On notifications if Google play services is not installed unless the app let’s you configure another server to use in place notifications won’t work that use Google Play services installed on the back end.

If sandboxed Google play services is installed, assure it has the neccisiary permission to run in the background (unrestricted battery and network) access. Not just the individual apps, but the google apps specifically as Graphene installs thegoogle stuff with standard permissions.

Same goes for apps that run in the background. If you expect them to be running in the background to auto update or perform another function then it needs to be permitted in the battery settings. Background updates may also rely on Google Play services.

Edit: to clarify I haven’t experienced any issues myself that weren’t directly related to my decision to not use sandboxes google play services (no push notifications) despite daily driving for years. It’s a particularly old and reliable project in the privacy space, and while I’m sorry you experienced issues that doesn’t make it an unstable project not ready as a daily driver (any more that somebody having issues with Windows/Linux makes those unstable and not ready to be daily driven).

I’ve been hearing a lot about much heavier blocking and opt in federation. If I were to predict how it all ends up, I see 10-100k users on a small group of servers siloing themselves, and the rest of the fediverse remaining as is. Or even opening up more than it is currently as the loudest people calling for it silo themselves away from the rest of the fediverse.

I won’t say that one particular model is against anything or wrong, the point of free software is the freedom to use it in the manor preferred and if people get value from a walled garden then more power to them. Just not for me.

On mobile, I may actually be using libredirect and just misremembered the name, or I might be due for an update. Thanks

There’s already a number of countries trying implement news site link taxes, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just gave up and decided to cut that out.

Librewolf with Ublock + privacy redirect

Those who don’t believe in autocorrect will go strait to he’ll

Those who don’t believe in autocorrect will go strait to he’ll

Quick tool to summarize a page, proofread, or compare it to another source. Still needs a functioning human brain to separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak, but I could see a LLM (especially local) being useful in some ways.

I’m sure there are disabilities or unique use cases that could increase it’s usefulness, especially once they improve more.

They might buy them though to inflate the number of protected trees. I’m not saying they are, just providing a potential reason for such a large number

The big turning point came in 2018 when I signed a legally binding commitment to ensure that Ecosia could never be sold and that 100% of our profits would always go to the planet. Today, your searches enable us to work with partners to plant and protect 1,250 species of trees across 95,000 locations globally.

Keywords plant and protect. Basically a papermill can plant trees to harvest 20 years later and in the meantime sell carbon offsets for 19 years then harvest and replant.

Can’t say for sure they’re doing it, but from what I hear just about every tree is eligible for a “carbon offset” and some companies abuse it by saying “this is our tree” as long as it’s not cut down within x months and use it as a carbon offset or a “protected tree.”

On Android, Mozilla points out it can’t import browser data

You mean Android was built from the ground up to be a secure platform and not allow apps to meddle with other app’s data?

This is a security and privacy feature that’s very useful and applies to all apps.

Didn’t Mozilla just do a big roadmap talking about what they plan to do in the future and it was basically all AI and Activism with no mention of Firefox?

I hope to see Firefox grow, but who knows. Especially if antitrust actions or a continued drop in Firefox usage cuts off the Google money and makes Mozilla go poof.

But of course at least Gecko is Foss so it can’t disappear entirely if the community doesn’t let it.

In the olden days they had 100% support for extentions

Maybe a tiny bit unstable and proprietary, but I don’t think they have had any controversies or shady action.

Not a lawyer, but AFAIK life rights looks like some sort of name they applied to whatever waiver/contract they made.

As long as you’re not making up lies knowingly, you can legally discuss and speculate any details of anybody’s life here in the US.

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I love how everybody here goes from “yay piracy” and “screw copyright” to “I can’t believe they violated copyright laws” the second it’s somebody they dislike.

I do not mean a fair use claim. To quote the copyright office “Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed” source

Facts and ideas cannot be copy written, so what I was specifically referring to is that if I or an AI read a paper about jellyfish being ocean creatures, then later talk about jellyfish being ocean creatures, there’s no restrictions on that whatsoever as long as we don’t reproduce the paper word by word.

Now, most of the time AI summarizes things or collects facts, and since those themselves cannot be protected by copyright it’s perfectly legal. On the occasion when AI spits out copy written work then that’s a gray area and liability if any will probably decided in the courts.

Yes, because 1:1 duplication of copy written works violates copyright, but summaries of those works and relaying facts stated in those works is perfectly legal (by an ai or not).

As for non server centric accounts, two potential solutions include using either custom domains (registered to the account owner, nor server owner), and/or cryptographic keys to identify an account. Nostr does both, and so does BlueSky I believe.