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smileyhead , to technology in Why do all these companies developing privatised software use the word "Open"? Real question.

From Wikipedia:

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

From Open Source Initiative:

Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria: (…) opensource.org/osd/

AnyType is “source available”. Open Source is a term exisiting for many years with already established precise meaning and messing it up makes much harm in a world where talking about computing morality is already messed up with the lack of words in public awareness, as computer software is very abstract and need proper terminology.

smileyhead , to technology in Why do all these companies developing privatised software use the word "Open"? Real question.

Source is available to the public under their own custom licence, but you cannot use it commercially. Server side is closed. So you just know there is no malware inside and you can propose a bugfix, that’s not enough to be open source, yet they misleading call it that.

smileyhead , (edited ) to technology in Why do all these companies developing privatised software use the word "Open"? Real question.

Also more things now call themselfs “open source” even not being like that. AnyType or Llama AI for example.

smileyhead , to android in WhatsApp turns on passwordless logins with passkeys for Android users - The Verge

Keys, like everything in digital devices, are just strings of data. So if they are on device, it’s the matter where they are stored on the device.

Google and Apple implementations are going to store them in secure TPM chip, basically once written there should be no way (people knowing darker side of TPM can disagree) to get them back. But, if I understand correctly, there is no forced way how to store them in the spec, there can just be a way Google implement it in such a way, hope they add open API to Android.

smileyhead , to android in Beeper’s universal messaging app tries to corral WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, and more - The Verge

Replace RCS with XMPP, one is in practice only available through Google’s approval while XMPP is a standard created by the same organization that create IP (Internet) and SMTP (Email).

smileyhead , to linux in What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux?

Swap between KDE and GNOME without restart.

It’s easy on lighter on DEs like XFCE or Sway, by using TTYs. Press Ctrl+Alt+F3, Ctrl+Alt+F4 etc. and start the DE with their start command (like startxfce4).

On KDE or GNOME it should be too, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

smileyhead , to linux in What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux?

Something is proprietary? I don’t care, just want it to work…

Kinda hard when noone can make it work or even know how it works besides creators of that propietary program.

smileyhead , to linux in What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux?

GNOME mouse navigation + I3/Sway keyboard navigation.

smileyhead , to technology in 4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones

I got a brand new phone and installed Termux a few weeks ago. Because of backwards compatibility of Android, you can install older apps. But Termux was not updated in ~2 years and no app targeting modern version can use permissions that Termux needs.

That is a problem on normal Android. But with Termux and certain other programs that have the right permissions, like the “File” app that came with my Samsung, you can access the entire OS and network drives. Also not what I ment, I see you haven’t used Linux for longer, but it has a concept of mounting. You mount some virtual or real drive to a diretory and then this directory behave like a “portal”. By this way you can for example mount online storage drive as it was a physical and for example install programs on it.

If you root your phone you can do anything. Not true. This is in theory, in practice you are very limited by Android messed up nature and lack of documentation from manufacturer side. Look up PostmarketOS, a real Linux distribution that community maintain. You can see how short is the list of supported phones, it needs to be ported for every device separately and takes huge amount of work. Look up PostmarketOS, it is a real mainline (means without much modifications) Linux-based OS. You can plug a monitor in and there would be no difference between PC and this, can install desktop apps.

smileyhead , to technology in Mastercard should stop selling our data

Should be designed to not collect our data in the first place.

smileyhead , to technology in 4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones

First really important thing to do is to refuse anything that locks you in.

smileyhead , to technology in 4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones

It’s not. It just has really heavly modified Linux kernel and the similarities end there. Termux uses a hack that was already patched, so if Termux ever update to newer API level it won’t work.

I hate how files, the UI and overall services managment work on Android. I cannot mount a drive, access app’s files and their configs, I cannot change the UI environment or system theme (besides basic setting of app launcher and dark/light), I cannot update beyond manufacturer support and swap OSes like on PC and the list goes on…

smileyhead OP , to asklemmy in How to learn math after school?

Thank you for such an respond 😄.

smileyhead , to technology in Best Buy to end DVD & Blu-ray disc sales

Fixed… 😬

smileyhead , to linux in Is there a Linux based OS for public computers, such as at a library or a PC cafe?

That is for kiosk, they are different from libraries PCs, as you want users to bring their software and just use one you picked.

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