A comprehensive break-down of the #GoogleMaps empire, and the competitors vying for their own fiefdoms
@mhoye it more depends on your file manager, launcher, installed PDF reader, etc. Those aren't really "OS" or "Android" per se. They vary.
On mine, I can download the Ontario vaccination record as a PDF using Firefox, use the file manager to find it in Downloads, create a launcher/home screen shortcut, and use that to open it in the PDF reader with one touch without any further internet access. Just as I could on many other OSes.
"Google disables tens of millions of Google accounts every year, as stated in a Dutch Tweakers article by Google Communications Manager in the Netherlands, without warning, giving the recipient a reason why, or providing a way to get it back."
Hey, so this is super cool.
Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf
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"The European Parliament calls for removable and replaceable batteries"
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@jgoerzen @Hawk1291 I was hopeful that FirefoxOS would have evolved into something suitable for a Chromebook replacement and be a viable alternative for education. Unfortunately the project targeted low end phones and died. There's more than the laptop & its OS, though. School boards buy into the entire service ecosystem. Even users with personal laptops are being trained/conditioned to use Google products exclusively. Ease of administration will have long term effects
Sigh. Upgrade yer kernels.
If you are a developer who has posted on public mailing lists, watch out for spearphishing replies to your posts https://guardianproject.info/2022/02/23/spearphishing-for-developers/
This level of tracking of shoppers, even if it's to streamline checkout, is creepy. #privacy https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/technology/whole-foods-amazon-automation.html?smid=tw-share
@ehashman what was the downside of books which would make a dedicated stand better? Wondering if I should change my setup
PC Magazine - December 2001
https://books.google.com/books?id=MX5kFKbFM7EC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA146#v=twopage&q&f=false
@lukas@digitalcourage.social @Decentralize_today I hope Element or Fluffychat will become as easy to use and as performant as Signal. Unfortunately it is not there yet.
@hypolite @cstanhope @Hyolobrika@mstdn.io Personally, I am against what the protest became. They hurt the wrong people and a large enough subset were terrible to the local residents and unrelated institutions that it diluted any point that they may have had.
That doesn't change my assertion that there's a place for digital equivalent to cash, and bitcoin is provably not it. I used bitcoin from when there were no exchanges. It's possible, and worked.