Hello, oh Fediverse! I'm hoping someone can share some of their wisdom with me.

At some point, the meaning of SUID (at least for Linux, or some distributions of it) changed subtly. In, for example, RHEL 7 and earlier, a SUID process could access things belonging to its original owner - it gained the privs of the new user, but that wasn't exclusive. RHEL 8 and later, a SUID process no longer has access to the privs of the user that launched the SUID binary. In recent Debian and FreeBSD the SUID process doesn't have access to its old user, but I haven't got older versions around to compare.

Is there a backstory or some flag day where this behaviour changed that anyone can remember?

#fediquestions #linux #security

I like to scroll through Mastodon with my phone’s browser but I’ve noticed, with the new update, that I can’t tell when videos have alt text anymore. Is anyone else experiencing this?

#techsupport
#FediQuestions

The posts and toots in the #fediverse are shown desc by timestamp. On my experience this is the reason why posts are only reacted / getting attention in the first hour or so.

If you have questions for the community are you waiting for a time where more users might be active?

#FediQuestion #fediquestions

OK here's where I have trouble bending my mind around the Fediverse...I'm currently using Mastodon and if I follow the right hashtags, I can see posts come in from Pixelfed...but if I wanted to use a Pixelfed client, I'd need to make an account on a Pixelfed server?

#fediverse #fediquestions

Folks of Fedi with multiple, potentially topic specific accounts: I'm considering starting an alt account for anything to do with photography. Have you found a way of getting a combined timeline view of your multiple accounts, or do you keep them separate? Is there any etiquette on boosting a post from an alt account (assuming you aren't just boosting every post)? PixelFed??

Also looking for recommendations for photography related instances with a good local timeline #fediquestions #fediquette