michel

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Now that both [#Twitter](https://hachyderm.io/tags/Twitter) and [#Reddit](https://hachyderm.io/tags/Reddit) have been short-sighted enough to burn through the goodwill of many users and communities, I in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It also appears that the first post has to tag the community, so tagging on a reply does not work. Good enough though.

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it will be analogous to the situation in China. Is an iMessage conversation safe if one party is based in China and their data is stored in data centers there?

Why does Nvidia hate linux? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This. I bet the experience is better if you use it on an enterprise distro they have precompiled drivers for.

With the boom in AI their focus is increasingly on the data center market, so it's a small miracle (thanks Red Hat and others prodding them) they even have an open driver right now for newer cards (tellingly it's in a better state for computational use than for rendering pixels on the screen)

Why does Nvidia hate linux? in c/[email protected]
This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today. in c/[email protected]
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I'm a FLOSS contributor with a Big Tech $dayjob - happy to chat to anyone interested in free software, digital autonomy, and our inevitable post-consumerist, ecologically sustainable future (michel-slm.name)
 

Writing this as procrastination from actually finishing my presentation slides :p

I am a Fedora contributor, though my $dayjob is working for Facebook (luckily my role lets me work on Fedora and other open source technologies).

I am concerned with the direction both the technology sector is taking, and the wider economy in general - the predominance of large companies creating increasing monopolization of many sectors of the economy (especially true in the US), the increasing relegation of end users to be mere operators of their devices, the bloat and wastage and upgrade treadmills...

My ongoing resolution is to gradually achieve what Kashmir Hill famously tried and failed at last year -- reduce the influence of proprietary technology, and non-community-owned companies, in my life, especially those funded by advertising since that is a perverse incentive (monetizing attention span) diametrically opposed to the user's best interest, whether privacy or well-being.

I'm starting #100DaysToOffload soon on my blog, once the Nest with Fedora conference is over, and will be covering my digital detox among other things

  • switching away from Gmail
  • almost entirely cutting out Facebook products (except with contacts that exclusively use it)
  • using a Pine Phone (once mine arrives)
  • using Nextcloud instead of Dropbox and Google Calendar / Contacts
  • using Cryptpad instead of the rest of the Google Suite

You can find me on Matrix at michel-slm:matrix.org and michel:michel-slm.name -- the latter is less active as I use Matrix to bridge to Freenode

Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

Ah. Well, preview and beta are both oh Play Store. Preview is no longer updated now that the new core is deemed stable enough for beta (though some people were upset when initially it didn't have any add ons)

Haven't checked if they're on the ffox fdroid repo though

Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

yeah, I plan to use a PinePhone as my secondary device and start helping port apps to it, but will probably use either Android or iOS for some time.

Alas, my next phone might be an iPhone -- though I'll try to steer clear from Apple services.

I currently use a Pixel as my daily driver, but I want to help contribute to OpenStreetMap and there's no OSM navigation app with Android Auto support, whereas MAPS.ME is open source, uses OSM and supports CarPlay. I wonder if it's technically more difficult to get Android Auto support or it's Google ironically abusing their gatekeeper role here (normally Apple is the one accused of doing that with the App Store).

Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (3 children)

You probably want Firefox Beta now instead of Preview. There are more whitelisted add-ons now; I also have Privacy Badger enabled and am tempted to also enable Decentraleyes (last time I tried it on desktop it broke some sites).