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I noticed a white hue on the top of the screen and ONLY on the homescreen. I thought it was a Fairphone 5 issue, but now i noticed it on my Nothing Phone 2a (photo)as well. What is it? ( lemmy.world )

After i got my Fairphone back from the repaircenter (they thought there was something wrong with it), they told me it was an intended design. However, i see other people mention they don't have it.

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is this everywhere on the device?

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I'd love to slap LineageOS on a modern sony

Loved their devices back then, especially because they offer an extended range of updates specifically for developing on-top of AOSP, even including (Major) Kernel Updates

That on a modern device? Count me in

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Generally, if your admin set something like that up, they will have instructions in their privacy policy.

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Codeberg, woo!

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Alternative Title:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Bullshit-Powered search and the future of the Hellfire we used to call the "Internet"

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FYI: xManager itself is Open-Source, Spotify obviously isn't.

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I mean, to be completely fair, that's how data storage works.

We cannot really just make data disappear, so we let it get overwritten instead

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yeah cuz for normal, day-to-day use that's exponentially slower the more you're deleting

You can do that when you wipe something.

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no when I say "overwritten" I mean that the area is set as deleted in the filesystem and the next time something writes to that area the data that was there before is disregarded.

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no I don't believe a damn word of what apple's gonna say on this, I just wanted to get the message out there that generally file deletion works by allowing data to be overwritten, so if the images are local this could very well just be that either it's showing data that hasn't been overwritten yet or it accidentally brought things out of the "recently deleted" depending on how long ago it was deleted.

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You can actually put alt-text in images, ![alt-text](URL)

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Note that tons of instances have increased the limit FAR beyond 500 chars. Mine has 2000.

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activism.

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Just so you know, the actual source code for this project mentions both Jamulator and another project that did this for the N64.

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it sucks but can you blame them?

For picking discord I very much can blame them, I figure it won't be long until that goes down the drain too.

1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog ( blog.mozilla.org )

The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...

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(the sync can actually be self-hosted and is OSS, the DRM is third-party and proprietary)

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It isn't google-free in the sense that it ships https://microg.org

Unless you enable SafetyNet, none of Google's code runs.

Android custom ROM with rooting support

So I'm interested in buying a Pixel 8 to install GrapheneOS in it but I'm also interested in rooting it and from what I've read rooting your device with a privacy focused custom ROM like GrapheneOS beats the purpose of installing it, so I don't know if it's actually posible to do it or if it actually has any grace, honestly I...

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Indeed, rooting usually beats the purpose.

Not because it inherently makes you less private, but because having bad security makes it hard to be private, and opening up a way in android to allow apps to do what they want (selective root access) usually requires punching a lot of holes.

Even with AVBRoot, which allows you to setup Magisk or KernelSU with full Verified Boot support, you're still leaving open the possibility that something abuses the fact you're rooted against you.

But just so you know, if you insist, you can skip the step of locking your pixel's bootloader and install Magisk, but do not expect any support from that point onwards.

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary

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Proton and Wire didn't share any decrypted ciphertexts, Wire shared a ProtonMail address and Proton an iCloud Address that they had set as a recovery method.

Personal info like where they live came from Apple.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

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"Inside the EU" in the sense of "its headquartered in the EU" or in the sense of "available in the EU"?

either way, I've heard lots of people here vouch for Tidal.

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The case is essentially "hey you kinda passed a bill that's against your own constitution? You're kinda supposed to follow that..."

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Most info came from the fact that they made the move to link their personal iCloud Mail as a recovery method.

Infinite wisdom.

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presumably, you're already in the right place!

Though, generally all over all kinds of places in the web you'll find communities of neurodiverse and/or autistic people :)

Trying to understand Consent Forms, Cookies and Third-Party Vendors ( slrpnk.net )

Yo peeps, I'm currently looking into TCF Vendors, Ad partners and their whole corporate greed hellhole of tracking. I am writing a paper on this, and would like for everything to be factually correct. However, I am struggling to understand one particular part of this "transparency framework" and hope someone can help me clarify...

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there are additional cookies with duration as high as 1825 days, not 180... So which is it?

Whatever the browser reports is what they are actually doing.

In Firefox, enter the developer tools, navigate to the "Storage" tab and open the "Cookies" dropdown.
For any given domain you can now look at the "Max Age" or Expiry date.

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the metadata still isn’t.

That doesn't quite work in the case of Signal

The only data that they have, based on transparency reports and dissections of their source code, is the time you created your account and last connected to the servers.

Messages themselves are essentially only relayed, with sealed sender, and anything that would be actually useful to identify who was at a protest and who wasn't encrypted.

Things like, e.g when messages arrive at the server would have to be monitored live on compromised servers, which reasonably unless you assume* it is wiretapped already prior to a protest, isn't realistic.

*: of course, I am saying this because making an assumption and portraying it as truth (e.g assuming something is already wiretapped based on no evidence at all) is not the smartest of moves when it comes to threat modeling...especially if you wanna stay sane whilst having a threat model

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...

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Specifically the annoyingly loud, self-righteous, insists-everyone-must-join-them vegans.
Unfortunately, most people only really see this sort of vegan

On this note, I'd like to point to the Loud Minority problem; You have XYZ group, and within XYZ group there exists a minority that comes across as very "loud". You can barely miss them, and because they state they're a part of XYZ group, you start associating that group with the loud minority.

Happens with Vegans a lot, and usually people which have already associated a group with a minority within said group which annoys them do not want to learn that they are wrong, or will just refuse to accept they are wrong.

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In spirit

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I think what you're experiencing online is a mix of loud minorities^1^ and online disinhibition^2^, not an accurate representation of vegans.

1: When there exists a minority in XYZ Group that is "louder" than the majority, causing people to associate XYZ group with the minority.
2: The phenomena of people acting out more violently, frequently, or pushy online when compared to being in-person, primarily due to anonymity

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    a TL;DR from my own interpretation:

    • Dave (the person making the video) feels uncomfortable; 'even talking to my wife on the phone somehow feels stilted, remote, and disconnected'
    • Dave talks about other reasons, like struggling to initiate or accept a phone call, that people with ASD might dislike phone calls
    • Dave also struggles with figuring out who is supposed to be talking / whose turn it is, especially due to a lack of cues that can be used to identify that
    • Another thing mentioned is how the fact that these cues are missing can also lead to misunderstandings. When someone asks a question and expects an immediate response (e.g "I think that..."), if you take a moment to reply the other end might think you disagree with them.
    • He also talks about many cues that can imply different things explicitly, like volume, pitch or tone of voice, as well as pauses, pacing or changes in intonation.

    Edit: whoops I left a bulletpoint dangling there

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    You're welcome! <3

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    I've just installed it, and it runs just fine on my PC

    As per the source code, that was probably from here given that is where the source code for this Linux port lives.

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    They are technically not wrong when they say that the whole experience isn't made up of just an App

    They are intentionally dodging the ACTUAL question.

    Anyways here is a leak of their "LAM", which is just playwright for the most part.
    https://web.archive.org/web/20240424133441if_/https://pixeldrain.com/api/file/vYHXbUwP?download

    With that, we have both components, yay?

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    The title is a bit misleading, the badge says affiliated, not made

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    We really need someone with budget to take Nintendo to court over this.

    Sadly, I don't think that will happen.

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    have they paid 2.4 million? Last time someone with supposedly that much funding got fucked over by Nintendo they have been sent to jail, and once they came out had to basically pay rent to nintendo for the rest of time.

    The reason we didn't hear anything of that, if I had to guess, is probably an NDA.

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    At this point its not just "vote with your wallets" because they have like a 8B+ global turnover

    Me not giving them 60 bucks does nothing, even the entire Fediverse not giving them 60 bucks would do nothing.

    Though, them thwarting game preservation efforts on the basis of shitty DRM? Thats what I'd like to see fought.

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    I run Ryujinx already, more accurate anyways :)

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    well, not if you want a UI that's designed around threads like Lemmy or Kbin does 🤔

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    My copy of Breezy Weather has Precipation Notifications 🤔

    https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/8beecd45-b9b1-4422-852f-55f84cdde363.webp

    How do I confirm if a certain phone supports VoLTE?

    You'd think this would be easier than it seems to be in reality. I am interested in getting a Sony Xperia 5V or Xperia 1V. Where I live, phones can't make calls unless they support VoLTE. The phones in question support basically all the bands I need them to support and I've found several encouraging Reddit posts from people...

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    Generally, the best you can do is search.

    https://safereddit.com/r/SonyXperia/comments/1437rh3/my_xperia_1_v_just_arrived_here_in_australia_i/

    SearXNG was useful once more, and I expected Sony devices to support VoLTE anyways as they've been doing that for years.

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    I'm curious about all the people in this thread saying regarding phone numbers considering I do have an account that's just an email alias and thats it 🤔

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    approximately 9 months, sometime in summer of last year

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    No I mean the new bitwarden app works completely offline lol

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    FWIW, Voyager has a Material-Design inspired alternative look that can be enabled in the settings.

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    I know enough people that hate Material Design 3, or even just the Monet component, so I'll leave that for everyone to decide for themselves.

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    Probably the only downside with this is the fact that it can take quite some time for the call to actually connect

    I mean, in the context of anonymity that is very good due to it's design, but maybe not perfect for this usecase

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    discord and messenger are pretty bad when it comes to privacy, neither even bother end-to-end-encrypting calls.

    Signal really is the best choice, but due to the phone number registration requirement, unless you're fine with the one-time purchase of some prepaid SIMs or something, that might get a bit annoying.

    SimpleX is decent enough with calls for now (when they work), but connection times can be abysmal

    This is where I would jump to Matrix / Element, but Element is currently in the middle of re-making their mobile Apps, including the entire calling feature 🥴

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    you can fit hail to do that, as apps are unaccessible without going through Hail, and Hail has an option to lock it behind pattern/fingerprint 🤔

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