Notices by Björn Schießle (bjoern@mastodon.social)

@CatherineFlick
Doesn't it turn the whole bring your own device idea upside down? If you need to give your employer full control over your device it is more like "donate your device to your poor employer". Seems like they want to have the best of both worlds. Don't have to buy devices for their employees but be in full control.

@lauren Did I missed something?

That's really frightening...

“Musk just spent a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Trump,” said Bannon (right-wing podcaster). “If he puts the same amount of money into all of Europe that he put behind Trump, he will flip every nation to a populist agenda. There’s not a centrist left-wing government in Europe that will be able to withstand that onslaught.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-steve-bannon-elon-musk-wealth-and-influence-are-weapons-to-advance-maga-aligned-goals-in-europe/

#politics #Europe #trump #musk

A nerdy question: How do you organize your (sub-)folders in your mailbox? Do you add your sub-folders all below "Inbox" or do you put them on the same level next to your Inbox"?

Until now I had all my sub-folders below the "Inbox" but sometimes this looks ugly (e.g. k9 /Thunderbird for Android). Moving them one level up could make the folder structure look nicer and also simplify navigation.

Opinions? Best practice?

#mail #mailbox #folder

Seems like #Matrix is now popular enough to attract #spam. Something I only knew from #XMPP until last week but now I also receive strange stuff from random people via Matrix.

That's really ridiculous. #Google decided to remove the #xmpp client #Conversations because they think it uploads contact data.

Beside the fact that it doesn't upload any contact data, there are many mainstream messengers which exactly do this, all available on #gplay.

Additionally it seems to be extremly hard or even impossible to get in contact with someone who can explain the decision and revert it.

Such gatekeepers are extremly harmful.

Source: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111929074071688694

Hope it is not a to emotional and controversial question: If you would buy a #Linux #Notebook today... #Intel or #AMD ? And why would you chose one over the other?

"We get exponential growth based on having one protocol, not a half dozen. [..] standards aren’t about competition. They’re about cooperation".

Great article by @evanprodromou . I completely agree, #ActivityPub has to win if we want to have a great social web. Don't get seduced by the shiny marketing of the next VC driven social network (protocol).

https://evanp.me/2023/10/06/activitypub-the-socialcg-and-the-social-web/

@dansup @pixelfed Is there a rough timeline when the Android app will be available in the Play Store? I can install/update it manually, but without the Play Store, you miss out on a lot of Pixelfed users.