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otter, to asklemmy in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

which community of worldnews?

otter, (edited ) to privacy in The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend?

Yep, also the ads don’t get initialized at all if the user buys the ad-free version (going to top all in the Lemmy Boost community should bring up the post about it). It’s relatively cheap and the dev is very active with bugs and requests. The dev is developing for the Fediverse and I’m happy to support that (as well as devs for Sync, Connect, Lemmy, etc.)

I like Boost and paid for ad-Free, but a lot of other clients should work for your needs. While they might not be privacy focussed, many are open source so you can check what is going on.

My preference goes

  • Boost (not FOSS, one time payment to remove ads)
  • Connect (not FOSS, ad free)
  • Eternity (FOSS & ad free)

I uninstalled the other ones and haven’t kept up with them. There may be better ones out there, these are the ones I’m keeping up with

otter, to asklemmy in Anyone else feels like they want to destroy their old sim and never give their contact to anyone ever again?

It’s funny I just came from this post, which I suspect is this exact problem. Spammy apps collecting contact details and then tricking more people into signing up:

lemmy.ca/post/9854405

otter, (edited ) to newcommunities in /c/PhotoRestoration - a place to get your old family photos repaired/restored

You want this instead, you need the @ tag at the end else it won’t work for people in other instances

PhotoRestoration

Which you do like this:

[PhotoRestoration](/c/photorestoration@lemmy.world)

This is the universal link: !photorestoration

but it doesn’t work on some clients, so I like to include the above as well

otter, to privacy in A question about secure chats

Wider context matters

Two companies can advertise lockers with the same high quality lock, but one might still be better to use

  • if one company can’t prove they are actually using the high quality lock
  • if one company acts as a middleman, doing the locking/unlocking for you
  • if one company watches everything you do before and after using the locker, allowing them to infer what you are using it for

Even if we specifically talk about security, one is better than the other.

otter, to asklemmy in People who have those talking buttons for their pet, how long did it take for them to catch on, and do they really work?

Does he do other actions when he wants food/water/outside?

I’m picturing a dog annoyed that it has to use the buttons instead of being able to point at the water bowl 😄

otter, to asklemmy in Does anyone have any good suggestions for positive themed communities?

A lot of the animal ones are pretty good, ex. !animalswithjobs

There’s also !goodnewseveryone , but that’s similar to upliftingnews

otter, to comicstrips in Just the essentials

Well, there aren’t any working toilets anymore

Maybe this will help with the smell

otter, to privacy in How safe are grammar editing tools?

This one is recommended by Mozilla

addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/…/languagetool/

It DOES still need to send data somewhere to check

Your privacy is important to us: By default, this extension will check your text by sending it to languagetool.org over a securely encrypted connection. No account is needed to use this extension. We don’t store your IP address. See languagetool.org/privacy/ for our privacy policy.

I don’t want to confirm details I don’t know, so someone else should probably explain more on if this is good/bad

otter, (edited ) to asklemmy in Are there any communities here where I can share NSFW medical images?

You could post it to !medicine, but please tag it as NSFW and keep the discussion focussed on the medical aspect of the procedure (it sounds like that was the intent).

This is a community for medical professionals. Please see the Medical Community Hub for other communities.

Official Lemmy community for /r/Medicine.

Also note that it’s only recently become the parallel community for r/Medicine, and there may be people subscribed who aren’t medical professionals and may not appreciate it (they may downvote it).

If you do find more medical communities then please share. I’d like to add them to the post on the Medical Community Hub

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

otter, (edited ) to news in Danish MPs vote to ban desecration of religious texts after Qur’an burnings

I think intent plays a role here. If the goal is to incite a reaction or to hurt a population by publicly burning something that they care about, it’s probably not a great to do

One of those things where you know when you see it, but it’s hard to define explicitly.

If anything, it might help as a temporary measure to reduce tensions and inflammatory incidents

otter, to linux in enough said.

Also you CAN get your workplace to shift over to something else.

Not every workplace will change procedures, but some will. Especially if it’s software that handles local data or if there are high costs or privacy risks, they can be convinced.

otter, to asklemmy in Have you ever come across some sort of container or organizer for anything that ended up being strangely useful?

Please also consider this community for more content

!homeorganization

otter, to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

it’s just about reading their implementation and providing an alternative implementation that doesn’t copy code…

That sounds difficult though. Didn’t companies have to set up ethics walls to protect against lawsuits for things like that?

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