Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@freemo Or some diclofenac potassium so you can relax a little easier while you're at it 😜
@freemo Oh, man, I'd die if I had to eat the same thing every night. If you want some low-carb suggestions to help mix it up, curry is a great choice, as are veggie roasts (basically pot roast without the beef).
A supposed lawyer popped into my mentions to try to deny an easily provable fact then blocked me before I could bring receipts.
Yep, it's starting to feel like Twitter here...😕
Louis Ingenthron
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The Supreme Court is all but certain to invalidate Biden's student debt forgiveness plan. And they're legally correct to. Whether you think the plan was good policy or not, the president has constitutionally limited powers—which is good, because you don't want a presidency without limited powers—and his plan obviously went beyond them. If you want to forgive student debt, Congress needs to do it.
@pixelpusher220 "Facebook is evil" confirmation bias is a bitch. 🤷♂️
@dangoodin ...If it's linked to an endpoint machine, wouldn't that also make the data unusable to anyone with a recently bricked PC?
Wonder how they get around that.
@pixelpusher220 You're only thinking in the short term. If Facebook thought that way too, then they'd switch to chronological view (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/facebook-removed-the-news-feed-algorithm?s=09).
But they don't because they're clearly playing the long game. And preventing Twitter crossposting vs Mastodon migration tools looks very different in the perspective of long-term strategy.
@pixelpusher220 Not necessarily, no. They understand that people use different social networks for different purposes. Twitter and Facebook is a two-way street, with people using both networks for different reasons. Allowing people to cross-post keeps them from walling themselves in a different garden.
OTOH, Mastodon seems to be much more of a 1-way migration. Not a lot of folks choosing Mastodon as their first social network then moving over to Facebook or Twitter.
So, apparently #RegionsBank, which does not offer token or app authentication, uses easily-spoofed browser-provided data to determine whether or not to trigger its SMS #2FA authentication.
It's insane to me that a *#Bank* of all places could be such a failure on basic #DigitalSecurity measures.
Guess I need to start shopping around for a new account.
@jperlow Lol, community standards are *entirely* about protecting the business model. Some just work on a longer timescale than others.
As for your second statement, it's blatantly false. It took me 5 seconds to look this up: As of June 2022, they had the following language in their Community Standards defining a banned cybersecurity practice: "Creating, sharing or hosting malicious software including browser extensions and mobile applications, on or off the platform that put our users or products and services at risk."
You unquestionably shared software that they feel puts their product at risk. You may not consider it malicious, but they may see that differently.
Well, that issue is resolved now. 😂
What do you prefer: Fediverse or fediverse? You might say it's a proper noun that refers to this specific community that we’re all using to communi...
@jperlow Crossposting wasn't what you described in your original post. It's a tool specifically designed to help people abandon centralized social media in favor of decentralized, which is a threat to their business model (whereas crossposting tends to be a boon to their bottom line).
And that's before you get to the security concerns:
You described a tool that "logs into your account" which is a common attack vector for phishing scams. If you were more precise with your words (i.e. "Movetodon needs authorization to you account to access it through the Twitter API"), then maybe it wouldn't have been flagged.
@jperlow "Overreach"? That's like McDonalds asking you to leave when you bring in a Burger King meal and sit down in their restaurant to eat. Like, I see why it upsets you, but from their standpoint, it makes perfect sense; not doing so would be negligent.
Plus, it's nice that they're doing it so transparently. Imagine if all mastodon content was just quietly never shown to anyone?
Louis Ingenthron
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"So, doing some quick math, has Thiel been contributing to his Roth IRA for 714,285 years and some months? He is a noted life-extension and cryogenics enthusiast, but the numbers don’t seem to add up.
As it turns out, the trick is much simpler and doesn’t involve time travel or liquid nitrogen."
It just requires special access -- access you and I don't have.
@NatlSecCnslrs@mstdn.social I'm with tech support on this one. Warning lights are meaningless while stuff still works.
@Popehat That sounds like what every college kid wrote the first time they smoked a joint.
Is the real problem with the susceptibility of the uneducated simply that they've never been exposed to stoned philosophy majors?
@gulovsen Car mechanics have a long history of "joke" signs that say there's an upcharge on any job that you already tried to fix yourself...
May not be a bad idea to take up the same practice for this situation.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
