Lionir

@Lionir@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How exactly can you be a non-expansionist Zionist if the existence of Israel necessitated the Nakba? How can you rationally justify the existence of the Israeli state if you refuse population displacement?

  I find it hard to find a good faith argument this position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty unfortunate. I think Pocket was probably one of the best services that Mozilla offered (outside of Pocket). I find it worrisome if Pocket was not a profitable avenue for them.

  I used it for a while as my read-it-later but it ended up being too expensive for the usage I made of it.

  I’m pretty worried about Mozilla as a whole. I feel that none of the projects I remember in the past 15 years have actually worked out. Pocket, CommonVoice, Servo, Mozilla Location Services… It’s a shame, really.

  I hope for them that Relay and VPN still manage to work out though I’ve never really been interested in either unfortunately.

• The Stallman reportstallman-report.org ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩ | ⁨11⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The DMA has clauses that force big companies that are considered “gatekeepers” to allow interoperability with other services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Images aren’t federated through ActivityPub so I don’t really see how deleting media is supposed to work.

  Yes, they are. Every instance downloads everyone’s images for a “cached” version that is currently never used. This is what makes this problem especially insidious and straight up dangerous in cases like CSAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a basic curl command, that shouldn’t be “arcane” if you’re setting up a server.

  This is the equivalent of saying that any instance admin needs to know how to use curl while most people have never used a commandline. Not only that but you need machine access to know the api key which I would wager instance admins do not necessarily have.

  I think this is the result of not prioritising work that makes moderation possible by non-technically inclined people and it is genuinely a failure of the system.

  The priorities of development on Lemmy are decided by developers and the people who are not are simply pushed away. Most community leaders and moderators are not developers. The mental gymnastics to justify this lack of tooling is tiring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They can, if they read the manual. Mods can’t, but instance admins can.

  Yes. If you use arcane commands using the docs that are in a pull request that is not yet merged. This is not accessible to many instance admins and it is only “technically supported” which is the worst kind of support from my point of view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eBay agreed to pay maximal possible fine of $3 million after employees harassed, intimidated, and stalked a Massachusetts couple in retaliation for their critical reporting of the online marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember hearing this story a long time ago, It’s still so shocking that this happened.