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toastal@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Your car is spying on you – and Israeli firms are leading the surveillance race
1·14 days agoMore reason to support public transport that let’s you pay in cash
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones
2·14 days agoSponsors, Copilot, Azure, Codespaces, npm, Teams, Outlook, LinkedIn. Heck Microsoft also has massive control in Rust too.
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones
1·14 days agoThere’s also a lot of worthy alternatives to Git too. There are many VCSs out there.
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones
2·14 days agoMicrosoft made Sponsors so they can siphon a portion of the payment fees. There is no reason to make Codeberg add that sort of bloat when you can add a hyperlink to the README.* or in a section of your application to a third-party service that hopefully can be as focused on doing one thing as Codeberg largely has (non-profit hosted Forgejo).
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones
2·14 days agoWhy stop there? Git’s UX on the command line is awful, so adopt a better tool & your hosting will automatically be somewhere better.
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Every Terminal program should have a black background by default
51·14 days agoAnd make it #000 pure black if you do… I have written about why
I would 'free but folks need to learn some Nix basics before the jump in headlong into bad community recommendations like starting with flakes. It’s hard to just drop into Nix without some commitment.
Lol. Even this $100 phone can get a headphone jack but the massively-funded Android OEMs aside Sony can’t offer this feature.
I really wish that the Firefox phone had gained more support
KaiOS 4.x just dropped with Fx 128 I think. You will be on an underpowered flip phone, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing…
I got a Sailfish OS last year seeing the writing on the wall already with all the bootloader locking. It’s been bumpy to put it lightly, but at least it has Android apps to help get over the gaping holes of basic missing apps like a halfway decent XMPP client. …But at least native WhisperFish lets you get around the lack of Signal on most non-duopoly platforms.
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”
2·11 months agoI have been this last week. Very cool. I even built a keyboard for Sailfish OS.
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What will it take to grow open source Lemmy, ActivityPub, ATProtocol, & other platforms/apps/websites?
3·11 months agoYou could make a better UX on ActivityPub without inventing a new, incompatible protocol that has a centralization problem. Email is decentralized just fine. They could have also made proposals to ActivityPub or extending it like most applications do. It is just venture capital bullshit cloning Tvitter which makes it more familiar rather than an objectively easier UX.
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?
2·1 year agoI would say the same & I don’t even use it—but I would trust it being around the longest & is better than GNOME IMO.
I use
aercthruhome-manageraccounts on NixOS
One of my banks properly uses TOTP which is independent & the other uses SMS which isn’t secure, but is also independent. I would straight up leave a bank if an app was required since there are always other options.
Family is the easiest to convert since they have unconditional love for you & would me the easiest to understand your concerns. You could even roll out a Snikket instance for everyone to use together.
You can still use cash & websites for banking tasks. You chat should be on an open source protocol so there is bound to be an application or web app for that too.
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Would you have a drink at lunch and then go back to work?
64·1 year agoAlcohol is bad for you health. Workplaces should be better so folks don’t feel the need to injest poison to tolerate it.
toastal@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Privacy WIN! Apple & Android Unite for Secure Messaging
2·1 year agoCheogram has a better featureset on Android in my experience. Movim has quite a lot of features & good performance for a web app—which covers the folks that “don’t want to install any new apps” (generally the right skepticism, but really most F-Droid ones are safer with less worry), or platforms without good clients. The biggest pushback I have heard was bad iOS clients—but being a self-hostable service with almost exclusively free software clients, it should be of no surprise any iOS dev is lackluster, being an entirely closed platform, anti-GPL, & with a hefty fee just to list an application.


Google tried a few years back but there was pushback. Google will slowly boil the frog tho.