Hi #AskFedi.

I'm trying the possible-impossible task of getting businesses in my local area (and maybe further afield) to offer signal as an alternative to WhatsApp.

Pls I need links, articles, etc to help me put together a definitive guide/reasoning as to why. I know why myself, but I want to get all of the shady actions/etc of meta/WhatsApp in there to help people see.

Can anyone out there help me? Thanks.

Boosts welcome :)

#Signal #WhatsApp #Privacy

so i have this weird issue with my #nginx setup where now that ive turned on caching on my reverse proxy, the site is actually slower. for context its videos im caching, but now if the video isnt cached, then it wont load for the end user until it finishes downloading the entirety of the file from the backend server. therefore slowing the site down as the user has to wait for the proxy to download the video before it serves it. is there a fix for this?

#sysadmin #askfedi

Who are your favourite contemporary Indigenous / Native American / First Nations writers (including poets) based in Canada and the US?

I'm not looking for search engine results. I'm asking who /you/ read and enjoy. I'm especially interested in replies from Indigenous people.

Joy Harjo, Louise Erdritch and Julian Brave Noisecat are high on my list. Who's on yours?

[Please do not recommend Sherman Alexie. If you don't know why, look him up.]

#Indigenous #AskFedi

Is it possible to create non public posts, like totally hidden (unlike "quiet public" posts) that can only be seen if you have the link for that post.

Sort of like unlisted/hidden youtube videos.

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Ok so I sometimes use voice to text to reply to messages when I'm driving, in Android Auto. It works like this:

1. I say the message
2. Phone reads it back to me verbatim
3. I say "send"
4. THEN it uses heuristics or AI or something to add punctuation, making me look like I'm 1000 years old writing these texts

Is there a way to remove the last step?!

(tags for reach: #Android #AndroidAuto #AskFedi)

Can you recommend a personal finance tool/app that helps with:

• tracking expenses (including categories, notes/memos, and status, e.g. not yet submitted, submitted not yet reimbursed, reimbursed)

• generating expense reports to submit to various entities (including any notes and including copies of the receipts)

Edit: This is not for tracking *all* of my expenses, just medical and related expenses that will be submitted to others for reimbursement.

Looking for web-based or Mac OS.

Worst case, I use a spreadsheet and folder of receipts. But it feels like in 2026 there should be an easier way.

#AskFedi

Do minor cuts and scrapes objectively hurt more, or less, as you get older? Why is this so? Is this a known phenomenon, are there studies? Example: Does a paper cut hurt more, or less, at age 60 than at age 30? Could there always be a correlation with peripheral arterial disease? Any other factors?

Yes, it is widely known that even minor cuts take longer to heal and can be more serious as we age. The question is about experiencing or measuring pain.
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Please, no not ask "AI".

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Is there an office product that will put a removable film over a page, so I can annotate it without disturbing the original?

#AskFedi #office