OldTinfoil @OldTinfoil@linuxrocks.online

A new blog post. It is about downloading your email from Gmail and reading them somewhere else.

Thanks to @hund and @erm67 for tips.
https://effilicious.com/2020/07/03/taking-your-emails-off-gmail/

#mbox #degoogle

One of every four Swede have one or more unused mobile phone(s) laying around at home. That's some serious e-waste! And not to mention a lot of money as well.

I wish that people was better at decluttering and selling/giving away unused items. It would be good for both our planet and our wallets.

[Swedish source:] https://feber.se/mobil/svenskar-har-tva-miljoner-mobiler-i-skrivbordsladan/412908/

"European Parliament wants to forbid personalised advertisements"

https://paultang.nl/en/forbid-personalised-ads/

#EU #Ads #Privacy

If you're a developer and not an english native speaker, which language do you use for your development tools?

Please don't answer if you're a native english speaker, not to bias the results. Boosts appreciated :)

#translation #internationalization #i18n

Just was talking about something I thought I would share.

About 10 years ago I did work for a company who lost their Linux Admin.I was a 6 month contract until they got a permanent employee. They had only 1 Linux admin for 400ish Linux users and 30 servers. They had 3 Windows admin for 200ish windows users and 10 servers. The Windows Techs stayed busy while I hunted for things to do. Ended up hardening and writing automation and inventory systems.

Linux just works.

Yet another reason to not use systemd...

Don't fallback to Google NTP and DNS. · Issue #12499 · systemd/systemd · GitHub
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12499

Weirdest / most tenuous Valentine's-Day-commercialisation thing I've seen so far: I bought some salmon from Tesco and it had a sticker on it saying Be My Valentine and two salmon in a heart-shape 😂

Interactive map of Linux kernel https://makelinux.github.io/kernel/map/

You know the modern web is broken when you visit a website and are greeted with this text:

"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."

Since when is a website an "app" and why do we need JavaScript to display plain text? The web should be for everyone.

The web scam known as Brave browser gets caught, again, doing shady stuff. This time they stuff their affiliate links/code into your searches and URLs so that Brave makes money each time you visit certain sites.

People need to stop using Brave. It's a bad faith actor in the browser market. At this point even Chrome would be preferable.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/

if apps collected personal data to "improve their service", services would be good by now

Ever thought about how ironic it is that people can take a single statistics exam about representational analysis?