AwesomeLowlander

won’t be as good as Apple.

Depends on your criteria. For me it’s hard to get worse than them.

Norway is a bit too small to be a fallback. The EU is pretty much the last remaining major bastion of sanity.

Bacteria can eat wood and paper. That doesn’t mean they disintegrate on the shelf. Environmental conditions would still have to be right for that to happen.

peaced out before being arrested

Probably not, given the house was occupied at the time of the raid.

Wonder how Finns feel about this?

Not me who downvoted you, FYI.

To me, a vulnerability is something unforeseen, that allows bad actors to exploit the system in an unintended manner. In this case, the system is working perfectly as designed. Just because another system decided to implement a new feature without consulting anybody else, does not make it a vulnerability. Or perhaps it does, but with the vulnerability on the side of Mastodon, since they’re the ones telling their users their post is private when it is actually nothing of the sort.

What would I call it? An unsupported feature. One that Mastodon forced everybody else to implement without asking or any respect.

Please submit your bid to purchase the property colloquially known as the US to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

I’m not sure you can make that conclusion. This isn’t a real vulnerability, and this isn’t a surprise to anybody who knows how the AP protocol works. Dansup didn’t reveal anything that was previously unknown, the blog author just has an axe to grind. It’s unfair to assume that an actual 0 day vulnerability would have been treated the same way.

more people will know and exploit the vulnerability

It’s not even a vulnerability, it’s how AP works by design, is the issue at hand here. Mastodon decided they wanted to implement something not supported by AP, and everybody else had to take the heat for not ‘doing it right’.

To keep it secure from the servers themself would require users to handle the encryption. See PGP for an idea of how much uptake that’s likely to get. If you mean for the servers to handle the encryption, that’s already the case, and the issue right now is that servers are privy to what users do, and by nature are a 3rd party in the convo.

Shh, this is the Internet, we don’t do nuance here.

What is the suggestion, then? Assuming a colony does ever get established, it’s impractical and naive to expect those who now live there to never demand land rights. The author makes good points but fails to discuss any potential solutions other than ‘stay earthbound’.

That letter and colour scheme just has me thinking Luigi.

Defaulting to not federating is what the major email providers currently do, and is why email has now become a centralised service that you cannot practically self host.

The ones who would leave, have left and been replaced. Just like any other user.

“Users who in the past would type ‘free online file converter’ into a search engine are vulnerable, as the algorithms used for results now often include paid results, which might be scams.”

Mm hmm.

Yes, the problem lies in companies marketing it as more than that, hence the company being sued right now

Just the tip, I promise

Why do you assume everybody would know the value of a random knick knack they have lying around?

I do basically that for free. Like others said, join a club!