Can we move away from the habit of just copy-pasting clickbait video titles with no information as to what they're actually about? Lemmy gives you a description field, you have the power to summarise videos which should really be blog posts!

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Is security not a merit?

This is very much their propaganda tactic, that by not watching ads you're stealing from the poor content creators, when in reality they're just chucking a few pennies to the people who actually made the videos. If you want to actually support the creators then donate to their patreon or whatever, but don't pretend that watching ads or paying for premium is doing anything more than lining the pockets of investors.

You have a whole instance under lemdro.id, right? So why not create a sister community just for the memes?

I can't even get too mad at this, it makes complete sense for an OS to have built-in malware scanning because casual users will unintentionally install dodgy shit. The key thing is that those of us who don't want Google having a nosey through our device can still disable it trivially, because if that option goes then suddenly we're as bad as Windows!

https://ttrpg.network is a tabletop roleplaying game focused instance run by the people who ran r/dndnext

https://mander.xyz/ has lots of cool science and nature news and pics

So what actually is calckey/firefish? Is it just trying to be Twitter? Is it meaningfully different to Mastodon?

This isn't even enshittification, this is just Google still not having their shit together somehow after all these years

Will it though? It's essentially public info already, and is a core part of how Lemmy works.

FYI you don't need apps that pretend to be a VPN to block ads anymore, you can just go to Settings > Network and Internet > Private DNS and set it to something like dns.adguard.com to block almost all ads, no install required!

Strange that the focus point of this article is rooting, you can modify your device to install custom firmware etc without needing root exploits anymore!

It's not about being a hassle to maintain, it's about users thinking they were sending secure messages when they weren't. The simplest explanation is that Signal is a secure messenger, so the app shouldn't let you send insecure messages. I'm sure it lost them a few users but they're not trying to gain maximum market share like for-profit orgs try to.

...doesn't have anything to do with warranty violation

Did we all forget the first rule of going online, to never share personal information, especially on a public forum!

I need to know the context for the original image

You really should state up front that this is USA only

Proprietary fast charging < USB PD

Having a flashy name for a charging protocol which requires a specific charger and only works for your phone is overrated. A standard which allows me to safely use the same charger for my phone, laptop, steam deck, and almost every device that anyone brings round is underrated.

They Live called it in 1988!

Essentially you're giving away a lot more info about yourself than you might realise. If someone who takes an unfriendly interest in you wants to, they can probably find out a lot more info about your habits, likes, dislikes, interests, political views, waking hours, etc than just what you've publicly commented!

"piracy is a service issue" - if a product doesn't cost much and saves you time/effort then it can be worth paying a little versus essentially paying yourself less than minimum wage if it's hard to pirate (depends how valuable your time is though!)

Doesn't SSO undo the decentralised nature of the Fediverse? What would it even add? You can already access a lot of different ActivityPub platforms from one (e.g. Lemmy can access kbin, Mastodon can access both) and that will only increase as development on these platforms increases.

I understand that your comment makes sense in context, but wash your mouth out with soap for speaking such vile heresy

Because SMS has zero security and including it in a secure messenger gave some people a false sense of security. Basically Signal is for secure messaging, SMS is insecure, therefore it has no place there.

GrapheneOS uses exec spawning by default, but it's pretty trivial to disable and it does speed things up (at a slight cost to security).

I think using AOT rather than JIT compiling might be the cause of the slow installs, but I'm not sure (and I've not really noticed a problem myself).

It's a bit weird to see Threads being referred to as Facebook's version of Twitter - wasn't Instagram already Facebook's version of Twitter, just with the gimmick being images of text rather than just the text? This seems like it's basically the same social network with a different interface - all the users are the same and the list of banned content is the same, people are coming in thinking it's the same thing so it will end up being the same.

Double-pressing the power button to open the camera should be an option you can enable in Settings

Very useful for the people who send out phishing scam emails

Puzzles - no internet, no cost, no pay-to-win, no ads, no fancy UI, just classic logic puzzles!

No I think you've missed their point. E2EE is end-to-end encryption, as in the message can't be intercepted in the middle but it's unencrypted at the end so you can read it. Because the WhatsApp app is closed-source you don't know that it doesn't immediately read the message and send the content to Facebook. It probably doesn't, but it could! E2EE itself means that some third party can't read your message in transit, though to be fair closed-source again means we just have to trust Facebook when they say WhatsApp uses E2EE.

This has been their marketing strategy since the iPod. Also it's the opinion of teenagers, so it really doesn't matter (sorry teenagers reading this, you probably don't have the money to be shaping the decisions of megacorps).

A new Steam Controller gamepad wouldn’t have an entire Steam Deck chip inside, though, so that seems less likely.

They've updated their 'policy', still with no accrual explanation that I can see:

The admin team updated the communities that they will allow archive links to be used.

Who uses SMS in this day and age? Have these people not heard of sending messages using the internet?

You can block users/bots on Lemmy too

I find the audio quality to be pretty irrelevant when all I can hear is the bump bump bump of the wires bouncing against me with every step I take!

I think it might be one of the best purchases I've ever made. It definitely doesn't fit everyone's use-case, but it fits mine very well!

Open sourcing internal tools is completely different to open sourcing your product. Companies aren't trying to sell their internal tools, so open sourcing them can often save money that they'd otherwise have to spend supporting them themselves. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is the concern, and it seems pretty likely that Facebook will try and take over the Fediverse by luring people in with propriety features.

FYI this is very risky for your personal privacy and security. Hope you never send a single message that you're not ok with the whole company reading!

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