UH OH

on Android, you can use Translate You with it https://github.com/you-apps/TranslateYou

I’ve set up a recurring donation for Signal, pay for a yearly Bitwarden subscription that I don’t really need because the free tier covers my needs, so I consider it a donation, too, and throw some pocket money at some projects every new and then. oh and I have Mullvad and Tuta subscriptions.

whoa, I installed Android Studio, did all that, waited a bunch and it… worked? just like that? is that what you computer people do with computers at work? do I apply for a six figure job now?

yes, that’s why there’s “neo” in the latter’s name.

Shame you can’t try.before you buy

or at least buy it outside Play Store.

yes, then it got rejected, and now another iteration is about to be voted on on June 20, 2024 https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112637908478562409

I don’t think their goal is to become the next Reuters. as far as I can tell, the articles on the website are posted by one (1) person, and they’re free to express themselves in whatever way the want.

besides, for me at least, the phrase carries a specific meaning. it’s a self-deprecating quip, an acknowledgment that what they did wasn’t some super serious journalistic work, given that it mostly comprised of sending Mozilla an email, and doesn’t warrant using something that would indicate more extensive journalistic work like “I did some digging” or “I investigated”.

it’s a manner of speech used jokingly. similar to how someone “does an oopsie” where, you might find, “an oopsie” isn’t a specific activity that someone performs.

and hey, figurative “literally” was good enough for Joyce and Dickens.

I replied something along the lines of “it infringes my rights as a EU citizen granted to me by GDPR” and immediately got a reply that it got accepted.

okay, but that’s not relevant to what I’m talking about here.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

https://lemm.ee/comment/12351517

good luck getting everyone you know to communicate with you with “software from GitHub or F-Droid or something”. I’m having a hard time making people try out Signal, which is freely available on the major app stores (and which, by the way, has declared that they’ll leave the EU market if one device scanning will be enforced on them).

nope, they’ll vote on it again in the few weeks. if it passes, e2ee messengers will be required to scan images on device before sending them. you will be able to not agree to that, but then you won’t be able to send or receive media and links, only text.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

Mansplaining as a Service

other than basic text chat, what else does WA offer these days?

group chats, reactions, sending files, voice messages, voice and video calls

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.bnyro.recorder/

I resent my experience being made worse by reading this

if the software is good and works to your benefit, why not use it?

sometimes people just don’t feel comfortable using work of someone who opposes their rights. even just using the product gives the creator more exposure, recognition, possible funding in the future if it gets big enough, and so on. so, if the creator is openly transphobic, for example, trans folks won’t want to use the product, and doubly so when the community around the product is toxic, too. they’re voting with their feet.