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   Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:22:55 JST Rob Ricci

   Root post for #Monsterdon: LASERBLAST!

   (If you don't want to see me, and others, posting for two hours about kid from the 70s finding an alien laser, and, well, blasting, with it, mute the hashtag, this thread, or me)

   The trailer for this movie seems to fit the title exactly: it mostly consists of Laser Blasts, plus a couple shots of E.T.-ripoff aliens[*] . However, I am suspicious: knowing the trailers for #Monsterdon -tier movies, I bet they put every single special effect that they could afford to film in the trailer, and the movie consists of 2 minutes of action and 83 minutes of characters I couldn't care less about saying things I don't want to hear.

   So: go on this journey with me and let's find out together!

   * Wait, this movie came out four years BEFORE E.T., which raises the fascinating possibility that Spielberg ripped of his alien design FROM THIS THING, HWAT?

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   volkris@qoto.org's status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 04:08:05 JST volkris

   @BeAware

   It’s all in the ActivityPub protocol that I’ll link below. If you read it, it’s strikingly clear that there is no actual guarantee that your permissions will be honored. In fact, the standard uses the term “SHOULD” quite a lot when leaving servers free to ignore your privacy notation.

   Are you familiar with the FRS radios? They had a feature called privacy codes, where a group of people would set the same code to communicate. BUT, really all of the comms were all on the same channel, but the codes simply filtered out what one wanted to hear.

   So they provided no actual privacy, just the illusion of it.

   Same thing here, unfortunately. The ActivityPub protocol is largely a broadcast protocol, sending content into the cloud with only suggestions as to who should see it.

   You can believe that every link in the chain will behave and respect your wishes, but a scraper is free to ignore them and do what they want even if your post is marked private.

   https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#outbox

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Radio_Service