And if they could do that, someone else could use the same trick to do worse things, since they're just running bare JavaScript.
techno156
joined 1 year ago
No. The existing Lemmy-Lite that was advertised on join-Lemmy.org appears to be massively out of date, and no longer actively maintained.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).
That sounds like a horrid decision. Imagine having to troubleshoot a relative's computer, which isn't working because their internet is down, or is too slow to support streaming Windows like that.
It just sounds like a nightmare all-round, both from a Microsoft Standpoint, since they would have to build all the hardware to support it, people who would have to troubleshoot an issue that might show up on either the local or networked version of Windows, but not both, and from a security standpoint, since it seems like it would make it a lot easier to just hijack the whole computer using that kind of mechanism, with the user being none the wiser, for the most part.
It's also accessible with <WinKey> + ;. Not quite sure why Windows has multiple shortcuts for the same menu, but there we are.
Unless it's using the Registry for some config values.
The regulations did exist, but the CEO/company just ignored/sidestepped them (and was quoted as complaining about them being onerous).
In fairness, that's probably more due to the novelty of the disaster, more so than whoever was actually on board.
A refugee boat sinking is a tragedy, but it's also not novel in the eyes of the media (and might be difficult to report on, depending on local laws). It happens with enough regularity that it's considered another tragedy, in much the same way that America doesn't report all their mass shootings (they tend to have one for almost every day of the year), or how the local paper usually doesn't report every robbery and homicide.
The submarine incident is a bit more like a plane crash by comparison, which is rare and novel enough that it's worth reporting on, irrespective of whoever is on board. Particularly with the other facts being dug up, which only added fuel to the fire.
There's also no centralised Lemmy site/index yet that centralises that information.
That's fine and all if you're looking for content on somewhere like lemmy.ml, or lemmy.world, but you might run into problems if you're trying to search for something that might be located on beehaw, or sh.it.just.works instead, which doesn't have the word "lemmy", and might get skipped.
You also have places like Kbin, which don't get captured in a search at all, both because they're not lemmy, and also because they don't contain the word lemmy, which doesn't help if you're trying to search something that you thought was on Lemmy, but is in fact on a Kbin magazine.
He thinks we are. I never thought about it before. Maybe in the case of some Reddit subreddits and other forums, but I don't think so in general. I've got a lot great information from forums.
I agree that we're not past the days of forums. Part of what made forums and Reddit great was that you knew that you were interacting with multiple people, and that a lot of information was filtered through some form of consensus. If the advice given was wrong, you usually had additional replies saying it was incorrect, and pointing out what was wrong, or the OP adding more information if asked/incorrect.
You can't really do that as easily with blogs and things, both because it's usually written by one person with presumably little verification (who may have unclear credentials if you're not familiar with them, or that area of work), even before the rise of AI and auto-generated SEO blogs which say nothing useful with a lot of words.
From a usability standpoint, there is also something nice about a forum, since they're usually not that terribly infested with ads, or things like algorithms designed to push content and keep people on the platform. You can just come and go as you please, although necroposting is usually frowned upon. At most, you might have some sorting that keeps the posts in chronological/activity order, but that's about it.
There's something refreshing about an old forum, where you're not bombarded with advertisements and algorithms, it's just basic forum goodness, sorted according to activity.
It's part of what makes Tumblr still rather nice to use, since it's one of the few modern social media networks that doesn't default to trying to force you into it, or clutter anything and everything with ads (yet), in spite of the site's terrible coding.
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
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.