lemonade
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
I'm not sure how long you'll keep on reading stuff, but rest assured me and many others will cherish the very fond memories of collaborating with you - you've always had a sharp wit and a practical sort of unconventionalism that gets things done. We have much to thank you for.
We worked together on Digistan and the "The Hague Declaration", which I helped host in The Hague - and I think it still is a strong statement that is worth repeating. People can sign that declaration:
I'm very much saddened to hear about your disease - and deep respect for the way you handle this unannounced change of plan. I hope your remaining time will be spent with those you love looking back on a rich life where you've left the world better than it is - and got the max out of it. I'll send you an email, so that when your kids are older and want to know about the things you've done they can contact me. Take care, my friend.
I think there should be better ways of protection than trusting such a service anyway.
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...
That would make you one of the 600 million people using that service, whether you realise it or not.
Alas, other browsers use it too without any warning, although you can turn it off it is not easily discoverable:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430741
As suggested, add sb.google.com or whatever endpoint is used to /etc/hosts or HOSTS file.
I also would like to think that after the Snowden revelations Nokia would have been able to convince many organisations that security and privacy are not dead, and that ones mobile phone is probably the most invasive technology in use.
It goes where you go, it listens to what you say, it reads what you read. It should have only one master - its owner. So far Jolla never had the scale, the public visibility or the political profile of Nokia as the European champion of technology. That story could have been told by Nokia far better.
As a happy Jolla user (my whole family has one), I hope they make it. If you don't have one yet - I encourage you to order one. It is something different, and a feeling of 'just buying a phone, not a surveillance tool" that no other phone on the market can give you.
They could do with your help. If you want to buy but are scared you might lose money doing so because of non-news like this: under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, your credit card company is jointly liable if something goes wrong with a product or a service you've paid for by credit card. So if anything fails, you get your money from the credit card company. If it doesn't, you'll have a great phone and instant real karma.
The way Elop treated Nokia's technologically superior platform was very transparently not in the interest of Nokia. The subsequent sale must have landed him a lot of money. I'm curious what Elop is doing now ...
I for one am going to order some spare batteries for my phone. That might give them some extra cash, and it is time to do so anyway ...
[edit] The title was changed, much better - thanks. Buying is still possible, and if you've held out because you thought Jolla did not need you - it does.