I’ll start. Apt next door is having a cockroach infected. 4 days ago, I was playing sims on my laptop, wearing my eyeglasses. Right lens got blurry, took off, huge cockroach was crawling across inside of lens. While I was wearing them. Freak out ensued.
“For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that tracks your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.”
There’s a screenshot of a pop up from Chrome that says, “Enhanced ad privacy in Chrome” with some marketing spin on how you get more choice on the types of ads you see.
I noticed my consumption has decased quite a bit. I would visit regularly to watch content from few channels. I would probably still visit every so often to watch the new videos. But the experience has become more deliberate and conscious. I go to YouTube because I want to go and watch something specific. Mindlessly browsing and...
I’m in the same boat. The recommendations don’t bother me too much, except when it recommends me videos I’ve seen in the recent or distant past. Also, when I watch one video from someone, then come to find out they’re part of some right wing culture and end up getting recommended the right wing rabbit hole videos for a few weeks.
Signal is a great alternative to WhatsApp. Images sent aren’t going to be full quality and will go through some compression of course, but the final sent picture is still going to be leaps and bounds over the garbage that WhatsApp sends. When going through old pictures on my camera roll, I can instantly tell what was sent/saved over WhatsApp compared to Signal due to just how pixelated it gets.
You’ve made your case and stood your ground, and until it’s an official policy and nothing more than “guidance” you’ll probably be ok, honestly.
A few months back I was offered a promotion and a fancy new job title, with the caveat that I would need to move to another country. I countered with more or less the same argument as you, “I’ve been doing this from home for years and everyone I work with is remote anyways; I’m not moving” and was met with a “hmm…fair enough”.
I use Remotely Save with my Vault, synced to a local NAS that I connect to via WebDAV (but you can use sources like OneDrive, S3, etc.). Apart from some minor conflicts like deleted folders reappearing, it’s pretty stable.
“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”...
All fair complaints. I’ve managed to switch over all of my contacts to Signal (that I care to talk to, at least).
My biggest gripe is no back up support on iOS, meaning that if I lose my phone I lose everything. People have tried hand waving it away as a privacy feature, but I think backing up messages is a bare minimum for a messaging app - especially with the released of Advanced Data Protection for iCloud.
To what joke are they laughing? Post your version as a comment! Best wins (lemmy.world)
YSK about Sketch Toy (sketchtoy.com)
(the link again in case the clickable title doesn’t work on all instances: sketchtoy.com)...
Where homebuyers want to live reverts back to pre-pandemic norms, new report finds (finance.yahoo.com)
Tell me about your cockroach horror story
I’ll start. Apt next door is having a cockroach infected. 4 days ago, I was playing sims on my laptop, wearing my eyeglasses. Right lens got blurry, took off, huge cockroach was crawling across inside of lens. While I was wearing them. Freak out ensued.
Google trashes its "DRM for the Web" API - gHacks Tech News (ghacks.net)
Google Chrome "enhances" our privacy further
https://images2.imgbox.com/9a/3d/yIVmypvL_o.png...
Can you recommend contemporary music artists without lyrics?
Keyword artist , or band/group name. I’m not looking for a genre, I want to search artists. Tell me about someone you like listening to....
has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature?
I noticed my consumption has decased quite a bit. I would visit regularly to watch content from few channels. I would probably still visit every so often to watch the new videos. But the experience has become more deliberate and conscious. I go to YouTube because I want to go and watch something specific. Mindlessly browsing and...
WhatsApp will allow full resolution fotos (i.imgur.com)
9to5mac.com/2023/08/17/whatsapp-hd-photos/
Privacy respecting cleaning robots?
Are there any robot vacuums/mops that respect privacy; that don’t map your house and phone home with the information?
Standing my ground on going back to the office
I guess this is a correct community to post about this? If not let me know....
Weekly tech discussion and tech support thread
Hey everybody, feel free to post any tech support or general tech discussion questions you have right here....
Looking to try obsidian, but the sync seems expensive. Do you pay for sync, or are there other alternatives?
I have iOS, and use MacBook/Linux....
YSK: Signal is a great secure private messenger app comparable to others on the market. (restoreprivacy.com)
“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”...
[Homemade] Gambas al ajillo (vlemmy.net)
Proton Drive App?
I want to use Proton Drive, but I cannot find any native App.
Lemmy reached a user base of 150,000 (discuss.tchncs.de)
The Lemmy user base passed 150,000 in total users....