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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I'm moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I'll share more info :)

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  • We're going to stick to the summer time all year instead of the winter time

  • WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship

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  • Supposedly Amnezia is an anti censorship tool, however Facebook has a terrible track record with recommending VPNs. The previous one turned out to be spyware

    Onavo, Inc. was an Israeli mobile web analytics company that was purchased by Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms), who changed the company's name to Facebook Israel.[1] The company primarily performed its activities via consumer mobile apps, including the virtual private network (VPN) service Onavo Protect, which analysed web traffic sent through the VPN to provide statistics on the usage of other apps.

    Guy Rosen and Roi Tiger founded Onavo in 2010. In October 2013, Onavo was acquired by Facebook, which used Onavo's analytics platform to monitor competitors. This influenced Facebook to make various business decisions, including its 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp.

    Since the acquisition, Onavo was frequently classified as being spyware, as the VPN was used to monetize application usage data collected within an allegedly privacy-focused environment. In August 2018, Facebook was forced to pull Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store due to violations of Apple's policy forbidding apps from collecting data on the usage of other apps. In February 2019, in response to criticism over a Facebook market research program employing similar techniques (including, in particular, being targeted towards teens), Onavo announced that it would close the Android version of Protect as well.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnezia_VPN

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  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Looks cool! I'd love to see local buynothing groups have a Fediverse alternative.

    Out of curiosity, is there any standard or common format around location data for Fediverse platforms?

  • What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?

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  • I made accounts on a few instances, but I stuck with this one (and eventually joined the team) for the same reasons

  • Lemmy.today is absolutely beautiful

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  • Wow that is nice, is it released anywhere for others to modify/extend?

  • Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull

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  • Fox, who also oversees Apache Maven, a popular Java build tool, explained that its repository site is at risk of being overwhelmed by constant Git pulls. The team has dug into this and found that 82 percent of the demand comes from less than 1 percent of IPs. Digging deeper, they discovered that many companies are using open source repositories as if they were content delivery networks (CDNs). So, for example, a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next. This is unsustainable.

    GitHub added rate limits for unauthenticated users last year

    https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/

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    How could we go about making a jurisdiction where advertising is illegal?

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  • Some places already ban physical ads. There are better sources than these but this is what I found so far:

    Digital ads would be harder to get rid of. At the individual level, it's relatively easy to disable an adblocker if something breaks. That's harder to do if you block it city wide.

    A PSA campaign might work better to get people to turn on adblockers

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  • UBlock helps to stop that script.

    Would that be by default, or do I need to enable something specific

  • Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025 | TechCrunch

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  • The "AI" help boils down to humans asking it to find patterns?

    “Initiatives like developer verification, mandatory pre-review checks, and testing requirements have raised the bar for the Google Play ecosystem, significantly reducing the paths for bad actors to enter,” the company’s blog post explained, adding that its “AI-powered, multi-layer protections” have been “discouraging bad actors from publishing malicious apps.”

    Google noted it now runs over 10,000 safety checks on every app it publishes and continues to recheck apps after publication. The company has also integrated its latest generative AI models into the app review process, which has helped human reviewers find more complex malicious patterns faster. Google said it plans to increase its AI investments in 2026 to stay ahead of emerging

  • Stop Uploading Your Personal Files to Random “Free” Compression Sites

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  • Probably for people who can't / don't want to install something on their computer. It's easier to say "bookmark this page instead of that page" than to get people to install a local app.

    Also this way you can use the same tool across desktop and mobile

  • Do you read books on your phone?

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  • I think they meant the physical device

    https://www.kobo.com/ca/en

    They can be a bit pricy if you're young and on a budget.

    If you're trying to read on your phone only, I'd recommend these apps:

    As for sourcing the files

    Some comments brought up a home server, but you don't really need that if you're starting out with the hobby and it's just for yourself. That's more for managing large libraries of books and access by many users.

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  • It's spam

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  • I'd love it if platforms would implement a toggle to switch from infinite scroll to pagination

  • Which Animals are the worst, and why so?

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  • I'll take it 😌

  • Which Animals are the worst, and why so?

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  • Meh, I'd rather let this copypasta be forgotten. It turns cool points into "bad" ones while exaggerating the rest. For example, it's COOL that this animal evolved specialized digestive organs to process a food in a biological niche that other animals can't exploit. There's great variety among animal brain shapes / textures, and having such a complex brain doesn't guarantee that all humans are that "smart". Other animals are also sedentary or sleep a lot (sloths, cats) and this is seen as being efficient. Other animals also do things that are pretty gross when viewed through a human lens.

    On top of all that, it feels like justification for everything humans are doing to endanger the population.

  • Would anyone have interest in some sort of label template sharing community, for labelmaker labels?

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  • You could also post in existing communities, since the user base is smaller here

    !imadethis@lemmy.zip and similar communities?

  • Boy and cat, the Netherlands, ~1910

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  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    OpenLoco: Modern, open source version of the classic transport simulation game

    openloco.io
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    8 versions of UUID and when to use them

    www.ntietz.com /blog/til-uses-for-the-different-uuid-versions/
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Nobody Listens | Poorly Drawn Lines

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What specific variety of some fruit do you prefer? (A particular apple, a certain mango, etc.)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Fork of HomeBox released (v0.11.0)

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What (generative) AI tools are actually useful, and potentially worth paying for?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Which link/bookmark manger do you prefer, and why?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    A friend joked about making accounts for their dog on self hosted services, so that it could turn lights on and off. What are some unconventional things you've seen for pets and homelabs?

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash

    amber-lang.com
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Jellyfin | "We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 10.9.0!"

    jellyfin.org /posts/jellyfin-release-10.9.0/
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    'Time to Wake Up' - FalseKnees

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    TunnelVision - How Attackers Can Decloak Routing-Based VPNs For a Total VPN Leak (CVE-2024-3661)

    www.leviathansecurity.com /blog/tunnelvision
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Simple Pleasures | Poorly Drawn Lines

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Glance - "A minimal dashboard that puts all the information you care about in one place"

    github.com /glanceapp/glance
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Party-Time - Litterbox Comics

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Make You Feel | Poorly Drawn Lines

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org

    foundation.mozilla.org /en/campaigns/whatsapp-must-act-to-protect-elections/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Affinity is joining the Canva family

    forum.affinity.serif.com /index.php
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Do you host anything specific for tracking house plants and gardening?