Defo go for F-droid! Dunno if it’s baked into Graphene but I use it almost exclusively on Android.

I also recommend Firefox/Fennec with the Web Archives add-on for viewing paywalled articles. You will be depending on others archiving the full version to read them, but with most larger outlets they will.

Context? Graphene related advice?

For Youtube w/o ads just use Newpipe, an open source, privacy aware, third party app. You’ll never need to log into Youtube again. And it’s not even piracy, even if Google might think differently 🙂

Oh, do educate me on my life choices based on an unrelated online comment, internet stranger 🙄

FWIW, I’m living my best life, rejecting influencers and enjoying a low- to no-drama fediverse. Anybody feeling bad for a Youtuber failing to peddle their bullshit to Mastodon can kindly get in the sea.

Have a nice day

Good, mission accomplished 👍

“Ghost town” = Not driven to oversharing by algorithms.

“getting shit” = nobody wanting to listen to a youtuber’s outrage bait.

It must be confusing to log into the fediverse straight off of Youtube, though. “Why aren’t people compulsively clicking and subscribing to everything? How am I not being recommended radicalising posts by conspiracy theorists and terror organisations within five clicks?”

“Honey, this is Mastodon”

<switches to Blooskie>

“Ah, much better!”

Interesting piece, didn’t know about iOS stealth apps, and the ages of the accused certainly makes the news stand out —

— but can we talk about that hilariously bad “AI” generated picture they chose to illustrate it? That disembodied hand left of centre holding up the “iPhone”?

WHO WAS PHONE? 😄

I do love markdown files myself, so a browser-side parser is very interesting. Definitely skips some Jekyll/Hugo exports 🙂

Limiting that feature to IPFS is sort of one sided for my taste, though.

I mean, I get the joke of using that expression in the context of a chat named after The matrix, but it’s an in-group jargon that mostly the terminally online will get.

LOL, you completely lost me at “rozzers”!

The Register failed in their due diligence by not clarifying from the beginning that this is a different Matrix chat than the open standard. They amended the mistake with an update to the post (quoted here in OP), but that is placed at the end of an article that not everybody is going to read all the way through.

IMHO this needs a rewrite to make clear from the outset that the Matrix protocol and matrix.org are not affiliated with the criminal chat service. As it stands, even with the correction, it looks like character assassination of a perfectly legal open source project.

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No worries, The Register hid the clarification about the two different networks way down at the end, so it’s an easy mistake. I honestly think they need to put that note at the beginning to avoid confusion.

Read the linked article; this was a different network using the same name.

There may also be academics or professionals named David Mayer in various fields, such as psychology, medicine, or technology. For example, there could be a David Mayer who has contributed to a field like cognitive science, education, or software engineering.

There may be. There could be. Who knows? 😆

Let’s just consider what a decade in a landfill will do to a hard drive.

It’s not just a big pile of trash you could rummage through, according to the site manager

things that were sent to landfill three or four months ago could be three to five feet deep

So there is a good deal of waste on top eleven years later, which means

1. the layers get compacted, things break, under the weight and pressure of heavy machinery crisscrossing the site.
2. other waste gradually dissolves into who knows what kinds of chemicals. I can’t tell what kinds of waste exactly is deposited there, but clearly electronic parts among others.

We’re talking about a hard drive that was removed from the computer, so it only has a thin aluminium casing for protection. Chances are it’s crushed beyond recoverability.

Also, in 2013, this would have been a mechanical drive. Even in optimal circumstances, there are a bunch of ways they can fail, leading to data loss.

The spinning disk inside the casing is fairly fragile. One scratch on its surface could render it unreadable, as would, say, spilling a sugary drink into it, which our unfortunate bitcoiner already did. Now imagine the drive buried in an environment full of debris and potentially corrosive chemicals.

TL;DR — At this point, even if a major excavation was undertaken and the drive was located, there is barely a chance that any data would be retrievable from it.

It’s dead, Jim. Bitcoin man is chasing a dream long past its sell-by date.

Thanks for that. I worried it was something worthwhile that I’d just forgotten about in the mind-boggling meantime of “almost a year” since last update.

It not only supports IPFS, it is “built on top of” it, according to the website.

This makes me wonder if it’s usable for regular web browsing or only IPFS sites. The latter would sort of make it a splinternet browser, and way less interesting.

Nightly, according to Rochko’s replies on Mastodon.

They were right, artificial intelligence is truly helping humanity progress beyond our limitations /s

What utter bullshit to waste time and energy on.