Maurice Ravel's Boléro performed on homemade 8-bit instruments. Official music video.

9 hours and 42 minutes of footage
52 mixer channels
13 neck- and bowties
9 different instruments
1 crazy automaton
0 regrets

In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that promises to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites — after KrebsOnSecurity revealed Onerep’s founder had created dozens of people-search services and was continuing to operate at least one of them. Sixteen months later, however, Mozilla is still promoting Onerep. This week, Mozilla announced its partnership with Onerep will officially end next month.

I've been noticing recently that a lot of posts in large communities are from [deleted] users (see the image at the bottom of this post for an example). I assume this is a means of pre-emptive ban-evasion and block-evasion by a user who is either running their own instance or just signing up a lot of accounts.

I quite like piefed's warning labels that appear on posts by users with low karma, and I also quite like being able to block users who spam my feed, and I feel like this post-then-delete-account tactic is an exploit to bypass any kind of accountability on the poster's part.

Here are some suggestions for how this problem could be mitigated:

• When a user deletes their account, their posts will no longer display in the Subscribed/Local/All feeds. Perhaps only showing if you visit the community page directly, or
• A post by a deleted user is down-ranked in the Top/Hot/Popular ranking system so that it appears much further down the page, or
• De-federate from the instance(s) that are allowing these post-then-delete-account tactics without intervention. Particularly if they are personal instances run by the individual who is doing this.

I haven't managed to catch a before/after of one of these posts to see what the username/domain looks like, but I imagine instance admins should be able to see the history of the post?

Example (and yes these were 7 consecutive posts in my feed all with the same issue):

Another well researched and well presented video by Benn Jordan. He worked with some security researchers to analyse the security of Flock surveillance cameras, and presents what they found, and what that means for the communities being watched by these cameras.