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8 votes
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Parler CEO John Matze says he was terminated by the company's board, which is controlled by investor Rebekah Mercer
8 votes -
I have $15 burning a hole in my Google Play balance. Help me figure out what to spend it on.
Here's a list of Paid Games & Apps that I already have bought. Utils Tasker KLWP Sleep as Android Nova Prime One or two Icon packs for Nova Games Desert Golfing Death Road To Canada 2 Meteorfall...
Here's a list of Paid Games & Apps that I already have bought.
Utils
- Tasker
- KLWP
- Sleep as Android
- Nova Prime
- One or two Icon packs for Nova
Games
- Desert Golfing
- Death Road To Canada 2
- Meteorfall
- Mindustry
- Mini Metro
- Ordia
- Prune
- Reigns
- Reigns: Her Majesty
- RowRow
- Teslagrad
- UnCiv
- .projekt
- Sword and Sworcery
I'm looking for something worthwhile to spend it on. Is there a lesser known utility app that you use all the time? What about an indie game not getting the praise it deserves? Tell me about it!
17 votes -
A hardware mute button for Alexa
6 votes -
Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic
3 votes -
Google has suspended the Element Matrix client from the Play Store due to abusive content (It's back)
@Element: Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://t.co/aaZ9qXz69W but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
31 votes -
Personal data of 1.4 million Washington state unemployment claimants exposed in hack of state auditor
7 votes -
How we test PCIe 4.0 storage: The AnandTech 2021 SSD benchmark suite
6 votes -
Arlan Hamilton is building a new kind of venture capital - An interview with the founder of Backstage Capital
3 votes -
Why you should delete social media: Say hello to a better life!
8 votes -
Google to pull API keys from unofficial builds of Chromium, including those for Linux packages
19 votes -
Who do you follow on Twitter?
(Asked mainly because I just made an account there and there are only a handful of twitter profiles which immediately come to my mind as profiles to follow.)
7 votes -
Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
7 votes -
sq, Sequoia PGP's CLI, released for general use
8 votes -
New Spotify patent involves monitoring users’ speech to recommend music
25 votes -
Who's on the fediverse?
There was a thread about this coincidentally exactly one year ago, give or take three hours. Ah, to be back in January 2020 I've been poking around on the fediverse again and I figured I'll never...
There was a thread about this coincidentally exactly one year ago, give or take three hours. Ah, to be back in January 2020
I've been poking around on the fediverse again and I figured I'll never start using it unless I'm following some people. So, who here is on it? Please share some other people you follow, if you like.
I made an account a while back, and it was on the default instance since I didn't know any others to choose. I feel like it's a deliberate choice though (if nothing else it will give me a more curated timeline to scroll through) so I'd like to be deliberate about it at some point.
17 votes -
Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server
28 votes -
With Parler down, QAnon moves onto a ‘free speech’ TikTok clone
10 votes -
Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first decisions, overturning Facebook's decision in four out of five cases
8 votes -
1MB Club - Collection of websites under 1 megabyte
11 votes -
Why is Big Tech policing speech? Because the government isn't: Deplatforming President Trump showed that the First Amendment is broken - but not in the way his supporters think.
12 votes -
Grindr fined 10% of their global annual revenue ($11.7 million) in Norway for sharing deeply personal information with advertisers, including location, sexual orientation and mental health details
28 votes -
The A-10 Warthog's tight turning radius coupled with its big gun means it can sting even the best fighters in a dogfight
8 votes -
Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
18 votes -
The battle inside Signal - The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is developing features that would make it more vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding the alarm.
31 votes -
Twitter has acquired the Revue editorial newsletter service, made Pro features free and reduced the fee for paid newsletters to 5%, and will start integrating it into Twitter
7 votes -
List of emails SponsorBlock's creator has received about inserting malware into the extension
17 votes -
Twitter announces Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
21 votes -
What color was “Apple Beige”
11 votes -
YouTube takes action against piracy tutorials, stream-ripping and cheating
10 votes -
The great Wikipedia titty scandal
36 votes -
How do you manage data backups?
Hi Tildes. Hopefully this thread will be both a good discussion and helpful to some of you, and hopefully me. As I'm guessing most of you know, data backups are quite important and it is best to...
Hi Tildes. Hopefully this thread will be both a good discussion and helpful to some of you, and hopefully me.
As I'm guessing most of you know, data backups are quite important and it is best to have at least one copy locally and another copy somewhere else. At the moment, I store photos on an external hard drive and Google Drive, photos from my phone on Google Photos with copies of important original quality files saved locally, and everything else on drives in my PC and a network drive on my Raspberry Pi. It's far from ideal, I've only got one copy of some files and three or four of some others so I've been looking for something better to keep everything organised, safe and in one place.
I've tried the free trial of Backblaze, which seemed the obvious choice, but it had a few problems. I couldn't backup my Pi's network share, and in general it's a bit clunky and difficult to use. It is marketed as an easy solution to backing up data, but in doing this it just makes everything more difficult, at least for me - I know what I want backed up, and I would prefer to select it manually, but by opting in everything for backup by default you have to spend ages excluding the folders you don't want saved, one-by-one, in a UI that is difficult to use and often unclear. Sometimes the exclusions list just doesn't work - the Program Files folders are meant to be excluded by default and they were listed under exclusions but were backing up anyway. For me it found over 200,000 files, and because they were all so small it barely managed to backup 100MB in three hours. (Not that I know where the files come from because they aren't listed in the Windows app in any vaguely comprehensible way.)
So I need to find something else, and I was hoping someone here would have some recommendations. Personally I need it to:
- Be affordable and easy to setup and use
- Backup external and network drives to the cloud (physically keeping another drive somewhere else isn't an option for me)
- Be trustworthy and have strong commitments to security and privacy
- Work well for my use case: preferably automatic from Windows
Looking forward to any comments or recommendations. Thanks!
23 votes -
Italy takes action against TikTok following girl’s death
5 votes -
The coming software apocalypse
7 votes -
I'm getting spammed by robocalls, what can I do about it?
Hello people of Tildes, long time no see! As per title, since some point last week I've begun receiving calls from extra-EU countries I've never had any contact with (Haiti, Algeria, Morocco,...
Hello people of Tildes, long time no see! As per title, since some point last week I've begun receiving calls from extra-EU countries I've never had any contact with (Haiti, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia just to name a few).
No doubt it is part of a call back scam; of course I have never picked up nor redialed, still, this seriously blows as I've now been woken up twice at 3am during the week.
Now, I've never had such a problem before, nor have I recently posted my number online anytime recently. Has anyone here had a similar issue? What can I do about it (I'm from the EU if that might help)? Is there any way for me to find out where my number was leaked from?
I have just now installed NoPhoneSpam from f-droid, but have no idea how good of a fix that will be.
Let me know if y'all have any ideas, thanks :)
13 votes -
ADT employee covertly accessed about 200 security cameras he installed to spy on people having sex
9 votes -
Google threatens to pull search engine in Australia
15 votes -
US President Joe Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
10 votes -
New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHEL
6 votes -
On the trail of the robocall king
8 votes -
Ubuntu Linux is now running on M1 Macs
10 votes -
The future of building for digital: Experts talk about changing customer expectations
2 votes -
A positive ContentID story
4 votes -
Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
7 votes -
Windscribe: We're not paying for #1
9 votes -
Retiring Tucows Downloads
11 votes -
Storming Reddit's moat
18 votes -
Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-Heads are still here
9 votes -
Power struggle: The most quietly innovative thing that emerged from the latter half of the 1990s was the on-battery power meter. It was the subject of a complex patent battle.
9 votes -
Are there any viable alternatives for Facebook?
A lot of people are currently switching over from WhatsApp to Signal right now, and the two are comparable enough that Signal can pretty much act as a drop-in replacement for WhatsApp. They have...
A lot of people are currently switching over from WhatsApp to Signal right now, and the two are comparable enough that Signal can pretty much act as a drop-in replacement for WhatsApp. They have very comparable features, and Signal is easy enough to use that it's adoptable by non-techy people.
Does something similar exist for Facebook? I'm fully aware of the network effects that keep people on Facebook, but let's pretend a lot of people wanted to leave that platform and migrate elsewhere. Is there anything that has a similar featureset and that is usable by the general population?
22 votes