Notices by Jonah Aragon (jonah@mastodon.neat.computer)

@feld what the fuck

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/932011167

@feld lol I was just looking for what I had posted about DC to remember why I was so annoyed with it last year, and I just saw your reply.

I am probably still annoyed with how easy it is to shoot yourself in the foot if you use your existing email provider, like I imagine many people would like to do, (and which is why I was happy when Signal removed SMS support) but I'll check it out again with Chatmail this time 👀

@feld because the only alternatives (Matrix, SimpleX, XMPP, Delta Chat) have such a worse user experience, unfortunately.

I was feeling inspired to write this morning after looking through a lot of this type of article and noticing they all omitted kind of important information. This includes all of the basics, and the stuff I thought was under-discussed, for example: AirDrop's privacy problems, and the importance of security patches in this specific scenario.

I hope someone finds this useful, and if I'm still missing anything or could explain something better, please let me know!

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

#privacy #security #activism #protest

This is not a win for privacy, this is a massive loss for all Americans as the country descends into the internet censorship that has plagued so many of the other unfree countries around the world.

It isn't the time to act smug or superior just because that censorship happened to target an app you disliked today. They will have no problems coming for the services you do like tomorrow.

#tiktok #privacy #censorship

@aureliuspublius including a fact at the end of a tweet does not make the entire tweet factually right, no

Hugely disappointing to see Andy Yen (Proton CEO) tout the Republican Party as the ones “standing up for the little guys” 🤢

@ernie TIL the movie that probably freaked me out the most growing up (The Andromeda Strain) was rated G lol

@grimalkina @alexhammy I think it boils down to that it turned out Wordpress.org is really just run by one guy and wasn’t actually a community project

@feld @mint "Why aren't they doing this already" is practically Mozilla's mantra

edit: I think it's obvious that Mozilla should just hire me to make all decisions since my opinions are exactly what everyone on the internet wants ;)

@feld @mint I feel like the community would pretty quickly rediscover how bittorrent works, even M$ basically does it with updates these days.

I'm also in the Mozilla should just disappear at this point camp tbh

@feld 🙋♂️

@mozilla sad

What's the deal with #Mastodon's SEO? I don't think I've ever seen a Mastodon profile or post in search results unless I go to like, page 3. Meanwhile I'm wading through all sorts of nonsense from Twitter/LinkedIn/etc.

Websites should start pushing people to install Firefox again, like they did back in the day

@BeAware surely not more than just uploading images to a post…

Will #Mastodon add the ability for individual users to upload emojis to their account, now that Genmoji exists? Seems like there will be a lot more demand for custom emojis in the future 🤔

@feld only probably?

Apple is really coming after Google with this standby feature, I wonder if this is coming to docked iPads as well...

#wwdc #wwdc23

Literally so bored with this so far lol

#wwdc #wwdc23