resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
guilty, guilty, guilty!
@dachary @tastytea Since I can't file bug reports on gitlab.com, I find the corresponding pkg on Debian or Ubuntu bug trackers and file it there-- but then I get complaints because the bug should be reported upstream (where the pkg is jailed in github or gitlab.com). Plz consider solving that problem with fedeproxy.
@dachary @tastytea @dachary IMO the most relevant question dachary could ask is what forges are most hated considering the goal is to liberate data. And for that, I put gitlab.com as the most hated & most useless since we must solve a CAPTCHA just to read existing bug reports. #Gitlab.com is the most inaccessible forge of all forges even pretending to be "public". It's the max security prison of all prisons.
@humanetech @cj @dachary @clacke ah, just realized I gave a snap answer w/out knowing what fedeproxy.eu is doing. Some of the work could be done by incorporating this tool: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug Periodically running "git bug bridge pull" would import the bug reports into git. From there, it would just be a matter of using a git command to get the new reports which could then feed Mastodon.
@dachary @activitypub I suggest nixing #Gitea because there are already many decent public gitea instances, but not many of the other packages: https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/forge_comparison.md
@Mr_Teatime @jgoerzen @zeh Linux *is* for everyone. Some people will avoid it anyway but that's not your problem. The best you can do is make an effort to pursuay them away from the 1990s mentality that linux is user unfriendly. If a comms platform works on linux + all mainstream non-free OSs, what more can you ask? You could ask that support be dropped on non-free OSs but exclusivity is bad in this case.
@Mr_Teatime @jgoerzen @zeh You can side-load the app for all your friends, but your friends have other friends. Signal distribution is designed so that moxie will get his stats. The Playstore download proliferates; the APK direct download does not.
@zeh @jgoerzen @Mr_Teatime The Signal APK download is hidden. People in-the-know pass that link around but the masses of normies that visit the Signal website can only find the Playstore link that OWS urges them to use. Even security experts won't know about the APK download unless it occurs to them to search the web for it, which is unlikely because it's atypical.
@Mr_Teatime @jgoerzen @zeh When choosing a means of communication, it's important to consider what your choice subjects others to. I had a LinkedIn acct before MS acquired it, so I was grandfathered and didn't have to supply a mobile phone# to MS. But others will be forced to share their ph#. From a privacy-for-all pov, I can't be the bait by which others are forced into disclosure, so I closed my acct.
@zeh @jgoerzen @Mr_Teatime And even after that, if the country you bought the sim in is the US, you've still financially supported a corporation that sells customer location data & exploits all mobile data they get. You have to ask yourself, do you want privacy-for-me like US republicans and their me-first individualism, or do you want privacy-for-all? You don't install Signal to talk to yourself.
@Mr_Teatime @jgoerzen @zeh Yes, it is possible to travel to a country that has burner phones, use cash to buy a burner chip if you can find an unsurveilled shop that sells them, find an unsurvielled allyway to register to Signal, and throw the chip away. And after all that effort to go through hoops you shouldn't, you've still only given yourself privacy not the normies you will talk to who won't do that.
@Mr_Teatime @zeh @jgoerzen You're mixing up different people. Grandma doesn't care about sigsec. To be good for grandma the tech must be: 1) easy to use 2) inclusive. Signal fails the grandma test b/c it's exclusive. #Signal also fails basic security concepts by needlessly dragging in whole systems of surveillance (so it excludes the poor + those who will not compromise security by using mobile phones nets)
@alcinnz @TransGal4872 @wizzwizz4 @a_breakin_glass it's typical for Ada to call C because of C's extensive libs.. and Ada is well geared for it. But it's the 1st i've heard Haskell in the mix.
@deejoe @oysmal @oilyfish I suspect you're confusing "e-ink" (a generic synonym for electronic paper which covers reflective LCD & all other paper-like tech) with "E Ink" (a particular brand). The hyphen is significant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink
@meduz @owl @rysiek @Br0m3x I believe the rules changed in Belgium. They banned phone locking, at which point Belgium was the most expensive place in the world to buy an iPhone. Then a few years later there was a law change that enabled contracts. I'm not sure if the locking became permitted, or if the contracts are somehow in force without locking.
@oysmal @oilyfish If you can't manage to get an xo-4, then this is best info source for COTS options => https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EBook_Reader_Matrix
Joined Mar 2019
