Notices by ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)

#Mozilla has announced that they are closing their Mastodon instance.

But at least, they are hiring a lot, which is nice.

Like:
- Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- Principal Product Manager, Generative AI
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- …

Wait, are they hiring for something else than AI ?

Glad you asked:

- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads
- Client Analytics Manager
- Product Policy Manager, Ads
- …

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/listings/

If you use #Telegram and think that your conversations are encrypted, you are wrong.

99% of conversations on Telegram are plain-text and perfectly readable by telegram-people and the Russian administration.

It is not some weird technical trick. Telegram is *NOT* encrypted. Never was.

Marketing is (always) a lie.

Telegram only encrypt special "secret chats". If you don’t know what those are, then you are part of the unencrypted 99%. (and the 1% is badly encrypted).

Use @signalapp !

Sometimes, all it takes to abandon Whatsapp is a single person refusing to use it.

https://lemmy.world/post/18836850

So people paid and gave the keys of all their IT infrastructure to one incompetent company they knew nothing about because they were afraid of being taken down by a malevolent hacker in a black hoodie.

(yes, incompetent because no modern system should push a global update in production without at least some staging and revert mechanisms)

Is it just me or people just have what they deserve?

@bohwaz : merci, c’est super intéressant de mettre des chiffres sur ce ressenti.

En fait, c’est très logique : en chassant le next big thing, on ne construit rien de durable mais on maintient l’apparence d’être à la pointe ce qui justifie les investissements et donc une rémunération indécente.

Si Bakker avait tout fait pour faire de Mozilla un projet durable centré sur Firefox/Thunderbird, elle ne pourrait probablement pas justifier le dixième de son salaire actuel.

The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:

Officially declaring Mastodon notifications bankruptcy.

I’m part of too many long running threads and I can’t unsubscribe from those. Which means that genuine interesting notifications are lost in the flood.

If you want to contact me, please use email.

According to Apple’s lawyers, "no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple."

I repeat to make it clear: According to Apple itself, no reasonable Apple user should expect privacy when using the device.

So let’s make it even more clear: if you expect basic privacy using your Apple device, you are "unreasonable" (= a fool).

(originally posted by @mysk )

"I’m not on Mastodon because there’s nobody there, there’s not enough users to make it succeed, my whole community is on Twitter and don’t want to migrate and… hey… I now have a #Bluesky account! Please follow me on Bluesky, it’s very cool, it belongs to a billionaire but is decentralised. Or at least, the billionaire promises us it will be, which is cool."

– Basically every silicon valley pundit

When I graduated as an engineer, a friend told me "How do you feel entering a plane when you know that people like us build it".

I’ve worked several years in the automotive industry and saw how software was done there.

When the 737-MAX crashed, I entered into the rabbit-hole and built a really good understanding of the software issue.

The results are:

- I don’t board a boeing plane anymore.
- I avoid cars as much as I can.
- I be sure to recommend cars with the less possible software.

@freezr @ftrain @codinghorror :

@aral told us in 2017:

How Meta could kill the Fediverse, a look at historical precedents.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

At the end of this post, you will find many translations: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Turkish, Russian

Nearly three years ago, I wrote about the #ForeverComputer

https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/index.html

and followed up exactly one year ago with "Reinventing how we use computers"

https://ploum.net/2022-12-03-reinventing-how-we-use-computers.html

I recently came accross a very interesting answer:

https://www.datagubbe.se/30yearcomp/

pointing adequatly the paradox of building something new in order to last longer.

It is still something I kept in mind while waiting for my @mntmn pocket reform.

#retrocomputing #permacomputing

Google is trying to put the web in a cage in the same way they put your devices in a cage (Android, ChromeOS).

There’s one really easy, simple and efficient way to fight them: uninstall Chrome/Chromium, use #firefox

Do it. Now.

– But I prefer Chrome because of…

If you are not ready to sacrifice a little comfort (so little, Firefox is great) to save the web, then you don’t deserve a free web anyway. You are part of those killing it.

Remove Chrome. Install Firefox.

(with adblockers)

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

(picture by @davidrevoy )

@mntmn : order placed. I hope they are not sent from USA, I don’t want to pay import taxes.

@mntmn : thanks!

Is there a limited offer for this first campaign? Should I act tonight or is there no benefit than later this week?

@mntmn : should we add the charger and cable or are there included with the package?

Also: I’ve hard time deciding on the switches ;-)

@mntmn : I don’t have an account there so what’s the best for european consumers like myself (and to keep your fees as low as possible)? Create an account or do something else?

@mntmn : Will the Pocket be available in different colors?

And are we contractually forced to dye our hair in a matching color?

(if that’s the price to pay to use a Pocket, I’m OK, I quite like it, but I need to psychologically prepare my SO and my children for it 😜 )