Not trying to defend him but… uh… Why are we making fun of him for not bombing civilians? Clearly he TACO’d but man I sure prefer that to the alternative.

Wtf?
edit: I’m sorry, I wildly misinterpreted that when I woke up. No I have enough projects in my life, but your enthusiasm is well placed. More fun fediverse drama pls.

It’s a chibi-esque-ish art style - not obviously manga but I can see why someone might think that if they were unfamiliar with the genre

Um, okay - but in what way are they zionists? “Trust me bro” isn’t really an explanation, and I’ve been here for a couple years and have not seen any overt zionist behavior. Could you elaborate?

I’m confused, is this all the context? One user appears to have been directly insulting an admin to their face, the other user was openly advocating for murdering a group they explicitly put the lemmy.world admins into. I’m not sure how that’s unreasonable cause for a ban, nor am I clear on how an admin banning two users over three days is evidence of them “raging”, promoting zionism or banning pushback.

Are the .world admins zionists? I see the accusations all the time, but the instance is also overwhelmingly pro-palestine… I’m very curious if there’s more context that I’m just unfamiliar with.

Wait, this isn’t antiquememes… oh god, please tell me folks aren’t really trying to bring back “ethical games journalism” discourse.

You very clearly explained exactly whats wrong with that site’s (and other sites) behavior, but pivoted to that somehow excusing what they did.

For a third time

I dunno why you keep posting that, it clearly doesn’t mean much to me beyond, uncharitably, showing that you’re still holding a grudge? But I like to think I’m not so petty as to hang on to that.

it’s certainly not any different than US websites

But you… then explicitly go on to explain how it’s different from US websites. Like you understand this, so I’m not sure why we’re disagreeing here. It’s fundamentally different, you even explain how it’s different, we’re not… disagreeing here.

I kind of figured you wouldn’t, based on prior interchanges, but tried anyway. No worries, enjoy your day/night.

It’s disappointing you seem to only remember the time you were abusive and proved wrong in your accusations, but not the multiple extremely civil/pleasant interactions we’ve had since then.

/Disengage

This isn’t a DB0 community - and even if it was, this wouldn’t be a valid use of the disengage rule. see: “For a disengage call to be valid, it must not be accompanied by other arguments on the existing topic. A disengage is not meant to be a trump card to have the last word.”

Don’t regress these interactions and start being a dick for no reason. Seriously, this has been plenty civil until you started to get defensive about your unfamiliarity with the topic.

No, it’s that nobody was talking about the google play store, and while I’m certain you’re trying to disagree with me you’re making very salient points in my favor about the dangers of unverified closed-source apps.

You seem to understand exactly that what that site is doing is dangerous and broad strokes on why, but you’re using that to… excuse their behavior.

I’m sorry, I don’t think I understand what you mean here.

Oh, very different thing. When that happens it’s just asking permission for an applink query - which is just a flag that tells the user’s OS to check and see if any currently installed apps are associated with a given URL and then passes it to that app if there is one.

It’s very different from trying to get the user to sideload an entire app. “Open in app” is not really a threat vector, but installing random unverified .apk is the threat itself.

Ah, yeah DDG uses the google Being browser engines.

I think there’s confusion about what we’re talking about:

• DDG the web page search engine uses the bing crawler.
• DDG the web browser, which is contemporary to firefox uses webkit and blink

Yeah, but that it’s a rejectable download isn’t really the issue here. That it’s, unprompted, trying to get me to sideload a random .apk at all and hijacking my clipboard is the problem.

I’m curious what western social media apps have attempted to directly download the .apk onto your device - I’ve had plenty that throw up splash pages that redirect me to google play store, but no legitimate site has ever unprompted served me a raw .apk before. That’s behavior you find on the AI slop sites that are just long strings of search terms to try and get you to click on them.

If there’s genuinely interest I can look at cleaning it up so other people can use it - but it’s really nothing fancy, and some of the time (due to how modlogs are structured in lemmy) it just doesn’t work.

Ah, yeah DDG uses the google browser engines. That could easily explain the different behavior.

It appears to be trying to force the download of the tiktok .apk directly - I haven’t compared the hashes but at least that’s what the names indicate. But the download, and the inserting random strings into my clipboard, happens without interaction a few seconds after the page loads. It’s very odd behavior to see from a legit site.

edit: no, I’m sorry, I know I should be good, this one is just sending me.

All war is stupid but what the fuck even is this shit anymore?

You can even cast both musket and minié balls over a campfire, and sharps rifles worked great with paper cartridges. Add to it that gunpowder was widely available in wholesale quantities at the time, and it would have been almost trivially easy for him to keep his troops supplied with ammo.

Sigh… Yeah, I know. Aren’t I incredible?

Here’s a link to the full comment thread, if anyone’s curious. Fair warning it’s long long, and it gets pretty depressing towards the end. I’d forgotten about it, and rereading it was something of a downer. I don’t think I was wrong, but I was for sure on the “brutal” side of the brutal/honesty spectrum by the time we hit comment depth.

Um… this isn’t misinformation. Heres one of the .apks it tries to download, the others are apparently all variations on that name - if this is just tiktok, then it’s still a pretty huge problem that it’s attempting to force-download itself onto my phone and is copying random stuff (the string “677e2163cbeed74442e2247e575770983c98bc9a30c649a397010bd06f476ef8” from that screenshot, there’s others I’ll spare you) onto my clipboard.