I have no idea how such a shitty product can exist. Same price buys you a Chromebook; there are plenty of software libre distraction-free writing apps out there (try opening a terminal and typing "vim"?).
Or you could chicken out and buy a Kindle Fire Max 11 with keyboard case for the same price.
Both of these let you type for more than a day on a charge: the only benefit of the freewrite alpha is an 80 hour battery, which is pointless with USB-C charging everywhere.
@cstross some #TechIlliterate even recommended this shit to me instead if a #Laptop when I was in school.
I told them unless it comes with the same #TTS voice as #StevenHawking has I don't want them to ever be allowed to make any technical decision or suggestion in their life!
Those things are like #TexasInstruments#calculators: an absolute #ripoff given even the shittiest #Netbook with the abundant #Intel#Z3735F#SoC running #OS1337 is more versatile.
And I literally just started that distro.
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Well yes I would like to connect to a Microsoft service without a VPN, that's a very comforting thought! Screw organizations that do this. No I will not turn off my VPN, I'll just switch to another country like always and hope that fixes it.
Important #ITsec Announcement - #PleaseBoost!
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Please #Update your #FritzBox#CPE's - espechally at your "#TechIlliterate" parents' and friends' houses.
There's a #remote-exploitable issue and it's really a big problem - and it also applies to those that don't have any #RemoteAccess or #VPN configured.
CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE ACCUSED OF 8.12.2020
FROM 16 TO 23 SEPTEMBER 2023
"The 7 french comrades arrested on 8 December 2020 will go on trial from 3 to 27 October 2023. They will be judged for «criminal association of terrorist criminals» (art. 450-1) in Paris. No terrorist project has been established after two years of investigation characterized by the use of white torture and a very intrusive surveillance. The criminal classification was not retained but the terrorist and collective dimension remains despite the total absence of evidence or even links between all the seven people. Several of them are also charged with “refusing to surrender a secret decryption convention” (Art. 434-15)." https://anarchistnews.org/content/call-international-week-solidarity-accused-8122020 #Repression#France#Counterterrorism#Frankreich
Ask your Fox-watching friends if they’ve seen stories about Rep. Lauren Boebert publicly groping with her date and vaping at a public performance of Beetlejuice, all with kids present. Bet they’ll look at you blankly because Fox has simply not aired the story since it broke according to media watchers.
Fox knows Boebert is in a district she nearly lost in 2022, and that the road to the House majority might run through Colorado’s 3rd. The network isn’t “fair and balanced.” That’s a joke. Fox is warped and twisted, just like the party it services.
Pro-tip: change the content controls on home cable systems so technologically challenged folks can’t access Fox. You might just save them from being sucked in further.
I mean that's why I know almost noone in #IT working in #PublicSector:
One would get bossed around by #TechIlliterate#ConcreteHeads and have neother good promotion options beyond maybe a paygrade every 5 years and neither get bonuses not stock options for enduring shitty cubicles in buildings that are ugly inside and out...
Is anybody else deeply suspicious of the big tech companies like Tesla and Apple suddenly deciding that they're in favour of Right To Repair laws (that they've been bitterly fighting for years)? Maybe it's just surrender, but I worry that there's deviousness at work, like they've spotted a loophole.
I really wish @1password had a concept of tabs. When i'm trying to reference the structure of one entry to recreate it on a new one, it's a real ball-ache having a non-tabbed interface.
@case2tv I chose #Enpass since it literally runs on everything* - espechally #Android and #Linux and doesn'r equire some subscription or charges people for the "privilegue" of self-hosting, like #BitWarden.
It's also #TechIlliterate-friendly.
*Okay it doesn't run on #BSDs and #Unix except macOS & iOS, but then again:
People who daily drive #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD or #NetBSD are usually #TechLiterate enough to basically setup their own #password storage system from scratch & sync and backup stuff.
This story by @josephcox to kick off 404Media is a barn-burner.
Bad actors are using false identities or compromised credentials to maintain persistent access to credit reporting data and automating its sale with bots to the tune of $15 per.
Address history, cellphone details, driver's license details, relatives and other sensitive data.
I've mentioned this but I'm gonna make a real post.
If you are setting up Windows 11, select "English (World)" as your language (English Europe also works), and you will have NONE of the third party bloatware installed.
No Candy Crush, no Netflix, just the first party apps
Please do share this info with anyone who may be setting up Windows soon
The entire city of #Yellowknife is being evacuated. This is unprecedented and terrifying.
And thousands of citizens aren’t aware because Meta continues to block news in the country.
This is what happens when citizens are convinced to use an American multinational corporation as their community’s primary communications channel — a corporation that couldn’t give two shits about anything except its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders.
@JustinLachance but since that requires politicans to actually have a spine and ve principled, it's up to the individual to act accordingly and boycott them just like one would boycott a North Korean (regine controlled!) Restaurant or some shitty ultra - "fast fashion" label that manages to run sweatshops so inhumane that they manage to break labour regulations in Bangladesh & "P.R." China...
I hate how children get to have absolutely no privacy or autonomy (bodily or otherwise) in the name of "parental rights" and protecting them. Discord recently introduced a feature that would allow parents to have a dashboard that lets them see who their kids are talking to and when and like — that would have actually made my life horribly worse when I was a teenager and my only friends were kids from a writing server online and I had to keep it secret from my mom because she didn't think online friends were real and that it was unhealthy to have them (despite her homeschooling me in the middle of a retirement suburb so I couldn't really make friends elsewhere). It would have actually probably led to the death or homelessness of one of my friends, who found me, and supportive people, and that she was trans, through that writer's discord. Fuck parental controls.
#Cyberfacism being welded as a weapon doesn't make it less bad and inacceptable.
In fact the problem are literally #TechIlliterate#parents to the point that I've told people 20 years ago to not give their parents any admin rights because they'll fuck up everything and activate or install some "Youth Protection" BS and fuck up everything!
Even I who acts as #BenevolentDictator in IT will go out of my way to never breach a users' privacy, minor nor adult!
Ich lese ja via nitter.net bei einigen ausgewählten Accounts immer noch beim X vorbei, und inzwischen bin ich regelmäßig irritiert über so selbstverständliche Dinge, die sie dort nicht haben, wie z.B. >400 Zeichen und einen Edit-Button.
Diese Selbst-Antworten, die nötig sind, um ein Wort oder einen einzigen Buchstaben zu korrigieren, ganz, ganz furchtbar.
Und dann weißt du, dass die nichtmal die Beiträge von Leuten sehen, denen sie folgen, wenn der Algorithmus das anders entscheidet.
@viel_zu_negativ ...die größten Painpoints ist eher die #Glibc und andere #GNU-Schrott welcher konsequent mit minimalsten Updates nativss bricked, weshalb ich hoffe dass auf #musl oder andere #c-libs umgdstellt wird.
Ansonsten funzt #Wine ganz gut - es bräuchte natürlich Feinschliff vgl. #Proton / #DXVK-Integration in #Steam.
Cryptography is a tool for turning a whole swathe of problems into key management problems. Key management problems are way harder than (virtually all) cryptographers think.
The problem isn't #Cryptography, but the fact that #TechIlliterates are allowed to use #tech and that leads to the digital equivalent of 12 year olds driving gasoline tankers with neither license nor permit nor experience.
Sichere Messenger für alle: Matrix-Gründer im Interview
Was die Matrix Foundation für einen frei verfügbaren und verschlüsselten Messenger-Standard tut, erklärt Mitgründer Matthew Hodgson gegenüber heise online.
#ICQ hat mit Abdtand die schlimmsten #AGB die ich je gelesen habe...
#IRC als öffentlicher Gruppen- und #XMPP als Individual-Chat geht wunderbar.
Und für Organisationen gibt's #TechIlliterate-freundliche Lösungen wie #Zulip die alles von #BDSG & #DSGVO über #GoBD & #HGB bis hin zu #HIPAA und VS-NfD sowie darüber hinaus erfüllen können!
When you listen to The Verge's podcast and they're legitimately saying Mastodon is a "no girls allowed" club? And we don't want Facebook here because Instagram will bring women here?!
What the fuck is wrong with these American tech pundits? Mastodon is the gayest, transest, most feminine social network I've ever seen. There are so many more outspoken, smart, odd, and downright weird women here than I've ever seen on any other social network. It's fucking great.
OFC they don't care about the fact that these things are obviously not true and they'll go out of their way to neither listen to accept any #Counterspeech or true #info that doesn't reinforce their bs bias.