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Baltimore’s subway is clearly worse.
Baltimore’s subway is clearly worse.
Is that something people were asking for?
Bofa deez nuts
It’s obviously bofa
Those circles are probably too small for normal ISM comms links, they are either radar cans or microphones is my guess. The fact that they both have two feeds makes me assume radar.
Lmao. I have been to .ml plenty. I have gotten banned for simply mentioning the time Russia shot down a civilian airliner. Twice!
This is also far from the first time .ml has been accused of manipulating the mod logs or federation database. It’s really just the first time they’ve been caught red handed, but I have definitely found a handful of my band not showing up in mod logs for whatever reason, but didn’t get a screenshot of the original log entry.
It is extremely obvious that the .ml admins run a malicious version of the Lemmy code which gives them additional levers of control. This alone makes them a serious threat to the entire fediverse.
Imagine that - a white dude who appropriates the moniker of an actual slave revolutionary as a symbol for his “cause” might be cringe and unhinged.
This is actually more evidence that the Lemmy devs run a modified version of the code which gives them the ability to, eg do things like dole out mass community bans. There is also some evidence that they selectively federate the mod log as well. It all points to the obvious conclusion that these people can and will abuse their power in any way they can.
The threat is bigger than that though. These people control the code base and can easily just start running modified code to fuck with various aspects of federation to generally keep their finger on the scale of any instance which federates with them. At best they have shown they have no shame and cannot be trusted. If there is any means of abusing their power, it must be assumed that they will embrace it.
That’s the most frustrating part. These “leftists” are the stupid kind who seem to care more about relitigating idiotic cold war drama than evolving or pushing forward leftist philosophy. It’s straight up brain rot, mixed with obvious right wing agitprop disguised as leftist ideology. That fact that anyone other than trolls, spies and teenagers would engage with it is astounding.
People are naive if they think the .ml admins and devs don’t intend to keep their thumb on the Lemmy scale. More instances need to take this threat seriously and defederate from .ml, and possibly even fork the Lemmy repos for when the devs inevitably decide they want to start building quiet exploits into the code. There are serious cyber security implications here that people are sleeping on
It would still be tedious to inspect every bit to ensure that a rogue service isn’t just tacking chunks of noise onto a legitimate data stream. I’d argue that it’s almost impossible to verify that every bit is legitimate unless you also control the host and know exactly what the traffic is supposed to look like.
This wouldn’t be conclusive since it would be pretty easy to just hide these payloads in some other traffic stream to a compromised node, which is a super common way cyberthreat command and control functions. If the user never initiates a connection to the host, the payloads just wait around so as not to generate suspicious traffic.
Obviously the threat model for advertising is a bit different, but there’s no reason someone trying to hide this functionality wouldn’t take similar steps.
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The one which lives in my attic just moved out for the summer
Pigeons are pretty dope though. They waddle around like they are part of the landscape, and it’s like “bro you can fly why are you walking?”
How can you speak of the bin chicken and not link to the song?
Y’all trying to get me banned from .ml again. I’m not falling for it.