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35 votes
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I just switched to an iPhone, what should I do to make the most of this change?
Basically the title. I've been an Android user since 2012, but have have an iPad and a Macbook that I really like, especially how well they work together. My pixel 5 was on its way out, so I...
Basically the title. I've been an Android user since 2012, but have have an iPad and a Macbook that I really like, especially how well they work together. My pixel 5 was on its way out, so I finally took the plunge and bought an iPhone 15 Pro earlier this week. I'm still getting everything set up, and I'm particularly excited to play with the different focus modes and shortcuts. I'm curious what apps and features should I be using to make the most of this switch?
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Kroger’s panopticon: Making criminals of grocery shoppers
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Help me ditch Chrome's password manager!
I've been trying to reduce my reliance on all things Google, and one of the big ones is password management. I've tried several times to make the jump, but every time I start researching options...
I've been trying to reduce my reliance on all things Google, and one of the big ones is password management. I've tried several times to make the jump, but every time I start researching options I'm overwhelmed by the selection. There are a lot of popular options out there, and I really don't have the time/energy to endure a misstep. So without a clear idea of which manager will check all of my boxes, I end up bailing on the process and keep using chrome's built in option.
So to start, here's what I like about Chrome:
- Automatically offers to store passwords without extra clicks
- Autofills automatically where it can, and gives me an easy choice when it can't
- Works everywhere I need passwords. (basically everywhere I browse the internet since chrome works everywhere)
- Minimal overhead. This is hard to beat since Chrome just includes it, so I'm fine with a little extra setup if necessary.
I used to use keepass portable on a thumb drive (I want to say circa ~2009ish), but it became really inconvenient as my usage shifted more to mobile devices.
I see this as a first step to also reducing my reliance on Chrome so I can start to consider other browsers. Right now I feel locked in to Google's ecosystem, but I know I can break it up if I don't get too bogged down by choice. Much appreciate any help. :)
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Making the Macintosh: Technology and culture in Silicon Valley
11 votes -
Zilog discontinues production of original Z80 processor after forty-eight years
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Intelligence community largely won House FISA fight. Now comes the US Senate.
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Are Free Software developers at risk? A potential threat to Free Software developers looms in the form of an ongoing lawsuit in the UK involving Bitcoin and its core developers.
27 votes -
FUTO is a Voice Input app for Android that respects user privacy
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Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
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FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price
41 votes -
Meet Llama 3
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Polish court orders Google to stop favouring its own price-comparison service in search results
16 votes -
How one author pushed the limits of AI copyright | US Copyright Office grants copyright for work made with AI, with caveat
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The forgotten war on beepers
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We need to rewild the internet
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An electric new era for Atlas
15 votes -
Introducing AltStore PAL
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To make sure grandmas like his don't get conned, he scams the scammers
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AI and the end of writing
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Looking for free or cheap places to learn some SQL and XML
Im looking for places online to explore SQL and XML as a beginner without spending a lot of money and without a lot of performance pressure. Can you help?
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What AI tools are you actually using?
On my work system I mostly tend to use the Bing Copilot to help me quickly write emails and statements to prepare a document.
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Elon Musk’s xAI seeks up to $4 billion to compete with OpenAI
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Kagi recently changed their dark mode, fix inside
Since I know quite a few tilderinos use Kagi (far higher percentage than the standard population) I figured this might interest some of you. Kagi pushed out a new Dark theme that is not dark. It's...
Since I know quite a few tilderinos use Kagi (far higher percentage than the standard population) I figured this might interest some of you.
Kagi pushed out a new Dark theme that is not dark. It's possibly even worse than Googles non-dark official Dark mode.
Here is a CSS fix you can throw in your custom css section in settings that I whipped up for some people in the Discord, should be useful.
:root { --custom-bg-color: #090c10; --search-result-gap: 20px; --search-result-gap-mobile: 10px; --app-bg: var(--custom-bg-color); --search-result-title: #fff; --primary-visited: #aaa; /*! --quick-search-bg: #000; */ --color-search-input: var(--custom-bg-color); --result-item-title-border: rgba(255,255,255,0.25); --search-result-date-bg: rgba(255,255,255,0.15); } .__sri-time { font-size: 12px; border-radius: 2px; margin-right: 3px } .__sri-desc { padding-top: 3px; } .__sri-title { margin-bottom: 5px; } .__sri-url .__sri_url_path_box { margin-top: 0px; } @media screen and (max-width: 1300px) { .search-result, .sri-group { padding-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; margin-bottom: var(--search-result-gap-mobile) !important; } }
This fixes the colors, padding, and some other general weirdness they introduced. They also don't follow their own variable specs so I introduced two new ones in there so you can modify to your liking (namely padding between links on mobile and desktop).
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How do you organize your phone's home screens and apps?
I've noticed that my phone's home screens have become a bit cluttered and figured it's about time to clean it up. So I tried searching online and found tons of recommendations and suggestions, but...
I've noticed that my phone's home screens have become a bit cluttered and figured it's about time to clean it up. So I tried searching online and found tons of recommendations and suggestions, but figured I would ask users here if anyone has any tips for productivity or efficiency, or just something that works for you. Might give me some good ideas to try out, and hopefully can benefit anyone else reading this thread.
Do you have tons of home screens or just one with a ton of folders? Do you use many widgets or not at all? Do you organize apps by how frequently you use them? Or how similar the apps are to each other? By color of the app icon? Or something else entirely?
Seriously, any help/suggestions/ideas would be appreciated.
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Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalates
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ProtonMail on all the data that Outlook collects about your email
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Thinking about quitting the Internet
This is an off-the-cuff, stream-of-consciousness post, so IDK how much sense it'll make. This idea of quitting the Internet is not new for me, but it's also never been a serious,...
This is an off-the-cuff, stream-of-consciousness post, so IDK how much sense it'll make.
This idea of quitting the Internet is not new for me, but it's also never been a serious, "consider-the-pros-v-cons" plan, either. Just a kind of knee-jerk reaction to seeing things online that remind me (more and more often, these days) that the 'Net is not what I hoped-and-wanted it to be, and it is becoming less like it, daily.
But in recent months, for me, I find myself thinking about it more, more often, and more seriously.
For a bit of context, I am a software developer (I guess), 20+ years in the field, more back-end than front-end, but quite a lot of web development, too. And I've been burned out in my field for the last several years, working occasionally, but mostly just living off of savings ... watching them dwindle, while I try to figure out what else to do with my life.
I also think there is some kind of burgeoning groundswell towards some similar ideas ... many people becoming more and more disgusted with what corporations and governments have done and are doing to it, trying to find some way to walk away from it w/o completely severing themselves from the modern world. The latest generation of AI and the new magic word, "enshittification" are certainly making more people realize that the 'Net is not headed in a good direction.
I could so easily go into a long-winded rant about "this isn't the Internet we were promised", and yada ... but whatever. It is what it is, and many people are happy with it, and many, many more are just quietly resigned to it being a necessary part of life.
For many, many years, I have explored online alternatives, the dark web, assorted distributed-network ideals like Hyperborea and IPFS. I keep seeing potentials, but nothing that ever coalesces.
Again, just stream-of-consciousness here ... anyone else ever find themselves seriously considering this, or something similarly drastic?
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What are some of your daily use/most important apps?
I just got a new phone, and I opted to download all the apps I usually use manually, rather than having them transfer over automatically. It's like a nice cleanup thing that I get to do every...
I just got a new phone, and I opted to download all the apps I usually use manually, rather than having them transfer over automatically. It's like a nice cleanup thing that I get to do every couple of years. I feel like I partially should just have a list somewhere of the apps I usually use and was wondering what people would download first (plus if I forgot anything)
For me, this was my process yesterday:
Password manager - Bitwarden - mostly so I can copy/paste my logins for everything
Authentication - Not listing these but ya know
VPN - MozillaVPN - just something for hostels and travelling
Browser - Firefox Beta or Nightly - for downloading my new wallpaper and general use (including Tildes!)
Sleep + Alarm - Sleep as Android
Car things - My car app, EVGo/Electrify America - getting around and things
Rideshare - Uber and Lyft - When I'm in a new city!
Food - Doordash, Grubhub, asian specific food apps - to eat when I'm lazy!
News - Boston Globe, AP News, BBC - Kinda obvious what they're here for
Todo - TickTick - Checklists and all that
Fitness - Fitbit, my smart scale app, and my gym app - general fitness stuff
Language Learning - Duolingo and Lingodeer!
Banking + Investment + Payments + Insurance - not listing these but yeah!
Music + Podcasts - Spotify
Streaming - D+, Netflix, Vudu, Peacock, Max, Movies Anywhere, Dropout, Hulu, Prime Video, Twitch - General Streaming
Books - Kindle and Audible
Messaging and Social Media - Signal, Beeper, Messenger, Discord, Slack, Instagram, etc. - just daily entertainment and connections
Games - Slay the Spire, Dead Cells, Nonograms, Don't Starve, Cards of Terra, Bloons, etc.Bonus Q: I've been thinking of trying to add Obsidian to my general day to day, how? Might ask a question about this later though!
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This month in Servo: tables, WOFF2, Outreachy, and more
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Any RSS feed recommendations that aren't news?
Just recently started getting into rss feeds. Have set up a feed reader and some feeds for my favorite sports team and some news sites and blogs that interest me. But whenever I look up some...
Just recently started getting into rss feeds. Have set up a feed reader and some feeds for my favorite sports team and some news sites and blogs that interest me. But whenever I look up some recommendations for new feeds to follow, I'd say 90%+ of the recommendations are news sites like the BBC or NYT as well as tech news sites.
Does anyone have any feed recommendations that aren't just news websites? Maybe an interesting blog or something entirely different? Thanks.
I'll drop an interesting one that I found right here on tildes a few days ago, about life in Antarctica: https://brr.fyi/
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Two popular Danish television presenters have reported Meta to the police after finding their images and words had been manipulated and misused in thousands of Facebook ads
29 votes -
Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ
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Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI
33 votes -
With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
17 votes -
Why large language models like ChatGPT treat Black- and White-sounding names differently
10 votes -
Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
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Google unveils custom Arm-based chips, following similar efforts at rivals Amazon and Microsoft
10 votes -
Instagram generated almost 30% of Meta’s revenue in early 2022
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Sweden's public sector has ditched Big Tech in the name of privacy as a major telecom provider unveiled a new secure collaboration hub
14 votes -
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
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‘Time is running out’: can a future of undetectable deepfakes be avoided?
12 votes -
The costs of a phone-based childhood
35 votes -
Apple's $3500 nightmare
47 votes -
Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue
62 votes -
Kobold letters. Why HTML emails are a risk to your organization.
33 votes -
Interview with the creators of the AI generated short film 'Air Head'
8 votes -
Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny, will cost $5.25/month standalone
50 votes -
Google is killing Retro Dodo and other independent sites
47 votes -
Jon Stewart on the false promises of AI
38 votes