I’ve driven a couple cars with electronic door poppers and I’m having trouble understanding why anybody would want them. The novelty of accomplishing a routine task by pressing an electronic button instead of pulling a mechanical lever should have worn off in 1985.

A big Bluetooth upgrade will soon boost your privacy and battery life

Not if I keep this Pixel 4a going for another five years it won’t.

From what i understand, this works because there are multiple batteries charging at the same time?

That shouldn’t make a big difference in charge speed because it doesn’t change the ratio between capacity and input power. The difference is likely the silicon anode batteries Krudler mentioned; they’re not as easily damaged by fast charge rates as the graphite anodes used in most Li-ion batteries.

They probably will once it’s not in early alpha as the readme says it is.

If you’re hosting it yourself, ActivityPub is a separate component. If someone else is hosting it for you, they will have to add support.

When I read “privacy nightmare”, I think of a system collecting or revealing information without the user’s knowledge. As I understand BeReal, the user understands exactly what information they’re sharing, and with whom. That said, I’m puzzled by why anyone would want to participate on either side.

Here are some things I might be doing in any random time window in which such an app might prompt me to share a selfie:

• Eating food, usually not interesting food foodie friends would like to see
• Walking, usually somewhere pretty boring
• Sitting on the toilet
• Writing code at my computer (often code someone is paying me to write and wouldn’t like included in a social media post)
• Picking dandelions to feed to the goslings at the park

I don’t want to share any of those activities with my friends. If we’re catching up on life in person, I’m not going to talk about any of that. If any of my friends do want to see those moments, I’d find it weird and voyeuristic.

The interesting moment I do want to share, and people might actually want to see is the close encounter with the wild gosling taking the dandelion leaf from me.

Instagram and Tiktok are usable in a web browser, though they do want you to make an account.

Terms like “safe” and “private” are not binary.

Are the contents of your Signal conversations on an iPhone private with regard to mass surveillance conducted by governments and ISPs? Probably. Apple uses security and privacy as marketing points, and there are a whole lot of people looking for vulnerabilities in its products who are incentivized to disclose them (possibly with a delay for patches). Signal itself takes steps to prevent data leaks to less secure parts of the OS and other apps.

Would your conversations remain private in the face of a targeted attack against your device by a nation state willing to spend a significant amount of time and money when you’re using Signal on an iPhone that’s presumably used for purposes other than secure conversations with a small set of people you know? Almost certainly not.

If you don’t like it, turn it off.

This would be a valid complaint if it was forced on you, but it isn’t. You can both ignore the warnings and disable the feature entirely.

As to why it does that, it’s using heuristics based on the APIs the app calls and maybe a bit about how it calls them. If there are enough patterns similar to malicious apps, you get a warning.

This specific person in this specific case sounds like an asshole, but people who aren’t assholes do sometimes lose court cases, and should have the ability to appeal without risking financial ruin.

it’s light on AI

Good. I have yet to see a preloaded AI feature on a phone that I want to use. The one I actually want is correctly deciding of I want to be disturbed with a given notification.

They’re extreme relative to the average person’s disposable income.

Extreme costs make it too risky to appeal against injustice.

Charging him $110 for not showing up to his hearing seems fair. Charging him thousands for losing his appeals does not.

Tried this; continued to see no ads for anything at all. Am I doing it wrong?

I use Matrix, and I’ve moved some conversations with people I met in public rooms there to Signal because it kept failing to transfer keys rendering it unable to decrypt messages. I haven’t seen that in a while so maybe it’s fixed, but I haven’t been using it for one-to-one conversations lately.

Unfortunately, I’ve found most people have a lot of resistance to adding another messaging app. I don’t really understand why that is, but it’s true. Asking someone to install a messaging app when I’m their only contact who uses it and they have another way to contact me has a success rate near zero.

What is this? A Twitter post?

Just about. JWZ is known for his cynical hot takes on tech in general.

I don’t think any of his complaints are invalid, though his conclusions are uncharitable at best. Making a communication tool that’s both reasonably secure and sufficiently palatable to people who don’t know how to use computers to achieve broad adoption is a hard problem with no perfect solutions. If he has a better idea, well… he’s a skilled and somewhat famous programmer; he’s better equipped than most to implement it.

There’s a significant distinction between servers that are actively malicious as you’re describing and servers that aren’t fully compatible with certain features, or that are simply buggy.

Lemmy, for example modifies posts federated from other platforms to fit its format constraints. One of them is that a post from Mastodon with multiple images attached will only show one image on Lemmy. Mastodon does it too: inline images from a Lemmy post don’t show on vanilla Mastodon.

I’ll note that Lemmy’s version numbers all start with 0. So do Piixelfed’s. That implies the software is unfinished and unstable.

Federation doesn’t inherently require large amounts of memory. Fundamentally, it’s a matter of selecting a list of unique servers (likely tens, maybe hundreds) from a larger set of followers (likely hundreds, maybe thousands) and sending an HTTP request to each when there’s a new post. There’s a speed/size tradeoff for how many to send in parallel, but it’s not a resource-intensive operation.

Growth beyond a few tens of megabytes was a bug in Writefreely, which is a likely-suitable option several comments here recommended.

I’d put it farther removed from the technical side than that; dreadbeef is thinking like a manager. OP might be better off paying a third party $3/month to handle the details and host a heavyweight, full-featured blog for them, but that’s not what they asked for.

This is selfhosted, which I think implies a desire to self-host things even if it might seem a wiser use of resources to do something else.