Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.

People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I’d guess it’s dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.

This article says it did it by disguising itself as a web crawler. So can I just set my user agent to googlebot and paywalls will disappear?

Based on the place (a supermarket rewards card), I’m assuming legacy code. But you’re right, the most likely answer is it’s shitty legacy code.

I considered database stuff, but my password shouldn’t go anywhere near the database!

If they are storing it as plain text in this day and age, then there is no hope for the human race 🤦

I was on the internet early enough that I had a four character, all lower case password to my emails and it never complained once.

I have nearly 800. I think I need to do some cleaning.

I got a “we’ve had customers accounts breached, please update your password” email the other day.

They specifically called out you can’t use # in your password, and it’s been bugging me why that is. What part if their system let’s in other special characters but # is off limits?

I spent ages buying games on steam with Bitcoin years ago. They dropped it when transaction fees got bigger than the game cost (I don’t think they ever supported crypto other than Bitcoin, and that was through a specific payment processor that took the Bitcoin and gave Valve real money).

Yeah except for the people around you trying to work as you jibber jabber 😆

This will depend on your work. All my work is on the computer. Showing someone something is as easy as sharing my screen (and this might even be better, as I can draw on it).

And I don’t agree online meetings are useless. All of my team work from home most of the time, and we work out how to make that work.

Having half the group in the office and half joining remotely I think is the worst of both worlds.

Might be worth having a look at this list of banking app compatibility: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

I live in New Zealand and there are many 24/7 McDonalds in busy areas. Clicking randomly on their NZ map it’s pretty easy to find them: https://mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurants

It’s the same with Australia: https://mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants

Actually, the same for the US. It’s not hard to find 24/7 ones (you need to search for a city before they show on the map): https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/restaurant-locator.html

Are you saying that there are not many McDonalds that advertise 24/7 service, or that they advertise this but don’t actually provide it?

They have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.

The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.

Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it’s tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.

Hmm odd. Maybe just try again?

That’s odd. How far did you get? Any error?

Federation from your instance Lemmy.world to the instance the community is on (programming.dev) is healthy, so that doesn’t seem to be the issue.

My guess would be that you’ve tried to upload an image that is over the size limit - I think this is imposed by your own instance (Lemmy.world), and I’m not sure what the size limit is but I think 5MB per image is pretty common. If you drop the image size or upload elsewhere then link it, does that work?

Yeah it’s a maybe, uLogger seems to let you choose which track you want to see. I presume the app lets you log to a specific track so you can have one for each person.

It might depend on what specific experience you’re looking for. For example, I log to Nextcloud and can view it there, but this is more of a “find my phone” plus tracking where I’ve been for myself (similar to Google Location History). While I’m sure I can set it up so others can see, it’s not really designed for it. It would also be a bit awkward as you’d have to log in to Nextcloud in a browser to see the locations (seems it’s possibly the same for uLogger).

I also run Home Assistant for home automation. I trigger automations off of my wife and my locations, but either of us can open the app and see at a glance where the other is (with pre-defined locations, such as “Home”, “School”, “@Dave’s Work”, etc, plus the ability to tap and see the exact location on a map).

That Home Assistant setup is much more useful for either of us seeing where the other is than I think the more dedicated tracking apps are, since they aren’t designed around sharing your location with others and that’s more of a side-function.

What about !diyelectronics@programming.dev?

Or if you are using Home Assistant you could post in !homeassistant@lemmy.world

There is a Lemmy community search function here if you want to check other options: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Just remember if you want to share location data with someone else, the app on your phone is only one half. You also need some sort of server ehere you install software for it to report to.

For uLogger that’s probably NextCloud with the PhoneTrack app installed, or OwnTracks.

There are companies that offer paid NextCloud hosting, but if you aren’t hosting it yourself you probably can’t say it meets your privacy requirement.

Ah nice! It’s only a month old but looks really good. It has a warning not to run it in production and not to trust it with your data but I’m definitely going to have a play.

https://github.com/Freika/dawarich