extremeboredom

joined 7 months ago
[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Fascist saw an opportunity to harm animals and got carried away. Couldn't help himself. How many other sick individuals stalk our streets with a gun and a badge?

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I'm trying to imagine voluntarily buying a device that all but prohibits you from choosing the software you run on it. A limit of 2-3 apps, which have to be re-signed weekly by a desktop server, to me that doesn't count as "supporting sideloading." Maybe technically. What a joke.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

"Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power!" -Android users

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Wait... You can sideload on ios? Since when?

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's not accurate to accuse Anon of "lying," when both their story and yours would point to the race conditions from threads being a symptom of someone who's just learning the language.

It's not that serious though; because it's a greentext, it is both artificial AND homosexual.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 122 points 5 days ago

Yep! The police, being fascists, HATE this.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I hugged it to death with the post. Was working fine for the last couple of days.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ok cool, but I'll still support this initiative, because as FUTO states, a keyboard should not connect to the internet.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You're missing the whole anonymization layer they've implemented here. If actual typing data is used, the app can't guarantee user control of the data after opt-in. The data they're using here is not private user typing data to begin with.

I'd recommend listening to Louis Rossman's talks on the subject.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Data is data! You're a use case, regardless of swipe ability.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The entire point of the keyboard is that it's not built in. The philosophy behind the organization making it says that it shouldn't be built in.

 

If you use the privacy respecting Gboard alternative called FUTO keyboard, you've probably noticed that the built in swipe typing is HOT GARBAGE. (Typing this currently with two thumbs for this exact reason.)

Most keyboards improve their swipe algorithms by simply spying on you and logging your typing data. FUTO isn't about that, so they have built a simple webpage based typing game that you can use to improve their system in an ethical and voluntary manner! Just swipe the website's keyboard to type a provided sentence.

I love this, they can crowdsource the improvement without invading privacy!

Share with any relevant communities you're a part of. The more data, the better this gets.

 

I was a long-time subscriber to Sync For Reddit, until the great third party app purge last year when I just boycotted Reddit altogether. Now, a year later, I'm looking to fill that content hole with Lemmy, and stumbled across Sync For Lemmy. I love it! The one functionality I miss from SFR was the embedded player for YouTube videos. It seems that YouTube links will open only in the YouTube app or the external web browser. Is there a plan to reimplement the built-in player?

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