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ICE kidnaps 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer at citizenship interview in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

This is horrific and upsets me. It's worth reading more than the headline.

Teenager pleads guilty to planning terrorist bombing targeting Opera House and Sydney marathon in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He said his justification for planning the attack was contained in a written message that said: “the country I am living in helped America evade [sic] Iraq and Afghanistan and killed many Muslims”.

From the article

MapQuest's app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

CoMaps is a great app for iOS and Android. Cleaner interface than OsmAnd. FOSS and uses open street maps.

Australia could make social media algorithms optional and follow UK ban on pornography depicting strangulation in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Yes let's start banning specific acts in porn... That's not a slippery slope at all.

Why New Zealand Is the Only Safe Haven Left in c/newzealand@lemmy.nz
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Why is NZ fucked?

Apple Event Announced for September 9: 'Surprise and Shine' in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Fold this year

Which Google Maps alternative looks similar to (or can be made to look similar to) Google Maps? in c/android@lemmy.world
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Scrolled down many comments to find yours!

OsmAnd has built-in address lookup and Comaps (and most others I tried) does not.

I would honestly rather use Comaps than OsmAnd, but having to find the longitude and latitude of an address using a different website and then plugging that into Comaps was way too much work. (And the address wasn't always found anyway.)

I would gladly pay for a Google Maps alternative but I recently tried Magic Earth and was unimpressed and didn't find it worth paying for.

Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data in c/technology@lemmy.world
59-year-old Sunnyvale woman detained by ICE at airport in New York in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Heartbreaking to hear about regular people being treated like this. It's shameful for authorities to treat anyone like this, let alone a nonviolent mother with medical needs.

2 deaths in Michigan linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak as cases across the state exceed 11,000 in c/news@lemmy.world
FTC sues Hims & Hers for sending user health info to Meta, Snap in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Frustrates the hell out of me, these data leaks, because the punishment never fits the crime.

Okay so Meta has a bunch of health data that they shouldn't. Will they delete it? Prob not. Pay a fine that they won't miss? Great...

Same with credit bureaus. One year of free credit monitoring doesn't come close to rectifying the mistake.

GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not that crazy. Do you wipe your phone every time you travel? It's the most secure but least convenient option.

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Is there a way to hide the thick status bar? (lemmy.world)
 

This command belkw isn't working in adb to to force immersive mode. Was wondering if there are any workarounds. The status bar is such a waste of space on my Pixel 10 Pro Fold. I tried in Settings>Display>Display Size reducing the slider but didn't help.

adb shell settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*

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Philosophy vs practical execution (GOS vs FOSS vs Self-Hosting) (lemmy.world)
 

I'm probably overthinking it, but I'm interested to hear how people approach this.

So I'm leaning more into FOSS and degoogling, so I ordered a Pixel for GOS.

However, I recently learned that GOS recommends Play Store before any FOSS app stores.

That kind of broke my brain and had me evaluating my goals and philosophy.

Do you folks just set up a different GOS profile for Google stuff and keep using apps from Play Store without a second thought?

Or do you lean into FOSS apps as much as possible?

Or do you try to self-host as much as you can?

I'm kind of just looking for a North Star to follow here.

I've been self-hosting with Immich and Nextcloud for a couple of months and thought I had a new philosophy to live by, hence the Pixel purchase and GOS plans.

However, learning that the values of GOS don't align perfectly with FOSS has disrupted my posture a bit.

It's not very satisfying straddling privacy-centric apps/services alongside popular services that want all your data, especially taking into consideration the efforts required to go down the path of more privacy.

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