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Increasingly, your tax dollars are used to develop applications--aka apps--that are only available on the Google or Apple "app stores".  There are two points here, first is that tax payer money is being used to…

For those who remember buying a desktop computer, a laptop, or an android phone, do you remember the first boot? Likely a ton of software was installed, some you can't get rid of. At best,…

100% agree with jwz here, https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/ All the social networks I'm on are considered old, dinosaurs, or archaic. All this may be true, but IRC, XMPP, email lists, and the like are still around decades…

Passkeys are vendor lock in and tries to turn a few big tech companies into critical infrastructure. I started to write this post in October 2022 when there was a huge push about the coming…

While perusing the system logs on my phone, I notice this: 09-29 19:25:32.139 1748 2447 E ClipboardService: Denying clipboard access to com.ubercab, application is not in focus nor is it a system service for user…