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otter, to asklemmy in What are some channels or creators that do science/engineering experiments?

Followup question 2: What are some questions you have that you want to see done by someone? (In case this prompts someone to think of a channel)

otter, to asklemmy in What are some channels or creators that do science/engineering experiments?

Followup question 1: What are some MythBusters episodes that you recommend everyone try?

otter, to asklemmy in Does anyone else resent the links to Reddit?

Another great thing about Lemmy is that people can choose what they want to see instead of a platform deciding for them.

If you don’t like the bots, block them. If someone wants the bots, they can subscribe to the communities.

It’s really only a problem when someone is making too many separate bots that it gets hard to block all of them

otter, to asklemmy in Why is this sub so against jokes and more lighthearted posts?

Was there a particular post you wanted to see answered? I see a decent variety usually

otter, to asklemmy in Why is there no community devoted to vinly preservation?

There are some here, but I’m not familiar with the topic so you should judge them

lemmyverse.net/communities?query=Vinyl

If there isn’t one that fits, consider making one or taking over an existing one to change it :)

Chances are that other people are interested too but no one has taken the initiative

otter, to programmer_humor in git commit -m "hotfix"

Maybe there’s an inappropriate doodle on the window or something?

otter, (edited ) to privacy in privacy seems interesting, i guess I'll see what's it about didn't really think of it much when i moved from Canada to the eu

The specific breakdown was as follows

We recommend Mullvad Browser if you are focused on strong privacy protections and anti-fingerprinting out of the box, Firefox for casual internet browsers looking for a good alternative to Google Chrome, and Brave if you need Chromium browser compatibility.

So I think they only recommend Brave for those that need Chromium

For mobile browsers, I don’t quite understand the differences between each. I personally use Mull when I need it, but Brave might be better on Mobile still?

otter, to mensliberation in Discussion on moving to another instance

I enjoy a lot of communities on lemmy.world, but I’d recommend against moving a community into it. Centralizing more communities there doesn’t feel productive, and I don’t think it would help with user numbers.

If you do want to move, slrpnk is cool and I think this community could succeed there. Personally, I think the best solution would be to promote this community around the Fediverse regardless of if you stay on this instance or move to another one. Places like !communityPromo and the other ones listed here: lemmy.ca/post/5581032.

Thanks for thinking about these things and for working on the community!

otter, (edited ) to privacyguides in This Week in Privacy (#1)

This is great! The length and tone was perfect IMO

Hope you guys do these for a while to come :)

otter, to privacy in YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts

I was linking to a page where someone unknowingly used a link with a tracker, as an example of what I was talking about

Here’s a screenshot if that’s better

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e1c73a1a-6135-4341-a21c-bc9f3de38249.png

otter, to privacy in Any *good* keyboard recommations?

ok yep that’s pretty terrible

otter, to privacy in Any *good* keyboard recommations?

It’s on fdroid :)

f-droid.org/en/…/dev.patrickgold.florisboard/

otter, to privacyguides in Does Google still hold contact data after deleting from Google Contacts?

Agreed, I didn’t think to do this but I might go through my list when I get time

While companies may secretly hold on to the data, it would also prevent future apps from abusing the data if I accidentally allow contact permissions

otter, (edited ) to privacy in privacy seems interesting, i guess I'll see what's it about didn't really think of it much when i moved from Canada to the eu

Enjoy exploring! Hope you find it to be a good experience

Eventually you might find that you’re coming back to the PrivacyGuides.org page, that’s what most people recommend these days as a starting point for recommended tools. There are a lot of companies out there advertising privacy and security without actually PROVIDING privacy and security. It’s becoming a new buzzword

www.privacyguides.org/en/

You don’t have to take my word for it though, just keep exploring and learning :)

otter, to privacy in Any *good* keyboard recommations?

Closest I got was Florisboard because of the customization options

The main things I’m looking for (in order) are

  • predictions
  • better support for emojis and gifs
  • built in translations

Google Keyboard works really nicely and it’s hard to give up on some of that

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