Take out the SIM card, turn off WiFi, download Jami or Briar and switch on Bluetooth: tada, you now have own Bluetooth network to communicate with others privately and securely. Anybody can do it.
Oh sweet! a question then for you: can you explain what the FairPhone is missing in terms of security? Do you maybe have notes comparing it to the Pixel? As a security layman, I'm curious.
And they want to migrate to piefed? Does it have better performance than Lemmy? That would be hilarious if python were faster than rust.
Hopefully this also means monetary investment in open source, not just open source usage without a support contract or contributing back. Matrix is a great example of an open source project that is being used by governments but struggling to get paid because governments are employing their own support staff and making internal forks.
But the more governments, agencies and individuals switch, there greater the chance they'll pay the developers and maintainers for support or features.
Why can't you run your own OS anymore? You don't have to buy a Pixel. This news is about Pixel phones, one of the many many many Android phones...
You heard stuff? What stuff specifically? Care to elaborate and provide sources?
Isn't SailFish a Russian outfit? Also, every time I've looked at their phones, they were either sold out or somehow unavailable. Are they still active?
Get a FairPhone with /e/OS. Give money to people who actually want to see an open ecosystem, not lock it down.
That mjolnir isn't part of the server deployment template and not even provided by matrix.org servers ist just sad. Matrix rooms are so badly moderated because the moderation tools suck. I found out at some point that "reports" only go to your server admim, not the room's mods and admins. It makes no sense.
I don't think we have figured out Eternal September on the fediverse yet. We are nowhere near prepared for a possible (or eventual?) influx of millions of users who don't understand the first thing about the customs here (if we have any to speak of). We haven't figured out how to talk about the fediverse to beginners, how to moderate it without burning out (see lemm.ee), nobody seems to have the faintest idea how to make the experience truly different in such a way that it helps people be nicer, and we just copied lots of stuff from already toxic places.
Maybe I'm just unaware and people are thinking of these things already, but hopefully the fediverse is considered in academia as a platform, open and ready to improvements. A platform that can improve the way we interact with each other, distribute content, and make the world a little more positive. Getting some academic insights might help us prepare.
If they moved it to Kiel, I don't know what would happen to Munich and their Microsoft policy. One can only hope the federal politicians aren't as corrupt as the ones in Munich, but they are just people too.
Nearly every government in Europe is beholden to Microsoft. There was a news article recently about how only one single municipality in the Netherlands hosted their own services on their own hardware. If Germany, the probably least digitally progressive country in the EU, suddenly decides to do more than just talk about opensource and actually use it across all government agencies, it would be a huge signal.
Only time will tell. Trump better keep beating his great big drum to keep the pro-opensource voices strong. Without it, it would be back to business in no time.
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Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more (28 Jan 2025)
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I honestly don't understand how this protocol can protect anything HTTP+HTML wouldn't. If you build a browser that supports modern web technologies using Gemini, we'll be back at the same spot. The only thing saving the protocol is its relative obscurity. A decicated and knowledgeable Dev could abuse it any way they like, no?
Anti Commercial-AI license