Sorry everyone... I accidentally possessed Adam Conover
#techRant
Big thanks to Ada for translating Post 1 of my blog series “I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back” — titled “Built for Control, but Not for People” — into French.
They’ll be reading it live on the radio today with Irina!
Tune in: https://p-node.org
Time: 12:12–13:30 CEST
I’m deeply honored this piece resonated enough to be shared like this.
Post 2 and the first interlude are already out — more posts to follow.
Boosts appreciated!
#Linux #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #BlogSeries #OpenSource #PNode #Radio #TechRant #Translation #Français
Tutanota — это такой сервис, который вроде как про приватность, но по факту больше про то, чтобы ты ни с кем не мог нормально взаимодействовать. Забудьте про SMTP и IMAP, это слишком небезопасно по их версии реальности. Поэтому подключить почту к своему клиенту? Нет. Сделать рассылку с CRM? Нет. Перенести архив писем на другую платформу? Ну-у-у… теоретически когда-нибудь. Зато внутри своего уютного гетто всё шифруется насмерть, а если вы хотите написать внешнему миру, то собеседник должен пройти квест с паролями и временными ссылками. Очень удобно, да. И да, сервера строго в Германии, потому что если уж быть заложником системы, то хотя бы с немецким паспортом. Tutanota — это не «почта нового поколения», это скорее почта без почты. Без протоколов, без совместимости, без вариантов. Полностью безопасно, потому что полностью изолировано. Лучше сразу голубями, там хотя бы SMTP не нужен.
#Tutanota #Email #Privacy #SecureButUseless #NoSMTP #NoIMAP #LockIn #TechRant #Encryption #DigitalPrivacy #Germany #EmailClients #WalledGarden #PrivacyMyth #UserExperience #EmailGatekeeping #BetterUsePigeons #ModernTech #PrivacyForWho #GDRPApprovedPigeons https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/111114851022098476
Hey I'm on TV!
[TECH RANT] Don't act like you're not creative #techRant
https://podcastaddict.com/tech-rant/episode/193103819 via @PodcastAddict
Thanks @activenode for having me.
Spent better part of last night, running around the office building and borrowing HDMI capable displays. And no fucking dice (8 displays, 3 cables, and 2 DP converters tried, thus at least 48 combinations). This industrial Intel based board is just not compatible anymore with modern displays and resolutions. So how the fuck am I going to get into it's highly guarded BIOS?
Who thought that HDMI was a good idea?
It just occurred to me that when someone asks for information that you could easily find online:
- they're not asking for the information, and
- it's not easy to find things online
Let me explain, Tarantino-style.
- People often say "G00gle it!" because if they found it that way, then so could you. This is actually a poor assumption. Not only do search engines vary results based on location and other factors, more importantly, the person who you are saying "Juugull EET!" to IS NOT YOU.
As an individual who is particularly skilled and experienced in technical matters, not only do I know the right search terms to find a thing online, I also (and this is crucial and leads to point number 1) know what I'm looking for.
- People don't want just any information. They want information that is:
• credible,
• vetted,
• trustworthy,
• reliable, and
• safe
With all the information and misinformation online, all the scams, and hacks, and frauds, it seems like everyone is out to make a buck off you, legally, or not. With my tech experience, it is trivial to spot scams and know good information from bad. However, the training and experience I have wasn't easy and came after years of study and exposure. Not many have it.
People don't want information. They want assistance that is trustworthy, safe, and reliable. Those of us with tech skills might remember that the next time they go to tell someone to "Yoogl It".
Things that are simple to some, are mountainous to others.
Veeam is turning into a 4-letter word for me, like how I think of Cisco.
Robot vacuum cleaners without LiDAR navigation are a useless piece of plastic. It’s a fact!”
#RobotVacuum #TechFacts #LiDAR #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #CleaningTech #TechReview #VacuumTech #ModernLiving #GadgetFail #InnovationMatters #FutureTech #TechRant #HomeGadgets #TechTal
-ESP: Necesitamos reconocer cuando las compañías de "Tecnología" promueven cualquier cosa que denominan "INTELIGENTE" es en realidad un eufemismo para VIGILANCIA y como clientes debemos RESISTIR A TODA COSTA, hacerlos admitirlo y pedirnos permiso.
-ENG: There needs to be a reckoning and admit that when "tech" companies promote anything "SMART" it's a euphemism that means SURVEILLANCE and as Customers we SHOULD RESIST AT ALL COST, make them admit it and ask our permission.
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This morning, a VPS hosting a small e-commerce site (powered by WooCommerce on Ubuntu 22.04) experienced another out-of-memory issue. A colleague (one of the developers) urgently called me, asking to upgrade the VPS due to excessive load.
I pointed out (again, as has often happened in recent weeks) that a VPS with 32GB of RAM (!!!) and 16 dedicated cores (!!!) should not run out of memory with just five simultaneous visits to a small e-commerce site. We host much larger and busier websites on much smaller VPSs. There's likely a WordPress module with a leak, or some interaction between modules causing this issue.
The response: Okay, but just add more RAM and power to solve it.
The illusion of "infinite resources" in the Cloud has led to poor development habits. Sometimes I wonder how much energy and resources we waste (and pollution we generate) due to a lack of basic optimization.
#Tech #Development #CloudComputing #Optimization #WebHosting #WooCommerce #Ubuntu #WordPress #Sustainability #TechRant
I wish it was like at all possible to get a straight answer out of Mac support forums that was like helpful and empowering.
I have some external hard disks attached to my Mac mini and after a few years of use, I thought maybe they need a good defrag. Forums would have me believe it's all automatically handled even on HDD's and macs never need to defrag. Dig my way through a bunch of posts to find a link to now-archived defragging software that shows, get this, my hard drives could use some defragmenting.
The other month I kept trying to find out why I couldn't get ffmpeg to transcode or transmux a simple AVI file and it turns out that QuickTime (Apple) believes it to be an outdated container format and wants to offer to transcode it for me! Like no! Why does Apple treat every user as if they don't know what they're doing? Why is there never a "opt out of the stupid walled garden" button? The hardware may be more expensive, but it feels cost ineffecient to be losing functionality. I have to use this one to get around other Apple-enforced restrictions, but I'm never getting another.
Windows sucks for sure, but Mac makes me mourn for all of the gated and restricted functionality and formats that just *come with a computer* these days in modern linux systems. No linux system would refuse to open a file because it's developers singlehandedly decided the container format was too old.
Meanwhile, of course, Windows is going the privacy-loosening route. Video games are the very last reason to need it for me and that's only a handful now. Gotta stop playing games with EAC or something.
#TechRant
I have some external hard disks attached to my Mac mini and after a few years of use, I thought maybe they need a good defrag. Forums would have me believe it's all automatically handled even on HDD's and macs never need to defrag. Dig my way through a bunch of posts to find a link to now-archived defragging software that shows, get this, my hard drives could use some defragmenting.
The other month I kept trying to find out why I couldn't get ffmpeg to transcode or transmux a simple AVI file and it turns out that QuickTime (Apple) believes it to be an outdated container format and wants to offer to transcode it for me! Like no! Why does Apple treat every user as if they don't know what they're doing? Why is there never a "opt out of the stupid walled garden" button? The hardware may be more expensive, but it feels cost ineffecient to be losing functionality. I have to use this one to get around other Apple-enforced restrictions, but I'm never getting another.
Windows sucks for sure, but Mac makes me mourn for all of the gated and restricted functionality and formats that just *come with a computer* these days in modern linux systems. No linux system would refuse to open a file because it's developers singlehandedly decided the container format was too old.
Meanwhile, of course, Windows is going the privacy-loosening route. Video games are the very last reason to need it for me and that's only a handful now. Gotta stop playing games with EAC or something.
#TechRant
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Waarom toch?
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Was ist eigentlich mit dieser Unsitte, dass inzwischen (wieder) immer mehr USB-C Docks mit diesem proprietären DisplayLink-Protokoll arbeiten statt den USB DisplayPort Alternative Mode zu benutzen?
Das eine ist (semi-offener) Standard, das andere davon abhängig, dass eine Firma nicht irgendwann den Stecker zieht.
Der absolute Endgegner sind dann Docks, die zwei Ausgänge nur über DisplayLink und einen nur über DP-Alt ansprechen. WARUM?
Canonical going public doesn't change things. I really don't see how this spells the end for Ubuntu. Like, you already put your faith in a business. What if Canonical shut it's doors tmw? You'd be in the same boat. Luckily it's still just Linux and there are tons of distros and other services to use. (I use Arch btw) #linux #ubuntu #techrant
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