Hazelnoot [she/her]

I hope you didn’t literally use XOR

It’s XOR(key, block) with IV and chaining: https://github.com/RommieEcho/qrcatalyst-open/blob/main/src/routes/anon/XORCipher.js

Since it’s chained at the byte level, you can strip it out by just XORing each byte against all following bytes. Then the IV can be XORed out of the first block, at which point you have just a series of XOR(key, plaintext) blocks that can be attacked with conventional methods.

I discontinued my own evaluation and asked the doctor to purge my records. It sucks to lose all that progress - especially after waiting decades for it, but I just can’t take the risk right now. At least he was understanding and didn’t object to deleting my file.

Disclaimer: I administrate multiple Sharkey instances and am one of the project maintainers, so I’m likely quite biased. Please take my opinions with a grain of salt!

1. I’ve used Mastodon, Akkoma, and various Misskey forks (Calckey, FireFish, and now Sharkey). The former felt very much like a corporate platform, complete with the “polished feel” you’d expect. Someone unfamiliar could easily mistake it for Twitter. Akkoma is quite the opposite - it feels like an indie software hosting forgotten subcultures in a quiet corner of the internet. Misskey-based software is somewhere in the middle, and feels more like an MMO than a social network sometimes.
2. Mastodon moderation is clearly geared towards structured and (semi-)professional moderation teams. The mod tooling supports coordination between multiple moderators and records detailed audit logs for quick catch-up on a particular user’s history of staff interactions. Akkoma, again, feels like moderating a classic PHP forum backend. The tooling options are either high-level and barebones, or low-level but extremely powerful. Misskey forks vary, a lot. Vanilla Misskey has relatively poor moderation support, and is clearly meant for communities with a fairly “hands-off” approach. Calckey/FireFish improve this somewhat, and Sharkey has put moderation as a key focus with support for granular restrictions beyond just “silence or suspend”. Community wise, I feel that Mastodon users tend to over-report, and Mastodon admins under-moderate. Akkoma users rarely report anything, but admins set up intricate MRF rules to enforce detailed restrictions and limits. Misskey users report about as much as Mastodon users, while admins often over-moderate and jump directly to instance-level restrictions in response to minor user-level issues.
3. I do, at least in general. The quality of moderation on fedi is a mixed bag. A few instances do very well, some do well enough, and many more just moderate the bare minimum or not at all. I regularly see users complain of harassment from sources that have been known for years. No qualified moderation team should allow federation with poa.st, for example, and yet many do. But Beehaw’s staff have shown a commitment to their roles, and the community has consistently backed them up with reliable reporting and a solid effort to maintain the community health. I think our people could do very well in the larger fediverse space.

here’s an archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20250118011532/http://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/intersex-health-equity-report.pdf

Isn’t that a classic corporate raid technique? Sell the company’s assets to you or an organization you control, then lease them back to the original owners.

This isn’t just about teens - the article shows that every age under 45 is less happy, and - excluding a brief bump in the late 20s - people just keep getting unhappy as they get older. There’s no “it gets better” age to look forward to.

oh so it would just be app-based MFA but without using TOTP. That makes sense

I’m confused about how this is supposed to act as a second authentication factor 🤔

I see, thank you for explaining!

what’s the concern with channel blockers? /genq

Seeing this right next to the thread about TikTok being banned in the US…

Just renewed my library card, and apparently it’s been 17 years since I last used it. The staff did a double-take when she read the date 😅

I never learned it, even though all my classmates did (2000s) 😅

what

same, I was ready for this to be some transphobic thing and was pleasantly surprised!

It would be a different beast if the school didn’t allow you access coursework on a personal machine without installing their bullshit, thats a huge issue.

That’s exactly how it works at many places. Students can only use a personal device if it’s enrolled in the school’s MDM, which grants them just as much control.

Anything except the 2nd to last one, which is, unfortunately, mandated by my employer’s internal code style guidelines. 🫠

TIL that pluralistic.net is blocked on Facebook, and any links to it are automatically removed as “farming engagement”

That’s not entirely true. Practice is important, but homework actually has a negative impact on learning: https://hachyderm.io/@Impossible_PhD/112969358305278574

This may sound like a mess to you. But it was remarkably enjoyable to work in. Gone were the concerns of code duplication. Gone were the concerns of consistency. Gone were the concerns of extensibility. Code was written to serve a use, to touch as little of the area around it as possible, and to be easily replaceable. Our code was decoupled, because coupling it was simply harder.

Incredible