‘Rivals are concerned that #Microsoft will make #Teams run more compatibly with its own software over other apps. They also argue that Microsoft has set the pricing of its own products in ways that give little incentive for users to choose other videoconferencing options. Another concern is the lack of data #portability, which makes it difficult for existing Teams users to switch to alternatives.’ https://on.ft.com/4bzlD2p
Does anyone know of a way, on #MacOS, to create a challenge when an app is launched?
Context: I want my laptop to have a barrier for entry whenever I launch Mona, so that when I come to the Fedi, it's a deliberate thing that I want to do, instead of a knee-jerk “oh I have 30 seconds spare, I'll doom scroll…”
Bob was updated with the last version of Cosmopolitan 3.1! We have a full (and native) support of Apple Silicon computers now. You can try out here: https://bob.osau.re#OCaml#portability#file
seemingly out of nowhere I've somehow found myself delving deeper into technologies that could be classified as "permacomputing"-friendly or adjacent. I've recently been doing a lot of reading and exploration on things like around redbean, lua, tcl/tk, c, portability, longevity, and "old" tech and can't help but get excited or overly curious about them.
Important reading for old-school #netizens who want to restore the full functionality of the internet and more recent users who are concerned about #privacy, #portability, and #digitalfreedom. @pluralistic, thank you for fighting the good fight.
Serious question, no offense or provocation intended: With this stuff being baked into Hubzilla and, apparently, also design-wise into Bluesky / AT, can anyone out here involved with the #ActivityPub outline why nomadic / easily portable identity isn't built-in here by design? Looking at the (to-be-expected) dynamics of instances going up and down, blocking each other or moving to newer, different pieces of software, this seems an absolutely obvious requirement, so I wonder why this has been left out of the standard / spec?
@z428 For perfect #portability in the Fediverse: Instances involved in a move would need to trust each other, e.g. when importing time-stamped content from the past. People could fake their past easily. #activitypub
Valuable insight on software portability and obsolescence, by @sevan
Portable Legacy
"Something I’ve been thinking over on and off for a while, is the meaning
of portability claimed by folks regarding software. Fish out an old
computer with a matching vintage closed source operating system, how
does the portable software fair in such a situation?..."
If you missed our @devconf_cz talk about @Cockpit 's new bridge and the "get a Cockpit UI on any machine", the video is available now. Thanks to the organizers and session chairs!