

See post edit. I’ve already answered that twice.
I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.
Ask me anything.
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks
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See post edit. I’ve already answered that twice.
If they expected you to read the install script, they’d tell you to download and run it. It’s presented here for lazy people in a “trust me, bro, nothing could ever go wrong” form.
There are SHA256 checksums of each binary file available in each release on Github. You can confirm the binary was not tampered with by comparing a locally computed checksum to the value in the release’s checksums file.
Binaries can also be signed (not that signing keys have never leaked, but it’s still one step in the chain of trust)
The install script is not hosted on Github. A misconfigured / compromised server can allow a bad actor to tamper with the install script that gets piped directly into your shell. The domain could also lapse and be re-registered by a bad actor to point to a malicious script. Really, there’s lots of things that can go wrong with that.
The point is that it is bad practice to just pipe a script to be directly executed in your shell. Developers should not normalize that bad practice
I mean, how about:
~/.local/bin
Oh, we can do that too, at least to varying degrees. Depends on the bank and what services they offer.
My bank will at least do what’s called “Bill Pay”. It’s (mostly) the equivalent of me telling the bank to write and mail a check to a company on my behalf. I don’t currently have that setup, but it is something I’m looking into. It’s been available for a long time, but years and years ago when I looked into it, only certain companies/utilities were supported by my bank.
It’s not like they are a secret.
They’re also not public info, either. Typically they’re combined with name, address, etc for fraud protection, but those details are even easier to acquire than account numbers. The routing numbers are public information, though. In the result of a data breach, a bad actor has everything they need.
What are any potential hackers going to to with my bank account numbers?
Just about anything they want since they’ll likely have your personal details too. When adding a bank account to any of my utility payment accounts, there is no verification whatsoever; enter details, authorize payment.
I don’t use CashApp and the like, but in the past, PayPal would deposit a few cents into the account, and you had to verify ownership of the account by entering those random amounts into the signup form to complete the process. That’s also trivially defeated if enough of your data was breached and in the hands of an attacker (e.g. call the bank, pretend to be you, and ask for the info).
Not to mention, why would attackers in phishing/scam emails ask for bank details if they’re not secret or are useless?
Yeah, I’ve been meaning to look into that. Especially so I can start unlinking my bank details from sites that will eventually expose them in a breach.
That maximizes my costs as well (plus hassle). I don’t even own a checkbook.
Gotta do what you gotta do 🤷♂️
To my knowledge (as of 0.19.3 anyway), yes. Except for any images, naturally, though possibly the post thumbnail could have a local copy.
Is it still possible to interact with the communities (post, vote, etc.)?
Yes, but only locally.
If your instance already knows about the community, people on your instance can still post and interact with the community. However, anything submitted to it will not federate to other instances, so it’s analogous to a local-only community.
Unless the LW admins removed them already, there were some Beehaw communities that were still showing activity on Lemmy World from local LW users despite Beehaw not federating with LW. (Those communities were resolved prior to Beehaw defederating). The one I recall seeing no longer comes up, so they probably did remove them (admins were aware).
is it still possible to delete them if the ownership of the community (aka the top mod) belongs to an user from another instance
I don’t think so, at least not in 0.19.3. There are some operations that, if using a remote mod account (even if it’s top mod), throw a “not a moderator” error.
yeah, i hide that with UBO lol. that, or enable theater mode to get rid of it.
:sigh: Just turn off watch history and search history, clear both, and either search for what you want or subscribe and use the subscriptions page.
My YT homepage is blank and glorious.
Nothing good will ever come from suggestion algorithms.
I don’t subscribe to anything, but I’d prob use it if I did. I only go to YT for one-off videos and just search for what I need.
Just turn watch history off and find your own way. My YT homepage is blank. Fuck suggestion algorithms.
In other areas, yeah, probably.
But with music, movies, and TV, they’ll just blame piracy, crank up the DRM and bullshit on their own platforms, pat themselves on the back, and raise prices.
Very well could be. Now that I think about it, I can immediately imagine “old book” smell, but cannot think of what “new book” smell is. My only recollection is the year in middle school we got new textbooks, and the plastic covers had a weird chemical smell to them.
I’m convinced this is why “AI” is getting shoved down our collective throats so hard.