We have a test instance of Lemmy 0.18.2 running with our patches on top ready for testing:
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).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-61968607
The UK Supreme Court will be asked if the Scottish government can hold a vote without UK consent.
https://news.sky.com/story/roe-v-wade-overturned-by-supreme-court-live-updates-12637381
Roe v Wade has guaranteed the right to an abortion for almost 50 years. The decision by the conservative-majority Supreme Court paves the way to about half of the 50 US states banning or heavily restricting the procedure.
(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. )
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
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.
'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'
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.
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
Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a developing, third world nation, this is Europe.
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.
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
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.
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.
Azov fighters of the National Guard greased the bullets with lard against the Kadyrov orcs
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.
We are currently at the Ukraine-Poland border. Their Police and Army refused to let Africans cross they only allow Ukrainian.
Ukrainian forces brutally beating Indian Students in Ukraine after India abstained on UN vote against Russia.
::: spoiler Links in order, all archived https://web.archive.org/web/20220227200905/https://twitter.com/incontextmedia/status/1497608440134340610
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201110/https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497718700547346433
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201127/https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497878168216252416
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201135/https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1497652701890555914
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227200242/https://twitter.com/ng_ukraine/status/1497924614865002497
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201157/https://twitter.com/nzekiev/status/1497805019311218689
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-13/Syria-joins-China-proposed-Belt-Road-Initiative-16Mo0MJThUk/index.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59608641
Judges are reassured by US promises to reduce the risk of the Wikileaks founder taking his own life.
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