Notices by noodlejetski :verified_gay: (noodlejetski@masto.ai), page 2

@aral https://stackdiary.com/googles-ai-overviews-are-out-of-control/

> Note: The tweet above from gary (@allgarbled) was removed 2 hours after he posted it.

> This is likely a fake example,

@drewdevault

@AkaSci uhhh, aren't the distances supposed to be in billions km, not millions? 150 mil km is 8 light minutes...

@aral that's what you think.

@wonkothesane @mattly @inthehands yeah, kinda sad how that "shoving" comment is still there, but Vlad has been removing any new comments and just directs people to DM him instead. saw a thread where two people were criticizing the company's response disappear before my eyes last night.

@dansup there's a pixelfed.social account belonging to a very outspoken pro-Russia, pro-China tankie whom I've seen around on lemmy.ml. I've blocked their Pixelfed account, but despite that it's still showing up in my follow recommendations, and while I might be misremembering, I *think* their posts would still sometimes show up in trending, too. would it be possible to make blocked PF accounts and their content not show up at all?

@roadriverrail @normis @anildash straight up scraping would be difficult to explain to the regulators, but when you're federated? "hey they willingly connected with us and gave us all that data".

@aral @Mer__edith not sure about iOS, but on Android the content of Signal messages doesn't go through Google's servers.

hopefully that'll still push them to look into alternative options like ntfy.

just cancelled my Spotify subscription. a song unavailable for playback IN THEIR OWN GOODBYE PLAYLIST is just *chef's kiss*

starting off with two of my favourite ways of getting the apps and keeping them updated:
Droid-ify (https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.looker.droidify/) is a much more pleasant looking F-droid client than the official one. it comes with several third party repositories ready to enable, including one maintained by the one and only @IzzyOnDroid , which serves many apps that either haven't made it to the official repository yet, or ones that don't completely fulfill F-droid's strict requirements.

what this thread is going to be:
- F-droid goodies that I use on a daily basis! free stuff! privacy-friendly! no ads! with a toot-long review!

what this thread is NOT going to be:
- explaining what F-droid or FOSS is and why you should bother, because people much smarter than me have done that in the past many times.
- me explaining why I use app A instead of app B that you like better. good for you! you can make your own list, you've got the power! toot them toots!

okay, it's a slow part of my 24 h shift, so it's finally time to make a thread about the #FOSS apps that I use on my phone, most of them obtainable through @fdroidorg . I've trawled through its repositories many times over years, and managed to find a bunch of great software fitting my needs, so hopefully someone finds this useful as well.

AntennaPod https://www.f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

one of the most robust podcast players. I'm not much of a podcast listener, but whenever I feel like pulling something from my tiny (show-wise) huge (episode-wise) backlog, this is the one I fire up. they've been around since forever and only continue to improve.

they've also got a Fediverse account, so make sure to give them some love! @AntennaPod

Obtainium https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/dev.imranr.obtainium

lets you get apps directly from their GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg sites instead of F-droid repos. it doesn't work with all projects, which is why I keep both it and Droid-ify, but it's often a faster way of getting an update since it can take a few days for F-droid to make updates available, and I'm a spoiled milennial and need shiny new stuff RIGHT NOW

if you look closely at the URL, you can see it's available on the aforementioned IzzyOnDroid repo.

@Techmeme the same Life360 that sells your precise location data https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user

@aral they already sell a niche product, and providing software without Google Play Store would sadly make it even more niche and less accessible for regular customers.
luckily, you don't have to install a custom ROM on your own, you can buy the same phone from Murena, which provides a degoogled ROM: https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-5-fr/

@stavvers I think they moved to Nostr, which is blockchain based
@lori @NoraReed

@dansup ooooh, a group chat on a corporate owned messenger that lacks privacy for discussing a decentralized, privacy focused, encrypted messenger!

@apps will it only show the posts in the timeline? my problem with following a Lemmy community with a Mastodon account is that it results in all the comments made in that community boosted to my timeline without any context.

@grishka I've just downloaded it through Aurora Store and extracted the apk. I'm currently trying to upload it to APKMirror.
@kristian @socialmedianews