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I think ActivityPub requires that a message purported to be from some user needs to be signed with their private key (in practice, the key that their instance keeps track of on their behalf).

I'm not 100% sure of that but I think it's how it works. So you would have to entice the people you dislike into making users on your instance, or else come up with some other way of gaming the system. (And, I think you'd be defederated from everyone almost instantly.)

Fun fact, lemmy.ml actually does automatically edit users' posts to remove certain curse words. Even that seems to me absurdly authoritarian in this weird specific nanny-state type of way (like -- they could make a feature where you can decide to have a set of words censored on the reading side, for posts from any instance -- but no, they deliberately decided to police their user's posts for everyone, and remove the ability for their users to more successfully achieve the supposed goal). It offends me probably more than it should.

A lot of modern foods -- corn, bananas, carrots, more -- were pretty much inedible by modern standards before ancient people created the current edible version through selective breeding.

I have done, and friends of mine have done a lot more than that. My point is that I'm unusually nerdy and the number of people who've ever been subjected to it by me being near them is probably in the double digits for a few minutes over my entire life.

I will bet you any amount of money that you can go to any coffee shop and set up an insecure VPN there all day and not a single person will randomly come in, set up a malicious DHCP server, and reroute the VPN traffic through their hardware so they can spoof it and spy on your traffic.

The fact that it's possible means it's worth defending against, sure. If it sounds like I'm saying it's not a big deal I am not. I'm just saying that it is not the most common threat that you need to defend against most urgently or even in the top 10 (primarily because it requires one of this little handful of people nearby to you to be a malicious actor, where most of the ones that are really commonly-encountered threats are the ones that literally any one of billions of people on the planet could at any time randomly target you with, so you're going to run into a lot more frequently.)

Just in case someone thinks this is a troll or wild accusation, it's literally true. (Edit: Or... I don't know specifically that he's a pedophile, but it would seem a little surprising for anyone who isn't a pedophile to participate in an explicitly pedophilic community let alone agree to publicly moderate it.)

He also -- I hadn't known this -- would edit people's comments on the site that were critical of him.

Reddit: Hey we lost $140 million dollars and gained literally millions of bots

Everyone: What? HOORAY! That's nowhere near as bad as we thought

IDK why, but a lot of super-successful tech platforms in their early days were made up of a super capable passionate tech dude and a total sociopath weirdo who for some reason attracted money. Reddit was unusual in that the tech guy died and they were left with only the weirdo.

I KNEW IT

Crazy worms are real; it's a whole different issue of invasive species as opposed to the issue of normal earthworms being above 45 degrees latitude in the first place.

I still think that the whole issue with crazy worms is, more or less, that they can do the exact same damage the non crazy worms can do, just a little more effectively, and so it's sort of a side issue as you were saying. I think there's a certain confusion between "invasive worms" meaning one or the other. But IDK, I am not a worm expert, I just learned this stuff today.

IDK why I caused such a fighting

The article and what I said is 100% accurate about the northern US and most of Canada

It's not accurate as to the southern US or North American in general. Wherever the glaciers came they killed the earthworms, and for the most part they didn't bounce back (for reasons that to me are not clear) until the Europeans brought European worms, but outside of glacier reach everything was fine and earthworms and forests have both been happy.

Citation is OP article + Smithsonian link + Wikipedia link posted elsewhere; they all say more or less the same thing

Journalist: Are you sure they were Hamas

IDF: Yes

Journalist: Were any of them preschool age

IDF: No further questions

I think there are individual spots that are bright or dim for no reason because of random noise, up in the no-particular-pattern wilderness

For this scenario, are you imagining that a person may have physically entered the coffee shop who's both tech savvy and malicious enough to run a malicious device there?

Or were you thinking a remote compromise of their router? That one seems moderately more probable, but eliminates anything special about the coffee shop's router specifically as opposed to your home router or your workplace's router.

I think that's the overlap between the dense region of PINs that start with 11, 12, or 13 (similar to the dense regions that start with 21, 22, 23, 31, etc), and the dense square region of month+day dates.