refalo

refalo OP , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to Privacy in Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties

People need to get this through their heads, XMPP is the only solution for their problems.

Strongly disagree and this sounds like dangerous FUD to me. For one, there's comparatively zero users across XMPP anyways, and it has a big problem with compatibility across different software packages. It also does nothing to help the problems stated in the video of massive droves of abusive content and server operators unknowingly hosting copies of it across the world. Then there's the privacy and GDPR minefields that come with any decentralized/federated service.

refalo OP , 13 days ago to Privacy in Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties

Besides the seeming "government automatically = bad" stance, I found it quite informative and I think sheds a big light on some serious problems with it (and all) federated services (not to mention the privacy/GDPR minefield that federation is) that a lot more people need to know about.

refalo OP , 13 days ago to Privacy in Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties

The problem is the evidence requires linking to channels hosting CSAM, so nobody is going to provide that for you.

refalo OP , 13 days ago to Privacy in Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties

never encountered a single instance of abuse

I encounter it literally every single day and I know many others that do too. It's so bad it makes me want to quit using Matrix altogether. You're just not in the right (wrong) rooms. The ones that happen to get left unmoderated are always taken over by bad actors, not even talking about the ones (like mentioned in the video) that were deliberately setup to harbor vile content, which is also plentiful unfortunately.

refalo OP , 13 days ago to Privacy in Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties

that doesn't make it bad

not inherently no. just like computers, the internet, gps, tor etc., all came from government/military funding

the first digital computer was even created specifically to calculate how to kill people better in the war.

refalo , 13 days ago to Privacy in Does MATRIX recipients know my IP?

https://youtu.be/W8KEuAEYjQ4

refalo , 13 days ago to Fuck Cars in Elon Musk haters vandalized dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks by spray painting "F**K ELON" on dozens of them

Tesla is synonymous with climate destruction and if you believe otherwise demonstrates that you have grossly bought into their propaganda.

refalo , 13 days ago to Memes in This has to be a joke...

now if we could just get some real mods @ lemmy.world...

refalo , 15 days ago to Privacy in Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops

I prefer hard evidence to FUD

refalo , 15 days ago to Privacy in Drones trespassing in my property

Actual airplanes must have a hell of a time abiding by that rule then.

refalo , 15 days ago to Privacy in Is there a simple way to severly impede webscraping and LLM data collection of my website?

I think that's such a small percentage of users that it doesn't really matter

refalo , 15 days ago to Privacy in Is there a simple way to severly impede webscraping and LLM data collection of my website?

headless browser print to pdf, then extract the text from pdf, can automate getting around this easily. one way to harden things might be to use the canvas to draw text that is not selectable, but then OCR can easily defeat that too.

refalo , 15 days ago to Privacy in Is there a simple way to severly impede webscraping and LLM data collection of my website?

as a user, if I saw this trying to visit a personal web page I would close the tab immediately

refalo , 15 days ago to Privacy in Is there a simple way to severly impede webscraping and LLM data collection of my website?

what scrapers actually go to such lengths? I've never heard of any.

refalo , 15 days ago to Privacy in Is there a simple way to severly impede webscraping and LLM data collection of my website?

Blocking non-Mozilla user agents has eliminated 99% of scraping in my experience. I've seen a few larger sites do it as well but not many.