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Hi, we are a small group trying to bring the "trustworthy" feature back to tech. Curating and building a FOSS+ toolset, storefront, and eventually online service—all to support freedom, privacy, and informed consent—on device and on the net.
First off, you'll notice that you've not heard about this project before. Next, the message is a bit scattered, and the "programmer art," while arguably not horrible isn't winning any awards either, haha.
That's where you come in.
You are one of the few folks who really cares about this stuff, and also a graphic/product designer, or perhaps a digital marketer, communicator or "people whisperer." (Being in the EU would be helpful as well, to work from the digital sovereignty angle, though not required.)
Some of us are unemployed and currently donating our time. Maybe you are too, or retired/cashed-out and bored. Consider this another FOSS-like project. We hope the store/service will make money, but we're not there yet.
So they do have access after all—just have to ask nicely.
That process is fine, the best we have.
The problem is having roving surveillance vehicles driving around everywhere. I see a couple of them every day on my walk in a mostly residential area.
The addition of facial recognition is trivial if not already implemented. Can be done after the fact. The tradeoff is catching an occasional criminal while enabling all sorts of abuse from the powers that be.
Speaking for myself, the "blast radius" of my email address is some 600+ accounts... (just looking in my password manager). The chances of me sitting down and closing every single one are non-existent. Many won't even have the luxury of having diligently tracked their login accounts in a password manager either.
Just having a family, kids, bills, schools, jobs, credit cards, banks, investments, insurance, shopping etc etc - the number of accounts many of us pick up can easily get into the hundreds.
Before I used micro & ne I used nano, and configured the keybindings to work in the CUA style. I still have the dot files, didn't delete them, but they rarely get used anymore.
I think they recently added Ctrl+S to save by default, even if unconfigured, woohoo.
Promising but very barebones. Hard to do without syntax highlighting these days, for example. But I think it would be useful on a tiny machine with openwrt, as micro is huge there. ;-)
I only ever had it a problem with large, poorly maintained projects from work. You know the kind that have two web frameworks required in the same project, and two orms, etc. ;-) That one I definitely put into a venv. But my stuff, no.
I suggest a systems administration course if you're having so much trouble with Python libs. It can help, knowing your way around the filesystem and how to use PATHs, etc.
Hey, good for you that you like doing things the hard, fragile way. Personally I'll stick with the natively supported python solution that was made part of the standard library precisely because the overwhelming majority of Python programmers find your approach unsatisfactory.
It's not hard at all, just a pip install away. Perhaps a rare uninstall later.
It sounds like you haven't read the full thread. It's common for younger developers to be slaves to "best practice" even in exceptions where it doesn't apply.
Appeal to authority is not a compelling argument either.
> “The Committee further found no evidence that Snowden attempted to communicate concerns about the legality or morality of intelligence activities to any officials, senior or otherwise, during his time at either CIA or NSA.”
Hi, we are a small group trying to bring the "trustworthy" feature back to tech. Curating and building a FOSS+ toolset, storefront, and eventually online service—all to support freedom, privacy, and informed consent—on device and on the net.
We've written our thoughts and research down at: https://trustworthy.technology/ and we have a few geeks starting projects at: https://codeberg.org/aol
First off, you'll notice that you've not heard about this project before. Next, the message is a bit scattered, and the "programmer art," while arguably not horrible isn't winning any awards either, haha.
That's where you come in.
You are one of the few folks who really cares about this stuff, and also a graphic/product designer, or perhaps a digital marketer, communicator or "people whisperer." (Being in the EU would be helpful as well, to work from the digital sovereignty angle, though not required.)
Some of us are unemployed and currently donating our time. Maybe you are too, or retired/cashed-out and bored. Consider this another FOSS-like project. We hope the store/service will make money, but we're not there yet.
Interested? Let's chat at: https://trustytech.zulipchat.com/join/h5usqnt2bet7exz747cbf3...
BTW, if/when you join please say hi let us know what kind of projects you're interested in.
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