Notices by Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames@hci.social)

I wonder if *one* of the incentives for Google giving out a VPN for Google One subscribers, Google Fi users, and now Google Pixel owners is that it makes it harder to block ads, e.g. with something like Pi-Hole.

I’m genuinely happy to see traffic encrypted through a VPN becoming more the default, and I also don’t really believe Google will use it for ad targeting or anything due to its anonymity by design—but I feel like there may be more than just one-upping Apple’s privacy claims at play.

Low key considering grabbing a secondhand OnePlus 6T for testing GNOME/GTK/Flatpak apps on a phone…

The most profitable company in the history of humanity branding itself as caring about individual privacy has to be one of the most effective marketing dupes ever.

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-ipad-privacy-problems-data-gathering-1849855092

In case you were wondering, Dell’s newly-announced UltraSharp 32 6K display comes in at an “ideal for HiDPI” rating from Dippi!

https://cassidyjames.com/dippi/?d=32&w=6144&h=3456&t=d

This means it should deliver a reasonably-sized UI while also showing off the benefits of true, pixel-perfect integer-scaled HiDPI: 4× crisper text, UI, and images without the blurriness of fractional scaling.

More details about the display from The Verge:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/3/23537262/dell-6k-monitor-apple-4k-webcam-ces

#HiDPI #Dippi #Dell

Say hello to Tally for Plausible, a rebrand of my Plausible app to better differentiate it from Plausible Analytics itself!

The app supports:
• Your dashboard from Plausible.io
• Custom domains
• A refreshed design
• Cross-desktop light/dark style
• A more app-like experience
• Theoretically, phones!*

Grab it now from Flathub:
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.cassidyjames.plausible

#PlausibleAnalytics #GTK #GTK4 #GNOME #Adwaita #Flatpak

*If you have a Linux phone and want to test Tally, I’d love to see what it looks like.

Working on a little Plausible app update while learning how to use LibAdwaita. It’s pretty easy!

#PlausibleAnalytics #GTK #GTK4 #Vala #GNOME #Adwaita #LibAdwaita