There are kinds of analytics that are incompatible with the GPL, as you can’t restrict what users do with GPL software, and that includes asking children not to submit analytics containing information you’re not allowed to know about children under COPPA. The only options are to hope your software is only used by adults, or not implement any kinds of analytics that collect the relevant kinds of personal information.
UWP is a waste of screen space compared to the older Win32 apps. Not even Microsoft managed to make the UWP Windows Settings work decently, and they openly admit it by keeping the old panels around for most advanced tasks.
UWPs lack of density and structure totally removed whatever benefit we got from having larger 20"+ screens. It’s sad to get larger screens and waste all the space with the UI instead of actual content.
I am… Confused about your request. Why can’t you also have the same on your phone? Are you still using popmail? Sounds like simply setting your accounts to IMAP should solve your problem.
I’ve been waiting a very long time for this. This is the first GNUnet(aka the alternative more private internet stack) project to ever make it out of the prototype phase, and it lays the groundwork for more GNUnet projects. Also, this is probably the best version of the Digital-Euro idea, with none of the privacy drawbacks such projects usually have.
Yeah, you are doing it wrong. As I am guessing you already know, even if you haven't fully admitted it to yourself yet. All telemetry should be opt-in.
Hmm sounds like a Webmail client, like Roundcube. Luckily (at least from my point of view) it has no ‘unified inbox’, but you can have as many mail accounts you want, with one login, from different vendors. You can selhost it easily. I use it on a Raspberry Pi with one login and have then access to gmail, yahoo and some other accounts.
To mimic a ‘unified inbox’ you can forward all the different accounts, to one ‘major’ account, so that you receive every mail in this inbox. Than you can create a ‘sending alias’, to answer the incoming mails with the proper SMTP service. Nothing easier than that with Roundcube.
This doesn’t really have anything to do with open source software. It’s more of a privacy topic. You can harvest as much data as you want and still be GPL.
It does look like it’s pretty functional as is though. It’s one of the closer Flash alternatives I managed find that’s open source. I find despite all the hate Flash got, it was an amazing piece of technology. It was fast, easy to use, and people made a lot of amazing stuff with it because the barrier to entry was really low. I imagine Flash helped a lot of people learn to program as well because they’d start picking up a bit of scripting here and there playing with it.
There really isn’t any popular alternative to Flash today, and I think that’s kind of a bummer.
There really isn’t any popular alternative to Flash today, and I think that’s kind of a bummer.
WASM is looking increasingly good these days.
Have a look at egui for instance, and just see how fluid and perfomant it is on all platforms - and that is running without using any insecure/clunky/buggy plugins.
The only issue (with egui) is that it’s basically Rust so it’s not exactly newbie friendly, but that’s just a tooling issue. Hopefully in time we can get more newbie friendly tools, and with increasing number of apps using HTML these days, we might just see something as easy to use as Flash soon enough. :)
Sure, in terms of underlying functionality WASM or even plain Js can do everything Flash did. What I’m talking about is lack of tooling and accessibility for non technical people to create content. Macromedia Flash was a really easy to use tool that anybody could quickly get started with and make something. You didn’t have to have any programming knowledge at all. Maybe we’ll see newbie friendly tools built on top of WASM someday, but currently there’s really not much happening in this space.
Gdevelop is very nifty, but yeah it’s complex enough to be intimidating for somebody with no development experience. I think the beauty of Flash was just how accessible the tooling for it was. Anybody could get started with it in minutes.
It takes years to build a good reputation in OSS, and only one dumb thing (like opt-out of personal data) to ruin it.
(Yes, IPs may be considered personal data in that they can be used to identify individuals, and so subject to the GDPR and, potentially, the very high fines associated with that. Unless you’re evil, don’t collect any personal or identifying data unless you absolutely have to, and very triple sure the user knows what you’re sending and why)
Do not collect more data than you need. If you need IP for some reason then that needs to be relevant. Is your app geographically based, for instance? And does the location or IP impact how the app works?
Beyond that, if you’re collecting personal or sensitive data it should be opt-in from a privacy focused perspective.
As an OSS user, and developper, OPT-OUT is a shitty practice. It should be opt-in to users who face crashes issues if they want to share that data (they care enough to provide their info to the dev to fix it). I know this makes users sound entitled, but otherwise the “opt-out” permission will be exploited by someone which will make users even more paranoid about OSS apps.
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