@ahimsa_pdx #mumble is an underrated app.excellent performance for online voice chat with many participants. #zoom is nagging and using other dark-patterns for people to install their data-harvesting privacy-disaster app.https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html

@ahimsa_pdx @503bartley#ublockorigin has a #blocklist for removing #AIassistants.if it doesn't remove this sparkling shit button, you can still hide it with the #ElementZapper.https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/wiki/Element-zapper

️ @ShaulaEvans If you expect people to take you seriously, you should do the same to people who took the time to respond.@eljojo >> what do you mean when you say AI “listens” to conversations, is that different than your smartphone “listening” for you to say “hey google”? do you turn your phone off during therapy?You blocked him without answering this very important question. I am ant-AI, and I have the same question and would love your thought on this.

@Bright5parkeaglemode. it's a zui, (infinitely) zoomable user interface. used it years ago, so hope it still works.

@peertube @blag Great question Sam and thank you for the fast response PeerTube!

@n0madz Yes, there's the reminder bot, more info at https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

@edendestroyer one of my cats will often jump up on my shoulder and then use me as a platform to jump onto an even higher place that she can't reach on her own. Then she'll spend a short while up there. Eventually she'll meow and I have to come back and let her jump on my shoulders and then to the floor. It's the cutest and funniest thing whenever it happens

@thebaywindowgirl Cool find indeed!Also, FWIW, real keys can be made from pictures of keys…

@brianb One datapoint that you may already have gathered, is the panel angle most appropriate for your latitude.

@Em0nM4stodon that's a good question I am not qualified to answer as a heterocisbinary dude *at all* so I boosted it.

@blag The List-only option will only exclude them from your main "Home" feed.The only way to hide them from your live feed is to mute the account, but that would mute them completely in all feeds.

@ljrk @afewbugs I was trying to de-Google, and I was most thinking about Gmail, but the calendar turned out to be much more challenging, particularly because I'd got used to Tasks being associated with the calendar. I found out I wasn't alone in missing that. My new email service also offered calendars through CalDAV, and I started to dig into the options, and it all got terribly confusing. Just connecting to basic calendars was confusing enough, especially with Android. Then I started looking into Journals and Tasks, and it looks like CalDAV specifically supports them, but each client involved implemented Tasks very differently, and I never found a satisfactory solution.I was also apprehensive about working through this with my partner, who relies on calendar reminders quite a lot, and we've had uncomfortable disagreements about how to organize shared calendars in the past, though I think we were both aware of that history and more patient with each other about it.