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- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 week ago:
Being old company from Germany, EU shouldn’t put you at ease.
- Comment on Open Source Power 1 week ago:
Open Source won not Free Software. Author didn’t demonstrate that viral Free Software licenses lead to same undesired state as permissive Open Source demonstratably do.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 2 weeks ago:
I think its rather expectation management. At some point you are going to see a wall of errors in command line. Even local hosting without exposing to internet will for typical user mean configuring routers because each wifi router creates NAT-ed subnet by default. Installation might be trivial but accessing your basement server from living room might not be.
- Comment on We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting 2 weeks ago:
Good paper! It confirms my bias therefore it is great :)
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 3 weeks ago:
Cats darting under a car are almost daily occurence where I live. There are numerous situations and we humans adapt quiet well.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 3 weeks ago:
link from the article latimes.com/…/woman-gets-millions-after-getting-d…
People get jail time, what do we do with machines?
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 3 weeks ago:
yeah her bio looks like a lot of EU funds for various projects that are POC and then shelved. US big tech is basically her natural enemy in that regard.
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 3 weeks ago:
That is true that these aren’t faceless corpos but behind there are men who are out in public.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 3 weeks ago:
If you as a consumer want to own software FLOSS is the only option.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 3 weeks ago:
yes the SSID database
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t know what would be the difference if this was a contract with Oracle, Microsoft, SAP etc. That is democratic stack?
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 3 weeks ago:
To me this seems like any other big gov procurment. Which is bad of course but isn’t anything new. And I fail to see how this leads to authoritarinism especially in Europe. We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 3 weeks ago:
When you open the maps indoor you get immedieate location. This is not from GPS but from Wifi and cell tower data. This is only possible because your phone constatly transmits your location and network data. You can also call it surveilance because its 24/7 logging and processing of your location data.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 weeks ago:
They are serving 1on1 chats and group chats. That practically partitions itself. There are many server lease options all over the world. My assumption is that they use some AWS service and now can’t migrate off. But you need an oncall team anyway so you aren’t buying that much convenience.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 5 weeks ago:
All my friends are on Messenger. It’s garbage app. More garbage is only Viber where I have my relatives. Pure suffering.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 1 month ago:
they did something similar with JS timers in browsers iirc
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 1 month ago:
Never ending side channel attacks. Stallman was right, only 100% FOSS gives you control over your device.
And given that a lot of this stuff is relying on timing the only reliable cure is to make everything slow. But no one wants that. Or maybe getting rid of precise timers in userspace. It would be funny if stopwatch precision was bound to screen refresh rate.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
I agree that Trump crossed fascist line, however I haven’t seen DHH do the same. Atleast not in his London writing for which he is getting criticized.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
To me arguing for changes in visa quotas and border control is not equal to advocating for forceful expulsion of people already living somewhere. To me that seems to be difference between moderates/fascists. CDU/AfD difference if you will.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
I would say basic respect of human dignity. Fascism/nazism was always violent and unlawful. I care because fascism/nazism is really really terrible with horrible consequences for real people in real world and would thus like to now what are even talking about.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
I really don’t know if people actually mean fascism/nazism or is this just a term applied to xenophobic nationalism. I see this all around fedi and I genuinely can’t tell which case it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And that is the reason behind previous bans and current forced sale to US oligarchs.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
I would want my surgeon to have 16k screen if that helps them do their job best
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
Surgeons already use cameras trough small holes instead of cutting you open wide. Screen technology finds a way.
- Comment on Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat 2 months ago:
So they are trying to substitute company profit tax? I just checked with Google and they include VAT on subscription so it doesn’t seem the case that there is no tax.
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 4 months ago:
Brave search has its own index and it works for me. Pretty good way out of big tech for web search.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 4 months ago:
The article is 7 years old. Has anything come to fruition since then?
- Comment on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps 4 months ago:
It’s so “decentralized” that political activists from authoritarian countries get deplatformed on request of the government.
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 4 months ago:
I really liked my Nokia 5800. I just checked online and see that it retailed for almost half the price of an iPhone. No wonder it was popular where I’m from. It seems if you loose in USA market you loose everywhere.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 4 months ago:
MS keeps making Windows worse but that is not a problem because Linux is great on PCs. The reason is that PC is made out of standardized plug&play components that you can make generic OS image for.
There is no such thing in smartphone world. Each chipset is it’s own Linux fork that gets only most crucial bug fixes while in warranty. Same is true for ARM SBCs where I believe the only board that supports generic image are new RPis.