Pamasich

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I'm a from . My languages are , , , German, English, and . I'm in the process of .

I like to make custom and to personalize my experience on the web. In terms of , currently I'm mainly interested in and . I'm a big fan of .
I also watch and read .

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Pamasich ,

I started out with forums primarily. And Youtube.

I then tried out Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, but didn't like any of them.
My school for a time also mandated Netlog iirc.

Eventually I moved to Reddit and joined Discord.

When the blackout protests came around, I went looking for alternatives to Reddit I could try out while the subreddits I cared about were dark, which is when I saw people suggesting /kbin. Which I liked a lot more than Lemmy based on first impressions, so I joined it.

When /kbin died, I switched to Mbin. I'm still active on Reddit itself because I originally really only joined as a temporary measure. I liked it enough to stick around, but Reddit has not become that unusable yet that I would leave it for good.

Never used Instagram, Tiktok, 4chan, etc.

I'm Swiss, German-speaking, born 1996.

Pamasich , (edited )

For people who only go off headlines and comments and don't read the article, here's the important bits:

  • This only affects some users, not everyone
  • The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty
  • The issue goes away with a refresh, you don't need to turn off the adblocker, though you'll have to refresh every video
  • It affects all videos
  • The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it's turned on again
  • There's no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article
  • It affects Premium users too

edit: added "the article" after "don't read" to clarify

Pamasich ,

Not just the premium part, but also it affecting descriptions makes me think this is some kind of bug. At least partially. There's not really any point to disabling descriptions specifically, most people don't read them anyway.

"there's currently no way around it"
"The issue goes away with a refresh"

The way I understand it, the issue only resolves if you refresh while on the video you want to watch. Navigating to another video would unfix it again. So it's not really a real fix the way most people expect a fix to look like. They want something they can apply and then they don't have to deal with the problem anymore. Which, based on this article, only disabling your adblocker achieves.

Pamasich ,

There have been some users reporting they get ads despite being Premium users, especially in regards to Youtube's efforts to bypass adblockers (even if they weren't using one). I always assumed that's because their measures were misidentifying the lack of ads as using an ad blocker, even if that lack was due to using premium.

Just wanted to give an actual explanation. I'm not qualified to actually confirm or deny whether those user reports were factual or made up. But people usually consider them factual because of herd mentality.

Pamasich ,

You're comparing a dark pattern to a basic interface element. It's not like they're talking about scrolling itself,

And infinite scrolling absolutely is a problem on its own, regardless of content.

Pamasich ,

threadiverse

  • Piefed already uses paging
  • Lemmy already uses paging
  • Mbin already uses paging
  • NodeBB already has opt-in paging

The only threadiverse software that does not support paging is Discourse. Considering most people aren't even aware that one is federated to begin with, I doubt the threadiverse in particular is going to have any problem at all.

Pamasich ,

it's very unlikely we're going to have two of them any time soon.

Sadly there is Grokipedia which is a second Wikipedia but worse (because it's all just far right AI written)

Pamasich ,

Why would that be weird? I assume that's about banning federated posts from them, which makes perfect sense imo.

Pamasich ,

There's Shoot.

Pamasich ,

Don't think so. I mean there is the web client which does give a default instance, but it requires an invite code.

Pamasich ,

Can all of our Discord contacts see all the Communities we joined?

I can only see mutual servers (ones both of us are in) for other users.

Pamasich ,

So I'm currently at work, where we use Fortinet, which is blocking your website for "Phishing".

Before that, your website made my browser ring the alarm with the error "net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID".

You might want to look into those two.

Pamasich ,

I am a registered voter, so I give my name and vote.

How do you protect against impersonation like that?

Like, what prevents someone else from claiming to be you? If all you need is a name?

(not an american btw)

What version of Skyrim do you play? (Reddit Poll by the Beyond Skyrim devs) ( sh.reddit.com )

The developers of Beyond Skyrim have made a poll on their subreddit asking which version of Skyrim people play. I assume this will be used to set priorities and requirements, so make sure to make yourself heard if you have a Reddit account still.

Pamasich ,

Your links just lead me to post creation forms, not specific posts. The reddit links I mean, the ones to subs that aren't banned.

Pamasich ,

The remote code execution isn't "via a text file". It's via a link in a text file, which Notepad now lets you actually click.

Just don't click on links you don't know the destination of (Notepad shows the destination for https links at least, on hover) and you don't have any remote code executing.

Pamasich ,

There's Shoot as a fediverse alternative to Discord.

Otherwise, as others have said, IRC, Matrix, or Teamspeak are worth looking into. Especially the latter got a major refresh at one point, so it's not the dinosaur you might expect from its age.

Perhaps it could potentially be forked from the already existing Lemmy?

I really don't see the point of turning a discussion forum into an instant messaging platform. Like, the requirements are completely different. You might as well start from square one than trying to transform one into the other.

Pamasich ,

Is there a reason the room icons have to be humongous, at least in the web version on PC?

Other than that, looks great.

Dev says "false DMCA" from Microsoft got their sandbox game removed from Steam over apparent Minecraft copyright, all because of a screenshot of birch trees ( www.gamesradar.com )

Unomelon, the developer of Minecraft-inspired sandbox game Allumeria, says a DMCA from Microsoft, evidently related to Minecraft, got the game removed from Steam. ...

Pamasich ,

all because of a screenshot of birch trees

Worth noting, that image was given as an example of how the game looks similar to Minecraft. It was not the basis of the complaint. Microsoft also claimed the gameplay is stolen as well, according to Valve. So it's definitely not about the trees themselves.

This Reddit post has the actual email from Valve to the dev.

I think this is definitely not a fight Microsoft can win (without a war of attrition I mean), and they seem to agree because they revoked the complaint by now. But there's other blocks not featured on this image that would make a much stronger case imo. Stone bricks and planks look identical imo and definitely can be made unique looking if the dev wanted to.

Pamasich ,

Doesn't matter. Copyright protects identity, not likeness. Valve even says in the email to the dev that Microsoft said they outright stole Minecraft's exact assets. Because just looking the same isn't copyright infringement.

Microsoft also complained about the gameplay being stolen too, which doesn't fall under copyright at all.

So the DMCA definitely wasn't justified, no.

Pamasich ,

Of course. I was just bringing it up as a supporting argument to why the DMCA isn't specifically about that image or the trees on it.

But yeah, gameplay isn't protected by copyright, so that argument from microsoft is just bogus.

Pamasich ,

The gameplay being too similar is a bogus argument Microsoft's AI probably snuck in there. I mentioned it to support my point that the DMCA complaint isn't about the birch trees specifically, but that's definitely not an argument that would have worked out legally for Microsoft.

Patents could work out, like for Nintendo in the Palworld case. But DMCA is a copyright dispute, patent law doesn't apply here. And who knows if they even have any relevant patents to accuse this game of violating.

Pamasich ,

Pick one that works already and roll it out on the whole continent, it’s not that hard.

Twint is working on that, just in a more federation-style way than "pick one".

The European Mobile Payment Systems Association (EMPSA) aims for interoperability between its various members across Europe. So you can use your country's app with the systems in other countries.

Looking at the members list, there's Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Romania, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Albania currently on the list.

It seems the German/Austrian, Swiss, and Italian solutions have already been made interoperable based on their milestone showcase.

Pamasich ,

Mbin is the best one imo. I tried out Piefed and Lemmy, but didn't like them. Too much like new reddit for my tastes.

Pamasich ,

Is he saying there that the entire reason they are destroying the world is to bring about their religious doomsday fantasies?

I mean by now "every accusation is a confession" is pretty much proven about these people. So this too has to be projection and actually about his team.

Pamasich ,

It's called projection. You accuse an enemy of something that actually applies to you or your team. Heavily used by people on the far right. People also refer to it as "every accusation is a confession".

Like when Musk called that diver a pedophile, when Musk is the actual pedophile.

That's why the accusation seems odd since the antichrist is more likely to come from the Republican party than some random activist. Because this is actually about the Republican party, not Greta.

Pamasich ,

Really don't see the bait in what OP posted.

Also getting asked to do something is really not included in my definition of powertripping.

Powertripping is a mod abusing their position and power.

Sure usually they just remove posts or ban people, but using their position and the implied threat of removal to pressure someone into weakening their argument (by removing sources) or removing personal opinions the mod doesn't like (which aren't toxic in any way, we're not talking bigotry here) definitely still is powertripping.

Pamasich ,

So I tried looking through jmail for "kotick", "call of duty", and "microtransaction" and couldn't find it. Neither in the official library (haven't checked call of duty there though, too many results). Do we know that this is actually real? Maybe the articles got removed because it turned out to be fake?

Pamasich ,

That's just an email TO Epstein.

Pamasich ,

In my opinion I shouldn't even have the ability to upvote my own comments. I don't really see the point behind doing so.

Pamasich ,

Might have to clarify that my instance (or rather Mbin in general) doesn't do auto upvotes.

Though it doesn't really change my stance. You can swap it around to removing the auto upvote, I don't really see the point behind that being possible either.

If you like your content, keep it up. If you don't like it, either edit it until you do or delete it.
Upvotes and downvotes are for judging the content of others, not your own. So be it adding one when there's zero, or removing the upvote automatically added by your instance, I don't see the point in either being possible.

Pamasich ,

But there's zero information gained from a self upvote. If I didn't like my comment, I'd either delete it or edit it until I do.

Of course I like my comment if I keep it up, so a self upvote adds nothing.
The only advantage I see is to make this place look more like Reddit, which isn't really something I care about.

Pamasich ,

Piefed exists because some people didn't like that the lemmy devs are communists.

But then they could have used Mbin, which is older than Piefed?

Iirc wasn't it because python is easier for beginners to learn than rust and php, so it's easier to get more contributors and thus deliver features faster?

Pamasich ,

You're clearly cherry picking OP's comment there, conveniently leaving out what makes what they saw problematic.

I found that the members of r/luckystar were saying very sexual things about characters that, while 18, had very child like designs. And even if, they were saying shit like, "Cunny!" and, "Correction!" so, yeah.

Those terms are specifically used by the pedo "roleplay" portion of the anime fandom, there's not really any ambiguity there.

Like, on the first sentence, I'd agree with you. But the second sentence makes it clear that they saw the disgusting part of the fandom.

Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web?

It seems like a kind of a paradox that online video games are held accountable for servers that they have nothing to do with, but meanwhile a browser can be truly open and doesn't have to employ any restrictions like age verification, or banning ips? Not even China goes after the browser level.

Pamasich ,

They aren't. The restrictions are mandated by Microsoft, not governments.

They do have to take action in regards to their own Realms servers, but that's it. Restrictions on random unaffiliated Java servers are either for brand image or other selfish reasons. For example, someone here mentioned chat for UK teens, that one is almost certainly to force ID verification into the game, not to actually comply with anything. It's for data harvesting.

Pamasich ,

Mbin (another Reddit based fediverse project) has that exact chart in the magazine (community) panel.

What's your opinion on prostitution?

Edit to add my opinion so I'm not just replying "I agree" to 90% of comments. I think it should be legal, properly regulated, taxed and viewed as a profession. I haven't personally engaged in it but I have no moral objection to it. I do hate the common sentiment that it was the individual's "only option" though.

Pamasich ,

I never really understood why it's illegal in other countries. I mean, there's other means to make sure nothing illegal is going on, you don't need a heavy handed approach of making the entire activity illegal.

Pamasich ,

The big problem with improving how this stuff works on the fediverse is that you want to stay compatible with other software and instances running older versions of your software. In general, ActivityPub projects expect the id of an actor to be dereferenceable. They expect it to point to a valid JSON-LD document describing the actor which they can request. If you break this expected contract by using a local file as your identity, or even just a non-https URI like did:, you're going to lose intercompatibility with other instances that don't handle that.

Also, regarding your description of the three parts, I think you're misunderstanding something that I see people misunderstand often.

The identity provider basically only makes a proof that "you are you" : you give it your login credentials and it gives you a kind of token that authenticates (proves your identity) to other services. like, i'm on discuss.tchncs.de, but i can post to lemmy.world. this is because the discuss.tchncs.de server says to lemmy.world that i indeed have this account on this server. so they prove my identity in a way.

So, I might be wrong here, but I interpret you as saying basically that you're authoring posts on lemmy.world with your account provided by discuss.tchncs.de. That's not really how this works. Your data hoster is the instance you have your account on, not the one the community is on. Your instance just shares the posts you make on it with the community, but all it receives is a copy. The canonical version is on your instance, discuss.tchncs.de.

Again, data hoster and identity provider are currently the same thing. The fediverse is just a bunch of interconnected silos, you do things within your own instance and then other instances receive a copy of the thing you did. You never author things directly on another instance than your own.

The token stuff there sounds like SSO (single sign on), but it doesn't look like either of those instances support that. So not sure what you were referring to there. The public key to verify the signature maybe? That's more meant to ensure that the object is actually authored by you iirc though.

Pamasich ,

Some of us still value the wealth of content over there and use both. There's also the issue that if no one stays behind, no one will join the fediverse. There need to be people to spread the word. To convince others to join us.

For me personally there's still niches I'm interested in that don't exist over here or don't have active enough a community. For example discussion in my native language. So I'm sticking around back on Reddit until it either becomes unusable (which it almost would have if they didn't chicken out with a certain change) or the fediverse grows enough to fully satisfy my interests.

Pamasich ,

I'm not a lawyer and haven't had such a situation before, but isn't the burden of proof supposed to be on the accuser, not the accused? They're the ones who need to prove the files have been illegally obtained, not the other way around.

Why do people who try to convince others to switch to metric focus so much on the conversions?

It seems like a weird point to bring up. How often do y'all convert your measurements? It's not even a daily thing. If I'm measuring something, I either do it in inches, or feet, rarely yards. I've never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can't imagine I'm unique in this. When I have needed to, it's usually converting ...

Pamasich ,

How often do y'all convert your measurements?

It's second nature in metric. All the time.

Judging by your post, it sounds like that's not the case in imperial. But you need to understand that especially converting between mm, cm, m, and km, for example, is not just extremely common, it's just normal. If you add up 10 times a 1000 meters, you don't call that 10000 meters, that would be awkward. You say it's 10 km.

We convert all the time, so that's why we assume the same must be the case in imperial and thus the easy conversions must be focused on because clearly they would get you to understand why metric is superior.

Pamasich ,

I understand the need for features when it comes to StackExchange (though Piefed has that functionality now), but what did Quora do that existing fediverse services like Lemmy can't replicate?

Pamasich ,

They are either much higher or much lower than what the servers themselves report.

Do you have examples? FediDB takes its data (like total users, active users, and total posts) from the NodeInfo endpoint of the instance, so it should be accurate unless the instance reports wrong numbers there.

Pamasich ,

I agree in general, never liked Python at all, but this part:

Why so many different ways to declare an array-like structure? Tuples, Sets, Dicts, Lists? Dude... ffs, I know each one supposedly has a "different" purpose, I literally don't see any good benefits on it. It just makes me more confuse.

It just speaks of your inexperience. You mention Java in the title, you've never worked with HashMap and other basic collections? This isn't something Python changed, it's a staple in modern programming languages. And with "modern" I mean that Map was added to Java in version 1.2.

Pamasich ,

Is Piefed implementing this in some weird way?

Iirc previous work on this in the fediverse involved a very clear way of doing it that makes sure to address the issue you're bringing up there.

The idea is that you send activities to announce the move and mark the original actor as having moved to the new actor (and the new actor as being the new home of the original actor). Instances then verify this by whether that actor relationship is specified correctly on both sides (does going new actor -> origin actor -> new actor lead back to where we started from?).

Is that not also Piefed's implementation? Because if it is, I don't see your scenario being viable. Since the move needs to be acknowledged by both sides, it cannot just be faked.

Pamasich ,

Oh yeah, this does not sound okay.

If user@delta creates a post on community@alpha, their post lives on delta, not alpha. Community@alpha should not be able to unilaterally decide that the post should instead live on beta. Delta needs to be the one to decide that.

Sorry for the political analogy, but this sounds to me like Russia and the US deciding on Ukraine's future without involving the latter.

Pamasich ,

To be fair OP isn't the only one that finds it concerning. Kbin/Mbin had tons of complaints about its public voting until the Mbin devs decided to cave and hide downvotes.
Piefed also tried to implement private voting before, but gave up because of their halfhearted approach not working out.

I personally like public votes. It's great to see who upvoted me, especially if it's someone I recognize. While I miss being able to see downvotes, because sometimes I do feel like asking for feedback from downvoters on where I could do better.

That said, there's an issue of consent there imo. So I do understand the complaints. While a receiving instance is technically free to do with the federated vote what they want, the user never really consented to that. It's like if an instance made private messages public. Theoretically it's allowed to, but that doesn't mean people would be happy about it.

Pamasich ,

This is the post I remembered.

This is what I meant with it failed because their halfhearted approach didn't work out:

  • Maintaining a list of trusted instances is a pain in the ass.

They could have just used private voting with every instance, but they just had to segregate them by trust because the good (according to authoritative selection) instances should still be able to see what you voted for, and that was too much work to keep up, so they just scrapped the entire system instead of implementing blanket private voting...