Several years ago everyone agreed that unencrypted data flow is dangerous and #internet as a whole should avoid it. #TLS spreaded everywhere. Now it is default and unencrypted traffic is marked as not secure.
(Sometimes I have to agree to 3-4 warning popups to log into some development service in internal network via http )
I wonder when we finally agree the same about #MessagingApps and when we would understand #e2ee should be a standard. And messaging apps without #encryption should also have big red scary warnings to discourage people from using these. People should know before they send something what would be used against them in the future.
“The version-less nature of the web” is responsible for a large portion of the absolute garbage we have to deal with today. It was a mistake, it was a null-level billion dollar mistake, it makes every design error made over the past 30 years permanent, and if that wasn’t enough it makes keeping backwards-compat harder by forcing everyone to tiptoe around legacy bullshit.
Make versions. Allow them to actually improve the ecosystem instead of piling more trash on top of the already existing landfill. Allow past mistakes to be fixed. Allow browsers to run version-dependent parsers instead of sniffing around what they might expect or limiting themselves on a legacy quirk that stopped being used in the 90s when rendering modern pages.
The current system is not sustainable and the framework bloat is the direct result of just how unworkable it is for everything that isn’t a page of formatted text with maybe some pictures sprinkled in occasionally.
it's inconvenient that the people who are the most qualified to answer questions such as "should i move to city X?" are the people who did it.
the ones who liked it are always going to tell you to do it. you'll typically meet these people in the city in question.
the ones who didn't like it are always going to tell you to not do it. you'll typically never meet these people, because you don't know where they went instead.
it applies to all kinds of long term commitment, such as which brand of phone you have chosen. getting unbiased answers to questions about people's commitments is difficult.
How did I not know about this app? #Paperwork is a revolution in keeping track of life admin, available at #Flathub and syncs lovely with @nextcloud
https://flathub.org/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork
extremely ironic to see this shared by people against civilian gun ownership
Windows users are victims to stockholm syndrome, I’d like to remind everyone the following list of features is not normal or necessary:
Updates take forever and use loads of resources.
PC needs to be rebooted after installing any software.
Random software needs full control of your PC to make sure you’re not doing anything you “shouldn’t be”.
An internet connection is required to play.
Your computer talks to you? Why?
An operating system is 30GB large.
Updates are mandatory.
Advertising, everywhere, constantly.
You pay for this?
Troubleshooting anything is a nightmare, shrouded in mystery and undocumented chaos.
@LaoBan also, this idea that you can't attach anything else if there is a GIF or video. that's ALSO not a part of the standard.
also, you're not allowed to have a poll with pictures attached.
thing is, if you make such a post from Pleroma, with GIFs and pictures together, and a poll, Mastodon will display it correctly.
it just doesn't let you create such a post. which is stupid if you ask me.
The crazy part about this is, that Meta didn't HAVE to subvert the protocol or find ways to bribe instance admins into showing their ads.
All they had to do was **announce **they'd be supporting a supplementary protocol some time in the future, and part of the Fediverse start acting exactly counter to the ideal of an open protocol, thus starting the almost inevitable downfall of a network that worked extremely well, in some incarnations, for more than ten years.
Imagine Mail or SMS starting to fracture into cells of smaller networks, because Mail Provider A does not think their users should be able to email users from B and C, while C doesn't talk to D and D won't let you receive mail from A. Imagine not being able to send a SMS to T-Mobile number, because Sprint doesn't think you should be able to, and Telefonica blocking Cyta, because Vodafone is blocking PrimeTel...
Yeah, let's do that. Zuckerberg hasn't even entered the ring, and you already threw the towel.
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