izacus

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by izacus 3mo ago
I mean... your sentiment is in the right place, but Android phones (non-GrapheneOS) can be used without Google account just fine. Yes, you need to use F-Droid & Co. to get apps (just like on Graphene), but otherwise they're functio
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by izacus 3mo ago
I've been driving many cars lately and I strongly disagree.
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by izacus 3mo ago
I meant - explain how would that data retrieval actually happen in real life for a domestic abuser.
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by izacus 3mo ago
Explain how (in comparison to GrapheneOS) please.
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by izacus 3mo ago
It's an advertisement. That's pretty much the difference, the company selling these phones has a very high margin for essentially resell of Google phones with reflash of GrapheneOS.
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by izacus 3mo ago
There's plenty of high moral principles, but "let's build technology that explicitly protects criminals - especially child and women traffickers - against investigation" ain't one of them for majority of people livi
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by izacus 3mo ago
This is a submarine Advertisement for a company that will resell you a Google Pixel phone with likt 50% markup and preinstalled GrapheneOS. Let's not normalize this kind of profiteering out of OSS.
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by izacus 3mo ago
Err, Teslas aren't an outlier - the OTAs break shit all the time and in many ways they're worse than cars not getting OTAs because of that :(
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by izacus 3mo ago
Less competition is always amazing for consumers. Who needs that in capitalism, let's just keep one corporation for everything.
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by izacus 3mo ago
GrapheneOS guy went on a very extensive rant on Mastodon when someone wanted to create an independent, European, list that could be used by apps to verify attestation. They want apps to hardcode theirs specifically. Which makes sense for th
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by izacus 3mo ago
How would you "use AOSP attestation"? The point is that the signatures are compared against a database of certified builds - and that exists on Google servers. If you want AOSP attestation, you need to build your own database to c
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by izacus 3mo ago
> The purpose of attestation is to lock out competing platforms. It security value is a joke. This is kind of your... opinion man. In reality pretty much all security sensitive applications require attestation from their side.
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by izacus 3mo ago
Can you highlight what part of that FAQ doesn't make it accurate? EU directives are a thing.
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by izacus 3mo ago
> Funny you use Netherlands as a good example, considering that famously, their existing unusually thorough registry was super helpful for the Nazis rounding up jews later. To avoid rounding up the jews you... create a government that do
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by izacus 3mo ago
> I get the feeling some privacy advocates are approaching the choice as a tier system, with government being the worst case. The issue is that a lot of voices you hear are from a big country which voted for fascists and those people now
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by izacus 3mo ago
This isn't how EU works though (EU can actually directly order states arouns :P), so I'm not sure how that's relevant here?
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by izacus 3mo ago
Private companies providing public services is really not a rare thing.
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by izacus 3mo ago
"The law" requires no such thing and there's nothing preventing those new OSes form providing proper security signals. But is DOES require work - and it's much easier to complain than to put in work.
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by izacus 3mo ago
Oh no, someone used a poopy word when talking about slave owners. You poor thing.
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by izacus 3mo ago
Which part is objectionable to you?
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by izacus 3mo ago
Which part is expected? I had no issues having TB docks on my AMD laptops.
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by izacus 3mo ago
Doesn't your phone support creating an isolated profile which deliberately keeps data separate?
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by izacus 3mo ago
Yes.
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by izacus 3mo ago
Let's delete it then. Why? Because I don't want such pictures to be kept or archived by anyone. This isn't hard.
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by izacus 3mo ago
Let's look at their history with EU, shall we? :D
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by izacus 3mo ago
It is NEVER any other persons responsibility to prevent you from commiting crimes. Never. They MAY make it harder for themselves, but at no point are is anyone required to make sure you're not a criminal. That's a difference betwe
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by izacus 3mo ago
I don't really want governments, Apple or Google to build databases of CSAM, thank you :/
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by izacus 3mo ago
Europe or EU has never looked at data protection against private companies and data protection against government as one and the same. Remember, that even GDPR has carveout for governmental use. The americans did, but US isn't EU.
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by izacus 3mo ago
The fact that there was a second vote on a modified law which passed.
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by izacus 3mo ago
Ah, "it's only democracy if you vote my way" argument. We usually call that type of governing something else.

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