BobbyTables

Okay, there’s one thing I don’t get with Bluesky: user handles usually are @[name].bsky.social. But with the bridge they end with brid.gy. The account of Ben Stiller is @benstiller.redhour.com. Are those domains different instances? I thought that’s not possible (yet?). How does one get a different domain in the handle?

You are right! Brain fart on my side with Schildburg… Schilda is correct!

In German we call that a “Schildbürgerstreich”. Yeah, no kidding, we have a word especially for things like that.

It refers to a foolish or absurd act, often involving a misunderstanding or misapplication of logic, typically in a humorous context - especially around buildings. The term comes from the “Schildbürger” tales, which depict the antics of the supposedly foolish citizens of the fictional town of Schildburg.

Edit: the fictional town was called Schila - thanks to diplomjodler3 for pointing it out!

They could also buy a used Pixel to avoid giving money to Google. I suspect that’s the reason for the no-Google-rule.

Never heard if him ¯\(ツ)/¯

They used to but stopped AFAIK. I am not completely sure but that’s what I read when the Mozilla Foundation report came out. The other reply said to India so maybe my information is not completely accurate…

Mozilla Foundation did a deep dive into this. And the results where abysmal. The only brands not completely horrifying where Renault/Dacia because they are European and only serve the European market so they have to follow GDPR.

I used it. It was a nice idea but at least for me it got really weird over time. The pics I got were mostly blurred messes. Maybe it was an error on my side but it kind of spoiled the fun after a while.

Yeah, you’re right. I didn’t see the date.

Thank you! I didn’t know the details. A recent article I read (about the hate the dev of the bridge received) only mentioned Mastodon.

And bluesky?

Unpopular opinion maybe but it is / will be a federated platform (whether we like it or not) and there even is a bridge to Mastodon, I think.

On Android you could use Detox Droid on F-Droid.

It was in fact the mum who was good with computers. Bobby himself was never that interested in exploits.

The App “Nine - Mail & Calendar” used to be quite good for Exchange. I used it years ago and was quite happy. Currently it has only 3.5 stars on the Play Store so I don’t know how good it still is.

Back when I used it I checked it for privacy and considered it save. No idea about the current status though. It is not FOSS.

I think with the Steam version you would have the same problem. A lot (if not all) of my Ubisoft games in Steam launch the Ubi Launcher and then the game itself. It’s a cluster fuck honestly. A Ubi game every now and then is one of my very few reasons to dual boot (sadly).

I think it is a convenience thing first and a privacy thing second.

Convenience as in: just look how successful “log in with Google/Apple/etc” is. Just imagine you go to a fediverse site, click “log in with ActivityPod” and you don’t need a new password, a new user name, no email back and forth for confirmation etc etc.

Privacy would also increase because you could control every aspect of you identity and what you want to share with a service. It could be a little as just your user name or as much as you want.

With a well made concept like this you could almost carelessly hop from service to service, test the waters here or there, and never have the hassles of creating new accounts.

I am betting you they would try to intercept before you encrypt - like keylogging or something. Those fuckers.