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  • But that is the point. Most people do not use VPNs, you harm very few legitimate customers and save yourself the headache of dealing with all those who use VPNs for scams, attacks, exploits,...

    The trade-off is entirely different from dynamic IPs.

    Also, the admins running those things don't do stuff to look like they are doing things, they wouldn't care if you use a VPN if there was no downside to treating VPN IPs like any other.

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  • No, they are literally not. Blocking VPN users is literally the low effort thing to do because the rate of problematic attacks and similar high effort issues coming from those IPs is much higher than the few legitimate users using VPNs are worth.

  • The Linux kernel is a CNA - so what?
  • the info required was there already, just you needed to put effort in

    Not really. This is mostly what this is all about. The companies are insisting that open source projects should do analysis of security impacts in addition to fixing the bugs whenever some "security researcher" runs some low effort fuzzing or static analysis thing that produces large numbers of bug reports and assigns CVEs to them without the consent of the project. The problem is that such an impact analysis is significant effort (often orders of magnitude more than the fix itself) by people with deep knowledge about the code bases and only really useful to the customers of those companies who want to selectively update instead of just applying all the latest fixes.

  • Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection.
  • People who see it as an immature way to communicate won't use the words at all. People who are actually immature despite growing up will use the word and think it makes a difference if they put an asterisk in there instead of spelling it out.

  • Mozilla Firefox Adds AI-Powered RTX Video
  • Safari is also just one of the forks of the KHTML/WebKit/Blink codebase Chrome is based on. Admittedly they probably implement some of the stuff they do implement themselves too because the common ancestor version is quite a long time ago now.

  • Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?
  • There are also many things we consume only because marketing makes us want them even though we have no real need for them. And many jobs producing completely useless things. Not to mention waste through planned obsolescence, DRM, patents and similar mechanisms that artificially reduce the usefulness of goods below its natural level. We could easily produce everything we need with a fraction of the current work force.

  • Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
  • I could be up and running in like 10 minutes to install Forgejo or Gitea

    You could maybe do that but only because you already know how unlike most developers and you completely dismiss any active maintenance like updates, moderation, debugging performance issues, resizing storage,...

  • Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
  • Forgefed seems to be ActivityPub based which, judging by Lemmy, doesn't solve the redundancy issue at all, it just allows you to interact with the content hosted in a single place from your own single place, giving you two single points of failure and two points where you can be tracked instead of one. This is not really the same kind of distributed as git repositories.

  • Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
  • Can you name an open platform that actually does distribute PRs and issues? I know there were a few that tried but I mean one that actually succeeded and is usable by people who just want to report a bug?

    Also, your issues and pull requests are much more likely to be lost in your self-hosted one project instance than on GitHub if anything happens to you.

  • Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
  • I can understand the argument against GitHub in two contexts, one is when people build features into their software that assume GitHub, e.g. when a programming language assumes it can just prepend github.com/ to your repo to find it and the other is the argument that losing GitHub would be a huge blow because so many projects are there and only there so a lot of things would have to be done at once if that ever happened.

  • Automatic checking of information in error logs/error return types?

    After adding some lines today to log some information I had missed that was vital for debugging I was wondering if there were any automated tools like linters or similar static analysis tools that help you identity the information to log and or return in error cases.

    I am specifically talking about the information that should be identifiable automatically because it contributes to the control flow arriving in the current scope such as values of variables in the condition for the scope or parameters of functions that calculate those values (e.g. the file name in a permission error, the value of a variable that failed an if let or let else pattern match,...

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    Is there a spec somewhere on how Lemmy, Kbin and the rest of the threadiverse use ActivityPub?

    It seems to me the basic ActivityPub specification is written from the perspective of Mastodon and Twitter-like fediverse instances.

    I assume Lemmy and kbin did extend this with some more objects or at least agreed how to use the existing objects and activities there to model a link aggregator with comments on top of that.

    Is there some sort of specification or design document about this somewhere? All I found when googling were some old links that resulted in a 404 and the current Lemmy documentation seems more focussed on users, admins and developers and less on the protocol side of things.

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