ciferecaNinjo

joined 1 year ago
[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Wojciech Wiewiórowski was intent on calling mastodon a failure for political reasons. When pressed on the harms of public services using Twitter and Facebook, he defends them on the basis of content moderation. Of course what’s despicable about that stance is that a private sector surveillance advertiser is not who should be moderating who gets to say what to their representatives. Twitter, for example, denies access to people who do not disclose their mobile phone number to Twitter, which obviously also marginalises those who have no mobile phone subscription to begin with.

The lack of funding on the free world platforms was due to lack of engagement. When the public service does not get much engagement they react by shrinking the funding.

We need the Facebook and Twitter users to stop disengaging with gov agencies on those shitty platforms. Which obviously would not happen. Those pushover boot-licking addicts would never do that.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

i don’t see any limitations in the sidebar

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

wow.. then when I posted the above thread, it responded with “This page isn’t working” and looked like an error msg that was generated by the browser itself. So I reposted. Same thing. Then I discovered that it posted despite the error. So then I deleted the dupe.

 

I tried to upvote this comment:

https://fedia.io/m/Brussels/t/1145402/Delhaize-and-Intermarche-loyalty-more-intrusive-than-Colruyt-but-Colruyt/comment/7061005#entry-comment-7061005

Got a page that simply said “Error”. That’s it. Not internal server error or a 500 error.. just “error”. Thought it’s worth mention since it’s possibly the first time I've seen such a generic and info-deprived error msg.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the privacy policy for kbin.earth is just empty for me, on Ungoogled Chromium. I get the page title in large bold, but then an empty box below it despite enabling some foreign 3rd party JS (jwr.one).

But I must say, something like Cloudflare should not be buried in a privacy policy. It should be something that no one misses especially if Tor is whitelisted. A lot of Tor users likely rely on CF’s “just one moment..” page to know it’s a CF page (a mitm we usually want to avoid).

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the insights. I was looking for a client not a server. So maybe this can’t help me. A server somewhat hints that it would be bandwidth heavy. I’m looking to escape the stock JS web client. At the same time, I am on a very limited uplink. To give an idea, I browse web with images disabled because they would suck my quota dry.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago
 

The readme talks about docker. I’m not a docker user. I did a git clone when I was on a decent connection. ATM I’m not on a decent connection. The releases page lacks file sizes. And MS Github conceals the size:

curl -LI 'https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/archive/refs/tags/v1.31.2-fix.1.tar.gz' | grep -i 'content-length'

output:

content-length: 0

So instead of fetching the tarball of unknown size, I need to know how to build either the app or the tarball from the cloned repo. Is that documented anywhere?

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Photon is a strange beast. How do you install it?

It seems to only come as a docker container. That’s weird. I don’t have docker installed but docker should really be a choice.. not a sole means of installation. I see no deb file or tarball. It seems that it has taken a direction that makes it non-conducive to ever becoming part of the official Debian repos.

Then it seems as well that their official site “phtn.app” is a Cloudflare site -- which is a terrible sign. It shows that the devs are out of touch with digital rights, decentralisation, and privacy. That doesn’t in itself mean the app is bad but the tool is looking quite sketchy so far. Several red flags here.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks!

Apparently it’s not as reproduceable as I thought. I was just now able to render my profile before logging in.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I noticed that when I visit my profile page (https://fedia.io/u/ciferecaNinjo) while logged out, I get a 504 gateway error, but if I login then my profile page renders fine. It has been this way the past few days. If I view my profile from a logged-out browser while logged in in another browser, the logged out browser sees the profile fine. So to reproduce it would be interesting to visit anyone’s profile who is logged out.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just need to work out exactly what the effect of the user-configured node block is. In principle, if an LW user replies to either my thread or one of my comments in someone else’s thread, I would still want to see their comments and I would still want a notification. But I would want all LW-hosted threads to be hidden in timelines and search results.

On one occasion I commented in an LW-hosted thread without realising it. Then I later blocked the community that thread was in (forgetting about my past comment). Then at one point I discovered someone replied to me and I did not get the notification. That scenario should be quite rare but I wonder how it would pan out with the node-wide blocking option.

 

As the linked post demonstrates, if you enter a link like this:

[mail2tor](mail2torjgmxgexntbrmhvgluavhj7ouul5yar6ylbvjkxwqf6ixkwyd.onion)

mbin thinks it’s something else. Indeed it’s not a URL due to the lacking ‘scheme://’, but it’s bizarre what it does with the links.

Since SSL is not generally needed for onions, every link would require some effort to know whether it should have a scheme of http:// or https://. Mbin should just pick one of those schemes arbitrarily.. certainly not whatever it’s doing at the moment.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah, I see! Found it. Indeed that was not there last time I checked.

I’m on both Lemmy and mbin. I have several Lemmy accounts.

Now I need to understand the consequences of blocking lemmy.world. Is it just the same as blocking every lemmy.world community, or does it go further than that? E.g. If I post a thread and a LW user replies, I would not want to block their reply from appearing in my notifications. I just don’t want LW threads coming up in searches or appearing on timelines.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think he is talking about admins blocking instances in the settings for the whole node. AFAIK, users on Lemmy and k/mBin have no such setting.

 
 
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I tried to DM a Lemmy user. This URL was associated to the mail icon:

https://fedia.io/u/@Servais@discuss.tchncs.de/message

That gives a 403 forbidden. I use Tor but neither fedia nor discuss.tchncs.de are tor-hostile. So I doubt Tor is related.

I have to say apart from the above issue, fedia has been working smoothly lately. I’m glad the internal server errors that plagued the system have apparently been resolved AFAICT.

 

The rumor I heard was that if you buy a product that fails before the warranty ends, you do not need to contact the manufacturer (in #Belgium). You can simply return the product to the merchant and the merchant must deal with the warranty service.

A store manager refused to accept my return of a device that died after 2yrs+2 months, which was covered under a 3 year warranty. He said I must deal directly with the manufacturer. I threatened to complain officially and the manager gave in. But then as he was angrily returning money to me, he said he is only required to handle warranty service for the 1st two years and that he is making an exception for me. I figured he was confused because 2 years happens to be the length of the EU implied warranty. I had not heard that it was also a limit of the store’s obligation as an intermediary.

To complicate matters, the product was marked down on liquidation because the store apparently severed ties with that manufacturer. Though I doubt that’s relevant to my situation because it would not void the warranty. But the article also says merchants must accept returns for any reason in the first 14 days, yet the store makes that zero days for liquidated goods. Does that break EU law?

Anyway, I need answers. Maybe I owe the manager a bottle of wine. The EU article indeed confirms sellers must handle warranty returns for up to 2 years. But that’s EU-wide #law. What about #Belgian national law?

Next question, out of curiousity: normally manufacturers have a choice whether to replace, repair or refund. Is that choice passed through to merchants? Or are merchants required to handle this with one instant transaction (thus no repair as the consumer would have to return to the store later)?

 

I’m trying to access this community from fedia.io:

https://sopuli.xyz/c/french

Searching for that URL or !french@sopuli.xyz yields nothing. If I manually visit this URL:

https://fedia.io/m/french@sopuli.xyz

I get a 404.


btw, this post would be better suited in

https://fedia.io/m/Mdev@kbin.run

but when I try to post there I get:

This page isn’t workingfedia.io is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

Which makes this post herein relevant to the fedia magazine after all.

 

I’m blocking probably hundreds of mags (all mags on Cloudflare sites like lemmy.world). The results of search queries are rich in posts from blocked mags. When I visit the post the sidebar shows that indeed that mag is blocked.

Note that if I simply browse the main timeline, the blocks work as expected.

I would normally report this to the kbin bug tracker but Codeberg deleted my account and it’s hard to create a new one.

 

I tried to block a couple communities from reaching my timeline and got the 500 error. These are the URLs the browser tried to visit when clicking the “block” button:

  • https://fedia.io/m/castiron@lemmy.world/block
  • https://fedia.io/m/humor@lemmy.world/block

I’ve had no problem blocking lemmy.world communies in the past. It’s just a problem today. And today I had no problem blocking communities on other Cloudflare instances (e.g. lemmy.zip) and non-CF instance lemmy.ml.

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