We have a test instance of Lemmy 0.18.2 running with our patches on top ready for testing:

https://test.hexbear.net

Lemmy has been seeing a lot of activity recently, so this release brings with it a lot of changes (some of which we are hoping are going to fix some of the jank y'all have probably been experiencing). You can see the full list of changes here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases. This is also the release that removes websockets!

Disclaimer: Anything you post will be nuked after we're done testing, nothing is being saved from the test instance.

If you encounter a bug please let us know what happened, how we can reproduce it, and your OS & browser in the comments below. The more detail, the more likely we can fix things!

Hexbear was a victim of a targeted XSS attack similar to the attack many other Lemmy instances have seen.

The account that first leveraged the attack was registered on 2023-07-10 at 03:58 UTC, the fix for the vulnerability was applied by around 04:35 UTC. This leaves a ~40 minute window in which anyone browsing the site could have had their account hijacked.

The attacker was able to act (post, comment, DM) as the account they hijacked. They will also have been able to view/use the compromised account's settings page. This means they will have been able to see users' email addresses. Some accounts that were compromised were temporarily banned, these bans have now been lifted.

If you were using the site during the above time window, please double check your account settings to see if anything was changed.

Passwords were not stolen, JWTs were. We have just invalidated all old JWTs so the attacker no longer has access to the hijacked accounts (this is why all users have been logged out).

Context: https://hexbear.net/post/159221

Hi everyone, we're excited to announce that we are ready to do the final site migration back to Lemmy. Before we actually push the new version to the main site, we want to test the new version of Lemmy we're running to catch bugs and any weird behaviour we can fix quickly before we move do the move.

~~The final move is (tentatively) scheduled for next weekend (downtime will be announced once this is confirmed).~~ This is no longer the plan but it will still be soon.

We have a test Lemmy instance from a recent-ish snapshot of the site that we need people to try using. You can login with your normal account details and just post away.

~~Test Lemmy instance URL: https://test.hexbear.net~~ Testing is complete.

Disclaimer: Anything you post will be nuked after a week or two, nothing is being saved from this test instance.

If you encounter a bug please let us know what happened, how we can reproduce it, and your OS & browser in the comments below. The more detail, the more likely we can fix things!

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Gammons mad in the comments of course

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf

I regret to inform you it's Not That Good

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

(Please send me links to any examples I've missed, I'll add them to this post. Also feel free to send this post elsewhere and use it as agitprop. )

CNN

It’s one thing for sarin gas to be used on people in far away Syria who are Muslim and of a different culture. What is Europe going to do when it is on European soil, done to Europeans?

-- Julia Ioffe

Source

CBS News

This isn't a place ... like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European ... city where you wouldn't expect that, or hope that it's going to happen.

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BBC News

'It's very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair...being killed every day by Putin's missiles'

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Al Jazeera

What's compelling is just looking at them, the way they're dressed, these are prosperous...middle class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from areas in the middle east that are still in a big state of war, these are not people trying to get away from areas in north Africa, they look like any European family that you would live next door to.

Source

NBC News

These are not refugees from Syria, these are refugees from neighbouring Ukraine....These are Christians, so, white, they're very similar to people who live in Poland

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ITV News

Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a developing, third world nation, this is Europe.

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BFM TV

We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombing of the Syrian regime backed by Putin, we’re talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours to save their lives.

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The Telegraph

They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations. It can happen to anyone

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Other examples

French media doing the same

Example 1

Bulgarian PM

These are not the refugees we are used to. They are Europeans, intelligent, educated people, some are IT programmers...this is not the usual refugee wave of people with an unknown past. No European country is afraid on them.

Translation source

Other source

Black people blocked from escaping Ukraine/entering nearby countries

A Nigerian medical student at Poland/Ukraine border (Medyka-Shehyni) told me she has been waiting 7hrs to cross, she says border guards are stopping black people and sending them to the back of the queue, saying they have to let 'Ukrainians' through first.

Source

Official Ukrainian National Guard Twitter account

Azov fighters of the National Guard greased the bullets with lard against the Kadyrov orcs

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Denmark likely to exempt Ukrainians from controversial refugee jewllery law

A controversial law allowing Danish authorities to confiscate valuable items from refugees is unlikely to be applied to Ukrainians who seek protection in the Nordic country.

Source

Others (unconfirmed/unverified)

We are currently at the Ukraine-Poland border. Their Police and Army refused to let Africans cross they only allow Ukrainian.

Source/video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Ukrainian forces brutally beating Indian Students in Ukraine after India abstained on UN vote against Russia.

Source 1

Source 2

positive news related to Syria? gasp