bss03

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 21 hours ago

It's all I have for proper threading. I won't forgive Reddit for how they treated me and my communities. But, if you are willing to use Reddit, I'm sure it's going the have user advantage (and because of that niche interest advantage) for quite a while. I hope it serves your needs and brings you joy.

You might try building a community here, but that is the "slow boring of hard wood" and it can be difficult to find joy in, especially at first.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago

KFC / Pizza Hut / Taco Bell -- the only restaurant you need!

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

At very least there's an OCX for InteractiveHtmlView or some stuff. It's how South Korean banks apps run. I think even the EU-specific "unbundled IE" versions still have that ActiveX / OLE control registered, though it might be crippled.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Although, he admits in the video to "faking" his footage of it working, by using a off-camera heat source. (His batteries were quite dead.)

But, as someone that lived through this time, they did work, as long as you pressed hard enough in the right places. It was hard to tell if the battery was dead or if you weren't pressing hard enough

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The whole reason I got on YT Premium was because it was free with Google Play Music. I have real issues watch non-Premiun now, because I've always disliked advertising methods. (Not so much th ads, which can be entertaining, but just being shown content I didn't request instead of the content I did request.)

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

"users will be frustated and leave" exactly the same thing can happen to an instance that adds an instance (or wildcard domain) block. I'd be very surprised if no instance has ever rolled back a block.

Users don't need to worry about instance blocks on ActivityPub, any more than they have to worry about DNS RBLs for email.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

if gmail could just randomly decide to stop receiving emails from outlook addresses and there’s nothing any user can do about it

This is the case right now.

There's good reasons GMail doesn't do that, but there's absolutely nothing technical preventing from doing that, and I can't think of anything that legally prevents them from doing that.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Using another ActivityPub-based interface is a LOT to ask for many users. They want a simple to pronounce name, they can stick in their browser's universal bar and be on a sign-up page in less than 3 clicks without making any more choices.

😞

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

There have been some complaints about Mastodon for years; both specific ("quote tweets") and vague (get rid of shitty, often bigoted replies for profiles with a lot of followers or with a marginalized identity).

Mastodon largely hasn't implemented them. Maybe Bluesky has. (I don't have a BS account.)

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hmm, maybe next time I'm buying games, I'll pick up BL3 hoping it works on my Debian system through Proton or something.

Thanks for the info.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago

From the reviews I've seen (Outside Xbox), that's the most you'll get out of it. It's mostly a nothing burger, "bad" is the best thing you can say about it.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

BL2 still works on Linux, too. I can't play BL3, which I hear is the better game (albeit with worse plot).

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