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esaru@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What's the best email provider i can use with a FOSS client2·2 years agoHow about kolabnow.com
Their platform itself is open sourced (see https://kb.kolabnow.com/faq/what-does-kolab-now-run and https://kolab.org/), they adhere to standards, and they are recommended for privacy reasons as their servers are in Switzerland.
You can create as many email addresses as you want and they all go to your standard inbox, which is great not only for being able to just cut-off spammy websites, but also for privacy, as you won’t be connected to a single address.
esaru@beehaw.orgto Humanities & Cultures@beehaw.org•From fiction to reality: Could people ever embrace a ban on flying?5·2 years agoEvery product should include the price of what it costs today to repair the damage done to the environment by that particular product. That way the external negative effects get internalized to the individual that takes the decision, and also the damage can be covered.
The color screen of e-readers is too dark for me and substantially lacks contrast. It’s very noticable. The layer for pen recognition already makes the screen darker, but the color display is adding a lot more to the darkness and lack of contrast. I would only go with an e-reader with black/white screen and even without pen recognition.
Furthermore, e-readers are much more fragile than mobile phones. The design of their screen leads to a high probability of getting broken which is a common thing, search “ereader screen broken” online. My Boox e-reader fell 50 centimeters and the screen was broken, which renders the whole devide unresponsive.
The pen recognition is not as precise as on tablets. You can draw with it, but it’s a bit annoying and not for detailed work.
So my suggestion is to go with a device that costs less than 200 USD and do anything else than reading on a phone or tablet.
esaru@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•Unclassified letter reveals NSA's warrantless purchase of Americans' internet browsing data5·2 years agoThe fact that the NSA was apparently not breaking the law is actually more infuriating and shifts focus on the need to change the law, which is opposing the government. You see, it’s always better to stick to the facts if you want to change things to the better.
esaru@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year1·2 years agoMaybe deleted from the productive database (if at all, as Reddit for example just flagged “deleted” comments apparently in the past).
But Backups, does data really get removed from backups? I don’t think so.
esaru@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?1·2 years agodeleted by creator
esaru@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?2·2 years agoKeepassDX for mobile is on F-Droid and can use the same file as accessed from KeepassXC from Laptop, synced by Syncthing.
esaru@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?2·2 years agoAnd pass phrases are faster to type and with less typos even though they need more characters than passwords to be the same secure.
esaru@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•'Return to the right track' - Taiwan tells China to 'face reality' and respect election results3·2 years agoWhat is still being debated in Taiwan is if it should declare independence officially, or accept the status quo of factual being independent without declaring it. This is where the three major parties have a different stance, because the DPP kinda tends to the declaration, while the KMT still declares that Taiwan is the legitimate China.
About the vote: All three major parties say publicly that they are against re-union in terms of being ruled by China’s CCP. Today, even Taiwan’s KMT continues to view Taiwan as the free, democratic and legitimate China. So no, no-one voted “pro mainland China” in terms of how the chinese CCP wants to rule over Taiwan.
Status quo is: Taiwan has its own from China independent border control, independent military, independent health care system, independent education system, independent currency, independent law system which is derrived from Japanese and German law, and independent political system, which is democratic.
This is not an opinion, but just the facts. It’s only CCPs rethoric that pretends the opposite.
esaru@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year12·2 years agoAsk anyone who works in IT and they’ll confirm nothing gets ever deleted from all records and backups.
esaru@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What odt editor for Android do you recommend?1·2 years agoYes, but I don’t want to trust a vendor when I have Open Source.
esaru@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What odt editor for Android do you recommend?1·2 years agoHas Collabora made its packages reproducible, so independent people can check if their package is built from the source code without modification?
esaru@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Any recommendations for free software backup programs that work on Windows?1·2 years agoYes, and it works very well. A friend of mine is using it on his Surface Go backing up to the local system (with high frequency for case of editing/deleting files accidentially) and to his cloud storage simultaneously (with daily frequency for case of hardware loss).
esaru@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What odt editor for Android do you recommend?3·2 years agoUnfortunately, it’s not available in the official F-Droid repository, but only by Collabora’s own F-Droid repository. I don’t want to trust other package managers except those of the official F-Droid repo.
esaru@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds14·2 years agoMix addictive ingredients into food and the consumer will eat more than naturally, but it’s not better for him. Saying “more is better” and confusing “to engage” with “to like” is eval.
esaru@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•[News, Call for Action] The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption WorldwideEnglish3·2 years agoDoes anyone know if this is threatening messengers based on federated networks like XMPP as well? Legally and practically?
esaru@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again2·2 years agoWell, they say that SUVs never made sense in cities. Actually, also in villages, as this is happening in Germany. I’d say 99 ℅ of those SUVs are not used as an SUV. Not that I’m supporting manipulation on other people’s property, but I understand that part of their argument.
esaru@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed7·2 years agoWhy would Javascript be a major piece of functionality for a website that is based on text articles?
esaru@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again2·2 years agoEven though per individual the rich are the greatest polluters, in absolut numbers average people might have a stronger influence on the climate due to being so many more people.
I’d expect that the advertisement is relevant to the content of the page. But I don’t know, as I haven’t seen a single bit of advertisement for the last 15 years.