@loriemerson@lxo it is not actual for many years already. the era of possible cheap development bsed on existing tehnologies is over and further envolvement takes serious scientific research and engineering efforts and investments. that's why we don't see any improvements in hardware the past decades. they just faced the limits that are not passable with already exising solutions.
@loriemerson I disagree only with °cheaper° clause. because if something is better and higher in tehnology, it just cannot be cheaper. and cheaper are usually poor quality things or things made by slaves that are underpaid. but I would add a clause of longevity: a new instrument should run and work fine longer than previous one.
@GrapheneOS@lxo looks llike Brasilian government requirements to software are much worse than we expected. this is not just a breaking privacy for some third-party service, it's deanonimizing and tracking users by whatever sites and servers in an unknown circle.
@gemlog@livefish when I was a little kid, I learnt an English alphabet to be able to read English. but it turned out that strange people invented not just different letters but whole set of different words! I didn't understasnd why would they need to do all this :)
I had read some news from Brasil recently and have a question about what's going on in Brasil. I mean that sick proposal that operating systems has to provide some means to "check user age" or something. this sounds so weird to me that I cannot even imagine the illiterate people that invented that BS:
and how this weird demand can co-exist with free software, privacy and so on. they say the weird law enacts on 17th of March and companies and users may undergo serious fines for "breaking the law" if operating systems/software don't comply. do Brasilian users of GNU/Linux have to do anything about this or something?
@glynmoody@WeirdWriter@lxo you've got a talent. the Colonization is the most vivid English nonfiction I have read around in a long while. a blind person painting the brightest pictures of the world, described in words. this reminded me Samuel Beckett in some sense. and this is amazing.
@glynmoody@WeirdWriter@lxo yes, I noticed the tag after I read the text. I thought it was fiction too. but it's not. and this makes it even more amazing.
@Suiseiseki if the data is coming faster than the disk can write it you cannot do anything with it. it's guaranteed data loss. and using 1Gb chunks for dd sounds like madness.
@Suiseiseki@oigreslima@lxo > the federal government has an app/website that has become the single entry point for a growing number of government services over here they also have government "services" but I don't use it, although it's theoretically available via web, without any gadgets. I just don't want to cooperate with fascists in any way. they murder people and I hate them. so I live without any "services" from the fascist state. I don't communicate with them in any way.
>as banks discontinued their web-based services and now they're in a spree of shutting down branches, forcing customers to use apps to get any service whatsoever that sounds bad. over here banks offer full-featured web interfaces. mainly because sanctions made it impossible to have their apps on different proprietary gadgets. unexpected positive effect from sanctions. but without any app I can pay with a card via any ATM so even if they close web there's no need to have a smartphone.
@oigreslima@lxo it takes literally nothing to reject using malware. just don't use it. using takes expenses, paying for hardware, for proporietary software, for everything. not using is absolutely free. it does not matter what "everybody expects" unless it's illegal. and it's absolutely legal to have no tracking devices, this is a fact, so I'm sure people are the source of their own problems in 99% cases.
@Suiseiseki@oigreslima@lxo stationary phones and simple cellphones are still there. no need for any "rectangle demons". I don't have smartphone. and nobody can blame me I do this deliberately, this is my choice. and you know what? there's no any laws that demand a person to have a phone. and banks and others can perform all their operations without phone, as a fact. they just pretend they can't. but I proved this many times, they have methods to work with clients without phone at all. and I did this many times, because I simply don't take phone with me, I don't need it, really.
@lxo the question I always was curious about is why some developers participate in developing of something doubtful and clearly malicious. this is absolutely base. but some people are ready to do really filthy things for money. malicious code does not appear from the thin air, it's written by somebody. and it is not the technologies' or greedy corps' that want to steal user data, but those developers' fault.
@oigreslima@lxo no technology can harm a user without his will and cooperation. the most problems users get are the consequences of their own incautious decisions. I mean computer technologies, of course. because people invented numerous ways to kill each other, but this is another story.
@whitequark try to believe in less bullshit, and you won't have a problem with storing your data. there's no "non-profit" orgs. people work for money. and the only reason to start any organisation is money. someone pays for servers. the rest is bullshit.
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