@matthew_d_green Yep. It also reminds me of Signal Messenger not implementing any backup feature for iOS in part because they don't trust iCloud. But it means lots of users lose valuable chat history with no recourse. There is an ongoing forum thread since 2017: https://community.signalusers.org/t/ios-backup-keeping-message-history-when-switching-phones/1736/807
@matthew_d_green Who is asking people to give up cloud backup in order to retain control of data? Agreed with you but this could apply to a few different things and I wasn’t sure which ones this is reacting to.
@elementary Does this replace the stack exchange site or is it a complement?
Mozilla is working on bringing Firefox 🦊 to iOS 🥂
Real Firefox with Gecko 🦎!
Apple's over a decade long ban on competitive third party browsers has almost certainly cost Firefox significant market share and 100s of millions in lost revenue.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/mozilla_google_apple_webkit/
Pantheon Desktop (from the @elementary team) is a master piece on #NixOS 🤌🧑🍳
If I'm switching distros, I might as well go all in. I'm switching to Pantheon too 😲 Excellent work @danirabbit 💖️
The trackpad gestures are sublime. The hardware/peripheral configuration is on point. I can tweak the keyboard shortcuts to suit my muscle memory. Outstanding job by the #Nix contributors who pulled all this together ⭐️
@grahamc The notification settings might be what you're looking for 👍
Yet another team at work getting totally f'd by "modern frontend" has caused me to write down why I've been *intensely* frustrated with the clearly broken market for web technology over our long lost decade:
https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/
Thanks to @brucelawson, @heydon, Taylor Hunt, @andy, and @phae for spotting errors in drafts.
@andrew kableExtra changed my life not even exaggerating
New report from NTIA says the current mobile app store model is harmful to consumers and developers and recommends policy changes to fix it. https://ntia.gov/report/2023/competition-mobile-app-ecosystem
Forward thinking and designed for real life with an improved sideloading and alt store experience, power profiles management, and using a next generation UI toolkit. OS 7 Helps you get the apps you need, Empowers you with new features and settings, and evolves our developer platform. Download it now for a pay-what-you-can price! https://blog.elementary.io/os-7-available-now/
Got lots of setting up to do now with the release of #elementaryOS 7.
The whole family uses it, including our kids - it's so great to have a focused, polished Linux distro for them to do their homework, watch their streams and invite us parents to their Stardew Valley farm every now and then.
Thanks @danirabbit and everyone involved!
I never appreciated #WhiteStripes Seven Nation Army until this Postmodern Jukebox arrangement came along — the New Orleans dirge style is a fantastic groove for this, plus Haley Reinhart doing this is like a master class in… EVERYTHING — she’s so amazing here!
News breaks, we podcast. Nate Persily, @alex and I sat down to chat about Meta's Trump account reinstatement. Nate is pragmatic, Alex is cynical, and I'm a naive little formalist.
(I also misuse "beg the question" -- please forgive me!!)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meta-reinstates-trumps-accounts/id1646510125?i=1000596779934
@rbreich The recent film InHospitable about UPMC is fantastic https://inhospitablefilm.com/
@hankg very cool!
#PolComm folks: We're #hiring at U of Wisconsin-Madison! Please share.
We're looking for a research administrative manager to help us with an #NSF #grant on detecting misinformation & successful interventions, for both research and public-facing service. 2-year position. Emphasis on grant admin.
https://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/515902/multifunctional-research-administration-manager
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
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