Notices by Samuel Leuenberger (leuenberg@cyberplace.social)

@JeffGrigg @bontchev @rbairwell @GossiTheDog I agree with the "possibly explode" statement, but all exploding ? And on top of that with enough yield to kill people ?
That's pretty weird. Really looking forward to the postmortem (no pun intended) analysis.

@JeffGrigg @bontchev @rbairwell @GossiTheDog "I saw another report that some people threw the phones when they got hot, shortly before they exploded, avoiding injury".

Good point ! That is more consistent with a thermal loop and a battery explosion.

@GossiTheDog I get easily Pichai, Cook and Zuck, but I don't recognize the two guys on the right. Can someone help ?

@GossiTheDog Humm, hold your horses guys, the fine print mean that it's much ado about nothing : *"[...] to suspend all data flows resulting from its use of Microsoft 365 to Microsoft and to its affiliates and sub-processors, located in third countries ****not covered by an adequacy decision**** [...]"*

And guess what, **the US are covered by an adequacy decision since July 2023**!

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_23_3721

@GossiTheDog Thanks to you the French speaking IT media are starting to debunk this story (with proper credits inside the article) :

https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-une-attaque-ddos-via-des-brosses-a-dents-connectees-un-scenario-fiction-92904.html

@lanodan @davidrevoy @ariane @duponin Agreed, but then it's not a concern with Meta, technically they could retrieve all the public data they want with an accounts on big instance and start playing with the APIs.
I suspect that many people freaking out about Meta have no idea of the big privacy issues intrinsic to ActivityPub, at least I know that Meta do not care about my activity since they can't monetize it. I'm not so confident about those rogue or badly maintained servers.

@duponin @davidrevoy @lanodan @ariane I think I understand enough to know that Meta is certainly not an issue here. But then please explain how suddenly Meta would be able to harvest your personnal data from your server ? I'm not aware of any way ActivityPub would allow you to get any information about the poster beside the thing he is posting (which is public anyway).

@duponin @davidrevoy @lanodan @ariane Gorgron disagrees with you here, guess who's right ? Why would Meta get more power than any other application on the fediverse ? Why would your server suddenly disclose to Meta what it is not disclosing anyway to the other servers ?

@lanodan @davidrevoy @ariane Meta CANNOT harvest data on the Fediverse, this need at least to be understood. It is this myth and some others that Gargron is trying to dispel. Honestly explaining what Meta can and can't do on the Fediverse technically is not lessening the harm Meta could do but letting people make informed choice (as long as their admins allow them to).

@davidrevoy @ariane I have a hard time understanding all this angst about Threads, besides a gross misunderstanding of how the Fediverse works. The misunderstanding is quite acceptable for an artist or most of the users, far less so for some mastodon admins who decided to block Threads.
I'm therefore inviting anyone thinking Threads is dangerous to at least read Mastodon's creator thoughs about it (and dispel some weird beliefs on the way) :
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/