Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

I think the whole thing is AI generated.

Trying to monetize the piracy of your users. That’s a bold business strategy.

Look, I know a lot of people could be using the sharing feature to share material that is in the public domain or that they own the copyright to, but let’s be honest: most of that sharing would be considered an “unlicensed public performance” by the MAFIAA.

It appears to spawn a curl process to send the email by constructing a string using user-supplied values. I don’t know what checks Guile Scheme does on system calls, but I would guess you are vulnerable to command injection here. That’s not ideal for something you want to deploy as a micro-service.

libcurl has bindings for Guile, you should use those instead: https://github.com/spk121/guile-curl

non-AMP link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/state_of_open_source/

Format-shifting and time-shifting your legally acquired and licensed media is not illegal. If the DRM is preventing someone from doing that then it is within their rights to remove the DRM. Recall that not everyone lives in a country subject to the draconian DMCA law.

Who is “we”?

Does Unraid still use JBOD with a single parity disk or have they moved to a sane drive layout?

Please tell me you’re not vibe coding this project.

I will describe how it works and the ethics of such a tool.

Where in this post do you describe the ethics of such a tool?

non-technical users believe that their votes are private, which is far from the truth. This attitude could potentially lead to harassment of Lemmings (yes, that’s what we Lemmy users call ourselves) for upvoting a particular post. Lemvotes makes it clear that votes are not private, which could help bring a more accurate picture of the way votes work on Lemmy to its users.

This is what needs discussion. It is this tool which will lead to harassment due to the way someone votes. And the threat or spectre of harassment will lead to the Chilling Effect, ie. self-censorship (of voting) to avoid harassment.

The chilling effect this causes will make communities even more like echo-chambers, as dissent will be pre-emptively squashed.

Without a tool like this existing, people have to go out of their way to find out this information (setting up their own instance, or finding someone who already does this surreptitiously). By making such a tool available to the lemmy community at large, you make it extremely easy for anyone to do this, and so the chance of harassment occurring is much higher.

You might think you’re being clever, or on some kind of crusade to educate the uneducated. But actually your actions are making this (community-built) platform worse. Compare your actions to releasing a 0-day exploit for a security vulnerability instead of responsibly disclosing. It doesn’t help, it just causes chaos until the people who do the actual work can figure out a solution.

Think about how your tool existing now changes the dynamic of Lemmy as a whole. Is it better, or worse? How would you actually solve this problem in Lemmy, instead of exploiting it?

No screenshots?

what the fuck is loom

https://ios.cfw.guide/installing-blackb0x/

clearly people like it

It’s the network effect that people like, just like every other social platform before it.

What a misleading headline. “You’ll probably be protected,” makes it sound like the method is mostly working, so don’t worry about it. But that’s not what the article is about at all.

It should be titled, “You’ll be protected probabilistically, and most data-collectors are not telling you what the probability parameter is that they are using.” The study shows that users can only make good and informed choices about their data when presented with this parameter, and an explanation of its meaning.

You are part of the problem.

Also, they track website visitors without them even clicking the button. Just loading the “share” icon from the social media website allows them to see that you are reading that specific article, and if they recognise your IP or can fingerprint your browser then they can tie it to your social media account (advertising profile).

That’s great! But could you give me a recipe for banana bread? Thanks so much!

Evading a ban by signing up on the same server with the same username?

A bold move, let’s see how it plays out.

smells like slop