Wingy @Wingy@fosstodon.org

2009 Apple: We have created a new OS for your phone and a new concept of Apps that are perfectly integrated and carefully designed for your iPhone's touchscreen interface.

2019 Apple: Just shove the iPhone apps onto people's computers, where they have to use a mouse and keyboard. I dunno. Put it in a window or something. Nobody cares.

@aadil yeah this is so annoying. Privacy is not a binary thing, and the most important thing isn't targeted surveillance but mass surveillance: making it hard to do surveillance on a massive scale is not too hard and everyone should put at least some effort into it.

My user icon on my laptop is ​, and Plasma audio configuration options use your user icon, so for a moment I was confused as to why there was a blob there

No matter how much browsers talk about the security of their built-in password managers, I feel I have been conditioned to not trust them.

Of course you should hire a squirrel for a software engineering position. They're experts in tree-traversal and caching, and they're very well acquainted with kernels.

I always find it weird when sites like Reddit are categorized as "social media".

It's like calling Slashdot social media. Or calling some phpbb forum social media. I mean, technically yes, but come on...

#Firefox hint: Just noticed that if you middle-click or Ctrl+click on the "+" button to open a new tab, it opens it _next_ to the one you have open. In contrast to usually just opening it at the end.

(And yes, I know there is very likely also an about:config to make this the default behaviour.)

Nestor is a big mood this morning:

Thank you Japan, for avenging the dinos.

Want to build your own Boston Dynamics' style dog ? https://github.com/Nate711/StanfordDoggoProject
An awesome opensource Stanford student's project

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Tor users! We have a non-#Cloudflare alternative to http://transcyberian.org:

https://maryshi.ro/transcyberian/

#dontblocktor

@prydt which app, so i know what to stay away from.