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which B is hard?

Only reason I see is because of phones breaking. My current Mi 10T Lite was great for the first two years, then it started getting annoying. I can no longer use Wallpaper Engine because of a stupid system update, notifications started getting stuck, sometimes it has other minor annoyances. The hardware is still fine, there’s no reason this phone shouldn’t work, but it doesn’t. Xiaomi clearly wants me to go buy another phone.

So I did. Just not from them. My Fairphone should be arriving any day now. My friend already got hers, and she got me super excited for it.

i don’t think there’s an api endpoint for that yet. the database definitely stores it, it would be doable, but it’s not implemented yet in the backend

yeah, the point is that if hyazinthe@feddit.de hashes to, say, blue, they can try to find a similar-looking username that also hashes to blue, therefore helping with the impersonation. if you hash a client nonce that’s different for everyone, you may hash to blue on my screen but green on yours, and there will be no relation between who hashes to which color on your screen or mine. the impersonator will have no way to guess if their name would match colors on either of our screens, and if we have, say, 25, colors, it will be a static 4% chance no matter what they do.

it already is though. you get stuff like “creator”, “mod”, or “admin” appended next to usernames, at least on the web ui (“creator” means op, idk why they worded it this way)

display names kinda run counter to this and I’m not certain they’re a good idea

i think they would be a good idea if they worked like they do on mastodon: you get the display name and profile pic displayed prominently, but you still have the full username displayed below, with the domain included.

damn, he was killing off subreddits before it was cool

i think this could be resolved by assigning a color to each user based on a hash. maybe people would try to find collisions there (i.e. specifically find usernames that get the same color as you), but if you do something like color_index = hmac(user_address, client_nonce) % color_count where client_nonce is unique to each client, it would be impossible to manipulate usernames to get a collision or even a higher chance at it.