I use Firefox on my Android to access Bluesky. It’s much better than their official app, because Bluesky notifications are hell on earth.

It’s spez so of course they’re going to go for NSFW subs. Pretty sure that’ll just cause people to move to Onlyfans and other, already NSFW platforms.

Can’t really see anyone paying for sub access apart from porn.

Insane in the mainframe

So, is this the type of SLAM you’d typically see in a moshpit? Or are we talking about wrestling slams?

So your requirement with cellular calling (eSIM) is already fairly restrictive and depends on which market we’re talking about. Where I live (.se) you get to choose between Apple and Samsung and since Apple was out of the question, you’re stuck with Samsung.

Not entirely sure if your second requirement with long battery life can be fulfilled. You’ll be charging the watch every day, probably more often if you take calls on it.

There’s some rumors that Garmin Forerunner/epix will get eSIM support, but that will be also carrier dependent.

These wearables are pretty complicated high end devices, I wouldn’t really give them to elderly parents who stuggle using a normal mobile.

I think it might be better to look into other tyoe of devices like pager systems from caregivers, if you’re worried about health issues.

I mean… why would people downvote you for that?
I have a todo.txt which I update. If I need to “be mobile” I just stuff some notes into Signal note to myself.
During meetings, I still take notes with paper and pen, because that’s much faster than digital notes.

Ente Photos - Google Photos replacement with encryption and privacy
Ente Auth - Good multiplatform authenticator.
^^ These are paid for service (you get both with same sub), but extremely good.

AntennaPod - Podcatcher
K-9 email

I don’t and the energy consumption of public AI services is a stopper for “testing and playing around”. I think I’ll just wait until it takes over the world as advertised.

I meant NL is one of the top 10 tax havens in the world due to their exemptions that allow corporate tax evasion.

Only reason Discord has “a shop” in EU is for tax evasion. It’s a P.O Box at Schipol airport. I really don’t think they care very much.

Or found out in corporate code review / pentest. We just don’t know. I get that we want to say FOSS is great due to the “many eyes/shallow bugs” thing, but that didn’t work for OpenSSL or log4j. The fact that it did now is great, but let’s not get carried away. It was just pure luck.

I don’t think this one counts as a big win to be honest It was just freakish luck

I think they’re only worried about U.S class action. Don’t think American companies really care about the legality anywhere else

That’s not quite right. Mastodon does not have any privacy at all and it’s not safe to treat it as privacy platform.

What makes Mastodon worth using is the federated model and lack of commercial engagement algorithms.

I bet the CFO was in habit of joining Zoom company calls with the cat filter turned on. Therefore everyone was pretty much OK with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOofzZOyl8

My next Windows PC doesn’t need any RAM, because I’m not going to need one.

Yeah sorry - edited OP and added archive link, so no one needs to hit substack servers.

I thought the blog was hot garbage (my entire original comment here: https://beehaw.org/comment/2044864 so I won’t repeat it).

I’d like to offer an alternative - https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

Thunder.
It is simple to use, has elegant design and does absolutely everything I need it to do.

Edit: link: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

Thanks for the share.
Obviously Perens is one of the FOSS OG figures and he makes a lot of good points. Lately the RHEL/IBM situation has shown a mere license text file isn’t going to keep megacorps from finding ways to circumvent the ideology and the purpose behind it. They have simply too many resources both in development and in legal departments and too many ways to work around the legalese of its intended purpose .

Also there’s been an increasing trend where products (Elastic etc) start off with FOSS license and as soon as they gain critical mass, they split their product and switch to their own FOSS-light license and gimped “community edition” downloads. Again, all still legally above the board, but at the same time completely ignoring the intended purpose of the license in the first place.

I think what Perens is proposing is too complicated. I understand that “contract” has far more binding legal fire power compared to a “license”, but as he also points out in the article, it complicates things to the point where it’s hard to adopt. The problem is of course far deeper than just licensing and has its roots deep somewhere in late-stage capitalism and deregulation of corporate entities and those are of course not problems that Perens or the free software community can easily solve. Unfortunately.

It’s clear that something new is needed and I appreciate the work he is doing. I’m not sure it’s the right direction to take, but can’t say I have any rabbits I can pull out of my hat either, so I’ll follow this with interest.