hummingbird

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Signal forks can have unexpected behaviours like retaining deleted messages and also they don’t get updated at the same rate that Signal get updated.

There are ways to save messages before they are deleted even if the stock app is used. Do not ever rely on this feature to work in a "safe" way.

Every couple of years I hear a story about hackers disturbing signal with backdoors, which would be impossible or very hard to be done If they blocked third party clients. (Ex: 1)

That is a problem the users who prefer 3rd party clients have to deal with. Obviously if you care enough to not use the official build, you of cause have to take care of using a trustworthy source. That is not "your problem" though.

The amount of people who use third party Signal clients are very few anyway.

That sounds a lot like "I don't use it, so none else needs it either" argument. In my opinion, none of your arguments above are a good reason to combat 3rd party clients.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not in all situations. And in a way a user will not be aware of. The service or website can define what type of passkey is allowed (based in attestation). You may not be able to acutally use your "movable" keys because someone else decided so. You will not notice this until you actually face such a service. And when that happens, you can be sure that the average user will not understand what ia going on. Not all passkeys are equal, but that fact is hidden from the user.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In addition, Huawei now blocks sideloading Android apps to promote its ecosystem growth.

Well looks like I'm never going to get a device from this manufacturer then.

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

Here a a few things that I miss from OsmAnd:

  • adding more than a handful of routing points is tedious
  • you cannot plan partially or fully independent from existing roads
  • no way to save and restore a planned trip
  • no overlays for hill shading or incline visualization. Very useful for assessing the effort of a route.
  • no public transport support. Very useful for planning a trip with transitions.
  • no rain radar
  • satellite view
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Organic Maps is my goto solution for car navigation because it is very quick, responsive and does not require an high end phone. It just works. However for anything more advanced than that (e.g. live location sharing or recording, planning a hiking trip, navigating mountain bike trails, contributing to OpenStreemMap), OSMAnd is still without contender.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Availability still very limited:

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=QssFZHtIOfAYNSSmzXNwY9

Garmin's ECG app is currently available in the following regions:

United States
   American Samoa
    Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
    Guam
    Puerto Rico
    US Virgin Islands
Hong Kong
Philippines
Singapore
Taiwan
Vietnam
[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

Sad to see Mozilla being managed into the ground, betraying their principles and selling their users.

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

That is not entirely correct. The reported found the app using permissions that are not covered by the manifest. It also found the app being capable to execute arbitrary code send by temu. So it cannot be clearly answered if the app can utilize these permissions or not. Obviously they would not ship such an exploit with the app directly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

This is your best option. I did do movie nights with friends during the pandemic in a similar way, but I used OBS Studio to create the stream and Monaserver to stream it to all users. I did not know VLC can handle the streaming to users directly, making this dead simple to setup without additional software. You just need to know how to configure your router to allow the needed port forwarding.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Die Wahl der Komponenten ist sicherlich wichtig, ebenso die Fahrweise und der Einsatzbereiche. Datenpunkt meinerseits: Schimano XT 11 Gang hält bei mir ca. 500km am EMTB.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Lass auf jeden Fall die Finger von Mods/Hacks vom Motor. Wenn du erwischt wirst wird es richtig teuer und im schlimmsten Fall kann es dich bei einem Unfall finanziell ruinieren.

Beim Einsatz mit starker Steigung würde ich von Frontmotoren abraten, denen geht schnell die Puste aus, wenn es zu steil wird. Ich persönlich bin ein Fan von Mittelmotoren.

Wenn es wartungsarm sein soll solltest du über einen Riemenantrieb nachdenken. Der Ketteverschleiß ist bei Pedellecs stark erhöht.

Und schließlich würde ich mich bei der Auswahl auf bekannte Antriebshersteller beschränken. Bei den günstigen Chinamodellen wäre ich insbesondere bei der Sicherheit des Akkus skeptisch.

view more: next ›