

Now is not the fucking time to give governments unlimited access to user data. If the UK has it, the US will have it too.
Now is not the fucking time to give governments unlimited access to user data. If the UK has it, the US will have it too.
AWS does have plenty of VPN solutions for this, but likely not with the credentials you have because they’re usually very specific. And it’s probably intentional, if they wanted to give you VPN access they’d give you VPN access.
Maybe if he had an actual platform and an actual plan that’s not based entirely on undoing what Trudeau did…
They could also just be spawning Windows VMs directly in AWS, no point doing nested virtualization for something like this. Pretty sure they have a service for doing exactly what you described. No need for a VPN, it can spawn your VM on the right network already (they call it VPC). They can even put real GPUs for AutoCAD and stuff on those things.
It’s going to depend on how the access is set up. It could be set up such that the only way into that network is via that browser thing.
You can always connect to yourself from the Windows machine and tunnel SSH over that, but it’s likely you’ll hit a firewall or possibly even a TLS MitM box.
Virtual desktops like that are usually used for security, it would be way cheaper and easier to just VPN your workstation in. Everything about this feels like a regulated or certified secure environment like payment processing/bank/government stuff.
Paste the URL in the search bar, it’ll fetch it locally on your instance and get you there. No need for link guesswork to find it on a particular instance.
This being lemmy.ca, I could see some value having a community focused on privacy and privacy laws in Canada given the others are mostly US centric. The laws are different and your rights and adversaries to protect against are all different.
A pinned post suggesting that community would make sense however!
I’m aware of that one but it’s not that active especially compared to the big reddit communities like TalesFromRetail, AITAH, MaliciousCompliance, TalesFromTechSupport, etc which is where all the good stories come out of on Reddit.
I’d say more likely just:
You’re just not gonna see a lot of tales from retail in a place dominated by chronically online people, engineers, nerds and somewhat older userbase.
No FOSS clients, nobody’s got time to reverse engineer it as it happened so fast.
As for privacy, well, it uses plain HTTP for at least all the media, so, not very private. It requests less permissions than Meta’s apps however, and only asks when the feature is needed (for example, the Nearby page requests GPS which makes sense). It does seem to like to paste my clipboard which is not very cool, no idea what it’s doing with it. I use a VPN for it.
It’s still a chinese app under the control of the CCP. Personally, I’d rather China have my data than the US, because at least for China it’s useless whereas with the current administration in the US, who knows what they do with that data.
As for the app itself, it’s pretty nice. Don’t expect free speech, but the rules also make it for a rather respectful and positive experience overall. For what it’s intended to be (share cats, recipes, makeup, and other entertainment content) it’s pretty good and a breath of fresh air compared to the non-stop political fighting on other platforms. That said it’s not as censored as some assume it is: if it’s presented tastefully you can usually get away with it. Respect and honesty gets you far on there whereas lies and aggression gets you banned. I’ve seen guns, LGBTQ, cars, religion, politics, comparing capitalism and communism. They’re talking about Elon’s nazi salute on there and all.
The massive cultural exchange going on there is quite enjoyable. People from all sorts of countries are trying out new recipes and adapting them to their local taste. Turns out mandarin isn’t so bad to learn either. Very welcoming community. Rumors are it made the chinese government consider relaxing the great firewall. The sentiment is very anti-war as people from enemy countries are building online friendships.
I approach it with caution, but I’ve been rather please with what I see.
“We’re going to be demanding respect from other nations,” Trump said.
Respect needs to be mutual. He sounds like the typical asshole uncle that always acts like they’re owed respect be have never showed any in return.
People went there days before the actual ban, but I do wonder how many more came due to those influencers. Would explain why it’s gotten kinda meh since sunday.
I wouldn’t be surprised they do, but at the same time if they do that it’s a major red flag.
I literally won a “silent but deadly” award at a company retreat of which the premise is, I’m a very quiet person but when I do speak up you better pay attention because it’s important. I hate talking so when I talk I’m not talking about my weekend, I’m talking about why we can’t do that because systems Y and Z will blow up.
For the most part, this happens because those programs check if stdout is a pseudo-terminal (pty) and automatically disable color output because if you’re doing say ls -l
and try to parse it, you’ll have all the ANSI escape sequences mixed in, so for safety and predictability they disable color.
It is unfortunately a per-program thing. It is possible to fake it using script
or unbuffer
according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/32981392
Looks like socat
can also be used for that: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/157463
Wasn’t Facebook and Twitter also parroting all this, including members of congress? Vaccine deniers were everywhere during covid, not just on TikTok.
1: is lemmy good for macro blogging? Like how you’d use something like Tumblr or the like.
Lemmy is a lot closer to Reddit, and is centered communities, not people. I think you’d have a better experience on one of the microblogging platforms for that use case.
2: when you create a community for yourself and post in it, does it reach other people or is it only if they actively search for it? Is it common here to create a community just for yourself to post blogs and the like? Can you even do that?
That’s a big “it depends” as some instances have bots to go subscribe to every community and pull it all in. Lemmy only federates content to instances that have at least one subscriber to the community, so discoverability would be a problem.
3: how does the federation thing work exactly? I’m from an instance that has downvotes disabled, so what happens when someone tries to downvote me?
You just don’t see them and they’re not counted in the score displayed to you. They’re still added up in the back end unless you post to a community with downvotes disabled, in this case then they’re discarded entirely. But since this community is on lemmy.ml and that one accepts downvotes, then they work as you’d expect. You still won’t see them on your side.
4: is lemmy safe from AI scrapping or nah? Is this platform good for artists compared to something like mastodon, twitter, or bluesky?
No, far from it. Everything is visible publicly, and when it’s public there’s little to do to stop AI scraping.
5: is there search engine crawling on lemmy? Are all posts on here possible to show up in search engines or nah? How do things work on that front?
Yes. I don’t even need to crawl Lemmy to index it, all the other instances are willingly sending it to me in real time. I have a copy of everything my instance has seen.
6: how’s development? Is lemmy going to continue to build and improve or are things gonna stay as they are for the foreseeable future?
Only the developers can comment but it seems slow but steady.
7: how privacy friendly and secure is lemmy really? I’m guessing a lot better then reddit, but just curious.
Zero, none. There is zero privacy on Lemmy because the fediverse is inherently public. I can see who voted what, I could see the entire edit history of a given post or comment, I could store all deleted posts and comments, the data is all on my server should I want to do anything with it.
So your privacy will depend solely on your OpSec: don’t share personally identifiable information or anything.
8: are there normal people or communities here? From what I’m seeing all of lemmy seems primarily focused on politics and tech, am not seeing much beyond that.
Those do drown pretty much everything else, but you can look at Lemmy Explorer and find communities you like and subscribe to them, and then browse by subscriptions. The default feed is basically a firehose of literally everything going in every community at once.
Some people also opt to just block the communities they’re not interested in such that all that’s left is interesting ones so you don’t miss anything.
7 days currently, 30 days on the previous boot. I had to open it up to install extra drives.
It has its bads and a lot of the content is worthless trash, but it’s also a really good way to see what’s going on around the world from those people’s perspectives. You see a lot of stuff that doesn’t make it to Reddit or Twitter.
It’s a lot harder to be against Ukraine when you can see the horrors minutes after a Russian strike.
The government hates it because they can’t control it. They’d rather people only see what the mainstream media says, and not the fact everyone sympathizes with Luigi.
The free speech argument is genuine, despite how much I hate the shady practices of the platform.
No, otherwise the security cameras wouldn’t record and that’s precisely the opposite of what I want when I’m out.
This is the privacy community, not the piracy one.
You might want !piracy@lemmy.ml