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HeartyBeast , to Technology in German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

HeartyBeast , to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

HeartyBeast , to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

HeartyBeast , to Technology in A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members

Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

HeartyBeast , to homeassistant in Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel

Could you give som examples of where it’s desirable ?

HeartyBeast , to homeassistant in Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel

Nice tip. Thank you. I was similarly confused

HeartyBeast , to Technology in Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.

HeartyBeast , to Mildly Infuriating in This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£

You should definitely spend time trawling through Oxfam shops for books, if this annoys you.

HeartyBeast , to Technology in Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂

HeartyBeast , to Technology in Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)

HeartyBeast , to Technology in Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest

HeartyBeast , to Mildly Infuriating in Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware

That sounds as if the register for .ar should be out of a job

HeartyBeast , to Mildly Infuriating in Euro bottles are so much better now

Yes, that is mildly infuriating. Someone deliberately going to additional trouble to increase the a kind of microplastics in the environment and make it harder for the poor folks in the recycling plants.

Get over yourself

HeartyBeast , to homeassistant in Matter 1.3 is here to help get your smart home energy usage under control

If you are running it through Home Assistant- or indeed Apple HomeKit - it’s all local - no data collection

HeartyBeast , to Mildly Infuriating in So which is it?

The casing is the ‘more’

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