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  • I’m glad to be wrong.

    I hadn’t tracked that Ubuntu Touch had bumped up the Fairphone 4s and 5s to advanced support, that’s really cool, glad to see how far that’s improved (it had been awhile since Iast checked). PMOS still lists the 4 and 5 as community & test levels not main level, still listing only partial support for camera and phone calls. That being said, looks like they’re further along too than I thought too.

    I hadn’t heard of the fp6 leaks either, those are definitely better stats, thanks for the heads up!


  • I have similar thoughts and really hope the Liberux Nexx gets sustainable production and doesn’t die off like so many other promissing kickstarters and indiegogos.

    Right now the Librem 5 would be the closest of things actually produced but its starting to be outdated already in specs (starting to suck) and no way to upgrade. Its also US based which would make it a nonstarter for many reading in this here.

    Fairphone is cool but the mobile non-Android Linux ports are still a bit behind. The specs aren’t really flagship level either, but I wouldn’t say the 5’s “suck” yet even if they’re midrange. I haven’t played with /e/os but it could be a neat combo since they have the partnership.

    What are you targeting of things that are being built today?





  • The main difficulty is defining social media in a way that doesnt restrict other modern communication, education, idea publication, operating a business, shopping, sharing ideas, etc.

    Should such laws block Etsy, your family’s Nextcloud, a school ran web forum that only students/parents/faculty can access, Crash Course on YouTube, encrypted communication between your family, etc?

    The other difficulty is defining the term “children” consistently. Many US states have simple categories that go all the way to 18, if not later.

    Should there be a difference in laws for access for toddlers, elementary ages, and adolescents?

    If you think these are easy questions, I suggest you look at the dialog around the UK’s Online Safety Act where they are having to answer these questions after the fact.


  • No. The internet and the later WWW have been so instrumental in my life there is no way I’d have not had been influenced differently.

    I’ve worked through so many arguments and unsafe questions in online spaces that simply wouldn’t have been possible in the very conservative areas I grew up. I’d likely have had to seek answers with out groups and ended up elsewhere adding to my changed influences. I’d have likely had a very different career path too.

    I’m faithful that I’d have ended up in the same religion but it’d have taken a much darker journey to get there.







  • Hopefully more projects take advantage of vulnerability scanning and monitoring tools like those in this OWASP list https://owasp.org/www-community/Free_for_Open_Source_Application_Security_Tools, have good code quality standards to make their projects easier to understand and evaluate, contribute and respond to CVE reports, and get third party security auditing.

    All of that is hard to motivated those throwing their code out to the world only to share how they scratched their itch to perform. I think we need a combination of governments and non-profits providing incentives / grants to projects doing good practices, document and provide trusted a forum to validate vulnerabilities, give some backing to “trusted” frameworks, and provide some vulnerability and auditing themselves.

    The recent EU push into more government open source usage will help as they will be more incentivized to secure the pipelines and everyone will benefit the fruits of that firehose of funding.





  • Commercial Windows licenses aren’t typically covered by the equipment installers (or if they are, the cost is passed on to you instead of subsidizing it), have expiration dates, and you’ll want security updates.

    I think the comment had the implication that the system would be running on Windows if not Ubuntu.