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De-Google Your Life - Part 1
  • I think it's not a good idea to leave links to Piped instead of YouTube (same for Nitter/Twitter, Libreddit/Reddit, etc.). If you want to avoid YouTube, then just install LibRedirect extension or similar. Piped links are temporary, they'll break sooner or later, making it difficult for people to get to the website.

  • Twitter is fully X.com now.
  • "All core systems are now at X.com", so why opening x.com links in private window redirects to https://twitter.com/x/migrate?tok=, then again to x.com? I just cannot describe how stupid this is.

    As others have noticed, it drops an error: "Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com". The link has ?mx=2 parameter. I removed it and the page loaded correctly (but half of the viewport was clumped with banners). I tried again in a new private window, but never saw this error again, so this is a bug due to the aforementioned redirect.

  • Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service
    arstechnica.com Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service

    Cross-server tracking suggests a new understanding of "public" chat servers.

    Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14413882

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    Google Play Store listing apps installed from F-Droid that it cannot update
  • But Google is likely trying this dark pattern to sway people away from F-Droid or alt stores by making users uninstall these apps and install it from the Google Play Store.

    No, it's the security measure. Anyone can use existing package ID. If the user installs a different app with the same package ID as the other, that new app just overwrites the old app and will have access to the sensitive data of it.

    F-Droid apps are built and signed by the people at F-Droid. Apps from Google Play and GitHub are built and signed by the developers themselves. You can update Google Play apps from GitHub and vice versa. That's why I use Obtainium over F-Droid.

  • Announcing JSON Canvas: an open file format for infinite canvas data
    obsidian.md Announcing JSON Canvas: an open file format for infinite canvas data

    The Obsidian Canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources.

    Announcing JSON Canvas: an open file format for infinite canvas data

    The Obsidian canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources.

    https://jsoncanvas.org

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    Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks
    techcrunch.com Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks | TechCrunch

    Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted

    Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks | TechCrunch

    cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/9442796

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    What is being done to make Flatpaks better integrate into the system
  • The problem with "org" part. We'll never have org.gnome and com.gnome packages. Some apps have io.github.foo.bar. This entire thing is also case sensitive, so I have to guess is org.gnome.epiphany right name or org.gnome.Epiphany.

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    YouTube now suggests new content *by colour*

    crossposted from: https://szmer.info/post/2199842

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    Ecosia plants 200 million trees
  • They integrated AI chat which is using OpenAI technology. So they're paying for ChatGPT API instead of spending this money on trees? And doesn't running generative AI consume a lot of electricity?

  • Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what?
  • Depends on whether you're going to install apps from the official F-Droid repository or not. Third party F-droid repos (like IzzyOnDroid) are not affected by this.

    Suppose you have some app (a hypothetical Lemmy app) installed from the official F-Droid repo. You logged in an account, changed some settings. Then the developer announces an update: new features, bug and security fixes. It is published on GitHub and Google Play. F-Droid version will come after a few days, when the maintainer builds the app from source and publishes that update.

    You may don't want to wait till update comes to F-droid. But you can't install it from GitHub or Google Play, because it is signed by a different key. You'll have to reinstall the app, which will erase your settings and require logging in again.

    This is the hassle you probably may encounter in the future. If you want to avoid it, install official packages from the developers (from GitHub or Google Play). Obtainium can check for updates on GitHub, official and third-party F-Droid repos, and more.

  • Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what?
  • Important note: app developers don't publish their apps on the official F-Droid repository. Other people (maintainers) download source code and compiling these apps. Therefore, updates are delayed by a week. You cannot update the app from other source because F-Droid version signed by a different key, so you must reinstall the app, deleting all the data.

    I started using Obtainium to get updates directly from GitHub. It also has support for F-Droid and many other sources. I use F-Droid website mostly to discover apps.

  • Feature request: option to disable infinite scrolling

    Probably unpopular opinion, but recently i found infinite scrolling being very addictive. I would like to scroll about 50 posts (might be customizable), then click a button to load more, like in Voyager.

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    Lemmy app from KDE?

    We have Tokodon for Mastodon and NeoChat for Matrix, but KDE app for Lemmy is missing here. Are there any plans for making one?

    There are already some GTK clients, but they are not looking well on KDE Plasma.

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