Notices by Danie van der Merwe (danie10@mastodon.social)

@Gargron LOL but no featured hashtags on this post ;-)

@eff only secret chats are E2EE, normal direct chats are client-server encryption only. But as far as I remember Telegram's servers have those chats encrypted and operators do not have the decryption keys available to them, so they can't just go looking at people's private chats.

@eff Google is really an ad-based business itself and there is no way they can actually go against that, despite all thee well-meaning words and PR - it's their bread and butter. Maybe they should not be in the browser business at all.

@pixelfed
Link is to code only so could not find the APK to update app

@pixelfed have to love Apple - no APK download. What about the alternative Apple store in the EU I wonder...

@pixelfed I've got the early release from Google app store but it still shows last update March 2024 - will this update also push through the app store?

@Gargron beautiful camera. Yes I still have my grandfather's Asahi Pentax Spotmatic camera, with a zoom lens, flash, etc. Haven't used it for decades but it was all still working 100% when I last used 35mm film.

@dansup @pixelfed For Stories on Android it does not seem to show my HEIC photos for upload. For normal Pixelfed uploads it does show HEIC.

@eff @legind @Motherboard or closing a public road as getaway thieves may use that road too...

@Gargron the way it should be - users have the choice vs just being censored. There are those who have long-lost friends on Threads that they will still be able to follow if they wish.

@arstechnica it doesn't say much about execs... It does suggest though that DDG list out big time as they could not pay to make their search engine the default choice...

@arstechnica can't agree with this statement at all: "“You cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater and decide that you’re going to just dump everything” that’s ultraprocessed, says Ciarán Forde, a sensory science and eating behavior researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands".

I did, and I never looked back, part from losing 14kg of weight many years back. Humans survive pretty well on whole foods that came from actual plants and animals.

@arstechnica this is where Waze shines, having users and community updating the maps...

@fsfe and open standards - I think they are focussing more on transparency and openness and not so much the cost of the product. So more open software than free software.

There is also free and freedoms in software, and they are not the same thing...

@aral and that LibreWolf disappears if Mozilla does...

@arstechnica if it costs two advertisers to leave X every time for a Nazi account to get banned, X is going to first run out of advertisers ;-)

@arstechnica banning is the direct opposite of freedoms and choices...

@arstechnica it's humans that are the most disruptive of all, but humans themselves don't seem to see that...

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