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by swiley 5y ago
Privacy and most other things are always an afterthought for closed software.
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by swiley 5y ago
Everyone says they don't want to switch to Linux because they don't want to learn a new UI. That's why you do it once so you're not forced to with the next Windows update. I'm typing this on a machine with the same
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by swiley 5y ago
Just block all of it and throw out your phone. If people need you they have your email and landline number.
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by swiley 5y ago
Most apps I use don't get approved by Apple and have to run in eg iSH.
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by swiley 5y ago
>phone and phone number My ISP still provides (very low quality) landline service for a fraction of my monthly phone bill. The UI on that phone is awesome: just a speaker and dialpad, no display at all.
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by swiley 5y ago
This. Everyone grumps about the Pinephone having a slow CPU but it outruns the iPhone for most things I do because the iPhone ha to run anything usefull in an interpreter. Also there are lots of old apps that have found homes on Linux (like
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by swiley 5y ago
I had a Mac before the iPhone came out. Apple used to be pretty great.
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by swiley 5y ago
>Yes, but only if you're foolish enough to install the apps If you won't install any apps why bother with a smartphone then?
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by swiley 5y ago
You should get rid of your smartphone. They're designed to make you depressed so you respond better to ads.
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by swiley 5y ago
Almost all iOS apps are sending telemetry to data brokers like Facebook and the platform makes open source stuff extremely hard. It really is marginal when you look closer.
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by swiley 5y ago
>wish we had a reasonable alternative There's the PinePhone. I'm posting from one right now. It's still not super easy to use and non-voip calls/mms are still a bit of a mess.
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by swiley 5y ago
I never said it was unusable. MSDOS is also a perfectly usable platform full of bad ideas and ridiculous hacks.
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by swiley 5y ago
Nope. Some of them are children. Some need or prefer Apple's locked in stuff (iMessage.) Not to mention Android is a slow burning trash fire. I've seen so many ignorant comments like this about iOS lately I'm on the fence abo
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by swiley 5y ago
APK files are zips, although the same code that reads them probably checks signatures.
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by swiley 5y ago
iOS is such a shit platform I'm surprised anyone tolerates it.
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by swiley 5y ago
These will never give the right solution, only something close.
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by swiley 5y ago
Peertube uses the same pubsub stuff that Mastodon/webfinger do. So if you have an account on one of those you can subscribe to ant peertube channels with it.
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by swiley 5y ago
Do not commit sacrilege or you will be excommunicated.
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by swiley 5y ago
That's just it though. Part of the definition of "algorithm" is "correct" and these things are all just ML output that generate correlated noise.
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Defending Against Spyware Like Pegasus(puri.sm)
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by swiley 5y ago
With Microsoft's luck and finesse the Windows 11 integration will just kill Windows.
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by swiley 5y ago
ssh would be a huge improvement over http. I'd be all for it.
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by swiley 5y ago
I'd prefer they contribute to gimp.
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by swiley 5y ago
As someone who's dealt with the mass of incompetence that can barely be described as a human organization which we refer to as the USCIS: That's a pretty shitty joke.
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by swiley 5y ago
I'm not using plasma but I've found I'm happiest with the WM I use on my other computers and scaling turned off. My Pinephone is pretty much a laptop that gets phone calls and stuff generally "just works."
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by swiley 5y ago
What a terrible company. They're not forced to do this, DMCA/copyright doesn't cover other people's tools.
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by swiley 5y ago
The iMessage exploit sounds like a Null terminated string issue. The rest of it sounds like a Metasploit-esque framework along with some telemetry tools.
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by swiley 5y ago
When you get big enough it's hard to hold people accountable. The US federal government is almost too big already.
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by swiley 5y ago
Even if I could afford it I wouldn't touch TSLA. That's gambling.
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by swiley 5y ago
There's a strong affect when the options are easily available that chills out some of this stupidity

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