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submitted 6 months ago by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Web interface on Firefox.

I had pushed the "Create" button on a new post, when a red "Toastify is awesome" message flashed at the bottom of my screen.

It just flashed quickly before the refresh, so I couldn't grab a screenshot.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

Archived version, for posterity.

Take note Bluesky fans: Your "benevolent" controlling nonprofit can quickly become a for-profit if enough cash is thrown at the governing board...

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You're describing the best case scenario for the person wishing to protect their password, where the Planck Cruncher guesses the password on the very last possible combination, taking 100 years to get there.

The Planck Cruncher might guess the password correctly on the first try, or it might guess correctly on the last possible combination in 100 years.

What we really want to measure are the odds of a random guess being correct.

The most "realistic" scenario is the Planck Cruncher guessing correctly somewhere between 0 and 100 years, but you want to adjust the length of the password to be secure against a powerful attack during the realistic life of whatever system you're trying to protect.

On average, assuming the rate of password testing is constant, it'll take the Planck Cruncher 50 years to guess the 121 character password.

And that assumes the password never changes.

If the password is changed while the Planck Cruncher is doing its thing, and it changes to something that the PC has already guessed and tested negative, the PC is screwed.

~~Hint: Change your password regularly.~~ edit: The user should change their password regularly during the attack.

Each password change reduces the risk of a lucky guess by that many years of PC attack.

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Old post, from before this /c was created.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

User count has plateaued at about 420K

Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K

Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts.

Maybe because they're tired of ads on reddit?

Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit?

I can see it now:

"Ads suck. We're ad-free forever. Join Lemmy."

and

"He'll never get us. Join Lemmy." or "Don't let him get you. Join Lemmy"

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

When I search for communities about animation on the web interface, I see one called !animation@lemmy.film

There has been no activity in the /c for 6 months.

It's not my native instance, but I can read posts and comments in the /c, and I can even create a post in the /c.

But when I try to visit http://lemmy.film in a browser, I get a "Web Server Is Down" page.

Is the content in !animation@lemmy.film a ghost of cached content on my native instance?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

A new post with 1 deleted comment shows as "comment symbol 0 (-1 New)"

... which looks goofy.

But not in this /c, maybe there's some kind of /c setting that shows quantities of new comments?

Maybe I made and deleted the comment too soon after I created this post?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

There have been a number of comment spam attacks in various posts in a couple of /c's that I follow by a user/individual who uses account names like Thulean*

For example: ThuleanSneed@lemmy.tf in !coffee@lemmy.world

and ThuleanPerspective2@eviltoast.org in !anime@ani.social

edit: Also ThuleanSneed@startrek.website in !startrek@startrek.website

The posts have been removed or deleted by the respective /c's mods, and the offending accounts banned, but you can see the traces of them in those /c's modlogs.

The comments consist of an all-caps string of words with profanities, and Simpsons memes.

An attack on a post may consist of several repeated or similar looking comments.

This looks like a bored teenager prank, but it may also be an organization testing Lemmy's systemic and collective defenses and ability to respond against spam and bot posts.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

After I've saved a post to a /c hosted by another instance than the one that I'm logged into, I can open that post for editing, but I'm unable to save my edits to that post.

For example: I made a post to !ukraine@sopuli.xyz, while logged in elsewhere. Something or other in the webpage link is forcing a download, so I tried to edit the URL in the post, but I can't save it.

This also happened to a post I made to !coffee@lemmy.world where I was trying to edit the text in the post's Body after saving the post.

I can save edits to my posts to /c's on my native instance just fine.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Before I begin, I have to say that this post includes links to an instance, ani.social, that has been defederated from this instance, lemmy.ml, because that's where I discovered this problem.

But in this case, I hope the admins understand that this is worth reporting and investigating, and don't insta-delete this post, because this problem appears to happen with more than that one instance, including sopuli.xyz, which is not defederated from here at lemmy.ml

Let us begin:

With Lemmy account setting “Auto Expand Media” turned on, when I’m viewing community https://ani.social/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz on my desktop browser, Firefox on Windows, one particular post, https://ani.social/post/1923262 , causes the /c view to ask me to download an .mp4 video from streamable.com:

After declining the download, the space where the thumbnail for the expanded media goes is just blank.

This doesn’t happen when viewing the same /c on .ml https://lemmy.ml/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

On .ml, I just get a clickable thumbnail of the video.

It’s just that one post.

On other earlier and later posts of links to streamable.com videos in the same /c, I just get the expected clickable thumbnail.

Maybe some kind of corrupted data as that particular post was transferring over?

When I asked about this on ani.social's meta /c, another user reported the auto-download request on ani.social, sopuli.xyz (the /c's home!) but not on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world

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submitted 2 years ago by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/anime@lemmy.ml
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submitted 2 years ago by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/anime@lemmy.ml

CGDCT with mahjong.

Just a generic start.

There's nothing really standing out for me except the art: Those eyes look like they take ages to draw.

The comedy bits where they're imagining things while seated around the table aren't as funny as those in say "Sabagebu!"

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submitted 2 years ago by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/anime@lemmy.ml
[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

The prisoner, Dotson, was “found dead” so who knows how many hours the body was lying there.

That pretty much precludes any use of the heart for transplant.

His relatives said they received the body in a decomposed state, but that could have been poor storage by the coroner before or after the autopsy, or the body might have been well hidden inside the prison so it was a long time before someone found it.

The article isn’t very clear on the condition of the body at each stage of handling.

What’s in the article is probably all the information that the reporter could get out of the prison authority, the state Department of Forensic Sciences, and the University.

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Oh good, then twatter can now become as successful as Truth social...

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago

And it's not just movies.

Hit song analysis systems like Platinum Blue, aka Music XRay, use algorithms to compare new songs to hit songs of the past to rate the chances that they will become hits themselves.

This is why all new songs sound the same and there are so many cover versions.

New songs are scored by hit song analysis system(s) and have to achieve a high score showing how much they resemble previous hit songs before money is allocated for promotion.

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Enshittification doesn't just happen to online platforms.

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's been that way for a loooong time.

Movies became so expensive to produce that studios can't finance them themselves.

So they turned to the banks.

Banks are by nature risk averse.

So a production company has to submit an application to their bank's movie financing department like you would when applying for a home loan.

The bank decides whether to finance the movie based on the information submitted: Script, subject matter, director, which stars have committed to the project, etc.

Now if you imagine, people from the banking industry are not artists and creatives and visionaries. They just look at raw investment potential, i.e. Is this proposed production going to pay off the loan with interest?

If there's any risk, e.g. this has never been done before, or there's no recognizable franchise branding, or if something could be controversial in a meaningful way, the bank won't approve the production loan.

So sequels, brand name franchises, with writing committees, are easier to get approvals from the banks, therefore are more likely to make it into production.

That's why Hollywood doesn't make daring, experimental, and controversial movies much anymore.

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago

Capitalist: Kids, now you too can come and experience the Craft of Mining! Here's your personized helmet lamp and pickaxe! Anything useful that you dig up belongs to me. Notresponsibleforsideeffectssuckasdeathandinjury.

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 years ago

The moment those Chinese EV startups enter the US market, Tesla will be in real trouble if they don't have their product quality image problem fixed by then.

It'll be like Detroit's Big 3 automakers tanking when small fuel efficient Japanese cars landed in the 70s oil crisis.

Assuming those Chinese EV companies don't have their own quality problems...

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 years ago

Toothpaste.

You only need to squeeze out an amount the size of a pea on to the bristles of your toothbrush.

The image of squeezing along the entire length of the brush bristles was concocted by an ad agency, a la Mad Men, to make consumers use their toothpaste faster, hence buy more product.

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago

Where do you find instances that have more extreme media than lemmynsfw?

Asking for a friend.

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

qBittorrent came to my rescue after uTorrent went commercial.

[-] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.

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