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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Note, if you have sensitive information in your signal profile, you shouldn't accept messages you aren't familiar with

See the "What happens when I ..." > "Accept" section

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007459591-Signal-Profiles-and-Message-Requests

I'm not aware of any other privacy issues past that, but I'd worry about getting more spam by engaging with them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's not supposed to be since the rules say

Things that don’t fit

  • Minor app updates
  • Government legislation
  • Company news
  • Opinion pieces

I'll report the post and see what the mods do, likely they didn't see it yet

This seems like an area where there's demand for a carefully moderated community, even if there is less content over all. That might help with the state of tech news that other comments are mentioning

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

uBlock Origin is the main one

Search by Image and Web Archives are two others that I like to have on mobile

I'd love to learn some more as well :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I linked the wrong community earlier and then changed it

If the lemmit one also looks empty, it could be because you are the first person in your instance to come across the community. If you subscribe, it should start pulling the contents so you can see it.

It doesn't look like lemm.ee blocked it so hopefully the stuff above is the cause

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Firefox with a handful of extensions for day to day use

I keep Brave with custom configuration ready for when extra privacy is needed. Firefox based browsers on Android are currently missing site isolation so that's what privacy guides recommends for the time being.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/

It might be cool to see something like Zen on Android, but I'm not sure what changes I'd like to see aesthetics / features wise. Brave looks fancier, but I find it annoying to use for a number of reasons. Off the top of my head

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

While possible, I think it ends up being a bit of a janky setup. The problem is that Lemmy doesn't let you follow individual users, whether they are on Lemmy or Mastodon.

You could try out mbin. It's similar to Lemmy, but has a microblogging feed that you can use to follow people

https://joinmbin.org/servers

Personally I keep a separate mastodon account since I find the formats to be separate

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

The image quality makes this even better

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yup, the vast majority of the posts weren't worth reading even before generative AI was this accessible

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool idea, joined!

Thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

I use this community for that: [email protected]

The rules seem to be aligned with what you're looking for.

Plus other communities on that instance depending on what you're interested in.

Then there are feeds like [email protected] to keep up with content on other sites. There are lots of RSS feed communities through the https://rss.ponder.cat/communities instance

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It also works a bit like a security pattern, to make it difficult to read the contents without opening it

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30129640

Art Share🎨 (lemmy.world)

I Made This (lemm.ee)

Please feel free to add any other communities in the comments!

 

Art Share🎨 (lemmy.world)

I Made This (lemm.ee)

Please feel free to add any other communities in the comments!

 

Often when I'm using it, it will spit out some random blurb about privacy in addition to the response. This time I asked something along the lines of

What did this message mean

{Quote}

It answered, and then it added this

However, the message also includes a detailed explanation about the privacy measures in place when using a specific AI language model through DuckDuckGo.

The explanation states that all user chats are completely anonymous, and DuckDuckGo does not record any user chats. Any metadata that could potentially identify the user's device is removed before sending prompts to the model provider. This means that even if the model provider stores chats, they cannot be traced back to the user.

The explanation also specifies that personal information typed directly into the chat cannot be tied back to the user, and that chats will not be used to train or improve models. Furthermore, chats are not sent to any third-party, and are only sent anonymously to the model provider.

The message ends with a reminder about the appropriate use of code blocks in markdown, emphasizing that they should only be included in programming-related contexts.

I assume they wanted their version to offer information about itself on top of the models regular output, downside being the extra hallucinations

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20172957

Krita 5.2.5 is here, bringing over 50 bugfixes since 5.2.3 (5.2.4 was a Windows-specific hotfix). Major fixes have been done to audio playback, transform mask calculation and more!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20448316

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29008964

ImageToolbox is a great android app for editing and working with images. I still haven't explored all the features, and honestly it can get a bit overwhelming. But if I need a feature, it usually exists

Copied the changelog below

What's Changed

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

ImageToolbox is a great android app for editing and working with images.

What's Changed

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(I'm not affiliated with them, I just saw a post about the update)

What it is:

The Open Source Alternative To Notion

and for those not familiar with notion:

Notion is a collaboration platform with Markdown and including kanban boards, tasks, wikis and databases. It is a workspace for notetaking, knowledge and data management, as well as project and task management


About the update:

New Features

  • Added a new property type, 'Files & media'
  • Supported Apple Sign-in
  • Displayed the page icon next to the row name when the row page contains nested notes
  • Enabled Delete Account in Settings
  • Included a collapsible navigation menu in your published site

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the space name color issue in the community themes
  • Fixed database filters and sorting issues
  • Fixed the issue of not being able to fully display the title on Kanban cards
  • Fixed the inability to see the entire text of a checklist item when it's more than one line long
  • Fixed hide/unhide buttons in the No Status group
  • Fixed the inability to edit group names on Kanban boards
  • Made error codes more user-friendly
  • Added leading zeros to day and month in date format
 

Even if you don't enter data into Facebook/Meta directly, they may be getting data from other games/music apps/etc.

How to check

  • Navigate to the Accounts Center menu.
    • Instagram: open your profile page > 3 bar menu > Settings > Accounts Center
    • Messenger: 3 bar menu > gear icon > scroll to bottom > Accounts Center
  • Your information and permissions
  • Your activity off Meta technologies

There should also be an option for Manage future activity


I use some apps to communicate with family, and clearly my privacy protections weren't as good as I thought they were. I set things up a long time ago, so I imagine something changed since then.

I'm considering of either sending the apps to the work profile, or switching to only using them in the browser. If it's because I connected my account to the other service at some point, I don't know how to sever that connection now aside from dropping that other game/app/service

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