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Comment #26085649
How do these go with OS support? Not much in the way of reviews on Youtube but I've seen a few where the driver support leaves a bit to be desired.
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Comment #21570576
They have something similar in Aus called the Capital Gains Tax and it is something that is inherrently political, unfortunately you can't uncouple the government from as they prov…
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Comment #19753153
Someone is working on a LineageOS-like project for KaiOS called GerdaOS, and there's code for the Jiophone 2 in the branch. Not sure if it compiles yet for that particular phone bu…
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Comment #19753128
FirefoxOS was also exclusively targeting the touchscreen market, which by that point was already totally saturated. Their partner deals weren't the best either, and they really lau…
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Comment #19697154
Actually, there's not been much change from the original fork of FirefoxOS besides the UI changes to be better for non-touch devices. GerdaOS (LineageOS for KaiOS) allows people to…
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Comment #18834987
Just had a look over Harvey OS, looks like a pretty neat direction to take Plan 9. But it got me wondering, is there any shared collaberation between any of the next-gen 'Plan 9-li…
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Comment #17642938
So, this is essentially a continuation of the Natami project, but you still need original hardware?
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Comment #17580388
Mastodon is a decentralised Twitter, Hubzilla would be the decentralised Facebook.
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Comment #17253691
Has the code always been licensed CC-BY-NC-SA or is that a recent change?
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Comment #17243853
Under Australian law public domain exists but only after the full copyright term expires. There's no legal mechanism for an author to relinquish their copyright over their works an…
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Comment #16999978
I just want a solution that I know is FOSS, secure and won't use my data for analytics. I have no way of knowing that from a proprietary application so it doesn't fit my use case.
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Comment #16999969
But that's not the case most of the time. Many apps aren't just one man operations, they pull in contributions from other authors and if it is GPL in any way, it becomes a mess to …
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Comment #16999965
> and to respect my privacy, and I'll happily pay good money for that That's the issue for me. If it's proprietary, I simply don't trust it to keep my data secure. I have no way of…
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Comment #16992166
Antennapod and gpodder will work for the web and Android, I don't own an iOS device so I don't know of any solutions for that platform unfortunately. To add to that, there are issu…
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Comment #16991696
If you're so concerned about a 'podcast ecosystem being built on open, decentralized standards limits' then why are you even talking about a proprietary app in the first place? You…
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Comment #16991688
Australian here, government 100% funds the ABC and the reporting produced is better than the commercial networks of 7, 9 and 10. It also funds most of the SBS, a foreign language s…
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Comment #16991661
I've never seen the appeal of Pocket Casts or these almost-a-service podcast apps. I've been using Antennapod for over a year now and it a great podcast app and does a lot of stuff…
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Comment #16937721
Depending on the jurisdiction it's an offence to withhold or destroy information that is meant to be available under FoI.
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Comment #16671110
For what it's worth, Hubzilla is working on getting an ActivityPub API up soon. They're also looking to implement OpenID2 so it can be used to log into websites just like Facebook …
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Comment #16669786
It's called ActivityPub and it's been made an official w3c protocol recently.
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Comment #16654923
It's more GNU Social with a UI that isn't clunky, so Twitter. Diaspora* is more Google+ but without some of the stuff that people need in a social network like event management. Tr…
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Comment #16654915
ActivityPub is only two years old though in its current form, and the previous ActivityPump protocol really wasn't used at all so it can be considered a new protocol in the grand s…
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Comment #16541196
When they were stiill using drop down boxes to select the days and months.
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Comment #16534114
From what I've read, Diaspora as well as Hubzilla and Friendica are also going to be integrating ActivityPub so there's movement going on that front. One thing these services are s…