pmk

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[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They also have the CMF for 359 euro, you don't have to get the expensive one.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately our social democrats are in favor of chat control too, it was Ylva Johanssons idea to begin with.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

I was thinking more about legal actions. But then again torrents need trackers and search sites. It seems like it's hard to shut down pirate bay though. I just have a feeling that usenet flies under the radar a bit, but if it became mainstream, it might be easier to shut down a server than a shifting swarm of peers?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Doesn't this also mean that the server can be a single point of failure? Whereas in a torrent swarm it's distributed and more resilient?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

As a swede, what about the picture is different to what you are used to in America?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, true. But then you need to carry an extra device. I know it's just inconvenience.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

A little bit yes, since the BankID is owned by private companies. There are those who are working on a free software version and some people think that the government should have an official authentication app free from private interests. But it's been hard to make people aware and care about these issues. It's like the xkcd worlds smallest open source violin. At the same time, many things that relate to proving that I am me has become very convenient in this society. For example I moved to a new apartment and they just sent a link to the contract and I signed it with the app and that was that, I did my taxes by just checking that the info they had was correct and signed it on my phone, etc.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

In Sweden many parts of society requires an app called BankID. We authenticate getting mail packages, sign contracts, book a time in health care, etc with this app. It's needed everywhere. Buying a bus ticket. A phone without this app is not sufficient to function in swedish society.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They don't seem to have any supported devices apart from community contributions?
"These are the most supported devices, maintained by at least 2 people and have the functions you expect from the device running its normal OS, such as calling on a phone, working audio, and a functional UI. Besides QEMU devices, this is currently empty."

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What does Mint bring that makes you choose it over Debian on the desktop?

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Beginning of the end should mean that it's still part of the end, just, the beginning of it, like "början på slutet". To me "startslutet" sounds like the end of the start.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"If at least one of them never did what you proposed I’ll eat my hat.".

The way this is phrased means that if there is 1 or more who never did it, you will eat your hat.

 

I'm trying to understand the way Mastodon works. Back in the day I started with IRC and then the many php-based forums and then reddit which led to lemmy. I never used twitter or similar platforms.
My understanding (and this is where I need help) is that all of the above are topic-based, whereas Mastodon is person-based? What I mean is that on lemmy I subscribe to things based on topic and I don't really care about usernames or user profiles, I only care about discussing a topic. It seems to me like Mastodon is the opposite? You follow persons and what they might say about any topic?
Is there something I'm missing here? Are hashtags close enough to sorting it by topic that it works just like a topic based platform? Is this difference inherent or just in my head because I don't understand Mastodon?

 

... what should we do?
I guess it all depends on how it would be implemented, which is something I have a hard time imagining at this moment. How do you imagine day to day online life in a post-Chat Control EU world? Which ways of communicating would still be private? Is there anything we can do at this point to prepare for the worst outcome?

 

A video from openSUSE Conference 2024 about using distrobox on openSUSE Aeon.

 

Congratulations to Andreas!
It seems like he has lots of ideas for how to improve things in packaging, and for communicating with other distros. Debian is a big ship to steer, and I personally hope the leader can facilitate people working together to reach our goals.

 

For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system".
I also think we could learn website design from.. looks at notes ..everyone else.

 

I'm not proposing anything here, I'm curious what you all think of the future.

What is your vision for what you want Linux to be?

I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc.

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it's now your desktop computer. That's one vision. ChromeOS has its "everything is in the cloud" vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it's free software.

If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?

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