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Link , 8 days ago to Privacy in Privacy@Lemmy.ml: Why use catch-all email domains over email aliases?

This depends if you have a website on your domain and it appears on search engines. I do and had to modify Rspamd as bots were spamming addresses like abuse@ and other dictionary words.

Link , 9 days ago to Technology in FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register

Why can’t all cell providers have an agreement where if the user dials 911 or whatever the equivalent is in their country your phone will connect to any network if your provider isn’t currently available and route the call.

Being restricted to only your network when another provider might have a cell tower nearby with full signal is ridiculous in an emergency.

Link , 11 days ago to Technology in OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions

Doesn’t really matter if it is easy to turn off. By that point it is already to late all your files have been uploaded to their server.

Link , 29 days ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in Release 10.9.5 · jellyfin/jellyfin

There is a PR open for it targeting 10.10: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/11883

Link , 29 days ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in Release 10.9.6 · jellyfin/jellyfin

The reason this release was so fast is because of a critical bug that was locking the database to read only.

Link , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Pay is officially dead in the US. Just got the email.

What alternative is there to Google Wallet?

Link , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

PC with opnsense.

Link , 1 month ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in Jellyfin Server/Web 10.9 Released

What’s the benefit of this? Is it two subtitles playing at the same time?

Link , 2 months ago to Technology in YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''

If this is anything like their new Desktop UI, it is going to be awful…

Link , 3 months ago to Privacy in Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade

Correct! Although if you are the only user on the server subsequent joins don’t matter.

Link , 3 months ago to Privacy in Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade

It’s the amount of users and servers in the room. When you join it on a new server it needs to process and verify the state of the room and agree it with all the servers. As the state is massive in this room it can take a very long time to join it.

If you want to learn more read this: https://matrix.org/docs/older/stateres-v2/

Link , 3 months ago to Privacy in Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade

Sliding sync doesn’t make joining Matrix HQ any faster. This is depending on your hardware and whether or not you have any workers configured. For most users it isn’t worth joining that room anyway.

Link , 3 months ago to Technology in Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running

Sure but if you don’t have the song downloaded on your PC and they remove it from your library you can’t redownload it.

Most people aren’t backing up the songs they buy on iTunes.

Link , 3 months ago to Technology in Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running

The music on iTunes is compressed and doesn’t sound as good as a CD does.

Not to mention they can revoke your access to your music on iTunes. No one can take away your CD unless they break into your house!

Link , 3 months ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in Jellyfin for LG webOS!

Congratulations! This is great!

Slightly off topic but how is the Samsung Tizan app submission coming along?