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tb_ , 3 months ago to android in Android 15 prepares revamped status bar with new icons and haptics

The WiFi toggle is still there in quick settings (tap on the round WiFi icon, rather than the text)

tb_ , 3 months ago to world in European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches

Feel/touch and press/activate shouldn’t be the same action

tb_ , 3 months ago to technology in The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

Google quietly updates Chrome’s incognito warning in wake of tracking lawsuit

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Here’s the updated text (emphasis added):

“Others who use this device won’t see your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won’t change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google. Downloads, bookmarks and reading list items will be saved.

theverge.com/…/google-incognito-mode-tracking-law…

The text in that article is different from your screenshot, I don’t know what’s up with that. Perhaps it’s regional.

tb_ , 3 months ago to technology in The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

You do know they updated it soon after this became a major thing, right?

tb_ , 3 months ago to technology in The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

it’s always been upfront

The language it uses/used to use was rather ambiguous, especially for less tech savvy people.

Perhaps it wasn’t false, but it definitely wasn’t upfront.

tb_ , 3 months ago to technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

On a glance it seemed to work well enough.

There’s also Matrix chat, which is federated.

tb_ , 3 months ago to news in Mike Lindell's MyPillow evicted from Minnesota warehouse after lawsuit claimed it was $200K behind on rent

I wish that wasn’t something I had to consider. Such is the world we live in now…

tb_ , 3 months ago to world in On "world" vs. "worldnews":

That would be pretty cool in this case, but if that became a general feature people might snag up a whole lot of names to all direct them to the same place.

tb_ , 3 months ago to news in Billionaires who once disavowed Trump are coming crawling back (which might have something to do with Biden vowing to raise their taxes)

Because to gather such vast sums of money you will have had to go over a few bodies. Or more.
If they cared about the wellbeing of others they would’ve never become billionaires.

tb_ , 3 months ago to technology in Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

Oh, I seem to have misinterpreted your message then. That’s pretty neat

tb_ , 3 months ago to technology in Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

Firefox has plug-ins available out of the box on Android, including uBlock Origin.

tb_ , 3 months ago to technology in Windows AI PC manufacturers must add a Copilot key, says Microsoft

Are we going back to a command line interface?

tb_ , 3 months ago to technology in Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X?

“This user has no public description”

The lie detector determined that was a lie

tb_ , 3 months ago to news in Massachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshed

(two spaces at the end of a line will “force” markdown to respect your single line break/enter)

tb_ , 3 months ago to world in ‘Tone-deaf’ fossil gas growth in Europe is speeding climate crisis, say activists

Rollie just did a great video on “natural” gas.

It’s a bit long, but really informative.

TL;DW: methane on its own burns a little cleaner than coal, but escaped methane is a lot more harmful than CO2. Given the great amount of unreported leaking at basically any terminal, as well as the various energy costs of shipping it overseas; it may not be so clean after all.