The documentation has long since been changed.

Note that the anon user is able to become root without a password by default, as a development convenience. To prevent this, remove anon from the wheel group and it will no longer be able to run /bin/su.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/a2a6bc534868773b9320ec3ca7399283cf7a375b (this seems to have also switched to gender neutral language in other parts.'of the documentation and comments as well).

Original drama: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

You can read all of it as alt text on the original post.

https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/

This is one of my favorite blogposts of all time. It is an extremely well written, in depth writeup of several security vulnerabilties of a popular app.

It also opens with:

Please keep in mind that this website is a furry blog, first and foremost, that sometimes happens to cover security and cryptography topics.

After Twitter went to shit, where else do customers have to go for customer support like this?

Admittedly, I didn’t read the article, but I have seen plenty of other cases woth cloudfare or other big providers where people have only been able to set things right by kicking up a fuss on social media — like that recent one with amazon aws.

I’m using eternity, which hasn’t received any updates, on my phone, and the default lemmy web interface on my computer.

Maybe I need to try some other options.

This is just straight wrong. iMessage on android has worked by connecting to a remote Mac, which then connects to imessage. The protocol is locked to their hardware.

And, even if there was a true open source reimplimplementation of iMessage, that would say nothing about the security of Apple’s proprietary implementation of the iMessage end to end encryption.

Because some of us have fat fingers and accidentally downvote when we scroll on mobile.

One of the things I liked about reddit was that, since it saved downvoted posts, I could go through the list every once in a while and undownvote the accidents.

Can’t do that here though, and I sometimes notice posts or comments I’ve accidentally downvoted.

Anyway, people shouldn’t care so much, we don’t have a karma system or the like here anyways, so why does it matter?