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  • French75@slrpnk.nettoMemes@lemmy.mlApolitical
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    2 days ago

    Most Americans don’t understand the distinction between partisanship and politics. The phrase “I’m just not political” usually means either “I don’t want to hear your partisan bullshit right now.” or “I hold objectionable views that I can’t articulately defend.”








  • Beyond Apple and Google collecting it, there are thousands of apps people install that ask for location information that sell the data. Companies like Anomaly 6 claim that they get location data on over 3 billion of handsets from app-based location tracking.

    On the article headline… it’s a huge enhancement to the capabilities we’ve already known. We’ve known for some time that phones can be passively tracked based on the saved Wifi networks they attempt to auto-connect to. This development suggests we can track humans (not electronics) based on the observed disturbance the human meat causes to the wifi signal. If it works and is as accurate as the researchers claim (something I’d be suspicious of), that’s a pretty big deal.


  • I have opnsense, and it was pretty easy. I use DNS overrides and a local reverse proxy. When I’m on the home network, the local dns overrides point to the local reverse proxy. When I’m outside the home, public DNS records point to my VPS, which reverse proxies the traffic to my home machine. This way I’m only hitting the VPS when I’m outside the home. Much more efficient.

    I think Side of Burritos’ youtube channel has a guide on how to set this up, but it’s fairly straightforward.







  • I think your description is reasonable, however I’d argue that they are not security cameras. Rather a nationwide public surveillance network intended to circumvent the 4th amendment.

    Flock doesn’t secure people or property. They merely catalog the movements of people and vehicles for future law enforcement work, allowing both current location searches and comprehensive retrospective location history searches, all without warrants or court orders. Again, not picking on you here; just adding some color because while security camera is easy to understand, it also has a connotation that is quote different from what flock does.


  • OK, so after a bit of poking at it:

    1. I agree. The OnlyOffice mobile Android app (called Documents) is a much better mobile spreadsheet viewer/editor than Collabora.
    2. What’s even cooler is that the app works with Nextcloud as a cloud backend. So I can log into my existing Nextcloud instance and get the benefit of the better sheets editor on my existing files with no extra work at all!
    3. They say that OnlyOffice supports markdown as of version 9, but I think they mean the broader platform itself, not the Android app. For example, you cannot create a new .md file from the mobile app, and if you try to open an existing .md file, it displays a “wrong file type” error, but it does successfully open it as a .docx.

    In any case, since it works with Nextcloud, the app, out of the box, is already a more functional mobile spreadsheet editor. That’s a big win in my book. Thanks!