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Open standards – like the Open Document Format used by #LibreOffice – are extremely beneficial to end users. They reduce vendor lock-in, improve compatibility between apps, and preserve your data for longer: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource

Why open standards are extremely beneficial to end users - TDF Community Blog

Whenever I talk to other technology users — including CTOs, CSOs and ICT managers, who in theory should have a certain level of expertise — I realise that most of them never consider standards when using applications, devices or websites.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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#UnifiedPush is on everybody's lips when it comes to #decentralization or #deGoogle or wanting to cut off #BigTech from your live.

But did you know how it was started? How many times its destiny intersected with #FDroid ?

Read here, straight from the creator: f-droid.org/2026/01/08/unified…


5 years of UnifiedPush | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Back in 2020, “OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android” has been announced on F-Droid at its beginning, and in 2022 the Unified...
f-droid.org
#fdroid #UnifiedPush #decentralization #bigtech #degoogle
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Borris

It doesn't take much to close things here. This place doesn't know how to deal.

In 2001, we got several inches over the morning period when school buses were picking kids up from school, but they hadn't canceled classes until everyone got to school. They then had to send all the buses back out and pick up the kids again.

Several buses crashed. Two students died. Some didn't get picked up and had to spend the night at school. There were lawsuits.
I was one of the lucky ones who were able to get out.
School was closed for a week after that, I think.

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Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: tuta.com/blog/age-verification…

First they came for Adult sites And I did not speak out Because I was not interested in Adult sites Then they came for Social Media And I did not speak out Because I was not interested in Social Media Then they came for the VPNs And I did not speak out Because I was not interested in VPNs Then they came for chat apps And I did not speak out Because I was not  interested in chat apps Then they locked the whole web behind ID verification And there was no one left To speak up against this

Age Verification: What countries require you to perform ID checks & for what websites and platforms? | Tuta

Will the age verification era kill anonymity? As more countries are passing age verification laws, let's take a look at what countries already require it, and for what services, online sites,and social media platforms.
Tuta
#surveillance #ageverfication
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Toni Massari

Hurrah!! Excellent news!! I don’t want young men inducted into pornography and sexual abuse of minors! And I don't want young women inducted into the belief that that kind of abuse is normal! I would like to see high costs for ALL pornography, and the obligation to REGISTER to allow Authorities to verify whether a registered user is guilty of sexual criminal behaviour and abuse!
Maybe YOU like it, and maybe YOU like little children being targeted, but most of us do NOT!

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The way you install software updates on Galaxy Buds has always made very little sense to me. Why do I have to wear the earbuds to update the software? just connect and update and leave the audio routed to the phone speaker. Other companies, notably Apple, do this absolutely fine and it's seamless. This process is just annoying.
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Winter blue tardis

Well, that's a new way I guess. Apple just, makes it work, even google needed time here to allow payments, 15 days to be exact... Apple just does some things pretty well I guess, including currency changes and updates, except when the whole MACos thing gets bugged, then we yell at them like all the others. I hope the update for those samsung earbuds brings some cool stuff you can play around with. Do they sound better than airpods? I wonder.

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You know that #Linux is becoming mainstream on #desktop computers when a Czech consumer magazine focused on product testing, #DTest, recommends switching to Linux.

"However, there is another solution. Fortunately, it is no longer true that only Microsoft operating systems are suitable for ordinary people and that only eccentric IT wizards with a silicon soul can use anything else. Now, a number of GNU/Linux operating systems offer a level of ease of use that is at least comparable to that of MS Windows."

A photo of a Czech article which is about the end of Windows 10 support and Linux as a viable alternative even for ordinary users.
#linux #desktop #dtest
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Francesco P Lovergine

I found that such idiosyncrasies with tablets stem from people's past experiences and specific bad choices by some apps that enshittify the UX. I'm not a mobile-native, and as such, I still find it more productive to use a laptop (and a desktop is better than a laptop). Very young people have exactly the opposite experience.
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Jiří Eischmann

@gisgeek her experience is recent. She joined the company last year and purchased the laptop one month after joining on advice from other colleagues. She is 35, so not a young generation, but also not old.
She says the tablet is OK for work on the go: quick replies, checking info etc. But once she gets home, she takes the laptop because any long writing or working with spreadsheets is just cumbersome on the tablet: the screen is small, the keyboard is not comfortable to write on... I'm pretty sure the youngest generation is more comfortable with it, but even among them it's hard to find someone who would want to write e.g. a thesis on it.
@Francesco P Lovergine

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I'm doing bad, bad things. Have signed up for a Claude Pro account and installed Claude Code. I'm starting a project that may or may not go anywhere, and most here wouldn't care about it anyway, but it'll be cool if it works the way I want.

I've already hit my rate limit twice in three hours. The initial stuff used lots of tokens.

I am now prepared for all the hate that I will no doubt receive.

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android copies from apple. apple copies from android. do you know what I would love to see apple copy from android? the ability to still get notificaitons, but not wake up my screen! I will wake my screen up when and if I want to look at them. you don't ened to do it every single time a notification comes in. I want my notifications, I just don't always want to look at them. s please apple, please copy this one from android. make it a setting you can turn on or off. then you would have the best of both worlds.
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