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Oh neat, I’d never thought of that before. Woulda been handy back last time I was working on a PWA!

200 OK (from service worker)

So yeah, getting it from the cache.

If you’re on linux

I’m not, but I do have WSL installed. It returned “Can’t find pathfinder.social: No answer”

Out of interest, I tried the same command in Microsoft PowerShell, I get:

Server:  dns9.quad9.net
Address:  9.9.9.9

Name:    pathfinder.social

That’s the full output. No actual list of returned addresses.

I’m guessing my system just has pathfinder.social cached.

I’m actually not really clear on what the status of that instance is. Like, for me, when I browse to https://pathfinder.social, I actually see what looks like an empty Lemmy instance running 0.18.2. Some communities show the same for me, while others show a generic error message. So I don’t know whether it’s running in some failed state due to caching, or deregistered, or what.

Yes, that’s the full domain. It used to host communities such as [email protected]. Unfortunately it’s been dead for 9–10 months now.

Out of interest, is pathfinder.social among those snatched up by these?

I didn’t know this problem existed, but now I’m incensed by it.

As far as I’m aware the most widely-accepted standard for responsible disclosure is 90 days. This is a little different, since that’s normally between businesses and includes the time needed to develop a solution; it’s not typically aimed at federated or self-hosted applications rolling out an already-created patch. On the one hand, granting them that extra time to upgrade seems reasonable. On the other, wouldn’t anyone wanting to exploit a vulnerability be able to reverse-engineer it pretty easily by reading the git history?

I dunno where I land on this, tbh.

Because it kinda harkens back to old school blogs, where each person had their own personal blog that they managed themselves, but they would often be part of a community of like-minded blogs which would link through to each other.

I suspect this is unlikely to take off with Fediverse enthusiasts unless they open source it, or at least have some way people can self-host it and make a micro blogiverse.

It looks like they had plans to do that at one point. Unclear whether they still plan to do it. Tumblr and blogging honestly seem like the most natural fit for federation. More natural even than Twitter or Reddit. It’d be great to see them do that.

I think there may be an issue with your instance, because my comment is now showing up on starktrek.website, lemmy.world, etc.

Shortly after my instance upgraded, things seemed not to be federating correctly, but now, everything seems to be working. I suspect that was because the wokers were going through a big backlog of posts & comments that had accumulated in the lengthy time federation was not working. But now, everything seems to be working as expected between my instance and the other larger instances.

I can’t speak for others, but I still seem to be experiencing issues with federation. I’ve got a comment in here that isn’t showing up on other instances.

I guess I should count myself lucky that I still have no idea what this means?

I’m a cat person, anyway.

If you include podcasts, which are delivered via RSS by definition, undoubtedly RSS is more popular than ever.

It’s a little disingenuous to do that though, so in this context we probably shouldn’t count it.

Or use multiple accounts on different instances that represent your different interests. Like maybe you have a “news & shitposting” account, and another “programming and piracy” one, etc. And ensure each account is on an instance that supports the necessary federations to support that.

Just go to {{instanceurl}}/instances. Scroll to the bottom for the defederated instances.

I’ve encountered this in two places. One was way back in the day on Runescape where they shuffled the keys after every press. The other was much more recently with a bank that had them shuffled randomly on page load, but not moving between key presses. Annoyingly, this bank allowed only logging on to their web service via a 4-digit PIN—not any sort of real password/passphrase.

It used your existing phone number as your identifier

Wait, people think of that as an advantage? For me, that has always been the reason I have refused to use it. It’s also why I never even tried Google’s Allo despite being a big fan. A chat application that isn’t using the phone network shouldn’t be tied to your phone number. It makes cross-platform support extremely awkward, and that’s noticeable in how poor What’s App still is for cross-platform use.

Yeah that’s why things are so bad at Twitter. Musk’s other companies have that team in place and a culture that can onboard new people in how to work in managing Elon. Twitter didn’t have any of that social infrastructure in place, so it wasn’t able to withstand his onslaught.

Damn if that’s the amounts they’re actually talking about, I don’t know how much I would care as an employee.

My former employer introduced stock options last year in an effort to entice people into staying. This in the middle of multiple rounds of layoffs, real-wage paycuts, a 100% return-to-office mandate, and other shitty behaviours that had morale at an all-time low. That “incentive” to stick around amounted to…about $2k. Maturing after 2 years. Suffice it to say, that was not sufficient to get people to stick around, and by the time I left over 50% of the years of experience in my department had already left.

Knowing Google, they likely had all that infrastructure duplicated, not reused between GCP and Google Domains.