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Does Revolt have federation?

As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.

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What can I do with Revolt and how do I self-host?

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You can self-host Revolt by:

• Using Docker Compose and our recommended guide.
• Building individual components yourself from the source code.

It’s basically a bunch of islands.

There’s one good news. Reddit didn’t want to pay to move all the old DMs to the new chat infrastructure. So they deleted them.

At this point I wouldn’t trust Reddit to actually delete posts. Just hide them then sell them as training data if the upvotes are decent.

Tom’s Guide has shit reporting. This was the same site that repeated the bogus DDoS smart toothbrushes story. And they’re at it again with more sensationalism.

From something more reputable:

The use of the victims’ faces for bank fraud is an assumption by Group-IB, also corroborated by the Thai police, based on the fact that many financial institutes added biometric checks last year for transactions above a certain amount.

It is essential to clarify that while GoldPickaxe can steal images from iOS and Android phones showing the victim’s face and trick the users into disclosing their face on video through social engineering, the malware does not hijack Face ID data or exploit any vulnerability on the two mobile OSes.

More from bleeping computer:

A new iOS and Android trojan named ‘GoldPickaxe’ employs a social engineering scheme to trick victims into scanning their faces and ID documents, which are believed to be used to generate deepfakes for unauthorized banking access.

Now, don’t get me wrong, you should take malware and social engineering attacks seriously. But get your information from sites that do real security journalism.

It’s an aggregation of previous leaks. Malicious actors having all that information together is a big deal in and of itself, but it’s not the"mother of all breaches" some publications are trying to make it be.

Found the article where the screenshot came from, and wow it’s even more infuriating! The VideoLAN folks tried to work with them for months, and Unity seems to have cranial rectal inversion.

You know what’s free (as in beer and speech) and not being enshittified? Notepad++

Talk about an author with an agenda. He cherry picks data points to stir the shit. The figure he could have included in his blog post but didn’t:

Musk must have a fetish for having government regulators up his ass. The FTC is already up there to where he screams like a pig. Now add banking-but-not-a-bank and they’re going to be up there even further.

It won’t go obsolete per se. It will just have lots of security vulnerabilities after they stop patching the 10,000,000+ lines of code used in all the microcontrollers and microprocessor.

At the company’s global Conversations event in Mumbai, WhatsApp introduced an in-app shopping feature for merchants and customers. Dubbed ”Flows,” […]

That name sounds more like a feminine hygiene product than a shopping platform.

Here’s a crazy idea. How about a bunch of us donate to the ADL and have tribute cards sent to chief twit’s headquarters.

Microsoft really needs an antitrust smackdown with their repeated behavior.

NYT is already considering a lawsuit against OpenAI. So, not just dumb but arrogantly stupid when the lawyers are already in the room.

I’m perfectly fine with shitting on Meta/Facebook/Instagram for gestures broadly at the last 10+ years, but Canada instituted a link tax for news. They added a fee to a fundamental part of the Internet: linking to something. I can’t blame Meta for refusing to play that game.

Twitter is still underwater from losing half their advertiser revenue plus the billions in debt they still owe. He’s not going to pay out unless he can find one particular case that will bring lots of attention. Elmo is an attention whore that everyone needs to ignore.

Everyone’s giving tribute with :wq!, but don’t forget about :x! and ZZ.

Depends on how you look at it. According to the article, FedNow is more expensive than automatic clearing house. 4 cents vs half a cent. But if FedNow is competing with Venmo and Paypal, they charge a lot more than the Fed’s $0.04. That’s also cheaper than what the credit card companies charge businesses.

When you’re the CEO of a platform you don’t care about anymore and just want to cash out, wrong decisions are a dime a dozen.

The two women told detective Ben McBride of the Norfolk, Nebraska Police Division that they’d discussed the matter on Facebook Messenger, which prompted the state to issue Meta with a search warrant for their chat history and data including log-in timestamps and photos.

Don’t talk to the police.