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Mr_Figtree

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How to make Firefox trust a self-signed certificate? (fedia.io)

I'm a web developer working on an app running in Docker on my MacBook. Chrome, Edge and Safari trust the self-signed certificate that has been imported into the Mac's root certificate store and have no security issues, but when I try and access the web app, I'm hit with "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" and the error code...

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Does the certificate have a basic constraints extension with CA:TRUE set? Firefox doesn't allow that for certificates used as ‘end entity’ certificates. You'll want to re-generate the certificate without the extension.

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Someone I know recently switched from automatic bathroom lights to manual ones. Remembering to turn them on isn't an issue, but months later everyone still forgets to turn them off.

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And .box has been registered as a generic TLD now, so you could run into external .box domains.

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They're not going to have open signups. It's government agencies only. Not that there's technically anything stopping Germans from joining the PR departments of our government agencies…

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So what you're saying is that Twitter successfully kept out a bad actor.

It's a shame that most of the users they have left are also in that category, but hey, they seem to be working on it.

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I'm using kbin Magazine Style Toggle to disable the custom styling on certain magazines, but I had to modify line 36 to make it work:

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<         let style = document.querySelector("head > style:nth-child(22)");
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>         let style = document.querySelector("head > style:nth-of-type(1)");
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That's the real AI apocalypse:

  • People outsourcing decisions to predictive text because they believe it thinks
  • AI hallucinations becoming commonly accepted as truth, as generated articles bury actual knowledge in a flood of bull droppings
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As far as I know you can't set exceptions on mobile Firefox yet. It's rather annoying.

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I don't think you even need to be in the settings. That drop down is on every page (might be harder to get to on some pages if you have infinite scrolling on).

Open source developers - have the recent moves by RedHat changed your opinion of using non-GPL licenses? (kbin.social)

The new license terms for RHEL are structured to stop subscribers from exercising their rights under the GPL. For now they are still providing source code albeit in a less convenient form, but technically they only need to do this for GPL licenses packages and they could remove code for BSD /MIT / Apache licensed packages....

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For Fedora users it changes nothing at all. Fedora is upstream from Enterprise Linux. There's no practical reason you'd want to switch to a different distribution, just maybe a personal one if you strongly dislike what Red Hat is doing to the RHEL clones.

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They do also talk about the potential to activate a latent third set of tooth buds in humans who have lost their adult teeth. They seem to have already done this in animals.

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Were these communities federating before, or is this the first time you've tried them? I got a 404 on the first one, searched for the qualified name ([email protected]), now I'm not getting a 404 anymore. Instances don't learn about communities on other instances by themselves, you need to search for them and interact with those communities for your instance to start pulling in content.

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Oops, didn't mean to delete my comment. You get a 404 for communities that no one on your instance has interacted with yet. After you search for them using the general search (not the magazine search), e.g. https://kbin.social/search?q=personalfinance%40lemmy.world , they show up on your instance, e.g. https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] .

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Yeah, that is a separate issue that I don't think is affecting lemmy.world right now because I am seeing content from there show up on the front page.

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I'm browsing /newest and seeing posts from lemmy.world. The time that OP says the magazine was created on this instance matches when I did my search. I really don't think the 0.18 thing is what OP is running into (lemmy.world is running 0.18.1-rc.7).

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In a sense. Ernest has control over kbin.social, meaning he could delete any content posted directly to kbin.social, delete accounts on kbin.social, and so on, if he wanted to. The other instance admins have that same power on their own instances. He doesn't have any control over content on other /kbin instances or on Lemmy instances that federate with kbin.social, and because /kbin itself is free software he can't fully control that either. Even if Ernest turns evil you would always be able to make a new account somewhere else, subscribe to the same non-kbin.social communities that you did before, and carry on where you left off.

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Even though you can tell that it's not quite finished yet the experience is already great. Hats off.

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The problem with using a magazine style is also that it would only work for people viewing the content in the browser, on the same instance.

Lemmy has its own spoiler syntax. Hopefully Kbin will support that at some point so that spoilers just work regardless of where you're reading from.

::: spoiler If you see a spoiler here...
You're either from the future or a Lemmy user
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A FreeRTOS derivative has gone through the effort of getting certified for safety critical applications, but that derivative is sadly proprietary. Even if FreeRTOS itself can't meet that bar, though, the work wouldn't have to start from scratch.

Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery. (kbin.social)

It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....

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Either it was edited in and that edit didn't reach your instance, or Lemmy doesn't like something about how Kbin does images. Either way, here's a direct link to the comic (you'll have seen it before, it's posted a lot).

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Kbin.social doesn't require you to log in to see content, or at least it doesn't when I try. Here's a link to the same comment on lemmy.world (I don't see the comic) and on fedia.io, a different Kbin instrance (also no comic). No idea why it's only showing up on this instance.

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I'm also getting a login page from your link (‘copy url to fediverse’ on /kbin) when logged out, but not from this one (‘copy url’ on /kbin).

Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances (kbin.social)

I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message...

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Does that actually work for you? I'm still seeing posts from magazines on domains that I blocked that way. It looks to me like it only blocks articles, and also link posts to the domain, but not link posts on magazines from the domain.

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Ad blocking works well now, though it doesn't do much to block tracking and analytics. I don't use Web much, so I can't testify to whether it feels fast, but when I put it through BrowserBench it did better than Firefox on JetStream (web application performance) and got badly beaten in MotionMark (animation and rendering performance). It does play YouTube videos now! I'd give it another go if you were interested before.

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Ad blocking works well now, though it doesn't do much to block tracking and analytics. I don't use Web much, so I can't testify to whether it feels fast, but version 44 is supposed to have some big performance improvements. When I put it through BrowserBench it did better than Firefox on JetStream (web application performance), but it got badly beaten in MotionMark (animation and rendering performance). It does play YouTube videos now! I'd give it another go if you were interested before.

Is there an easy way to tell what instance a post is from? (kbin.social)

I keep seeing posts from Lemmy or Beehaw instances, but the “from” label seems to cut off part of the full name. For example, a post “[email protected]” will just show “from Chat,” and I can’t tell it’s a Beehaw instance unless I click on it and scroll to the bottom of all of the comments to see all the information...

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Kbin enhancement script to the rescue! One of its features is showing the domain on federated posts and users.

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They've been trying them in US cities for a while too. One got a bit of media attention after telling someone using its emergency call button to ‘step out of the way’ and then wandering off humming a tune.

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