Me: What the fuck is a tesseract? (please don’t answer it, i don’t wanna know)
Deja Vu
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/8f02c3ef-3ff9-4319-ba7e-73b1c629a314.webp
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psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
That’s a default cube with an emissive material applied to it.
brap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck knows, I suspect they’re not talking about the djent band.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t really have a reason to hate something I’ve never used and never cared about at all until I saw I was weirdly targeted by it. I think it’s a bizarre curiousity that attempted to make the fediverse “better” but made it worse. But I’m guessing not that many people as a percentage used it. And now it’s been deleted so it’s overall barely a blip.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Is there a frontend that doesn’t use javascript?
waldfee@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yes, the default frontend at least loads without js and mlmym even entirely as far as I can tell
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not sure but imo a great frontend would work w/o js but work smoother with it. Progressive enhancement used to be a thing…
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Hey, who said I hate it? It’s a great list of users worth following and knowing.
ManixT@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hate tesseract because there’s a quality open source OCR project by the same name that has been out for ages.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Link to list: copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It me I am on the list.
Sorry guys. Too cool 4 skool
Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So you support transheteromysogeny? In current year? Wow.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Haters gonna hate
picklerick@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
im new and sitll just wrapping my head around the concepts asis and this seems like incredible lore I missed so if someone would be so kind to fill me in it would be much appreciated
but I can always get behind javascript hate!
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tesseract is/was an alternative frontend for Lemmy sites. Its developer — asimons04 — hid malware in it. It would secretly download an obfuscated ban list with instances, communities, and people that asimons04 wanted to personally discriminate agaibst and silently shadowban them from any site that used Tesseract.
The bans were heavily anti-fash leftists and queer folks, including yours truly.
This was discovered through some community sleuthing in the last several days. Asimons04 has since deleted their repos and accounts and disappeared. @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com has forked Tesseract since it had some nice features and seems to be working on thoughtfully removing the malware.
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The fucking balls on him. Acting like he is doing everyone a favor. He can ban who he wants from his instance, that’s how federation is supposed to work. What he did was add a secret shadowban list at a software level just to bypass the modlog and force it on everyone.
His behavior and response are ridiculous. We shouldn’t even be federating with anything using tesseract. The guy and his repo should become a pariah.
Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
lol what a sad, petty, loser you’d have to be to go through the effort of creating a whole front end to block communities/people you don’t like. It’s beyond pathetic.
Stinkywizzleteats@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
what an honor to get on that list! if you can find the code that blocked you, you should frame it.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Link to list:
copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Haha his stupid rant has -110 last I checked. 😂
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
After reading his rant and the block list Im curious what content is left after all the blocks
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
The fuck? Why aren’t I on the list? Am I not obnoxious and anti-fascist enough?
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lol is the rant deleted? 😂
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I hadn’t heard of Tesseract until now. Looks hellishly messy, the interface is nasty.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
An admin of an instance dubvee CaptainPatric published a frontend for Lemmy - a different interface to look through - called Tesseract. Many instances provided it as an option for their users.
Something around a year ago they suffered a burnout from fediverse (idk how) and seemingly cut their presence here.
Just recently, db0 instance admin got a funny result from updating their server software. They couldn’t see their own instance’s posts through that frontend, it was reporting an error. Going around it with a magnifying glass, they learnt, that an update to Tesseract silently shipped a new filtering engine with a list by dev. It downloads said list as the frontend starts, so you (1) won’t see it on github and (2) they have all power over what you see or not. Content matched with that list by instance, author or regex keyword doesn’t show up, like it isn’t there at all.
It appears, not only spam or fash dens were there, but a lot of active instances incl. db0 and lemmy.ml (that you are on) were on the list, as well as many individuals. In a long post CP argued, that they wanted their frontend not only to spice up the interface, but also to provide a better normie-friendly look at a fediverse, to make more people stay (unlike them), without anything upsetting, or “toxic” as they say, meaning anything slightly political or verbally violent too. And as some users wondered what’s left of fediverse with that opinionated filter applied and what it says about that person’s leanings
others took being in the list as a medal of honor, and started memeing about that, and talking about dev’s shadowy practices. The overwhelming majority was not having it, excluding maybe Rimu, a Piefed dev, who soberly corrected that there was actually a misleadingly named switch to turn filtering off - and iirc they had some sort of a drama themselves recently, so it may come off natural to them.
Either way, this piece of software was forked by multiple users to exclude shadowban list. Memes roll, people are jelly they aren’t in the elite club, and we get another story about small power causing god-like delusions in a person. Unanswered though stays the question of why the fediverse, seemingly the size of town, has a capacity for drama.
I’m not sure I got everything right, but other people’s writeups appear under almost any post concerning that matter, so you can see if they cover it better than I.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Here is a post explaining it: sh.itjust.works/post/63897215
It just happened. Tesserect is a front end to Lemmy (like old.red-dit) that was actually nicely built, but apparently taken over because it was abandoned. Since you’re new, being on different instances is a little opaque to me as a non-techy, but here’s my experiences
picklerick@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
thnx! what do you mean about my instance though? i signed up here because when i came from reddit i was told this was the one for leftists?
Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait, aggressive trolls are the lead developers of Lemmy?