Alkaline batteries are the crappy ones that leak. Get the more expensive lithium batteries, or go full on rechargeable ones, and you can leave them in without worrying about your device getting ruined.

Apparently all that data is included in the ActivityPub protocol. On Kbin, every post has an Activity button that shows every user (even those on other instances) that upvoted/downvoted/saved that post. So if a Lemmy post happens to federate to Kbin, all that info can be seen publicly by anyone.

Look up the instructions for your mail provider to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in your DNS so email services know which emails sent from your domain are actually legit. Without those records telling email servers what’s valid and how to handle what’s not, it’s basically the Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme.

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/317/2237/how-do-i-add-txtspfdkimdmarc-records-for-my-domain/

Dear M. Eminem

“What’s a checkbox? Oh, you mean that thing we use to trick users into ‘consenting’ to telemetry?”

In my best Janeway voice: “DEW IT.”

Closed. If there’s a fire in the other parts of your house, you’ll have more time to be alerted and escape.

Maybe they already replaced their Writers, Authors, and Proofreaders, and generated the whole thing using ChatGPT.

“You’re under arrest for crimes against the United States, Terrorism, and lying”

I’m not racist, one of my friends is Black Orion!

Well crap. I was waiting until the end of the day to buy it. That’s too bad…

Edit: I guess that information was in the image, but would have been nice if it was in the post text too…

Unless it’s fanaticus where each sports team gets its own unique bot account, ugh

Not all software developers follow those guidelines - either out of laziness or incompetence. Plenty of sites/companies have had password leaks due to improper storage. The best way to protect yourself is to use unique passwords for all accounts.

So, simply viewing a comment thread with a maliciously-altered emoji (on an unpatched instance) was enough to compromise your account?

Yea I’ve got both .zip and .mov blocked on my pihole

Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies

The encoded string contains the URL zelensky dot zip. Zip is one of the newer top-level domains. It itself is not a zip file, but I am not going to visit that site to find out whatever treasures it has to offer…

Hello, I commented about a bug in the instance selector on a cross post, not realizing that wasn’t the actual developer. Not sure if it’s related to what you’re talking about here, but I wanted to bring it to your attention. Great project by the way!

https://lemmy.ca/comment/829227

WTF, the activity button is also on comments. So you can literally see a full list of users who upvoted or downvoted you.

I’m guessing it was done for transparency, but it just seems ripe for abuse. People can take things like downvotes way too seriously. I’ve seen unhinged users on Reddit go harassing a commenter who disagreed with them.

I do not like this “feature”.

From some comments I’ve read, it’s at least in better shape than kbin? A few people expressed interest in helping with that project and then went running for the hills after reading through the code.