Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@Molondrongo @futurebird @discoursology
if users can't figure out where their files are, they can't switch to an alternative app, can't protect themselves against the app deleting, modifying, or moving their files. Location obfuscation enables companies to have all the benefits of widely used interoperable file formats, but prevents users from using said benefits in ways which might not benefit the company. Whenever you see "intuitive", think about how that concept is used to manipulate people.

I've said it before and you guys have ridiculed me for it (with the exception of a notable audience that wholeheartedly agrees)

Scrap the past 20 years of tech everything. All this flat bullshit UI design that's impossible to figure out how to use. Stupid touchscreen phones with no buttons or keyboards, and this nightmarish "mobile first" disaster that makes everything gross and terrible. Internet- and cloud-connected everything that's a safety and privacy nightmare. Hardware that's designed first and foremost with a scheduled obsoletion philosophy and artificially makes perfectly adequate equipment run like dirt.

Let's go back to Palm pilots, phones with actual buttons, Classic Mac OS, plain HTML with very little javascript, tape drives and manual backups, and finally have some sanity again.

Furilabs Linux Phone

Link: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839326

I unfortunately am not at all skilled in hardware design or development, but more than anything I just wish someone would put out a digital ring or smartwatch that could act as a personal wearable datastore, that could auto sync with other devices over bluetooth as a disk. I just can't believe we aren't walking around with 512gb local-syncing watches on our wrists. 😢

The @snarfed.org bridge is one of the coolest things about the fediverse right now. It is amazing to me that more people aren't talking about it. It shows so much potential for the future of the open web. I want to see a 1000 bridges to a 1000 different networks bloom.

One of the strongest arguments for right-to-repair (that no one wants to make) is that as the supply chain collapses, maintaining all the technology in our possession becomes exponentially more important. Parts must be interchangeable, accessible, and open for this to really work at all.

Yep, the Chrome team is now reaching into your machine to remove your browser extensions. Don't want them to? Tough noogies.
🙃
That's not your browser.
That's not your web.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline#latest

It’s fascinating to see just how fast the web could be if it wasn't burdened by images and millions of lines of Javascript. Check out CNN's "lite" web site.

https://lite.cnn.com

In my opinion, every government, public entity, association, foundation, etc., that needs to communicate with the public should have its own communication channel, with full control over its data and the messages it delivers. When I read “my Discord server,” I feel like responding “there’s nothing ‘yours’ about it - tomorrow morning they could shut everything down, and you would have lost EVERYTHING.”. Own your data!

Sometimes, I read that instances are not opened because of “costs not balanced by the number of users.” But even public television channels are often economically unprofitable, yet they are considered an essential service for public communication. Open, decentralized technologies that ensure control over one’s data should be treated the same way.

#OpenData #OwnYourData #Fediverse #CommunicationFreedom