Thanks for creating this community.
Looking forward to what it will bring,
but assume/hope it will be some very welcome positive things! :D

Oh misread my bad,
not much experience with PostgreSQL

Yeah,
I did a speed test comparison between Oracle MySQL and MariaDB MySQL,
MariaDB is about 10 times faster.

FYI: When Oracle bought MySQL a lot of developers left and created MariaDB, so the brains behind the project moved, and in the meantime Oracle did a great job of fucking things up.

I’m also living in the EU,
however I notice a global push to such mass surveillance. The EU has been under attack by Denmark for years now e.g. by pushing through chat control (a government backdoor into encryption).

However there ain’t such thing as a backdoor only for the good guys, this can and will eventually be abused, either by extremist governments, which may not yet be in power, but might come some day, or external countries, hacking into the backdoor.

Privacy and technology experts have been warning against chat control and age verification for these reasons, however we do feel ignored, since the topics keep on coming back up.

I kinda doubt that most of the politicians graps these risks though, and kinda find it dissapointing and demotivating that our rights to privacy keep being put under scrutiny again and again.

However I’ll refuse to give up, since maintaining your rights is important, and gaining them back once lost is often very hard / nearly impossible.

Thank you for being open minded and up for hearing my arguments though! :)

I agree that big tech’s social media is like digital heroin, not only bad for kids.

But it should be up to the parent to protect their kids, you also don’t let them walk the park alone, why should you let them browse the web un-supervised.

There are parental tools to restrict your child’s internet access, those should be applied by the parent.

Not every citizen should be under surveillance by the government under the rouse that they’ll protect your kids, which they won’t.

The real goal here is to detect people who go against the government and block them. While kids & criminals slip through the cracks by finding sketchy un-surveilled sites and messaging channels.

And if you really think your government gives a damn about your kids safety, then I urge you to look in the epstein ph/f-iles

*France seeks to implement mass surveillance online by requesting age verification, but politicians wrap it in “we do it to protect the children” which is bullshit.

Protect your rights to privacy, stand up against such erosion of your rights.

By not accepting your time estimate,
requesting your reasoning why it takes that long, you explaining you calculated time in for refactoring, then rejecting your idea and granting you only time to implement the new thing, without granting time for refactoring.

And dw, my project manager is a pretty chill friend and fellow senior developer, who is reasonable and helps me with calculating in time for refactoring whenever possible/nessecary.

It’s only higher up, CEOs/management, who seek to cut corners, with rocks for brains, who don’t see that in the long run such practices are bad for business.

Which sadly is the case for most IT businesses. But at least in my workplace the project manager is not a rat & on the side of the developers.

Just increase your time estimate,
calculate in the time needed to refactor,
but don’t tell them you’re gonna refactor.

Works out most of the time.
Only when they ask why the estimate is so long, then you explain your reasoning behind it, and then they might reply with your statement and block your refactoring idea.

However, getting time to refactor most of the time, is aleady way better then never being allowed to do so.

Check the changes,
they’re quite funny :P

As many pointed out, lack of apps.

Don’t know how much it improved over the years,
but battery life wasn’t the best either.

What Linux mobile needs to gain traction imo,
would be Android app virtualisation.

Kinda like Waydroid, WSL, WSA, WinApps, WinBoat…
But then specifically for seamless Android apps on Linux mobile.

That could close the gap of lack of apps,
resulting in more users/devs,
resulting in more native apps,
eventually resulting in less need for Android apps on Linux mobile.

How about:

• uBlock Origin: To block parts of a web-page
• GreaseMonkey / TamperMonkey / ViolentMonkey: To alter request/responses through JavaScript

Perhaps one of those can suite your needs

Vibe Coding: To generate AI slop code without understanding, nor manually reviewing/altering said generated slop.

It literally means, produce low-quality work.

Raccoon thoughts:
Nooo muh grapes! D:
…
Well guess you really want some,
fine you can have that one.

Hi OP, I do the same thing during winters.

For XMR,
you can increase the profits a bit with XmrVsBeast + Gupaxx

• https://xmrvsbeast.com/p2pool/
• https://github.com/Cyrix126/gupaxx

I lately have a saying:
“If it’s not FOSS, it’s not worth your time”

Perhaps Monero bounties has something?
https://bounties.monero.social/

You can get paid in XMR for helping the community build tools that help the ecosystem.

OP I appreciate the reasoning.
But I’d advise against it,
and would recommend users to delete their Facebook account asap.

Why? 4-5 years ago I already noticed the “illusion of free speech” on Facebook.

The platform is a data farm,
but I’m a data privacy advocate,
so I regularly posted data privacy articles/tools.

Which went against the best interest of Facebook, so they simply held back that content from nearly everyone’s feed, resulting in it getting nearly zero attention.

But if I posted a dumb meme,
it would get a lot of attention.

I’ve asked around to friends back in the day who where scrolling online if they saw my data privacy posts, none did.

So staying on the platform to advertise things that go against Facebooks best interest, will likely not yield good results.

However deleting your account,
is a great conversation starter that can easily be directed into WOM (Word of Mouth) marketing, to teach your friends and family about Fediverse tools.

For those that don’t know:
It was a jump-scare flash game.

The goal was to navigate through the maze with your mouse, without touching the walls, which gets harder near the end, likely resulting in you getting closer to and concentrating hard on the screen.

Near the end they flashed a horror image and blasted a loud sound through your speakers.

Personally, it didn’t make me flinch much though,
but I guess it affected some others like OP.

Yes Fediverse software can challenge the tech giants,
but we can and must expect them to fight against it as soon as it gets on their radar!

They’ll likely will attempt to do so by:

• Censorship: Keeping it out of the feeds/search results of their users.
• Propaganda: Putting it in a bad spotlight (e.g. marking it as security risks on their own platforms).
• Direct Attacks: E.g. DDoS attacks and/or bot user networks spreading bad content on the Fediverse platforms.

We should already try to harness ourselves against the direct attacks.
And help with spreading Fediverse software through WOM (Word-Of-Mouth) marketing,
since the tech giants certainly will not help it spread themselves.

The Fediverse is one of the few sparks of hope I have remaining lately,
let us ignite these sparks together into something bright!

If the fines regarding to it are in proportion with the revenue of the business, then it likely would make a lot of them think twice about doing so.

I agree that it’s hard to enforce the rules,
and that some would still ignore them.
However updating the rules give the abused people a chance of getting justice/consolidation for their stolen work, and diminishes the chance of companies breaking the rules.

It would not combat bit torrent (P2P) piracy.
But that’s also not that important imo.
Most pirates are rather poor folks,
just trying to watch/play some content which they can’t afford, they make up for a rather neglible amount of the profit that can be had.

However it would combat billion dollar companies that would use pirated content to train LLMs to sell further. All they need is x1 internal whistleblower about doing so, and they could be fined with an amount larger then the risk is worth.