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WhoBIRD is now deprecated on certified Android devices(github.com)
57 points by proactivesvcs 1y ago|31 comments
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
The app's README has recently been updated to include the statement: "Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on certified Android devices will require the developer to submit personal identity details dire
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
That's not something that I have any interest in, but I'm not opposed to it as I know other people have asked about it. A very quick peruse of the Mastodon issue tracker came up with information about this on the ActivityPub level
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
You seem to be purposefully mixing the two opposing uses of the word "algorithm". On the non-abusive platforms, an algorithm is a fairly simplistic set of criteria that are designed to be useful to the human beings that use a serv
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
The Trending feature is not pushed into the home (or any) timeline. In the Web UI it sits unobtrusively in the corner of the window and on some apps simply does not exist. It can also be easily disabled. In the discourse about social media,
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
If you're in the UK there is a parliament.uk petition to "Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content": https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/734441
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
If a device with a combustible battery has been damaged, or if there is an electrical surge, the same thing could have happened. Whilst in this case it's not the victim's fault, leaving such devices charging unattended is dangerou
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
"Is that you again, punk zip?" when seeing the first few bytes of a zip file.
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
I was also Komooted - by Komoot. They brought out ViewRanger, who I had paid money to provide a service. Month by month they removed the features and access that I had paid for, and made the app less useful. I am not sure I can feel any pit
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
From this year's curl user survey, whilst HTTP/S is the majority use, more than 10% of users are using FTP and WebSockets and 5% still using telnet! https://curl.se/docs/survey/2025-1.1/
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
"What category of drivers are targeted in the first cut of the cleanup? The first phase targets legacy drivers that have newer replacements already on Windows Update." It'd be useful if they listed information about the other
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
In contrast, I stopped submitting bugs there because a forum is a terrible place to find and track bugs. Shame because I knew they'd be fixed by an outfit such as Wube.
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
It's worth being aware that the developer of the Android app asserts that "...this app doesn't share user data with other companies or organizations" but according to Exodus Privacy this is not true: https://r
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
https://github.com/timcappalli , "passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, and digital credentials @ okta" Not directly threatening but within that frame of mind: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepas
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
...and if the restore process wasn't so fragile. The only time I needed to backup and restore it just crashed part-way through, so the backup process wasn't even doing any validation.
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
I'd find it useful if I could access my Signal chat logs in plaintext. The software offers no facility to do this on any platform, and on Desktop the programs that have allowed me to take proper backups are (by necessity) a moving ta
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
I've used it for decades and don't recall a time whereby a hit has not been accurate, whereas abuse contacts listed on RIPE and all of the other registries are hit and miss, if they exist. In addition anyone who has listed their d
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
https://abuse.net/addnew.phtml
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by proactivesvcs 1y ago
And they wouldn't think to: ~ $ whois -h whois.abuse.net ftp.bit.nl abuse@bit.nl (for bit.nl)
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
I may have missed the part where the author reported these to github but they're not going to be removed it nobody actually reports them. What a lot of effort put in to seemingly give up at a crucial final step.
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
They've already given to society, probably for most of their lives. It is now their turn to have some small amount returned.
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
apt "pinning" is the process you're looking for. This allows you to prevent reinstallation of snapd and prefer other sources for packages, e.g. Firefox from Mozilla's PPA.
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
(tried to use Compose key, had to find out how to add Compose sequences) ⁂
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
I wasn't made aware that I'd eventually be required to use a third-party store to use what I paid for. Since I don't use steam I no longer have what I paid for.
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
I brought the game directly and was able to play and receive updates. I can no longer do this because I do not use steam.
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
Before paying up, keep in mind the bait-and-switch played on people with version one. Anyone without a Steam account is stuck with an old version when it required a Steam account after launch.
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
I'm glad they are sticking to the core, because the complexity, fragility and corner cases all make that 1% a worse experience for people who trust it to work reliably. In addition, of the out-of-scope suggestions I've seen, most
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
Importantly, this teaches the reader when not to use regex, when to craft them carefully, pitfalls and misconceptions.
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
The author of Syncthing-fork has actually said they've had similar problems with Google and believe it's only a matter of time before their app is locked in a similar way - so much so that they are planning to surrender their Play
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by proactivesvcs 2y ago
I don't use the fork but I can see it has scope to request storage permissions: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.github.... Perhaps it only does this if the user wants to sync data outside

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