Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 @lupyuen@qoto.org

@quantumquia

1. It is not your "money". You are given a claim (i.e. a loan to the bank) in fiat currency when you hand over your currency to the bank.

2. A huge reason the mainframe won't be replaced is that the folks that programmed these in the 1960-1980s actually knew what they were doing, and each program has decades of proven track record. Compare that to the modern day software, with "we deploy several times a day" and "if it breaks, we can fix it quickly" script-kiddies.

@lupyuen

@niclas @lupyuen wow! Can we trust banks (i.e. black boxes that no one knows what they're doing exactly) with our money then?

@lupyuen Very interesting.

I was involved in Deutsche Bank's attempt to move off the Mainframe in 2014/2015 timeframe.

No one knew what it did, and my job was to figure out "what is running?".

I located (with help of a team of Indian COBOL experts that worked at DB) >20,000 COBOL programs, involved in 192,000 jobs, run hourly, daily, monthly or yearly.

There were active jobs referencing Cobol programs where the source code had been lost.

I left after 7 weeks, but I think the project died.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (28/2023): How do avoid notches in #Phosh and Snaps on #UbuntuTouch

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-28-2023/

#LinuxMobile #PinePhone #PinePhonePro #postmarketOS #libcamera #SailfishOS

There will be a #LinuxMobile #devroom at #FroSCon2023:

https://froscon.org/programm/projektraeume/

It's open both days for #hacking, discussion and ad-hoc sessions but you can also schedule a talk:

https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/froscon23-mobile

Hopefully see you there!

I just published a new article about Linux phones for consumers, check it out!

#mobilelinux #sailfishos #postmarketos #ubuntutouch
https://medium.com/@camden.o.b/the-ultimate-linux-phone-guide-28d0cce9929

Finally reading #PGP encrypted email on my #PinePhonePro. 🎉

With the latest version of #postmarketOS and #Thunderbird, it's still shoddy, but we can actually set up and read emails. No issues with launching or window sizing!

It's not mobile optimized at all, so I had to minimize the font size and zoom, and to read emails we need to double-tap, so it opens in a new tab.

It's not ideal, but none of the mobile optimized clients support PGP encryption at all afaik, so I'm very pleased with this.

This took a lot of work

New blog post: State of the Droidian Project https://linmob.net/droidian-project/

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (29/2023): WebRTC with video in #Capyloon and emergency calls in #Phosh

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-29-2023/

#LinuxMobile #UbuntuTouch #droidian #postmarketOS #PinePhone #Librem5

We have pushed out an update to @PINE64 #PineTab2 which makes SDDM run under Wayland.

Enjoy the smooth login animation. 🙂