jgroszko

A lot of my smart phone usage lately seems to be around managing how much attention my phone can grab from me. I let very few apps send me notifications on my phone. I check it enough without it making noises at me.

And if an app doesn't let me disable notifications then I just uninstall it. Facebook Messenger was awful about this, when I saw there was no "Disable notifications", only a "Turn notifications off for 24 hours" option I immediately uninstalled it. Facebook was even worse, ostensibly you could turn notification types off individually, but whenever they added a new type of notification you'd have to go in and turn that off too, or it'd just forget what other notifications you had turned off and you'd start getting them again. Amusingly uninstalling the Facebook app gave me a nice battery performance boost too.

Another thing I've found handy is in my IM app I have notifications for everyone turned off by default, and only allow notifications for close friends and family. Why should any random person on the internet be able to grab my attention like that?

I think they're reinventing ActivityPub

I suppose it hasn't had mass real world consequences for folks yet, but the Equifax breach pretty much proves this?

Michigan has had a similar 10c bottle return program for decades... Was a popular fundraiser for High School clubs

Depends on what analytics and ad tracking are also running on that site

So under-represented or disadvantaged communities that don't have the resources to meet the education standards don't get to vote? Education requirements can very easily become a proxy for race/class.

You could spend a lot of money lobbying for those laws to go away before you hit $1bn...

Seems to me law enforcement having access to our internet activity (presumably moderated by the courts) is better than private companies just selling that data to the highest bidder

Liberals I think are a little bit more critical, knowing they exist in a society that is systemically racist in a lot of ways, are willing to look at their thoughts and behaviors in an effort to try and figure out ways that they might be unintentionally or subtly racist.

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You lose followers when you change instances but you can set a flag on your old account that points to the new one.