HiramFromTheChi @ hiramfromthechi @lemmy.world

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I'd consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications.

You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it's private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can't be bought or sold, etc.

Here's the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it.

It usually answers most of their questions.

Not as far as I know. There's this Mastodon, but doesn't look legit: https://mastodon.online/@Solid

You're describing what Tim Berners-Lee is tryna build with Solid.

Elevator to the top, haaa see ya later

Not just download the app, but sign up for an account (and the newsletter in the process).

Then grant permissions to your phone:

• camera (so it can watch you poop and train + analyze the footage with AI)
• microphone (so it can hear and analyze if your plops are optimal)
• contacts (to send out an invitation to all your contacts, along with a clip of your last poop sesh)
• photos and videos (to upload, store, and analyze your life since birth, along with everyone else who's in your pictures)
• sensors (to see how you're holding the phone, when, how much, how hard, etc.)
• notifications (to sell you the premium plan)
• location (for pinpoint accuracy of your 💩 locations)
• call logs (to see who you're communicating with before, during, and after you drop your log)
• nearby devices (for accuracy and to silently communicate with nearby devices)
• calendar (for full history and to schedule your next mondo duke)

No idea. Gonna try to stick to the web app instead and hold off updating the native mobile app for as long as possible.

I'll have to try next time and report back. Honestly don't use ride sharing too often. I prefer public transport.

I can't prove it, but I'm 99% sure Lyft did the same thing. Had a perfect rating (and was even a driver at one point), and they banned me without explanation right after I switched to GrapheneOS.

Emailed them a few times asking for the reason, and they refused to tell me.

_"Legally, we cannot release any additional information except that we found your account to be violating our Terms of Service.

We will be in touch if we are able to reopen your account in the future."_

There's absolutely nothing else that they could've misconstrued as "violating the Terms of Service."

If Uber's going down the same path, no more ride-sharing for me I guess. ¯(ツ)_/¯

"Death gotta be easy, cause life is hard" - Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent

This is specific to open source, but perhaps a good starting point: https://opensourcely.org/

Fast & Furious 77: Italic Drift

A rip in the multiverse. Source: trust me bro

The most trafficked animal in the world. Protect these little guys.

These are the best people on earth.

There's nothing that can express my disdain for Google's reCaptcha.

😒 We're training its AI models 😒 It's free labor for Google 😒 Sometimes it wants the corner of an object, sometimes it doesn't 😒 Wildly inconsistent 😒 Always blurry and hard to see 😒 Seemingly endless 😒 It's the robot asking us humans if we're the robots

#AdoptDontShop and don't support breeders/puppy mills.

No such thing as a "pure bred" dog anyways.

Plus, mutts have far fewer health problems. "Pure breeds" are largely inbred and products of incest.

Yeah, it's only an aggregator that then points you to the original content. For legal reasons, I don't think OpenSourcely would be able to host the original content natively.

I started a website called OpenSourcely to do exactly this.

It aggregates news, projects, and announcements related to open source.

I'm always on the lookout for new RSS feeds and outlets to add to it, so if anyone has any, feel free to send them my way.

Nice, that's my screenshot (but not my post). Dope to see it surface again. 🤘