heftig

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[–] heftig@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's neither. There are no voxels. Maybe "polygon creatures".

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] heftig@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.

In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM. Manually installing the APK worked for this case, but that didn't really solve our problem.

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

Signal is not available for Android tablets, which was a deal breaker when I tried to move my family off Telegram.

[–] heftig@beehaw.org -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is a nonsense comparison as these features serve completely different purposes, while only having in common that advertisers currently use user tracking to achieve the same.

Topics data-mines your browsing history for information about your interests and reveals this information to advertisers in order to improve ad selection. It's meant to replace ad networks tracking each individual user's visits to connected websites and building that profile themselves. Since this is, in a way, much more powerful than tracking cookies, Chrome has a scary dialog asking for it to be enabled, and I don't think we'll be seeing it in Firefox. "Using different links" cannot replace user profiling at all.

PPA doesn't provide any new capabilities to advertisers. It's a privacy-preserving way of measuring ad campaign success that is currently done by ad networks tracking individual users from ad impressions to conversions. "Using different links" is also defective, as advertisers need to connect ad impressions to conversions even if they are not immediately connected through a click on the ad.

If these features become generally available, this reduces the leverage advertisers have on legislators to prevent tracking from being outlawed. Mozilla will be hoping Chrome picks up PPA.

[–] heftig@beehaw.org -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It was never about money. This feature isn't and was never going to make Mozilla one cent.

It's about reducing the leverage advertisers have on legislators when it comes to the measurements necessary to operate effective ad campaigns. The hope is that with privacy-preserving methods available, privacy-violating measurement can be more easily outlawed.

I think we would have arrived at the very same feature.

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 16 points 4 months ago

It's a reference to Toto's song "Africa", and in the line "I bless the rains down in Africa" the "A" gets extended a lot.

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They're usually also Biblical literalists, who believe that their infallible God-authored Bible says the Earth is flat ("four corners", covered in a dome, etc), thus the globe is an attack on Christianity. The worldly institutions are all controlled by the devil, who wants Christians to doubt their Bible and their belief in God.

https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44