"I want to be a human being, not a human doing. I couldn't keep that pace up if I tried" -Scatman's World. jonny. they/them. Bisexual Bigender. 26. Artist, writer, gamedev, nature lover, ttrpg opinion haver


janederscore
@janederscore

no offense to the people making cute little widgets on cohost and i do believe them that they've all been pretty careful to prevent themselves from accidentally building ip scrapers and such. however the fact that ethics are the only thing that appears to be preventing someone from doing that Intentionally on their own funnie little poasts is uh, Concerning



Predstrogen
@Predstrogen
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jeady
@jeady
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minecraft
@minecraft

fun fact: these are made using PHP embedded as images (since cohost doesn't sanitize img src attributes, and the requests ignore CORS since they're inline images), and unlike when your browser fetches HTML documents, PHP files and the scripts within are processed entirely on their original server and only the result is sent to your machine, so these widgets are effectively closed-source and you can only take people's word for it that they're anonymizing your data!