Dodecahedron December

Spicy frisbee

Gimp works well.

Plex, running locally, on my server: “You should add a server!”

Plex, running locally, on my server: “Claim 10.0.0.10!”

Plex, running locally, on my server, after claiming my server: “You should add a server!”

This reminds me of expertsexchange

Sometimes when people put their hard work into building an app for free, they don’t also want to pay $99 a year so that some bullshit company can profit off of the app developers hard work.

iOS developers are REQUIRED to own a mac and are REQUIRED to pay apple $99 a year. That means it is more costly to develop open source for iOS or any apple product. That’s why apple is terrible.

My point still stands.

Not all of them are! I could contribute to the code base right now and I don’t have an instance.

1 contributor’s opinion and the existence of one community does not an argument make.

the devs don’t care about laws, if you want to put it so broadly, because the devs aren’t the ones who would get in trouble here, anyway. instance owners would likely catch the most trouble, especially because you can also add your own gdpr compliance if you want to.

also most devs aren’t facebook. most devs don’t really care too much about tracking users. the commercial sector on the other hand…

I’m sorry, but I think we’ve fallen victim to Poe’s Law here. Fret not, I understand the concept well, I was just cosplaying as someone who did not, laregly out of frustration for mankind’s dependency on centralized services.

But then how will I know which instance is the real one and not the impostor? What if I join an itailian instance, will I be the impasta?

I don’t even know man this shit is so confusing. I used to just comment and upvote when I saw shit I liked but now how will I know if the shit I liked came from one server or another. This is just madness we can’t keep treating people this way!

And you know the first thing devs do when they start writing code? They look up laws drafted by non technical people to ensure they are fully in compliance. The priority of lemmy all this time has been GDPR compliance, the fact that the app looks and functions similar to reddit is an afterthought.

Lemmy was created before GDPR.

Volunteers probably have not implemented GDPR and may not, or might.

The browser stores the cookies, so if it is a system browser then the system browser stores the cookies even if embedded in the app. It also means that the app isn’t likely aware of those cookies as it’s part of a separate app.

Also, generally speaking, few developers want to build their own browser. It is far easier to just ask the OS to put a browser in a space provided by the app, than to build a browser that works well to be used on the greater internet and the actual app itself. I say this because “the browser stores the cookies” so if app xyz doesn’t use a system browser then app xyz is the browser. Like, any app can ask you for your reddit username and password, store that, make HTTP calls that login with your username and password, parse the HTML it gets from reddit, and report it back to you. This is essentially how lemmy apps work at a high level with one big difference: these apps and the server are both aware of each other, which is the same sort of situation where a company like google or reddit gives API access as a sort of contract between how the apps and servers with better security and full consent of all involved.

Basically if you see reddit apps pop up which don’t use the official API, you should be wary. Doubtful they would make it onto the app stores but it’s always possible. It doesn’t mean they are nefarious, just that they could be.

The good news is it’s pretty easy to tell what you are using.

Logged into example.com somewhere on your device, then you open a freshly installed app, click a link to example.com and you are already logged in? System browser.

Logged into example.com somewhere on your device, then you open a freshly installed app, click a link to example.com and you aren’t logged in? This could be another browser if you have more than one installed on your device. So the ask… does it look and function like shit? This isn’t a great test but again, building a browser that actually renders html css and js is difficult, so it’s likely to not work or look very well if it’s something built with the purpose of stealing data specifically.

Ok so if application xyz has a browser, assuming that browser isn’t just an embedded copy of a system browser (something that I am not sure is possible with android or ios development, i am just a web dev), it won’t know your reddit cookies unless you gave it. Or, more correctly, it may save your cookies for every site you visit, but that’s just normal browser behavior. If you visit reddit, your cookies are saved but if you didn’t login the cookies just identify you as a unique but otherwise unknown user. If you login, then your cookies are saved if you load up the in-app browser again and find that you are still logged into reddit.

The only time where you could expect to be logged into reddit already via an in-app browser which you didn’t log in with previously is if that in-app browser is just an embedded system web browser where you are logged in.

I don’t know but what I do know is without sending cookies, the server won’t know it’s you. If you login to reddit on the app, cookies are saved so you can login again the next time you load the app.

You seem to be missing the point of decentralization.

This kid is a dumb pile of shit. I recommend everyone block him.

Uh no. Just implement DKIM if your messages are not being sent correctly. Spam is killing email, making admins implement more protocols such as DKIM but that isn’t “google and Microsoft killing email”

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