magguzu
@magguzu@midwest.social
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 1 week ago:
Thanks for this, looks like it took a long time to put together!
Some corrections with Windscribe since I use it: on Android you can get the APK directly (“sideload”) or through F-Droid. Also I think that pricing is for the full service. I pay like $3 a month with 30GB data and a choice of (I think) 3 or 4 countries IIRC. This has been more than enough for me and probably most people.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 weeks ago:
If you have a Mac, have you ever tried installing an app and have it refuse because it’s not signed by Apple, and then you had to go into settings and click “allow anyway?”
This is that, except without the allow anyway feature, like iOS. It doesn’t matter if it comes from the play store or elsewhere, as this story originally had us believe.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
surely there will have to be “no smart glasses” rules
They have this rule for ebikes at the lake I love to walk and the kids are zooming by anyway. I think we’ll struggle to enforce it and that really sucks. I hope this fails. It’s hard not to be pessimistic about it, as much as I can see some legitimate use cases. I just don’t trust big tech with it, least of all Meta.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Heh…these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I’m a software engineer.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 5 weeks ago:
Buy refurb then, it’s what I did and it’s super fast. Returns are diminishing these days and your money will go further.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 5 weeks ago:
By your logic the *arr suite isn’t self hosted either since they rely on metadata cache servers.
In fact Jellyfin relies on external services for their metadata too!
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 1 month ago:
Hate to say it but it honestly doesn’t sound crazy hard to just block any insurance that pops up. Yes it’s whack a mole but if it’s an automated script, it can just crawl through a backdoor instance and ban any domain it sees.