Yes. The first number didn’t work so I refunded it but it worked on the 2nd try.

I’ve used smspool.net a few times without issue.

Mainly to avoid using YouTube and the mess of that interface. All i need is a chronoligical feed of the channels I like. I’m not overly concerned that they can associate my IP with some viewing activity. As long as there are multiple people in the household using YouTube, it’s not a given they know who’s watching what. Also it’s much easier to have multiple invidious profiles and use them with Firefox containers than it is to have multiple YouTube accounts and switch between them.

https://docs.invidious.io/youtube-errors-explained

Running a remote instance without some sort of IP rotation became infeasible. I’ve been running it locally since google started actively trying to kill invidious. The only reason that still works is because they want to avoid collateral damage that could affect other people in the household.

https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-bcachefs/

For those of us that are out of the loop.

It’s high school level drama. Competent adults will work it out.

We literally have wireshark and similar utilities available to all of us to inspect every packet of data coming in to and leaving our phones. You can install pcapdroid right now to see exactly what facebook is doing and where that data is going. This is not complicated stuff.

Now imagine the payday and notoriety that’ll go to the security research firm that is doing this kind of work on a regular basis and is able to definitively prove it’s happening. Why do you think that hasn’t happened yet?

Or how about not assuming either way and waiting for proof before believing narratives. Anything else occupies the same space as conspiracy theories.

The math on anyone always listening to everyone’s phones doesn’t add up and will not any time in the near future.

That’s great and all but if your experience was typical, Mozilla wouldn’t have created webcompat.com and it wouldn’t be as busy as it appears to be. We can probably work around such issues but I wouldn’t expect non-techies to do the same.

Firefox has been my preferred browser since 0.9. But whenever I help set up a relative’s or friend’s computer, I always install chrome as the default browser. With the lack of adherence to web standards and most sites only testing against chrome, it just makes chrome/chromium the obvious choice if you don’t want to deal with the occasional breakage.

I think they’re comparing chrome’s user interface which, on a tablet, switches to a more desktop like interface with the tab bar instead of the tab counter. It is something I wish firefox would also implement but not a deal breaker.

Great ANC is still a premium feature that you’ll pay a premium price for. But good ANC has made its way into the budget space and if you’re willing to compromise on some features, you’ll find some decent options. I usually pay attention to rtings reviews: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/best/noise-cancelling-earbuds

This was a major plot point in Doctorow’s Bezzle that I just finished. It’s depressing to see it happening in real life but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Voyager but keeping an eye on the development of Raccoon.

I’m sure people have but my guess is they’re more likely to be bluesky people instead of lemmy people.

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“The report detailed how the user managed to leak DNS queries when disabling and enabling VPN while having “Block connections without VPN” on.”

Not to diminish the severity of the issue but I can’t imagine this being the factor that pushes the average person to ios over android.

Nothing complicated. Nextcloud assistant with nextcloud office and generating emails in fairemail.

My main use is chatgptbox with my instance of searxng. Also comes in handy when looking for a shell command or script with ai-shell.

Then there’s the various integrations in documents, notes, etc…

• Bitwarden
• Racknerd VPS
• Backblaze B2
• PIA VPN
• Purelymail
• Usenet
• ChatGPT API

And the occasional donation to open source projects like pihole.