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Cake day: October 7th, 2023
  • xad@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you use Pocket or other Read Later App?
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    4 months ago

    So what’s preventing those people from using bookmarks as “check this out later” tool?

    Bookmarking a page does not give you control over its content. So if you bookmark something and the host deletes it, you are screwed.

    If you instead clip the content or save it as a PDF, you retain access regardless of the original host.

    For example, I save every good article I read as a PDF, which I cloud sync to a folder. I have a second folder for stuff I don’t want to keep open as a tab but still want to read later. There are probably far better services out there, but I like the lack of technical dependencies and lock-in.

  • xad@lemmy.mltoThe Signal messenger and protocol.@lemmy.ml•Signal team talks about usernames in 2024English
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    1 year ago

    In the video, it sounds like the account will still be associated with a phone number, but users will be able to hide the number on Signal itself. Essentially creating a second on-platform identifier.

    This would solve the expected spam problem that would occur if the phone number requirement were removed, and might protect against stalkers et al, but intuitively I’d say you could probably require Signal to reveal the phone number associated with a username. So it’s probably not a step towards anonymity.

    … anyway: super exciting and very welcome. Hopefully they will finally ship it. … after hinting at it for several years.