Posts by IgorRock@social.cologne
(DIR) Post #AaQYQhxEj6YwJDVg5g by IgorRock@social.cologne
2023-10-04T13:05:21Z
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@zdfheute Die Ironie der Geschichte ist, dass Gaetz mit den Demokraten zusammenarbeiten musste(!), um McCarthy - wegen seiner Zusammenarbeit mit den Demokraten(!) - abzusetzen... 😂
(DIR) Post #AbQh4l5dyDVDCivmXA by IgorRock@social.cologne
2023-11-03T12:30:46Z
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@volpeon @starshine Well, there are a few methods, which still work and are not secure at all, like having two numbers in there at different positions and counting one up and the other down, or add a character for the month from "A" for January to "L" for December, then use lower case for each even month and upper case for each odd month (or only use every second character, start at "G" or whatever).Basically NONE of the "new password" checkers can get all of these really bad passwords.
(DIR) Post #Acbc8iZx5AdRZvwmZc by IgorRock@social.cologne
2023-12-08T14:27:38Z
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@thunderbird I was going to give you a donation (via PayPal), but sorry, not if I have to give you my full address. If I'm authenticated by PayPal, that should be sufficient - it is for literally ANY other company I use it for paying.And while we are at it: I don't want to "One-time setup, faster checkouts." at all (which, I guess, is the reason WHY it's asking for my address).I just want to make a one-time donation, like throwing a fiver in a hat, as I do with other organizations via PayPal.
(DIR) Post #Acbc8kP2Ij5lEer5pw by IgorRock@social.cologne
2023-12-08T15:04:46Z
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@thunderbird "for identity verification" - well, there's your problem.That's EXACTLY what I don't want - and don't need on any other page or organization I've used PayPal for in the past (like, just yesterday, actually).PayPal verifies my identity already (two factor login), so there is no need why you should need this, too.From a privacy POV, this is the worst you can do, and from a data economy and safety POV, it's even worse - adding another DB which can be breached or leaked.
(DIR) Post #AcqI7FoKaNrDqLPfEm by IgorRock@social.cologne
2023-12-15T15:25:26Z
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@davidrevoy Let me put it this way: Yes, I care about my privacy, that's why I'm on Mastodon.No, most other people don't care about this, and cannot be bothered to do so (their choice).ActivityPub is a protocol like SMTP, which just means that everybody can implement a service with it, which then can interact with other services using the same protocol.I myself am looking forward to finally be able to chat with those other people again WITHOUT HAVING TO JOIN THAT COMMERCIAL PLATFORM MYSELF.
(DIR) Post #AcqI7HbztDBDQfeqI4 by IgorRock@social.cologne
2023-12-15T15:49:52Z
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@davidrevoy Well, as long as there is no "bold font" or anything in Mastodon, the only way to emphasize the important part is - sadly - upper case.As such, on platforms which don't support bold or italic fonts, I myself don't equal upper case text with yelling, as I do on platforms which have those.Maybe this is something which should be improved in Mastodon (it would be easy to use some wiki-like syntax to do so, to be honest, clients just would have to support it, no protocol change needed).
(DIR) Post #AcqI7I2EJgACk1vnBA by IgorRock@social.cologne
2023-12-15T15:29:27Z
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@davidrevoy PS: And EVERYTHING you publish on Mastodon (or the Fediverse as such) is widely available for anybody who is interested to analyze it already, so that's a stupid argument, sorry.The important thing is that when I'm using Mastodon to chat with somebody on Threads, Meta doesn't get *any more data* than they would be able to get by just following me themselves (e.g. via RSS).Which means that Meta won't get my location data, my real name (if I don't want to), or any other personal data