Thanks a lot for sharing your experience.

Making people unhappy

A marketer I know has a mantra, that successful sales are all about dissatisfaction - making people aware just how their situation sucks, and then offering a way to relieve the pain.

Interesting read.

Dunno. GDPR is a Europe only thing, and isn’t it only related to how your private data (like name, IP address, phone number) is cared about ?

Thanks! They have indeed several blog articles about that. Here’s a few :

• https://www.scaleway.com/en/blog/zero-pollution-zero-water-in-datacenters-by-2030/
• https://www.scaleway.com/en/blog/breaking-the-code-of-silence-data-centers-and-water-consumption/
• https://www.scaleway.com/en/blog/how-sustainable-is-your-cloud-provider/

https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/112401461102514792 May 07, 2024, 19:29

The name/address of the terrorism suspect was actually given to police by Apple, not Proton. The terror suspect added their real-life Apple email as an optional recovery address in Proton Mail. Proton can’t decrypt data, but in terror cases Swiss courts can obtain recovery email.

The book you mention appears to be quite something! (below parts of a description I found on the Internet). Thanks for sharing, guess it makes a perfect gift book for a friend of mine :)

An off-beat introduction to the workings of electricity for people who wish Richard Brautigan and Kurt Vonnegut had teamed up to explain inductance and capacitance to them.

To understand your toaster or your fax machine, it doesn’t really matter whether there are electrons or not, and it’s a lot easier and more fun to start with the toaster than with quarks and calculus. The book is mildly weird, often funny, always clear and easy to understand.

OK, it’s more than mildly weird.The book has been reprinted numerous times since 1991 and has achieved minor cult status. Reviewed and praised in dozens of electronics and educational magazines, it is used as a text by major corporations, colleges, high schools, military schools and trade schools. It has been studied by education programs at colleges across the United States.

I was saying that their are more honest ways of presenting these women’s accomplishments rather than saying the web wouldn’t exist.

Yes, I see your point. But despite me being a non native English speaker I figure (And I could be totally wrong) the “No web without women” can be interpreted in more than one way. It could also mean that in computer history women deserve to have their place be known to the public rather than forgotten or completely ignored or downplayed.

I don’t mind as much when supporting equitable efforts but it always bugs me when anyone claims something wouldn’t exist without X like nobody else contributed and/or advancements wouldn’t have been made without a specific individual

Well, you know. Few months ago I read an interview with a classical music performer.This woman wanted to perform some music by Alma Mahler. The organizing concert hall directors replied with : “Why don’t play some music of her husband ?” (???). When reading some more about the Mahler couple I read that the later famous Gustav Mahler demanded that his wife (Alma) would give up all musical aspirations. In that time that was not such an unusual thing but it did break her mentally. Still Alma Mahler has imho composed some beautiful music. My point is that it can be tempting in a male dominated world to be silent and hold back and “normalize” the male domination. Have a look at classical music and see the famous names : Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Bach, Ravell, Satie, and the list can go on and on. Think of a famous female in classical music ? Clara Wieck-Schumann is the only name I can think of right now, and when listening to music streams on the Internet or the radio, Clara’s music will not be heard very often. There’s stereotypes playing a role, even in our “modern” times. Someone wrote “How come that harp players are always women ?” If you search on YouTube it is obvious that not many men play the harp. A bit similar is with electric guitars. Decades ago a female playing guitar was pretty uncommon. What does that have to do with women and technology. For example, the TCP protocol is from ages ago. I can imagine that women were not encouraged or even stopped from being in the spotlight when it comes to technology. Male domination should be acknowledged, especially in history. After all, history is still taught at school, isn’t it ? (This is my “rambling” to all readers, not just a reply to the previous comment)

Point taken.

What ?

Nah i am German, so imho I have every right to be majorly pissed off by religion being so invasive that they even enforce taxes unless you take your time and fucking pay money to officially leave the church so you don’t have to pay those cults any money anymore

Organized religion has no respect for anyone, organized religion is the single most horrible thing that ever happened to humanity and organized religion is solely responsible for billions of deaths throughout history, way too many fucking wars and so much blocking of innovation.

Religion doesnt respect women, lgbtq, mentally disabled, people who don’t want to be indoctrined to follow a cult member and, of course, members of other religions.

Tempting to say “Amen” to your comment, but let’s say I full agree! What’s more, there’s countless people killing other people in the name of their God (Why can people not agree that there’s just one God, one friendly one, or be free to believe there is none) or being super aggressive and abusive in name of their super special God. Religion has done so much damage for centuries :(

• People should think for themselves! (Yes, Monty Python’s Life of Brian resonates here.)

@[email protected] I fear it is not a joke.

Indeed.What a rip-off! :(

Tombstone 2030-2032 Google Pacemaker

Killed 8 years from now, Google Pacemaker was an IoT pacemaker for patients with heart arrhythmia. All devices were remotely deactivated after 2 years.

🤯 😂

R.I.P.

https://killedbygoogle.com

Tombstone 2018 - 2024 Google Podcasts

Killed 26 days ago, Google Podcasts was a podcast hosting platform and an Android podcast listening app. It was almost 6 years old.

This PAKE post by Cloudflare is way over my head, but very good to see that new things are explored to make security really better.

Glad to see another person who is not keen on the passkeys. I have the feeling it is being hyped and perhaps without good reasons. Therefore I was glad to share this blog post when I saw it on Mastodon. btw, the blog post author turns out to be the software developer of similar software like Authentik and Keycloak. In other words, not just the average Linux user :)

I really think that we should have just iterated on passwords. Switch to a PAKE and keep improving password-manager UX and pushing most users to auto-generated passwords. So much was lost by switching to a system that most users don’t understand.

When I search with a search engine for PAKE I don’t find anything useful. Got a link ?

I like your reasoning about just using passwords. However, my experience is that a scary amount of users are using the same rather weak password for lots of different accounts. And a still scary amount of users does get tricked into phishing emails. What I like for myself is have a bunch of security keys and use them as much as possible for important logins.Some applications allow for five different security keys to be configured.And this could theoretically also be a way to use 2FA within teams. One team person does the login, adds a key, then let’s the second team member put in their key and so on.

I wrote a blog about this a while ago. https://kevincox.ca/2022/04/07/passwords/

Thanks. I see you shared it two years ago on Lobsters and got a fair amount of comments. 👍

I also think it’s kind of interesting Gboard wasn’t included (?)

Indeed. But given it’s Google I would not be surprised if Gboard has keylogger features.

Yes, same.

Seriously ? Google just continues firing employees. And remember Elon Musk taking over Twitter and firing a considerable amount of employees ? They likely will get away with all of that, for free or paying a small fine or settle a case.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240418041349/https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/08/google-fires-employee-who-protested-israel-tech-event-shuts-forum.html

And let’s insert a quote I just read on Mastodon :

I quote a great jewish thinker on far-right politics:

”When you look in the fascist mirror, you do not see a monster there. You see beauty, and it tells you are special, exceptional, part of the most important people on earth. It is the others who are the problem”

How did Google manage to buy YouTube, and then make YouTube the video monopoly it currently is ? One of the pillars of that foundation is open source software used by Google, for free. Some of that open source software maintained for a long time by unpaid and sometimes burned out software developers. All the YT video watchers commenting here in this post wanting to pay content creators and wanting content creators live off that : Google is run by a few laughing billionaires who probably care most about shareholders and being able to make more money by exploiting ads on the billions of hooked end users. Besides paying YT and content creators consider supporting small scale open source projects as well. Help out wherever and whenever you can with open source software. Take back your digital sovereignty. Big tech is not your friend. Open source empowers and shares with others as in sharing is caring.

That is a quite a project you have there :-) Let me just share this https://www.sustaphones.com so maybe you can find another phone which still has a headphone jack, or that other readers can benefit from that website.

With 2G being faded out or already faded out, this is important.

Shocking. Never expected this behavior from such a helpful and heart warming company like Micro~.sft /s

Nuff Said. I’m just going to leave this here : https://killedbygoogle.com

Respect.

Maybe it has to do with the new feature https://f-droid.org/en/2024/02/01/twif.html

https://microg.org/

Yes, alas iPhone is very dumbed down, but KDEconnect app is an option to copy things across to a desktop computer in the same WiFi network.

Yes, I like LocalSend, much easier than KDEConnect, and also on F-Droid.

Sure. I meant to say that maybe in their forum there is postings showing how many days you would have to wait before unlocking will work.

You made progress! Maybe you will need to wait for some days before unlocking works. And the company of your phone seemed to have a community forum, which is maybe useful ?

Did you choose Allow OEM Unlocking in the phone settings ? The comments in that article show more users with problems. With some phones (Motorola ?) you need to request a code from the phone company before being able to unlock.

Disclaimer : I searched for more information, and having used custom roms on phones before. I do not know anything about this phone brand.

The Izzy repo may be popular but with getting more than 1000 apps in that repo which are also in the main F-Droid repo I’ve been hesitant to add it. What happens when Izzy repo has a newer version than the F-Droid repo ? The main F-Droid repo goes for reproducible builds and checks for closed source software and more. Izzy repo downloads from the app upstream, does a malware check and that is all it seems.

Phone 2: Wi-Fi signal weak or barely functioning, youtube videos buffer and load for much too long on 720p when they shouldn’t need to.

• Are you blocking ads ?

• Does that phone have apps which may be eating your resources ? https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/ With NetGuard you can block access for mobile and / or WiFi per app, or block all including system apps and then allow the ones you need.