Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany (news.ycombinator.com)
Maybe this could be related to bot accounts on Lemmy instances?
There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.
Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.
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Maybe this could be related to bot accounts on Lemmy instances?
To be honest I like the idea of being able to move my account from a server which is offline to a different one. We should have it with ActivityPub too.
📚 Time to switch to BookWyrm...
This pretty much sums up the last couple days. Thankfully we have Beehaw and Mastodon.
I’m trying to move away from Google and other big tech corporations as much as I can without sacrificing practicality but it seems like the only way to make contactless payments is with stock android on a Google approved device....
Elon, when do you learn how “paying the bills” works, hm?
screenshots for archival purposes here...
Absolute madlad!
For those that don’t know, Firefox has in-built support for automatically rejecting cookies and blocking the cookie banners from popping up....
I’m downloading Signal from the website, even tho they don’t seem to want you to, because I’d like to be able to completely rid myself of the Google Play Store (as used with Aurora which has its own problems from time to time), and I believe that this version auto-updates or at least tells you when there is one. Following...
tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.
cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/33742...
Anyone who's been using privacy-respecting frontends for some time will recognise Piped. A YouTube frontend with no ads, integrated SponsorBlock, return dislikes, and a customisable UI....