In this new world of adding #AI into all our tools, AI itself is not the problem, nor is it inherently bad. People's willingness to remain ignorant in things they now believe they have no reason to learn is the real problem.
🎉 Good News aus Larrys Welt Daumen Drücken hat sich gelohnt: Unser @gentoo ‑Stand auf der #FrOSCon2026 wurde offiziell angenommen!
Vielen Dank für die Organisation an das Team @FrOSCon ❤️
Wir freuen uns riesig darauf, Euch endlich mal nicht nur online, sondern bei einer eiskalten #Mate #persönlich zu treffen. Kompilieren können wir später; jetzt wird gefeiert! 😄
Also: Kommt vorbei, sagt Hallo, bringt Eure Fragen und Eure Begeisterung mit. Wir sehen uns in #SanktAugustin! 🚀
EU needs to make a stand on Play Integrity. If app devs enforce Play Integrity, this means only Google Certified devices can use banking, etc. This excludes all alternative mobile OS. No #postmarketOS, no #SailfishOS, no Android derivatives #GrapheneOS etc. You don't need Play Integrity. If someone is capable to install or use alternative OS, they sure know what to install or not install, it is on their responsibility. Using non-root but bootloader unlocked device (otherwise can't use alternative OS) does not make my device less secure. On the contrary, it is using an up to date OS with the latest security patches. Do we really want all mobile devices have to be Google Certified? No. #mobile #integrity #bootloader #unlocked #nonsense #Europe
@EUCommission is there any plan in motion to stop this monopoly from Google on Android? reCAPTCHA now also requires a Google Certified device status. Soon won't be able to use apps without being locked to Google.
Thankfully from what I see, the QR code verification in reCaptcha is a default option and user can change for visual or audio verification in one click. While the QR only is now used infernally in enterprises. At least for now.
I bet that Eu bureaucrats are instead really really happy about #PlayIntegrity since they gives them **apparent** total #censorship powers. Sadly I also bet they are too stupid to understand they are handling the keys of power to an evil entity overseas
@paoloredaelli I'm not sure I follow the reasoning behind EU wanting Play Integrity being a mandatory requirement for non Apple devices. Same way EU forced Apple to open their walled garden.
The only nuance thing here is, a Google Certified device means that they are running Google's proprietary blobs. So really, the course of action is, install alternative OS/use alternative OS and instead tell the devs of apps with Play Integrity checks that there are alternatives to check a device is not compromised - because that is what it should be about. Force Google to provide a different verification path that allows alternative ROMs/OS to be seen as safe.
eudi / wallet and everything eu related (w social) is full google service depending (all for security reasons...) I dont think that they will change their mind
@sakura84 it's worth raising awareness that there are alternatives to Google Play Integrity, for example Promon Shield from Norway promon.io/products/shield-mobi…, and many others. It definitely does not need to be a device that installs apps from the Play Store, and is GMS certified. F-Droid, Aurora Store work well on a deGoogled device but if the apps themselves don't work unless they detect that Play Store is installed, it means only Android with Google services can be used. No alternatives.
@WORM From what I know it's a bit of both. They often use a skin over an existing software stack so they don't have to deal with as much regulatory details, even though that's kinda part of their job.
- No desktops either if Google's QR captcha is any indication of where we're headed. Assuming this goes through, even desktops will be locked out of the web unless they're linked to a Google device by scanning the QR captcha with said device.
Or, Google could mandate AluminumOS to be able to pass their captcha on the desktop as well, and only through the Chrome browser.
Worst case, the end game will be thin clients tied to rented servers, which would ultimately be tied to your government ID.
This will fall on deaf ears. The neoliberal hegemony loves tech monopolies because it allows them to outsource the policing of digital space.
(The fact that Big Tech is even less democratically accountable than the real police is easily ignored because the policing is now off balance sheet. Same as privately owned 'public space' in cities which are policed by private security.)
They really are doing anything they can to lock down the digital world, so you in-practice do not own jack shit... "But it's to protect you", lol it's so THEY remain in control, so that THEY choose what software reaches who. I'm tired boss
A new spell added to the game with new sustained spells game feature!
Sustained spells reserve a portion of your mana while they remain active. That mana is not spent or lost, it is simply unavailable until the effect ends. You just need to cast the same spell again to disable it, remove the effect, and regain the reserved mana.
When you're building software aimed at a niche related to hype, the only thing you can do is hook people onto it. I mean, you're targeting the kind people who have an attention span of a fruit fly. Unless they're literally addicted to your software, they're going to forget it as soon as they notice the next shiny thing.
Discover new features and updates of /e/OS, Murena's deGoogled operating system and the Murena Workspace: A new wallpaper collection, Gmail migration, Murena Sign, Murena Meet and the Murena GS6, a new smartphone!
Been looking at this, my main problem is the banking apps, some of them have this insane idea that some of Googles spy ware needs to be installed for safety reasons 😡
Think this needs to be tackled in some way it is such a big block 😥
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If you're a person who uses an #AI tool to help you write stuff, and you the " "author" " are not reviewing and revising it, you are the problem with AI tools.
The "it works, who cares" attitude I keep seeing by people I know personally, and who have less #programming know-how than my dumb ass, is why it will take much longer than it likely could for any of these AI tools to be able to do what these sorta folk think they already can do.
""" Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how #Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo knows it has something to do with compiling everything. And why are we doing that? Well, besides being hardcore, the common sentiment goes for performance. So yeah, Gentoo users must be some kind of hardcore ricers who try to squeeze every last bit of their system performance.
To be honest, I don’t think that’s a good way to describe Gentoo. Yes, compiling is at the core of it. But performance? I don’t think so, at least not in the obvious, -O9999 -fzomg-fast way. The world has moved on, CPUs have gotten faster, optimizations have g
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New on #blog (this time with quotes from Fedi): "Why Gentoo?"
""" Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how #Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo knows it has something to do with compiling everything. And why are we doing that? Well, besides being hardcore, the common sentiment goes for performance. So yeah, Gentoo users must be some kind of hardcore ricers who try to squeeze every last bit of their system performance.
To be honest, I don’t think that’s a good way to describe Gentoo. Yes, compiling is at the core of it. But performance? I don’t think so, at least not in the obvious, -O9999 -fzomg-fast way. The world has moved on, CPUs have gotten faster, optimizations have gotten smarter, and distributions have started optimizing more aggressively. Optimization-wise, I suspect your average Ubuntu package with generic optimizations may be no slower than the equivalent Gentoo package fine-tuned for your CPU. And if it’s not, then it probably won’t make a real difference anyway.
There’s much more to Gentoo than that. Yes, some of it comes from building from source: the flexibility. But a lot of it comes from the wider Gentoo philosophy, the philosophy that brought us all together. The idea that Gentoo is the distribution we’re making for ourselves and people who enjoy Gentoo. So if I were to make a few arguments for Gentoo, I’d focus on that. And this is what I’d like to do here. """
Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo kn…
It turns out e-ink displays don't have to refresh slowly... This engineer made a controller to allow one to refresh at 60fps. It's quite remarkable. youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH…
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Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM co
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Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.
4. Gentoo supports sustainability.
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.
Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.
And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.
The trouble is, from my perspective, that being inattentive (the original ADD) is seen, by people who only know of ADHD with its hyperactivity, as simply being uninterested, forgetful, or bored.
Having a touch of the 'tism and being a lifelong fidget (stimming), doesn't help with people's perception of me.
I was diaged ADHD as a toddler (*shrug*), and autistic as an adult. I think what they saw was "hyperactive" was the stimming, as well as how intesnely animated I get when I'm excited about something. Otherwise, I have a very hard time stepping away from something I'm fixated on, and my executive dysfunction is just plain disabling. Also, my emotional expressions were a bit over the top when I was younger. They didn't come naturally to me, tried to fit in....
TV was where I learned emotional expressions, mostly cartoons and sit coms. Sooo.... my faked facial expressions were... exagerated. That was bound to happen when getting constant complaints I alledgedly didn't feel the feeling I said I was feeling, or didn't express interest or excitement over a gift well enough to be considered "greatful". Ugh.
Per my last post, (which can be found here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975), I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat... it only works when plugged into wall power. The battery I have does not supply enough power to fully enable the modem through USB power, due the raspberry pi being very power hungry. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple problem is actually a larger problem that seems to only be solved by an overly complicated solution: designing a custom battery controller PCB that responds to the pi5's (or ideally, a different processor entirely) needs more appropriately.
Per my last post, (which can be found here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975), I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat... it only works when plugged into wall power. The battery I have does not supply enough power to fully enable the modem through USB power, due the raspberry pi being very power hungry. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple problem is actually a larger problem that seems to only be solved by an overly complicated solution: designing a custom battery controller PCB that responds to the pi5's (or ideally, a different processor entirely) needs more appropriately.
Take a look at the state of the device here:
Last time I posted here, many interested folks responded with great ideas and feedback. Fortunately, one of the comments lead me to the project that would ultimately end this project in its current state. Link to that comment here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975/227795…
Its flaws are visible. While the device has personality, it lacks ease of use. These days I use it as a "cyberdeck"/field debugging computer, and I use it with a small controller-sized Riitek keyboard, because the screen's touch capability is on the fritz, likely because of the poor design choice to leave the screen's ribbon cable partially exposed.
This leads me to the conclusion: this project is falling into "hobby" or more accurately, unsupported status. I like the device for my personal use, and I may update the design in the future for my own purposes, and release it for free for public use, though I don't imagine there will be a huge amount of interest in building this device considering the skyrocketing cost of Pi devices nowadays. There is a more reasonable path forward, and I alluded to it earlier: custom PCBs. That's where the SPIRIT project comes in: github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
You can see in one of the pictures above, the SPIRIT project is designing a phone that can be completely replicated at home. Well, once they get there it will be. I've exchanged brief communications with the individual running the project, Jan, and while he hasn't stated that these projects are linked in any way, I'd like to think that the SPIRIT project carries forward the values and goals of the project I started. If you were at all interested in my project, give the SPIRIT project github a like or favorite.
Take a look at the v3lectronics youtube channel where Jan livestreams work on the SPIRIT project: youtube.com/@V_Electronics
Please contribute if you have any level of knowledge to contribute! These projects thrive on the careful contributions of other humans across the world!
SPIRIT-ual Successor to the "Building a Linux Phone" project
Sorry its been so long since there was an update regarding this project.
Per my last post, (which can be found here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975), I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat... it only works when plugged into wall power. The battery I have does not supply enough power to fully enable the modem through USB power, due the raspberry pi being very power hungry. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple problem is actually a larger problem that seems to only be solved by an overly complicated solution: designing a custom battery controller PCB that responds to the pi5's (or ideally, a different processor entirely) needs more appropriately.
Take a look at the state of the device here:
Last time I posted here, many interested folks responded with great ideas and feedback. Fortunately, one of the comments lead me to the project that would ultimately end this project in its current state. Link to that comment here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975/227795…
Its flaws are visible. While the device has personality, it lacks ease of use. These days I use it as a "cyberdeck"/field debugging computer, and I use it with a small controller-sized Riitek keyboard, because the screen's touch capability is on the fritz, likely because of the poor design choice to leave the screen's ribbon cable partially exposed.
This leads me to the conclusion: this project is falling into "hobby" or more accurately, unsupported status. I like the device for my personal use, and I may update the design in the future for my own purposes, and release it for free for public use, though I don't imagine there will be a huge amount of interest in building this device considering the skyrocketing cost of Pi devices nowadays. There is a more reasonable path forward, and I alluded to it earlier: custom PCBs. That's where the SPIRIT project comes in: github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
You can see in one of the pictures above, the SPIRIT project is designing a phone that can be completely replicated at home. Well, once they get there it will be. I've exchanged brief communications with the individual running the project, Jan, and while he hasn't stated that these projects are linked in any way, I'd like to think that the SPIRIT project carries forward the values and goals of the project I started. If you were at all interested in my project, give the SPIRIT project github a like or favorite.
Take a look at the v3lectronics youtube channel where Jan livestreams work on the SPIRIT project: youtube.com/@V_Electronics
Please contribute if you have any level of knowledge to contribute! These projects thrive on the careful contributions of other humans across the world!
Building an open hardware & open software smartphone that can be used daily by the general public.
I'm a mostly self-taught individual who is extremely passionate about engineering. Studying mechatronics engineering. I main electronics and IT.
If you're looking for additional context, it would likely be found by reading the previous post which I linked in the post body. Here is the link again: lemmy.zip/post/53113975
Edit: But, that’s besides the point! Give the SPIRIT phone project a look on github! github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
This is intentional. In this case, you should tap the crosspost to view full text.
Alternatively if you don’t prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.
Seems like its a setting in the FE, with an, in my opinion, non-sensible default. Might be worth submitting an issue and asking for the default for that setting to be flipped, since it seems to be causing confusion.
Describe the bug I crossposted a post to a different community but the text I wrote doesnt show up on voyager on the crossposted post even though if I edit it it shows up. To Reproduce Make a link ...
Not sure how my comment was at all passive. From my perspective using the default lemmy.zip frontend, I can see the post body, which answered the question you were asking before you had asked it. I clearly stated what I thought you were asking for, mentioned how to find the info and that it was already provided, and then provided the link again. If anything, my comment was aggressive, there was no passivity about it.
Now that I'm aware that some frontends for federated social media do not show the body of crossposts, which I verified by checking the voyager frontend for myself, I went ahead and checked the github for the FE. I found this closed issue: github.com/aeharding/voyager/i…
Here is an excerpt from that link
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Not sure how my comment was at all passive. From my perspective using the default lemmy.zip frontend, I can see the post body, which answered the question you were asking before you had asked it. I clearly stated what I thought you were asking for, mentioned how to find the info and that it was already provided, and then provided the link again. If anything, my comment was aggressive, there was no passivity about it.
Now that I'm aware that some frontends for federated social media do not show the body of crossposts, which I verified by checking the voyager frontend for myself, I went ahead and checked the github for the FE. I found this closed issue: github.com/aeharding/voyager/i…
Here is an excerpt from that link
This is intentional. In this case, you should tap the crosspost to view full text.
Alternatively if you don't prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.
Hope that addresses your concerns, which are unrelated to the actual post.
Regardless as I mentioned in the post body, my project is ending, so the main image of the post is just an attention grabber to funnel people towards this project led by a different team. github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
Describe the bug I crossposted a post to a different community but the text I wrote doesnt show up on voyager on the crossposted post even though if I edit it it shows up. To Reproduce Make a link ...
In case you weren't aware, everything from the crosspost shows as intended in Friendica, same (formatting aside) as I see it if I go to the lemmy.zip post.
Really cool project too!! I've wanted for quite some time to build one that mounts on my arm like in the later episodes of Chuck. I was thinking of runing #postmarketOS on mine though.
Hope ye stick with it, this is what it's all about. \m/
I wanted to know more about your project, from your own words. Instead I got a lecture about how "dumb" I am, so I'm no longer interested, because you seem like a jerk. Whether that was intensional or is coming from an ill-adapted social outlook, I'm still not sure of.
You seem to care more about being correct than talking about your project, which is your choice, I suppose.
I'd close this with a glib sign-off like "have a nice day", but I'm not sure having a nice day is within your array of skills.
Weird to put quotes around a word I did not use. Additionally I have not made any presumptions about you or your intelligence. But my post about a project (again, the main point of my post being a project that is not mine) is not a support forum for you not being able to see the bodies of crossposts. Or would you have preferred I copy pasted the post body into a comment for you?
Maybe you didn't see what the actual problem causing the misunderstanding was but let me clarify it for you:
Alternatively if you don’t prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.
Once you do that, you'll have the info you were asking for in your initial comment, or, more importantly, you won't have this misunderstanding with others in the future.
Also, I don't know how many times I have to type it, my project is ending. I didn't post this to talk about my project, the goal of this post to raise awareness for a project I have nothing to do with. Your imagined issues with me causing you to not loo
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Weird to put quotes around a word I did not use. Additionally I have not made any presumptions about you or your intelligence. But my post about a project (again, the main point of my post being a project that is not mine) is not a support forum for you not being able to see the bodies of crossposts. Or would you have preferred I copy pasted the post body into a comment for you?
Maybe you didn't see what the actual problem causing the misunderstanding was but let me clarify it for you:
Alternatively if you don’t prefer this behavior, you can disable crosspost embed in Settings to get the normal Lemmy behavior.
Once you do that, you'll have the info you were asking for in your initial comment, or, more importantly, you won't have this misunderstanding with others in the future.
Also, I don't know how many times I have to type it, my project is ending. I didn't post this to talk about my project, the goal of this post to raise awareness for a project I have nothing to do with. Your imagined issues with me causing you to not look at the project is only detrimental for you.
Sorry you don't like how I type I guess?
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this is the sorta shit that gives these #ai #chatbots get a bad rap 😆
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The latest commit on the '25.11' channel of NixOS is hash abcdefg, committed on December 1st, 2025.
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really?! so what’s this then?
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/0c88e1f2bdb93d5999019e99cb0e61e1fe2af4c5
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The latest commit on the '25.11' channel of NixOS is hash 072d539, committed on April 18th, 2023.
« If you’re a hair salon, or a tattoo artist, or a restaurant, or whatever, please just have a fucking website where I can go and see your rates and hours. Not all of your potential clients are on these platforms, and I suspect that even many of the ones who are appreciate a simple, unadorned site that tells them what they need to know at a glance. »
The thing that made me not get a Facebook account 20 years ago was reading their T&Cs and seeing that I would grant them an irrevocable, sublicensable, commercial copyright license to anything that I uploaded, for them to use for any purpose. Oh, and there was also a thing that I agreed to be liable if I didn't have the rights to grant Facebook those rights.
It's amazing to me how many companies will click through this and literally give Facebook the right to use their brand for any purpose.
@david_chisnall I got an e-mail asking me to join Facebook and it had a "people you might know" list and one of the people on it was my high school girlfriend's father. And I was like "okay, that's creepy" and so I never signed up.
Like, it's not hard to see how they connected me to him. But I don't need companies making algorithmic deductions about my social circles without my consent. @lproven
@david_chisnall I did something just as effective, I watched the movie. It's beyond me how anyone who watched that movie could then sign-up to Facebook or any of Meta's other services. It tells you exactly the sort of people who run those businesses and why you should avoid them like the plague.
SteamOS is Valve’s Linux-based operating system. It features a seamless user experience optimized for gaming, while retaining access to the power and flexibility of a PC, and plays tens of thousands of games on Steam.
If someone is asking for help with using this place, could you let them know about my account, and also let them know about my website? I'm totally unofficial so people only find out about me by worth of mouth 🙂
I have a website full of easy-to-understand guides for using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse at:
Can you offer any wisdom on how to create widgets for Misskey? @xaetacore and I want to embed our IRC client as an intractable element somewhere but can't quite figure out AiScript.
Unfortunately I'm not a developer so can't help with programming stuff. Sorry! 😞 Have you tried asking in the "Discussions" section of the Misskey Github? github.com/misskey-dev/misskey…
I'm mainly trying to provide tech support for people unfamiliar with the Fediverse.
Bookmarked and boosted. Here's an account that provides excellent Fediverse tips and guidance. Pleez let all your friends know about Fedi.tips. Especially good for people new to Mastodon! #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #FediTips
I always wondered what etiquette is on fedi. Like I would shyly do "Hey you can look at @ feditips @ social ----" instead of doing direct mention. Or direct mention is fine? It's rare but if I find someone I can help out then I do lead them to your website. Thanks for making place where people can look up for quick help. Also eased my migration process as it's looked lot harder and one way ish~ then it is really.
It is absolutely 100% fine to mention me! Thank you for spreading the word 🙏
Usually mentions are fine in general, I don't think most people are bothered by them unless it's spam? As long as there's a good non-abusive reason why someone is being mentioned it's usually okay.
I was wondering what is the PixelFed, I've seen mentioned around a couple of times. And then I've seen somebody boosting this post, found your site. And there - all the answers to exactly the questions I had! This is immensely helpful to people just arriving here and dealing with the complex new world of Fediverse.
Aww, thank you Lucija! 🙏 I'm really blushing 😊 That's really kind of you, I hope people are finding these guides useful!
I also just saw you made a donation on ko-fi, thank you so much for that! It's going to make a big difference in keeping these sites and accounts going, I'm very very grateful! 👏
this post prompted me to chase down a long held niggle: can you view the local timeline of other servers? Turn out the limitation is with my client Tusky. Subway Tooter works just fine fedi.tips/how-do-i-browse-the-…
This is one of the easiest and most user friendly apps on the web. Its clean and dosent flood you with unwanted feeds and engagement bait aimed to outrage. If you can use Facebook or X, Mastodon is a breeze.
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Denzil Ferreira
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Didek
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Thankfully from what I see, the QR code verification in reCaptcha is a default option and user can change for visual or audio verification in one click. While the QR only is now used infernally in enterprises. At least for now.
Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Denzil Ferreira • • •Denzil Ferreira
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •@paoloredaelli I'm not sure I follow the reasoning behind EU wanting Play Integrity being a mandatory requirement for non Apple devices. Same way EU forced Apple to open their walled garden.
The only nuance thing here is, a Google Certified device means that they are running Google's proprietary blobs. So really, the course of action is, install alternative OS/use alternative OS and instead tell the devs of apps with Play Integrity checks that there are alternatives to check a device is not compromised - because that is what it should be about. Force Google to provide a different verification path that allows alternative ROMs/OS to be seen as safe.
Sakura the princess kitten
in reply to Denzil Ferreira • • •I dont think that they will change their mind
Denzil Ferreira
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promon.ioCory Sanin
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in reply to Denzil Ferreira • • •> EU needs ...
Do you realize that #technazi bros daily income is bigger than estimated life-earnings of the EU politicians of the past century, all of them?
Do we really expect EU politicians to resist this?
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
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DFX4509B (Joshua Mason)
in reply to Denzil Ferreira • • •- No desktops either if Google's QR captcha is any indication of where we're headed. Assuming this goes through, even desktops will be locked out of the web unless they're linked to a Google device by scanning the QR captcha with said device.
Or, Google could mandate AluminumOS to be able to pass their captcha on the desktop as well, and only through the Chrome browser.
Worst case, the end game will be thin clients tied to rented servers, which would ultimately be tied to your government ID.
Tom Stoneham
in reply to Denzil Ferreira • • •This will fall on deaf ears. The neoliberal hegemony loves tech monopolies because it allows them to outsource the policing of digital space.
(The fact that Big Tech is even less democratically accountable than the real police is easily ignored because the policing is now off balance sheet. Same as privately owned 'public space' in cities which are policed by private security.)
Bloodaxe
in reply to Denzil Ferreira • • •