Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on.

Why isn't it just a web page?

So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it as a web page generator. It does all the same things as the "app" except now there's no tracking, no ads, and you get all the Web's features "for free" (deep links, copy-pasting, search-in-page, printing, works on anything, etc.).

Here's the full story:
🔗 https://danq.me/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage

#appCulture #app #android #web #webPage #openStandards #reverseEngineering

@catsalad beautiful puddy 😻

Chat Control 1.0 passed despite a majority voting against it (314:276), ushering in suspicionless mass scanning of your private communications until 2028. Regrettably, Roberta Metsola's brazen and undemocratic actions jeopardise the legitimacy of the EU.

The battle against Chat Control 2.0 begins!

@todayilearned I've never understood how people who are afraid of water don't die of thirst

50% of the people who bought tickets over the years to see The Cure actually saw a band called The Placebo, and they enjoyed it just as much.

Picard engineering tip: Even if computers can talk now, remember how deeply stupid they are.

@katafrakt @thomholwerda ah, latest commit there is June 7? A month, then

Get fucked, insurance company. Here’s your reminder that, if you’re a California resident, and your health insurance refuses to cover something, it takes all of 5 minutes to file an independent medical review with the state, and statistically, 73% of the time the state will make your insurer pay.

That’s an insane amount! That is a lot of people getting screwed over, and that’s only the people who reported it who got compensation! And there are people who work for the state who take extreme joy in taking administrative action and fining insurance companies – so far this year, California insurance companies have already been fined $19.7 million, and those are not ‘medical loss’ numbers that count towards the amount of profit they’re allowed to make.

So do those people at the state a solid. You don’t have to be a green Nintendo plumber to make insurers pay; you can make a difference from your desk. If your insurance company causes you trouble, spend the five minutes to file with the DMHC helpline.

This year, my insurance plan just decided not to cover a normal preventative lipid and A1C panel for my annual physical, leaving me with a $200 bill from Palo Alto Medical Foundation. The state decided my insurance should pay it after all, and it’ll go into the file to see if they have a pattern of doing this. Blue Shield, get fucked.

@quixoticgeek @GreenSkyOverMe German deers are just build different 🤓

Don't underestimate the power of socioemotional damage against fascists—especially low-level ones.

Show your contempt for their choices/actions/affiliations early, loudly, and often.

Meme their mistakes.

Make fun of their symbols, uniforms, and tactics.

Make them look like the fucking bigot-clowns they are.

These guys (and a few gals) thrive on their cowboy Gravy Seal paramilitary cosplay identities. They want people to think they're tough and scary, but they're just fucking irrelevant cowards who peaked in highschool (if that) trying to exert control over others with their limp-dick energy because their mom didn't hug them enough and their dad was too busy drunk-texting Tucker Carlson's Only Fans line to play catch with them.

#FuckICE #FuckTrump and #FuckFascism

Read the pioneering paper that led to ROR, issued 10 years ago this week! Demeranville, Tom; Brown, Josh; Fenner, Martin; Cruse, Patricia; Haak, Laure; Paglione, Laura; Bilder, Geoffrey; Lin, Jennifer; Pentz, Ed. (2016). Organisation Identifiers - Minimum viable product requirements. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3479141.v1

Meta is downranking, restricting and censoring feminist, women's health and pro-democracy voices.
This is a clear breach of the Digital Services Act, which mandates an internal complaint-handling system and the possibility to appeal to those decisions.
Meanwhile Meta's algorithms push misogyny and hate into millions of feeds.
I already addressed a formal written question in May 2026.
I ask the European Commission to urgently take steps to fine Meta for the lack of a complaint-handling system.

The next release of #HolosSocial will fix the update issue for Apple.
It will also let you write personal notes on profiles, along with many other fixes, enhancements and additions that will improve your experience with the app.

@LunaDragofelis @mos_8502 -1000 interest in anything controlled by Oracle.

@FreakyFwoof I have been trying to make an updated DECTalk NVDA addon for 2026 but Codex kept failing lol.

Wally Funk has died at age 87. The aviation pioneer completed the program to become an astronaut in the early 1960s but was not allowed to go to space because she was a woman. She then became a groundbreaking flight instructor, training more than 3,000 pilots, and eventually went to space at age 82 as part of Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-16 mission. Here's @CBSNews's story about her life, plus a 2019 interview with her from @TexasMonthly.

https://flip.it/nwqQhC
https://flip.it/3etDWR

#WallyFunk #RIP #NASA

@NanoRaptor Hey, that chocolate was made for me!

So, yeah, probably forget p2p, as tempting as it is. But federated systems create landlords. And as we all know landlords are bad.

I like the idea of a simple headless server (I call it a "brick") people can stick on their network, but unless they can also forward a port on their firewall it has many of the same problems as p2p in the browser.

Dumping the browser and thus iOS support may be the best compromise.

@TheBreadmonkey Oh, the new job is Cambridge Life Sciences, eh? What goes on in the office should probably stay there.