I start with whatever is on F-Droid, and narrow it down from there.
Jerboa was the only option there until recently. I see Voyager and Eternity are there now. I'll have to give them a try.
Misconception: "I'm not interesting enough for anyone to surveil me."
Reality: Mass surveillance.
...because Geezer Loryss looks like they just crossed paths.
Hey OP: Please don't use ``` code fences (or 4-space indentation) for things that aren't computer code, unless you hate your readers.
Here's that text with word wrap enabled:
(Edit: Removed the text, because OP updated their copy to allow word wrap. Thanks!)
We need something like this to be enshrined in the law of the land
I suspect that if we taught our people to value education, and made it easily available to them, we wouldn't need to enshrine this particular issue (or many others for that matter) in law.
Other than making the web tedious to use, my biggest CAPTCHA complaint is that it puts the main providers in a position to monitor everyone's web use. The blog post doesn't address that, but it does say this:
No third-party services
Perhaps they mean it's self-hosted? That would be very welcome. It might require open source code to catch on, since many site owners are uncomfortable running mystery code on our servers. That would be very welcome, too.
Here's hoping it's good.
Their native group VoIP calling looks to have a solid topology that could easily replace Jitsi in the near term, and eventually compete with larger scale conferencing services like Zoom. That's kind of exciting for those of us who care about open systems and privacy.
I wonder why they assume democracy is fueling the problems we face, rather than, say, late-stage capitalism or plain old corruption.
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
Hopefully we’ll stabilize around browsers and open standards.
I would love this, but I think it will require major privacy reform. The push toward apps comes overwhelmingly from a single source: surveillance capitalism.
Open source inherently means you can compile the code locally,
Open Source means more than that. It is defined here:
If you use the phrase "open source" for things that don't meet those criteria, then without some clarifying context, you are misleading people.
for free.
Free Software is not the same as "software for free". It, too, has a specific meaning, defined here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
When the person to whom you replied wrote "free software", they were not using it in some casual sense to mean free-of-charge.
To brush off the overwhelmingly negative reviews as "review bombing" is to imply that someone with an ulterior motive either faked the reviews or orchestrated a virtual army to write insincere ones, yet there is no reason to believe that happened here.
Perhaps the people in charge at Activision-Blizzard should stop pretending to be victims, and accept that those reviews are the genuine and predictable response to the choices they forced on their customers. Take responsibility, learn a lesson, either fix it or do better next time, and hope there's some good will left among what fans they haven't yet driven away.
Selling online games and then shutting down the service should forfeit the right to interfere with reverse engineering projects. Maybe even require opening up the service specs so reverse engineering wouldn't be needed.
The interface is the best I know of, a lot like pre-Microsoft github. Especially important to me is that It doesn't intercept my browser's built-in shortcuts like github now does, or require javascript or bury things under submenus like gitlab does.
The promise of federation is appealing, too.
I plan to use it for new public projects, and might even move my old ones over.