Honestly* everyone, idek wtf tesseracts is, or for... Randomly just started seing memes and they kept going. Not even interested enough to dig into it

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Zarobi 8 points 3 months ago

It's peak drama tbh

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eldavi 3 points 3 months ago

that's what the the tesseract developer was hoping that we would all do.

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antonim 8 points 3 months ago

Btw what are the realistic chances the guy suffers some actual consequences for the bullshit he has done?

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luciferofastora 9 points 3 months ago

What consequences are you thinking about? If you're talking legal, I don't expect db0 to press charges, and I don't think he's done anything legally significant to anyone else. Being a dick isn't a crime.

Aside from that, odds are Tesseract is gonna disappear from most instances because mods generally like to have control of their moderation. I don't know what other relevance he might have, but he'll probably just fade from sight.

He'd already taken a hiatus, come back, been unhappy with the state of lemmy, tried to "fix it", got called out. Maybe he'll leave for good this time.

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antonim 4 points 3 months ago

I'm not a lawyer, but producing and distributing malware sounds like it might be illegal. Or should, at least.

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luciferofastora 1 point 3 months ago

I mean, yeah, sure. But who's gonna sue or press charges?

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Quibblekrust 4 points 3 months ago

Those things don't apply to most crimes. The whole "pressing charges" thing is a trope or meme, except for a few specific cases like minor assault, minor property damage, defamation, certain sexual offenses (varies greatly between municipalities), etc. The vast majority of crime is prosecuted by the state without needing the victim's consent.

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GreenKnight23 4 points 3 months ago

I don't think he's done anything legally significant to anyone else. Being a dick isn't a crime.

he created the legal definition of a botnet, which is a crime.

dbzer0.com is hosted out of Bavaria. that means his botnet crossed international borders which means he can be charged by every country along the way of the crime.

all it would take is some anonymous tips to the FBI and German authorities and he would be investigated and likely charged.

dude was an asshole for stuffing a hidden blacklist into his platform. once he made the change to create a botnet, he became a criminal.

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filcuk 3 points 3 months ago

I'm genuinely interested in knowing whether a case like this would be picked up at all. In the UK, it appears there is no minimal amount od damage incurred, so in such case I'd really think it's possible. Db0 don't even need to be the ones to sue or report the incident according to what I could find.

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T156 3 points 3 months ago

At the very least, I can't see mods wanting to have a front-end that hides things in ways that they can't turn off.

Otherwise, people on the blocklist would become effectively immune to moderators using the front-end, because they'd be completely hidden.

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luciferofastora 1 point 3 months ago

Yeah, I know that my instance's admins have announced they'll be shutting down their Tesseract frontend. As I said, I expect others will as well for the reasons you mention, but I haven't kept track (and don't see their posts pinned to my feed obviously) so I didn't want to assume.

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Ensign_Crab 3 points 3 months ago

He's a standard centrist democrat who got a tiny bit of power.

Of course he abused it, mainly against trans people and the left.

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FoxtrotDeltaTango 7 points 3 months ago

Nah, worse, he’s a chudservative

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Ensign_Crab 4 points 3 months ago

If he were a chudservative instead of a centrist, he wouldn't also have conservative instances on there, and centrists wouldn't be defending his targeting of the left.

Instead, they're like "I didn't know maga.place was a leftist instance."

Got banned for a month from one of the 196es for pushing back on that particular centrist pro-censorship narrative.

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eldavi 5 points 3 months ago

i wonder what it means that this comment is downvoted and completely true.

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Ensign_Crab 4 points 3 months ago

It means centrists like censorship of the left and don't like being called out on it. AdmiralPatrick did what any of them would do in his situation.

Since genocide isn't beyond the pale, why would censorship be?

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