@otter@lemmy.ca

otter

@otter@lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

🍁⚕️ 💽

Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)

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otter, (edited )

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,

Same

Although our instances give that away

What phone do you sugest for your grandparents?

I got a task to buy a smart phone for my grandparents, they are not techsavy but they know how to use basic functions. Iam looking for an andoid because it has language pack i need. I dont need it to have lots of functions, onley a good camera and a big screen. Bonus points if it can be flashed with some kind of simplefied...

otter,

That’s a great point, uBlock Origin helps a lot with scams on desktop.

I agree to disagree

I should also point out that I haven’t tried GrapheneOS and can’t judge what the differences might be, so I’ll go with your experience on this :)

otter, (edited )

The problem is that other people will be unfamiliar with it. Unless OP can be the support person all the time, the grandparents may want to get help from someone else.

Keeping things stock is helpful for that, and I feel like Google Pixel is already simple enough. Just disable things like assistant during setup or in settings.

otter,

For example, see the link in the post body here:

reddit.com/…/whats_going_on_with_kim_kardashian_a…

otter,

Oh that’s nice! Hopefully more apps integrate that function

otter, (edited )

Same with Reddit, FB Messenger, Instagram, TikTok… Some of them are harder to spot, like how Reddit now goes reddit.com/r/example/s/8913y4h93

Would be nice if social networks and messengers would automatically strip these parameters.

I started using URLCheck on Android and SO MANY links have some kind of tracker that you can drop and not lose any functionality. Things like Signal (and even Lemmy/Mastodon) could do something similar and throw up a little warning when it encounters a known tracker, then offer to clean the URL for you.

Another advantage is that the clean URLs are a lot more descriptive

otter,

Fleming did not provide Bond’s date of birth, but John Pearson’s fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920,[13] while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921

Huh, learned something too!

otter,

This works, but the formats are ancient

If it could pull from knowyourmeme or imgflip.com/memetemplates?sort=top-new, with an API of some kind, that would help a lot

The user can download the format they want

otter,

You joke but a doctor recently got her license revoked for it

washingtonpost.com/…/tiktok-plastic-surgeon-dr-ro…

otter, (edited )

Maybe not during the surgery, but it’s pretty normal to do some review before a surgery that hasn’t been done recently.

In the past they’d skim the books, but videos provide additional insight nowadays. A lot of those videos are published on YouTube

So it feels weird, but it’s not. You’re (most likely) in great hands

otter, (edited )

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,

Ohh

I’d probably remove it but it’s pretty borderline

otter,

Easier to just report it

otter,

!misleadingthumbnails

otter,

It’s on fdroid :)

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

otter,

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,

Can also ask in

!patientgamers

!patientgamers

Does Google still hold contact data after deleting from Google Contacts?

I am in the process of moving out some contacts from Google Contacts, specifically those that I do not have a Gmail address. It's a way for me to give these people a tiny bit more privacy, as I'm doing a cleanup of my contact list. My concern is that Google will still keep their data even after I delete it from my end. Is it so?...

otter,

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 )

The core issue here is instances disappearing, and That goes into the discussion of the structure of the fediverse right now vs. the fediverse in the future

A dozen big instances feel better now, and I personally wouldn’t make a community on a smaller instance unless I know it is likely to stay up. If it was run by an existing organization for example.

Long term though, I trust existing organizations to set up stable instances that won’t be shut down easily. If a government, school, game company etc. makes an instance it’s not likely to go down. Having lots of instances will look more normal then.

Ultimately we don’t need to do anything differently, I recommend new people join a big instance and then make a new account once they know what instance they like.

note to everyone: please don’t downvote good faith questions

OP asked a pretty reasonable open ended question. There are other people who may be thinking the same, and reading the discussions here might change their minds. Save downvoting for rule breaking / content that’s bad for the community

otter,

Also in the future, consider using one of the linked communities in the sidebar instead of this one.

ex. !newToLemmy

otter,

On boost I swipe from the right side of the screen when on a community

On connect I hit the 3 dots and go “About community”

otter,

Good to know, I don’t think I’ve ever really seen it

otter,

Happy to share the resources :)

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