Areldyb

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[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

I mostly rely on built-in "scheduled send" features these days, but in the past (and possibly future, can't remember!) I've used Time Cave and been happy with it.

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

Pinball Deluxe Reloaded has been an excellent time-waster on my phone for a while now. It's available on PC too.

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 25 points 4 months ago (9 children)

This is an argument for why Biden is able to lead. Speaking for myself, I'm not so worried that Biden is unable to lead. He's old and obviously slowing down, but he's got decades of experience and, as you say, a whole administration's worth of expertise.

I'm worried that he is unable to win.

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"This campaign is bigger than me or you. Everything we believe in, everything we stand for, and everyone we are fighting for are at risk in this election." --Joe Biden campaign email, July 4th

"if I lose it's cool lol" --Joe Biden on ABC News, July 5th, paraphrased

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Please don't assume that it's all Russian bot bullshit. Thursday night's "debate" performance was a catastrophe that affirmed a lot of people's worst fears, my own included. I just don't know how he wins after that, and if he can't win, then I'm sorry but it's time for an open convention.

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If your router isn't even a Linksys router, then it's most likely a false positive result and can be safely ignored. If you want to be extra sure, you could attempt to actually exploit the vulnerability with routersploit and see whether you get anywhere.

In general, the fix for a vulnerability in an end-user network device is some combination of "update the firmware" and "disable the vulnerable feature".

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

... ... are you secretly a mosquito

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Hey, um, you're all over this thread and you seem like you've really got an axe to grind here. What's your story?

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

Promising, but not ready for primetime. I spent the last two days using it as my phone's default search after you mentioned it, and... well, I went back to Google, at least for now.

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 140 points 7 months ago (8 children)

My second proposal — and this is a wild one — is that promotional notifications should just not be allowed. Or you can opt in to them if you desperately want to hear from the Starbucks app every single day, but you should have to go out of your way to do that and should not be the default behavior when you choose “allow notifications.” Just an idea!

The author calls out the Starbucks app here, but doesn't mention how blatantly dark-patterned its notifications really are. Android allows apps to set up multiple notification channels, so you can selectively prioritize (or, more often, mute or block) notifications based on their content. Starbucks uses this feature... to create a single channel called "Promotions & order status". You wanted to know when your order's ready? Fuck you and your concentration, get double stars today!

I appreciate the notification controls Android gives me, and I use them aggressively. If an app pushes a notification that doesn't actually require my attention, I block that channel, and if it does it again, I block notifications for the whole app. I agree with the author, though: I shouldn't need to do that.

[–] Areldyb@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

It's been like that. I have some uBlock rules that clean up most of it, but the last time I got on Facebook it wasn't behaving well so I probably need to update them.

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