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Consumer Confusion Regarding USB Power Adapters

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/20/heer-m5-mbp-charger

Daring Fireball

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114845119132934981

Routine PSA: #Mozilla will shut down #Pocket on October 8th and delete all user data. You have a week left to request an export of your archive.

(My first request returned a corrupt file, so I'm going for a second round now. Fingers crossed).

Another slimeball location-data company sells your doctor visits to the police. Grotesque and dangerous contempt for privacy -- and women in red states will surely become prime targets.

Burn this industry to the ground, I'd say, but Congress would have to act, and Congress is hostile to your privacy.

Fine reporting, as usual, from @404mediaco

https://www.404media.co/location-data-firm-offers-to-help-cops-track-targets-via-doctor-visits/

Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits

Fog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed.

404 Media
@nSonic Indeed, ā€œBlock instanceā€ is not yet a feature of #MonaApp afaik…
(The beta version allows to search all UI text strings, and it’s not listed.)

@bfdi Stimmt !

NB: #Mastodon macht bereits 80% der Nutzer im #Fediverse aus. ;-)

#MAU : 854972 / 1074546 = 79,5% (source)

#StarterPack #Starterpaket #Fedigrowth

FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics

FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.

@mike After watching decades of corporate bait and switch and "embrace, extend, extinguish" -- call me skeptical...

@beaufils

For sane ā€œsocialā€ people : it allows to quote a message, like you quote an extract of a book or an article…

Replying & resharing might also work though.

I'm a bit sad that last.fm isn't more popular. To preempt, yes, it's still a centralized commercial company, but at least it's agnostic about where you listen to music. Instead, most people have their listening habits locked within specific streaming platforms like Spotify or YouTube Music, and rely on them to make that information available to them once a year...
Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts

Bluesky, in a post on Friday, says that it has ā€œno intentionā€ of taking user content to train generative AI tools. However, it does use AI to power other parts of its platform.

The Verge