Nobody sees racism or gets more offended by it more than white people on Twitter.

This is called “virtue signalling”.

I remember when I first tried to use Mastodon and struggled with how best to make it work, so I asked what was probably a basic question to the Enlightened™. Instead of being helped, I was met with “it’s easy, maybe you’re just dense?”.

Then I thought that maybe Mastodon doesn’t have the kind of people I’d want to interact with on it.

Is this a joke app?

I can literally turn on RAW photos in my Pixel camera settings. Pretty sure you can on Samsung too.

Well, I’ll show him because I’ll build one!

Oh wait, that’s the company name. Never mind.

I remember people going crazy about it when Apple introduced it, and then I saw a video of it in action and was like, “is that it?”.

Because e-ink displays are a lot better to read books on than a phone screen.

iVerify vice president of research Matthias Frielingsdorf points out that while Showcase represents a concerning exposure for Pixel devices, it is turned off by default. This means that an attacker would first need to turn the application on in a target’s device before being able to exploit it. The most straightforward way to do this would involve having physical access to a victim’s phone as well as their system password or another exploitable vulnerability that would allow them to make changes to settings.

Just a bit of alarmism then, with something that can be easily removed in an update.

My Pixel 4a’s battery is on the wane, so this may be my next phone.

Probably wait for a price drop though because I’m not desperate for it at the moment.

If security is your prime concern, then I definitely wouldn’t use an “all-in-one” messenger service.

Just need passkey support on mobile and we’re all set.

(I don’t know if the article mentions that, my adblocker prevents me from reading it)

This is why I love my Pixel 4a. I think it’s like 5.8 inches and it’s just the ideal size to use comfortably and fit in my pocket.

Brace yourselves, “fascists won’t be able to follow me” posts incoming.

Just started using Pachli, which is a fork of Tusky with extra features like auto refresh of timelines and translation of posts.

Well, that’s spam. So obviously it would make sense to block that.

This is why I don’t understand all the hysteria about this.

If I don’t want to see Threads or I don’t want Threads to see me, I can go to a Threads account and click “block threads.net”.

But obviously that’s too complicated and it’s easier to just whinge to your instance admin about how Threads federation will be the death of us all. 🙄

Recommendations from people, not algorithms

I mean, if an algorithm can recommend me books I might enjoy based on things I’ve previously read, that’s not a bad thing?

Algorithms aren’t always bad.

Good luck if your phone gets stolen.

I use Bitwarden, so that will make things easy.

Thank you!

I like the idea of passkeys, but one thing that I’m still not clear on is what happens to them when I get a new phone.

It says the passkeys are stored on the device, so would I need to keep my previous phone around to be able to sign in on the new phone?