Interesting Links for 08-04-2017

[andrewducker]

A fundamental flaw in the Mastodon social network

As far as I can see, this is a fatal flaw in any distributed social network. You'd need private/public keys to do this securely, and I'm not sure that's flexible/simple enough to work for most users.
(tags: socialnetworking security privacy )

US air strikes in Syria: Russia suspends agreement that prevents direct conflict with American forces

(tags: russia usa military syria OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )

If you're coming from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth: Importing

(tags: dreamwidth livejournal )

The US Press Are Going To Get Thousands Of People Killed

(tags: media war politics usa )

Joe Manganiello wrote a Dungeons and Dragons film he’s trying to get made

(tags: dungeonsanddragons movies )

Check Out Tokyo’s Cavernous, Creepy, Totally Sci-Fi Drainage Tunnels

(tags: japan water tunnels )

Google expands automatic “fact check” insertion into search results

(tags: facts google )

Comments

[dewline]

2. Well, that puts Canada back in the "no man's land" soup. As if we weren't there since the 2016 election...

4. That is definitely going to be cause for worry. Dan Rather noted it himself on Facebook, albeit far more politely than Alex Pareene did.

6. Those photos are indeed amazing. I have to wonder about AdBlock Plus' ability to disable itself when I tell it to re: Firefox, though.

[cmcmck]

I believe DW's import is a bit slow atm, but the last time this sort of thing happened everyone did get on eventually, so the message appears to be persevere.

[kmusser]

Yeah, it's still working, it took about 30 hours to bring mine over, but it looks like it got everything.

[cmcmck]

Thankfully, I've been here since 2012 when Vlad and co first started playing games. This recent idiocy meant I finally had to drop x posting to LJ entirely.