Dude, did you even bother reading my original statement before you jumped in? WTF is with you and your hostility? If you’re not going to discuss in good faith, just go away.

My comment and this thread is based on the premise that it was an accident. If you’re not going to engage based on that premise, there’s no discussion to be had.

Do we really care what somebody is doing during their lunch break? He presumably wasn’t doing it in front of staffers or in a public place.

Seems like a case where it might have been an actual accident. Sexual harassment is bad, but we as a society do need to figure out how to handle occasional actual oopsies without ending somebody’s career.

Because it shoots lasers

You dropped the ‘e’

peaced out before being arrested

Probably not, given the house was occupied at the time of the raid.

You’re on the fediverse, the benefits of forcing the major players to federate with smaller platforms should be obvious. It would reduce the network effect advantage they have and allow users to move away without being trapped in the chicken and egg situation they currently are.

Not me who downvoted you, FYI.

To me, a vulnerability is something unforeseen, that allows bad actors to exploit the system in an unintended manner. In this case, the system is working perfectly as designed. Just because another system decided to implement a new feature without consulting anybody else, does not make it a vulnerability. Or perhaps it does, but with the vulnerability on the side of Mastodon, since they’re the ones telling their users their post is private when it is actually nothing of the sort.

What would I call it? An unsupported feature. One that Mastodon forced everybody else to implement without asking or any respect.

I’m not sure you can make that conclusion. This isn’t a real vulnerability, and this isn’t a surprise to anybody who knows how the AP protocol works. Dansup didn’t reveal anything that was previously unknown, the blog author just has an axe to grind. It’s unfair to assume that an actual 0 day vulnerability would have been treated the same way.

more people will know and exploit the vulnerability

It’s not even a vulnerability, it’s how AP works by design, is the issue at hand here. Mastodon decided they wanted to implement something not supported by AP, and everybody else had to take the heat for not ‘doing it right’.

To keep it secure from the servers themself would require users to handle the encryption. See PGP for an idea of how much uptake that’s likely to get. If you mean for the servers to handle the encryption, that’s already the case, and the issue right now is that servers are privy to what users do, and by nature are a 3rd party in the convo.

Shh, this is the Internet, we don’t do nuance here.

What is the suggestion, then? Assuming a colony does ever get established, it’s impractical and naive to expect those who now live there to never demand land rights. The author makes good points but fails to discuss any potential solutions other than ‘stay earthbound’.

Leave the grass alone, it’s got dead Marios under it.

Proof that zombies do exist

Why? I see it on my main feed all the time, it’s just osmosis.

Defaulting to not federating is what the major email providers currently do, and is why email has now become a centralised service that you cannot practically self host.

The ones who would leave, have left and been replaced. Just like any other user.

“Users who in the past would type ‘free online file converter’ into a search engine are vulnerable, as the algorithms used for results now often include paid results, which might be scams.”

Mm hmm.