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My father was once falsely accused of being a bak’targ. Calling Gowron Law helped restore honour to my house. 35/9 great service.

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Can’t you chuck it back into a reactor and reuse it that way, to help reduce the radioactivity, and get more power back out of it?

Slight shame that the contractors didn’t start from the end. It could have been funnier if they had taken off the “er” instead.

Kbin has a report function, although I don’t know if reports Federate. They might not.

Lemmy does do reporting, although it’s not clear whether it’s just moderators, or whether the admins will also receive them.

Especially since doing that will let you Federate through compromised comments, and possibly affect other instances using the Federation network, unless they’re updated.

Yes. They got hacked. An admin account got compromised, and the hackers exploited a bug in Lemmy-UI (the web site) that let them do things like redirect users to another site that let them run Javscript. It seems to have let them collect some user tokens from accounts, and access an admin account that way.

Others did get hacked, or are vulnerable to it, but aren’t big enough targets?

Beehaw is closed, so they would have had to have an existing account to exploit the same bug (or go through something like Kbin), and Lemmy.world is the biggest Lemmy instance.

And if they could do that, someone else could use the same trick to do worse things, since they’re just running bare JavaScript.

No. The existing Lemmy-Lite that was advertised on join-Lemmy.org appears to be massively out of date, and no longer actively maintained.

It was a bug with Lemmy-UI, so you might be able to get away using an app or site that isn’t vulnerable. Whether that is Wefwef, one of the apps, like Jerboa, or something that is Federated, but not Lemmy, like Kbin, or Mastodon (things might be a bit clunky if you do, since Lemmy threads aren’t well handled by Mastodon).

You can usually get around that with the old compact interface. Clicking links is a bit glitchy after its “retirement” (Reddit “retired” it by stripping .compact from all links, but compact still tries to use them), however, it’s still mostly usable, if you put .i at the end of the link.

https://old.reddit.com/r/creesch/comments/14fxzr4/so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_fish/.i

Given how that’s been going, and how that subreddit apparently got caught in the crossfire, it kind of makes you wonder what’s going on behind the scenes at Reddit. With a different person revoking it and apologising, it kind of seems like the admins aren’t really communicating to each other, and that some are putting out fires that the others are lighting.

EDIT: No Apology, just an explanation.

Although I’m curious about how they might address the “clickbait” issue of people having a massively upvoted/boosted post, and then changing the post to say something else entirely.

That seems like it might be a problem if people are allowed to edit titles.

At the same time, it might not fit them. Lemmy is a link aggregator, which seems like extra functionality that they don’t really need, not when existing forum software will do what they need, while also being more stable/mature.

Oops! All Chromium

• /r/steam is getting steamy. Some users are blowing their safeties, but the sub seems to be on board with posting things relating to steam, and steam engines.

It’s got a very TOS-style of writing and story to it.

I remember seeing a fair few people pitch a fit about the Burn, for example, even though “angry man has a tantrum and nearly blows up the universe”, and “child with godlike powers” are common TOS plots.

They tried something new, which I don’t mind them for, but I don’t think it mixed well with people being used to more TNG-styles plots, and the writing not being that great. Still, it managed to help kickstart the modern revival of Trek, and gave us (non-wheelchair) Captain Pike, so it wasn’t all bad.

And a Russian and Japanese crew member at the height of the Cold War. Not just as background, but as one of the main crew.

Don’t even need porn. Just have a wave of spambots poised and ready. There’s a non-zero chance many of the big moderation tools will break, and moderators using the site/official app could be overwhelmed, and I’d not be surprised if some spam/repost bot operators were waiting for precisely that moment, because the mods would be more limited in what they can do/use.

Reddit’s CEO outright admitted that their own app was “never profitable”, while also complaining third party’s apps were making money from the same content.

If I was an investor, I’d absolutely want a good explanation for why Reddit isn’t able to make their own app profitable, while other Reddit apps can do just that.