NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on I'm sure it'll be fine! 15 hours ago:
Your rocket will ignite in 15 minutes.
Actually, it’s looking.more like six days.
No wait, 30 seconds.
- Comment on It's me again 2 days ago:
Be careful whose advice you buy,
but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia;
dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal,
wiping it off,
painting over the ugly parts
And recycling it for more than it’s worth - Comment on 3 days ago:
Preferred solution for an unholy operating system:
- Comment on 6 days ago:
We can’t make it so large that its own gravity will contain the reaction mass, so it has to be kept inside a very strong magnetic field created by huge magnets. You can’t put solar panels inside the reaction chamber, they would get destroyed.
- Comment on it really do be like that 1 week ago:
- Comment on Script's running guys and gals 👻 1 week ago:
- Comment on somehow i don't make any progress 2 weeks ago:
I feel personally attacked.
- Comment on Happy 17th of March 2 weeks ago:
It is true that Irish people were used as slaves, it just wasn’t done at a systematic scale equivalent to the African slave trade. The abduction of people from Africa was a global industry, and the scale that it operated at created inhuman horrors that are not really comparable to anything else (except maybe present-day Xinjiang).
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
Just a warning on running a service like this - any website that allows arbitrary text entry from anonymous users will be found and flooded by bots very quickly.
The most innocent, least damaging version of what happens is adbots posting links to shoddy websites selling “essential oils” and other homeopathy nonsense.
More obscure but more malicious, text posts are used to control botnets for cybercrime. Basically a human running the botnet will post a string of letters and numbers to a website which the bots have been programmed to look for instructions. Websites that allow anonymous text entry are convenient for this because if the criminal activity is investigated, it’s hard to trace the instructions from the controller back to a real person.
Just be aware that people will abuse your service for purposes you did not intend. You’ll probably need both automated tooling for identifying and blocking bot traffic, as well as human moderation.
- Comment on Being alive in 2026 be like 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wharf 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Being alive in 2026 be like 4 weeks ago:
You running Windows Vista on an HP desktop with a Zip drive in 2026?
- Comment on Wharf 4 weeks ago:
off the starboard bow
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Silly, everybody knows sexism only goes one way.
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 5 weeks ago:
Employers not paying a living wage bad.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 5 weeks ago:
Broad conclusions for a study conducted on a population of ~500 undergrad students at a single religious university in one city of one state of one country.
- Comment on Ni! 5 weeks ago:
He was not in the least bit scared
To be mashed into a pulp.
Or to have his eyes gouged out,
And his elbows broken.
To have his nicaps split
And his body burned away,
And his limbs all hacked and mangled
Brave Sir Robin. - Comment on What's "email"? 5 weeks ago:
You’re right.
They just shit themselves to death.
- Comment on What's "email"? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, instead we have gangrene, leptospirosis, trepanning, faith healing, no education unless you’re clergy, forced labor for 95% of the population, a life expectancy of 40 if you’re lucky…
Oh, and taxes! still got those. Have to pay for Richard’s crusade, you know. Congratulations on being conscripted as a peasant spearman, now get back up and stand in line with the rest of the fodder.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The genie is out of the bottle
This is a lot more like Pandora’s Box - all the evils have been let loose.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 month ago:
Enforced toxic positivity is unhealthy, yes.
It’s not the cause, it’s a symptom of a larger problem.
What would I need an “out” for?
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 month ago:
A good forum design will only get you so far, the rest is up to the moderators. If you let bad actors in, it doesn’t matter how you designed your forum, they will poison the well and drive other people out.
Yes, well, the problem with hexbear was that it started with bad actors. As they made their true colors apparent to the lemmy community at large, they were increasingly defederated.
The best communities I’ve been in are in independent old-style forums. One of them is Tildes. Most of these don’t feature downvotes (or upvotes for that matter) and are honestly the better places to have discussions IMO.
Oh yes, my past experience is in old web forums as well. Those communities were more isolated though, they essentially existed inside their own bubbles. Unregistered users could read them, but not participate in any functional way, and typically the people that found them were looking for a community like that on purpose.
I’ve also experienced such communities becoming toxic due to the actions of individual moderators or admins, post voting not required.
Ultimately I think I agree this far - if you’re going to disable voting you should do all of it. Removing only the downvoting is the YouTube path, the authoritarian path, the toxic positivity path.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t imply that the unhealthyness of hexbear is due to the disabled downvoting though, and I’m sure you aren’t either, but just to be clear.
No, I’m implying the reverse: disabling downvoting is a symptom of the unhealthy mentality of the people running that server. Disabling downvoting appeals to authoritarians - that is, the type of people who are interested in silencing dissent (QED).
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 month ago:
The only Lemmy community I’m aware of that has actually removed downvotes is hexbear - because they were tired of having their pro-Maoist rhetoric downvoted to oblivion by sane people. Hexbear is not a healthy place.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 month ago:
Enforced toxic positivity does not produce better conversations or better communities. It basically just turns a discussion forum into Disneyland, where everyone is happy all the time, because there’s no other option. It’s the kind of yes-man thinking you get in corporate meetings that produce really bad ideas because “don’t be negative! there are no bad ideas here!”
- Comment on The classics 1 month ago:
Theres a community for that! sh.itjust.works/c/youtubeclassics
- Comment on A matter of patience 2 months ago:
Well yes, one imploded, but the shock wave created by that first implosion then shattered 6600 of them.
- Comment on A matter of patience 2 months ago:
The implosion incident with Super-Kamiokande happened in 2001. Repairs were completed in 2006.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 2 months ago:
This just in: projection requires distortion.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 2 months ago:
As Sahib explained in replies on Reddit and X, Hytale is serving as the host for the crossplay session, and while block placements are translated to equivalent blocks on the Minecraft side, it seems like only the prototype’s Hytale player is capable of placing new blocks. Considering he’s handbuilding a bridge between two different games with their own systems and mechanics, it’s not surprising that Sahib says “currently many things are Broken.”
Based on this, it sounds like the Hytale server is providing map data to the Minecraft session, which is why the block placement works on the Hytale side but not the Minecraft side. He must have created some kind of translation table for block types between the engines.
