Notices by craftycat (craftycat@mastodon.scot)

@matthewskelton @GossiTheDog Sadly this seems to be a thing a lot of people miss, I see a lot of commentary framing this as a Taliban specific issue, which in reality isn't. A lot of TLDs have specific requirements, and the country coded ones are often a lot more specific. In THIS case it's a Taliban issue, but it could just as well have been a domain being removed because the owner lives in the wrong place.

@GossiTheDog That seems like both a gross misunderstanding of what devops is, and a fault entirely caused by whoever set up said software repository. I learned how to avoid this shit within a few months of my first year as a dev student, anyone who's responsible for an opensource repo and doesn't know that is obviously unfit 😂

@GossiTheDog This might be a very dumb question, but why on earth are randos allowed to push shit into the project without any review system in place whatsoever? I feel like some extremely basic setting changes would prevent this from happening?

@justinas @aral nothing is stopping you from running your own instance? You don't have to be subject to an admin if you don't want to. Surely you making that choice doesn't mean that the rest of us have to forfeit our legal rights? Because no, I have not consented to Bluesky, which IS outside the network, to handle my information, which means that it's a breach of GDPR for them to do so.