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I've been around the Internet for a while now to see people abuse forums. Per the GitHub repo, I see that EXIF data is already stripped from images, but I'm not seeing any mention of extra data detection on Lemmy.

If I was at home I'd test this myself, but it's extremely trivial to hide data in images. This is commonly used by less technical distributors of CSAM, as well as some malware, and should be looked out for if it isn't already.

This post probably ages me so hard.

Hi all,

I'm Rob Maehl, the developer of WhyNotWin11, MSEdgeRedirect, and a few other Windows apps. I'm currently in the process of adding @[email protected]'s Search-Lemmy to MSEdgeRedirect which will allow you to search Lemmy directly from the Windows Start Menu. I had originally planned to add this feature for Reddit but we all know how that site ended up.

Currently, this feature is in the developer builds on my github. However, this feature won't be in the stable builds for a couple weeks. This is because the "preferred_instance" parameter is currently required in the URL, and I don't want to be yet another developer treating Lemmy.world as if it's the main instance. This should be fixed later on as the site will pull from a user cookie if this URL parameter is missing.

Hope y'all enjoy!

Dopamine go brrrrr

Context: I think lemmy.world tried upgrading again. Couldn't get past json errors for about 30 minutes

Dear god, this experience with them has been horrible.

I lent some money to a friend via it because they use it. I just wanted them to pay me back via PayPal. The friend forgot and sent the repayment via CashApp so I returned it as CashApp can't Cashout to any of the institutions I bank with. Instead of using my CashApp balance, it decided to charge my debit card for that transaction. No problem, I thought, this is something I've had happen elsewhere and is easily fixed with a phone call.

Checking in the app, they only have Chat listed. I tried the chat and it's either a damn Chat Bot, or their employees are stuck using stock replies and can't reply anything custom. I eventually found their phone number in their Terms of Service which the only option was a callback which took over 2 hours. Once I did get the callback it was very obviously someone overseas who did not understand the situation and was of no help. I ended up hanging up on them.

In the end, I've ended up sending them a "Pre-Filing Requirement to Attempt to Resolve Disputes" as required in their Terms of Service. Thankfully, I do shipping as part of my employment so this costed me nothing to ship a letter overnight with signature required. However, I'm sure I'll have to deal with a lot of bureaucracy now from their legal department's arbitration division.

Not once in my nearly 20 years of banking have I dealt with such a shitty financial company. With my credit union, while they can be a bit slow they've never given me issues trying to fix something. With PayPal, I've never had an overseas rep during a phone call and was able to get someone on the line during the same call (within business hours). Heck, even PNC was clunky to use, but it at least worked. CashApp obviously is doing the bare minimum and I hope they go out of business.