There are ways around that. See my other comment replying to the same parent as your comment.

Another option could be to have the originating Mastodon server provide the preview image in content-adressable way, and have a standard allowing websites to provide the same: if the hash of the file(s) provided by the first / a Mastodon server to another matches the one from the target website, no need to download from the target website. Only if they differ then you'd actual download the data from the target website.

Each Mastodon server from the federation could quickly decide whether to trust that preview data from the peer it gets the rest of the post from or not.

This is basically taking ideas from IPFS but applying it to just the preview data that ends up being downloaded over and over again. You could also make that part a blob of data stored directly in IPFS. But IPFS was pretty slow to resolve content, when I last tested.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of these aspects!

Reproducible builds are hard to do and require thought being put in the original build. Even something like setting the time and date string to a different one will produce a different binary, so to get all the variables that went into the original compilation just right to be able to land on the same binary from the same code sounds very impractical. Imagine using that as a strategy to check another version of the whole source code…

But remember kids, he's some sort of business and tech genius!

Uh, there "Trump 2028" caps at the top left of the photo.

He's casually showing world leaders his shitty hats and that he plans to run for a third term despite it being entirely unconstitutional.

I can't tell if it's complete bravado or sheer incompetence.

The future we hoped for: Dyson sphere, free unlimited energy

The future silicon valley shitlords are hoping for: let us sell you sunlight (or maybe lack thereof, wink wink)

I'm sorry, what, a balanced and informed answer? Surely you must be joking!

So, a thin client with an unreliable server. Great.

Ah yes, good old E2E AWA3E.

"End to end, and we are also an end".

Yeah, and Torvalds using generative AI to write code is not the same as Bobby LinkedIn telling us he's coding his third app this week.

FreeBSD is BSD.

Have we gotten to the point where we have to constantly be in a parasocial dialogue with our computers?

No. You don't have to use the horrible crap from the megacorps. DuckDuckGo exists. Kagi exists. Ecosia exists. Alternatives to all this shit exists. The more people use them, the less power Google etc. have.

student pilot successfully landed a plane by herself

Illustration picture is a man.

This is infuriating.

Yes, the juxtaposition is humorous.

On what grounds is the terrorism charge constructed? Seriously.

They don't care. They want to look good to their ingroup. It's very performative.

Beyond the obvious bad faith (ironically), her sense of entitlement is really incredible. An all-American sense of entitlement.

"Sanctuary gyms for repressed gay men are booming"

This could be funny if it wasn't such a sad outlook on life.

No, he does not care at all. Nope. Doesn't care about what the media says. No bearing, none.