Video about GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS is a custom, open-source operating system designed with the idea of providing users with the highest level of privacy and security. It is based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but differs significantly from standard software versions found in smartphones. Its creators completely eliminated integration with Google services at the system level, which avoids tracking and data collection by corporations, while offering a modern and stable working environment.

RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.

Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

I just really liked this paragraph: “There’s this great, overarching metaphor that sticks with you — that Microsoft Windows is like a station wagon, and Apple’s OS is like a luxury sedan, while Linux is like a free tank. Linux is the much better, much cheaper alternative. People find it intimidating, because they don’t know how to repair a tank. But it isn’t like they know how to repair a station wagon or a sedan either!”

Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.

With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

And maybe you should too.

‘Due to a freak phenomenon I’ve been calling The End of UX, software companies no longer listen to their users and care about their needs. We are told what we like and what we need, and if we say hell no, we’re accused of being luddites and “behind the times.”‘

The one where I get very annoyed with my email provider

AI Policy

Cory Doctorow explains about why Section 1201 of the DMCA is stopping us from owning things.

Is a comments section necessary on a blog in this day and age? I don’t think so, and here’s why.

The future of the web depends on simple, open standards.

While looking down the back of the Internet for something or other, I stumbled across Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2001. It has been a quarter of a century since 2001 (!!) so that’s a good excuse to look back at what stood the test of time. The article states: Inventions come in all shapes and sizes. Some are as simple as purple catsup. Others push the limits of quantum physics. The…

tyranny of being good at exams

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