Notices by Chucho :artix: (jrballesteros05@social.linux.pizza), page 2

@Suiseiseki When I was a child I remember we used to receive such a big book every year from the government. We used to call it "Directory" in my country and that book was similar (if not the same) to the approach you purpose. In that time was OK because we didn't use to have mobile phones. It was more difficult to locate people sometimes but it was more or less OK.

Now I have the feeling that sharing your phone number in a public site is like making things easier to spammers, I made the mistake of sharing my contact info in my CV and now I am receiving spam and scam calls all the time. This is making me consider to let my current number like a honeypot for scam and spam calls and get a new number just to give for people I trust.

Of course sharing information in a private company where the main business is selling your data is a lot of worse.

@engravecavedave Well, I guess everything depends on the person too. In my case I am not too social so for me it is easier to remove social media. I removed my twitter account in 2020 and I was not regret. I use WhatsApp because sadly is like the standard here but I am sure I will delete that crap too. I think everything is a process, I am getting close to get rid of both big techs.

@Oleksii @murena @LineageOS I use GrapheneOS at the moment with limited Google services installed. I want to ditch WhatsApp with XMPP but as I know there is not decent iOS client.

I think Facebook is mostly crap but I had to admit it was useful to contact people who I have long time without speaking to them, especially international friends so I used to have my account just for those cases. After more than 3 years without using Facebook I finally decides to delete my account today. I never have Instagram so I am close to be "deMetafied" in my life.

Being degoogled is more difficult at the moment but I am working hard on it. Ironically whatsapp(Meta) in android relies on a Google account to do backups. So basically my main problem now is getting rid of WhatsApp.

@lxo @Suiseiseki Making hard dependencies should be enough reason to ditch systemd. See how postmarketos had to implement systemd to make Gnome and KDE works because otherwise it's more difficult.

Happy GNU year.

@cosmin If the video is tagged as +18 then you might need to login.

@mhoye oh did you see that systemd 257 announced a new focus on an API to replace its own use of dbus, called varlink?

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1002398/d8e7bd4a6107e0a7/

https://lwn.net/Articles/742675/ (from 2018, earlier announcement)

> Poettering noted¹ that one might say that documentation for sd-json and sd-varlink is ""barely existing"", but there are examples of using them within the systemd source tree.

¹: https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/113429681346022072

@auzzy Ad industry is a cancer. They destroy everything they touch. Radio, TV, Internet and so on. The problem are not only the ads but the tracking methods too.

A rant in two parts. This is part one…
The discussion earlier today about systemd replacing /var/log with some dedicated facility and a special command, journalctl, to query it impelled me to write up just what I think is wrong with a lot of Linux. Basically, they've given up on the Unix philosophy of small, composable, generally usable but simple tools in favor of a mass of large, specialized tools. "They've paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.”
Why specify a pager instead of just piping the output to a pager? Being able to search on a specific field is nice, but grep can do that. Maybe grep should be enhanced to say “apply the RE to fields m..n” (which is easy enough with awk anyway), and arguably it could take a file giving mappings of a fieldname to a field number. That's a generally useful tool; why limit it to systemd log files? Searching by time is nice, but it's nice in other contexts, e.g., the output of 'ls -l' on a large directory. The same goes for json-style output: why limit it to this context? (I won't even rant about why there has to be a single-line vs. multiline json option—that could also be a pair of simple, general commands.)
Too many Linux subsystems (or rather, their authors) have decided that they are the world and have to provide lots of functionality specific to that subsystem, rather than building general tools. Steve Jobs once said of Windows, “The only problem with Microsoft is that they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste.” That's what's going on here.

@Oleksii I hope the 3rd party integration comes soon but I know Meta will stretch this as much as they can because this way many people will stop using WhatsApp (Included me). How difficult is to get rid of Big Techs apps.

@kzimmermann It is always DNS.

@Oleksii I had the same issue. I had to login to my old google account. I rated their shitty app. I hope the 3rd party integration forces by the EU comes soon so that way I can get rid of WhatsApp.

#fahrrad #bike #bicycle #linux

How annoying is the Google monopoly.

@wildebest A workmate used AI to solve a GNU/Linux issue with grub using the root user. The AI hallucinated with a random reply and they created other directories and files in the boot directory and then it was difficult to find out what was going inside of all mess. I had to raise another VM and check the filesystem to compare and clean the directory. AI is making things messier, especially if you don't know what the hell you are doing.

@wildebest I should not use it either.

@GrapheneOS At this point I can expect Google to start excluding every non-certified OS from using all their services.

I guess it's time to close my Revolut account. I can't use it as much as I want because Google prevents GOS from using Google Pay so I won't miss it so much. Sure, I still have my old Nokia with a certified OS, but I don't want to use a far less secure device for bank apps.

I only used #GrapheneOS for two months and I already can see the OS and its development team are far more reliable and trustworthy than everything else on the Android ecosystem. The fact that Google still refuses to whitelist GOS baffles me.

We have a thread with more details on the highly anti-competitive Play Integrity API masquerading as a security feature here:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112878067304840664

Play Integrity API forbids a far more secure OS than anything they allow but yet it permits devices with no patches for 8 years.