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  • Google Wants to Control Your Device — JMP Blog

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  • I adopted Sailfish OS around a year ago seeing the writing has been on the wall. I get access to F-Droid for apps I need like Cheogram which helps a ton at bridging the gap while hopefully we get more device support for Linux. I want to us postmarketOS, but hardware is usually very, very old—to the point where things like new screens & batteries can be a problem.

  • Dumping US tech giants within 5 years is realistic for banks, insurers, pension funds, according to the Dutch Central Bank

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  • They better drop Google (Android) & Apple (iOS) requirements too.

  • An Open Letter Opposing Android Developer Verification

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  • I hope folks aren’t actually surprised Google would’ve eventually done this. Support F-Droid, but start getting yourselves ready to migrate off the mobile duopoly as Apple & Google are becoming more like one another with the power. Yeah, that means yelling at your bank to not require an app & using cash too.

  • Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

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  • I mean when they adopted MS GitHub & Discord as their only modes of community & contribution, you can know any “open source” project is built on sand

  • One distro for the next five years?

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  • I would 'free but folks need to learn some Nix basics before the jump in headlong into bad community recommendations like starting with flakes. It’s hard to just drop into Nix without some commitment.

  • TOML

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  • KDL is the future. It reads nice & is compatible with both JSON & XML

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • Lol. Even this $100 phone can get a headphone jack but the massively-funded Android OEMs aside Sony can’t offer this feature.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • I really wish that the Firefox phone had gained more support

    KaiOS 4.x just dropped with Fx 128 I think. You will be on an underpowered flip phone, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing…

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • I got a Sailfish OS last year seeing the writing on the wall already with all the bootloader locking. It’s been bumpy to put it lightly, but at least it has Android apps to help get over the gaping holes of basic missing apps like a halfway decent XMPP client. …But at least native WhisperFish lets you get around the lack of Signal on most non-duopoly platforms.

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • I have been this last week. Very cool. I even built a keyboard for Sailfish OS.

  • What will it take to grow open source Lemmy, ActivityPub, ATProtocol, & other platforms/apps/websites?

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  • You could make a better UX on ActivityPub without inventing a new, incompatible protocol that has a centralization problem. Email is decentralized just fine. They could have also made proposals to ActivityPub or extending it like most applications do. It is just venture capital bullshit cloning Tvitter which makes it more familiar rather than an objectively easier UX.

  • Liberux NEXX Is a New (Still in Development) Linux Phone

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  • Yeah. It’s thoroughly documented tho & nothing seems over-the-top. They also contribute to upstreams. A lot of folks use GitLab despite it only being open core. Every day I have to interact with Microsoft GitHub which is fully proprietary & they do nothing but inject social media nonsense to the platform & train on your data just to sell it back to you. Yet rarely does anyone complain about them being it the middle of free software, & instead they move all comms to the black hole of Discord. Meanwhile Google is no longer doing Android in the open.

    I don’t think what Jolla is doing is evil—you just have to play by stupid capitalist rules to be a ‘viable business’ in this economy to keep the lights on. They used to have more stuff open IIRC, but it can be hard to do in practice if you are picking a niche taking on a duopoly.

  • Liberux NEXX Is a New (Still in Development) Linux Phone

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  • Sailfish OS exists right now as a Linux mobile OS with their own hardware (& supports the Sony Xperia line as well—which have microSD & headphone jacks …which no GrapheneOS devices support 🙃)

  • Several excellent applications currently offer comprehensive alternatives to Google services. What are your preferred applications at this time?

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  • CalDAV supports notes/todos. I never used it tho. I usually just Note to Self on XMPP.

  • Several excellent applications currently offer comprehensive alternatives to Google services. What are your preferred applications at this time?

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    • Gmail -> Posteo
    • Chrome -> LibreWolf
    • Photos -> rsync (I don’t trust Discord-only communites)
    • Drive -> rsync / VCSs
    • WhatsApp -> XMPP
    • Keep -> What?
    • Docs -> Text editor / LibreOffice
    • Google Translate -> Yandex Translate (FOSS options do not generally support Eastern languages)

  • If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?

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  • I would say the same & I don’t even use it—but I would trust it being around the longest & is better than GNOME IMO.

  • A good e-mail client for linux?

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  • I use aerc thru home-manager accounts on NixOS

  • Some ideas 💡 (not mine)

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  • Which is why it is important to continue calling them out. The casual privacy enthusiast just regurgitates an infographic or YouTuber. Can’t expect them to be experts, but we can tell them that there is a deeper rabbit hole.

  • Some ideas 💡 (not mine)

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  • There are many ways to make things resilient. Centralizing isn’t one of them.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Security disclosure for matrix-js-sdk (CVE-2024-47080) and matrix-react-sdk (CVE-2024-47824)

    matrix.org /blog/2024/10/security-disclosure-matrix-js-sdk-and-matrix-react-sdk/
  • XMPP @slrpnk.net
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    Matrix and XMPP: Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols – Part 1 / ProcessOne

    www.process-one.net /blog/matrix-and-xmpp-thoughts-on-improving-messaging-protocols-part-1/
  • LibreWolf @lemmy.ml
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    ISO 8601 date times?

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    XᴍʟHᴛᴛᴘRequest

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Ask: How do you handle your résumés?

  • XMPP @slrpnk.net
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    Movim service merged into Nixpkgs

    nixpk.gs /pr-tracker.html