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Good news, the Tesseract repo has either gone private or been deleted, and now ruleturns a 404 error
(pawb.social)
Well, good for reducing its presence. Not so much for forensics, unless someone grabbed a copy before deletion.
~~db0's fork was from another fork, which is almost three years old at this point.~~ Scratch that, github just reassigns the fork parent if the source repo gets deleted.
Haii, sorry, I’m still learning how to use computers
I’ve been loosely following the drama but I don’t really know what tesseract is or how it relates to lemmy as a whole. I think I saw that blahaj zone was using an older version, but they got included in the new shadowban list and are looking to move away. But what actually is it? Or what was it lol
Basically, it's a frontend/dashboard/UI that you can use instead of the default interface. Think of it as KDE for Linux, its the thing that shows you buttons and menus you can use to interact with Lemmy. It's a thing that people hosting an instance use mostly.
And if you're thinking "my interface system shouldn't decide my blocklist!" then yes, exactly.
Oh gotcha, wow, yeah I guess that would be fueling my confusion. Insane that a user interface itself would add a blocklist lmao. Like trying to make a steering wheel that won’t let you drive to bike shops because you think cyclists are too left leaning. Just a totally nonsensical concept
Also, to make it worse, it's open source software, but the blocklist isn't in the software. When you start up the software, it downloads a specific file (not in the open code) that has the block list.
There are a few open blocklists too though, like normal. You can turn those on or off at will. But not this secret one.
So yeah, it's 100% malicious.
Can't tell if serious or sockpuppet
That's uhhh... Yeah, maybe not the best example.
Look, I'm on Lemmy, my brain just automatically assumes everyone here is a huge nerd like me.
I understood, but I cant speak to the asker's tech level. But then, even as a hobbyists i use Linux and have ancient Fedora training.
Maybe easier to say its an interface for accessing lemmy and comparing it to your web browser though. Like saying Firefox or Edge shouldn't be able to filter what users and videos you can see on YouTube.
Still close enough to get the picture.
https://lemmy.world/post/49778547