[-] Jerry@feddit.online 36 points 3 weeks ago

We're glad you are here!

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

According to the Google Play Store, there are 467 reviews (4.8 stars) but "0+" downloads. Like everything else about the White House, it doesn't add up.

And maybe most people know to keep it off their phones.

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[-] Jerry@feddit.online 24 points 4 months ago

3rd place nationwide? OMG. That is incredible. That is really awesome!

Well, I'm proud of you. I truly am. What an awesome achievement. You have great talent. Music is a language that speaks to the soul without words. You have a superpower. Continue using it for the good of all.

Do you have any videos uploaded online?

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A 3-month supply of Metformin costs under $7 without insurance. This isn't a real situation, at least not for the person who wrote this.

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 33 points 8 months ago

The author is trying a too hard to make a point based on their belief that Proton Mail is never unencrypted at rest. That the company never allowed such a thing. And launches an attack based on this premise.

However, it's just not true.

The Proton Mail bridge which has been around for quite some time, will leave email unencrypted at rest just by the nature that it integrates with email tools like Thunderbird and X1 Search.

So this premise, "but Proton’s email famously does not work like that. There is never plain text at rest" that is used to prove the Proton is allowing unencrypted text under certain conditions solely because they consider making money more important than privacy is a false premise. Proton never made money on the bridge, for example, but it's one case where they allowed users to decide whether it was OK to have copies of emails unencrypted at rest.

My conclusion is that the author just wants to rant against Proton.

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's private because there are essentially two of you, and your vote is the anonymous you.

https://piefed.social/post/205362

"PieFed accounts now have two profiles within them - one used for posting content and another (with no name, profile photo or bio, etc) for voting. PieFed federates content using the main profile most of the time but when sending votes to Mbin and Lemmy it uses the anonymous profile. The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account ..."

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's an acquired taste. Now that I've been using it for months, I prefer it. I like that I have my Bluesky and Tumblr posts completely integrated into my timeline. I can reply to Bluesky posts. When I post something, it automatically gets posted to Bluesky, and Tumblr, if I like. I never go onto Bluesky any longer. Likes and replies from Bluesky are right in with my Mastodon posts and RSS feed posts too. Yes, RSS integrates in as well (obviously you can't reply to them though).

On Mastodon, if someone posts something interesting and I want to see replies and discussions, I can't, unless I remember to go back to the post and look. In Friendica I can click that I want to follow the thread, and it will notify me of the updates, and take me right to the new comment when I click it, it takes me directly to the notification. I love this! If I interact with a post (like it), same thing. It will track it for me. And it does a better job of pulling in replies and responses from all over.

Yeah. Not all good.

I run one of the Friendica servers and it's a problem child. The database grows rapidly and struggles. The database queries urgently need work. Some are super slow. It stalls a lot. The UI is confusing. The developers are not all that active any longer, but still active. The UI is, well, dated.

More info about it here: https://news.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/

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'Chicago Sun-Times' Slammed After Letting AI Generate Summer Reading List—Full Of Fake Book Titles

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'Chicago Sun-Times' Slammed After Letting AI Generate Summer Reading List—Full Of Fake Book Titles

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Need some good news about the fight against Corporations violating your privacy? This is a great ruling! This gives States big teeth to go against companies who violate state laws that protect privacy.

The key issue was whether Shopify’s actions were “expressly aimed” at California. Shopify argued that it was “mere happenstance” that its conduct affected a consumer in California ..."

Ninth Circuit Court:
"Pre-internet, there would be no doubt that the California courts would have specific personal jurisdiction over a third party who physically entered a Californian’s home by deceptive means to take personal information from the Californian’s files for its own commercial gain. Here, though Shopify’s entry into the state of California is by electronic means ..."

"... not “mere happenstance” because, among other things, Shopify allegedly knew plaintiff's location either prior to or shortly after installing its initial tracking software on his device as well as those of other Californians.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/ninth-circuit-hands-users-big-win-californians-can-sue-out-state-corporations

#EFF #Shopify

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 29 points 1 year ago

This tells me that you'd be in a lot of trouble if you lost your phone or had to wipe it because someone got into it. It's probably good then that you're now thinking about this so you can prepare for a time when you won't have your phone for other reasons.

All sites supporting 2FA usually allow you to use a second method. Email is usually an alternative. Assuming that your email is your universal second OTP method, you just need to make sure you will always have access to your email account and you'll be fine. So just solve for the OTP problem for your email account.

Pre-buy your burner phone and make it a second OTP device for your email account. For more assurance, buy a couple of physical keys (like Yubikey) that can be used with your email account. These can also be set up for some of your other accounts that support it, which may be more convenient than email when accessing them.

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 29 points 1 year ago

I have a Peertube server, and I've requested to follow tilvids, and they denied my request, and they also do not follow my Peertube server. I think one issue with tilvids may be that they essentially choose not to federate, and therefore you won't find much because of this.

I just searched for "Gaming" on my Peertube server and I seem to get a non-ending list of servers. Unfortunately, one column wide, but a lot. When I search for King's Quest, I am also getting a seemingly unending stream of videos.

I follow every Peertube server I can that is clearly not fascist, primarily NSFW, NSFL, etc.

Maybe you just need to find a server that is more federated with other Peertube servers.

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There are many #Friendica fans, and for good reason. Once you get past the learning curve from the difficult UI, you get to appreciate the extra benefits of built-in #Bluesky, #Lemmy/#Piefed/#MBIN, #Tumblr, and #RSS feed integration. It also has #Diasporia integration and some other protocol integrations. Of course, it's also a #Mastodon alternative.

Nobody ever mentions Friendica as being a #Threadiverse app, but it has Groups, which is built-in Threadiverse capability. If you follow a Community on Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN, for example, it gets categorized as a group and is placed into a separate section for the groups you are part of. Then you can read and post in the Group (Community/Magazine) just like you would on a Threadiverse application. You can also create public and private groups.

And there is no need to use a Bluesky bridge if the Friendica instance you are on has the integration turned on.

Here's an excellent 5-minute video showing Friendica created by @earthman@my-place.social for those interested in seeing how it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFGLRgnaeLc

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Hey, Threadiverse! I'm looking for informed opinions on database choices.

I can stand up an Internet-facing application and have it use either MySQL or PostgreSQL. Which is the better choice, and why do you think so?

Thanks!

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Dedicated to antisocial behavior of social media corporations, censorship, algorithmic bias, filter bubbles, privacy and psychological effects of mainstream social media.

Articles like:

  • Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
  • Meta dumps fact-checkers
    -Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’

!antisocialmedia@piefed.social
https://feddit.online/c/antisocialmedia@piefed.social

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The Digital Ocean outage on 28-Nov-2024 was caused by a mistaken clientHold put on DigitalOceanSpaces.com by Network Solutions, probably by one person, which continued for hours because a bevy of clueless VeriSign executives, notified in multiple escalations, didn't know who to contact to reverse this simple mistake that lead to a major corporation bleeding revenue and reputation.

Imagine if Network Solutions accidentally put a clientHold on your domain. You'd have to kiss your domain goodbye because a lot of VeriSign executives will not be helping you, even if they could.

"DigitalOcean is working with Network Solutions to understand what happened on their end that resulted in the clientHold being applied to our domain incorrectly. In addition, we are reviewing other domain registrars as possible new homes for our domains."

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/jm44h02t22ck

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 25 points 1 year ago

It's a good question and something they ought to support.

Their official account in the Fediverse is @protonprivacy@mastodon.social. You might want to try DMing them.

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 22 points 1 year ago

You might want to include @protonprivacy@mastodon.social

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[-] Jerry@feddit.online 41 points 2 years ago

You have to use hashtags on Mastodon if you want your messages to be seen because there is no AI to fill timelines. People follow hashtags and search for them. Then you'll get likes and boosts.

And, you control your own timeline by following hashtags, following people, and searching for hashtags. This way, unlike Twitter, your timeline only has posts that you are interested in. Once you get this set up, it's quite nice to only see posts that you like reading, without advertising and without posts meant to enrage you.

Also you can use https://fedi.directory to find great people to follow.

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