deweydecibel @ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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That's just a classic issue with most tech people: they either forget or don't know how to adjust their speech for a different audience than themselves. Often they don't even comprehend just how much "common knowledge" isn't actually common outside their social spaces.

Then there's some that are deliberately refusing to help uninformed people understand, or are even outright hostile to them.

Yep, the timing lines up. As part of the buyout offer, they probably had to demonstrate an effort to cripple the open source fork of the thing IBM wants to buy.

You should be aware Tuta won't let you use a third party client, automatically forward messages, or do a mass export of your email. It's not impossible to move but they deliberately make it difficult. So does Proton in their own away.

They'll say it's about maintaining the security of your emails and such, but it's just a vender lock in tactic.

Problem is with the way email security is going now, it's entirely possible in a few years, if your domain/provider isn't an established one, it will get blocked by others.

I've had a few domain just straight up block some Tutamail emails.

But here's the other issue: Proton and Tutanota are both not going to make it easy on you to move your mail.

Granted, this is possible with any car in any state.

But it's more likely in a car where the drivers may have been mislead into believing a myth that the car will drive itself safely without them.

If someone's driving a Ford, they'd have to be certifiably insane to believe it's ever safe to take your eyes off the road and hands off the wheel for long periods of time and expect to not have an accident. Insane to the degree they'd have never gotten their license.

If they're in a Tesla, they just need to be a stupid consumer to believe that.

The app or frontend you're using you're using is probably smart enough to ignore the period at the end of the link

Well, the weird thing is they haven't actually done anything to the app yet. Looks like they're just focusing on the next major release. The version that has been available in the store for the last 2 years hasn't been fucked with.

Not yet. Nova Launcher 8 is the problem version and it's still in beta. If you're still using version 7, particularly 7.0.57, then it's the version from before the buyout and it's clean. It's suspected they turned some analytics on with 7.0.58, but even that still looks clean to me. That is the only update they've pushed since the buyout.

My guess is they didn't want to fuck with the current version, they just wanted to devote their focus to getting all the tracking shit into the upcoming major release.

If you disable auto updates now, you'll probably be fine until it stops working

Yes, nothing is exactly like Nova. But lots of other stuff is good too.

Then they aren't good alternatives, they're passable.

Seems crazy to me that the software that's owned by an analytics company is also the one focused on giving the user the most customization options. None of the FOSS alternatives have the same mentality as Nova. They're all focused more on minimalism, or evoking Pixel, or pushing a specific niche type of interface of their own design. None of them provide anywhere near as many tools to the user.

If I have to use a closed source app provided by an analytics company just to get a launcher that actually empowers the user, so be it. Maybe more of the FOSS alternatives could start taking note of why Nova is the most popular.

I think they're talking about Nova.

It is significantly less than Nova. People keep suggesting it but it's not a true replacement for those that were actually using Nova to its full potential. They're frankly isn't a replacement right now that goes all out on providing users customization options. That's not in vogue anymore, apparently.

Agreed. Lawnchair was highly recommended, and when I tried it, I realized it's recommended by people who were never actually utilizing Nova's full potential. It's basically just pixel launcher with more bells and whistles, and that's not what I want. I use Nova because I wanted to make my own launcher that looked and worked exactly the way I wanted it to, not just be pixel launcher with some minor customizations.

People care about organizing their interfaces more than you, is that hard to understand?

The chances of some data being leaked is always possible but I'll roll the dice if it means getting to keep using a launcher that's not god awful or pixel-based until some other launchers become more mature.

If we're were talking financial information or something, sure, the chance of leaks is a huge problem, but some usage analytics leaking is more annoying than anything else.

+1 for Tracker Control, though I will say updates are pretty slow. I've noticed a few things making it through every now and again.

For one, well established brands have less incentives to engage in this.

Second, in this example, the account in question being a "long established user" would seem to indicate you think these spam companies are going to be playing a long game. They won't. That's too much effort and too expensive. They will do all of this on the cheap, and it will be very obvious.

This is not some sophisticated infiltration operation with cutting edge AI. This is just auto generated spam in a new upgraded form. We will learn to catch it, like we've learned to catch it before.

The only thing that might be close, though not directly, is translation software (kanji be hard).

Well that's the dirty little open secret, isn't it? These "AI" programs are just beefier versions of the same kinds of translation, predictive text, "smart" image editing, and chatbot software we've had for a while. Significantly more sophisticated and more powerful, but not exactly new. That's why "AI" is suddenly appearing everywhere: in many cases, a less sophisticated predecessor of it was already there, they just didn't use the marketing language OpenAI popularized.

I legit had a spelling and grammar checking add-on that rebranded itself to "AI", and it did absolutely nothing different than what it already did.

And the whole point is that absolutely none of this is "AI" in any meaningful way. It's like when that company tried to brand their new skateboard/segway things from a few years ago as "hoverboards". You didn't achieve the thing, you're just reducing what the term means to make it apply to your new thing.

I'm suddenly thankful my business casual attire can be picked up for like 5 bucks at goodwill.

Hell, for my promotion to my first office job, my previous manager straight up bought me a bunch of cheap polos on his own dollar, basically saying "don't embarrass me for suggesting you for the position". Wore those for like a whole year or more before buying my own for cheap.

A full suit? Fuck. Good luck thrifting one that fits well without tailoring, if you can even find matching jacket and pants, let alone several.

Which is also why both iPhone and Android have panic modes.

For my android, if I rapidly tap the fingerprint reader or the power key five times in a row, it locks down and will only be unlocked with a password.

You can also just hold the power key and shut the phone down, because it's pretty standard now that upon a reboot you have to put in the pin first before you can use fingerprint.

It's kind of like telling people to "tune in". It's just a turn of phrase that has stuck regardless of how old fashioned or ill-fitting it sounds.