Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than Bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from this tech due to the Huawei ban.

Compared to Bluetooth :

* 60% lower power consumption
* Six times higher data transmission speed
* 1/30th the latency
* 7 dB improvement anti-interference for a more stable connection
* Twice the coverage distance, and
* 10 times more network connections

https://consumer.huawei.com/za/community/details/Huawei-Nearlink-launched-new-wireless-technology-far-ahead-of-Bluetooth/topicId_276306/

PSA: Google has now begun to roll-out the Ad Topics "feature" onto Android itself. It's not just in Chrome you have to disable the settings. Please #Boost to spread awareness.

If you didn't get the pop-up screen on your Android device (it looks like the first two screenshots), to opt-out of these settings:

If you don't see "Ad Privacy" in Step 4 then it means that it hasn't been rolled out to you yet. You might need to wait and check back in a couple of days to see if/when it has been implemented to disable these settings.

EDIT: There's another setting to review. In step 2, scroll to "Personalize using shared data". Turn everything off.

Pt. 2 in Replies

#Android #Google #Privacy #AdTopics

#Apple and #Google hid vulnerabilities: millions of devices are at risk

https://www.rezilion.com/blog/rezilion-researchers-uncover-new-details-on-severity-of-google-chrome-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2023-4863/

A great part of Huawei’s supposed infamy can be boiled down to two things. The first is that the company is actually very well-run and extremely innovative—a fact that Westerners, convinced of their own technical superiority and the relationship between technological innovation and a particular set of political/cultural values, find unnerving.

The second is the view that because the founder is a member of the party, it must be controlled by the Chinese government.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/side-huawei-we-don%E2%80%99t-know-206789

“The root of the problem is that housing is treated as an instrument of profit, one in which the exchange value is prioritized over its use value. The sole solution is to decouple housing from profit and make it a human right.” — @mcmansionhell

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gentrification-rhetorical-weapon-systemic-issue/

Added support for media to the Dumbo tweet importer (for self-hosters). Also updated the patches to work with Mastodon 4.x.

The Twitter dump does not contain original photos, weirdly, so it reaches out and downloads the original from Twitter before uploading.

https://github.com/JakeWharton/dumbo

Example from first week at Square way back when: https://mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw/87256754723374259

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

If you work in tech and haven't heard about "being glue", I would say that it's vital to read about it:

https://noidea.dog/glue by @whereistanya

You'll either feel extremely heard, or it will open your eyes to what some of your (disproportionately female) coworkers struggle with on a regular basis.

It's Bandcamp Friday! Go buy some music and support artists!

https://bandcamp.com/