#bringbackblogs — Public Fediverse posts

How to use Tasker to enable locking your screen with Google Assistant
Ever since I started being able to talk to my Android phone, I've wanted to be able to tell it to lock my screen. And ever since then, Google Assistant has stubbornly refused to do it. I can't imagine why Google hasn't implemented this feature; they obvio
https://blog.kamens.us/2023/01/15/how-to-use-tasker-to-enable-locking-your-screen-with-google-assistant/
#Computers #MobileComputing #Android #GoogleAssistant #Tasker #BringBackBlogs #JikBlogFlashback

Why you should stop circulating that study about COVID in poop from airplanes (a.k.a. please stop screwing up the messaging about COVID safety)
It's a bad study, it doesn't prove anything about whether it is or isn't safe to fly, you should stop circulating it, and you should stop and think about the impact that catastrophizing flying is having on COVID being taken seriously (or not) by the public.
https://blog.kamens.us/2023/01/07/malaysia-covid-poop-study/
#SocialActivism #COVID19 #LongCOVID #JikBlogFlashback #BringBackBlogs

Why you should not use RegScale
Companies that engage in slimy marketing practices tend to be slimy companies. RegScale fits that description, so you should avoid doing business with them.
https://blog.kamens.us/2023/01/05/why-you-should-not-use-regscale/
#ComputerSecurity #Computers #ConsumerActivism #email #Spam #compliance #InformationSecurity #infosec #RegScale #JikBlogFlashback #BringBackBlogs

Today's #JikBlogFlashback (https://blog.kamens.us/2023/01/02/your-data-is-yours-backing-up-your-mastodon-data-to-protect-against-server-failures-and-account-suspensions/) is actually a new blog posting in honor of #BringBackBlogs month (https://bringback.blog/). Here I explain what I'm doing (and you can too!) to regularly back up my Mastodon data so that I won't lose it if my server goes away. Thanks to @kensanata for writing the tool to make this possible!

Say I wanted to move my own blog off medium - are there any good open source frameworks out there? preferably for react or next? Back in my indie days I wrote my own blog in PHP, but I think times have moved on... #takebacktheweb #bringbackblogs

"Bring back blogs" sounds like a really good idea! - What have I gotten myself into over the years? I'm being fed one idiotic clickbait story after another on facebook and google news - I'm going back to RSS, follow interesting people who write about things they care about simply because they care about them - not for clicks, not for the ad money, just because they're awesome people! I've you've got a blog, hit me! https://bringback.blog #takebacktheweb #bringbackblogs