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I think the only thing worse than something not being private, is if the fact that it's not private is not common knowledge leading to tons of people thinking it's private.

Lemmy doesn't even show a list of what you the logged in user voted on. But it's trivial to use an external tool to see who voted on what regardless of whose account it is. I think obsecuring information like this does more harm than good, since a lot of people won't actively go out and research what kind of data in their Lemmy account is publicly accessible beyond the data they can see from the website itself.

It's been discussed before that there isn't an easy way to hide who voted for what on a federated platform while still having all the instances correctly count votes for everyone. Therefore, if actually making votes anonymous seems not to be viable, why not just make it public for everyone like Mastodon does? I don't think we should make them inbox items like on Mastodon, or at least not the same inbox as the rest of the notifications so votes don't drown them out. I think a dropdown on the content itself showing who voted on it and in which direction is probably enough. Also a tab on the user page showing a list of everything the user voted on, at least on the logged in user's own page (I mainly want this so I can keep track of what I voted on).

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Everyone talks about how evil browser fingerprinting is, and it is, but I don't get why people are only blaming the companies doing it and not putting equal blame on browsers for letting it happen.

Go to Am I Unique and look at the kind of data browsers let JavaScript access unconditionally with no user prompting. Here's a selection of ridiculous ones that pretty much no website needs:

  • Your operating system (Isn't the whole damn point of the internet that it's platform independent?)
  • Your CPU architecture (JS runs on the most virtual of virtual environments why the hell does it need to know what processor you have?)
  • Your JS interpreter's version and build ID
  • List of plugins you have installed
  • List of extensions you have installed
  • Your accelerometer and gyroscope (so any website can figure out what you're doing by analyzing how you move your phone, i.e. running vs walking vs driving vs standing still)
  • Your magnetic field sensor AKA the phone's compass (so websites can figure out which direction you're facing)
  • Your proximity sensor
  • Your keyboard layout
  • How your mouse moves every moment it's in the webpage window, including how far you scroll, what bit of text you hovered on or selected, both left and right clicks, etc.
  • Everything you type on your keyboard when the window is active. You don't need to be typing into a text box or anything, you can set a general event listener for keystrokes like you can for the mouse.

If you're wondering how sensors are used to fingerprint you, I think it has to do with manufacturing imperfections that skew their readings in unique ways for each device, but websites could just as easily straight up record those sensors without you knowing. It's not a lot of data all things considered so you likely wouldn't notice.

Also, canvas and webGL rendering differences are each more than enough to 100% identify your browser instance. Not a bit of effort put into making their results more consistent I guess.

All of these are accessible to any website by default. Actually, there's not even a way to turn most of these off. WHY?! All of these are niche features that only a tiny fraction of websites need. Browser companies know that fingerprinting is a problem and have done nothing about it. Not even Firefox.

Why is the web, where you're by far the most likely to execute malicious code, not built on zero trust policies? Let me allow the functionality I need on a per site basis.

Fuck everything about modern websites.

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If you're truly honest, you'd say yes.

If you weren't honest, you'd lie and say yes.

If you were truly honest and say no, then you're not being honest about your honesty.

If you weren't honest and say no, then you're being honest which is a paradox.

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Israel has already proven it’s the good guy by spraying the Madleen with an unknown chemical, ramming the vessel, boarding it and making the crew throw their mobile phones overboard.

Israeli commandos were so nice during the encounter that they agreed not to kill anyone as long as they showed total obedience. In fact, the commandos showed such restraint that they didn’t even strip anyone naked. Well, not that I know of…

Israel was temporarily nice to the crew of the Madleen so it could get a propaganda picture and then it took them ashore where it tried to make them watch footage of October 7. When the crew refused, it demanded they sign deportation papers accepting they had illegally entered Israel, even though they were in international waters and it was Israel who took them to Israel!

I understand some of the Madleen crew signed the deportation papers and were sent on their way, but disgracefully, Rima Hassan refused to be repatriated. Apparently, she wouldn’t confess to something she hadn’t done because she has “principles”. Israel says it therefore has no choice but to keep her as a hostage, I mean an, um, prisoner.

Obviously, prisoner is the only accurate word to describe someone who is being illegally detained, having committed no crime. Hassan can’t be a hostage because she smiled defiantly and ate a sandwich and no hostage would ever eat a sandwich. It disrespects all those who were captured on October 7 to call Hassan a hostage, just because she is being held against her will after being abducted by armed men.

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but Hassan is Palestinian and it’s fine to treat Palestinians this way. It’s what Israel has always done x

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Not the first time this has happened either, here's another similar case in Atlanta: https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-boy-killed-hit-run-driver-probation-community/story?id=14158040

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Not the first time this has happened either, here's another similar case in Atlanta: https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-boy-killed-hit-run-driver-probation-community/story?id=14158040

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 74 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looks at all the Python scripts in my bin folder that I wrote.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remember that the Holocaust had majority support in Germany too.

Saying Israel is like Nazi Germany is absolutely not a metaphor. There are more similarities than there are differences, they just switched up which ethnic group is the target.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 74 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

An important distinction is security for whom? When a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie passes some piece of security legislation, their sole concern is security for the rich elite, not the commoners. In that case, oppression of the people is not an unintended consequence of the legislation going wrong like this image suggests, we're collateral damage at best and the intended victims of the legislation at worst.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

More like yelling at the one fighting the fire because they're getting water everywhere

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why do they keep allocating land to wildfires if they're so destructive? /s

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just the fact that financial crimes over a certain amount are punishable by death in China (and people have actually been executed for them) says a lot. It's a law that literally applies only to the rich because a normal person would never even get to glimpse the amount of money required for execution to be on the table.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 66 points 5 months ago

US doing exactly what they accuse Communist China of doing exhibit 420

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 78 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nazis deserve exactly as much mercy and tolerance as they give to others.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No Trump voter is casual unless they literally closed their eyes and scribbled randomly on the ballot

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 75 points 5 months ago

Always a good idea to delete a binutil right?

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 75 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Let's not pretend that the Nazis didn't have a massive amount of support (and still does). Reminder that the vast majority of Germans at the time were in full support of the Holocaust in the same way that the vast majority of Israelis are in full support of the genocide in Palestine. Badmouthing the Holocaust in any of the Axis Powers countries would have been met with the same kind of backlash, and people in the Anglosphere just don't want to admit that the societies we live in are the new Axis Powers and do in fact want the Palestinians exterminated the same way that Nazi Germany wanted the Jews exterminated.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 75 points 8 months ago

Easiest way to do this: Turn the modem off after bed time (you will also lose internet)

Most expensive but still easy way to do this: Buy a "smart router" with time-based parental controls (lets you use the internet at night).

Nerd way to do this: Pihole with a script that enables and disables certain blocklists at certain times (free and open source, because fuck "smart" products)

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