it’s really amazing the entitlement i run into in the f/oss world. no, you are not allowed to ship nonconsensual spyware simply because you wrote some code then gave the code away for free. your misfeatures will be patched out, and you are not being wronged as the software you wrote and gave away is no longer yours, it is ours.
the official mastodon ios client has no way afaict to permanently disable content warning clickthroughs, and of course (thanks to apple’s shit notification system) notifications from my own instance don’t work
i even enabled background app refresh for it. does anyone know if ios lets apps spawn notifications during background app refresh?
When Delhi and London colluded to deny passports to Indians
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62318476
i can’t get this song out of my head this week
VPNs on iOS are a scam
https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php
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