I’ve set up a recurring donation for Signal, pay for a yearly Bitwarden subscription that I don’t really need because the free tier covers my needs, so I consider it a donation, too, and throw some pocket money at some projects every new and then. oh and I have Mullvad and Tuta subscriptions.
every time I see old maps like this one, it blows my mind how accurate they are in an era with no satellites or aerial photos or anything. sure, everything’s a bit misshapen, but holy cow!
yes, that’s why there’s “neo” in the latter’s name.
yes, then it got rejected, and now another iteration is about to be voted on on June 20, 2024 https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112637908478562409
okay, but that’s not relevant to what I’m talking about here.
good luck getting everyone you know to communicate with you with “software from GitHub or F-Droid or something”. I’m having a hard time making people try out Signal, which is freely available on the major app stores (and which, by the way, has declared that they’ll leave the EU market if one device scanning will be enforced on them).
nope, they’ll vote on it again in the few weeks. if it passes, e2ee messengers will be required to scan images on device before sending them. you will be able to not agree to that, but then you won’t be able to send or receive media and links, only text.
yeah, and the UI is absolutely atrocious.
Gadgetbridge is apparently going to support some of their devices in upcoming versions https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/wearables/garmin/
so it’s rebranded Windows with some stuff ripped out, maintained by an unknown entity?
it’s not private, and could technically read and collect messages sent via e2ee services, FYI.
their UI is the only thing that makes me consider switching to Proton Mail from time to time, but in the end it’s just too much hassle to do it all over again.
gosh, I wish Tuta were next.
your coworker might’ve looked up things related to the conversation, and the ad provider figured out that you two are in the same social circle. so far I haven’t seen any actual research that would prove that ads are tailored based on microphone recordings (and actually seen the results stating the opposite a few years ago), just a bunch of anecdotal stories.
so brave
on Android, you can use Translate You with it https://github.com/you-apps/TranslateYou