remember to eat slowly too.

As an author of one Lemmy front-end, I can confirm that you are potentially sharing your username and password. Unfortunately, there is no way for Lemmy front-end developers to, say, open a web socket to Lemmy instance and have you login through a web browser (which would be much prefered from security standpoint, but it is what it is).

Furthermore, from what I see, many of such front-ends store your password, instead of just the Bearer token. Unfortunately, from what I get, there is also no way of invalidating the Bearer tokens right now, so in the event of it getting stolen - you’re f***ed.

Now, couple of tips:

• USE 2FA AUTHENTICATION. In the event of malicious app actually stealing your credentials, you are at least a little bit more protected by this layer.
• Use password manager - do not use your banking password, please.
• Only use trusted front-ends, and in the even of an app, only download versions from official sources maintained by the app author.
• Make sure the instance you’re registered at has a valid HTTPS certificate.

Whenever I hear people saying that moon landing was staged… Just go watch 2001: Space Odyssey, it came out the year before moon landing. The physics of Space Odyssey is good, but just look at the scene of people walking on the moon - they move nothing like the real astronauts.

Besides, if it was fake, don’t you think USSR, at the time the space rival would try to claim it, instead, you know, congratulating the USA?

She genuinely looks terrifying (whoever she is).

I accidentally made a post that has -3 comments.

This happens because Lemmy does not count the actual number of comments that there are under the post, but instead there is a counter per post. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does not seem like the counter is every synced with the actual count of comments.

Okay, try explaining it to my 51 years old father. Or someone who really isn’t into tech in general.

Federated stuff will work for you and I - technically knowledgeable people. But we are a tiny fraction of population. The success of WhatsApp lays in its super simplicity.

“Feels like I’m wearing nothing at all!… Nothing at all!… Nothing at all!…”

Mint. Easy to setup, fast to run, and very reliable.

Oh I think there is hundreds reasons to shit on Apple, but this ain’t one of them.

It seems easy, but the moment you ask the user to “choose their instance” - you already push away a lot of untechnical people. What is an instance? How do I know which one is good? Will I be able to talk to people on other instances (look at Lemmy, some instances are blocked by other instances)? Why do I even have to choose an instance?

From an UX standpoint, that’s a disaster. Stuff like Lemmy or Mastodon will remain forever a niche, because of that.

EDIT: Typo

Native is the way 🙏

Unfortunately, at work I usually have to settle for Vue.JS front-ends 😂

The issue was me setting “undetermined” as my preferred language. Turns out, you must press “X” in the web ui right next to the preferred language option.

In the essence, preferred language may have “undetermined” and “null” (both displayed in the front-end as “Undetermined”) as a valid entry, while neither being the exact same value in back-end, but being the same for the front-end.

Cousin Itt is a Swiftie?

Great! If you’re technical and not have iOS. That’s already 50% of British market not using it.

Besides, it won’t help you if that’s a government mandate, and Google will be forced to take it down for the UK market from the store. Not a lot of people are installing apps from outside the Play Store.