Well, good for reducing its presence. Not so much for forensics, unless someone grabbed a copy before deletion.

db0’s fork was from another fork, which is almost three years old at this point. Scratch that, github just reassigns the fork parent if the source repo gets deleted.

  • Carnelian@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Haii, sorry, I’m still learning how to use computers

    I’ve been loosely following the drama but I don’t really know what tesseract is or how it relates to lemmy as a whole. I think I saw that blahaj zone was using an older version, but they got included in the new shadowban list and are looking to move away. But what actually is it? Or what was it lol

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      Basically, it’s a frontend/dashboard/UI that you can use instead of the default interface. Think of it as KDE for Linux, its the thing that shows you buttons and menus you can use to interact with Lemmy. It’s a thing that people hosting an instance use mostly.

      And if you’re thinking “my interface system shouldn’t decide my blocklist!” then yes, exactly.

      • TheOctonaut@piefed.zipEnglish
        0·
        16 days ago

        haven’t used computers much

        It’s like KDE desktop on Linux

        Can’t tell if serious or sockpuppet

        • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          16 days ago

          That’s uhhh… Yeah, maybe not the best example.

          Look, I’m on Lemmy, my brain just automatically assumes everyone here is a huge nerd like me.

      • Carnelian@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        Oh gotcha, wow, yeah I guess that would be fueling my confusion. Insane that a user interface itself would add a blocklist lmao. Like trying to make a steering wheel that won’t let you drive to bike shops because you think cyclists are too left leaning. Just a totally nonsensical concept

        • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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          16 days ago

          Also, to make it worse, it’s open source software, but the blocklist isn’t in the software. When you start up the software, it downloads a specific file (not in the open code) that has the block list.

          There are a few open blocklists too though, like normal. You can turn those on or off at will. But not this secret one.

          So yeah, it’s 100% malicious.

          • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
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            14 days ago

            hexbear test domain is still blocked, fandom.com, socialskateclub.com,

                'britishtalks.com',  
    'euronewstop.co.uk',  
    'Newstop.africa',  
    'Britishattitudes.com',  
]```  
```const OTHER_RUSSIAN_CAMPAIGNS = [  
    'seattle-tribune.com',  
    'southfront.org',  
    'spiegel.bz',  
]```  
everything in `const JOHN_MARK_DOUGAN = [`  
counterintelligence for ```const MAGA_PROPAGANDA = [  
    'truthsocial.com',  
]```  
```// Disallow link shorteners  
export const LINK_SHORTENERS = [```  
`export const FACEBOOK = [`  
`export const REDDIT = [`  
`export const TWITTER = [`  
`export const BLUESKY = [`  
```"chapo.chat",  
"lemmyusa.com",?  
"lemy.lol",?```  

And the fact it's again, **a client side filter, unexposed instead of being **A FRONTEND OPTION** upon setting up your account.** I may not agree with the actual legit spam domains, **but this list should be frontend exposed,** dangerous ones server side exposed (“These blocklist server side, they cannot be reversed, sorry”)  

>[moron](https://ableist.org/language-guide/)  

You’ve never done counterintelligence‽
  • Noa Himesaka@lemmy.funami.tech
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    16 days ago

    Nope, db0 fork is based on the latest release, it just got relocated because of how GitHub works. (If you delete the repo, fork’s parents get assigned to another fork.)

    • shininghero@pawb.socialOP
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      16 days ago

      That took longer than I care to admit to properly parse. Kept conflating the fork parent as the code base, and wondering why it was so confusing.

      Probably time for my morning coffee.