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Will accessibility tools that rely on automating input to the browser cause it to become untrusted? Will it affect extensions? The spec does currently specify a carveout for browser modifications and extensions, but those can make automating interactions with a website trivial. So, either the spec is useless or restrictions will eventually be applied there too.

 

Will accessibility tools that rely on automating input to the browser cause it to become untrusted? Will it affect extensions? The spec does currently specify a carveout for browser modifications and extensions, but those can make automating interactions with a website trivial. So, either the spec is useless or restrictions will eventually be applied there too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Answer:

Indeed, the precursor to the C programming language is B!

Additionally:

Its name most probably represents a contraction of BCPL, though an alternate theory holds that it derives from Bon [Thompson 69], an unrelated language created by Thompson during the Multics days. Bon in turn was named either after his wife Bonnie or (according to an encyclopedia quotation in its manual), after a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)#cite_note-chist-2

B is almost extinct, having been superseded by the C language. However, it continues to see use on GCOS mainframes (as of 2014) and on certain embedded systems (as of 2000) for a variety of reasons: limited hardware in small systems, extensive libraries, tooling, licensing cost issues, and simply being good enough for the job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)#cite_note-uwtools-13

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

This proposed standard raises my concerns about the ability to continue using the public internet with user-preferred hardware/software and custom extensions, and does not instill my confidence in maintaining the level of freedom and accessibility users currently enjoy:

Some examples of scenarios where users depend on client trust include:

  • Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they're human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.

What information is in the signed attestation?

The proposal calls for at least the following information in the signed attestation:

  • The attester's identity, for example, "Google Play".
  • A verdict saying whether the attester considers the device trustworthy.

How does this affect browser modifications and extensions?

Web Environment Integrity attests the legitimacy of the underlying hardware and software stack, it does not restrict the indicated application’s functionality: E.g. if the browser allows extensions, the user may use extensions; if a browser is modified, the modified browser can still request Web Environment Integrity attestation.

 

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a GitHub ticket to track this issue?
The current Lemmy workaround sounds non-optimal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not sure there's anything officially formed just yet, but you could checkout what the former transcribers for r/TranscribersOfReddit are up to:

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Isn't it nice being able to correct titles.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

Image transcription: Screenshot


A wide crop of a screenshot zoomed in on r/place's pixel canvas, where a white on black pixelated font reads:

never forget what
was stolen from you!
r/save3rdpartyapps

With the slogan boarded on the right by the r/blind logo (a snoo wearing sunglasses, holding a cane, standing next to a guide dog). The small p.d logo for programming.dev is squarely tucked above and to the left of RBlind's snoo. Lastly, boarded along the bottom is a row of third party Reddit app icons, from left to right:

  1. Apollo
  2. ?
  3. Boost for Reddit
  4. ?

...
13. Reddit is Fun
14. Sync for Reddit


I'm a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too!

 
 

Bonus points if you also know:

  • How the language (allegedly) got it's name?
  • Which operating system still leverages the language today?
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You can checkout the list of other Lemmy Apps as well over on this community:

Check the pinned post at the top. Unsure how accessable they are yet:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've recently been looking into using Backblaze with their S3 object storage for hosting Lemmy, but it looks like they also have personal PC backup cloud offerings. Perhaps you could use them to do both?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What is your local system clock; 16 seconds behind your NTP server? That, or OP just has a similarly inverted clock skew.

I guess OP could be posting from the future. Hey @[email protected] , what is the closing price of SMP 500 tomorrow? :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The video player in Lemmy-UI really needs the loop feature in the playback settings. At least I'm not seeing the option via Chrome or Firefox for Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Perhaps pict-rs, Lemmy's image hosting backend, could auto downscale image uploads and only fail if the input was egregiously large to preserve upload bandwidth and avoid DDoSing. Would still be another added workload for the server.

Perhaps down scaling would be best done on the client side, then the resulting effect would be more transparent to the user before submission. Could that be done in easily in JS? Then that could help save storage and egress expenses for hosting funded only by donations.

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