Amrit @Spaceface16518@fosstodon.org

Neat, Apple actually incorporated some of the Dark Sky acquisition features into the weather app. Nice to see it not go to waste.

The "Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies" (or #EARNIT) Act, was introduced by Senator:

Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

And other co-sponsors:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s3398/details

This bill naively undermines #encryption.

"Encryption is a powerful tool to protect private information like passwords and financial details. However, it also can be used by criminals..." - Sen. Durbin

Have you contacted your Senator to share your disapproval of this criminalization of #privacy?

@cjd It looks like LibreOffice doesn't know it's on a hi-dpi screen and is rendering at 1 pixel per point and getting naively scaled up. Presumably because it's using it's own GUI toolkit that doesn't know how to use the macOS APIs to find out it's a on a 2 px/pt screen

Day 86 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:

I use this little app far more than I expected I would. If you find yourself on the command line looking at text with cat often, it's a great option for you (IMHO).

https://mikestone.me/bat

On All That Fuckery https://www.tinykat.cafe/on-all-that-fuckery

Wtf is wrong w people? And they posted with their actual GitHub accounts wow

I generally don't try and push my idea of diet and the way we eat on to people but living a plant-based life can have a truly positive effect on you, your health and the world we live in.

I'm really looking forward to seeing David Attenborough: "A Life on our Planet"

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=ad7mGfM-6kg

Although I have no doubt I'll be crying like a child at some parts that show the way we currently treat animals 😢.

Want additional #privacy on your mobile device? Simply use the browser to connect to services, when possible, instead of apps which make tracking harder to disable.

Does this eliminate risk? No.
Does it mitigate risk? Yes.

#iOS apps with malicious code is rampant:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/24/malicious-chinese-sdk-in-1200-ios-apps-with-billions-of-installs-causing-major-privacy-concerns-to-hundreds-of-millions-of-consumers/

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Trending Hashtags, Places and Posts are now available on the Discover page!

#pixelfed #discover

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-administration-withholds-20-million-crippling-international-internet-freedom-effort-officials-say/2020/07/31/eea0a9c0-d2a1-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

"A site got rid of targeted digital ads—and its revenues went way up"

Ad-funded sites going back to the contextual ads will help solve many of the issues of the current web:

Surveillance capitalism
Slow loading sites
Spam / Low quality / "AI" content

https://www.wired.com/story/can-killing-cookies-save-journalism/

The best parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-are-proprietary.html

if your website has an automated fake human "Hi there! Let me know if you have any questions" pop-up then you suck