Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

The only pragmatic option for any hopeful contender challenging the Android—iOS duopoly is to bet on the Web.

You might say, “I don’t need official apps. Those services have public APIs and I can build a Linux client.” Except for Twitter, I haven’t used a third-party app better than the official app. And many companies—like Fitbit—explicitly prohibit recreation of primary experiences.

I love what Purism is doing with its Librem phone, but I do not believe native Linux apps are a viable strategy. If Microsoft could not convince major app makers to support Windows Phone with its incredible UWP developer experience, I do not have hope for native Linux apps.

I still want a Firefox OS tablet with stylus, like a Surface or iPad Pro, running a Firefox-powered Chrome OS with optional developer mode to run VS Code and related Web dev tools.

@robey@mastodon.technology That was a great post that went tragically off the rails suddenly and very fast.

The Hamilton Instrumentals album is an excellent way to enjoy Hamilton while having to write words or code. https://songwhip.com/album/original-broadway-cast-of-hamilton/the-hamilton-instrumentals

@nwallace @switchingsocial@mastodon.at 1Password has excellent two-factor authentication built-in. https://support.1password.com/one-time-passwords/

People like to complain about Google AMP for good reasons, but have you tried simply not using Google for search? DuckDuckGo answers 95% of my searches effectively these days—and no AMP! #AMP

Emerson classmates who are now screenwriters in Hollywoo, get on this. ✌️

“The Wellfallen”: A 24 episode, 3 season series on the fictional family at the center of the rise of the religious right in America, their corruption and complicit actions that elect a fascist, and the wild implosion that swings America into democratic socialism.

If you must use gears to represent settings or a developer platform, at least use mechanically correct gears.

Excellent tool for generating them: https://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/index.html #design #UI

@kyle I agree the data is sensitive. There has to be a buyer to make it valuable. Outside of ad targeting, I am not sure who would be interested in buying Cloudflare's DNS access data if the information necessary to target an individual is removed.

@kyle Most people are not going to run their own DNS servers, but Mozilla isn't stopping them from using them if they do, so the immediate benefit is an increase in default privacy. “Better is good.”

@kyle I understand your general concern, but in this case, Cloudflare seems aligned with Mozilla's stance against surveillance capitalism.

Cloudflare explicitly states the data collected in the link and which are deleted after 24 hours and the 3 pieces that are retained: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-privacy/privacy-policy/privacy-policy/

Cloudflare also explicitly states in the other link that the data is not sold or used to target ads: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-privacy/

@kyle Is it valuable data? Neither Mozilla nor Cloudflare seem to have an economic incentive to monetize this data. Also, Cloudflare’s privacy policy states:

Analog clock faces on screen-based watches are skeuomorphic. Analog clock faces take more mental effort and time to read. We will look back and laugh about this clinging to nostalgia.

#smartwatch #UI #design

@robey@mastodon.technology Listen, listen. The new iPad features the same old processor, old Pencil 1, old home button, and old Lightning port you already know and love—but now with a slightly bigger screen! Why are you denying this innovation??

Apple has every competitive advantage in the world. Why is it being abusively anticompetitive by manipulating its app store search results? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/09/technology/apple-app-store-competition.html

“I thought wasn’t it a good thing that Eve did, isn’t curiosity a valuable quality? Shouldn’t she be praised for risking this? It wasn’t, after all, that she was after money or gold or anything, she was after knowledge. What could possibly be wrong with that?” —Philip Pullman