Fred @fredmbarros@mastodon.art

Does anyone have suggestions of contacts and calendar apps alternative to Google’s on Android? I don’t know how to phrase it nor do I know if it is asking too much, but I’d like alternatives that make sense to use, that is, that offer some form of privacy. If I’m going to be tracked anyway I guess I’ll stick with the stock ones. Thanks!

Hey there. I've been away from social media and Mastodon for a while and noticed now there is this account redirect feature. Googled it and could not find up-to-date info on what this does exactly. Could anyone help me with this, please?

I’ll get back to something I said a while ago: I definitely see an advantage of micro.blog over Mastodon in that the former let’s you own your content much more than the latter. And now you can even post from micro.blog to Mastodon since it’s compatible with ActivityPub. If you stop and think, Mastodon is still a silo. I’d like to see people discuss its pros and cons.

Thoughts on Android...

https://medium.com/@arepo33/thoughts-on-android-or-moving-from-ios-to-android-in-2018-dcbf0dfdc14c

Does anybody out there on the fediverse have a Google Pixel 2? I’d like to know how is the sound output on headphones with the dongle.

Having my whole email history accessible is handy, but email accounts that respect users’ privacy are expensive if one is to store 10+ GB that grows day by day. So, in case anyone is interested, here’s my plan: I have an “unlimited” Google Drive from work (G Suite). I’ll regularly have Thunderbird export my emails in plain-text+attachments to a Cryptomator vault inside Google Drive. Then Google can’t read them but I can, even from mobile. Just have to figure out how to automate this.

Hello and welcome to Mastodon! You might stumble a bit getting to know the place/culture, and that's okay.

While it might look similar, in my experience most of the fediverse is more genuine and accepting than Twitter. You don't have to be as on edge when posting. You don't have to be "this is my opinion, fight me".

We're super trans-friendly, non-binary friendly, furry-friendly (and not just on meow), disabled-friendly, autism-friendly, etc. Relax.

Anyone here uses/used DAVdroid? Any advice? I see it's open source, but, anyway, is it trustworthy?

After watching Dunkirk, my conclusion is that Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer deserve each other. Both are entirely dependent on gimmicks to convey their artistic identities and clearly favor effect over substance.

Those who know and love Brazilian music will miss drummer, singer and composer Wilson das Neves. RIP.

Every time I see rightists trying to make their history look better by saying that Nazism was a left-wing movement I ask myself what do they have to say about Pinochet...

Chromecast, if you are going to ignore what I call 'soft' network policy, I'll make it 'hard' network policy.

For those that don't know, the Google Chromecast device uses Google Public DNS out of the box and ignores anything the resolver values it gets from DHCP.

The only way to force it to use DHCP provided resolvers is to block it's Google Public DNS access.

https://mastodon.zombocloud.com/media/s9wRL5Om01nydEQE_DA

Maybe posting this here is a bit like preaching to the choir, but, anyway, I think everybody should give it some attention: https://corydoctorow.miraheze.org/wiki/My_talk_on_the_Internet_of_Things,_wealth_disparity,_surveillance,_evidence-based_policy_and_the_future_of_the_world

Undisclosed subtitles: "Down here in this cave, looking at me this way, you give one more step towards me and I'll end up doing anything you tell me too..."

This Friday (4th of August) go and buy some music on @Bandcamp as all of BC's cut is going to the Transgender Law Center!!!