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
The only good reason to call the cops:
"She doesn't call to ask for any police services. She calls to harass, to cuss and just degrade the call takers"
The FTC would like Americans to comment on its proposed actions on online data surveillance and security.
My first comment is: Fix your own website. It requires Javascript on before anything at all loads. And has tracking devices including from Google of course.
Et tu, FTC?
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