WYGIWYG

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Cake day: September 24th, 2024

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  • The UI’s aren’t that bad. They’re replicating existing apps/styles and then bolting on features. In some clases like immich, they’re replicating them so closely they’re probably open for lawsuit :)

    Loops is 75% TikToc. Lemmy is 60% Reddit.

    If we had a couple of UI artists and Usability people join the projects and crank out designs, I wonder if the devs would implement them and spend the time making the output true to the design.




  • i really don’t want to run my own email

    I’ve done it before, professionally and personally, but I don’t ‘think’ I want to do it again. But I also know that once it’s set up, you can mostly forget about it other than maybe managing DKIM reports.

    I think it’s still probably prudent, at a minimum to pay for someone else who manages traffic relationships to handle upstream SMTP. You’re already sending that out in the clear, everyone you’re emailing is already mining and selling that data, there is no advantage to privacy there.




  • TikTok doesn’t have any worse misinformation and disinformation issues than YouTube and Facebook. And The latest policy changes in Facebook indicate they’re going to go squarely into misinformation without any fact checking.

    Disinformation is an excuse to ban the platform. Zuckerberg has been lobbying Congress for a long time to ban them while pushing his platform to be able to do exactly what he claims they’re doing.

    There’s a lot of reasons to hate TikTok, but this disinformation stuff is nothing but red herring to get them banned because they’re competition.


  • To be honest, many of not most CEOs probably privately think that way because it’s advantageous to their business. It’s a product of how the government is owned by the corporations. We all hate it but it’s simply The current state of affairs. It’s literally his job not to let it out into public that he feels that way.








  • apps rather than the phones themselves,

    In this case, they took it from a marketing agency, who collected it from apps, who got it from the phones.

    The “app” adds location services as a permission requirement. Then they add the API for the advertiser. When they app runs, it calls the API which gathers location data.

    So you’d think you can just disable location services for the app.

    But what happens when they end up stealing it from Waze, or Tile, or Apple. What happens when google just sells it to people?

    The only reasonable option is to turn it off at the phone level. But even then, aGPS knows. Your Carrier knows.

    To stop this from being a thing, it needs to be done from the ground up with a privacy respecting OS run by a privacy respecting company, serviced by a privacy respecting server.

    so basically never.