I have to say, this is the best writing prompt reply I’ve seen since I got on lemmy.

Sucky! sucky! five dolla!

https://sh.itjust.works/post/35485725

This is you right now. Most of us have no idea what Misskey is.

I think this post would have been a lot more enlightening had it gone into what exactly *key instances are.

Because it shoots lasers

I’ve been using it as my home instance for almost a year and I still forget sometimes. They could certainly have picked an easier name, I agree.

At this point, complaining that a joke is boomer humour is itself boomer

Not me who downvoted you, FYI.

To me, a vulnerability is something unforeseen, that allows bad actors to exploit the system in an unintended manner. In this case, the system is working perfectly as designed. Just because another system decided to implement a new feature without consulting anybody else, does not make it a vulnerability. Or perhaps it does, but with the vulnerability on the side of Mastodon, since they’re the ones telling their users their post is private when it is actually nothing of the sort.

What would I call it? An unsupported feature. One that Mastodon forced everybody else to implement without asking or any respect.

I’m not sure you can make that conclusion. This isn’t a real vulnerability, and this isn’t a surprise to anybody who knows how the AP protocol works. Dansup didn’t reveal anything that was previously unknown, the blog author just has an axe to grind. It’s unfair to assume that an actual 0 day vulnerability would have been treated the same way.

more people will know and exploit the vulnerability

It’s not even a vulnerability, it’s how AP works by design, is the issue at hand here. Mastodon decided they wanted to implement something not supported by AP, and everybody else had to take the heat for not ‘doing it right’.

To keep it secure from the servers themself would require users to handle the encryption. See PGP for an idea of how much uptake that’s likely to get. If you mean for the servers to handle the encryption, that’s already the case, and the issue right now is that servers are privy to what users do, and by nature are a 3rd party in the convo.

Way to depress me who can’t grow a mustache

Defaulting to not federating is what the major email providers currently do, and is why email has now become a centralised service that you cannot practically self host.

Wow, the daily WTF is still running? That’s the biggest wtf for me. I was reading it near 2 decades ago.

True. Done!

But Thaler is not planning to back down from the fight, arguing that his Creativity Machine is “sentient.”

Pretty much sums up everything you need to know about how much attention this deserves.

Was not aware there was any controversy about this. Just something I had read in another forum. If that’s the case I obviously retract my earlier comment.

Was not aware there was any controversy about this. Just something I had read in another forum. If that’s the case I obviously retract my earlier comment.

Twas an awakening to me, too.

Twas the same person, AFAIK

Edit: Apparently they’re not, or at least there’s a bunch of controversy there I have absolutely no intention of getting into.