maegul
@maegul@hachyderm.io
A little bit of computing and a little bit of neuroscience.
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- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
@TheTomas @atomicpoet @fediversenews
What's interesting to me, as someone who's generally critical of the state of the fedi, is that I think atomicpoet is right, it is a part of the fediverse, but I think TheTomas's general point is also important, which is whether there should be a base threshold of inter-functionality to be considered a part of the fediverse.
Because merely receiving posts isn't far beyond RSS and the fedi, AFAICT, likes to (& should) think of itself as more than that too.
- Submitted 2 months ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 2 comments
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- Comment on 3 months ago:
It's probably (very) naive of me, but I hadn't quite thought that the whole thing is a grift against everyone.
Ads, data tracking, *and* tricking you into ignoring the economy/industry that actually matters in the name of "evolution" and "breaking things".
Can't help but see some (stretched) resonance with the #fediverse. Is this just some tech idea that needs to convince all of us that it's the good new thing? What if at its core there's something wrong and it fails us?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Worth watching or thinking about this recent related video (post of mine):
masto: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/111814353381348375
- Submitted 3 months ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Great line in there from Tim about how everyone is now viewed as an Uber driver and how its hard to justify being paid more than one.
- Submitted 3 months ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on 9 months ago:
Nice! I would have done the same except that mastodon doesn't render/format lemmy posts well at all so it kinda defeats the point, especially as you can't quote-boost to add additional information (honestly frustrating!)
Your link seems to take me straight to lemmy though (??)
Here's the link to the lemmy post on my masto instance: https://hachyderm.io/@dessalines@lemmy.ml/110816650728232559 (if that's helpful for anyone ... you can reply and potentially read replies).
- Comment on 9 months ago:
Seems it does! Fixed.
- Submitted 9 months ago to fediversenews@venera.social | 5 comments
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- Comment on 9 months ago:
@fediversenews
ruud (woke up and) has reported on the incident: https://lemmy.world/post/1290412Seems that there was a vulnerability which has been patched and cleaned up. Patch is yet to be merged and pushed to all instances apparently.
Overall this incident has both positives and negatives. It’s not good that this could have happened. I’m not clear on the root cause so others can attest.
Positively, lemmy is an active platform, attracting attacks and devs/admins patching and maintaining the space. - Comment on 9 months ago:
So, lemmy.world is back up and running.
It seems (mostly?) sanitised from the hacker's defacement and is running (mostly) as though nothing has happened (which is perhaps alarming?).
Maybe avoid visiting if you have an account there (until things are verified) as it seems part of their hack was to scrape JWTs/cookies through a JS/scripting injection. (See, eg https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/850269)
- Comment on 9 months ago:
Seems that there may be a vulnerability in the platform itself.
beehaw.org have taken the precaution of turning their server off until things get sorted.
See https://hachyderm.io/@beehaw/110687918465426082
Also ... kudos to beehaw admins ... having an admin account on a separate instance and platform for announcements ... "this is the way" and all!
- Submitted 9 months ago to fediversenews@venera.social | 4 comments
- Comment on 10 months ago:
@fediversereport @fediverse @fediversenews
Just skimming through ... somehow caught a link to an estimate of mine on lemmy's true size (god I hope that number is reasonable ... it was a very rough estimate!)
Otherwise, the comment about kbin's active users ... kbin doesn't track active users AFAIK (I've read ernest say as much) ... it's more or less the same as their total user count +/- weird variation.
- Comment on 10 months ago:
@fediversenews RIght now ... it seems like they're focusing on creating generic feeds for people to follow and aren't interested in allowing people to create their own feeds. But that might change if it becomes a success.
- Submitted 10 months ago to fediversenews@venera.social | 2 comments
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- Comment on 11 months ago:
Hmmm, that web page dumps me straight into a list of servers. Gotta explain why that's even a thing before you start providing lists.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
OK, collecting potential resources ...
Links here: https://jointhefediverse.net/learn#resources ...
including this wiki: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page
and this page which has a nice intro video: https://fediverse.info/
Honestly, by this point, we should just fund a way to pay 3Blue1Brown to make a video on the fediverse ... like that's your marketing strategy for the next 6 months, get him to make a video.
- Submitted 11 months ago to fediversenews@venera.social | 5 comments
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