Something I don’t understand is if an email is sent for each new toot. Some people toot a lot. Or does it send threads in a single go or in multiple emails?

Can someone choose to send some toots by email only?

Yeah blusky doesbit better it seems really for this

Loops does hâve an algorithm, it’s essentially what makes it different from peertube I guess

I’m using this on the version number of 1.9 indicating ten versions counting v1.0

Haven’t looked at what exactly changed

I dont know th scale of their changes but I meant that as in 10 times less time they’ve been able to change quite a bit…

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They’re convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google’s Play Integrity API and Apple’s App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

Google’s Play Integrity API requires hardware attestation for the strong integrity level and is gradually phasing in requiring it for the more commonly used device integrity level. Apple already has it as a requirement. Over the long term, this will increasingly lock out hardware and OS competition.

The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it.

Apple’s Privacy Pass brought hardware attestation to the web to help with passing captchas on their own hardware. Many people saw that as harmless since few sites would be willing to lock out non-Apple-hardware users. Apple and Google are both likely to bring broader hardware attestation to the web.

Google’s reCAPTCHA is planning an approach where they use Privacy Pass on Apple hardware, their own approach on Google Mobile Services Android devices and a QR code scanning system to require an iOS or Google certified Android device for Windows and other systems:

https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answ

er/16609652

Banking and government services increasingly require using a mobile app where they can use attestation to force using an Apple or Google approved device and OS. Apple’s privacy pass, Google’s ‘cancelled’ Web Environment Integrity and now reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification are bringing this to the web.

Current media coverage for reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification misunderstands it and the impact of it. They’re bringing a hardware attestation requirement to Windows, desktop Linux, OpenBSD, etc. by requiring a QR scan from a certified smartphone to pass reCAPTCHA in some cases. They could expand it more.

Control over reCAPTCHA puts Google in a position where they can require having either iOS or a certified Android device to use an enormous amount of the web. Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc. It’s enormously anti-competitive.

Google’s Play Integrity API bans using GrapheneOS despite it being far more secure than anything they permit. It also bans using any other alternative. This isn’t somehow specific to an AOSP-based OS. You can’t avoid this by using a mobile OS based on FreeBSD instead. You’ll just be more locked out.

Google’s Play Integrity API permits devices with no security patches for 10 years. The device integrity level can be bypassed via spoofing but they can detect it quite well and block it once it starts being done at scale. The strong integrity level requires leaked keys from TEEs/SEs to bypass it.

It doesn’t provide a useful security feature, but it does lock out competition very well. Services requiring Apple App Attest or Google Play Integrity are primarily helping to lock in Apple and Google having a duopoly for mobile devices. Play Integrity is more relevant due to AOSP being open source.

Governments are increasingly mandating using Apple’s App Attest and Google’s Play Integrity for not only their own services but also commercial services. The EU is leading the charge of making these requirements for digital payments, ID, age verification, etc. Many EU government apps require them.

Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they’re directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security.

reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will currently work with sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS but it clearly exists to provide a way for them to start using hardware attestation on systems without it. People without an iOS or Android device will be locked out when this is required even without that.

This isn’t about security or any missing functionality. GrapheneOS can be verified via hardware attestation. Google bans using GrapheneOS for Play Integrity because we don’t license Google Mobile Services and conform to anti-competitive rules already found to be illegal in South Korea and elsewhere.

Services shouldn’t ban people from using arbitrary hardware and operating systems in the first place. Google’s security excuse is clearly bogus when they permit devices with no patches for 10 years but not a much more secure OS. It’s for enforcing their monopolies via GMS licensing, that’s all.

They’ve amended their constitution almost as often as the US it seems

They have got a hardcoded slur filter no?

So for now the owning part is you won’t pay more money after you stream a song 70 times basically ? Not sure there are that many songs I actually only 70 times…

I’m going to assume a solar heater isn’t n option where you live. I’ve got that on the roof works great where I live, basically no energy cost once you install AFAIK (I rent)

Still wrong to threaten them. I don’t know about the Italian context but elsewhere there’s been lots LF news about kids killing or maiming people

Yeahir hasn’t really taken off but I guess it will take some time. There’s a town in France that created their own instance to showcase their local groups’ events on their official website and I think that’s the most likely way that it might take off if local governments start promoting it that way.

Missing Mobilizon as a replacement of FB events and groups

Tbh a band or artist or label could set up their instance of Funkwhale to federate and do basically this.

That’s cool!

You said you can’t protest and that’s just wrong

After one X user said that the existence of Indians disgusted them, Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing commentator who has peddled racism against Black Americans for decades, mused: “In a career spanning 40 years, I have never encountered this type of rhetoric. The Right never used to talk like this. So who on our side has legitimized this type of vile degradation?”

Shocked I am.

I think I read na article that said the Pentagon diverted funding to pay wages so I guess they just HD extra money they could spend

There were protests in South Africa against apartheid

Any instance running Lutim ?