Notices by Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire (damngoodtech@mastodon.social)

@Gargron Good job for entering! I'm proud of you for doing it.

@cwebber I've been toying with an idea similar -- creating a commercial open source browser.

I think it's necessary to keep the web free.

We basically have Google running the show with Chrome, selling user data.

Then we have Mozilla, staggering along as a nonprofit with Gecko, taking financial sips from Google as they do.

I think a for-profit open source browser is the only way we can have a community-oriented browser.

@ingalls Did you hear that the arctic circle actually got hotter than Florida on 8/7?

Banning #TikTok...what does that look like? Sending a drone to China to nuke the servers? Blocking the Play Store from hosting the app? Searching teens' phones at the border for the offending app?

Does #Congress even know how to #tech?

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/tiktok-ban-bill-passes-house-committee-1235934291/#!

#privacy #America #usa

@freemo I've tried a couple. Etesync is one of the best (it's a paid, open source e2e-encrypted service), but I found it hard to share calendars (e.g. for virtual assistants), so now I use Proton.

Radicale is also pretty good (self-hosted, open source & e2e-encrypted). But since I like to go offline frequently I found it hard to keep my calendars synced.

@adamconover Can't wait to watch it! 😆 I realize that most (heck--probably all!) returned stuff is just thrown away but I'm sure it runs deeper than that.

Online stores are already sharing our shopping habits tied to our home address to advertisers...might as well go full unethical while they're at it. 🤷

@adamconover Doing good so far.

@Gargron While I've never been over in the UK I experienced a sink like this only once in the US at a university I attended.

It was in the athletic building. Literally the only bathroom on the entire campus that had that sink, and it was the only type of sink in the bathroom. Never understood why they didn't replace it. Further didn't understand how to properly use it.

@dansup Having even one manual labor job is a huge accomplishment. Post high-school I would go months without finding work, even simple jobs like at Subway.