soulfirethewolf

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soulfirethewolf,

Technically, yes, this is a solution.

Socially, no. This is not a solution. People are just too lazy.

soulfirethewolf,

The problem is actually getting people to use it since they’re all too busy arguing over the color of a message

soulfirethewolf,

So many of these comments are pulling up the other encrypted alternatives that you can use between iPhone and other platforms. But few seem to actually be addressing the problem of actually getting other non-tech savvy people to use this stuff because they don’t actually see a problem with what they have.

You may not realize it, but not everyone is thinking about whether or not their messages are encrypted. My own family looks at me like “🤨” when I try to convince them to use something encrypted, like I’m trying to hide a crime or something. And I’ve only gotten my parents to use other services (WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger with end to encryption turned on) by digging my heels to get them to stop using SMS. I still haven’t convinced my almost 16-year-old sister (she doesn’t really message me that much anyway. But she’s in that phase where she thinks she’s all independent, and her first places are the simple stuff she knows).

Might I add that digging your heels at every attempt for someone to use SMS isn’t socially acceptable. I’ve only done it because they’re family and I love them

soulfirethewolf, (edited )

Okay, let me just convince all 200 of the people I’m in a server with, who all have varying levels of tech skills, to download this different app they never heard of before.

I’d love to man, but it’s just not as easy as that.

soulfirethewolf,

I hope this means that notifications on iOS will actually use the conversations API. As well as making it so that using one of these shortcuts on the app icon no longer takes you to a random message

soulfirethewolf,

Yaaaaaay

soulfirethewolf,

Yo Nicki Minaj in Fortnite!?

soulfirethewolf,

Alchemy isn’t even a strictly occult thing. It was something done in the medieval era that was basically a very early form of science before most of the things they were trying to do were considered impossible

soulfirethewolf,

If you’re worried about losing access to your email, consider switching to one with custom domain and a provider that supports it.

soulfirethewolf,

Taken from moth.social/

soulfirethewolf,

memone

soulfirethewolf,

Look at the funky little guy

soulfirethewolf,

The thing holding me from GrapheneOS is mostly Hub Mode on my tablet.

soulfirethewolf,

I too would love to have a conversation of holding hands with a giant Kobold mommy

soulfirethewolf,

:(

Making Bing on Firefox for Android use the tablet layout instead of the smartphone layout

I’m trying to move a bit to Firefox in advance for the upcoming changes to Chromium’s Manifest v3 changes next june. But one of the major problems I have is that bing looks awful on Firefox for Android in comparison to bing on Microsoft Edge for Android. It seems to be just the mobile version for smart phones, stretched out...

soulfirethewolf,

Does it creatitity?

why does everyone hate material you?

So I switched to a pixel 7 from an iphone 10 xs a few months back, and I’ve absolutely loved it in comparison to the locked down nature of an iphone. So I think to look up material you on YouTube for fun, and decide to read the comments and found that people hated it. Quick googling led to me to find two reddit threads and an...

soulfirethewolf,

I personally like Material You. What I don’t like is how Google apparently took away a bunch of the Pixel customization features (like icon shapes, fonts, etc) in favor of just material you

soulfirethewolf,

Yeah a lot of older things had more depth to them, but I still feel like frutiger aero and other retro design languages simply wouldn’t work today across all the different screen sizes that exist.

soulfirethewolf,

If this weren’t for a gimmicky publicity stunt, I’d say it would be more cost effective to just give out DLSR cameras to adoption centers.

soulfirethewolf,

According to some of their sources, one of the major reasons they chose to go with a new protocol is because they wanted to take decentralization a step further by separating user identity from user instance (known in the AT protocol as a Personal Data Server, or PDS)

In other words, they’re trying to make it so that even if the instance you were on were to disappear, or you were to get banned from it (as what can happen on the Fediverse), you wouldn’t lose your identity. You could just use a recovery key to reauthenticate your identity and your followers would be able to find you again. Contrast with the Fediverse where if the instance you are using disappears suddenly, or you are banned for whatever reason (not even necessarily because of bad behavior, but also something possibly like petty disagreements), your whole account is gone and people will not be able to find you unless you create a whole another account. Even in situations that doesn’t involve accounts being deleted, this would also be for if you wanted to move to another instance that might be blocked by the one you’re using

At the moment, the way users are identified in the AT protocol is primarily through a placeholder version of a w3c standard that consists of a bunch of random characters, All of which is contained within a DNS TXT record. Essentially identifying every user either through that sequence of characters alone, or through a friendly domain name separate from your instance like @soulfire.jarexibackblaze.xyz (My personal account handle).

TL;DR Bluesky uses a new standard because they wanted to fix the problem of users losing their identity because their instance went down

soulfirethewolf,

I literally just wish that Google photos wouldn’t make a copy of my photos without the metadata every time I decide to edit one

soulfirethewolf,

That definitely sounds interesting, given that I use Nextcloud. But I’m definitely not sure about using an S3 bucket for my stuff.

soulfirethewolf,

I am still waiting patiently for a lot of things before I switch back to Firefox. Like passkeys (apparently they’re coming soon), a better interface for android tablets, native tab groups and split screen tabs and sidebar apps like in Vivaldi and Edge without the need for add-ons.

There is just so much stuff that they need to do, and yet their approach seems to be just integrating functionality that would have been better as an optional addon.

soulfirethewolf,

It’s frustrating with banks don’t provide APIs that would let you basically recreate mint

soulfirethewolf,

I still hate that they killed the mid-range model. Your option is the lower end MacBook Air with no fan, or the higher-end MacBook Pro. There is no in between.

I absolutely love the snappiness of the m1 chip in my current 2020 MBP, and how much more efficient ARM is compared to x86, but it seems really hard to justify going an extra 300$ in the future.

I really just wish they would bring back the original MacBook (with no suffixes at the end)

soulfirethewolf,

I kind of want to go for the framework laptop, but I still do like ARM and given I want to do more stuff around machine learning in the future, which is already kind of difficult to run large language models with only 8 gigabytes of RAM, it at least kind of runs with ARM. On my basement PC, It will barely do anything

soulfirethewolf,

Those don’t work on Apple silicon Macs. sadly

Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)

The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...

soulfirethewolf,

I wish the US could have been the same in developing on internet messaging. Instead, It’s virtually impossible to find a plan that doesn’t have unlimited SMS and therefore no one ever sees the antiqueness of SMS to be an issue.

soulfirethewolf,

Wrapping an internet messaging service with a text messaging system was probably one of the worst things that Apple did.

When I had switched to Android, I was hoping I’d still be able to use iMessage from my iPad occasionally, But eventually I had to give up because whenever I sent an iMessage from my email, my family would just try responding from there as well, Even when I sent a SMS message afterwards.

I managed to convince my father to download WhatsApp (since he doesn’t want to use signal or telegram, and personally, I don’t really like signals lack of external features like no smartwatch app or assistant integration. And I don’t know why not Telegram), but the only other messaging platform my mom uses is Facebook Messenger so that kind of sucks that it’s my only option for communicating outside of SMS. Can’t really convince my sister to switch to something else (and she blocked me on discord for whatever reason, probably because she’s 16 and going through this huge phase right now and I tend to use my sona for almost all online accounts as opposed to my real name)

My family kept complaining that by using something else beyond SMS, requiring them to check yet another messaging app, I’d be complicating their lives too far. But I’m still continuing because there is absolutely no reason for me and my family to be using SMS anymore, and I personally would like to have things like typing indicators and higher quality media back

On a side note, why is Facebook Messenger so much worse than WhatsApp despite being owned by the same company?

soulfirethewolf,

But how can I resist that face

soulfirethewolf,

Honestly, I couldn’t get my dad to use signal. And personally I think that signal is lacking in a lot of features like a smartwatch app, ability to send messages through a voice assistant, among other things because of the fact it prioritizes security and privacy over everything else.

WhatsApp just recently got an app for Wear OS

soulfirethewolf,

Ugh and I just got my dad to use it instead of SMS

(No he will not use Signal)

soulfirethewolf,

Dang, I was really hoping that they would stop using bugzilla and switch to something like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea issues instead. Perhaps also put things like feature requests there as well and have one place to contribute to Firefox

soulfirethewolf,

It’s nice to see good app security being praised. Sometimes it feels like some people on lemmy (and the fediverse) throw security to the wind.

Like one time I had heard someone over on Mastodon say that they thought that HTTPS was too overused and shouldn’t have been everywhere because it makes older apps unable to access sites and also made adblocking just ever so slightly harder.

Which yeah, I love adblockers, but I’m definitely not comfortable with all traffic having to go unencrypted just for it.

soulfirethewolf,

Actually as of Android 12, there are APIs that allow third party app stores that aren’t system apps to automatically update apps.

soulfirethewolf,

MacBook USB-C can be goofy. I know for restoring firmware (which Apple refers to as “reviving”), on some models, you have to use a very specific port

soulfirethewolf,

Here’s the post link

mastodon.de/

soulfirethewolf,

GrapheneOS still takes away a bit of control though. Mainly in that it’s locked down for privacy in some ways that you can’t disable

soulfirethewolf,

I remember seeing this donut passed off as misinformation online where it was allegedly being distributed for free to children at Starbucks where it had Sharia law written on it.

Absolutely wild lol

soulfirethewolf,

The costs of Apple subscriptions are probably part of the reason I left the iPhone ecosystem

soulfirethewolf,

Nah. I’d rather download another browser (besides chrome of course)

soulfirethewolf,

*chromium, not Google Chrome

soulfirethewolf,

bnnuy

soulfirethewolf,

Stuff like NFC payments are one of the reasons that kind of stick with stock Android. I want to use something else, but it’s kind of hard for me to accept losing functionality.

soulfirethewolf,

I just wish our meter had a P1 port like they did in some countries

soulfirethewolf,

That would be, if Google wasn’t constantly killing things that didn’t do good enough. Especially given how expensive generative AI can be to run remotely. Just look at what happened with Stadia

Also, it just feels disappointing. Ever since chatGPT, they’ve been pouring near infinite budget into stuff like this by hiring the top talent, and working them to the latest hours of the night. And the best that they could come up with for the pixel 8 is feeding it data from the cloud.

And I can’t even really believe the whole “consumer hardware isn’t powerful enough” thing given that there’s quite a few ARM processors, Apple especially, That’s been able to build consumer hardware capable of performing generative AI (I’ve personally been able to run stable, diffusion and whisper on my M1 MacBook). Maybe not at the scale or quality of the cloud, but still capable of doing so regardless.

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