It's early to interpret this, given that it's "just" a rules change, but they probably don't add it for no reason. I'm not really a fan of changes like this. The question may be whether the user will have a choice and what the consequences of such a choice will be.

The Verge

X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history

X is expanding the amount of data it collects.

#eXodus

🔒 Dive into Veilid project on 2600 Off The Hook podcast: 💰 Cost-cutting & data security for apps 👾 Why Gibson built hackers.town 📢 Public's reaction 📱 User experience insights 🎨 Design considerations 🐄 Cult of the Dead Cow explained 🌐 Veilid's data protection 🛡️ Framework's safety https://podverse.fm/episode/Y8QndmaT6 #Veilid #DataSecurity #TechTalk

I tend to avoid Win 11, even though I know it runs in Virtualbox. I needed to test application compatibilities. I haven't come across anything significant that doesn't work. So what Win11 is full of is all sorts of OutOfTheBox spyware. Even after a clean install, there is a lot to clean up. W10Privacy app seems to be compatible. Now, I have tested that Win11 can run in Linux KVM virtualization. - swtmp-tools installed - VirtIO drivers for everything - TPM emulated, TIS, 2.0 enabled in virt-manager - virtual HW profile with Q35 chipset and UEFI with OVMF bootloader

If anything, it is a nice configuration hack when using the Aurora store on Android, it's turning on the Play Store URL opening association by Aurora. Lately, Google has been pretty much preventing anonymous accounts from working, so, for example, search doesn't work reliably in Aurora. But a link to a specific app in the Play Store can be Googled and clicked through to open in Aurora. Similarly, you can open all YouTube links in NewPipe.

What part of the Facebook looks like with sponsored and featured posts set to hide using

Social Fixer for Facebook fixes annoyances, adds features, and enhances existing functionality to make Facebook more fun and efficient

extension.

Do streaming services spoil the quality of the audio recording? Or the record companies? Can the audio be traced back to its origin if it is stamped? Listen 👉

Matt Montag

Universal's Audible Watermark

This is my personal blog. The views expressed on this page are mine alone. Update, April 8, 2013: Can you hear it? Take the watermark listening te...

How it's done 👉https://medium.com/intrasonics/hiding-data-in-sound-c8db3de5d6e0

In summary, VPNs are a delegation of trust to another entity. I was a bit worried that the linked text would be a "VPNs don't solve anything" criticism, but after listing the negatives, it fortunately mentions some benefits.

VPN - a Very Precarious Narrative - Sky Schubert

A very long article about commercial VPNs, their marketing strategies, and the truth behind their privacy and security claims.

Why have microphones in the streets when silent electric cars are the future? 🤔

NL Times

Amsterdam to use "noise cameras" against too loud cars

Amsterdam has started the fight against noisy motorcycles and cars. On Friday, the city placed electric road signs in two places to warn road users...

From reading: tweeted #bluesky invitations are, in many cases, eaten by bots. 🤔 I don't hold out much hope that Elmo will do anything about it.

Daily recap podcast on Hacker News top discussed themes. It is such a great use case for an AI.

Podverse

Hacker News Recap

A podcast that recaps some of the top posts on Hacker News every day. This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio gen...

Do you have experience with bionic reading?

How-To Geek

What Is Bionic Reading, and How Do You Use It?

What

I want to try bionic-reading.com Which app or extension do you use? Alternatives seem to exist, so there are plenty to choose from.

The search function with modifiers is coming to Mastodon. This improvement has been awaited for a long time and is highly anticipated. It would be great to have it at Bluesky, also.

Mastodon

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)

Attached: 1 image Notes (2) The following search modifiers are supported: has:image has:video has:audio has:media has:poll has:link has:embed is...

So, if there's one thing I don't like about Bluesky, it's the 300-character limit for a message. I can usually fit 500 characters on Mastodon. Nostr seems to be fine, also. :)

Do you support Signal financially? There is a Molly client with features missing from Signal. And there are others.

Signal Wiki

Category:Forks - Signal Wiki

This category contains all references to Signal forks and custom builds. See also: List of forks.

Opinions on supporting alternatives? Of course, anyone who wants to can support both. I'm interested in arguments I might not have thought of.

Molly - Open Collective

A hardened version of Signal for Android.

Nostr discusses content moderation.

Greg

I’ve been thinking deeply about content moderation on Nostr. 

I’m very pro-freedom-tech but there are problems we will need to solve t...

A contribution to the discussion on dopamine addiction.

I just found out that Plebstr is one of the clients that can mute the profile that is spamming you. What solutions do you use to reduce spam on Nostr?

it's great that there is a streaming solution over Nostr like https://zap.stream  But I have a bit of a problem understanding how to use it. Under the [Login] button there is an option to create an account. But nowhere do I see the option to log in to an account that has already been created.  Did I just misunderstand or is there no such option?