resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@tilduke I hate a lot of things about the Better Business Bureau (#BBB), but it remains indispensible.

@tilduke #Yelp is orders of magnitude more corrupt, richer in copious misinfo & embroiled in countless shenanigans, so I'm not sure exactly what you are suggesting. If you mean phpbb forums out in the wild, well there is perhaps good info there but it's too sparse and scattered to be practical. Requesting attorney general records of complaints yields good info, but it's often by snail mail.

@huy_ngo @cnx I must come clean with my use for an AOS emulator: it's not dev work, but actually to sandbox untrusted apps from others. E.g. I wouldn't trust my bank not to monitor my location & other details, so an emulator gives control over inputs. OTOH, I should say that this fails with banking apps that somehow detect that they are running on a VM.

@txusinho @jb @Mojeek @werwolf the best search engine for privacy, for expert users, is Ss: https://sercxi.nnpaefp7pkadbxxkhz2agtbv2a4g5sgo2fbmv3i7czaua354334uqqad.onion/ For novice users, there are a few decent searx instances (metasearch.nl, openworlds.info, search.disroot.org) as well as #mojeek & #gigablast. None of the choices I mentioned feed the tech giants.

I've noticed that when BBB handles a complaint for an accredited business, BBB sides w/the business almost unconditionally & suppresses complaints from public view. So i'm thinking it's not a good idea to trust #BBB accredited A+ businesses when compared to non-accredited A+ businesses. Non-accredited implies that they actually have to work for their rating b/c they don't bribe the BBB.

@werwolf @Mojeek thanks for the tip. Perhaps i'll still consider Ratpoison then. i have to decide between ratpoison & sway.

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@Billie @cnx I'm glad you two have pointed out ways to get the free SDK. Question: does the free sdk have an AOS emulator to test apps on?

@Billie #Gitlab.com is a terrible place for that. Gitlab forces users to execute non-free software for most of the functionality. See https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/gitlab-dot-com.md Exceptionally, you can clone stuff using git, but the ".git" at the end of the repo URL is paramount, otherwise Tor users get blocked.

@boilingsteam @werwolf Mozilla is definitely a mixed bag of good & evil. Not as repugnant as Brave though. Luckily we can ditch both. Both FF and Chromium have FOSS forks to choose from, & Brave's mods (just the user-favorable ones) are likely incorporated into Ungoogled Chromium.

@bufordk @werwolf @Mojeek I suggest #UngoogledChromium if you want something Chromium based (which the use of Brave implies). I wouldn't trust #Brave in light of them collecting donations without telling the so-called beneficiaries, & whitelisting Twitter ads. Note that ungoogled chromium is is a cocktail of mods that they see on other chromium forks like Brave.

@txusinho @werwolf @Mojeek the problems with #DDG: http://techrights.org/2021/03/15/duckduckgo-in-2021/ /cc @jb

@tilderadio @otso lately i listen to c0vertElectr0 (curl -v http://76qugh5bey5gum7l.onion/c0vertElectr0 | mpg123 - ) & AnonyJazz (curl -v --socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050 http://76qugh5bey5gum7l.onion/AnonyJazz | mpg123 - )

@otso @tilderadio well tilde is quite a mixed bag.. started off with rap/r&b then transitioned to chip tunes & quite strange stuff. c89.5 is more mainstream; decent, but quickly gets redundant: curl -v --socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050 "$(curl --socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050 http://streams.c895.org/live.m3u | dos2unix | sed -ne 1p)" | mpg123 -

@swansinflight @kev an article on #Brave by @werwolf: https://ebin.city/~werwolf/posts/brave-is-shit/

@werwolf @Mojeek Note as well that #Brave collects charity money without telling the beneficiary: https://lowkey.party/objects/33550868-a270-42eb-b613-c504730127aa Might want to add that to your article.

@tilderadio how to play it on the commandline over Tor => curl -v --socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050 https://radio.tildeverse.org/radio/8000/radio.ogg | play -

@Mojeek @werwolf I saw your #Ratpoison article (https://ebin.city/~werwolf/posts/ratpoison/). I was recently considering installing it, but found maintenance has stopped some time ago.. that it's a dying wm. I suppose if you've been happily running it, there is no reason to jump ship but the days may be numbered. I'll be steering clear of it since it's a dormant project.