Return the internet to the pre-“smart” phone era, in which a minimum bar of effort and knowledge needed to be present in order to connect and participate on the web.
Yeah. I think that’s happening now. The public will discover the Fediverse, but I’m not sure if they’ll be welcomed into every community here.
History tells us there’s also a release valve of a swift brick to the side of the head, one brick per billionaire.
It sounds messier than paying taxes, to me. But I’m not a billionaire, so I can’t say I understand their motives.
This is particularly interesting, since modern organizational theory tells us that Boeing’s primary customers would be much better off with a shift in power toward Boeing’s workers, away from it’s current leadership.
Purchasers of huge airplanes cannot afford to purchase airplanes built under leadership that cuts corners the way Boeing’s leadership lately has.
The striking workers may have an unusual ally here - in Boeing’s customer base, which notably includes the US Government and parts of it’s Armed Forces.
I setup a mail forward, and check the ‘to’ address to all incoming messages for about a year.
Lol. Thank you. Sometimes when rational thought and optimism are at ods, I choose optimism.
- The largest e-commerce platform in latin america and the most used in my country requires FR to use it.
I minimize my use of the largest eCommerce platform in my country. It’s a pain, but it can be done, and I feel good about my money going to organizations that better match my values.
- The bank is now pressing me to use their app with FR as a 2fa when using homebanking from its website, something that wasn’t necessary up to some weeks ago.
Sounds like a great opportunity to check into joining a credit union. All banks are predatory. There’s lots of other great reasons to minimize your exposure to banks.
- The telecoms demands FR from now on if you want a new SIM card in case you lost your phone or it’s been stolen.
- The government is in the same direction as it’s moving to digitalizing many burocratic procedures and also requires FR.
I imagine you may be stuck with these. Sometimes we can’t win them all.
I wouldn’t take that as a reason to give up. Having your face on file in fewer places is very lively to save you future headaches.
Ideally this will be less of a concern in the future, when the vast majority of organizations no longer have utter shit for Cybersecurity.
But that day is not today.
So you’re basically just paying for the snazzy case. Which is fine of course, but I think they could have done better.
Yeah.
I want to buy this sort of thing to support the overall vibe and product line, but $600.00 goes a really long way on Etsy or EBay for custom cases.
Edit: I am in the market for a desktop running something as close as possible to SteamOS, so I do love where this is heading. I’ll keep an eye on it!
I mean some of us aren’t programmers…
I think…
… Looks around…
…yet.
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re wrong.
I’m a fan of powerful assistive solutions, but I’m not comfortable with something closed source and proprietary running this intimately.
There’s likely some outright criminals who can’t easily send their dirty traceable money into politics directly to buy favors. Seems to me that this helps “solve” that.
I, personally, imagine high odds of a combination of:
If I were any kind of federal investigator, I would look into this with great interest.
He can live out his remaining time in Russia as a wanna-be oligarch, and Putin will treat him like a leader-in-exile
Yep. Except that’s only until he runs his mouth and has a tragic fall from a window.
If I where to place a bet, I would say 3 months, tops.
Yeah! They missed investing with several known fraudsters already. Sure is lucky that yet another one is here to fill the gap!
I did the most productive thing today.
I shut up and let my team get some work done.
I’m super proud of myself.
I bet you’re amazingly responsive, too.
Newbies take notes. This is how a pro does it.
I mean, it has, a bunch of times. And they haven’t so far.
But I agree, in principle. When they’re impacted, in a way they actually understand, things may get better.
I regularly recommend configurations to peers that are arguably impossible for normal humans. (Not on purpose! Sorry Dave!)
I love to run stuff on Raspberry Pi, and I fear no gcc compile flag. (Ok. That’s a bold faced lie, even I fear a couple of them.) So I frequently forget the bullshit I had to do to get something weird running on a random Pi.
you’re probably a KeePass person?
Yeah. I feel seen. Naturally I try to only use the finest artisinal open source from F-Droid.
Though, honestly, I’m impressed by BitWarden and I’m happy enough to recommend it.
Uh… I’m a patriot.
I fully support my country in every meaningful way, especially those ways that might otherwise make my billionaire overlords feel threatened enough to put a hit out on me.
More seriously, my neighbors are, on average, fantastic people, that deserve my support.
Edit: To be clear, I fully agree that this should piss us all off.
Right. It’s different in that it lacks Google Framework Service, and adds a bunch of privacy controls, like additional quick toggles to control the cameras, and microphone, the way other Android can quick toggle the flashlight and location servcies and bluetooth.
The biggest thing is substantially more granular per app permissions, controlled from a calentral interface in settings.