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blaise , to nostupidquestions in Why do some pictures I post get rotated?

I made a post yesterday about this: https://lemmy.world/post/1065037

The TLDR is that your apps are not showing the real rotation of the image. Get an image editor app to fix them before submitting.

cnhguy , to nostupidquestions in Why do some pictures I post get rotated?

Someone else mentioned in a different post that lemmy removes the metadata from photos as a privacy feature, which might be causing this

Mirodir ,

That’s gotta be it. You can tell images to be displayed rotated instead of actually rotating them through metadata (EXIF flags). That’s for example also how Windows does (or at least did) rotate images when you clicked on the 90° rotation button.

I remember having issues with this before when later loading those images through some code.

crankin , to cat in My bonded pair ❤️

Cool patio chair, can I ask where you got that?

Miqo OP ,

Thanks! I’m not sure, because it was a gift. I’ll check to see if the brand is written on it when it stops raining!

aaaa , to fediverse in Announcing OpenLemmyStats.org: Publicly Queryable Vote History + Other Hidden Data for Any Lemmy User!

I appreciate the illustration (and even warning) here. I predict things like this will just lead to more people having throwaway accounts. Now instead of just having throwaway accounts for posting shameful stories, you’ll also find people with their “commenting” accounts separate from their “voting” accounts.

The more I see kbin users calling people out for downvoting them, the faster I expect the votes to just become gamed instead of natural. Anything that’s used to draw attention to the way people vote will make this worse.

We’re in the early stages, but as soon as we start seeing communities that ban users based on their voting records, people will just find other ways to obscure things, which will make it even harder for instance admins to address massive misuse of the voting system.

booty_flexx OP ,

I definitely expect a drawn out game of whack a mole as lemmy devs, instance admins and key contributors start seeing stuff like this pop up, and they develop tools or tech to mitigate abuse, until another exploit is found by bad actors, rinse and repeat.

Some say it’s an inherent flaw with federation/activitypub but I expect/hope it progresses the way other vulnerable tech has.

For example, in the early days of wifi it was pretty trivial to packet sniff (a practice that lets you peer into other folks network activity). Now most sites encrypt their transmitted data and while the packets could be sniffed over an unsecured network, the data within stays safe because it’s encrypted (assuming most sites that deal with sensitive data now encrypt, which in my experience, they do)

Furthermore WIFI as a technology has gone through many iterations, each one bringing with it better and stronger security, to the point where average Joe can setup a secure home network by following the quick start guide included with their router, which these days is essentially plug in, power on, choose a password, and authenticate with your devices.

I expect activitypub and fedi tech to develop in the same way: releasing patches and updates and ammending the standard to combat/mitigate abuse of an open federated platform., it’s gonna take time though.

Edit: typos

aaaa ,

I think the biggest concern is getting all participating instances to agree on how to handle the issue.

We’ll start to see more fragmentation of the Fediverse as different instance owners have different views on what should be done. But many of the measures to fight this will only work if all participating instances do the same, whether actively, or by using a new version of the federation standard. Some instances may think the way is to be more transparent, while others may think the way is to obscure the votes more. Now you’ll have the “transparent” fediverse and the “obscure” fediverse with fundamental disagreements with each other on the way things work.

It’s interesting times ahead. Personally, I don’t think federation is the simple answer to all our social media woes like some folks around seem to think. There’s a lot that needs to be addressed, which will be uncovered as more companies like Meta try to get in on it.

booty_flexx OP ,

biggest concern is getting all participating instances to agree

I see what you mean, that is true if the responsibility ultimately ends up falling on instance owners.

Which is why I’m hoping that the developments instead occur on the Lemmy project itself and other fediverse project code bases. Lemmy devs and contributors will hopefully work on privacy and security as the Lemmy project matures. If instance admins are keeping their instances mostly up to date, there is virtually no (dis)agreement to be had: the mitigation patches will be loaded on the next update.

Of course, anyone can fork lemmy or manually remove these changes from their instance, or some admins may simply refuse to update, but that would reflect badly and privacy minded users may choose move to another instance that has updated to the latest/most secure version of Lemmy and other instance owners can also choose to defederate from instances that leave themselves vulnerable to issues that have been patched out.

autumn , to youshouldknow in YSK: Threads soon joining the fediverse.

I’m also concerned about the potential for embrace/extend/extinguish, but searching for other fediverse users and posts is enough of a hurdle that threads might end up naturally staying a fairly separate instance.

eee ,

Honestly I don’t think the fediverse is big enough for zuck to consider it a threat.

evirac , to programmerhumor in Wirth's law

Can you call it a programming meme? Looks more like a gaming meme

Spzi ,

Game programmers, yes. Programmers who happen to work on games. Further, the highlighted idea is not restricted to games.

jecxjo , to programmerhumor in Wirth's law
@jecxjo@midwest.social avatar

It is quite interesting how games came out in the past that never got updates. Now you install a game and the first thing it does is downloads updates for a day before you can play.

Kalothar ,

Games are far larger and much more complex, its hard to plan for what goes wrong in production for these games.

jecxjo ,
@jecxjo@midwest.social avatar

Oh I get that. Just noticed that developers I work with today rather than the ones I worked with 20+ years ago have a very different understanding of development.

corbs132 , to pics in Life, uh, finds a way...

I wonder how / what the mama bird used to get the nest to stick there, cool shot!

Exatron ,

Probably spiderweb

thisbenzingring ,

Hummingbirds use spiderweb to make their nests. I don’t think there’s hummingbirds in Nepal but just a fun fact

zout ,

More likely spit.

InLikeClint ,
@InLikeClint@kbin.social avatar

Spit is great for lube, plus it's free!

Pirtatogna , to programmerhumor in Wirth's law

In the eighties we dealt with a few kilobytes, only dreaming about megabytes…

Rozauhtuno ,
@Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

“Cool, what’s a kilobyte?” - Rockstar before filling your hard drive

glibg10b , to pics in I took a picture of a cool door I saw.

Be mindful of reflections when taking high-res photos

unphazed ,

Zoom in… ah. I see. Little blur tool needed maybe.

magnolia_mayhem ,

Wait… What that? Zoom! Enhance!

WigglingWalrus , to piracy in preach

How does that work though if you rent a car? You don’t own it, but still stealing if you “steal” it.

atlasraven31 ,

You’re preventing its use by someone else (assuming you bring it back in one piece).

stappern ,

how does everybody misses this very crucial point???

atlasraven31 ,

Piracy is like a digital photocopier to an NFT

donut4ever ,
@donut4ever@lemmy.world avatar

I can’t believe we are actually talking about this. There is a difference between owning and renting. I’m financing my car, I’m paying to own it. After the payments are done, it’s 100% my car. Movies say “purchase” and literally outright don’t let you download and own a copy of the movie that you just paid full price for. I remember trying to purchase a TV show on YouTube and it stated that it’ll “expire” after two years of time of purchase. Bitch, you’re asking me to pay $100 for this shit. They have option to “rent” and to “purchase” and the expiration is on both, except one expires in 24 hours and the other in 2 years. Fuck that

WigglingWalrus ,

Seems I hit a nerve. I don’t disagree with what you’ve put. The biggest issue here is the fact they say purchase rather than rent. I’d much rather I purchase a movie and own it but that’s not the business model they offer. In reality, if the continue with their current model they should rename it.

donut4ever ,
@donut4ever@lemmy.world avatar

Right, but they won’t change the name, because they know your average Joe would just walk away from it, so they just keep it sketchy and keep fucking people over.

Drewfro66 , to nostupidquestions in Why do some pictures I post get rotated?
@Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml avatar

When you rotate an image in your phone or on your computer (by right-clicking or going into the image options and selecting “Rotate Right” or w/e), the device is not editing the image to rotate it 90 degrees. It’s just adding a little metadata tag that tells devices loading the image “display this, but rotate it 90 degrees”.

Lemmy scrapes off metadata as a privacy concern, since this also holds personal and location data. There have been a few medium-profile events of internet stalkers getting location data off of women’s selfies and going straight to their homes.

I’m not sure if there’s a simpler solution, but opening the image in an image editor and saving it again should remove the metadata tag and save it as an actual, upright image. However, this is a problem that the devs should fix - platforms like Discord also shave off metadata, but know enough to leave the orientation data intact.

_HR_ ,

When you rotate an image in your phone or on your computer (by right-clicking or going into the image options and selecting “Rotate Right” or w/e), the device is not editing the image to rotate it 90 degrees. It’s just adding a little metadata tag that tells devices loading the image “display this, but rotate it 90 degrees”.

That depends on the software you’re using. Some edit metadata, some rotate the image itself.

vita_man OP ,
@vita_man@lemmy.world avatar

That makes sense, thank you

authorinthedark , to memes in lol goteem

yeet

narshee , to piracy in preach
@narshee@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

This is inaccurate. You are not buying it (the media), you are buying the right to stream it (as long as the seller provides the media as a stream). You don’t “buy” a movie unless you are paying for it’s ownership, which would be millions of dollars. For physical releases you buy the disk and the right to watch it under certain conditions (DRM). And you generally don’t have a right be able to “buy” or have access to all media.

But all that doesn’t automaticly make it amoral. this comment is gonna be downvoted to hell

edit: There are probably gonna be more responces, so this will address everything else I have to say. What I wrote is how things are legally, more or less. I don’t like that either. I do consider piracy stealing (under current laws) and morally right. Stealing is just not that great term for digital stuff. Please don’t try to (uselessly) sway me and don’t infight

Melkor ,

That’s kind of their point, because we are not in fact buying the media the argument is that piracy has some moral element. Put another way there is no option to own it outside of piracy.

Quetzacoatl ,

this meme is a criticism of that. it shouldn’t be like that. if I buy a chair, I own the chair. I can then choose to sit on it, burn it, or give it to my neighbor, whatever. if I buy a movie, it’s suddenly not like that – but not because of some inherent quality that would make it impossible, but only because they say it is like that. but they have one weakness: it’s only like that if we actually stick to those rules. they’re all arbitrary anyway! we can therefore treat a bought movie just as it should be: a physical copy that we actually own. we can then decide to watch it, to lend it to our neighbor, to play it for everybody to see on the street, to cut it and remix it and do something new with it. will they come and claim we’ve “pirated” their media? yes of course, but this is nonsensical, dead law, that has to be broken again and again by just – ignoring it, and making it not so. if I buy a movie, I do own the movie, and the company that says otherwise can get fucked. that’s what this is about.

Kissaki ,

For physical releases you buy the disk and the right to watch it under certain conditions (DRM).

I’d like to point out German law (maybe this expands to EU and other countries) with traditional media.

Traditionally you bought movies and music on physical discs. You had a guaranteed right to be able to sell it to other people, as well as make personal copies of it for private use/backups.

DRM has always tried to oppose this right. And obviously, in the last decade(s) a lot went into service-oriented streaming and temporary access instead of owning even on a partial or theoretical level.

Mango ,

If I’ve bought the right to play the game, what’s “the game” that I’m entitled to if they decide to take away what makes it the thing I agreed to have access to?

FactorSD ,

There are lots of cars you can’t get parts for dude.

Mango ,

There aren’t literally any cars that I can’t get parts for.

Ashelyn , to programmerhumor in Wirth's law

Limitations inspire creative solutions

azkedar ,

Part of why Pico-8 projects are so cool!

DayInProgress ,

Don’t let the government know about this

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