Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read

Tomasz Rola rtomek at ceti.pl
Tue Dec 31 16:43:48 UTC 2019


On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 08:45:11AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Dec 31, 2019, at 8:37 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Silicon Valley is typically out of touch with reality.
> > 
[...]
> If I have an old tablet that my kids use to do wikipedia and are now
> locked out, that’s forcing an expense on the end-user of that tech
> and creates more e-waste etc than necessary.  I’m not a fan of that
> either, but the painting a broad brush is not helpful to the
> conversation.

I have read this example as illustration of thesis saying "smartphones
and {t|ph)ablets are dead-end architecture". If I had a twenty years
old laptop (oh wait, I have one) and could install a decent OS on it,
and upgrade it a bit or in whole, then I guess the problem with TLS
would have been solved for me. If I had a three years old
smartphone... ok, I have one, and while it is still usable, I
understand that at one point I am not going to receive any new
software for it, nor be able to compile it on my own.

In a future I might not make old errors again and just buy the
cheapest and lousiest smartphone, expecting it would last a year and a
day, not giving any more thought about it.

Dumbphones, on the other hand, seem to be free of this kind of
problems. I am a dumbphone user and it works great.

-- 
Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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