A few other notes

• MSN links are annoying because they act as a wrapper for the content that another actual news site put out. Finding the original link is better for everyone, and it helps on the Lemmy side since then the UI can indicate cross posts with that correct link

• I don’t find as much value in news stories with “Trump says” in the headline. It helps in order to anticipate what kind of issues he might cause next, but otherwise I’d much rather read what actually happened instead of losing brain cells reading what trump said about it

A relevant community for anyone visiting this thread:

!outdoor@slrpnk.net

The trailers had some fun looking episodes, and some questionable looking ones. Looking forward to it

I tried with the latest version of chrome and no extensions, still getting an error. I think the problem is with them.

Lawnchair is what I’m currently using, and it has some support for changing icons. You can pick other icons from the icon packs you have downloaded, but not random files and you can’t set icons for folders.

This is almost too interesting

Cool find, thanks for sharing!

I think what they’re saying is that, to a lot of people (myself included), Signal is currently the best option despite being centralized. The decentralized options have UX issues, too small a user base, or aren’t well known enough to have gone through robust security/privacy reviews. While you can’t see what’s running on the signal servers, the app is open source and so far it looks to be encrypting the information correctly and it’s not sending anything but the minimal data to their servers.

‘A lot of eyeballs on the code’ is only relevant for open source apps. They were making a comparison between Signal and the many other open source mobile messaging apps.

You might also find this chart helpful if you’re looking for other alternatives. Personally, I found Signal to be the best one to get my friends and family onto

https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

Neat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse?useskin=cologneblue

If you’re on mobile, set it to desktop else it looks weird

Looks good, I’ve added it to this post and the two pinned ones

Finally! This was keeping me from recommending Signal to more people

If you do decide to opt in to secure backups, you’ll be able to securely back up all of your text messages and the last 45 days’ worth of media for free.

If you want to back up your media history beyond 45 days, as well as your message history, we also offer a paid subscription plan for US$1.99 per month.

That’s excellent to hear. Hopefully no one abuses the media backups, I would understand if they did it by file sizes

For those unfamiliar, what is each frame referencing?

I found that after a good part of a year, I wasn’t using the widgets menu at all and it would take me more time to find the right tag than if I had folders that benefit from muscle memory

I do get the appeal though, it’s very polished

Lawnchair is what I’m currently using, and it’s improving. They’ve had a large development push recently. Another one I’ve looked at was SmartLauncher.

I tried Kvaesitso for a while but ultimately it wasn’t for me

For people asking about alternative communities, we put together a list a while back when closing !askmen@lemmy.ca: https://lemmy.ca/post/48642221

“Ask” communities (for starting a discussion):

• !asklemmy@lemmy.world
• !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
• !ask@piefed.social
• !askbeehaw@beehaw.org

For questions that are more specific to your situation:

• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
• !nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

Group specific communities:

• !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
• !dullsters@dullsters.net
• !dadforaminute@lemmy.world
• !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone

Broader in topic (not necessarily questions):

• !casualconversation@piefed.social

There are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features

https://zulip.com/

https://revolt.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://www.rocket.chat/

Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively

I agree, and it seems like a bad feedback loop of exaggerated fears and poor reactions like these

I think that’s Futurism.com’s text, not OP

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1175726650/fentanyl-police-overdose-misinformation

Last December, Officer Courtney Bannick was on the job for the Tavares, Fla., police department when she came into contact with a powder she believed was street fentanyl.

The footage from another officer’s body camera shows Bannick appearing to lose consciousness before being lowered to the ground by other cops.

“I was light-headed a little bit,” Bannick later told WKMG, a local television station. “I was choking, I couldn’t breathe.”

Other officers can be heard on the tape describing Bannick’s medical condition as an overdose. They administered Narcan, a medication that reverses opioid poisoning.

“She’s breathing,” a cop says. “Stay with me!”

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It might, but I think it might be a federation bug between our instances. I haven’t seen one like this before, but I’ll keep an eye out to see if it happens again / there’s a pattern.

You could also try setting yourself as a bot, saving, and then reversing it again. That might prompt your instance to send out the information again.

Oh sorry about that, it’s still showing up as a bot for me but it’s fine on your instance. I think the information just hasn’t federated over to lemmy.ca yet