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  • Linux terminal with text selection

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  • The thing is that vi and emacs have existed since long before those other new editors came around.

    What you want is possible to do by configuring your ~/.inputrc (see readline manual page for details), it's just that the defaults are different because they are from a time when many keyboards didn't even have arrow keys (and the ones that had them were in non-standard positions) so most of the shortcuts that became standard in those days are completely different than the ones common today. Given that the terminal is meant to emulate old style DEC VT100 terminals (that's why it's called terminal "emulator") it made sense to use those default that people had grown used to.

    Personally, I've grown used to Ctrl+a, Ctrl+k, Ctrl+w, Ctrl+e and Ctrl+y ..I dont have to reach to wherever the Home key is in whatever keyboard I happen to be using at the moment (specially with modern 75%/60%-sized keyboards today). Or use a combination that also requires shift and having to hold so many keys together. In fact I went the opposite direction and customized my Powershell profile while I'm on windows to keep many of those old shortcuts in the Windows pwsh terminal as well.

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading

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  • The thing is that Apple is even worse when it comes to its walled garden practices and locked-in bundled software. For example, in Android you can at least choose amongst alternative apps for SMS, etc. And some are even open source, and available in the official store. But in Apple devices you can't compete with iMessage, by policy. It's simply not allowed. Even from a technical standpoint it's not possible either, since they don't even offer an API for a third party iOS app to handle SMS/MMS/RCS. And that's just 1 example.

    So you are jumping from the pan to the fire if you go from Android to iOS. Even if you are ok giving up the "sideloading" aspect, you are still worse off with Apple anyway.

  • There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • Or distributed serverless P2P communication (like SimpleX does). Specially when it comes to an app that is just meant for person-to-person communications to begin with.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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  • Will the banks in Korea, EU and many other areas where Samsung phones are very common keep that restriction if it meant alienating that many users? I doubt it. That's why I think the support of a big player on this would be a killing move.

    Also I'm not 100% convinced that it's impossible to have some verification without it depending on this one change.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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  • I mean, you can hack/root most devices, even right now. I expect that's not changing.

  • Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions

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  • I'm not sure if that would be viable technically.

    They might be able to make requestable the connection requests to outside sources (which I expect is something many extensions use, even those without data collection), but whether those requests relate to data collection is not something that can be determined programmatically.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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  • Samsung s22 and s25

    I'm still holding some hope that maybe Samsung's flavor of the OS won't have the restriction of requiring Google keys. Specially considering that Samsung has its own "Galaxy Store" with app submissions controlled by them, not Google.

    Though it's possible they might simply extend the signatures accepted to include also the ones signed by them ^^U ..still it would give them a competitive edge to remove the restriction so they might be incentivized to do it.

  • Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions

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  • Yes, it also narrows down the number of potential targets for analysis / report. If an extension is not marked "none" then no need to go out of your way to figure out if it does it.

    For some extensions it might actually be relatively easy to figure out if they do communicate with an external server that they might not need to, specially considering that the extension format can easily be decompressed, .crx files are just zip files with some javascript and other files inside.. they might want to obfuscate the logic, but it's not impossible to try and unravel things to some extent.

  • The "Nothing to hide" argument is (still) a logical fallacy

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  • I've commented it in the other post, but in my opinion, the issue of the "nothing to hide" -> "no worry in showing" statement is that in between lines (specially in the context for which it's used) it seems to want to imply that having something to hide must be something rare or perhaps wrong.. as if it were not possible to want to hide things that are good for society to keep hidden.

    This isn’t a formal, logical fallacy, but an informal one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy

    From a perspective free of presuppositions and biases, I don't think the logic of the argument on itself is wrong, because of course I wouldn't be worried about my privacy if I had no interest in keeping my private information hidden.... but the premise isn't true here! the context in which the argument is used is the problem.. not the logic of it.

    It's not incorrect to say: "nothing to hide" -> "no worry in showing" ...what's incorrect is assuming that the "nothing to hide" antecedent is true for all law abiding citizens ...as if people didn't have an interest in keeping perfectly legal and legitimate things hidden and safe from as many prying eyes as possible. The fallacy is in the way that it's used, they are pretending that this means people shouldn't be worried, when in fact it means the opposite, since everyone does, in fact, have information that should remain hidden. For our own safety and the safety of our society! ..so everyone should in fact be worried about breaches in privacy.

  • The "Nothing to hide" argument is a logical fallacy

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  • In my opinion, this looks more like an informal fallacy, the problem is in the context and the intent that is given to the statement, not so much in the logic of it.

    The postulate has some ambiguity.. because in between lines it seems to want to imply that having something to hide must be something rare or perhaps wrong.. as if it were not possible to want to hide things that are good for society to keep hidden.

    This isn't a formal, logical fallacy, but an informal one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy

    From a perspective free of presuppositions and biases, I don't think the logic of the argument on itself is wrong, because of course I wouldn't be worried about my privacy if I had no interest in keeping my private information hidden.... but that premise isn't true here! the context in which the argument is used is the problem.. not the logic of it.

    It's not incorrect to say: "nothing to hide" -> "No worry for showing it" ...what's incorrect is assuming that the "nothing to hide" antecedent is true for all law abiding citizens ...as if people didn't have an interest in keeping perfectly legal and legitimate things hidden. So it's not that the statement isn't logically sound, the fallacy is in the way that it's used, they are pretending that this means people shouldn't be worried, when in fact it means the opposite, since everyone does, in fact, have information that should remain hidden. For our own safety and the safety of our society!

  • The "Nothing to hide" argument is (still) a logical fallacy

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  • It's more like calling "nazi" to all forms of authoritarian positions, even the left-wing authoritarians in the opposite side of the spectrum.

    There's a distinction between "informal fallacy" and "formal / logical fallacy". Both have separate articles in wikipedia as well. Why not just call it "fallacy" without categorizing it into a specific subcategory it does not fit anyway?

  • How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

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  • Yes! I mean, blame those who post AI-generated translations as if they were their own, or blame the AI scrappers that use those poorly generated pages for training, but it makes no sense to blame Wikipedia when the only thing they have done is just exist there and offer a platform for knowledge sharing.

    In fact, this problem is hardly exclusive to Wikipedia, every platform with crowdsourced content is in some level susceptible to AI poisoning which ultimately ends up feeding other AIs, the loop exists in all platforms. Though I understand wanting to highlight particularly the risk of endangered languages being more vulnerable to this, since they have less content available to them so the AI models have a smaller dataset which makes them worse and more sensible to bad data.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • And even if they did somehow manage to get permission to switch the license, all previous versions would still be open in perpetuity so a fork would come easily. Immich source isn't only open, and not only GPL.. but AGPL-3.0 which is as copyleft as you can get.

  • Revolt became Stoat and is not in Fdroid anymore.

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  • Yes, last time I tried Revolt it looked shamelessly like Discord's UI.

    I feel that if they just wanted an app with the look and feel of discord, it would have made more sense to make a matrix (or maybe xmpp) client with the look and feel of discord. I honestly don't see much value in yet another protocol if the only distinctive feature is in the look & feel of the UI. Specially if they are not designing the stack in a way that is at least as good as those other options from a security, privacy, feature extensibility and decentralization standpoint.

  • Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

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  • Did they work on developing new web standards to unlock that potential on the web?

    Back then HTMLv5 wasn't even a thing, there was no concept of video/microphone/gyroscope/gps access for webapps, notifications, web workers, web sockets, offline PWA webapps, etc. It was not a viable idea unless they actually were to invest big. They weren't so committed. In Firefox OS even the dialer was a webapp, Mozilla brought forth a lot of innovative APIs to make it possible, many of which are in use today even after the OS was discontinued. And nowadays you even have things like Webassembly that allows you to code it in C or whatever low level language you want.

    I feel Apple has always been more interested in their own ecosystem. Opening the web to have the same level of potential as the native apps from their walled garden goes against that strategy, so I don't believe they were really serious about that approach, it's always been more interesting for them to prioritize their native apps.

  • Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

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  • I wonder if resurrecting Firefox OS might still be an option. It was such an interesting idea having the webapps be first citizens.

    There's the KaiOS fork, but the direction is not really the same since it's more targeted to low power keypad-based phones... and I believe they replaced much of the Gonk layer with a very stripped down low level Android base which isnt fully open source... maybe if they coordinated with the LibrePhone project and some hw manufacturers (like EU-based Nokia) we'd get a fully free stack.

  • FSF announces Librephone project

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  • Good marketing means achieving an arbitrary limit of what you consider "good" marketing. So it depends on where you set the bar.

    The best marketing necessarily requires some level of unethical behavior, because being honest and saying the whole truth doesn't sell. Everything has drawbacks and benefits.. the better marketing minimizes (or even hides / fails to mention) the drawbacks and emphasizes the benefits, which is a form of deception.

  • FSF announces Librephone project

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  • I feel it's a bit like the usability vs security dilemma.. you can try to optimize to have both, but then you won't have as a result neither the most secure system nor the smoothest user-friendly experience, but something in between (you might still consider that "secure" or "usable", but that just depends on where you set your expectations).

    If you want to maximize marketing then the result won't be as ethical as it could be, and if you want to maximize ethics then the result won't be as marketable as it could be.

  • is i2p relevant today?

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  • I always saw I2P as a more modern and distributed onion-routing alternative to Tor.

    The thing is that people are used to making use of Tor in different ways than the way they use I2P, but you can also have outproxies (ie. exit nodes/relays) in I2P the same way as in Tor.. and you can also host a service inside the Tor network without relying on an exit node, like in I2P. It's just that people only seem to want to host exit nodes for Tor and not so much for I2P, this led to internal communications in I2P being more common (which is a good thing), whereas in Tor it's common to use it for anonymous access to the clearnet (which strains the network and causes chokepoints, specially with big downloads or torrent sharing). That's just a matter of usage, not capability.