publicvoit, to random
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

People using #Obsidian (and similar) don't even understand when I'm writing about #lockin situations.

If those services could be easily replaced by any Markdown edtor and a decent sync mechanism, why are they using those services in the first place? 🤷

I'm going to blog about that to make it more clearer.

#PIM

billseitz,
@billseitz@toolsforthought.social avatar

@publicvoit emacs/org-mode is a great choice for many people.
Except your wife. :)

publicvoit,
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

@billseitz Agreed.

publicvoit, to reddit
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

More and more previews stop working these days. Current example: my feed aggregator.

I want to emphasize that I've warned about that years ago:

Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Like Reddit, , and for most parts of my arguments even :
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

ademir_lemmy_br,
@ademir_lemmy_br@mastodon.social avatar

@publicvoit why not Lemmy?

publicvoit,
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

@ademir_lemmy_br Check out my article (or talk) and you will see that lemmy doesn't address all the issues I collected about web forums.

publicvoit, to random
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

My Dependencies on the Cloud
https://karl-voit.at/cloud-dependencies/

Have you recently thought about your list?

#PIM #cloud #lockin

nohans,
@nohans@fosstodon.org avatar

@publicvoit Probably not a priority for you, but just an alternative to keep in mind when the time comes 👍

publicvoit,
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

@nohans Exactly. Thanks for the pointer!

publicvoit, (edited ) to markdown
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

Today, I tested #Joplin because people kept arguing that you keep your #Markdown files as local copies which prevents vendor #lockin.

From what I've seen today, this is not a valid argument. The md files are named with random file names, their content is not just md, it's md + JSON for some meta-data.

From what it seems, without Joplin, you'll lose your structure and your internal and external links. This would be a desaster to migrate to a different tool like #orgmode.

#PIM

Dorianix,
@Dorianix@graz.social avatar

@publicvoit By md+json you do mean frontmatter in markdown, or not?

That would be a pretty common way to handle metadata in markdown.

publicvoit,
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

@Dorianix Sometimes frontmatter.

Sometimes, the MD is encapsulated in JSON. I couldn't figure out when this is happening.

publicvoit, to reddit
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar
publicvoit, to piracy
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

"If buying isn't owning, #piracy isn't stealing"
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill by @pluralistic

Absolutely!

Although I have to say that I would never buy this #DRM-"protected" content in the first place.

#LockIn #Platforms

publicvoit, to email German
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

Ich bin wirklich gespannt, ob und wann die große Mehrheit verstehen wird, dass man aus vielen Gründen lieber nicht via oder erledigt.

https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-warnt-vor-neuer-Gmail-Richtlinie-gegen-Spam-9330778.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag

Oder E-Mail ist bis dahin von "den Großen" komplett kaputt gemacht worden. Das kann auch noch sein. Dann ist die Abhängikeit von Konzernen einzementiert.

Winni,

@publicvoit

#Email #Google #Gmail #Microsoft #Microsoft365 #lockin der Link ist Müll, Cookie Horror

mischa,
@mischa@graz.social avatar

@publicvoit da kann man reden was man will wenn die cloud so toll ist.

publicvoit, to escooter German
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

by Max G2D https://www.techstage.de/test/ninebot-by-segway-max-g2d-im-test-das-ist-der-beste-e-scooter/fvgl5nv?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag

24 Kilogramm hat das gute Teil. Damit ist es mehr als fünf Kilo schwerer als mein inkl. Radkoffer! 😲

"Ninebot zwingt den Nutzer vor der ersten Fahrt zur Installation der App und einer dortigen Registrierung."

➡️ -Effekt galore. Sicher nix für mich.

Aber potentielle Kunden haben vermutlich nichts aus dem -Vorfall gelernt. 🤷
https://karl-voit.at/cloud/

Termimad,

@publicvoit diese Scheissdinger gehören gleich verschrottet

marcel, to foss German
@marcel@waldvogel.family avatar

Der -Artikel von @adfichter zu zeigt auf, dass
1️⃣ die Behörden sich selbst immer tiefer in Abhängigkeiten zu Xplain navigiert hatten,
2️⃣ für diesen Lock-In keine Exit-Szenarien existieren und
3️⃣ Due Diligence vernachlässigt wurde (wieso?).

Übrigens: Ein IT-Sicherheitszertifikat wie oder sagt nichts über die tatsächliche Sicherheit aus, nur dass man viel Text dazu geschrieben hat.

1/2

https://www.republik.ch/2023/09/25/xplain-ein-beschaffungsskandal

publicvoit, to internet_funeral
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

The Advantages of #Text-Based Information Versus Videos, #Audio or #Images
https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/08/text-vs-video-audio-images/

Many people dislike to watch #YouTube #videos and prefer a text-based tutorial for topics.

#publicvoit #PIM #lockin

publicvoit, to VanMoof
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

If you bought a that has an issue when the vendor is not available, YOU did the mistake with your choice for this product.

If you bought a lawnmower robot that doesn't work when its vendor is out of business, you did the mistake.

If you bought a computer whose vendor collects your data in his cloud ➡️ your mistake.

I can go on like that forever.

YOU need to accept the obvious downsides when you once took the very clear risk.

Next time:
https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/ 😉

Bugspriet,
@Bugspriet@social.tchncs.de avatar

@publicvoit You did the mistake ... But how - without becoming an expert - an average consumer can oversee that. I checked I can operate the bike without the app. I set it to shift the gears with the buttons. I was slightly worried about how long updates were supported, when it was replaced by a new model. I was not given a hint, it could get completely useless. I think on a certain level, laws have to be set,

tomk,
@tomk@social.lol avatar

@publicvoit This VanMoof debacle has definitely made me more aware of buying products that rely on a company’s servers to work instead of it being offline. I buy HomeKit stuff and it feels about 90% right to rely on that, and not on other smaller company’s servers.

MichaelMrak, to threads German

So etwas war zu erwarten. Ein einmal angelegtes #threads Konto kann nur gelöscht werden indem man auch sein #instagram Konto löscht. So geht #lockin, wie aus dem Lehrbuch.

MichaelMrak,

@RollingSohn @Fred_S_at meinen Instagram Account hab ich schon letztes Jahr gelöscht. Bin komplett Meta-frei und werde es auch blieben. Die Perspektive einer Federation zwischen Meta und dem Fediverse trauc ich mich aber noch nicht zu beurteilen - Chancen und Risken.

MichaelMrak,

@Fred_S_at @RollingSohn definitiv. Ich lebe gut mit Signal und unter iPhone Usern mit iMessage (und damit auch SMS). Mehr brauchts nicht, kein Mehrwert bei Whatsapp.

publicvoit, to apple
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

#Apple is stopping 3rd-party graphic cards.

Apple is stopping plug-ins for Apple Mail (#MailExtensions aren't a decent replacement).

Apple thinks that encrypting traffic to their cloud is "end-to-end #encryption". (That's a lie.)

Your #cloud data belongs to Apple.

The golden cage is getting smaller and smaller.

Just sayin' in case you'll wonder that you can't escape any more some day.

Don't invest in ecosystems like that!

https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/ #lockin #privacy #freedom #platform

EpiphanicSynchronicity,
@EpiphanicSynchronicity@pkm.social avatar

@publicvoit @voxel That was likely before the relatively recent introduction of Advanced Data Protection. See the chart on this page for the categories where you hold the encryption key with ADP vs. with SDP: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

publicvoit,
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

@EpiphanicSynchronicity @voxel As soon as a company who only delivers closes source software does promote a wrong understanding of #encryption, the whole company can't be trusted any more.

No independent party is able to check anything related to the implementation. The software delivered can contain any number of #backdoors - voluntary or not.

If #security or #privacy is an issue, the software needs to be #opensource in order to be able to check its claims.

#Apple

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