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by summm 5y ago
If a company does something that is right, but loses money, shareholders will sue it.
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by summm 5y ago
Well, because apple either started those practices or at least was the main responsible to popularize it.
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by summm 5y ago
Hinckley Point does not need to be economic by far. It is more about nuclear weapons. UK as a country needs a new reactor to keep its nuclear arsenal. They made that clever deal to let the energy market subsidize the military.
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by summm 5y ago
GrapheneOS and CalyxOS might have slightly less tracking, but are similarly anti-User as they do not grant any higher-level access to the user (root for example), and similarly enforce app authors' arbitrary restrictions against the us
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by summm 5y ago
In what respect is "having power" different from "controlling people"?
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by summm 5y ago
And to add insult to injury, you as the user do not get to have a root account. Yes, there are ways to get one, but even the "alternative distributions" go out of their way to make it extra tedious for you. I would for example exp
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by summm 5y ago
probably below Xiaomi even: they promised an open bootloader once, but broke that promise and every bootloader after that was fully locked up.
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by summm 5y ago
Paranoia is not the problem. The problem is general hostility and not being open to other viewpoints and ideas. Also I feel some kind of power hunger, which makes me feel really uncomfortable surrendering basically full control over my phon
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by summm 5y ago
It is not controllable at all: It still enforces any app author's will against the user's. Root is not offered, and the grapheneos maintainer seems to be personally offended by the thought that root could be helpful.
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by summm 5y ago
I had hoped the risk for malicious actors would be a bit more serious than ostracisation. Like, criminal persecution?
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by summm 5y ago
But graphene does not let you do anything more than AOSP, specifically it does not trust you enough to let you have root while using a locked bootloader.
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by summm 5y ago
The advantage of app backup is that you can restore the apps to other devices. And you can selectively backup and restore subsets of apps. Nand backups do not offer that. Furthermore your assumption might not be true in the first place: L
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by summm 5y ago
https://www.xda-developers.com/lineageos-seedvault-open-sour... >LineageOS adopts SeedVault as its open source backup solution [...] >For those not familiar with SeedVault, it is an open-source backup app that uses th
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by summm 5y ago
The feds will just subpoena Google or the app author.
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by summm 5y ago
With alternative app stores, you have to approve every single app update, ehich is way inferior to play store.
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Bcachefs Merges Support for Btrfs-Like Snapshots(phoronix.com)
3 points by summm 5y ago|1 comments
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by summm 5y ago
That is exactly the problem. Fuchsia's license is more free only for developers in the short term, as lacks provisions to force developers to keep it free, in the end this will significantly reduce users' freedom. If Linux never h
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by summm 5y ago
The SoC vendors are doing this on purpose, in order to increase sales. Planned obsolescence. They will not change that without significant pressure.
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by summm 5y ago
Sony? Who promise only 2 years of security updates on their 1300€ phones, which turns out to be only 1.5 years after their usual delay to HW availability, and for most of their better phones they never provide any open source support? Nope.
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by summm 5y ago
Instead of replacing your phone, have you thought about replacing your bank? Is there any competition that does not force this bullshit onto it's customers?
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by summm 5y ago
It is not only about hardware. Lineageos re-uses binaries from the original image. The modem still runs original binaries. The bootloader is also original. Plenty of space to hide backdoors, possibly disguised as bugs.
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by summm 5y ago
Because manufacturers choose to make a crappy kernel fork with hacky drivers. So it's on them to provide updates to that crap-kernel. If they instead made sure their drivers are in mainline, they could just use official current kernels
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by summm 5y ago
Not only firmware. Custom ROMs actually have to use binary blobs in kernelspace and userspace as well, in order to be able to use the hardware.
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Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless future(puri.sm)
250 points by summm 5y ago|312 comments
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by summm 5y ago
Freenet uses convergent encryption, so you do get deduplication.
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Encoding for Robust Immutable Storage (ERIS)(inqlab.net)
1 points by summm 5y ago|0 comments
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by summm 5y ago
There's lots of reasons why they will want to stream single snapshots or small clips to fb. look at what Google lens and Google translate are doing
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by summm 5y ago
Yes. Finally use those antitrust laws to crush Facebook. Make it illegal for anyone to sell glasses that are not completely under its owners control. Also prohibit centralized storage. Prohibit centralized face recognition. And while you&#x
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by summm 5y ago
Mining also fits the definition of "wasting energy"...
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by summm 5y ago
Some beryllium ceramics I heard...

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