It's crazy how companies' dumb decisions affect everyday tech. Here where I live some of the biggest banks have fired every #hardware engineer off their company. As a result the credit card machines are now basically a smart phone with a printer and a NFC reader attached. This is very bad for the visually impaired community, because they lose a lot of #accessibility through the loss of the humble button (that originally had braille on it!), in favor of inaccessible screens for basically nothing.
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Infosec and IoT guy. Little time, little code. Also, still on uni.
Sucks even more because the software that enables visually impaired to use actual smartphones cant't really work in this arrangement. At least I have never seen it used. And don't even get me started on the bank totems that run windows xp/vista.
FreeearthI've realized in years of #selfhosting that #linux philosophy "everything is a file" fits good for me. I try not to #selfhost complex systems rather than share docs, music, pass-db, etc across my devices via #syncthing. This simplifies things so much. It's easier to backup and you can peek soft that you like, and you depend less from "yet another" #homelab architecture change. Now I'm moving my tasks from #webdav to my notes folder. Will see it works
OSNewsI don’t want using my computer to be like a game of Russian roulette
I've been terribly sick for a few days so we've got some catching up to. Let's first take a look at how Windows is doing.
People often say Linux is "too much work." And I agree. They're completely justified to complain. There's the documentation page diving, the forums, the reddit threads. And, mo
Hey! I'm JJ, a #computerengineering student, junior #cybersecurity analyst and #iot / #embedded nerd.
I am currently working on an embedded #Linux based Honeypot, and using it to learn about pure #C , #crossCompiling and #LinuxKernel
I am also very interested in #hardwareHacking , #malware , #revereEngineering and overall low level stuff.
OOTS@tux0r @thaodan @zackwhittaker
There are some somewhat philosophical question in this discussion, e.g.:
- If an #Intel chip is manufactured in #Taiwan, is it an #america|n chip or a Taiwanese chip?
- If the main maintainer of an #opensource software m (or a foundation supporting the project) is from the #US, does that mean the project is "american"?
- If you have a large project (such as a #Linux distribution) that contains hundreds of other projects, where is it coming from?
I think ultimately this discussion comes down to: "Who is in control of your device, it's software and your data?"
With #opensource software, such as #Linux, I'd argue you have much more control of your device and your data than with #Windows, #OneDrive, #Office365, #Recall and all that stuff. That's why #Signal is great, even though it's from the #USA.
I proposed #Linux because it's your *ticket* out of the ecosystem.