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by toastal 11mo ago
I wish Tangled supported alternatives to Git
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by toastal 11mo ago
> Phone numbers aren't required now. Signal still requires a phone number for registration.
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by toastal 11mo ago
Why should we be trusting this centralized service? I regret getting my family onto Signal as I would love to get there somewhere where we control our data & aren’t reliant on US-based service. When you look at the EU’s Chat Control l
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by toastal 11mo ago
Some of the best news I have read all week. We do not need to bend the knee to US megacorporations & proprietary code forges for open source. I hope this causes bigger discussions—especially including locking chat to platforms like Disc
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by toastal 11mo ago
Those are starts. There’s also plain cgit, gitweb, & Ayllu for the minimalists on Git. Sourcehut also supports Mercurial. There is also the Pijul Nest. Darcs has contemporary homes in darcs hub & Smederee. Fossil fully self-hosts it
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by toastal 11mo ago
It doesn’t even let you discover sources not on MS GitHub—let alone projects not using Git as a VCS? There is a ton of open source happening outside of Microsoft’s AI-filled, walled garden.
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by toastal 11mo ago
One of the other appeals of the Android ecosystem was a large selection of hardware for user-specific needs. GrapheneOS only supports Google Pixel phones which do not compare to the sorts of hardware postmarketOS or other Linux OS support.
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by toastal 11mo ago
It’s the same as unGoogling your life where you can slowly start moving off one service at a time & make sure new ones you use are open or at least otherwise ethical.
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by toastal 11mo ago
They do a good job contributing upstream to the kernel & are one of the few phones out there that still allow users to unlock the bootloader & they support headphone jacks + microSD cards.
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by toastal 11mo ago
Landing page requires JavaScript. Why. Comments here all look fake from a ton of new accounts.
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by toastal 11mo ago
I made a partition for Nix on mine so I have all the tools I need while not relying on Jolla to package things (the installable package list is quite barren). My audio works from the speakers, but the patches to make the headphone jack (som
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by toastal 11mo ago
This will become increasingly important as Google has boiled the frog too fast while trying to force its new store policies + banning sideloading; however, all of the pieces are now in place for them to try again in a year or 2, which histo
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by toastal 11mo ago
Both XMPP (via OMEMO) & Matrix use libsignal for double-rachet encryption—so they have the same encryption properties. The biggest practical differences for the average user in my opinion is XMPP has a separate concept for DMs (not a 2-
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by toastal 11mo ago
> can run on such low resource hardware This is what frees a barrier to decentralization & actually owning one’s data. A few of my friends are now running their own single-user or small XMPP servers since it doesn’t use much in terms
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by toastal 11mo ago
I tried out an alpha client once & can’t get the stupid pop-up about unverified devices to go away now. Another client didn’t have the verification flow even set up—this will end up being yet another barrier to entry for new clients. Wi
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by toastal 11mo ago
I remember trying to get my absentee ballot information & the county I am registered in blocked requests from abroad.
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by toastal 1y ago
Location/culture I think matter too. A lot of equatorial nations drive motorcycles & motorbikes as the default. Car drivers aren’t better drivers on the whole, but they are very aware of motorcycles at all times that I feel other p
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by toastal 1y ago
These are things to be critical of after post-React in the explosion of complexity, but I don’t think this is FP’s fault. I did a lot of FP front-end in the actual FP languages—not languages cosplying FP with JS or TS—& these communitie
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by toastal 1y ago
Not a troll. The normal, uninitiated folk don’t know any better about their choices of technology & what that means for our private data & autonomy. We have seen this song & dance of getting locked into shitty platforms like Sla
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by toastal 1y ago
Meanwhile, SMS 2FA is still the standard for security in Thailand :(
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by toastal 1y ago
That brand isn’t for sale in my country
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by toastal 1y ago
Do they come in OLED now?
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by toastal 1y ago
> Electrolux washing machine I had to buy one a couple of years ago. Snarkily I asked the floor salesman if I could get the washer “without all the smart features”. He said “let me check”, which had me puzzled. He came back to inform me
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by toastal 1y ago
NiZ manufactures a reprogrammable 75% split keyboard in their L84 series. Granted this isn’t mechanical, but a (subjectively suprerior) electrostatic capacitive switch keyboard.
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by toastal 1y ago
still no OLED
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by toastal 1y ago
Shame it’s Jujutsu & not something based on actual Patch Theory (patches are commutative). I think Patch Theory is one of the ways out of merge conflict hell.
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by toastal 1y ago
“Privacy focus” that states to “No reliance on proprietary cloud services” should not hypocritically lock their code & collaboration behind Microsoft’s GitHub.
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by toastal 1y ago
> XMPP [… is] not it What. XMPP is much easier to work with since both servers & clients use an order of magnitude less resources (CPU, RAM, storage, bandwidth). This makes them easier to self-host & also get someone to actually
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by toastal 1y ago
Also it’s LLMs* … apostrophes don’t make words plural
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by toastal 1y ago
Looking for a role doing front-end programming and/or dev ops Location: Eastern Thailand (UTC +7) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Nix, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, OCaml, PureScript, Elm (& others); general we

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