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NYC MTA sets Manhattan congestion price at $15 for most vehicles, just one MTA vote left before the first congestion pricing in North America (www.planetizen.com)

New York City’s congestion pricing program is moving forward with a $15 fee on passenger vehicles, reports Stephen Nessen in Gothamist, after the MTA board voted to approve it. The program now enters a 60-day public comment period before a final vote....

akilou,

Well what are we tolling? Square footage? Noise? Carbon emissions? Deaths and injuries? Yes. Motorcycles are better in some categories and worse in others

akilou,

So much news about features rolling out. When do I actual get them?

akilou,

Already am

akilou,

What is a passkey? Is it a file saved to a decice? Can it be on multiple devices? How do you set it up on your first device? What if you lose your device? Do you need your first device to add it to a second device? How is that different than a text field saved to a password manager?

akilou,

This doesn’t seem more secure than having a password saved in a password manager.

akilou,

So what are the mechanics of this? OP would also have had to interact with Meta somehow after finding the moccasins but before the girlfriend did, right?

akilou,

Maybe all of these people were just buying gifts for their neonazi friends and family

akilou,

I think it’d be a huge win for privacy. People don’t understand how much data google has on them or what’s possible to do with it. This will illustrate it exactly and hopefully open people’s eyes to switching to privacy focused alternatives.

akilou,

You may not like this answer but our solution to this is a Google Photos album, locked down so it’s invite only. Paired with a social media vigilance keeping an eye out for unauthorized posts. We’ve only had to treated to kick someone out of the album once. It works well for us. Especially at family events, people post the photos they take too so we have access and they now know not to post on social media.

akilou,

Can you link me? Searching it in the Play Store turns up some weird results.

akilou,

Dude I’m surprised that iOS even lets you pick a different keyboard than the default

akilou,

This sucks. What kind of suggestions are these?

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f9899f79-9b65-4538-a6f1-66261e2c4736.png

akilou,

Then why the hell is the top comment recommending Florisboard and saying predictions are highest priority?

akilou,

I just installed it. I’ll give it a shot. Seems like something I probably tried years ago and decided I didn’t like it.

akilou,

Almost exactly my situation, expect predictions over swiping and Swiftkey over gboard.

akilou, (edited )

Keep up the momentum! Install Signal, migrate to the Proton suite.

akilou,

Tell me more. Like a yubi key? I haven’t progressed that far yet.

akilou,

I did this exact same thing

akilou,

I’ve been using Signal since like 2016 and have not seen any appreciable adoption rate whatsoever within my social network.

I used to actively try to get people to use it but I got enough ambivalent or negative responses that I just stopped asking.

akilou,

WhatsApp uses phone numbers and a centralized architecture. Remind me how many people use it?

akilou,

Exactly. And I gave up trying even when it was “easier”. Not to mention, since it can’t do SMS anymore, I actually helped my mom. stop using it, because then she’d need 2 different messaging apps. She and I now use Google Messages to text and whatever Google is calling the integrated video chat app now.

akilou,

The guy I replied to is saying that not everyone wants to use Signal because it’s centralized and based on phone numbers. But billions of people use WhatsApp despite being exactly that. Signal nails the privacy stuff but obviously people don’t give a shit because they’re using WhatsApp anyway.

akilou,

Why are you surprised that Apple won’t let you change any default settings?

akilou,

I get this but never clicked link gone. Rearranged or added results.

akilou,

Stop trying to bring iMessage to Android!

akilou,

The best thing I can say about Beeper Mini is that almost no one noticed I was using it: blue bubbles just started appearing — no lost messages to speak of.

For all the bitching and moaning about green bubbles, no one even noticed the blue one?

akilou,

Oof. This summarizes perfectly what it’s like to give a shit about privacy.

akilou,

Explain setting up a Raspberry Pi to your aunt and have her tell me it’s a low pricw. Let alone lineage os, Jellyfin, Smart tube, and whatever else was in your list. And that solves just casting and steaming. Now do email, messages, browser tracking and fingerprinting, and everything else in our lives… It a lot. And honestly too much.

akilou,

But default is putting your cursor in the address bar and hitting ctrl-c. How would Firefox clean it like that?

akilou,

So the person you send it to gets a clean link

akilou,

Once a picture is taken and compressed into a jpeg (or whatever) why is there a need for any extra support beyond “sending an image”?

akilou,

Proton suite. And they have a black Friday deal I think

akilou,

I’ve never looked into backing it up. I do know they make it easy to import emails from other services so maybe they’d make it easy to export to other providers too? You’d have to look into it.

akilou,

I use Authy and am logged in on multiple devices so if I lose my phone I can still access the 2FA on my laptop. Then log back into the new phone using the laptop.

akilou,

It’s crazy that Google thinks people would rather watch 15 seconds of ads than 5 seconds of nothing.

Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)

In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....

akilou,

Yes! I thought I was losing my mind. I was like “I swear this was the third result but now it’s the 5th? Eh, maybe it was the 5th.”

akilou,

I trust that Signal wouldn’t implement something if it was even questionably proven insecure

akilou,

It’s not a scam, it’s just a pain in the ass. If you use it right, you end up saving money.

If you’re interested in taking advantage of one but skeptical, try funding it with only the amount you can roll over and then you won’t lose any at the end of the year. My FSA (FSA feds, the one in the video) has an app that you use to take pictures of receipts to get reimbursed.

akilou,

Same. I put in $1,500 last year and saved like $450 in taxes. I just elected to put in $2,000 next year. It’s totally worth the few seconds it takes to snap a pic of a receipt in an app to save $450 or more.

akilou,

Well I have a kid and a wife. I don’t have “regular” healthcare costs but I know damn well we’ll be shelling out some bucks on sunscreen, bandaids, ibuprofen and Tylenol, contacts and solution, etc etc. Sometimes we’ll budget more of we know we’ll need new glasses or something. I mean, yeah, it’s a guessing game, but that you can roll over $610 you don’t have to nail it to the penny. Totally worth the few hundred dollars we’re saving in taxes.

akilou,

I’m not saying we have a good system. I mean a better system would be to write off medical expenses when you file your taxes after the end of the year rather than this awkward in-advance thing. I’m just saying that FSAs are not a scam in that they’re intentionally designed to fleece you. The whole system sucks.

akilou,

Not to mention ending the lifetime free uploads to Photos from Pixel phones

akilou,

Not to mention ending the lifetime free uploads to Photos from Pixel phones

akilou,

Deleting and not using are completely different.

Also most non-American, non-Chinese people are complelty dependent on WhatsApp for messaging so, to answer your question, no. They will neither delete nor stop using.

akilou,

Sometimes I prefer to read, sometimes I prefer to watch

akilou,

None of this information is accurate

akilou,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b0f9b216-cfd1-4c3f-a584-d7caea9d3211.png

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