Hi Seb, On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 7:57 AM seb....@gmail.com <seb.oe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Matthias Koeppe schrieb am Donnerstag, 15. September 2022 um 21:22:25 UTC+2: >> >> On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 2:09:23 AM UTC-7 Samuel Lelievre wrote: >>> >>> c. Several people refuse to open a GitHub account >> >> >> I don't know anyone who does. I think they should speak up for themselves >> (unless they also refuse to participate in this list hosted on Google) so we >> can understand what their concern is. >> >> > > > Potentially, I'm that kind of person and I think it is very important that > Samuel posted these points! > > About ten years before Google was on Earth someone put a poster on our > corridor of the University building: Microsoft free area. We all were proud > about that. But at that point nobody knew what should come later on. > > In the 80ties Germany planned a nationwide census to happen once in a decade. > I joined the resistance against it. From today's point of view this is > absolutely ridiculous. Each day people sell much more sensitive data to many > powerful companies and it is much less clear how they deal with your data. > > It has become really hard to refuse all the things you would like to and you > are forced to make exceptions. Until Corona I refused to use a smartphone. > Now I use my employer's iPhone. But I use it less than 2 minutes a day (most > of that 2FA and just WiFi).
Normally one can do 2FA without a smartphone (it's true that an SMS-only 2FA requires a phone, not necessarily smart). I wrote about it here just yesterday. https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/ayOL8_bzOfk/m/7jglobb1FgAJ Git**b's 2FA systems are not SMS-only and therefore can be dealt with without a phone, smart or basic. > > The principal question is: What is worth making an exception? I think Sage is > worth it! so it's really a purely political choice, whether to get a GitHub account, no extra physical pieces of technology are needed. All GitHub asks for is an email address. Dima > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/f1ba1b29-6fda-4873-8e44-c0a4b117e52an%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq0auErMQPjm0qDPmkBErj7R7c3_7AJCWJW%3DXQmNjE7Kzw%40mail.gmail.com.
