Parnikkapore @Parnikkapore@mastodon.social

#introduction Computer enthusiast playing around with #FlightGear , Mastodon and @matrix . Also on YouTube at youtube.com/pycdordek

Reported a too-good-to-be-true ad yesterday, and I... received a reply from the ad network that is definitely written by a human?

Modern internet advertising is weird

How do you apostrophe plurals? Which one seems the most correct to you?

(You're welcome to explain your choice in a reply)

#english #language

TechCrunch degrades gracefully in a no-JS environment. Great job to the site's programmers!

Trying out #retroshare! It feels like the LibreOffice of decentralized software: big, old, full of features, and behind in modern expectations.

Goddamnit... an ad for a scam made it onto the platform!
#adpocalypse

🎇 Happy New Year, everyone!

These are the only "weird" permissions in #หมอชนะ. Everything else can be explained by features or is in the F-Droid Germany contact tracing app as well.

I would've isolated this app by running it in a separate user, but I don't know if that's handled properly with background apps.

It is possible to do this without allowing government surveillance (unlike ThaiChana).

https://youtu.be/D__UaR5MQao​

It's likely the app follows this strategy, as the devs seem to be a huge fan of importing libraries.

Since this doesn't seem to be publicized anywhere, #หมอชนะ is a western-style contact tracing app. This helps the government find people highly likely to be infected - if both you and the spreader have the app, the government doesn't even need to use the ThaiChana database to qualify you for PCR.

This also explains why it asks for so many permissions.

The source code is here (may you add the link to the google play listing pretty please?): https://github.com/codeforpublic/morchana-app

It took a custom ROM to make the fingerprint scanner below my screen work like the iPhone home button

But it works now

I would totally meditate with this if those tigers would stop chasing me
#veloren

Life finds a way. Training predictive user models without uploading user data (and likely nor a lot of server power):
https://federated.withgoogle.com/

Lots of fun theorywork in this thing. Hopefully the reference implementation goes into npm soon...

MidSequer - a #suckless #MIDI sequencer for #Android that takes advantage of the built-in synth.

No MIDI import (although converting into its plaintext native format doesn't look impossible) and a rather undiscoverable control scheme though.

Also sadly closed-source abandonware.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=utw.android.midsequer2

#Veloren dungeons are quite long - over an hour long even without respawning, apparently

Google services seem to be back online now! #google #googledown

For signed-out YouTube, the only things that don't load are comments and profile pictures.

Apparently things work fine as long as you're signed out

https://fosstodon.org/@cabellocarlos/105378460460185311 and https://chaos.social/@Commander1024/105378464262715376 claims that the fault lies in Google Account Services