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I like tech, bicycles, and nature.
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We hope that Google will change its stance and give people the choice and tools to protect themselves from pervasive tracking technology and invasive advertising.
“Unlikely” would be an understatement in terms of Google ever being accepting of adblockers. That web attestation/DRM stuff is really telling
Nope, they are computers that run a Java-based OS.
If we want to talk about smartcards in general (contactless, chip-based, dongle-based) some of them only store/retrieve data, some only store a single unchangeble identifier, but others like banking cards & transit cards tend to run a small operating system that you can talk to, and even run applications on.
With a cheap USB card reader, you can actually interact with the operating system on a chip-based bank card using Linux
I’m interested in knowing too!
Google messages also has some annoying moments where the RCS will just quit working for no reason at all, first falling back from e2ee to standard RCS which is very annoying, and in some cases it will drop even further back to SMS if you haven’t prevented it from doing so in the settings.
The messages app feels great to use, but it’s privacy attempts aside from the e2ee are just not there IMO
Raddle user learns how the Internet works 🤯
In all seriousness though, although this is a concern, in Email in particular the solution most choose is to just disable images, so it isn’t really a sincere comparison IMO.
We could maybe mitigate this with…
- Proxying & caching - Instance would cache a copy of the commented image and serve it from there, blocking the IP of the user from being exposed. This could introduce some additional latency and fill up server storage faster
- CSP Header & Local caching - Client could block the name of the instance from being transferred, and also cache a copy of the image locally. This doesn’t protect the user’s IP address in any way, but would hinder the ability to count how many times a particular IP has viewed/accessed a post
- Shared Lemmy image proxies - Image requests are proxied through a randomly selected Lemmy image proxy. This would ‘hide’ the origin IP to all but the volunteer proxy provider. I’d personally be willing to host a few of these if this ever became a thing
You should be able to from your Google account, if you head to the “data and privacy” tab in your account settings and go to “Web and app activity”.
Apps with microtransactions may not work if they’re downloaded from Aurora (as far as I know, apps can check what store they’re downloaded from), but it’s worth a try anyway just in case.
On Lemmy, you can check out electronics-related ones on discuss.tchncs.de
There’s also a ton of programming related ones on programming.dev, only listed a few below
- https://lmmy.to/c/programming@programming.dev
- https://lmmy.to/c/auai@programming.dev (Actually Useful AI)
- https://lmmy.to/c/python@programming.dev
Not sure obout Mastodon though
A lot of the arguments on that subreddit seem agenda driven from my perspective. While there are real concerns (user data sent and stored outside of Europe, right to be forgotten as mentioned by another user) the people there seem really fixated on the developers specifically and their beliefs, as well as deletion of user data.
If any one of the users there put their money where their mouth is and explained in a logical, sensible, neutral way to the devs why Lemmy should send federated deletion requests for example (claims made in that thread that Lemmy doesn’t, I haven’t verified if this is the case myself), the devs would probably take it on board the same way they removed the mandatory hard coded slur filter.
At the end of the day though, Kbin and Raddle seem like a solution to the general consensus in that thread, yet they get very little mention. The majority of the participants chose to bash rather than to fix, forcing their views on others inconsiderate of people’s threat models, and while they have every right to do so, a community with that kind of closed minded perspective is not something I’m into. I’d rather they stay on Reddit 👍
As for me personally… Lemmy could be better, but as a federated network with no need to be supported by ads, no API restrictions, as well as public mod logs for transparency & accountability, I really like it and interested in seeing where it goes. There are inevitably going to be issues, and a lot of the discussions I’ve seen here on Lemmy show an interest in improving things, vs reddit discussions where it’s the opposite.
Another Jerboa user here, pretty neat app but there are times where it becomes a little unresponsive on my device. Feels pretty similar to Infinity which is something I like.
The lemmyBB project from that list seems pretty neat though, could be an old-school way to browse lemmy on a desktop and might even benefit some communities depending on the primary format of content.
Hoping we get some more Android app variety for Lemmy, although imo we’re spoiled for choice when looking at available apps for other federated software
First one that came to mind when I saw the title TBH. First it was period tracking apps, now this. Scary state of things