Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/
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Abraham Williams
@abraham@indieweb.social
mastodon 4.7.3Engineer at GitHub. Open source maintainer. Developer of @meow@abraham.social.
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Joined November 05, 2022
I installed Thunderbird on Android to handle a couple email accounts and it's a breath of fresh air compared to the AI hellscape Gmail has become.
Boosted by @tchambers@indieweb.social
Trying out a new safety dashboard in @meow@abraham.social #mastodon
The Democratic Party should rebrand as a Freedom Party.
- Freedom to access healthcare
- Freedom to control your reproductive priorities
- Freedom to not get shot
- Freedom to have a roof over your head
Testing out the material design floating toolbar updates on @meow@abraham.social #materialdesign
The new Masters of the Universe is a lot of fun. It's kind of like if someone gave GWAR $100 million and said make something PG-13.
I'm also convinced it's in the Community universe.
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/
Who the fuck makes vertical video trails for movies...
Updated the m3_floating_toolbar better spec compliance, vertical support, and lots more examples #flutter
US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
Clearly retribution for protesting police intended to silence opposition. This doesn't look like something that would typically lead to an actual conviction as there are some constitutional protections (even at the border). We are not in normal times though.
Running a #homelab requires you to figure out where to draw the line between self-hosted and and cloud services. Are you going to use Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnel? Or are you going Headcale and Pangolin?
The public alpha for @meow@abraham.social is open. You can install it from Google Play now!
Give it a try and let me know any thoughts, suggestions, or issues you have.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.meowstodon.meowstodon
One of the @meow@abraham.social features you can enable is co-opting the Twitter/X share buttons on websites.
The public alpha version of @meow@abraham.social has been approved on Google Play. I plan on making it live tomorrow. #mastodon
Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-classified-documents-smith-investigation-business-motive
Experimenting with on-device translation in @meow@abraham.social
Boosted by @tchambers@indieweb.social
Next year Microsoft will rebrand the Xbox the MSbox360 Copilot Pro
Non-blocking publishing in @meow@abraham.social
Me when I see a project still using source forge
I now have arcane pulling from gitea which stores docker compose files. Then there's renovate running whixh updates the docker image versions. The last main piece is on merge the new versions should automatically get deployed. #homelab
Incel
Career
Endowment
Oracle has to find that Paramount sugar daddy money somewhere.
I'm about single digit features/bugs away from a @meow@abraham.social public alpha.
FInally got an alpha of the #dart #mastodon client powering @meow@abraham.social published.
There are still improvements to be made but this is the current state of @meow@abraham.social theme
Playing around with attempting to identify #AI accounts in @meow@abraham.social.
Congrats @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, it doesn't think you're AI.
Replying to
@pj@theforkiverse.com You're only supposed to post wild speculation about headlines you've read. Not the actual article contents.
Extracted the #MaterialDesign Floating Toolbar from @meow@abraham.social
I still haven't watched like half of The Walking Dead shows and it's been enough years since I watched any that I'm thinking I should start a chronological watch-through of all of them.
You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
https://www.404media.co/you-opened-a-credit-card-ice-now-knows-where-you-live/
Copilot CLI now supports BYOK and local models
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-07-copilot-cli-now-supports-byok-and-local-models/
"A complete backup of a Google Photos library through the API is not possible."
For "security" reasons I'm sure.
https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/dataprotection/cloudsynctasks/addgooglephotoscloudsynctask/
Wisconsinites Can Keep Watching Porn After Governor Vetoes Age Verification Bill
https://www.404media.co/wisconsin-age-verification-bill-vetoed/
Indian Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat over security concerns
Is there an open source self-hosted alternative to Google Maps that includes mobile apps with navigation?
Decompiling the White House's New App
https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
"Scrub In Progress: 102.17%
-21 minutes -4 seconds remaining"
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Experience Better Browsing: Introducing Native Containers in Firefox 153
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/
ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. Decrypting the Program That Does It.
Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce
https://www.404media.co/patreon-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-workforce/
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
HexOS 1.0 Has Arrived
‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
I've been playing around with a little tool to help me learn Dockerfile syntax
Huh, neither UniFi nor Omada has has a thread radio.
Tangled signup takes an email address and login takes an AT Proto handle. If you've signed up already but don't remember which AT Proto you used, you're just fucked.