indeed they are ☞ President of @signalapp : https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111563865413484025

PSA: We’ve received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you’re talking to.

In Signal, push notifications simply act as a ping that tells the app to wake up. They don’t reveal who sent the message or who is calling (not to Apple, Google, or anyone). Notifications are processed entirely on your device. This is different from many other apps.

What’s the background here? Currently, in order to enable push notifications on the dominant mobile operating systems (iOS and Android) those building and maintaining apps like Signal need to use services offered by Apple and Google.

Apple simply doesn’t let you do it another way. And Google, well you could (and we’ve tried), but the cost to battery life is devastating for performance, rendering this a false option if you want to build a usable, practical, dependable app for people all over the world.*

So, while we do not love Big Tech choke points and the control that a handful of companies wield over the tech ecosystem, we do everything we can to ensure that in spite of this dynamic, if you use Signal your privacy is preserved.

*(Note, if you are among the small number of people that run alt Android-based operating systems that don’t include Google libraries, we implement the battery-destroying push option, and hope you have ways to navigate.)

this too doesn’t sound that silly silly

We also had a year when Google decided that short-range radar was the future of interacting with your phone, so it crammed a Soli sensor into the top bezel of the Pixel 4 series. It was the culmination of five years of work and was designed to let you skip songs, silence phone calls, and snooze your alarms with nothing more than a lazy wave.

i tried this app for a while ☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.waveup but it didn’t work as well :/

Earth will briefly have a second ‘mini moon’ this autumn

Earth’s gravitational pull will cause a trapped asteroid to orbit around planet for about two months

According to a study published this week, an asteroid roughly the length of a city bus will be captured by Earth’s gravitational pull and orbit our planet for about two months, becoming a “mini moon”.

It will spend time with Earth from 29 September until 25 November before returning to its home, an asteroid belt revolving around the sun.

did boogle give a reason for organicMaps’ removal?

turd anniversary of the Boring Kingdom of IXIars

oops

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isn’t Diaspora the most popular facebook alternative?

it also has 3 client apps on fDroid.

is it still highlighting when everything is highlit?

i know people who openly use torrents when they’re abroad. As long as you remember to turn it off before going back home, it’s not your IP that’s logged.

if it’s to hide what you’re downloading from Saudis, because they make patties from journalists or jail activists or behead hundreds of people every year, then maybe you should wait a month to get out to download them

why the need to grandiosity?

just dust

nothing cosmic about it. And not dust at all, just a human typing on a screen. There’s a purity to dust that we shouldn’t reclaim. Is the moon full tonight?

ai art is as real as oil paintings. Different mediums for different times, different solutions for different needs

? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse

? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_art

? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

“best ai art” 🤔

i think you’re not very interested in ai art and you’re more into paintings from the 19th century

nice one

got it at first generation or did you have to work for it?

popemobile refurbished :)

unless, apparently, you’re a Kennedy

for that he would need to have some kind of a honor code :/

oh, yes!

that was the previous generation :)

no thanks