My family bought a big Vizio TV around a year ago (IIRC), and I'm pretty sure we didn't have to sign in to anything for it to work. We didn't connect it to the internet. It often prompts for an update to the remote but…
I wish Haketilo [1] would have caught on more. There's so many free JavaScript apps but we're mostly just missing a way to actually control which version or derivative of the JavaScript is run. There's also the problem…
Thank you, It's been on my mental to-do list to do a 911 test call (with pre-authorization from my 911 center) from the device at some point, but I've been procrastinating. I decided to try this today. I didn't expect…
I tell people I don't have a cell phone, but when pressed I say I technically do have many smartphones, because I keep buying them at garage sales for super cheap and not actually using them. And technically, I also…
This is not the case with current systems, but could future systems be designed to be tamper-evident in a way that makes it impractical to sign fake images or extract the signing key without leaving evidence on the…
If you just want to get away from Google, there are other operating systems that don't use as many Google services: see [1] and [2] I didn't realized when I started writing this, but apparently even so-called…
When did this start? I didn't even realize at first because I use Redlib.
This is a minor nitpick, but I don't think postmarketOS is GNU/Linux. I am not sure what the correct term would be to refer to the group of operating systems including those you mentioned but excluding Android, since…
Are there somewhat popular social networks that require commenters and posters to license their work under a free license (e.g. CC-BY-SA-4.0)? Then anyone would be free to create a "clone" of the website and even make…
I think the new account would have to be a Microsoft account also, so you wouldn't have even gained anything by not migrating. Some servers allow joining without a Microsoft account even these days, but probably can't…
I would be curious to know what kind of vulnerabilities the latest version of Eudora (7.1.0.9 I think) has. With how old it is (2006), surely there are several critical vulnerabilities, but all I could find when looking…
I'm not familiar with Canva but I don't see any technical reason why every interaction would need to rely on the server. Since Canva uses client-side JavaScript, it could be designed so that the local version of a…
Is this actually feasible? How do you tell when a page uses ads? How do you find pages without ads when you search for something?
Good to know! Thanks. I notice the README file for signal-cli [1] says registration "may require solving a CAPTCHA challenge", which might involve running proprietary software. I found a forum post that says this also…
Oof, this is a problem at my workplace. Crew [1] and Connecteam [2] (workplace communication apps) both require an SMS code to sign in. Technically, you don't have to have a cell phone, because you can use a VoIP…
Not who you replied to, but I do sometimes have problems like this, and as a result I am sometimes an hour late with no warning. It's bad, but it only happens very rarely. This also sometimes happened when I did use a…
If this works without proprietary software, it might actually convince me to use Signal. I already have a VoIP phone number through JMP and would be happy to use it for Signal, but I've read that registration isn't an…
Can you elaborate? What happened to your browser history? It seems odd that browsers would even let websites cause problems like this but maybe I'm misunderstanding because I'm not sure what the problems are.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) calls the update system used in Windows 10 a "back door" [1], I think because it installs updates automatically. This sounds like nonsense to me, because it implies that I installed a…
Defense against Signal may not be total, but if you build from source (or use a reproducible build) you can check to be pretty sure you have the same software as everyone else, in which case a backdoor would have to be…
The license seems to already require this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/ Maybe I am misunderstanding the summary, but it says: "If you publicly use any adapted version of this database, or works produced from…
There is a book called "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye" which is (was?) banned in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_David_California Although copyright-infringing books may be illegal to…
Woah, I just realized (because of this comment) that I've been grouping "technique" and "technology" as a single thing in my understanding and calling it "technology"/"tech". For example, I would describe a method to do…
> At that point, people shouldn't buy the product if they disagree with the conditions. I think a problem with this idea is that terms of service can be difficult to understand. For example a lot of licenses or terms of…
There's also the free culture movement, which generally believes all creative works should be free, not just software. There are many people who would advocate for free software and not free culture, but jxself has also…
My family bought a big Vizio TV around a year ago (IIRC), and I'm pretty sure we didn't have to sign in to anything for it to work. We didn't connect it to the internet. It often prompts for an update to the remote but…
I wish Haketilo [1] would have caught on more. There's so many free JavaScript apps but we're mostly just missing a way to actually control which version or derivative of the JavaScript is run. There's also the problem…
Thank you, It's been on my mental to-do list to do a 911 test call (with pre-authorization from my 911 center) from the device at some point, but I've been procrastinating. I decided to try this today. I didn't expect…
I tell people I don't have a cell phone, but when pressed I say I technically do have many smartphones, because I keep buying them at garage sales for super cheap and not actually using them. And technically, I also…
This is not the case with current systems, but could future systems be designed to be tamper-evident in a way that makes it impractical to sign fake images or extract the signing key without leaving evidence on the…
If you just want to get away from Google, there are other operating systems that don't use as many Google services: see [1] and [2] I didn't realized when I started writing this, but apparently even so-called…
When did this start? I didn't even realize at first because I use Redlib.
This is a minor nitpick, but I don't think postmarketOS is GNU/Linux. I am not sure what the correct term would be to refer to the group of operating systems including those you mentioned but excluding Android, since…
Are there somewhat popular social networks that require commenters and posters to license their work under a free license (e.g. CC-BY-SA-4.0)? Then anyone would be free to create a "clone" of the website and even make…
I think the new account would have to be a Microsoft account also, so you wouldn't have even gained anything by not migrating. Some servers allow joining without a Microsoft account even these days, but probably can't…
I would be curious to know what kind of vulnerabilities the latest version of Eudora (7.1.0.9 I think) has. With how old it is (2006), surely there are several critical vulnerabilities, but all I could find when looking…
I'm not familiar with Canva but I don't see any technical reason why every interaction would need to rely on the server. Since Canva uses client-side JavaScript, it could be designed so that the local version of a…
Is this actually feasible? How do you tell when a page uses ads? How do you find pages without ads when you search for something?
Good to know! Thanks. I notice the README file for signal-cli [1] says registration "may require solving a CAPTCHA challenge", which might involve running proprietary software. I found a forum post that says this also…
Oof, this is a problem at my workplace. Crew [1] and Connecteam [2] (workplace communication apps) both require an SMS code to sign in. Technically, you don't have to have a cell phone, because you can use a VoIP…
Not who you replied to, but I do sometimes have problems like this, and as a result I am sometimes an hour late with no warning. It's bad, but it only happens very rarely. This also sometimes happened when I did use a…
If this works without proprietary software, it might actually convince me to use Signal. I already have a VoIP phone number through JMP and would be happy to use it for Signal, but I've read that registration isn't an…
Can you elaborate? What happened to your browser history? It seems odd that browsers would even let websites cause problems like this but maybe I'm misunderstanding because I'm not sure what the problems are.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) calls the update system used in Windows 10 a "back door" [1], I think because it installs updates automatically. This sounds like nonsense to me, because it implies that I installed a…
Defense against Signal may not be total, but if you build from source (or use a reproducible build) you can check to be pretty sure you have the same software as everyone else, in which case a backdoor would have to be…
The license seems to already require this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/ Maybe I am misunderstanding the summary, but it says: "If you publicly use any adapted version of this database, or works produced from…
There is a book called "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye" which is (was?) banned in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_David_California Although copyright-infringing books may be illegal to…
Woah, I just realized (because of this comment) that I've been grouping "technique" and "technology" as a single thing in my understanding and calling it "technology"/"tech". For example, I would describe a method to do…
> At that point, people shouldn't buy the product if they disagree with the conditions. I think a problem with this idea is that terms of service can be difficult to understand. For example a lot of licenses or terms of…
There's also the free culture movement, which generally believes all creative works should be free, not just software. There are many people who would advocate for free software and not free culture, but jxself has also…