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by microtonal 1mo ago
You can bash the Air all you want, but it's the iPhone I love the most by far, and I had many iPhones since the 3G. It's such a pleasant phone to hold and the screen size is lovely. If they release a second version with a ultrawid
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by microtonal 1mo ago
Difference is that the Fold 8 started at 2000 Euro (compared to 2339 Euro including VAT for the Duo) and can now be bought here already for 1500 new. That's 800 Euro less and Samsung will mostly decrease prices further while Apple will
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by microtonal 1mo ago
I have an iPhone and an Android phone and I don't see the gap at all when it comes to software. Quite the opposite, I think iOS regressed a lot with iOS 26 to the point where I see quite a lot of render stutters on an iPhone Air and 17
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by microtonal 1mo ago
They seem to have a very level-headed AI policy? https://mastodon.social/@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social/117236... tl;dr mostly not allowed, but useful for PR reviewing/auditing, because adversaries use them as well
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by microtonal 1mo ago
i will trust Gael based on his reputation Don't? He has mentioned in multiple interviews that security hardening is only for pedophiles and spies (sort of implicating GrapheneOS). They are inaccurate about /e/OS being degoo
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by microtonal 1mo ago
They said I never liked the idea of giving money to buy a Google phone so to get away from…Google. . For most people it's a non-argument though - they are feeding data into the Google ad machine every day (even more so if you are usin
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by microtonal 1mo ago
The problem is that there is now midrange or lower midrange phone outside the Pixel a series that provides the minimum necessary for device security, namely a separate secure processor to store secrets and MTE. In fact, Snapdragon CPUs had
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by microtonal 1mo ago
There is no proof that that an account will actually be required. The fact that some existing Motorola phone require this does not say much.
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by microtonal 1mo ago
It was likely them providing the GOS team with source code of some of the most critical patches, when Google withheld it for months waiting for Samsung to release patches. I'm pretty sure reading on Mastodon that it was another OEM t
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by microtonal 1mo ago
There is little information available about the future devices. I think they are just extrapolating from prior unlockable Motorola devices. IMO it's not worth speculating until there is some official information or someone has actually
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by microtonal 1mo ago
For now. I wouldn't surprised that if enough people start doing this, they'll just put a cheap cellular modem in the TV. Or find open access points. Or make a deal with Amazon and others to exfiltrate information via a smart home
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by microtonal 1mo ago
I am not sure about other products. But I have noticed that Samsung phones started putting most toggles off by default (toggles for collecting data). So the GDPR slowly seems to have some effect on different products. (A few years ago, you
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by microtonal 1mo ago
We should draft such a regulation and call it General Data Protection Regulation. My guess is that we'll see a lot of malicious compliance.
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by microtonal 1mo ago
You benefitted temporarily. Those offering the service are often worse off. Various regulatory bodies had to beat these companies into submission, that no, you cannot hire all your employees as contract workers and deprive them of their be
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by microtonal 1mo ago
The threat is not gone from the minds of the people there or in the rest of Europe just because you stopped reading about it on CNN or whatever. I don't watch CNN. I live in Europe, read European newspapers. It's just something
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by microtonal 1mo ago
That's not what I said. Both can be true at the same time: the EU works slow; political repercussions requires the EU to work slow (regardless whether they are slow or not).
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by microtonal 1mo ago
They mean linking as in [1] against a GPLv3 work to create a derived work. Simply including a GPLv3 application in a aggregation of different works (e.g. an OS image) does not require everything else to be GPLv3. The GPLv3 only applies to a
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by microtonal 1mo ago
That's really a weird position, since the SELinux-based app sandbox is in AOSP.
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by microtonal 1mo ago
I am well-aware, closely following them on Mastodon. That's why I said may have hampered . There may be some CPU errata that posed them to disable it.
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by microtonal 1mo ago
I think they articulated the underlying issue well. Cloudflare is too attractive for individuals and small businesses. For instance, my personal website has a healthy amount of traffic, but means nothing at CDN scale. I considered moving to
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by microtonal 1mo ago
While I theoretically agree, the issue is that Trump will connect economical issues to blowing up NATO Article 5, leaving NATO completely, or retracting intelligence or Starlink for Ukraine. So for the most part, the EU has to work slowly a
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by microtonal 1mo ago
How many devices/operating systems even use memory tagging? iOS, macOS and GrapheneOS, I think that's it? And iOS/macOS only use it for the kernel, a subset of system processes, and I think applications can opt in to it. Heck
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by microtonal 1mo ago
Our Android TV (Sony) has an option to basically make it a dumb TV. Not sure whether that still exists. We use that + simply don't plug a network cable or set up WiFi. As long as they don't add cellular modems, this works.
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by microtonal 1mo ago
GrapheneOS >>> Stock Android > /e/OS There are many vendors that are even worse than /e/OS in terms of updates. This is one of several reasons why Play Integrity is a farce, it has very little to do with se
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by microtonal 1mo ago
I think with many of the recent regulations, they could verify and find many of the egregious cases to be violating today. The EU is just extremely worried about US tariffs and retracting support to Ukraine. IMO they should just bite the bu
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by microtonal 1mo ago
Are you agreeing with the OP who didn’t see any point and advocated that GrapheneOS “totally ignore RCS” No. I think it is useful for GrapheneOS to work on this, the US is a substantial user base. The comment I reacted to: iPhone users v
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by microtonal 1mo ago
It's not ideal, but in the case a hard fork happens, they could implement the same APIs and most apps will probably continue to work. Similar to how microG is a replacement for Play Services and still works for most apps (not as well a
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by microtonal 1mo ago
The huge switch from SMS to WhatsApp in Europe was well done before they were acquired by Facebook. By then the damage was already done, because the network effects made it very hard to move away. By now, many people I know also have a Sign
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by microtonal 1mo ago
This is a very US-centric (and maybe Canada) thing though? Most of the rest of the world doesn't really use or care about iMessage, even on iPhones. So, I think it's rather -US- iPhone users very often don't want to have SMS
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by microtonal 1mo ago
GrapheneOS would be in control of the client which is what matters in an e2ee system. Not really... You will be communicating with other people who don't use GrapheneOS and if you are e.g. communicating with iPhone users who have iCl

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