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Theyre whining about having to use Microsoft Authenticator. I get it, microsoft sucks. But they’re almost certainly using android or iPhones and so already use
by cyberpunk 4y ago
Theyre whining about having to use Microsoft Authenticator.
I get it, microsoft sucks. But they’re almost certainly using android or iPhones and so already use a bunch of proprietary software.
What a stupid hill to die on.
- benatkin 4y agoI think it's a stupid hill for the university to die on.
- clnq 4y agoThe emails mention students only using FOSS. And while they are the minority, their point of view is reasonable. Studying should not involve handing over one’s data to MS or any other big tech corp without good reason.
- cyberpunk 4y agoYeah. I’m sure none of them have any device capable of watching Netflix or have a gmail address..
- clnq 4y agoTo me this looks like it’s about principle of not being denied education if you do not consent to big corp EULAs.
- benatkin 4y agoForeign big corp EULAs.
- totetsu 4y agoWhen I was a student last, I was using an Ubuntu laptop, and an android phone that was no longer receiving updates, so couldn't run any of the new versions of the apps required to do so many things.
- orwin 4y agoI had a Debian and a firefoxOS! Nowadays I'm a sellout and traded liberty for convenience (and deserve neither, paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin), but I used to fight the FOSS fight. My first two jobs were on Agpl/gplv3/gplv2 products!
- counttheforks 4y agoDid anyone force you to use either of those to complete your education? No? What's your point again?
- plaguepilled 4y agoHeh, ironic that a user named cyberpunk is defending the corporate default. Advocating for change is not invalidated by hypocritical details. Don't be that guy.
- flangola7 4y agoSome of us don't use any proprietary OS. What are we supposed to do?
- cyberpunk 4y ago[flagged]
- clnq 4y agoClearly we must make many compromises with our privacy and personal data day-to-day. Perhaps this is not how things should be.
- TallGuyShort 4y agoActually when I was a student I was using OpenBSD on my laptop and couldn't afford a smart phone. This smells a lot like "Oh you're a fan? Name three of their songs!"
- tempaccount076 4y agoJust because someone has a tiny binary blob on their otherwise open source device, doesn't mean they should give up and install a whole proprietary app from a marketing company that regularly communicates to the internet. Let's try to be respectful; not everyone is willing to 'submit', and that's OK
- janstice 4y agoI work for a uni which is rolling out the MS modern auth - we have a FIDO2 option (Yubikeys I guess) for contentious objectors to the Authenticator apps.
- counttheforks 4y agoDo you hand out the keys for free? If not you are still punishing people who have the moral high ground.
- Mystery-Machine 4y agoYou are wrong, sir. Seems like some of these students use Android ROMs without Google Services...and probably without any proprietary software.
- tempaccount076 4y agoNo, they're not using an iPhone or an Android. In the article the student mentions that they're using "a PinePhone running PostmarketOS"