What has argument from authority to do with facts?
You only get posts from those you subscribe to. That’s the “pull” part.
What has argument from authority to do with facts?
You only get posts from those you subscribe to. That’s the “pull” part.
Why would I subscribe to a fake account pushing ads?
Please think your argument through at a technical level. How would Meta be able to push posts-masking-as-users to only non-EU citizens?
The simple answer is that no, there’s no way Meta can push ads into clients and/or servers that aren’t under their control. They also don’t need to - Threads is much bigger than the Mastodon-part of the fediverse.
They’re already training on that data. No signals of relevance here.
Of course it does. The EU is such a big market that Meta cannot afford to do that.
As I have already posted elsewhere in this thread, if they post ads as a user they would get shut down by the EU immediately.
Any other suggestions?
Please post one of those ways and I’ll shoot it down.
Sure, but that cannot happen here.
Agree. I’m an absolutely awesome software dev myself - and I know C by heart (being my favorite language after assembler). However, with age comes humility and the ability to recognize that I will write buggy code every now and then.
Better the language saves me when I can’t, in security critical situations.
They can do that no matter if I federate with them or not.
My bad - I misread. Yeah that’s a good point.
Why would you subscribe to those? Or are you claiming they would post ads as if they are from a user? In the latter case - the EU would shut them down before they even had time to deploy that.
Well sure - but you need to actively subscribe (e.g. pull).
Yeah, let’s see what Bagder has to say about this:
C is unsafe and always will be
The C programming language is not memory-safe. Among the 150 reported curl CVEs, we have determined that 61 of them are “C mistakes”. Problems that most likely would not have happened had we used a memory-safe language. 40.6% of the vulnerabilities in curl reported so far could have been avoided by using another language.
Rust is virtually the only memory-safe language that is starting to become viable.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/12/13/making-it-harder-to-do-wrong/
Citing scientific research is. Now, please post your gut feeling in response.
Isn’t that exactly the strawman the maintainer got tired of?
The Oxygen catastrophe. Without it I wouldn’t exist.