@netopwibby OFC #FirefoxOS would've been a success if people exited about it (like me) and #developers (like @fuchsiii) were ever abke to legally obtain any device with FirefoxOS on it.
2 #CertificateAuthorities booted from the good graces of #Chrome
#Google says its Chrome browser will stop trusting certificates from two certificate authorities after “patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year” diminished trust in their reliability.
The 2 orgs, #Taiwan -based #ChunghwaTelecom & #Budapest -based #Netlock , are among the hundreds of cert auth trusted by Chrome & most other #browsers to provide digital certificates that #encrypt traffic
Google is shaking up web security by ditching certificates from Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock after repeated slip-ups. Could your website be at risk? Dive into the details!
#google
#websecurity
#certificateauthority
#chunghwatelecom
#netlock
I’m trying to check if an old phone running #LineageOS in the US is network locked. It currently doesn’t have a SIM card in it, but I could put in inactive SIM in it if that would help.
I tried several online IMEI checkers. Besides being covered in ads, none of them showed the lock status.
Suggestions? Thanks!
@bob_zim yeah. Seen it. in the writeup by @micahflee ...
I just hope to find any that ain't #NetLock'd / #SimLock'd to #Verizon and that these support more than #US-#LTE bands...
I just wish @eff wouldn't expect everyone to use #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider services like @signalapp in the age of #CloudAct, cuz neither I nor anyone I'd trust would submit #PII to them like a #PhoneNumer as a matter of principle!
@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen yes, and to add insult to injury #Mozilla didn't even wanted to sell people like @fuchsiii or me a #FirefoxOS device, with the only one being "launched" in the #EU being a #SimLock'd & #NetLock'd #prepaid phone in #Spain one could only attain in-store with all the "#KYC" nonsense they had, demanding a legal address in Spain back then.
And #nerds like myself are far from the "#consoomer #Normies" for whom stuff that isn't on shelves at Staturn/MediaMarkt, BestBuy, Walmart, ... doesn't exist. I'm used to importing #tech that I want!
@Rusty @dragonarchitect I disagree re: webOS and FirefoxOS.
#webOS failed due to lack of market penetration (there was only like 1 Tablet from #hp) and #FirefoxOS failed because @mozillaofficial didn't even offer to sell devices to folks like me and @fuchsiii that wanted one.
Add to that the absurdity that #Mozilla basically expected carriers (!!) to maintain and provide the #AppStore|s themselves and you get market fracturing worse than the "P.R." #China (!!!)…
It was mismanaged and self-sabotaged in the worst possible way.
The #Duopoly of #Android & #iOS wasn't unavoidable, but an outcome of #SelfSabotage and halfassed non-commitment by competitors!
@quasigod there's a reason #SimLock and #NetLock died in #Europe over a decade ago.
That being said even #Prepaid providers don't lock their devices anymore but instead they just sell people devices at cost with a tiny margin and make their €€€ longterm bunding a free #SIM with every purchase.
#RIP #FirefoxOS, cuz @mozillaofficial refusing to sell #develooers devices made it a stillborn!
@etua_en @mozilla I never expected #FirefoxOS to become big overnight, but I actually was shouting "#ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney!" and they were like 'Go to Spain and get that obscure prepaid bundle and pray the carrier lets you buy an unlock code to get rid of the #NetLock so you can actually use that thing!'...
And that's just #NotCool!
@frumble @mozilla Und ja, alle #WebDevs die ich kenne waren begeistert wo #FirefoxOS vorgestellt wurde weil dann ist #Apps programmieren umso einfacher und ohne Bullshit möglich...
Die einzigen FirefoxOS-Geräte in der #EU waren #SimLock'd / #NetLock'd #Prepaid-Handys die nur in Spanien bei Telefonica nur als Bundle mit SIM in Shops verkauft wurden!
@ohanamatsumae @micr0 yikes.
#NetLock / #SimLock is still a thing in the #USA?
@landley @stman @OS1337 OFC this shift has been gradual and slow.
#Netbooks introduced people to the concept of #WebApps and accepting lower performance for lower price and more battery runtime.
#Smartphones became cheaper to the point one can get a < €100 one shipped next day via Aperzon and likely even a < € 50 one (+shipping) from eNay or ShitExpress without even negotiating at all.
#Chromebooks then extended #Android to something more "productive" and #Apple's #iPad followed suit - don't get me started on #Microsoft's failed and overpriced #Surface crap tho!
#FirefoxOS tried to go full in on the concept of "All you need is a Browser really" but as we all know they hamfisted themselves by not actually selling devices to people that want them - I know @fuchsiii and I wanted one but the only way to get one was to get some obscure Spanish Prepaid Bundle (which noone would proxy-buy because ID registration bs), get the #Netlock / #SimLock removed and then shipped to Germany...
And for most "#Users", which lets be honest are the "#TechIlliterate #Normies", all they need is something that can open up NSAbook, Aperzon, YouNuke and allow them to access the #WebMailer of their provider...
The only reasons I still deploy #UbuntuLTS for these is because they tend to randomly want to print stuff, copy files, edit an eMail and put some fancy fonted text into a PDF.
And because #GDPR & #BDSG are inherently incompatible with #CloudAct but I still have to maintain stuff...
