We're so accustomed to prices always increasing that we forget that much of software should actually get CHEAPER over time.

Cloud costs are going down and companies often have less new stuff to add, hence lower development costs. Also, as they get more customers, they can spread those fixed costs out more.

Instead we get increases because we're trapped & can't switch.

In 2022, I left Google in search of a sustainable approach to open source maintenance. A year later, I was a full-time independent professional open source maintainer.

Today I’m announcing the natural progression of that experiment: Geomys, a small firm of professional maintainers with a portfolio of critical Go projects.

Nicola Murino, the maintainer of x/crypto/ssh, and @dominik, the maintainer of Staticcheck and Gotraceui, are Geomys’ first Associate Maintainers ✨

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/geomys/?source=Mastodon

WhatsApp please Exit India. 

#india #privacy #messaging

Please recall Recall 🙏

All it takes is 2 lines of code, to steal it all.

https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed-or-viewed-on-your-own-windows-pc-is-now-possible-da3e12e9465e

#Privacy #Security #Sanity 🫠

Police remote-scanning the NFC tags in your library book and cross-referencing them with your plate from the ANPR was not on my dystopia checklist. Time to go back to barcodes.

https://archive.is/bYszD

First post: A history of online public messaging

Come with us on a tour of messaging platforms and their evolution over the years.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/first-post-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Politicians around the world continue their push to undermine encryption 🤦‍♂️

Just stop guys, it is getting embarrassing 🙈🙈

#privacymatters #encrypted #enoughisenough

New video!
In this one, I try and give a few tips if your battery life on #Linux is giving you problems.
Not the usual “lower your brightness and shut down all network connections”, because that works, but it’s not really a solution :)

So, I tackle TLP (the easy way), GPU acceleration in the browser (seriously that’s a big potential drain), moving online video to H264 (not all GPUs can decode VP8 or 9) and more!

https://youtu.be/YE431SYO2Is