Excellent! Thank you! 🙂

Haven’t encountered this yet, has it been let loose in the wild?

@yogthos@lemmy.ml, since you’re our resident China expert, I thought I’d ask: do you know if any of the PRC’s companies are working on (or have even already solved!) the “plastics problem?” With regard to pollution, recycling, etc. I do remember their National Sword policy…🤔

Note that some apps will say that they won’t work without GPS, but actually will if you give it a try.

@Midnitte@beehaw.org, @Soapbox@lemmy.zip, @autriyo@feddit.org, @frischkaesbagett@feddit.org, @brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com, @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml, @bad1080@piefed.social, @LadyCajAsca@hexbear.net

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.blockdrop.game

This is great! And it’s been around since June of last year! How did I miss this? Think it might be because I should’ve searched for “block” rather than “tetris” on F-Droid.

How many points of identification are needed to positively ID you? Something like 35 IIRC according to Cover Your Tracks/EFF? Might be remembering wrong 🤔

Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks, report finds

I see, apparently it doesn’t like my VPN, never mind . . .

Agreed! I won’t consider donating to them until they drop it.

You may want to read Why not Signal?, but I still use it.

This is incredibly important because regular container vessels pollute like you wouldn’t believe.

It’s true that some people really do have to be on Facebook/Xwitter for work, but in that case I’ve always suggested that they also make a Mastodon/Lemmy/Pixelfed account and let people know about it (“why not join me on …”) and try to use the two (or more) side by side. Hopefully that will make the people they interact with realize that there are in fact good alternatives, and perhaps get them to join as well, further increasing the size of the Fediverse🌈.

The Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram icons are still ubiquitous on far too many web pages, and I really don’t understand why they’re still there. These services have proven time and time and time again to be toxic in so many ways, and don’t even add any sort of value to the organizations that still use them.

Whatever you may think of NPR, when they finally left Xwitter (or were thrown off, I don’t remember) they found that there was a negligible drop off in traffic to their site. Toxic, and not even worth the effort, not for NPR, and I bet for a lot of other organizations as well. Why don’t they wake up?

I remember a while back reading a number of similarly-themed articles whose authors would complain about how they were “trapped” by Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, not realizing, or not even making the effort to realize, that there were already a number of alternatives like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and so forth. Every time I read one of these articles (I can search for them if anyone is interested, but I suspect folks on Lemmy have encountered at least one or two in the past), a little voice in my head said "there’s an easy way to solve this . . . " So either people in general just want to have something to complain about, or are just plain stupid. Grrr.

EDIT: One of my favorite uses of uBlock Origin is using it to remove Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram (and sometimes even BlueSky, depends on what mood I’m in) links from webpages that still have them. It does seem like the “f”, the bird/x, and the camera icon thingy are at least less prominently displayed than they used to be, if nothing else.

Iceland, maybe?

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a country you could be proud of?

There’s this, but I tend to think of 60 Minutes as a program to scare old people (older than me! 👴)

For better or worse, Trump is in the process of destroying the federal govt. Isn’t he also then kind of degrading its ability to spy on its own citizens?

Actually, you can use Signal for this, if you have it on both your phone and laptop, and use “note to self.” I prefer this because it’s very straightforward and isn’t bogged down with a lot of extraneous extra features that other notetaking apps I’ve tried tend to have.

So does this mean we won’t have to give Google hundreds of $$$ to get one of their Pixels?🙏

Hmm…no Android widgets, which is a shame.