@jerry My Mastodon activity dropped as I got more absorbed into threadiverse which took off a bit when Reddit refugees flooded into it. But I think it could just be a cycle.
Every threadiverse comment I write is at risk for deletion because I think there are no tools to sychronize the cloud w/local storage. Unlike mastodon, which has mastodon-archive. And since the local storage by mastodon-archive is searchable offline, that will likely pull me back to using Mastodon more.
"Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta combined more than doubled their energy consumption between 2017 and 2021."
And they will double their energy and water and material demand again by 2026.
Is anyone anywhere in government paying the least bit of attention to the environmental catastrophe that Big Tech is massively accelerating? Or have all our politicians been bought off by Big Tech?
@jerry This seems like a good thread for my security concern.
I noticed a “translate” link on my post. Clicked it to see what would be used. Was disturbed to find that it’s #DeepL. This is a Tor-hostile #Cloudflare site that misleads people into thinking security is taken seriously. Which is the same thing that happends with libretranslate.com.
In principle it’d be most secure to run Argos Translate on the server. But that’s also a heavy process. If translation must be outsourced, I suggest translate.fedilab.app. It’s the same engine as #libretranslate, but without sharing translations with CF.
(edit) guess it’s a good time to republish this:
❌ #GoogleTranslate (#PRISM)
❌ #YandexTranslate [tax(profits) →Putin’s war]
❌ #DeepL (shares sensitive txt w/tech giant; misleads ppl about it)
❌ #LibreTranslate.com (shares sensitive txt w/tech giant; no privacy policy; solicits trust w/buzz phrases “libre”, “free & open”)
🤷 #lingva.ml (FOSS frontend; still Google)
🤷 translate.fedilab.app (no privacy policy but no evidence of mishandling data either)
@Lockdownyourlife This #Lockdownyourlife website is a Tor-hostile broken #CAPTCHA-pushing #siteground site. Obviously the first step to locking down your life is using Tor, which then puts that site out of reach.
This really showcases how weak the #Lemmy infrastructure is.
If a rogue moderator or admin decides to nuke an entire community of thousands of people’s works & a long history, and scrub the existence of that group so well the name of it is even lost, there are fragments of that group mirrored across hundreds of other nodes. The community & history should be rebuilt in less than 1 hour on a new host (perhaps the host with the 2nd most amount of content).
Info is still unfolding but the data is apparently not lost. A mod deleted a community and the admins can still see the posts & reactions. But of course the whole public lost visibility on it. The admins are researching how to restore visibility to the public and apparently there are federation issues. Users can enter their profile and see their own posts to that group. They can also still see replies to them in their inbox. But the community gets renamed to deleted@$instance so it’s a mess.
So it turns out the creator of the community deleted the community then deleted his own account.
The data remained in the DB. The fix was for an admin to flip a boolean in the DB somewhere, as I understand it. All nodes that federated with that community need to refederate which for some reason can take hours.
We've introduced new 🧅 onion site icons with our latest browser release (12.5). As onion services are experiencing more popularity and their use by third-party apps has increased, it was time to give them a new identity.💜
The self-updating #TorBrowser broke¹ for me spontaneously. Apparently version 12.5.
This is why I hate auto-updates.. your stuff automatically breaks at spontaneous moments. I also don’t like having no control over how much of my data quota is being used or when.
I really wish I had disabled auto updates. I just now “closed the barn doors after the horses have bolted.”
Tor Browser lets you see the update history, but lacks a mechanism to revert back to a working version when it breaks.
It launches but cannot connect to the Tor network, even though the tor daemon works fine and other apps can use the tor daemon.
@paulgarrard
That’s not true, and you’ve also misunderstood the posting.
The sign posting is saying the gov does not accept btc, so if someone receives an invoice appearing to be from the gov which requests btc payment, that would be a scam.
The sign posting is fair enough. There probably were swindlers sending phony invoices masquerading as the gov, which would have driven that warning. @z3r0fox