Ondřej Pokorný @ondra@unextro.net

@ondra nope it's now my new personal computer. I love it.

Swedes! Poles! Germans! Luxembourgers! The world is depending on you to save the internet from the EU! (PLEASE RT!)

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/14/we-need-you.html

#Article13 #Article11 #CopyrightDirective #FixCopyright

RT @kennethrohde@twitter.com

I don't know who made this nice Mahjong game but it's a quite nice and fast PWA! 👾🎉😍

https://mahjong.netlify.com/layouts/hill

@kensanata I think this is currently the biggest shortcoming #Mastodon (#fediverse in general?) has. Mostly just the original poster sees the whole #thread. It creates a lot of duplicate comments etc. I'd prefer if the client would automatically fetch it for me when I expand the post.
It's why I open most posts via permalinks to see the whole threads from the source server. Being on a #single-user #instance, most posts I see have zero comments even after subscribing to all relays I've found.

Yesterday I learned something new about boosting on #Mastodon: if you boost the first message of a thread, then it isn't necessarily true that all your followers can click on it to see the entire thread. Replies aren't fetched by remote instances. If you need the last message of a thread, then all its ancestors will get fetched by remote instances. Your followers might still not see all the threads that branched off of the original, but they will see at least the one thread.

Add list title editing
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/9748

ThibG submitted code to Mastodon that will allow people to edit the titles of their lists! It hasn't been added to Mastodon yet, but if the reviews go well it will be.

If you're into this, please do head over and add your 👍s and ❤️s. :)

#mastodon #meta #github

Google Suite accounts now FINALLY also support creating and sharing places lists from Google Maps. Previously, only a star was visible here.
#google #nerdy

I hate this kind of stats “XX% of time on mobile devices is spent in apps and XX% on mobile web.” because
1. “mobile web” doesn’t mean anything
2. most apps now open content in a webview, so you are still in the app, but also, on the so called “mobile web” at the same time.

I wrote a thing about Chromebooks. https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/12/26/opinion-android-apps-are-not-the-way-forward-for-chromebooks/

Nihon Noir
https://tomblachford.com/project/nihon-noir/

Enter the name of an Android app to see who else can see your data:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
Outlook, for example, has Facebook trackers.

This actually sounds calm and logical...

Did Google cripple Edge’s youtube performance? – Jeremy Noring – Medium https://medium.com/@jeremy.noring/did-google-cripple-edges-youtube-performance-ce5169d3e5f4
#internet #nerdy

@baldur It would be anti-competitive if it were true. Why does everyone seem to take the anonymous allegation in a HN comment as an undeniable fact? I'm sure #YouTube didn't care how proud the #Edge team was about video decoding optimization of their proprietary engine with minuscule market share.
Disclaimer: Yes, I do hate #Microsoft with a passion a will never forgive them for the decades of *demonstrably* intentional anti-competitive behavior this comment now ironically blames #Google of.

“Is there a cold war between Android and Chrome because of PWAs?”

https://medium.com/@firt/is-there-a-cold-war-between-android-and-chrome-because-of-pwas-e50a7471056c

I don’t know if the Cold War angle is true but it’s obvious from the post that Microsoft has the opportunity to become _better_ at PWAs than Google. Chromium-based PWAs, in the Windows Store, that can be progressively enhanced to use native APIs a la Electron but without Electron's downsides.

Still don't agree with MS's decision but it isn't hard to see the appeal. Not sure they can pull it off, tho

@yogthos #Apple gets away with it mostly unnoticed so far, though. Even within tech community a surprising number of people don't even know about #iOS browsers being all #Safari. Even here on the fediverse I see a lot of privacy fundamentalists criticizing #Google while flocking into Apple's walled garden. That's ridiculous. You can disable Google surveillance, but you don't truly own Apple HW after you pay for it. Don't even try to repair it, run only whitelisted closed SW... That's much worse.