Notices by Andreas (andreasio@mastodon.social)

@silverwizard Wayland... For a long time (and maybe partly still) clipboards was s problem for the same reason i be guess as screen readers ?... I accepted it because... Security... But maybe we just need the EU to fund a big a11y focus: 8 teams of 6 people working full-time only on a11y in gnome and kde? (Wayland?). It's s drop in the ocean.

@silverwizard yeah. Unfortunately I don't know enough about #a11y nor security guardrails to actually help out. But I can definitely say i have hit my nose on SElinux more then once (mostly i have a feeling it's because it's not taken serious. E.g. an article on fedoramagazine, just staying that "we will disable selinux" instead of actually just teaching me how to use restorecon and semanagw)..as a hobby self hoster i feel that selinux is good, but in no way can i use it in a safe way.

@silverwizard Computers today are complicated. Every endeavor to just pass by this fact, ends up making things more cumbersome, insecure and difficult. Windows 10 and espexially 11 is an example of this. (I was probably the only one who liked windows 8 - but that shit worked)

Usability is also about learnability. And here Linux excels. Which was the reason i left mac.

However. Accessibility as in text2speech and such is a genuine problem in Linux as far as i can understand it.

@silverwizard this so much... Windows 11 stinks and is user hostile.

sooooo many of my coworkers can't understand basic windows. Everything is sent to 'helpdesk'. It's just kind of understood, that if it's windows, then it's the users fault. If it's Linux, it's mostly the geek's fault.
(I say this ad someone who ardently hate gnome "files" app).

@silverwizard we are a traditional windows shop, which has an inclination to run all database and web products on open source stack. I am writing a little project proposal for a feasibility study pertaining to open source on our desktops machines. A big win 11 rollout is planned, and might be an occasion to rethink our options.

Lets say you are a company with 5000 employees. You are spread across 50 locations. What is the #FOSS #alternative to outlook/exchange and Active Directory? What about device management and software roll out you your Employees?

@homegrown and then I have to recommend purelymail https://purelymail.com/

Very cheap, very good, surprisingly reliable (i have had outages with mailfence, never purelymail).

@silverwizard you get a lot of mail?

@feld @LexPendragon @LJ are you sure? But mailbox wants all that in one big file.... It should be much easier to handle in maildir and then indexed maybe in sqlite? At least that's what i thought...

@LexPendragon @LJ why did maildir never catch on? Mbox seems so... Backwards complex?

Honest question: colleagues 10 years older often had contact with the bare metal. It seemed you needed to know some electronics actually. Systems where local. Then my generation is the sql greybeards and everything is connected and everything is data. Now everything is 10 abstractions away in x-as a service cloud. Simple solutions require 3 specialized people and takes many hundred hours. And maybe because of this, the distance from customer to code, is bigger than ever.

Am I wrong?

@liaizon @cinebox ok. I tried https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22pleorama%22%20%22right%20wing%22&ko=-1&ia=web but didn't really find anything.

@liaizon @cinebox what is the problem with pleorama? Why are people associating software with right wing politics?

@7 Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?