JKN Tech

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Tech and media wrangler. Hand-made IT solutions since 1995. #linux #computing #privacy #cybersecurity #sysadmin #FOSS #digitalmedia
Websitehttps://jaykayenn.com
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This corporate monoculture extends to every aspect of life and business in #malaysia as well. You cannot do anything without using proprietary Office or Adobe file formats, even in situations where those formats make no sense at all.
Despite having an #opensource mandate for over 20 years, you still cannot deal with the Malaysian government without #Microsoft Windows and Office.
https://www.malaysia.gov.my/en/my-initiative/whole-government-digital-services/ict-sebagai-perkhidmatan/program-pembangunan-sistem-dan-keupayaan-sumber-terbuka-osdec
Program Pembangunan Sistem dan Keupayaan Sumber Terbuka (OSDeC)

Malaysia Government Online Service Gateway for Citizen

Hey #Linux distro developers. If you're gonna spend the effort on age verification, could you also release a non-USA edition for the rest of us? Thanks.

Tried to use the #YouTube app for the first time in a year.

Literally unusable.

#ads #enshittification

When YouTubers have a better record of busting scam centers than law enforcement agencies, the problem is not software.

#google #Android #sideloading #scammers #corruption

#Freenet rebooted. 1st official app now available (chat app).
https://freenet.org/

#privacy #altnet #decentralization

Freenet

"The combination of centralized telemetry, coercive adoption mandates, catastrophic historical governance failures, asymmetrical legal protections, and corporate entanglement creates an infrastructure primed for abuse."
https://blog.jaykayenn.net/your-identity-their-control/

#privacy #techtyranny #Malaysia #civilrights #digitalID

Your Identity, Their Control: What You Need to Know About Malaysia’s New Digital ID

While other countries are facing backlash for introducing national digital IDs or apps, Malaysia is steamrolling ahead with its increasingly mandatory MyDigital ID. Despite every citizen already carrying a digital ID (MyKad), MyDigital ID is being deployed as a mandatory phone app for basic civic services, interactions, and utilities. A

jaykayenn.net

Searches for something on #YouTube

- Sure! Here's a million things tangentially related to the thing you searched for, but not actually the thing you searched for...

People who have working systems generally don't talk about it. Look at the Steam survey charts. Installed #LinuxMint years ago and everything's been working fine since.

#Linux #distrowars #socialmediaeffect