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Head of R&D @loopholelabs.io #linux #kubernetes #virtualization #wasm #gnome Mastodon: @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy she/her | Vancouver, BC https://felicitas.pojtinger.com/

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So cool that this is like a thing, feels like you're in a 1990s jet plane

11.03.2026 05:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Omw to Macao on a jet boat πŸ›₯

11.03.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Gosh the breakfast here is deliciousssss

10.03.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And it doesn't just suck for trans people - this will also make it so that every single time you sign up for a service, your full legal identity will be a) recorded and can b) be used to deny you said service

09.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can't verify your account without putting your deadname on there for everyone to see, so depending on your job field it's already "have a job and be deadnamed" or "don't have a job and use your name"

09.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Open Rights Group (@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org) β€œWhen you create a law, you have to think about what a future government could do with those powers." Ministers would have unilateral powers to lock what they see as 'harmful' behind digital ID checks. This could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content. πŸ—£οΈ ORG's James Baker. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eyes-sweeping-powers-to-regulate-tech-without-parliamentary-scrutiny/ #onlinesafety #digitalid #privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol

RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116198784206730041

> could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content

09.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Gosh I'd pay like $10k for a #Beeper hoster in Canada. The apps are so great, if people's experience with Matrix were always like this I think they would love it

09.03.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyways, now I'm back on tourist duty, there is a mountain in front of me that I really want to hike up!

09.03.2026 07:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

. yk ... liberating from US sanctions, but also be arguably better from a UX perspective.

09.03.2026 07:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

2) SafetyNet and remote attestation is IMHO the biggest hindrance to digital sovereignty on #Linux and #GNOME mobile right now, and we as citzens of places other than the US need to fix this with regulation
3) (see next post)

09.03.2026 07:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ironically, mobile #Linux as a result is already a viable platform in China today. In Canada and Europe I'd miss my contactless payments I think, although there is a native HarmonyOS Wallet (Huawei Wallet) that I think would work there as well.

09.03.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If everything weren't so smooth I'd never know those apps weren't native apps! It's really neat. Now, as you probably expect, payment apps/anything requiring SafetyNet doesn't work as is expected. Thankfully nobody here in China uses that.

09.03.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

payment and all - just work out of the box.

09.03.2026 06:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Either way, it works incredibly well.

09.03.2026 06:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You select the country you're heading to for vacation or work, and it shows you the top 10 apps on the PlayStore for you to install.

09.03.2026 06:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You just head to the Huawei AppGallery and install "EasyAbroad". It's also inbuilt as "DroidTong" directly, but I'll use the first one because it feels nicer to use. Anyways, you open up that app, and it shows you a selector of countries.

09.03.2026 06:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But guess what - turns out that's actually not the case because damn is the Android emulation on HarmonyOS great!

09.03.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They have the rubberband scroll, great consistency across the board, and all in all feel a lot like what I imagine #GNOME apps could feel like in a few years.

09.03.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

On HarmonyOS it's very different. Native HarmonyOS apps (developed with the OpenHarmony SDK, which is kind of like AOSP except targeting more kernels than just Linux) feel as nice as iOS apps, and they are fully responsive/adaptive from the start.

09.03.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

All of those ... well I really didn't like them. Apps don't feel "native" at all, stuff like camera access and so on was really janky, "share to" targets don't work etc. and worst of all the way you get apps sucks

09.03.2026 06:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The UX is really great so far, and it's miles and miles ahead in "smoothness" compared to what any Android phone today feels like (and I'm on a low-end device, the Nova 15, which sells for ~$400 US in the mainland right now). I might even say it feels a little more fluent than an iPhone!

09.03.2026 06:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been using a #HarmonyOS device for the past few days and it's def. made me re-evaluate my relationship with Android app emulation

09.03.2026 06:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Solar panels and wind turbines on lush green grass make for such beautiful scenery

09.03.2026 02:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Isch halt scho schee dasses Laendle weiderhin von ner kompetenter Partei gfuehrt wird :) Da freuts mi doch sehr des glei nachm aufstehe zlese!

09.03.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gosh I love this part of the world

08.03.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any "can Linux distro X legally include insert-software-written-with-llm-assistance-here" discussions can be immediately short-circuited to "Linux itself is software written with LLM assistance"

08.03.2026 07:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On Lemma Island today, what a beautiful place!

08.03.2026 04:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And apparently that is now a "progressive"? Man the bar is so, so, so low

08.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"I left OpenAI for moral reasons"

> Opens account
> US flag in bio
> Talks about how her only problem is with surveillance and autonomous killing of _Americans specifically_
> OP reposts in support of the Oculus founder who builds autonomous machines that kills people

08.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone seriously using the term "Department of War" needs to get dipped into a pool of cold "reset your brain back to to 2019" juice

08.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0