❤️ sex work is work ✊
I agree with not using the term “sideloading”, but let’s not adopt right wing shame tactics by coining a portmanteau that conflates people’s harmless sexual kinks (e.g., cuckolding) with negativity. It’s sufficient to just avoid app stores, there is no need for childish shorthand.
Also, I don’t see how you are providing anything here resembling a “guide”. You’re stating an opinion, which is fine, but that’s not a guide.
Thanks for sharing, but I imagine it doesn’t get mentioned as much here because from a privacy perspective, that app seems kinds shady.
No source code available as far as I can tell, no builds available from a reputable source like F-Droid (just unvetted APK downloads from someone’s Google Drive), no apparent issue tracker beyond a confusing and seemingly outdated network of thread links from 2016 on a forum.
No, we don’t force anyone to do anything, electric replacements are offered as a “free” upgrade. We’re a housing cooperative, so technically it’s not free, but it’s paid for by the community’s collective funds.
The other main problem is that people routinely forget to turn off their stoves. We’ve had the fire department come multiple times this year alone because someone left their gas on and filled their unit with it. One resident left his gas open for who knows how long before he passed out in his living room and shit himself. Luckily someone found him and called the paramedics.
I guess if it was one person living in the wilderness and they blew themselves up or suffocated, then that’s on them. In a community though, it endangers everyone nearby.
Gas is not safe.
Speaking as a board member in a housing community where we are actively dealing with residents who claim that their precious gas stoves are safe and they don’t want electric replacements, I appreciate this post being shared.
Isn’t that exactly to be expected, and part of the whole point of the thing? It’s preventing connections to abusive service endpoints, of course it’s going to break things. The idea is that the things it breaks are not desirable, even when it means a game doesn’t work anymore. You have to choose which you want more: privacy, or playing that game.
This is probably not an easy question to answer, since, as another comment pointed out, WordPress is both an open source software option to selfhost your website, and also a non-free managed hosting option that you can use to host your website.
For the former, you fully control what plugins are installed, and if you don’t want social media tracking pixels on your site then don’t install one.
For the latter, you also mostly control what gets installed on your hosted website, but not entirely. It’s running on their servers so in theory they could be injecting tracking. I believe they do have some plugins like Jetpack that are always installed on managed websites, with some anti-features included that can be turned on (but don’t have to be).
I always recommend going the self hosted route with WordPress, if you are even the tiniest bit technical minded. It’s very easy to deploy on something like DigitalOcean or your own home server, and then you don’t need to worry about tracking from WordPress.com.
It isn’t like it’s a niche secret that YouTube siphons people’s privacy and sells their personal information. Creators being ignorant about that might have been a excuse a decade ago, but not now. I don’t think we should be excusing content creators who collaborate with and benefit from the machinery of viewer-exploitative content distribution that is YouTube.
Edit: also, you’re here in a privacy community defending the violation of privacy that you yourself originally described as dystopian. I’m not trying to be confrontational with you, here. I genuinely do not understand how you can think that content creators bear no responsibility for the dystopian situation you’ve encountered. Certainly they don’t bear all the responsibility for what YouTube does, but they chose to support YouTube by uploading monetized content there.
I’m not saying they should be canceled for that, but appreciated for it? Let’s not.
can’t even show your appreciation without selling more information
The content producer you’re trying to show appreciation for is the one who put their content on a platform that forces you to sell your information in order to appreciate them. Maybe let’s not appreciate those who do that.
The fact that other publications are more right leaning than The Guardian doesn’t make it left leaning. It’s a liberal paper, supporting liberal positions and routinely expressing opposition to leftists like Corbyn. In my book, support for liberalism and opposition to leftism makes it a right wing publication.
We USians often don’t realize that the Guardian is a right wing publication. A frustrating number of people in US circles (especially liberals who don’t know they aren’t leftists) think anything European/UK is ideal and that conservatives don’t have any influence there.
It’s an issue for accuracy in the comparison images that were posted.
Why would using Apple’s walled garden be a solution to Android becoming a walled garden? I can’t understand why this sentiment of moving to use Apple comes up so often lately.
I mean, media didn’t get copied over from the past, only from the point I connected it on, so it never functioned as a backup. I’ve still got years of message data on my phone that I want to sync to somewhere else so I can get rid of this phone.
Awesome, thanks! I’ve already got it connected to desktop since months ago and it’s not syncing, so I assume I’ll need to disconnect/reconnect in order to trigger the prompt. I’ll give it a shot.
How do you do that? I really need to, because my phone storage is full and I don’t want to lose Signal media sent over the years by my SO. I’ve poked around in the settings and can’t see any way to backup to desktop.
All I can find is a link that goes to a documentation site that says you can’t transfer from Android to Desktop: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Backup-and-Restore-Messages#desktop_restore
I’m interpreting the term in the way it’s defined according to Wikipedia:
User experience (UX) is how a user interacts with and experiences a product, system or service. It includes a person’s perceptions of utility, ease of use, and efficiency.
Facetime being intentionally limited to a single platform absolutely negatively impacts it’s UX by reducing utility, ease of use, and efficiency.
So you don’t consider it an impact on the experience of using a product when it either does or doesn’t function on your device? Sounds like the most basic concept of UX to me, but I dunno what you mean, maybe.
It was definitely on purpose, because privacy is more important to Signal than line-go-up adoption number statistics.
SMS is dangerous and insecure and everyone should stop using it immediately.
Literally all of that UX is the same and better in other apps though.
For example, every single part of your description applies to video and text conversations with my SO and friends, except we all use Signal. It “just works”, and better than Facetime because it doesn’t matter what device my SO and friends have.
With Facetime it doesn’t “just work” at all with the large number of people I know who don’t have Apple. That’s a huge disadvantage which means that Facetime UX sucks.
That’s not a fair statement to make. As published in their FAQ, developer time is not what’s lacking in the effort to support more devices: