Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
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I’m quoted today in an EdTech article “Satellite Broadband Brings Internet Connectivity to Remote Locations” that explores how low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems could potentially help connect the unconnected and close the digital divide. A key question I raised was … will these systems actually be *affordable* to the people that need them most. I think there is great potential, but also great challenges.
#InternetAccess #Starlink #LEOs #satellite #Internet #OneWeb
@kingannoy
They will have been aware of this problem since many years ago. They don't' care and they can't (won't) fix it. Keeping the timezone database up to date was simply not contemplated in Android, and the files that need to be updates are "protected" by the same "protections" that stop you disabling surveillance systems and other undesirable software that you are obliged to run on the device. If you want to fix it, you'll probably have to get a new phone.
Keith Whyte
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This morning I woke up and the time on my (non-connected) wrist watch didn't match up with the time on my phone (or my partners phone and her smart watch). A quick search on the internet seems to confirm that the time on my Casio is the correct time.
We would have been an hour early for our bus, if it wasn't for my "dumb" watch.
I'm still unsure what made our phones change the time like this. They are both android, but a third android phone kept the correct time, so it's not all android phones...
We are in Mexico on holiday, and Mexico recently stopped with daylight savings, so maybe that hasn't been updated properly in android?
Changing my location to Belize, a country that keeps the same time zone and also doesn't change their clocks gives me the correct time. This will have to do as a "fix" for now... 🤷
Of course, as expected the so-called "social" networks are full of #AMLO haters taking advantage of their own ignorance and the situation to blame this on the government. 🙄
This morning in #Mexico many #Android phones will be confusing people by showing the wrong #time. We no longer have #DST, but updating the #tzdata timezone database on most older devices is almost impossible.
Don't worry, just buy a new device. It's easy, Just throw all that silly old #lithium, #manganese, #tellurium, #tungsten and #cobalt in the landfill.
And all for a locked #bootloader.
An example of 💩 gle and the phone manufacturing industry being #evil.
#ANNOYED - by google.
Keith Whyte
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1990s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for
2020s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway
Keith Whyte
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Good news in #FOSS anyone?
Our application platform is now open! 🚀
We welcome subsmissions from projects that seek support for Open Source Infrastructure in the public interest.
Would you like to see support for a specific library, developer tool or any other critical open source component? Please let us know!
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Well crap, time for a second profit-driven private company to throw thousands of satellites into orbit. What could possibly go wrong? https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/23/1070187/amazon-project-kuiper-launch/
Article by Jonathan O'Callaghan, including quotes from me and @ProfHughLewis
"When I added support for FastMail to Geary, my changes were rejected. If FastMail was an ethical provider of email, I’m sure that this would not have been the case." @aral's sarcasm.. 😉
😠 developers! priorities!
I'm so happy (not) that #virtualbox now has child-friendly penguin pictures and burns some extra cpu cycles for a little distracting mouse-over animations in my VM list. Shame some of my VMs take literally 20x the time to start up after the last "upgrade".
I only I had 10cent for every time I've experienced this syndrome over the last 30 years.... I'd open "efficient software systems inc." and repurpose all the trash hardware you folks have imposed on the world.
@tychosoft@fosstodon.org
That's rather offensive, wouldn't you say? Comparing actual repression of trans to genocide?
Keith Whyte
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yay, #wireshark devs finally merged AMR audio codec decoding patch (https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/10025). You can now play backAMR-in-RTP VoIP calls in wireshark, for example those originating or terminating in 2G cellular networks!
Keith Whyte
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Do not confuse short-staffed and understaffed.
Short-staffed is when two people call out sick unexpectedly, or someone is fired for cause. It is expected to a very short term interruption of smooth operations.
Understaffed is when someone decides that the work of ten people can be done by six people. There is no plan to hire anyone to alleviate the stress and increased workload.
#staffingshortages #laborshortage #shortstaffed #understaffed
Keith Whyte
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People talk about dull or menial jobs like they're easy
Ok yes, it's easy to make a coffee or pick a tomato. Now do it 1,000 times. Do it every day. Do it with people yelling at you. Do it in the cold. Do it while you're sick.
Just because the task is easy doesn't mean the job is
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People need to understand.
#Google isn't a search engine.
#Facebook isn't a journal to share with your friend.
#Instagram isn't a public photo album.
#Twitter isn't a micro-blogging website.
They are all advertisement companies.
"Las mujeres artesanas son fuerzas que desean intensamente transformar a sus comunidades, sin perder las tradiciones, el amor y cuidado por los bosques que prestan sus recursos."
#Anhelas es una marca de la que anhelamos ser parte, pues cada compra nos hace parte de esta
increíble transformación.
Here's one of our experimental #Ericsson #4G #DUL and #RUS combination with TX-PRO sector antenna in #Oaxaca (I didn't "tidy" the wiring - it wasn't me!!)
The women's cooperative wants to purchase the unit themselves, given that the local authority is apparently against it. Me, I'm torn as always. The phones will be leaking data to the likes of meta and 💩gle but the people need to be in touch! Anyway it's up to them, let's see what happens!
@clowncollege
Is there any other scenario you envisage than pirating your music?
Is there any kind of platform that would work for you? Also I'm curious, do you still produce CDs? I think ALL of my musician friends in Mexico City do, and they usually sell a few at gigs. (Mexico seems like a place where somehow, gigging musicians are still able to live from it, of course, it's not luxurious or anything) Unfortunately, they are also all forced to engage with the "social" media for promotion.
@clowncollege
Reading this, it strikes me hard that almost the exact same words could be written by or about #FOSS engineers, or the very same internet developer/dreamers who contributed to building the platforms that destroyed musician's livelihoods.
context: I (d)evolved from being a musician/live and studio sound-engineer/producer/stage-hand to online network builder and general tech helper for what seemed like "good causes" during the 90's.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
