@karl_ist_super weil die meisten "#Normies" einfach nur #TechIlliterate #KonsumOpfer sind, denen alles shiceegal ist.
@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii Maybe had #Mozilla actually cared they could've convinced #Nokia to do #FirefoxOS and we'd not have the shitty #Duopoly of today, but as we all know the decisions were made by #TechIlliterate suits that are just #HornyForMoney"…
@empathicqubit @crazy_pony @signalapp @monocles @delta
I disagree, because the few steps needed can be taught to literal #TechIlliterates within minutes, and I did so several times, walking them through.
@f @ai6yr @briankrebs I think it's less of a "#political" question but an act of #SelfDefense and #MutualDefense at this point.
Re: #TechIlliterates that are unwilling to learn, act like a "#BenevolentDictator" and enshure they can't harm themselves in the sense that they don't get #sudo or other administrative privilegues and can't do any #persistent #changes.
After all, societies almost everywhere ban people from driving motor vehicles faster than 6 km/h by people who actively refuse to even take basic exams and classes for a #DrivingLicense.
@ai6yr @briankrebs OFC this targets #TechIlliterates and the only effective means here are:
@lauren I disagree as @signalapp requires a #PhoneNumber = #PII & cost barrier and they restrict access based off #PhoneNumbers.
Whereas it's so easy and fast to get #TechIlliterates setup with #XMPP+#OMEMO (which uninke #Signal doesn't demand PII!) that I'd challenge you to a #speedrun with step-by-step documentation for every #TechIlliterate to follow along to setup Signal from scratch vs. me doing #XMPP+#OMEMO on @monocles @gajim.
Also #Signal being #centralized makes it as vulnerable as any other #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solution!
I'd not count on the #Trump-Regime not flexing #CloudAct against anyone they deem undesireable!
@codeofamor @gyptazy yeah, I don't get how "#TechIlliterate" #Normies can even use the #Web without #AdBlockers and stuff...
I guess I left that plane of existance long ago...
@tauon Actually, you want to use a truly secure as in real #E2EE solution like #XMPP+#OMEMO as in @monocles / #monoclesChat and @gajim /#gajim...
@bagder Problem with that is (besides occasional bugfixes), most people including myself would see #curl to be functionally complete and anything "nice to have" would be considered not worth the balooning in #complexity and #size.
I mean, does curl need to be able to do #BitTorrent (magnet:), #IPFS (ipfs://) or god forbid #blockchain (i.e. #EVM) support?
Do you really want to integrate @torproject / #Tor support natively into curl when using #HTTP (localhost:8118) and #SOCKS5 (localhost:9050) #proxy allows for the same and doesn't necessitate having to handle and ingest Tor arguments as well??
In fact if #toybox didn't have a #wget implementation that I could use for OS/1337 I would've merely chosen tiny-curl -o as a global alias or if #tinycurl wasn't an option, curl -o instead.
tor support built-in will go and IDK make i.e. #neocurl or sth. along those lines or build something like #ethcurl or #torcurlor #ipfscurl or whatever...That being said I am glad curl isn't solely maintained by you but has other contributors (give them a shoutout!) but I also am glad you maintain that vital software that most "#TechIlliterate #Normies" most likely never heard of but propably use on a daily basis as part of all the #tech they use to #consume media with...
curl is more than just a downloader and more intuitive than vim) with wget being "the #vi of downloaders" (tho wget is even simpler to use than vi)...Either way, curl is awesome...
@GossiTheDog whoever believes #Gertner bs outs themselves as #TechIlliterate suit!
@megmac excellent.choice if #secrity is first priority by a long shot.
But for a #Server that needs to be secure yet accessible on the public internet it's good.
@nixCraft #Funfsct: some #TechIlliterate dipshit wearing a talar most likely things this is "#hacking" or some bs.
@ada yeah, but then again Oz is ruled by #TechIlliterate #Wankers who decided to not only shutdown both #2G & #3G but literally #ban #importPhones and basically lock-out any device that desn't do #VoLTE their way...
And yes, they enforce that like #Turkey enforces people to register imported devices 30 days after import:
So if you are i.e. a #Tourist in #DownUnder and you got some serious issue, you can't even call their emergency services on 000 cuz your devices got yeeted off the network through no fault of your own!
@Botiplz because they are #TechIlliterate #Consumers?
@themarkup that's why even back when I was in school everyone who wasn't #TechIlliterate booted into #Tails or some other #Linux and thus trivially circumvented any #CintentFiltering!
@ashleyspencer @sunguramy well, #Carding is a "data breach" tho like all #platforms, #Shopify wants to enshure it's customers can't just easily migrate to a different platform, so they do leverage #VendorLockIn as much as they can get away, and since they are a #B2B platform, they can get away with a a lot of stuff they couldn't legally if they were catering to #consumers...
After all, I've been on the 'lever-end' myself, acting as "#BenevolentDictator" on many occasions to prevent people from messing up stuff for similar reasons...
And no, what #Apple does here isn't #SelfRepair or #RightToRepair but a rotten-to-the-core #Figleaf to bamboozle #TechIlliterate #legislators into believing Corporate #PR aka. #Propaganda #lies!
A #PSA for anyone living, staying, entering or even travelling to/from #Australia:
Apparently, #Australia decided to mandate it's #GSM systems to be shutdown because some #GalaxyBrainChair wanted to yeet #2G & #3G and demand everything to use #4G & #5G when in fact #VoLTE support is spotty at best and #EmergencyCalling oftentimes is explicitly hardcoded to not use #WIFIcalling or VoLTE as providing #triangulation and #LocationData via #SS7 is a desired feature when someone calls EMS, Fire Dept or the Police for help...
So essentially #tourists and anyone who hasn't an explicitly fully VoLTE-functional device they tested and verified to also do #EmergencyCalls via VoLTE are fecked with no reception when they need it the most!
This WILL KILL PEOPLE!!!
As much as we want to bitch about #GSM & #GPRS / #UMTS being #outdated and #inefficient, there are reasons to at least keep 2G available - ranging from lower power consumption to higher resilience in emergency situations.
#NewZealand for example does shutdown non-#EmergencyCalls during severe #Earthquakes so that people trapped and/or in need of urgent assistance can get through to dispatch operators and everyone else has to get in line and take a number aka. use #SMS or if existing #Internet to say "I'm fine!"...
If the Ozzies really need that juicy #UHF #SubGHz #Spectrum it's totally feasible to instead change the #allocations and reconfigure #CellularNetworks to use lesser bandwith for 2G (i.e. only keeping the absolute mininum of channels available for any service) and thus clear up space...
And to add insult to injury, Australia passed a #NorthKorea|n-alike #CellPhone #ImportBan for any device that doesn't do i.e. the bespoke proprietary garbage that i.e. #Telstra, #Vodafone and #Optus do with the #baseband modems of their #branded devices...
Seriously, which #TechIlliterate dickhead decided it's a good idea to do that #3Gshutdown in Australia without even a basic 2G network up and running at all?
@slightlyoff I don't understand why people buy that shite or accept it, but then again I'm not a #TechIlliterate #NSAbook "unofficial employee" aka. #Fecebook user either...