It’s interesting how the biggest comments either pretend there is no war, or remove Ukrainian self-determination from discussion of it.

Seems kind of like those people who try to lump in Palestinians in Gaza with some imaginary monolith of “all Muslims” in the middle east.

Last time I checked, Ukraine is fighting a war against a Russian invasion.

During World War II, the US censored pictures of dead soldiers until 1943. And that was without a war happening on American soil.

Expounding on previous suggestions…

“On iOS” is rough because you’re at the mercy of whatever incredibly limited experience Apple allows. Safari is the only real browser on your phone and it can be subjected to limited ad blocking, followed by your system (phone or tablet) with something like AdGuard.

If you’re on a particular home WiFi network, you can also add your own DNS filter using something like PiHole.

It could function as a nicotine patch for people who have a Schüllian obsession with Twitter.

Just the world’s biggest election between a popular, incumbent president associated with the color orange and religious nationalism, versus a disorganized opposition. And fake news is a problem.

If you’re in the US and mostly worried about one app, you can probably devote a Work folder via an app like Shelter to a GF.

Probably an iPhone user.

Or otherwise concerned about using an app banned by the state.

I can do this in like 5 seconds with my PiHole and not only am I not a network engineer, I would encourage people to never employ me as such.

So for an actual business that has a bigger budget than me ($0) and more hours to devote to it than me (.02), shouldn’t it be less of a problem?

Don’t all providers have the ability to filter things?

Personally I have very few problems with DNS providers filtering out malware, that sounds like a benefit to me.

How long until that sort of thing goes the way of Bibliogram/Barinsta?

After removing the sponsored shortcuts in Firefox…

with each Firefox start up, it would query these sites.

I don’t like that. Sponsored sites get a free ping from FF?! I thought those icons would be preloaded.

Sometimes it’s easier to sell solutions to the problems that you describe versus problems that are real. I’ve gotten that sense with his videos from the beginning, even the less extreme ones I’ve been recommended in the past. At some point you need to cut your losses, and at this point I think Braxman is more unhelpful than helpful in the tech space.

Update: especially because, recently, some banks will use your transaction history to advertise to you, I feel even better jumping onto one with stricter rules regarding that

https://www.pcmag.com/news/chase-bank-to-let-advertisers-target-customers-based-on-spending-habits

I’m pretty sure it’s the opposite, although it’s understandable that it’d give off that illusion.

You might experience a lower framerate in apps because your battery is overheating, but intentionally invoking it (like Mull does) will make your device require less processing power and thus less likely to overheat.

This reads as extremely petty.

He’s part of an organization that also made an app that also has a license that isn’t totally perfect, therefore all his other advocacy is inherently wrong?

Cancel Louis Rossman first, and then we can reassess whether his comments here are also incorrect.

That’s a good point. For me, it lets me obscure my real name and real address from some websites, so it’s good enough for me.

For everything else, I would probably consider purchasing in person whenever possible, or with cryptocurrency as a last resort.

The source code is right here. It’s free and open source.

Am I missing something here? FUTO appears to do tons of good work so I’m not exactly sure what one non-“Libre” piece of free, open source software does to discredit them, or him.

This is the same Louis Rossman who is part of the FUTO organization. FUTO makes GrayJay and other tools, and funds Graphene, the FSF, VLC, and Right to Repair stuff.

Louis isn’t some Rob Braxman type.

I never installed any dictionaries and it worked fine for me. IIRC.

I installed HeliBoard_1.2-release.apk . I didn’t really know how HeliBoard_1.2-debug.apk and HeliBoard_1.2-nouserlib.apk were different.

They don’t really matter to most people.

And, it seems like I can do the equivalent of Shift + key on a standalone keyboard (for example, to get 1 instead of Q), but I don’t know how to, or what that’s even called.

Usually you glide from the ?123 icon towards the top, or long-press the number row.

Gliding from Shift to something else will allow you to capitalize.

That’s where the Tor component of TAILS comes in. The documentation here is really valuable:

https://tails.net/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/index.en.html