That sounds more like Flipboard than Pocket?

But I’ve not used either in many years, and I’ve never been a fan of algorithmic discovery, so it’s possible Pocket went down that route, too.

Both. “I am an idiot.” “You should know better.”

Pocket won’t be missed. Self-hosted alternatives like Wallabag are better and private, so switched to it many years ago. Integration (and enabled by default, requiring about:config to disable) ensured I’d never use it out of principle.

Fakespot (the website) was genuinely useful to help ID scams on Am*z*n Marketplace, though I never used the extension. But I think that enshittified in recent years, so (in the style of Stephen King’s Misery) it’s probably for the best.

Related, the Keepa extension is useful as a price rigging detector, but I expect that will “number must go up!” soon enough, too…

A sword and a dildo. Fightin’ or f…un. Your call.

Short answer: Eventually, yes. But it also depends on what you mean by “privacy” and “danger”, and what else you’re doing with your NAS.

Longer answer:

Your NAS can be used in the ways you want, and with the privacy levels you want, without signing up to or using additional cloud services. By choosing to use QuickConnect, you’re trading some of that for convenience.

History shows that most providers will have a data breach. What that breach includes depends entirely on what you given them and what they’ve taken. Including what their ToS and Privacy Policy says, and has ever said the entire time you’ve used it. That’s assuming good faith and competence, as some services gather more. And then there are things like court orders, some of which you’ll never hear about.

It also depends on their security model. It’s quite likely that they’re using their own certificates (as it does when you browse to your NAS’s web interface), so would mean they’ll be automatically decrypting and re-encrypting the traffic going through QC. This will often be stated as “end to end encryption”, despite not really being that.

If your concern is filenames and such, then it’s likely visible to them. Whether they record them is up to their current policies. If your concern is the contents of your screen, video or audio, then it is unlikely. Especially with things like SSH or remote desktop that may have their own transport security.

However, if you use your own remote connectivity option (eg. WireGuard, Tailscale), you’re not sending data through their servers.

FWIW, I use Photos and Drive, and both naturally work seamlessly on my LAN. When I’m outside my network, I usually rely on what I’ve saved for offline use. But when I want something specific, I use WireGuard to VPN to my home network to get it. No cloud services and no “I hope they don’t get breached this week” garbage - just a secure point-to-point connection between my device and my home.

tl;dr: It’s less about what a company says/does about their service, and more about not giving them the opportunity to get it wrong, do bad things, etc.

Hard agree. Legalised loan sharking.

They seem to appear a lot in these “buy European” communities. Still trying to work out if it’s me (bias, etc), if people are just desperate to share any “made in EU” content, or if they’re doing guerilla marketing. 🤷‍♂️

Your initial response got peoples’ backs up because of its dismissive tone and (it seemed to me, as you hadn’t provided context) apparent advocacy for web-based tools like O365 or GSheets.

Many office application users wouldn’t consider vim as an “office application”, as they have their word processing app, their spreadsheet app, their email app, their chat app, their file explorer/manager, maybe something other than Notepad as a text editor, etc, and don’t really know much beyond some of what each of them can do.

The fact that vim (or Emacs or vim/nvim with plugins, or LazyVim or Doom Emacs) can do all of those things would blow many minds.

But the setup effort and learning curve is still there, and also requires that they have sufficient permissions/policy to be able to install things.

IIRC, Voyager doesn’t provide any notification capability. (At least not the version I use from Droid-ify).

It’s never bothered me, as the only things I want notifications for are extremely limited. But I get how others might want the option.

It’s likely because regular Android notifications all go via Google services. I’m not sure why the dev doesn’t add the ability to use Ntfy.sh or any of the other non-Google options, though.

There’s likely to be an existing feature request for it, though.

The UK seems to speed-run everything the US does politically, so “anyone” probably means a notable percentage of the population.

Today’s council elections give a hint: Farage’s Reform PLC blew many safe Conservative and Labour seats out of the water. You could fit a cigarette paper between the policies and actions of both parties right now, so they’ll likely both be falling over themselves to work out how to attract the fash vote. 😬

Today’s probably that grifter’s biggest success to date, and likely all strategised by the Heritage Foundation.

Indeed. I tend to think of humanism as atheism with a moral framework.

Suspect OP has a different question they’re really trying to ask.

I think the Spam thing is part of Korean food culture with their “army stew”, made from ramen, spam, baked beans, kimchi, cheese and such.

Like the @a.gup.pe ones? They are kind of autoboost bots, but they do have communities behind them and it’s annoying when people treat them like hashtags.

But I’d not use the term bots. They’re more like old-fashioned email reflectors: a message goes in, and it then gets sent to everyone on the list.

Perhaps, but we’re now in an age where IPO announcements, CEO changes and even new features inevitably lead to enshittification. There is no harm in having a backup plan.

I’d even say that anyone who doesn’t have a plan B is an idiot, given recent history.

Not currently a Revolt user, but this would be a requirement for me to consider switching, too.

It looks like its API supports webhooks, so should be relatively straightforward to enable it (or perhaps through a third party, like Zapier)?

Sounds plausible.

FWIW, New World (doesn’t have borderless fullscreen) got me into the habit of tapping the Windows key before doing anything outside the game. Other than when the game is starting, it never has any problems when I do that.

I’m using EndeavourOS, KDE, Wayland, so YMMV.

Hard agree. Mindsets stuck in 2005 or before when cool and useful stuff was, just, free online. We were such summer children then.

Anyone still like that obviously shouldn’t be in charge of anything sharp or dangerous…

I’ve been told off for reporting phishing attempts:

• Real: “Why did you receive it?!” Dunno mate. Woke up this morning and decided that I wanted it. We all have total control over what email we get sent, right?
• Fake: “This Isn’t a phishing attempt! What’s wrong with you?!” The From domain, the link domain both look suspicious, and the SMTP headers are dodgy AF. Should I have FAFO and then reported it after the fact?
• Test: “Why are you reporting this? It’s the test phish we commissioned!” You do realise that you’re meant to do some work, right? Sure, you paid someone to safely phish staff, but that also means following up on it’s effects.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. And manglement gaze at their navels wondering why incidents don’t get reported… 😬

Anyone remember websites and RSS? Those were the days.

Why does everything have to get shovelled into someone’s walled garden…

(Speaking about updates and notifications here, not discussions.)

Your personal preference applied to others would sure make all those image-specific communities a bit quiet… 🤔

And then there’s Strike Witches…