spectrums_coherence

I am sure food company, dietitians, nutritionists, and companys that offer weight management products will beg to differ.

I would be really cautious in giving any biometric data to OpenAI.

I still remember the good old days when google has the best code quality among big techs. That being said, seeing how shitty everyone’s code has become, google might still be the best :)

I am sure in 30 years there will be plenty of Americans worship Trump just like they are doing now to Reagan.

Even though both of them fucked literally everything up.

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111563865413484025

I think on android, signal do not use Google’s push notification. They simple send a dummy push, and the signal app wakes up to retrive the latest message directly from signal server.

So Google never have your notification content. I am not sure if they do the same on iOS.

That being said if your attack model includes people reading your notification lock screen, then you should disable showing signal notification.

Usually, I spend $40 in a buffet, annihilate all their snowcrabs, then spend an hour next day on to toilet until my leg is so numb that I can barely stand.

Do I care? No, because I have made it: I make more than minimum wage now.

Do we know who is that person?

BTW, video also said many are injured, besides “at least” one death.

Sorry, quiet. Fixed in the original comment.

I use 30–40 searches per day, and I almost never need to bang to google. When I do bang to google, I consistently find worse result.

It is indeed expensive compare to most of the other donations/subscription I have, but there is really no alternative to this experience.

I use nebula, lemmy, mastodon, kagi, jellyfin, signal, thunderbird, fedora, tutanota, and so on. My weekly subscription/donation bill is probably around $50, which is just the price of 2 LLM subscription, so honestly, not that much considering how expensive everything is nowadays. But, oh boy, let me tell you, my digital world is quiet: there is nothing in my face pushing AI or ads, and I get every update I need, and can just use my tools and gets things done. All of them cost money/donation, but I would rather spend money to save time and my mental health now…

I don’t think it is terribly expensive, a lot of (somewhat large) domain specific academic instances are maintained by grad students with donation from academics. As far as I know, many of them are in good financial standing.

There are several non-profit had their own instance, like ACM. I recall Mozilla used to do, but I am not sure if they still does.

Then this post should interest you: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/112419076551165888 :)

And my absolute favorite is @frenchtoast@better.boston

BTW, there is a very strong Boston/Cambridge/Somerville community on mastodon, there is a entire instance for it: https://better.boston/explore

Mayor Wu is on there @wutrain@better.boston but not posting much these days.

There are also many people on other instances, like transport or OSS instance, as many prominent OSS contributor lives in that area.

Gnome has parental control https://help.gnome.org/gnome-help/parental-controls.html

But it has some serious limitations: for example, you cannot block individual website reliably. Parents can consider piholes, but DNS sink hole on local network are often trivial to bypass.

Nearing absolute zero even.

But on the third hand,

I know an AI comment when I see one /jk

Seems like this one still exists https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922

The good side: I feel it might enables me to better setup parental control in the future. If software read from the age field, then the blocking can be more robust than a simple DNS sink hole by pihole, which is really easy to get around, with mobile data or directly visiting IP address.

I do find this field is fundamentally different from verification using government issued ID (yet). I will definitely fight the next one, but I am kind of okay with this one.

Cons: it is additional fingerprint parameter, I hope the xdg-desktop protocol can be implemented to give out as little information as possible for the age field, instead of just handing the birthday field to every app that ask for it. And I hope all adult who don’t have any age-based content filtering needs will opt to leave the field empty.

I think the law in Brazil have already come into effect at the time of the merge. So it is not really compliance in advance.

• https://reclaimthenet.org/brazil-digital-eca-age-verification-law
• https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954#pullrequestreview-3971009945