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One reason I'd sometimes recommend Signal over WhatsApp is my understanding is WhatsApp leaves the contact list visible to "Meta" (or possibly simply shared the contact list with other "Meta" services like Facebook?) whereas Signal had this complicated e2e backup for the contact list. This article:
Claims WhatsApp now encrypts the contact list as well. Is this true? Is it on for all users or something you have to enable? What about importing contacts from FB?
2. If you work a lot on a computer, you are at high risk of a vitamin D deficiency. You should probably be taking vitamin D supplements; and if you feel tired a lot, and you have a GP, you should consider asking them to test your D levels. In case of deficiency, higher-then-OTC doses are sometimes needed to reset.
In general, taking multivitamins can have many benefits. But be cautious of "B complex" vitamins, which often contain unsafe levels of B6 (one of the rare OTC vitamins you can OD on).
I have two opinions I want to post today:
1. You should install Signal on your phone and computer. Connect with your friends and partners on it. Use it casually, regularly, for non-sensitive messages. You'll probably never *need* an encrypted messenger, but if you someday hit a rare case where it's useful? Better it's already set up *before* you need it. Signal still requires a phone# for signup but you can use a username to message.
(This is Mastodon, so you're likely far ahead of me on this)
Reminder if you want the original, tough-but-fair satisfyingly-difficult versions of the Moorwing and Sister Splinter fights in Silksong you need to get past them before like mid-next-week when the balance patch drops
https://patchcrazy.co.uk/hollow-knight-silksong-patch-notes-1-0-28470-on-09-september/
Looked in my Gmail spam folder this morning and discovered Google had generated one of those "Security Alert: A new device has signed in to Google" emails, sent it to me, and then immediately sorted themselves into their own spam folder
There's a Firefox extension I really like
https://simple-translate.sienori.com/
It allows you to translated selected text instead of having to fuck up an entire web page to translate one sentence.
A few months ago, it and one other plugin just… stopped working, on my Windows machine only, similar errors.
https://github.com/sienori/simple-translate/issues/562
https://github.com/gurumukhi/youtube-screenshot/issues/65
They still don't work, and neither extension dev can help me. I don't know where to begin debugging this. The extension continues to work on my Linux box.
So having played a decent bit of Silksong I think I am coming to the conclusion that the ants are the good guys
@foone in the Tusky alt text entry you can double tap to zoom and pan around the image it's great
@aeva have you seen the satya quote about how he now gets all his news from having copilot summarize podcasts? I think this might already be happening
To explain what's happening here, in the 2024 cycle I donated to Allred because I'm an ex-Texan, unsubscribed and sent a letter (unsuccessfully) demanding my donation be refunded when Allred attacked trans kids, and apparently giving Allred money then unsubscribing is enough to get you automatically subscribed to his Substack
Every browser blocked except Lynx and I am not joking https://mastodon.social/@rst/115176390521686203
Incidentally, did you know Firefox actually sends unique headers when it's using the hold-shift-for-a-summary link preview feature? I doubt it does this for the iphone "shake-to-enshittify" feature because it probably has the DOM in memory already, but at least sometimes when Firefox is fetching your site for "AI" it's detectable. I really wonder what Firefox does if you send that zipbomb that decompresses to ten gigabytes of { characters in reply.
At the point I'm seriously considering blocking all web browsers except Chrome because it doesn't have the "summarization" poison in Safari and Firefox. Seriously, I don't want someone who uses this feature reading my stuff https://friend.camp/@aparrish/115175365344953522
@afreytes I think it's normal for immune responses to change over the course of one's life. Additionally, I am aware of a number of patient self-reports and one ambiguous¹ peer reviewed study suggesting that "long COVID" can result in new allergies.
¹ showing correlation but not causation
"color has been compromised" David Langford basilisk FAQ ass security disclosure