Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Some reputable security researchers and SREs on birdsite are sharing that Hive has already had a major security breach and responded to private disclosure with public whataboutism instead of immediately patching:

* https://twitter.com/dynamicsymmetry/status/1598330367374680064

Direct article link: https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/

Avoid, avoid avoid avoid with anything resembling sensitive data. This is about as big a red flag as they come.

@erincandescent@queer.af @Dex Yuuuuup

@Dex I'm deep into postgame and mostly agree here. There isn't a whole lot to do once story (main and side) is complete, and the raid gameplay loop is fun but needs a single player hook for doing it (school tournament battles are not a compelling replacement).

Money is basically free, and vitamins and feathers are easy to come by, so it's worse than SwSh but way easier than BDSP or mainline.

The new egg system flatly sucks. Easier shinies are good tho.

@erincandescent@queer.af @Dex Apparently they scoped most character interactions and writing to side content and postgame in this one. You have to go back to the school and take classes to get most of the early game writing, and you have to go back there again for postgame story. And it's... pretty good (and worth going back for), but missable if you're not looking for it.

The open world in the middle is pretty empty by comparison, which is weird.

@Tana At least, that's my own experience. Mileage varies, especially with better tools to explore and find communities now.

(Also minorly botched my editing above because I'm sleepy, but I think my meaning is legible there.)

@Tana At risk of sounding too clinical: having a weird set of highly specific set of interests, desires, and needs that overlap almost completely with others of similar species identity, and that don't seem to correspond to shared heritage or culture.

I had a lot of weird specific feelings that I didn't understand and came into mostly in isolation, and it was simultaneously relieving and very surprising how much they were shared. Easier to explain as there being something to that.

@dee@toot.cat @noracodes Nice, and apologies for misunderstanding. So IOW, its usage as a data feed that can be pulled in as a reference, searched, and used to establish evidence when making admin decisions, calibrating tools, etc. Which looks more like modern trust and safety orgs.

And yeah, using a similar structure to assist fedi admin, instead of having everyone reason this from first principles again with the next iteration of discussion software, is very compelling.

@dee@toot.cat @noracodes Just adding that this idea goes back further (with associated lessons learned, tradeoffs, etc) into RBLs and DNSBLs in the late 90s, in case y'all haven't explored those and so folks don't rediscover/relitigate the similar pros and cons of setting this up.

Wikipedia has a decent article up (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System-based_blocklist), but https://www.dnsbl.info and other pages offer a decent entry point into further research.

The fact you can abuse glitches in SV now to explore everything has given me a newfound appreciation for how Nintendo accepted this when they built Breath of the Wild, and how their solution to players accessing content early was essentially "go for it". GameFreak tried to meet this half way with gating, and players have immediately overridden their decision.

This helps me appreciate why BotW just gives you the tools from the start. Maybe SV should, too.