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A recap of how Android upgrades make it to your phone: First, Google releases builds of AOSP (the Android Open Source Project) to everyone. This doesn’t run on a phone yet, though. First, your SoC […]
I had mixed emotions when I first read this, like how can you take so long to update a phone? But then I did realise that most Android manufacturers supports a phone only 2 or […]
This reminds me very much of the early Internet where we were mainly concerned about integrity of the data, with social networks about spreading good deeds and messages, motor vehicles with early Bluetooth connectivity, etc. […]
First time I have seen this detailed breakdown. See [WRITEUP] Dissecting MASSIVE WhatsApp privacy policy change w.e.f February 8, 2021, explanations and solutions for using WhatsApp : privatelife #technology #privacy #deletewhatsapp submitted 3 months ago […]
Much like e-mail, calendaring has long established open protocols (like we DON’T have for social media) across services such as WebDAV, ics, etc. So it is usually quite easy to export/import a calendar elsewhere, or […]
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a free open-source office suite (much like LibreOffice) that contains viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Along with offline work, it’s possible to connect the app to the […]
I’d been noticing regular irritating buffering pauses on Odysee videos. Partly the issue is with high-res creator videos being posted, and Odysee does not (yet) transcode them into lower res alternatives to choose from. No […]
Lemmy is a link aggregator for the fediverse. It provides similar functionality to Reddit but you can host your own instances and federate with other Lemmy instances. It uses the ActivityPub protocol but is not […]
Firefox has received a new update bumping it up to version 87. After receiving an update back in February, the new version brings two important features: Smart Block and improved referrer trimming. Firefox blocks third-party […]
There are already loads of Goodreads alternatives out there. They’re all doing different things, which means you now have ‘choice’! Good to also see Bookwyrm (open source federated application) is also listed. These are all […]
