Side note I did try to post them on Nx themes but screenshots need to be taken from switch. I kinda posted the screen shots on discord in the past messing up the meta data (kinda lazy to retake them).
I kinda wonder how this will play out with ads. While apple is dipping their toes in advertising I suspect their main target appstore/ios apps not the general web (where content blockers exist and can block ads).
As per restricting legacy devices I doubt websites need to implement web integrity or private acess since they can just block acess via user agent (if some one tries to spoof anyway site won't load due to outdated webkit not being able to render).
This might sound silly but assuming you are using firefox or even safari how will this proposal affect these browsers. Only thing I can currently think of is banking sites (on android) would force you to use chrome and check play integrity (safteynet) to block acess.
At the end of the day won't this only affect people using Google chrome? (Forks of chrome, firefox, safari could by pass the issue)?
Actually in your case our school has a BYOD program (bring your own device) in which you can bring your own laptop with whatever flavor of OS. Firewall would restrict you, your device would be considered untrusted, and in testing a loaner locked down chromebook would be provided. The issue comes with non BYOD devices.
Now lets assume a school has 1k students. If they allowed os unlocking and allowed students to tinker with the os. Then they would need 2k chromebooks 1k unlockable 1k locked down for exam administration (assume the whole school needs to take it at the same time). From a admin/IT perspective why should the school need to pay double the number of chrome books just for a few students to install their favorite brand of linux.
Even under the best circumstances where support queries aren't increased (from students softbricking/ not knowing how to use linux) and say they are able to preserve 1k unlockable chromebooks, admins would still need to replace the other 1k locked down chrome books at end of software to stay in compliance with testing software (negating any financial benefit).
The problem comes down to education institutions. I remember when we got Chromebooks in my highschool (8 years ago) admins forgot to turn of developer mode and half the school unenrolled the Chromebook managing to bypass all restrictions. This went on for half a year until one day our school needed to run a state exam (more for measure of schools performance not as a college entrance exam or anything).
The computerized testing program required deploying a specific chrome app accessible when chrome book is logged out (can't just download from chrome web store). When they tried to push the client since half of Chromebooks were unenrolled it failed. This required the school it to recall pretty much all chrome books to manually re enroll all of them and disable developer mode (prevents unenrolling and prevents sideloading Linux).
Problem is if older Chromebooks are used for Linux in an educational environment there would be nothing stopping a student from whipping up a bootable USB and dumping another distro (bypassing restrictions). I'm also not sure if there is a enrollment mode equivalent Linux (there may be but not sure).
At least that's my two cents (not a school it admin just a memory from the past 😉).
Quick question is there normally a long federation delay between kbin and Lemmy?
For example while making a post/comment may be instantaneous, I noticed when using the edit feature for comment title there is a massive delay (6+ hrs sync delay for title change).
I'm a weirdo that was s half apple half Android. I have I ipad and Macbook and Android and Galaxy watch (also I do have iMessage on android thanks to bluebubbles runing on a older Mac Mini with opencore).
I kinda like tinkering hence I choose android but I like the efficiency and continuity of apple silicon macs and ipads.
As per apple services I use them at the bare minimum and try to rely on cross platform apps to replace some of the native apps.
Out of curiosity how intensive is it to run a lemmy instance just for your own personal use?
Kinda curios if federation content from large instances (like lemmy.world and lemmy.ml) and serving pictrs hosted on your personal to said larger instances is resource intensive (bandwidth/cpu).
The only thing reddit can do is improve the first party app and mod tools. The rest is lost.
That being said I doubt the protests are reddits biggest priority. Even if reddit ipo's perfectly and gets a injection of capitol (which might itself be difficult since investors don't seem to care about userbase growth anymore) they are going to need to find ways to increase profits each year (like every other publicly traded tech company).
Advertising revenue is also limited given trend to cut "unnecessary expenses".
I see it as pointless and potential risks tarnishing the image that third party apps helped improve reddit (especially to normies/non techies who only use the official app and website).
What I don't get is what will damaging the ipo achieve now that a lot of 3rd party apps are toast (Apollo, rif, reddit sync). Even if spez or reddit as a whole did a full 180 nothing would change on the prospect of 3rdparty apps.
Only thing reddit can change is improving the first party app and mod tools (given their stance was the api was never meant for 3rdparty apps after flip flopping).
As a user you have more or less 5 options:
completely switch to Lemmy (or similar alternative).
use the official reddit app and deal with it
use social media less (pull the plug overall per say)
Use a paid subscription 3rd party app (example infinity for reddit
use a modded version of 3rdparty apps with custom api or the official reddit app modded (ex vanced)
I hope this comment doesn't come of too corporate or shill like
Kinda a weird question regarding DoH on android. Is there a way to have DoH bypass certain local domains without implementing it router level.
For example at home devices use a prefix like router.example.com or homeassistant.example.com (on internal lan). Some services on the domain are portforwarded while others are only available via internal net this causes issues when trying to acess internal devices.
On ios (in NextDNS specifically) there is an excluded domains feature which allows this. Unfortunatley android doesn't seem to have a similar option
I doubt it. Lemmy needs web push in order for push notifications to be done economically. Only other way is polling inbox, say every min, which isn’t really sustainable at scale for both voyager and possibly instances (800 users = 3gb bandwidth according to memmy).
Nice theme. You definitely can draw a lot better then I ever could 😉
Kinda made a few themes (art isn't mine credit listed bellow).
Lockscreen: https://files.catbox.moe/97e6o6.nxtheme
Homescreen: https://files.catbox.moe/d1kctd.nxtheme
Art credit:
https://twitter.com/Punnybuni (I couldn't find exact image)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t86lByhIAe0
Lockscreen: https://files.catbox.moe/35193v.nxtheme
Homescreen: https://files.catbox.moe/vslxmc.nxtheme
Art source: Splatoon 3 Promo
Side note I did try to post them on Nx themes but screenshots need to be taken from switch. I kinda posted the screen shots on discord in the past messing up the meta data (kinda lazy to retake them).