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smileyhead ,

This might suprise you, but looking at byte size almost half of the Linux (kernel, to be precise, the part that communicate with hardware) is not open source.

smileyhead ,

Great way my professor explained to me with:

Internet is a network of computers, to send data to each other.
Web is a network of documents, the revolutionary concept about it was the fact it can be on your computer or others computers and still be connected via URLs.

smileyhead ,

One of the reasons might me that we still do not have any standard baked micropayment system for the Internet.

smileyhead ,

Both are Chromium apps.
First running on Chromium, second running on modified Chromium.

smileyhead ,

My comment won’t be anything helpful, there are some propositions already.
I just want to give my thought and maybe rant a little, because my Linux nerd mind is screaming to me how this could be done on Linux:

In crontab:


<span style="color:#323232;">*/30 7-16 * * 1-5 notify-send "Text"
</span>

Sending a notification every 30 minutes from monday to sunday from 7am to 4pm with one line of code not needing to create new app.

smileyhead ,

Not on all. Chromebooks are closer to a smartphone, meaning not all drivers are available for Linux.

smileyhead ,

Do it the Linux way and remove the fan yourself.

Just kidding. Or am I?

anders , to memes

Brute force protection

@memes

smileyhead ,

Amateur! Strong enough passwords are like:


<span style="color:#323232;">ÕÚüd¸2stb½õ~jëv×Â/oyÓh²î´t¶»Ö°ÍðoNVRïé2Wc4'H,CâÞó_ökÅ,Kð¡X9ÄÀ.þTØÓoæ73d*ëÞ¢?²i"`צeÉçß,ÎÅëüS.¹([)ãÒÑêf9÷¿¢=@Á×ÅQÎÂßu¸Å(iRZµîw&ãR
</span>
smileyhead ,

You lever is very low! There are not displayable characters so you cannot easly verity the password by eye or copy from paper.

smileyhead ,

Sometimes you have to give a password to a friend on a paper or by a phone.

smileyhead ,

Internet. Mostly internet chat and calls.

smileyhead ,

While we can, we should reject those sites and program them to the standards.
Including that some features are optional.

smileyhead ,

There are plenty of Nextcloud hostings:

www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/tab.digitalthegood.cloud

github.com/nextcloud/providers#providers

smileyhead ,

You are registering where your own vehicle is driven by an employee that should not be using it for personal things anyway. In contrast to his/her face, this is not registering anything personal about this employee.

smileyhead ,

Tickle fight!

smileyhead OP ,

It’s very much budget option.

smileyhead OP ,

They probably meant WAN port.

smileyhead OP ,

I didn’t use or have one, just sharing because I found this interesting and maybe others already would have something to say about the spec.

smileyhead ,

We should have a search engine blocklists, like for adblocks, with common sites known for bullshit (AI) generated content.

smileyhead ,

A pain to use cross platform. And the results are being processed and send anyway, just hidden.

Blocklist would allow engine to know to not even look at it.

smileyhead ,

For frameworks treating Chromium as app development platform like Android. Firefox dev tools are much better for typical web development.

smileyhead ,

There is a toggle for DRM in both Firefox and LibreWolf that is off by default. It will prompt you when site would like to use it, so you can happily say no and launch your favourite file sharing software.

smileyhead ,

You say Angular. But what else can we expect for a framework for making WebKit/Chromium apps. Angular working in Firefox is an afterthought because it has very much similar featureset.

smileyhead ,

Every programming language has it’s place.

JavaScript’s place is in hell.

smileyhead ,

It was mostly made for simple scripts to embed on a website for animations and handling updates without refreshing whole page. Not to make a full portable client (browser) side app.
Hating JavaScript is mostly a meme, it’s just a programming language. But its very loose syntax, fact it’s often someone’s first programming language to learn and how most programs written in it nowadays are a hack build on top of a hack on top a hack makes this language easy to laugh at.

smileyhead ,

I see very weird or even inaccurate descriptions here, so let me say it much simplier how it is most commonly used today:

Programs are expected to be unpacked/installed to proper locations. Like /usr/bin for binaries or /var/lib for their data. But not all programs, especially games and those ported from Windows, are made in recpect to this schema and expect everything in one directory.

So TLDR: For badly ported programs or quick installs that want every of program files in a single folder.

smileyhead ,

Imagine phones coming with a clean Android with the ability to install Google Play Services like a normal app 😌.

And documention to port other operating systems or new Android versions.

smileyhead ,

This could be a common knowledge everyone has. Like inserting a SIM card and entering a PIN, this also had to be learned.

And not sideload. Install.

smileyhead ,

If they ask for help to setup their phones someone more technical, so I do not see a problem.

How do you define sideloading then? Also preinstalled Play Store and Google services is the exact reason why they are asked for an email address, something I wish should not be by default.

But okey, just preinstalled store would not be a problem for me as long as everything is available to remove, even with a warn sigh. I don’t want to evangelise here, but on Linux installs it’s awesome how not only browser and store is preinstalled, but also useful stuff like file sharing client, FTP client, office suite, email client… depends on the distro, but it makes it easy to ask “hey, can you share it to me?” or do something without asking to install anything new, while all can be removed with no marks left.

smileyhead ,

KeePassDX. Different codebase, but 100% compatible and even same color theme.

smileyhead ,

Try at least once install pure Arch from the installation instructions without automatic install scripts (best in VM to not worry about the data). It is a very good learning experience and definetly would get you closer to what Arch based systems are about.

smileyhead ,

Boys Basketball Team Kicked Out Of Girls League Championship After Defeating Girls Teams.

If this headline would look like that and you would react differently, regardless of how you have reacted to the original, I think there is something wrong with you view.

smileyhead ,

Explain why.
My position, where hypothetical girls and hypothetical boys teams are being kicked for the same reason should be treated the same is I think the default one. If you think I should react to one of the headline different, tell me a reason, because I may not know one.

smileyhead ,

Yeah, no way to know what gender someone had so we just pick one based on our twisted worldview where some gender must be better than other because reasons.

smileyhead ,

In which words did I choose which gender that inventor was?

smileyhead ,

I am as upset with suggesting it was a man, as some may try to do.
Maybe my comment sounded weird with just the context of the post, but I wrote it also with other comments in mind.

smileyhead ,

We should have a neologism for gender neutral version of “mankind” definitely.
I am just this one person always pushing a stick into an anthill every time gender is assumed out of preference and getting all the hate from both sides.

smileyhead ,

I do not have any of GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) accounts and this is nice “achievement” to have in life for me.
Maybe if I would need them for something important like becoming a video creator, having to publish an Android app for a company or promote my buissness on social media I would create one. But for just one game it’s a pass for me. The most important game in my life, but I have grown up and do not play it anymore.

smileyhead ,

Yes, BUT…

There is buying a licence to use.
And there is buying a copy you can use.

This is very much different. Maybe buying a copy of music with a tag attached saying you cannot distribute it further is ok, but saying they can take this copy you bought at any time and make terms how you can use it is another level.

smileyhead ,

With most of my things I use being standardized or common formats, I find deGoogled Android builds to more than enough.
Currently LineageOS on my OnePlus. I have a phone with Linux mobile for testing, it’s close but missing things like camera is too much.

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smileyhead ,

Unless:

bloodyhealth.gitlab.io

smileyhead ,

If it’s under free licence like MIT, GPL or alike app can be inspected what it does and anything out of place we can remove.

smileyhead ,

Do you know how well it works? Maybe I could suggest it to my girlfriend if she would be interested.

smileyhead ,

There are a hell lot of other problems.

smileyhead ,

They are publishing their version of the kernel. The problem is that this kernel is so much modified and dirtly patched it is useless to run anything other than Android.

And many device drivers for Android are now proprietary blobs in Android userspace outside of the kernel code.

smileyhead ,

Apple can implement RCS, but what then? Currently people not using Apple approved device in US can be marginalized. After RCS people not using Apple or Google approved device are going to be marginalized. And they both have wide requirements in order to be approved, recently Google started requiring Play Integrity check. So no RCS after you get rid of YouTube app for example.

This is the same discussion all over about defaults like if this was LibreOffice vs MS Office debate.

smileyhead ,

If you did root your phone, you can turn RCS back on with the standard Magisk hiding procedures

I really do not want to use hacks like that in order to send a text message.
It reminds me of the:

  • Voting in elections now requires buying a Big Mac and having receipt for verification, I don’t want that.
  • No problem with that, just ask a friend to buy it for you. Or you can just fake

A messaging standard that requires carrier, phone modem and phone operating system all implementing in order for it to work is outdated mindset from the era of flip-phones. We have Internet now, which allows sending any data to any device and we have installable apps that can send anything through it. Implementing an awful and already outdated standard in a most user freedom unfriendly manner just to replace even more outdated standard is not great.
Imagine if Google now started promoting a FAX 2.0 protocol for fax machines, which would implement some of basic email features already being in email for 20. No, just use email and if your friends do not have it show them how to use it.

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