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Music

U2, Elton, MJ, AR Rahman

Writers

Wilde, Archer, Brown

ALT ACCOUNT

nixnet.social/frankie

age

young

sex

male

location

india

frankie (beta version)'s Bio

They think I'm hiding in the shadows, but I am the shadows - The Batman

Hi, I'm Frankie 👋

I write about Literature, Life, experiences, Tech, Privacy, and the occasional political rant

Working hard for my Honorary Doctorate! 😉

I love constructive suggestions, but be nice

I enjoy conversation, but I randomly turn off

I sometimes forget what I said

(Ignore what I write within brackets)

"All Toots and Quotes posted are my own," posted someone

Boosts not=endorsements*

In a permanent foot-in-mouth state

*

"Na na na na" is the whole point of Hey Jude

I sometimes forget what I said

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A ❤️ for Em 🕯️


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Lot of extremists here, unfortunately.

"How dare you use Twitter to spread your message. How dare you maintain a crypto product. I'm disappointed in you."

"You're using Google's services and therefore you don't care about privacy. AI? The horror! You don't belong here."

We gotta understand:

  1. Firstly, it's none of our business
  2. Second, who are we to judge.

We don't know the context of that person's life. We don't know under what circumstances are they having to use those services.

I have faced this a lot of times. I receive blatant evisceration and harsh criticism and questions because I was asking for help or making a remark about my use of a big tech service. Well, it may not have been that bad, but in a situation where you're asking for and expecting help, and you I stead receive this, it definitely sucks.

There were times when I had to literally tell people that their comments are useless for me, because they really were.

We gotta understand that not all people can switch to Firefox, or daily drive GrapheneOS, or search in DuckDuckGo, or migrate to Proton Mail, or from Twitter to Mastodon.

And that should be okay with us. We can't force stuff onto people. We might instead respect individual choices while equipping them with the required information and reasons to switch to better alternatives.

Yes, Microsoft bad, and developers may use GitHub (owned by MS) to store their Repos, probably because of familiarity, uptime, and reach. And FOSS services may maintain active Twitter/Bluesky accounts. And why should that be a problem; Don't those users also deserve better?

No open source software (or proprietary, for that matter) is perfect. Better to acknowledge the shortcomings and collectively improve instead of vigorously fighting on them. BROWSER WARS ARE STUPID.

It would do us and the community at large a huge service if we took the time to understand the entire context before jumping in with free advice.

We are SO divided over silly things sometimes. We can do better by our people. Let's work to make this a more constructive and helpful space.

Peace.









Tags: #privacy #mastodon #fediverse #technology #community #positivity #foss #socialmedia

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My avatar:
"Image of a coffee-brown-coloured beach with a bit of the waves shown and some hills and trees in the background.
Also seen is a person doing a Yoga pose on the beach."

My Profile Header:
"Image of mountains, possibly the Himalayas. Seen is the Sun shyly rising from the corner, and clouds all over, the mountains head and shoulders taller than them."


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HR 😐


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frankie (beta version)

From the Graphene OS website: "We aren't against users using Google services but it doesn't belong integrated into the OS in an invasive way."

i like that.

grapheneos.org/features


Tags: #grapheneos #privacy #security #android #foss

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A ❤️ for Em 🕯️


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frankie (beta version)

Lot of extremists here, unfortunately.

"How dare you use Twitter to spread your message. How dare you maintain a crypto product. I'm disappointed in you."

"You're using Google's services and therefore you don't care about privacy. AI? The horror! You don't belong here."

We gotta understand:

  1. Firstly, it's none of our business
  2. Second, who are we to judge.

We don't know the context of that person's life. We don't know under what circumstances are they having to use those services.

I have faced this a lot of times. I receive blatant evisceration and harsh criticism and questions because I was asking for help or making a remark about my use of a big tech service. Well, it may not have been that bad, but in a situation where you're asking for and expecting help, and you I stead receive this, it definitely sucks.

There were times when I had to literally tell people that their comments are useless for me, because they really were.

We gotta understand that not all people can switch to Firefox, or daily drive GrapheneOS, or search in DuckDuckGo, or migrate to Proton Mail, or from Twitter to Mastodon.

And that should be okay with us. We can't force stuff onto people. We might instead respect individual choices while equipping them with the required information and reasons to switch to better alternatives.

Yes, Microsoft bad, and developers may use GitHub (owned by MS) to store their Repos, probably because of familiarity, uptime, and reach. And FOSS services may maintain active Twitter/Bluesky accounts. And why should that be a problem; Don't those users also deserve better?

No open source software (or proprietary, for that matter) is perfect. Better to acknowledge the shortcomings and collectively improve instead of vigorously fighting on them. BROWSER WARS ARE STUPID.

It would do us and the community at large a huge service if we took the time to understand the entire context before jumping in with free advice.

We are SO divided over silly things sometimes. We can do better by our people. Let's work to make this a more constructive and helpful space.

Peace.









Tags: #privacy #mastodon #fediverse #technology #community #positivity #foss #socialmedia

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[Pinned toot for Alt Text]

My avatar:
"Image of a coffee-brown-coloured beach with a bit of the waves shown and some hills and trees in the background.
Also seen is a person doing a Yoga pose on the beach."

My Profile Header:
"Image of mountains, possibly the Himalayas. Seen is the Sun shyly rising from the corner, and clouds all over, the mountains head and shoulders taller than them."


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