It’s not about being a hassle to maintain, it’s about users thinking they were sending secure messages when they weren’t. The simplest explanation is that Signal is a secure messenger, so the app shouldn’t let you send insecure messages. I’m sure it lost them a few users but they’re not trying to gain maximum market share like for-profit orgs try to.
I’ve tried playing various Zelda games over the years but I’ve just never got into any of them. I’ve just started WWHD and it seems to suffer from the classic Zelda problem of having one very specific solution to a puzzle blocking off all progress, and not telling you at all where that puzzle/solution is if you haven’t already identified it! Also it tempted me with an open ocean of sailing and gave me some side-quest maps to follow, then when I tried to follow them it immediately turned me around and said “you can’t go this way yet”!
I know they’ve been around since the GDPR came into effect, but I’ve suddenly noticed a sharp increase in the cookie prompts on web pages which have a second “legitimate interest” page. Some of these have an “object all” button, but plenty require you to manually opt-out of sometimes hundreds of ad-trackers....
Can we move away from the habit of just copy-pasting clickbait video titles with no information as to what they’re actually about? Lemmy gives you a description field, you have the power to summarise videos which should really be blog posts!
I don’t really play online multiplayer games anymore, what actually are “seasons” (and “battle passes” for that matter)? I’ve seen them mentioned in games like rocket league and overwatch which I’d paid for, but they cost more money and didn’t appear to be DLCs/expansions so I just ignored them.
I guess it makes complete sense for these “live service” games, but it’s so weird to me that the game itself changes and you lose access to something you might already have paid for!
I was going to post something dismissive about an air-gapped phone being pretty useless, then I remembered I have an old Xperia Play which I repurposed as a dedicated emulator
It’s a free trial. I don’t know why everyone’s so shocked, they’re essentially giving you one or two free books in the hope that you’ll be hooked and want to pay for more!
Lol, I thought we were going to have a serious discussion about the relative merits of advertising vs community servers with donations, turns out you’re just an elitist cunt. Probably my mistake for not seeing the “TikTok and YouTube are my only sources of entertainment” red flag!
The Android Earthquake Alert system failed to detect recent tremors in north India, possibly due to its recent launch and gradual rollout to Android 5+ users in the country....
It says something about the current relationship of large corporate apps and users when Slack makes an update - of particular annoyance is that the search bar at the top basically eats the entire border now making it impossible to move the window around unless you make the window sufficiently large - and my immediate thought is “this must have been deliberate in order to make sure Slack takes up as much of my screen as possible.”
It’s hard for me to think of a legitimate reason for how massive that search bar is and why it is so damn close to all the edges at the top making the window virtually immovable unless you greatly expand it.
Ads are malware (sometimes literally, I think there was a post about exactly that in this very community), everyone should be in control of what they see on their own device.
Blocking their pop-up is just stealing their bandwidth.
That sounds cool but also so unnecessary! Do you look at the physical buttons when you’re playing? Can you not just set up on-screen buttons to use with the touchscreen?
Maybe not a failure of a device, as us enthusiasts would probably still be able to make something cool of it. A failure of a product, definitely, as it probably wouldn’t be successful enough with the casual user for the manufacturer to support it for long.
If you’re building a high-powered machine, maybe, but one of the points of these handhelds is that they don’t have a chunky GPU, a case full of fans, and an always-available power supply. Ignoring the points others have made about suspend/resume, Windows is a bit bulky and bloated, and running it on hardware that wants to be performant and power-efficient is apparently not that practical.
Cromite is a fork of the seemingly-abandoned Bromite, which used to be the only browser recommended by GrapheneOS (other than their own Vanadium). It’s relatively new though so I don’t think that much has been written about it for comparison.
Finally getting around to checking out Fallout 4. I played it through without the DLC a while back but I think it’s about time I get down to it on my list and play through the DLCs. I wanted to do it on the survival difficulty or one of the harder ones at least. That led to me checking out the achievements. I don’t keep up...
I can’t even get too mad at this, it makes complete sense for an OS to have built-in malware scanning because casual users will unintentionally install dodgy shit. The key thing is that those of us who don’t want Google having a nosey through our device can still disable it trivially, because if that option goes then suddenly we’re as bad as Windows!
No I think you’ve missed their point. E2EE is end-to-end encryption, as in the message can’t be intercepted in the middle but it’s unencrypted at the end so you can read it. Because the WhatsApp app is closed-source you don’t know that it doesn’t immediately read the message and send the content to Facebook. It probably doesn’t, but it could! E2EE itself means that some third party can’t read your message in transit, though to be fair closed-source again means we just have to trust Facebook when they say WhatsApp uses E2EE.
Firstly, that sounds like a shit situation to be in, so please don’t think I’m dismissing your struggles here.
I don’t live in the same country as you and I have no power to even slightly affect your political situation. I read enough bad news about stuff that I at least have a chance to get involved in that sometimes I want to read some funnies on the internet without having to read about another shit situation. It’s not because I don’t care, it’s because it’s not worth stressing out further about something I cannot do anything about.
So yeah, that’s why people don’t want so see US politics everywhere. Just because something is very important doesn’t mean it’s very important to everyone.
This Week in Privacy (#1) (blog.privacyguides.org)
Signal: No Evidence of Zero-Day Flaw in Encrypted Messaging App (www.pcmag.com)
Revisiting 3D Zelda Games (thoughts)
I decided to play through some of the 3d Zelda games as it’s been years and years....
Google Pixel 8a Exclusive: First Look at the Upcoming Mid-Range Powerhouse with Google Tensor G3 Chip (www.smartprix.com)
The Response to Google's 7 Year Pixel Update Promise is Getting Weird (www.droid-life.com)
Should I worry about "legitimate interest" tracking cookies?
I know they’ve been around since the GDPR came into effect, but I’ve suddenly noticed a sharp increase in the cookie prompts on web pages which have a second “legitimate interest” page. Some of these have an “object all” button, but plenty require you to manually opt-out of sometimes hundreds of ad-trackers....
This gives Google LESS access to your data! - YouTube (youtu.be)
[Game] Diablo 4 is coming to Steam (www.pcgamer.com)
While it was playable before through 3rd party tools, this will make it much more accessible to many Steam Deck players....
7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8 series (blog.google)
Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates (www.theverge.com)
Now this is nice. Hopefully 3rd party manufacturers can also provide a longer life span for the device.
Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook (www.wsj.com)
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How Valve Made $600,000,000 in a Year | Steam Deck Success Story (www.youtube.com)
Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)
cross-posted from !android
Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)
TikTok is testing an ad-free monthly subscription plan (Update: Confirmation) (www.androidauthority.com)
The original Apple Watch lineup is officially obsolete (www.engadget.com)
Yes, including the 18-karat gold model....
Google's Android Earthquake Alert failed' to detect north India tremors today. Why? (www.hindustantimes.com)
The Android Earthquake Alert system failed to detect recent tremors in north India, possibly due to its recent launch and gradual rollout to Android 5+ users in the country....
Looks like Reddit is removing the ability to opt out of personalized advertisements. (reddit.com)
Google could give the Pixel 8 seven years of updates (www.androidpolice.com)
cross-posted from !googlepixel
SteamDeck 1.5/Premium/LE?
I’m just thinking out loud here....
Android 14 will turn your phone into a webcam for your PC (www.xda-developers.com)
Steam Deck killers be like (i.imgur.com)
Chromium vs Brave
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5572424...
Steam Deck and Dock Are On Sale for Steam's 20th Anniversary (steamdeckhq.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/5056325...
Newer games have bad achievements and difficulty options right?
Finally getting around to checking out Fallout 4. I played it through without the DLC a while back but I think it’s about time I get down to it on my list and play through the DLCs. I wanted to do it on the survival difficulty or one of the harder ones at least. That led to me checking out the achievements. I don’t keep up...
They don't have such weaknesses (startrek.website)
Mishaal Rahman: Google Play Protect will apparently soon perform real-time threat detection for newly installed "unknown" apps... (twitter.com)
Nitter.net/MishaalRahman/…/1701366348796874802
WhatsApp will soon be your one-stop solution for all your chat apps (www.androidpolice.com)
SUMMARY...
Every third post on Lemmy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”