Well, I’m glad I wasn’t crazy then. :)

Because you mentioned it might be a bug, I want to see if I am doing this correctly: https://media.piefed.zip/posts/5H/Ae/5HAe01shxjOXnop.png

It says pending, and I remember this was one of the issues when I had bot fight mode on in cloudflare and the following of user profiles wouldn’t work in /world.

Is this the similar to the same issue?

Is this how I would correctly be adding an incoming community to a “similar Communities” section?

Adult Swim‘s adult animated comedy Smiling Friends is coming to an end. Series creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel made the announcement in an audio message on Adult Swim’s X account.

Along with the bad news, there was some good one. While the eight-episode Season 3 of Smiling Friends ended its Adult Swim run on Nov. 30, fans have not seen the last of it. Cusack and Hadel unveiled that two extra episodes will be released on April 12 but made it clear that that they are “little stragglers, little rogue planets out there, not thematically related” and not conceived as a series finale, leaving the door open to revisit the series in the future with new episodes

My Boys.

I absolutely loved Smiling Friends! It was just the right amount of chaos and deadpan humour. Pretty sad there won’t be more but I get it, good luck on the next series!

I think generally Adult Swim suits are pretty good about being hands off for their shows, unless something’s changed in the last few years lol

I’ve just found out the flashing lights in my left eye won’t ever go away again.

Woo, aging and having terrible eyesight.

A tiny woman who often asks if the black belts are letting her throw them (yes, we’re being useful for learning) had just enough of the basics to start giving her more complicated details that make a big difference. It was really enjoyable seeing how much fun she was having when she felt effective.

I’ve also been sleeping so much better the past few nights. I got some bone conduction headphones so I can listen to something while sleeping without disturbing my partner or my ears getting funky from being closed off. It helps with masking her snoring and keeps my brain from being bored and seeking stimulation if I wake up in the night. They’re slightly uncomfortable and the volume doesn’t go as quiet as I’d like, but I’ll deal with that for the upsides.

Hi, new to the fediverse, mainly looking at Lemmy and mastodon right now through mbin, liking it very much.

I’m a Japanese language learner, currently at N3 and wanted to look at some fediverse content in that language. Keep hearing about misskey, but registration is limited from outside of Japan? I’m going over there next month, does that mean I could open an account while I’m there?

Also a bit confused about how it works, when browsing as a guest everything seems to scroll at lightning speed, how is one supposed to use it?

But if you follow enough users, won’t you start getting quite a good amount of that? Plus, you can probably just browse the local of some Misskey instance and then, if you want to comment or upvote, open it from within your own instance? It won’t be perfect, but I would imagine it will do the job just fine for a student.

One thing that I forgot: Misskey has feature of instance-only post, which means a lot of people post won’t federate.

Important progress has been made regarding bringing MLS end-to-end encryption to the ActivityPub protocol, with developers already building implementations and providing feedback to a future version of the protocol spec.

nothing per se, depends on implementation

TLDR: an e2ee channel means “everything passing over this channel is super secure and private, but it needs some keys for this to work”. e2ee means something: you can not care about most issues with delivery and protection and such, but you need to care about the keys. if you don’t do that, you are probably ruining the security of such e2ee channel

end-to-end-encryption solves one issue: transport over untrusted middleware, doesn’t mean much by itself. it’s being flung around a lot because without proper understanding sounds secure and private.

it’s like saying that i ship you something valuable with a super strong and impenetrable safe. but what do i do with the key? e2ee is the safe, solves the “how can i send you something confidential when i dont trust those who deliver it”, and it means much! it’s a great way to do it.

but it solves one problem giving a new one: what to do with the key? this usually can be combined with other technologies, such as asymmetric encryption (e.g. RSA), which allows having keys which can be publicly shared without compromising anything. so i send you an impenetrable code-protected safe with an encrypted code attached, and only your privkey can decrypt the code since i used your pubkey!

(note: RSA is used for small data since encryption/decryption is cpu intensive. usually what happens is that you share an AES key encrypted with RSA, and the payload is encrypted using that AES key. AES is symmetric: one key encrypts and decrypts, but AES keys are small. another piece of technology attached to make this system work!)

but now comes the user-friendliness issue: very few are big enough nerds to handle their keys. hell, most folks don’t even want to handle their passwords! so services like matrix offer to hold your keys on the server, encrypted with another passphrase, so that you don’t need to bother doing that, just remember 2 passwords or do the emoji compare stuff. it’s meh: compromising the server could allow getting your keys and kinda spoils e2ee, but it’s convenient and reasonably secure.

what does whatsapp do? i don’t know! but it kind of magically works. if they do e2ee, where are the keys???? how does meta handle reports if messages are e2ee???????

also, e2ee works if you can trust the key you’re sending to! as mentioned in the ‘activitypub keys’ section before, if you ask a middleman the key for your recipient, can you trust that’s the real key? e2ee doesn’t cover that, it’s not in its scope

so what does e2ee mean? it means: super strong channel, ASSUMING keys are safe and trusted. e2ee as a technology doesn’t solve “all privacy” or guarantee that nobody snoops in per se. it offers a super safe channel protected by keys, and lets you handle those keys how you more see fit. which meaning deciding who you trust to send, how you let others know how to encrypt for you (aka share your pubkey) and how you will keep your privkey safe.

And I’m sure if your ISP kicked you, that would still work…

Let’s take a moment to look at what’s going right. What’s made you laugh or smile recently? No matter how big or small it is, we want to hear about it!

Remind me of #asstodon which of course is for posting donkeys on the fediverse.

I smiled looking in the mirror at my reflection. I used to think I was ugly as a teenager. I think I look cute now. At least I know my looks aren’t the reason I’m alone.

Just noticed that Stackoverflow has a new front end in Beta. I do not like it, however I slowly begin to fear im just another boomer. :( What do people on here think about it?

I think the beta looks just like any other weekend project with cookie cutter elements. There is nothing to differentiate it from other sites that are made after 2020. Current design is also way more concise Im not sure when we started using the whole widescreen for a website. Sure wasted screen estate is unfortunate but long mouse travel times are also uncool.

in my ongoing quest to figure out how to add garlic to every meal

my garlic bagel has figured out how to properly complement my coffee (yes on its own). they are both bitter. they both are delicious. they both go well with hatred.

i knew breakfast was going to be my largest hurdle before dessert (no a tub of toum does not count as dessert we are civilized. we need two tubs).

you’re preaching to the choir here. i like to make my own vinaigrettes too

I was about to say, I think your secret recipe is a vinaigrette. I don’t use garlic powder in mine, but I might try it.

I sometimes substitute melted butter for the olive oil, and stir a teaspoon of sugar into it.