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substantial price hike
it’s €50 more expensive than the FP4 with the same RAM/storage configuration on its release (€650 fot 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage).
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ProtonMail exposing Threads user data harvesting posting the same screenshot from Apple's App Store that multiple other accounts on Fedi have posted, often in comparison with several Mastodon clients' app listings.
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oh no
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it's called Embrace-Extend-Extinguish and yes, that's what people are concerned about.
> Recently I accidentally made a Fediverse post which went viral: >> stop using discord for your open source communities > That post is short, punchy, opinionated, and prescriptive, which I suspect is the cause for its virality. > Unfortunately, like many micro-blog posts, it lacks nuance, which many replies highlighted. I made the post to vent my frustration at needing to join a Discord server to interact with a community, so it is far from a measured critique of the subject. > This blog post is an attempt to address those nuances in greater detail. This is not an exhaustive analysis, and I’ve resolved to not let “perfect” be the enemy of “done”.
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Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps
not everything needs a mobile app, sheesh. both kbin and Lemmy have great mobile websites.
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but no one uses Mastodon and also it's so haaaaaaaaaaaaaard
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man, I wish. my bank's app used to have its own built-in contactless payment option (and it would even appear in Android's "default apps" section as a payment handler!) but then they moved to Google Pay "due to a popular demand" :/
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or use Consent-O-Matic to automatically reject all the non-essential cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
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I'm still using the mobile website until the apps mature a little bit. it's surprisingly functional.
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you can follow him from another Fediverse service, like Mastodon.
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it looks like it's a fork of discontinued Lemmur https://github.com/LemmurOrg/lemmur
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no, just pretty yucky, given how their CEO is a homophobe and how they're trying to push crypto and everything.
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but then you have to use Brave.
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yeah, I try to avoid giving Google more data whenever I can
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I use gesture navigation and the back button works without reloading.
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like I've said, it works fine for me: https://streamable.com/fb300o
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from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:
uBO, of course. note: you guys don't need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google
also make sure to check the "do not bother" list here: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
"We are delighted to announce the launch of a remarkable new feature that simplifies the process of importing your Instagram content directly into Pixelfed. With the Import from Instagram feature, you can seamlessly transfer your photos, captions, and even hashtags from your Instagram account to Pixelfed, ensuring a smooth transition without losing your cherished memories or creative expressions."
www.gamingonlinux.com
> It does, however, still work quite well with the Windows version via Steam Play Proton on desktop Linux and is Steam Deck Verified against the Windows version in Proton. So while it's a loss of support for their Native build, it's still fully playable on Linux.
github.com
> They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. > What now? > Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. > Assume it's just the start. > Assume they'll ask GitHub to takedown the repos (if so go to our Gitea https://gitea.invidious.io/iv-org ). > Assume the team wont be able to work on Invidious. > You know what you have to do. > May Invidious live and prosper, with, or without us. > PS: We won't do anything unless we have to. > PS-2: If we are forced to quit, any funds remaining will go to Framasoft (and maybe some other organization working on FOSS/privacy)
technomancers.ai
In a surprising move, Japan’s government recently reaffirmed that it will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training. The policy allows AI to use any data “regardless of whether it is for non-profit or commercial purposes, whether it is an act other than reproduction, or whether it is content obtained from illegal sites or otherwise.”
...to keep running as is. creator of Apollo, a popular Reddit client for iOS, relays his talks with Reddit about upcoming ridiculous API pricing.
whatsnewinpublishing.com
Beginning June 1, paywall to be removed from Time.com and its archival content from the last 100 years
www.npr.org
In this Tuscan town, some cooks have rediscovered the energy-saving cooking box, a tool their grandparents used during World War II. An enterprising nonprofit here is producing useful — and stylish — insulating boxes that use less gas than traditional Italian cooking.
www.independent.co.uk
in this episode of Twitter's dumpster fire, a $8 verification fee makes Eli Lilly lose more than $8 in value.
I stumbled across this paper analyzing different kinds of data collected by two most popular Android keyboard apps: Gboard and Swiftkey, as well as FOSS AnySoftKeyboard.
I get the reasoning behind the decision, and the developers have mentioned on Signal forums a few times over the past few years that the SMS part is a legacy feature that they don't actively maintain, but for someone like me who used Signal as their SMS client to reduce the number of apps on my phone, it's still quite sad to see.