It certainly opens up lost of "evil maid" attacks.
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Is this new? Perhaps geographic testing in certain areas? I'm not sure if I've ever seen that on youtube. Just curious, what happens for you if you open a browser in Incognito go to youtube and without logging in to youtube, go to the video you want to watch?
It’s not a Musk company. It’s owned by E-Bay.
Even that is old news. Ebay spun off paypal into a separate company in 2015.
"It was announced on September 30, 2014, that eBay would spin off PayPal into a separate publicly traded company, a move demanded in 2013 by activist hedge fund magnate Carl Icahn. The spin-off was completed on July 18, 2015." source
Initially makes me wonder how the employer could be so dumb as to give one employee so much access.
The amount of access he had doesn't surprise me. He'd been there for 11 years already likely working on many things as he interacted with systems in the course of his legitimate work. While its possible to set up access and permissions in an organization utilizing the "least privilege principle", its expensive, difficult to maintain, and adds lots of slowdowns in velocity to business operations. Its worth it to prevent this exact case from the article, but lots of companies don't have the patience or can't afford it.
A 55-year-old software developer
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Lu had worked at Eaton Corp. for about 11 years when he apparently became disgruntled by a corporate "realignment" in 2018 that "reduced his responsibilities," the DOJ said.
So he was 48 at the time he started this. Was he planning on retiring from all work at 48? I can't imagine any other employer would want to touch him with a 10ft (3.048 meters) pole after he actively sabotaged his prior employer's codebase causing global outages.
You and I don't always see eye to eye on some issues, but I hope you know that I am always wishing you well and strength in your continuing battle. This internet rando wants you to be around and be here for decades to come. I'm pulling for you.
Millions die of starvation and exposure and preventable disease.
I just don’t think that’s a reasonable view, and it’s certainly a marginal one in the community.
You're welcome to hold that opinion.
You and I agree on the existence of that problem,
I agree.
we just disagree on the resulting state after it surface.
I'm not making any strong claims to the resulting state afterward. I can't predict the future with any level of confidence. However, I'm saying there are future scenarios where my position can exist at an extreme. This itself is a benefit over the competition.
I appreciate the time you've taken to discuss this. I think we can leave the conversation here and part on good terms. I see your position as a valid possible future too.
if Reddit bans the word “luigi” both subreddits are affected
Several people have responded with things like this, but OP didn’t ask about that scenario. Of course federation solves that problem.
They said:
"If/when Lemmy starts to experience its own 'eternal September', what protections are in place to ensure we will not be overwhelmed and exploited?"
I think the Luigi example applies to the "exploited" portion of OPs post.
You’re still thinking about it as an asymmetrical problem. Taking one portion that has a problem and isolating that from the rest.
I am. I don't believe there is one version of success nor one version of failure. That's one of the beauties of the Fediverse. While there can be fully integrated interaction between instances, there doesn't have to be.
I’m saying if every part has the same problem that doesn’t solve it AND it means the entire network is no longer interoperable, which was the entire point from the start.
Bolding is mine. That is an opinion, but not a fact. I'll agree it was one of the biggest features, but it is by no means the only reason for Lemmy or the Fediverse's existence.
What you’re ultimately saying is that you can have a small interoperable network or a large centralized network, but not both.
I'm citing those as the two extremes but I'm not saying those are the only two options.
Which, if you’re right, begs the question of why try to decentralize and federate in the first place if you don’t have a solution to secure that arrangement.
I reject that premise. If decentralization and federation were inexorably linked to Lemmy (and the Fediverse as a whole), the authors of Lemmy would not have built in the functionality to defederate, nor to block other instances. They did though. This tells us that while they envisioned the benefits of sharing, they also recognized those that wouldn't want to and endorsed it with methods to cut out the sharing.
And, to be clear, even in that scenario now you have an isolated, self-run social network that has exactly the same moderation issues and running costs as Reddit or any other alternative.
Not quite. From an operators point of view, sure. However from a consumer's point of view, a social media application stack is a massive undertaking to write as whole cloth. Lemmy software simply existing means that anyone can stand up their own social media network with their own rules (and yes, costs). This, in itself, is a better evolution over Reddit as a private platform. If you don't like that "reddit" you can stand up your own "reddit".
If you're looking for me to say Lemmy is the perfect platform without any flaws, you won't find me saying that. I will say however that it is better than the alternatives we have today. We'll see if it has enough autonomy and control to its operators to stand the test of time. Irrespective of where we each stand on this discussion, I think we'll both be hoping it does.
I’m not understanding your point here. Can you reword it perhaps?
If I’m not happy with how /r/knives is run on Reddit, I can make /r/knife to compete with it.
Ah, gotcha. Thank you for that. I understand your example. My response is, irrespective of /r/knives or /r/knife if Reddit bans the word "luigi" both subreddits are affected. That isn't the case with Lemmy where if one instance bans a word, other instances don't have to follow suit.
The modlog entries I’ve read show the offending comment as well as the moderator given reason for a ban.
It shows part of the comment. I think there’s a limit on length, and it does not show media. The mod log is a good idea, but there’s room for improvement.
This is good information. I didn't know about the limit length. I did some Google searches and could only find references to the 10,000 character Lemmy post limit, but nothing about the limit of modlog entires. Any idea what it is?
You make a good point on media. I didn't know that either.
I will say that for any modlog entry I've seen of a removed comment I largely agree with the moderator's actions about 95% of the time. I'm guessing a character limit would have to be VERY short for it to not capture the gist of an offending comment though. I'm prepared to retract that if you tell me its extremely small.
Where I’ll disagree with you that one has to exist or Lemmy will fail.
I never said Lemmy will fail, and that is not my position.
Apologies if I mistook your statements. I saw you referring to Lemmy as a whole, and the need for a Fediverse wide fix being your opinion to be necessary for Lemmy to not be eventually destroyed as a whole. If you have a more nuanced opinion on the points we're discussing, I'm open to hearing it.
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I use youtube almost exclusively in incognito and I never get the captcha. The only negative consequence is no suggested videos show up. It looks like this:
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However, as soon as you watch even a single video, it gives suggestions based upon that. As soon as you close all your incognito windows, it wipes the slate clean and opening a new window and going back to youtube just gives you the screenshot I linked here. I don't have a youtube "feed" and I like that. Again, zero captchas.