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mitxela··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
It's more difference than you think. Your card isn't logged into Google, Facebook, Signal and so on. It doesn't route through Cloudflare. It doesn't even connect to T-Mobile, Verizon, or Stingray automatically.
mitxela··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
They do. People won't buy good products if they have green bubbles. Guess who controls the bubble color.

Capitalism is the art of making your customers act like this.

mitxela··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
And AT&T shouldn't allow you to connect other phones, or modems at all. You should only be able to get a phone by renting it monthly from AT&T - everything else should be illegal.
mitxela··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
YouTube's market is still shit though. High end of that market is those billionaires who pay for actual cinemas in their mansions.
mitxela··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
Android is just as bad. But it has one huge advantage: you can install apps on it.
mitxela··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Will you put a Linux phone on the market?
mitxela··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
pinephone has this but it never really became a thing

Librem too

mitxela··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
If they have legal requirements for attestation, they also have the option to properly attest Graphene.
mitxela··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
If you want more security and privacy, don't use your phone for payment - use your card.
mitxela··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
I was also surprised by the banking app experience. After making me verify my identity about 10 times to prove I'm me and not a hacker, they finally let me use it...

I've heard some people had good results by going to their bank branch and demanding them to unblock their phone or they'll close their account. Apparently they have a checkbox to disable phone attestation requirements for a customer.

mitxela··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Although if you just want a degoogled phone with some features and don't want to hide a criminal enterprise, I doubt an out-of-support Graphene phone is any worse than an out-of-support Huawei or Xiaomi or Realme or Motorola phone.
mitxela··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Devices are sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled, just not by GrapheneOS. If your paranoia needs aren't high but you just want to get away from Google, it seems like a good idea.
mitxela··on WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
Not success rate per request though.
mitxela··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
You may think this is silly, but you actually think more when you write by hand than when you type on a computer, and especially more than when you just listen. When attending a lecture you should write notes on paper even if you just throw them away.
mitxela··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
With the difference that long division is a purely mechanical process with no need for, expectation of, or benefit from creativity.

I wouldn't read a maths book produced by a calculator either. There would be nothing of value in it - if I know my times tables and plus tables.

mitxela··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
Then say it in brooooooo-ken English.

Grammar check is one thing, but AI mangles your thoughts.

mitxela··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
That's what TFA is about
mitxela··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
Doing what is rewarded is a kind of smartness in itself - even if the thing that's rewarded is being dumb.
mitxela··on 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
One of them could actually be the best product, and you wouldn't even know.
mitxela··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
You don't have to completely abolish manufacturing to clean up pollution better.
mitxela··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
De-tracked video link: https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY

Do not share videos with si parameters. It links together the accounts of the sender and receiver.

mitxela··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
You can, but nobody does. Of course, there's a lot of non-AI slop too. (Hello systemd)
mitxela··on Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
Good point here I had never thought about, but it's still good to upgrade to 256 bits when possible for peace of mind.

This has nothing to do with SHAttered

mitxela··on 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
also in the thread about OONI censorship measuring program people said they don't need a study to know China censors the internet
mitxela··on 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
Right, you won't buy a GHTESKJVFII even if it happens to be the best product
mitxela··on What happened to the Snowden archive
Well when Trump pardons him, he'll come back. Trump won't pardon him, because Trump supports deep state mass surveillance.
mitxela··on What happened to the Snowden archive
Who doesn't believe that
mitxela··on What happened to the Snowden archive
Mind you their version of "antisemitism" that they are banning is not hate speech, it is actually the opposite of hate speech and their ban makes hate speech mandatory.
mitxela··on What happened to the Snowden archive
What do you think about Palestine?
mitxela··on What happened to the Snowden archive
The bestiality thing is obviously because the FBI is really trying to hire a specific person, and bestiality came up on their background check.
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