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  • From what I can see, people will downvote shitposts even if they agree with it. But the downvote is used as the disagree button the majority of the time.

    I will upvote any comment that seems to be made in good faith but I don’t have any illusions of that being how the majority of the network uses their votes. I think a higher percentage of people use their vote that way compared to Reddit but not much to make a difference.

    That’s why I suggested hiding votes entirely. I think that would be unpopular because people like the dopamine hit of seeing your comment score go up, and so my compromise was to only hide 0 or negative scores.









  • Lemmy.world nor any other instance on the fedi can remove content on another instance without the consent of federation, even then those actions can be undone by the site admin.

    .world defederating from you doesn’t mean censorship. People disagreeing with your opinion and opting not to see it is not censorship.


  • When we were young and first married, my wife and I decided to try a church that we had saw online. The website and name made it seem like it would be alright and more modern thinking. We were wrong.

    We pull up and the church building is a double wide trailer, a congregation of about 30 people. The preacher appears to be in his 70s.

    He sees that he has guests and singles us out and puts us on the spot to introduce ourselves to whole congregation. He never refers to my wife by her name instead just calling her “Wife”. He prays for us multiple times during the service and bring us up during the sermon. (Still just referring to us as TORFdot0 and wife)

    Speaking of the sermon, he begins the sermon talking about the gay democrat agenda and how the gays are ruining God’s institution of marriage and how it will soon be illegal to be married to a woman. This gets an audible sigh from the ladies in the front row.

    He also preached to cherish our Bible before the black socialist devil in the white house takes them from us.

    He compared the Bible to an old hound dog and started barking for going on two minutes. It’s like a dog because it warns us of things to come.

    After what seems like an eternity of a sermon, he invites the kids up to the alter for some “Hallelujah” Candy (it’s the Sunday before Halloween). One child takes a second handful of candy and the elderly pastor chastises him and then bends him over his knee and starts spanking him in front of the congregation.

    Needless to say we did not give that church a second visit.








  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldtoApple@lemmy.world*deleted by creator*
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    8 months ago

    There always needs to be a balance of security and convenience. If you make security to cumbersome then end users are just as likely to go without. I think another distinction is that privacy != security and security != privacy although they do go hand in hand.

    Some examples would be disabling all iCloud services. That seems rather cumbersome for limited benefit. It will reduce your attack surface to just your single device but also introduces a single point of failure and may result in less secure methods to make data available and result in insecure or unreliable backups like backing data up to an unencrypted single drive.

    I do recommend advanced data protection like he says.

    Disabling the Find My network does increase privacy from shoulder surfers and people who may physically compromise the device but most people are OK with that to be able to easily find their items and know where their loved ones are.

    Disabling Face ID is another thing that would protect you from physical compromise (someone can’t hold you down and force you to scan your face) but over all I would rather require a long alphanumeric+symbol passcode rather than disable Face ID. You have a much more higher risk of someone watching over your shoulder for a 6 digit passcode than you do someone kidnapping you and having free access to scan your face.

    Other things are out of date, such as iCloud supporting S/MIME by default and encrypting mail at rest.

    Overall I would take the advice with a grain of salt as most settings are a good idea to disable but others are a bit overzealous and without much thought in my opinion.