I’m not surprised, but I agree with the hot take, so maybe it’s only warm.

I think they keep interest in ActivityPub in order to keep regulators concerned with Antitrust at bay. The Fediverse isn’t a real threat in Meta’s view and keeping an engineer or two on it in order to stay invested is worth the cost.

Threads can say they are making an honest effort to work with the larger open source community and open federated internet. As an added bonus, it isn’t actually a lie. Now the effort they’re putting in is the absolute minimum, but it’s there.

Now I still do think this is a positive. While most people on Threads will probably never leave, it does introduce them to the wider Fediverse. It makes the Fediverse a less scary thing.

…because the author is an investigative journalist?

We all know it’s a scam, but it’s their job is to prove it. To prove it you have to (attempt to) buy it.

I agree any actual people trying to buy it are morons.

Google Image Labeler apparently, but I don’t actually just remember the game. Looks like it’s called Crowdsource now, and you can get points, but it isn’t a competition.

Search also sucks because people suck.

If I post a picture of a flower with the caption “Look what grew in my garden!”, that’s a terrible post from a search point of view.

Later on someone will search for “flower” but I didn’t use the word “flower” so now search sucks.

Of course a much more common post is someone posting a picture of text, from Twitter, Tumblr, etc. with, once again, a vague caption. You remember the picture, but not what the poster actually said.

Searching comments will sometimes help, but that depends on the comments being related.

I assume it’s done that way to prevent an IDN homograph attack.

For example if I sent you a link to “gооgle.com” you’d be like, sure. Except that isn’t a link to “google” it’s a link to “gооgle.com”.

I completely forgot that existed! Double checking the technical article they do correctly label it as a browser in their testing matrix/grid.

I just got confused by the clear “Brave browser” call out. When I hear DuckDuckGo I definitely don’t think browser.

Good catch!

You’re not affected if (and only if)

You always used the Brave browser or the DuckDuckGo search engine on mobile

I found that odd, but reading the more technical write up (linked in the article) it seems Brave blocks localhost communication.

The Chrome proposal references a single use case. I’ve never seen a website that sets up my local devices, but is this a new thing?

Why did localhost not get blocked earlier? This seems like a huge hole browsers have ignored for years.

Also the DuckDuckGo exception doesn’t make sense to me. Does DuckDuckGo have Facebook trackers on it to begin with? Whatever site DuckDuckGo sends you to, if they have the trackers, you’ll get tracked.

This is Lemmy so…

BEANS!

To extend this, that includes YOU giving your key to another application to decrypt those messages.

For example if you use an app or browser extension, that app or browser extension has access to that key. Additionally the browser itself or operating system had access to the key.

Now they may be fully audited. They may have a great reputation. You may trust them. But they are part of the decryption (and if sending encryption) process.

It’s a chain of trust, you have to trust the whole chain.

See but I would argue that five different version numbers across five different operating systems is broken. (Ok two of them do match up.)

Specifically the watchOS version is the important one that stands out. watchOS version 1 works with which version of macOS? Which version of iOS or iPadOS?

Also when it comes time to end support for devices, how do you keep track? If Apple provides 5 years of updates, do you know if your phone is still supported?

If my phone is running iOS 14, is that supported? Is that new? Is that old?

The key thing to keep in mind is that the entirety of this ecosystem is based on yearly releases.

Just for “fun” let’s look at Windows. The current version is 11. It was released in 2021. So I guess as long as I have Windows 11, I am up to date. But… That’s not true. Windows 11 does have a version number that’s not directly end user facing. That version is 24H2.

Now the “24” is the year, that’s useful. Now what’s stupid is the “H2”. Because sitting here in June 2025 I would expect “25H1” to be released anytime now. But Microsoft only used the H1 once, about five years ago. Now “Window 11 version 24H2” is better SEO vs “Window 11 version 24”, so maybe that’s why they kept it.

How would you prefer they handle it?

Just to look at macOS version history,

The first public release was “Mac OS X 10.0”, this continued until “Mac OS X 10.7 Lion”. The “big cat” became part of the marketing name because the OS & version were a mouthful and throwing numbers around wasn’t helpful.

We drop the “Mac” next year, then switch to mountains, but it’s not long before we reach, “OS X 10.10” aka “OS ten ten ten”.

Well it wasn’t long before we simplified further and just said “macOS”, but then took a while before we dropped the “10”. Now we just get “macOS 15 Sequoia”.

For nearly 18 years the Mac operating system had an unnecessary “10” that conveyed zero information.

It’s not a matter of biggest number, it’s a matter of consistency.

They have five operating systems, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS.

So currently we have macOS 15, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11 & visionOS 2. That’s absolute confusion. Do I have the latest version? Dropping support for an older version, how many years ago was that?

A version number should convey useful information, and the year it was released is useful information. Especially when major updates come every year.

Edit: I forgot tvOS, also version 18. So six operating systems.

Oh I completely agree. The anime eyes did not add to the film. It also sucks because the actress who played Alita, Rose Salazar, did a great job, but it’s such an uncanny valley type look that I didn’t recognize her anywhere else.

It’s one thing when it’s Andy Serkis playing Gollum or something but she was just playing a robot girl, but she looks like a throwaway CGI character.

It’s funny I saw it completely randomly.

I was chatting with a coworker and just off handedly mentioned how bad Alita looked and they jumped on to defend the film and series harder than I’d ever seen anyone defend anything before. It was a true, “I’ve waited all my life for this moment” for them.

My evening was free and it was one of those $5 Tuesday type movie nights so I figured what the hell.

So there was at least another that convinced me, got to pay it forward.

Because no one saw the first one.

Now some very influential people who were involved in the first one want to make a second one, so maybe just maybe it will happen one day… But I doubt it.

Lex Luthor.

Sure, he wants to kill Superman, that’s not the best political stance, but other than that he’ll basically just focus on fixing everything else that slows society down in order to have a society that’s better at killing Superman.

Plus it’s not like he’s successful at killing Superman. So really it’s a win-win.

Alita: Battle Angel.

The film looks stupid because they gave the main character giant anime eyes.

In the context of the film it makes sense and I think the look is meant to mirror the anime it is from… but for the film it still makes the film look stupid. Now the film itself is far from perfect, there is at least one storyline that is utter dogshit. However! The film ultimately was solid.

Sadly it ends setting up future films that will never happen, but I think it’s still enjoyable overall.

I have to agree, the film is MUCH better than it looks, with one exception early on (see below) the rest of the film works well.

Idiots to ally, absolutely.

To feign interest for a little while, string along and squeeze some hard facts out of, I say go for it.

Elon has to believe that scorched earth is the only way to “save” his companies and he needs to be convinced it’s worth doing.

Nothing he’s done so far can’t be walked back.

Now in terms of a third party challenger in the US, literally everyone is begging for a third party. Obama was Hope & Change. Trump was an Outsider. People are not happy with their choices in government. At the moment however you’ve still got to work within the party’s we have, which sucks.

Also, to be clear, I think Obama was an excellent progressive step forward. I think Trump is a horrible conservative leap backwards. Biden v Trump was the only election in recent history where the majority said, “Oh shit, please put an adult in charge again”, a message which disappeared and gave us Trump’s second term.

and its leadership barred from working in tech (or politics)