tutus
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- Comment on Omnivore Alternatives? 5 days ago:
I settled on Raindrop.io which is free but I paid to support it ($30 a year I think). I had to change my workflow slightly and the Obsidian integration is not as great as Omnivore’s, but it wasn’t a pain. The browser integration is really good and I prefer it to Omnivore’s.
Overall I think it’s a decent replacement and I’m happy.
I tried Wallabag but the Obsidian integration was poor and Wallabag felt unloved recycle by extension made me question it’s future (which is unfair given my limited time with it). There was a trial which was not enough time for me to evaluate it comfortably.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 4 weeks ago:
What are people’s go to eBook buying stores? Preferably DRM free.
I try to not buy Kindle books but I usually end up back there as it’s either much cheaper (not just slightly) or can only be found there.
- Comment on School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. 2 months ago:
no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices
Except Joe. And people like Joe. Whose surveillance of kids is now not only easier, but sanctioned.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 3 months ago:
Being up to date is the entire point and so typically there are only global options to either grab those updates from the vendor or host them internally on a central server but you wouldn’t want to slow roll or stage those updates since that fundamentally reduces the protection from zero days and novel attacks that the product is specifically there to detect and stop.
That’s not your, or Crowdstrikes, decision to make. If organizations have applied settings to not install updates automatically then that’s what they expect to happen and you need to honour it. You don’t “know best”. They do.
- Comment on Firefox users are unhappy with privacy tweaks in the browser's latest version 4 months ago:
I may have missed something.
Firefox 127 has introduced privacy tweaks that are causing user dissatisfaction, particularly due to changes like the separation of normal and private windows on the taskbar and the closing of private tabs when the main instance closes on iOS.
This sounds like it would be the expected behaviour?
- Despite user complaints, the update includes new privacy and security enhancements such as upgrading subresources from HTTP to HTTPS and masking CPU architecture to reduce fingerprinting.
This sounds like a good thing?
- Mozilla plans to address user feedback by reintroducing the “browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled” preference as an opt-in and adding more intuitive privacy settings in future updates.
This sounds like a good thing?
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
The link I posted said this:
In the U.S., Google charges individual users $14 per month for YouTube Premium, which limits ads and offers a few additional features.
So it ‘limits ads’ which means there are still ads.
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
- Comment on Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door 6 months ago:
People at the Post Office and Fujitsu need to go to jail over this.
It won’t happen. They’ll get away with it. Save as ever.
- Comment on I'm giving up — on open source - Blog 6 months ago:
I wasn’t implying criticism isn’t allowed.
But opinions on what somebody should do with their time and project are just that.
Feedback must be given in a respectful way or it’s not useful. That often doesn’t happen with open-source projects and until we change the culture around open-source, this is going to just keep happening.
- Comment on I'm giving up — on open source - Blog 6 months ago:
I agree.
Playing Devils Advocate it sounds like the options, for them, would be to stop providing a non-paying version entirely.
I understand where they are coming from but providing an open source version that won’t get timely security updates feels like it would be more trouble than it’s worth to use.
If they only want to work on a version that pays for their time I’d suggest they make the whole thing closed source.
- Comment on I'm giving up — on open source - Blog 6 months ago:
The self-entitlement in open-source has to stop. This is only one example of a maintainer quitting. There are many more.
And the shaming of projects who want to make money to sustain their projects also has to stop. Nothing is free. Somebody is paying for it in time, resources or money.
If you don’t like what a project is doing, or how they’re monetizing, don’t use it. Move on.
- Comment on What's your take on Bluesky? 7 months ago:
It has some nice ideas, particularly for moderation. I like that they’re thinking hard about these things.
I think its moving too slowly and it’s lack of momentum at the time of the Twitter exodus was lost. Its too late for it to become an alternative to the likes of Twitter, Mastodon etc. and I think it will die.
I hope that once it’s gone it will leave a legacy of those good ideas I mentioned above which other platforms will take learnings from.
All my opinion.