TORFdot0

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to fediverse in Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed”

I am not in favor of transitive property defederation either but Meta will make similar demands if they are allowed to be an influencer in the fedi as well. I’d rather that everyone just decides to defederate threads independently

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to fediverse in What's your take on Bluesky?

It’s federated but not really decentralized. I don’t know if it’s planned down the road to be interoperable with servers that don’t rely on its master server for identity or not.

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to fediverse in What are some ways you think discoverability might be improved across federated platforms?

Can we get the ability to browse another instances local feed while signed in to our home instance? Feel like it would be better to discover smaller communities that way

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to fediverse in Are you seeing a massive uptick in pro meta propaganda as well?

Wasn’t that @PoppinKREAM?

He was here around the API debacle, don’t know if that’s his actual account or whether he’s still active here

TORFdot0 OP , 3 months ago to retrogaming in [Link's Awakening]Another Zelda game down!

I haven’t played the switch version so I have no idea how it compares. From what I’ve seen it plays pretty close to the original

TORFdot0 OP , 3 months ago to retrogaming in [Link's Awakening]Another Zelda game down!

I was actually left feeling like Link was something of the villain of Link’s Awakening. The monsters are only fighting for their own survival because they know everyone will cease their existence if Link wakes the Wind Fish. The bitter sweet ending as Link remembers the villagers before the dream fades away.

The game sets up Marin as such a sweet character with a sweet relationship to Link and ambitions to leave the island. It is saddening knowing she fades away at the end of the game.

I choose to interpret the fact that Marin and Tarin completely go missing after she leaves Animal Village signifies that maybe the dream is falling apart toward the end of the game and that they were never “real” in the first place.

Despite being “illusions”, dreams and the memories of them feelings can still have impact and evoke emotions from us. The ending hits me the same way a dream of seeing a long lost loved one again does or the way a dream of an sweet experience of someone who never even existed does.

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to retrogaming in i wanna get into retro gaming but keep getting losing interest

Maybe try playing using emulators on your phone? It’s one thing trying to get motivation to sit in front of a tv or computer to game, while it’s much easier to just give a few minutes here or there.

I really like using a telescoping controller with my phone to play retro games personally.

TORFdot0 OP , 3 months ago to retrogaming in [Link's Awakening]Another Zelda game down!

I’d love if you all would leave a hint or a message on the map I created, if you have the time. I think it’d be something really cool to share with new players, and it would make the hours I spent taking screenshots trying to figure out were Marin was feel less wasted (I was convinced she had something to do with the flying rooster)

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to aboringdystopia in Dead Internet Theory is Correct in More Ways Than One

Yeah time for OP to go to horny jail

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to technology in Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal

Certainly they weren’t planning on actually planning on finding a way to get people to install a VPN to decrypt their traffic just to use Facebook, right?

That’s why they paid teenagers to use the VPN so they could get some “guerrilla market research”.

Even in 2013 apps didn’t have the permission access to install a device level VPN without some unspecified exploit. 0 chance Facebook would literally hack people’s phones, right?

Right?

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to fediverse in What Meta-corp can give the fediverse: Money

I appreciate your perspective but will have to respectfully disagree.

My position has evolved as I’ve spent more time as a user in the fediverse and federated protocols such as ActivityPub. The fediverse needs to stay purpose-driven, and not profit-driven. I just don’t see how a for-profit entity can be good stewards of the protocol, their priorities cannot begin or end with anything but return on investment. Even if they were to provide some seed money to other fediverse projects. If their users never migrate to not-for-profit providers, if they never fully federate the other direction, if they fork AP instead of sticking to spec; have we gained anything by federating with them?

Sure seems like by federating with Meta, we just are allowing them to co-opt AP as their version of Bluesky’s ATProto. Those of us on AP that aren’t on threads just become the “data privacy zealots” that aren’t @threads.net and are fenced off from the rest of the network by default. Not unlike the people running their own PDS on bluesky. Federated but not decentralized, isn’t the mission of the fediverse IMO.

But this still begs the opposite question, have we gained anything by de-federating with threads? I sure hope my ideals of a not-for-profit social web, are not as pie-in-the-sky as they seem.

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to fediverse in Does Reddit shadowban mentions of Lemmy?

I have totally deleted all my Reddit contributions (still squatting on the username) and so I can’t really answer whether mentioning lemmy gets your comment shadow banned. We don’t really need more redditors, just need to wait for the first scandal and people will start googling “Reddit” alternatives (which ironically are all Reddit threads) and Lemmy is at the top of most of those lists. People should come here organically

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to technology in Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

As I understand it, all DMPs of this type are subject to the vulnerability and so intel (and the newest m3) selectively disable it during cryptographic operations

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to fediverse in FediForum Showcases New Fediverse Apps and Developer Network - The New Stack

“Mastodon” is essentially a front end application for ActivityPub. Nobody controls “Mastodon” other than the developers who can’t control who federates from whom.

“Deleting Mastodon” isn’t going to help you, instead see if your instance is a member of Fedipact. If your instance shows in the list as blocked or limited, then you are fine

TORFdot0 , 3 months ago to technology in How People Are Really Using GenAI

That’s a really good use case that I will need to start using. In a use case such as that where paid ads make the search engines unreliable, the LLM is at least going to be on the same footing if not better.