Kenny

I hosted my own Pleroma node for a few years ago, actually. I think I'll just quit social networks completely rather than doing that again. 🙂

I haven't posted here in a while and, truthfully, that's partly because I didn't appreciate logging in one day to see a bunch of age verification nonsense. In Australia, Bluesky is not mandated to do anything but, yet, they did.

No drastic actions for now but I probably won't post much anymore.

I managed to get "Reverse Scroller" set up to reverse the scroll input for my locked down MacBook. It's still insanity that I need a third-party app to do this but at least it's done now. 😌

I went searching for my next yearly mobile plan. Again, there's nothing for minimalists like myself. In the last year, I used 12GB of data and that's with more impulse browsing than usual.

The cheapest plan I can find is ~$150. PAYG plans are impractical as the cheapest one I found is $51 per GB.

It's been almost two weeks with me trying to adjust to scrolling in reverse to what I'm used to. I hate it because whenever I switch to my non-Apple machines, I then have to re-train myself again. Thinking about just abandoning using a mouse.

Thanks. I actually do really appreciate that insight.

Got a mouse to use with MacOS and forgot that you can't have separate "natural scrolling" settings for trackpad and mouse. I want to throw this whole setup in the bin now. No, I can't use a utility to fix it. This machine is locked down.

I just saw that at the bottom of the article I linked that the contact picker needs to be specifically used by apps. What the heck.

Android 17 is building a new Contacts Picker to keep your address book private Android 17 may finally let you share only specific contacts with apps thanks to a new Contacts Picker tool. Here's how it may work.

On the bright side, Android 17 helps with this.
www.androidauthority.com/android-17-c...

And, yeah, I know GrapheneOS and iOS can already do this.

Anyone remember the "Say no to Black Friday" campaigns from a few years ago? 🤔
www.reddit.com/r/tutanota/c...
www.facebook.com/tutaprivacy/...

I joined a tech interest group today. Most of the participants were 70+. Surprisingly, they were quite informed on a lot of topics.

Despite mistakenly claiming that Facebook and Google are owned by the same company, one ~80 year old said his social group shies away from FB due to privacy concerns!

Call me slow but I just found out that #AppleEarPods have a USB-C variant. I grabbed one immediately due to its reasonable price and I'm already convinced that it'll be my go-to for voice calls on Android as well as for as for voice chats when gaming on my #SteamDeck. Such a great product!

A friend linked an Instagram post with no context whatsoever that I ignored. The next time I saw them, they mentioned a restaurant that apparently they'd messaged me about. I had to kindly tell them that I can't view Instagram posts because Meta makes you log in...

Just noticed that your website is now threema.com instead of threema.ch. Maybe worth an announcement?

Not sure if there's a better way to do it but I achieved it by following the "Add a custom search engine in Settings" instructions.

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add...

DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind. The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

Just switched my default browser search engine to noai.duckduckgo.com. This isn't an anti-AI move. I'm just trying to be mindful of the additional compute being used all the time.

As someone who's dabbled a fair amount in self-hosting, photo management is really something I don't think I want to spend the energy managing.

Ente is actually self-hostable if I change my mind. 😀

@ente.io is a media management tool that I've been using for 2 months now. I love that I can organise and share (with others) my photos and videos knowing that everything is private.

The price is affordable and I can see myself using for many years to come. 🤞

This post was not sponsored. 😅

I also looked at Plus Codes which is similar. It's not as user friendly but at least it's open and already adopted in the map apps I use. I just can't imagine sharing the code verbally to someone in an emergency scenario.

plus.codes

TIL about what3words. I quite like the concept but it's proprietary and the company behind it will take legal action against you down for stepping outside their ecosystem making it a nonstarter for me; not to mention that their app doesn't work on my phone without installing more proprietary crap.

Find a Telstra Wi-Fi payphone near you This dataset captures the rollout and usage statistics of Telstra's free Wi-Fi service available at public payphones across Australia. Initiated in August 2022, the program began with approximately 3,...

I found this government dataset on Telstra Wi-Fi payphones. You can export the data as GPX and import it into an app like @comaps.app. Super cool!

data.wpcouncils.nsw.gov.au/explore/data...

The elevation graph feature is something I'm greatly looking forward to being added to @comaps.app. Sadly, it seems like there are blockers before it can be added.

codeberg.org/comaps/comap...

TIL: After installing Fedora Silverblue, you should almost immediately install the Flathub version of Firefox if you want a functional browser for video streaming. This is because there are a bunch of dependencies that are a pain to manage that just work out of the box with the Flathub installation.

Tell me you're an evil company without telling me you're evil. People often ask me why I disallow them to take photos of me. It's because of bullshit like this. 👇

Unpopular opinion: Steam sales need to stop being glorified. Games are often on sale throughout the year and often cheaper on other legitimate websites. This has been true for many years now.

Just had a scramble to join a video call because Zoom no longer seems to allow Android devices to join through the browser by using "Desktop site". I, relunctantly, installed the APK which didn't work anyway. I then resorted to joining the call without a webcam on another device. Boo. 👎

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Blog: Changes to Kubernetes Slack

I've been waiting like 5 years for this. lol