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franklyworkson The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All

I am a privacy advocate, and also am disappointed at how narrow minded some of the arguments of privacy advocates are.

"Banning encrypted chat will just mean the bad people moved to banned platforms". Perhaps, but some bad people have to operate where victims are (Facebook stalkers, eBay cons, ...)

"Police should be forced to just do... actual police work."

It's pretty reasonably for police to want to increase the chances and speed of resolution.

We should champion and defend privacy, in spite of the good reasons to weaken it. There's no need to strawmen.

franklyworkson I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)

Ah, this makes sense.

franklyworkson I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)

Android supports SLAAC and has good support transitional tech like xlat464 and DHCP option 108.

I have used these on my network and office to move to IPv6-only for Android.

What about lack of DHCPv6 prevents you from using IPv6 on Android?

franklyworkson NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

Time engineers are very paranoid. I expect large problems can't occur due to a single provider misbehaving.

franklyworkson Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

Any thoughts on what to extent GitHub is subsidizing OSS development with its CI?

This feels like one of the big issues that OSS projects might face when migrating to an alternative.

What might a less GitHub centric CI ecosystem look like for OSS community?

franklyworkson Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

Runner price based on CPU/memory and time makes sense, since those are the costs associated with executing runners.

The costs for GitHub doing action workflows (excluding running) is less related to job duration.

The most charitable interpretation is that per-minute pricing is easier to understand, especially if you already pay runners per minute.

The less charitable interpretation is that they charge that because they can, as they have the mindshare and network effect to keep you from changing.

franklyworkson Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

This was probably the question to ask before declaring it all as junk.

franklyworkson Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders

The kernel has mainline support, but it looks a fork is used by most images.

https://git.sr.ht/~hrdl/linux/log/v6.17-rc5_pinenote has many commits.

franklyworkson Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders

I see their repo[0] mentions transitioning to the Pinenote. I'd like to run an ordinary distribution on my Pinenote.

Does anyone know what the mainline support is like nowadays, and whether widely packaged software can make it usable as an ebook reader?

0. https://github.com/Quill-OS/quill