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by swiley 5y ago
(Sorry to reply twice but my noprocrast timer is still running out.) If you want it in wiki/git form: postmarketos.org is the project you're looking for as far as stuff on the application processor goes. Most people prefer to trea
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by swiley 5y ago
Non-free graphics drivers and the incompleteness of gnome-calls and libpurple-sms. Those two are really the main issues.
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by swiley 5y ago
Right, but you also don't have to deal with fraudulent claw backs like with credit cards. It's not secret but it makes the integration/code easier. This is why a lot of obscure/experimental services tend to have bitcoin
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by swiley 5y ago
The foundation is made of sandstone and full of cracks and mud from the beginning; you never had root or the ability to replace the kernel. Apple has always been able to do whatever they want and they've rented that privilege to carrie
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by swiley 5y ago
And that is why some people really like crypto currency. You get what is essentially ssh for money with all the pro and con implications.
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by swiley 5y ago
I think they're not snobby enough. Transitive dependency explosions and a lack of understanding the code you're consuming has serious impacts on the code you write, how it can be used and abused etc.
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by swiley 5y ago
I would strongly recommend running your own email. I've done it since I was 17 and it's a lot easier than you would think.
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by swiley 5y ago
Most iOS device probably don't contain any child pornography either.
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by swiley 5y ago
One day, when I'm retired or homeless, I'd love to pull apart and try to understand the weird cultures of wikipedians.
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by swiley 5y ago
Except that the threat model the crippled SEV defends against is the same one the SU command does, making it irrelevant.
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by swiley 5y ago
I Was the reason my family switched from Windows and Linux to OSX back when it was popular among hackers. They had seen the ads with celebrities for years and it didn't move them the way I did. I thought we finally had a unix-like OS
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by swiley 5y ago
Remember: There is never a legitimate reason not to publish source code.
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by swiley 5y ago
I visited my parent's church earlier this year and they're all freaking out. The general consensus is that everyone should stop using smartphones.
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by swiley 5y ago
FSF is a world leader in consumer privacy, Apple is a world leader in replacing things that could be used privately with things that cannot be.
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by swiley 5y ago
The Canadian government has really lost their minds, that's where ignoring principles gets you.
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by swiley 5y ago
This. It used to be really great, you just have an "ender chest" folder that shows up on all your computers with a public folder that shows up on their web server. They screwed up the public folder pretty badly and I left after th
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by swiley 5y ago
How about I rephrase it then: The popular mobile OS vendors as a matter of policy exfiltrate data from the phone to third parties, either for free or for pay. Phones are compromised by default to a very high degree.
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by swiley 5y ago
At that point why bother being an employee? You might as well just go make YouTube videos or whatever since the job security is the same.
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by swiley 5y ago
>would cause a lot of needless development churn and hassle The hassle of doing what your users are paying you to do? Any child can hack a UI together in HTML but there's a reason no one (usually) pays for that.
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by swiley 5y ago
>I think removing feature X makes sense, even if people are using it. It just makes the developers job way easier. And that's why I only use community maintained software with no telemetry or "data driven decisions."
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by swiley 5y ago
I still love that quote from a famous mathematician about how number theory is "unsoiled with application" circa early 20th century.
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by swiley 5y ago
Even with the monopoly Facebook behaved pathologically, often escaping Apple's sandbox through technical exploits and their analytics/auth "SDK" that almost all iOS apps include. They're social influence extends to
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by swiley 5y ago
IMO Qualcomm can be far worse than NVidia but I don't know where you would put a "Q."
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by swiley 5y ago
Remember: E2EE on phones is not secret.
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by swiley 5y ago
All cryptocurrency is more or less reduced to tokens at best without personal computing. At that point just use whatever UI your OS vendor gives you to talk to the government run central bank because the power structure is the same with few
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by swiley 5y ago
I only use it because someone else lets me use their account for free. There's almost never anything worth watching on it though.
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by swiley 5y ago
>your network of friends and colleagues makes you download When you're a child typically you learn to use the word "No." If that's not enough then whatever crap they want you to install is probably non-free software (
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by swiley 5y ago
Were they ever not? Even the sinclare thing from the 80s has a cult following.
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by swiley 5y ago
I hate the term "bootlicker" but it's apt for a forum that's more or less about people sharecropping on big platforms in order to attract investor money. That most people here think this sort of thing should be ignored i
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by swiley 5y ago
Does that include suicides and drug related deaths? At least in the US those went up by an order of magnitude last year and I would be shocked if those countries did better.

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