LWD

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LWD,

Lemmy has quite a few unfortunately invasive qualities of its own, including generally needing an email address from you (Reddit does not), having poor privacy and data retention practices, and generally being very messy with who gets to decide what happens with your data and how easily it can be scraped.

Sure, Reddit sells it… But Lemmy gives it to any web scraper for free.

LWD, (edited )

…And attitudes like this towards privacy will keep Lemmy from progressing to a point where those issues will be fixed.

I have a fundamental problem with giant corporations scraping user data without user consent. That’s a system-level issue. It doesn’t become “good” just because they get to scrape without consent for free.

LWD,

I have a few suggestions for development concerns off the top of my head:

  • Scrub post metadata* after users request its deletion
  • Auto-purge deleted content* rather than letting it sit behind a “deleted” flag (something Facebook got a ton of flak for doing)
  • Auto-purge deleted media*
  • Consider seriously limiting opening data wide for scraping, since the problem is non-consensual scraping, not payment for non-consensual scraping
  • either immediately or, to prevent spam, after some time
LWD,

If we take “unlimited unauthenticated API access shouldn’t be possible” for granted, I’m unfortunately not all that technically competent about what can be done next.

The first thing that comes to mind is treating website access and app access differently, maybe limiting app API access by default for people who haven’t logged in.

Or creating a separate bot API that’s rolled out across all servers at some point in the future… And I know federation could pose some serious chokepoints here so that’s where my speculation ends.

LWD,

You can multi-select regular tabs to add them to a collection, but not private ones. And even if you did add each private tabs to a collection one at a time, the “open tabs” option only opens them as regular tabs, not private ones.

Instead of private tabs, have you considered

  • using the “delete browsing data on quit” option in Firefox, or
  • downloading a second browser like Mull with that option enabled for your “private tabs” instead of Firefox?
LWD,

I really wish Signal still had SMS support because the network effect was a lot more powerful, and it was easier to “sell” to my friends, back when it was that way.

LWD,

Pretty much any email masking tool that gives you more than 5 domains for free, especially considering several do this for free (Addy, DDG, Ironvest).

LWD,

Any idea why pravda(.)me, with 33 users, is listed as the 4th biggest Mastodon server when I sort by users on that site?

LWD,

You’re right, it was a mobile UI issue with the columns/column labels. It’s showing the active number, but with the “users” header. It works all right in desktop mode.

LWD,

You’ve got two options:

  • Fight back with ad blockers. Tubular or ReVanced on Android, uBlock Origin on PCs.
  • Pay up. (This is the unethical option.)
LWD,

What’s the best browser to recommend to people who want to dump Brave but either can’t or won’t switch to Firefox, due to things like unoptimal behavior of sites like YouTube while playing games, for example?

The best I’ve come up with is Thorium, a de-Googled Chromium fork, optimized for speed.

LWD,

Live streams will stutter badly when a game is going on, something I have experienced in Firefox but not Chrome.

And of course Chromium has billions of dollars at its disposal while Mozilla can’t even accept donations from users for Firefox so it’s not exactly surprising that the browser with worse funding and management doesn’t run as well.

LWD,

To paraphrase Louis Rossman, he doesn’t need the fraction of a penny he’d get from you wasting your time, and if YouTube wants your money then they should earn it.

LWD,

I’m not really a fan of “clean” and “minimalist” launchers when they get to the point of impeding my productivity. And keeping a curated list can tap into muscle memory, improving speed further.

For example:

I’ve got 13 apps I can launch with a single tap, 13 more one extra swipe away (unless you count the swipe into my app drawer, which would bring it up to ~32 more).

Just something to keep in mind when looking for a launcher: you might want to find your definition of fast. If KISS works for you, all the more power to you. But I lament the lack of FOSS launchers that are more Nova-esque.

LWD,

I can’t type right to save my life. If I want Boost it’ll either come up “Voist” or “Boat” depending on whether I tap or glide. (And switching to a private keyboard has made this more of an uphill battle for me.)

You’ve got me dead to rights about forgetting where things are (besides the home screen), which is why I’m glad my launcher of choice has things organized not just in the Apps drawer, but in folders within them.

I appreciate the insight though. Not everybody’s workflow is going to be the same, and needing X apps at a certain distance will affect different people different ways.

LWD,

Good for Mozilla owning up to two bugs and already reversing one. Sometimes accidents happen.

LWD,

like SD cards

No longer in the most expensive phones?

LWD,

That sucks. The “you get no SD card” trend started in the highest end phones (like the S20 had no slot but the lower-specced S20FE did) and apparently since then it’s kept migrating to lower-end phones…

LWD,

Are you using it? You don’t have to, although I understand it offers quite the proposition in terms of value.

You may also need to worry about anti-cheat systems and how much access they give themselves to your system.

LWD,

Never underestimate the power of a company to exploit you. Maybe they won’t, but nobody saw AI getting trained on every word we write either.

(Gaben, if you’re reading this and you mean no harm, then tighten up your privacy policy).

LWD,

Ukrainians wanted Yanukovich, the most unpopular and probably most corrupt Ukrainian president, gone.

Despite attempts to treat Ukrainians as lesser beings by pointing to an imaginary puppet master, they did this on their own accord, and only 4.9% of them wanted him to return.

LWD,

I think you misunderstand me. The Ukrainians made their own choice in 2014. There was no US “coup”. That’s the year Russia’s puppet was removed, and the year Putin turned to an invasion.

LWD,

Apparently people like you have bought so deeply into imperialist thought that you can’t fathom anybody being independent outside of a great national power.

Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania, therefore Oceania must have been responsible.

LWD,

The call proves nothing.

For comparison, white supremacists believe Jews are engineering the end of the “white race” because of a piece of paper in an SPLC office. This also proves nothing.

LWD,

Are you anti genocide?

theintercept.com/…/welcome-to-chechnya-gay-men/

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