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VarAC digital chatting on Amateur Radio seems to be getting more popular than JS8Call (gadgeteer.co.za)
This is at least apparent for what I’m observing in my country on the Southern tip of Africa. The reason seems to be that VarAC provides most of the functions that JS8Call already provides (apart from the open source), and then provides a lot of usability improvements as well as transmitting images, documents, faster speed,...
Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List that can Guide Opting out from Data Broker Databases (github.com)
This list, also known as BADBOOL, was started on September 29, 2017 and was most recently updated in October 2023 to add PimEyes and to remove TruePeopleSearch and Cyber Background Checks, since those sites will automatically remove your data if you successfully opt out of Intelius and BeenVerified....
Which one do you trust the most for your privacy? (kerala.party)
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 17th
New thread!...
I think Wayland should have been approached differently
Now, I really like Wayland, and it’s definitely better than the mess that is X11...
Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here
Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....
LocalSend - An open source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop (alternativeto.net)
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Any rss reader which aggregates feeds
On Thunderbird for example, there’s no way to aggregate feeds from different places, into just one common view. I’m looking for aggregating all feeds from different places into a common view, where I can globally just keep what I want to read from everywhere and remove what I’m not interested on....
How do you even start with breaking up with your gmail?
I have this bad feeling daily that for whatever reason I loose access to my gmail. Don’t think of anything shady but simply I just loose it. There is a very small chance to it but still. You can read the stories that people uploaded their family photos to google drive and the algorithm marks their kids photos CP and they loose...
Firefox can now import and use Chrome extensions as part of its migration import option (debugpointnews.com)
In a major update towards cross-browser compatibility, Firefox users are set to enjoy the benefits of importing Chrome extensions (note this is really part of the data import/migration from an existing Chrome browser installed, just for extensions that are already supported, and not installing from the Chrome web store), thanks...
What do you think some of the fediverse's primary stumbling blocks are?
For those that have poked around other fediverse stuff beyond Lemmy, and been around the spaces awhile, what’s stuck out to you as stumbling blocks, or basic user experience fumbles? Which parts do you think may be technical, and which may be cultural?
GitHub is slowly rolling in 2FA. Any good open source apps that will enable me to activate 2FA token on android?
If proprietary app is better and more robust I am willing to try it and assess it myself.
Scientists, disturbed by anti-science and far-right content, starting to leave Twitter (boingboing.net)
Nature reports that scientists are leaving Twitter. Overwhelmed by anti-science and far-right material, which is often shoved at them by the site’s trending topics and other algorithmic feeds…
Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office. They blamed it on not having enough data (fortune.com)
Linus responds to The Problem with LMG (web.archive.org)
Context^piped^^-^^invidious^^-^^lemmy^...
Omnivore is an excellent open-source read-it-later alternative to Pocket, that can be self-hosted as well (beehaw.org)
I use read-it-later services extensively to save any news I want to do blog posts about later, or something I want to look at in more detail when I have time (and three monitors)....