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noodlejetski, 8 months ago to technology in Fairphone 5 Released

substantial price hike

it’s €50 more expensive than the FP4 with the same RAM/storage configuration on its release (€650 fot 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage).

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to technology in ProtonMail exposing Threads user data harvesting

ProtonMail exposing Threads user data harvesting posting the same screenshot from Apple’s App Store that multiple other accounts on Fedi have posted, often in comparison with several Mastodon clients’ app listings. the title reads as if they’ve done some thorough investigating.

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to reddit in BotDefense is wrapping up operations on Reddit, due to the infeasibility of doing their work effectively in the aftermath of Reddit's API changes

oh no

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to technology in Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US

Murena comes with microG and its own Play Store front-end so you can still install Play Store apps if you really want to.

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to technology in Say "goodbye" to cookies and cookie banners with vanilla Firefox

or use Consent-O-Matic to automatically reject all the non-essential cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to technology in YouTube could be testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=banksy

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to technology in What's currently the best Lemmy app for Android?

I'm still using the mobile website until the apps mature a little bit. it's surprisingly functional.

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to linux in Linus is coming?

you can follow him from another Fediverse service, like Mastodon.

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to reddit in Reddit Sync will have a full page sign up for his new app, Lemmy Sync, when you open the app on June 30th (also kbin support coming!)

http://old.reddit.com/r/SyncForLemmy

noodlejetski, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to fossdroid in Liftoff! - 🐒 A mobile client for Lemmy (Android/iOS/Windows/Linux)

it looks like it's a fork of discontinued Lemmur https://github.com/LemmurOrg/lemmur

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to support in ANNOUNCEMENT: the first-ever Beehaw Community Survey!

yeah, I try to avoid giving Google more data whenever I can

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to technology in What browser extensions do you use?

from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:

uBO, of course. note: you guys don't need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google

also make sure to check the "do not bother" list here: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to technology in FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform

because it gained popularity back when mobile plans didn't include free SMS, back in the feature phone era.

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to technology in Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout

...bookmark it in your browser?

noodlejetski, 10 months ago to technology in What are your favorite browser extensions?

from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:

uBO, of course. note: you guys don't need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google