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ndkapon Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom

With this news, I am inclined towards buying Pixel and install GrapheneOS in the future just to stick to the pro-mass surveillance police state. However, I am concerned about the warranty. Does anyone know if installing Graphene on Pixel eliminate the hardware warranty?

Also, what do these cops and government officials say about iPhones? iPhones, according to what I've heard, also have good privacy, is that not true? Is it not private enough for criminals?

ndkapon How to Firefox

The article said ubo lite does not have element zapper. Last time I used it, it does. Maybe the article is old?

ndkapon Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”

Any efforts to veer the incentive of the market from profit towards vague things like safety or others (DEI, ESG) has been criticized and rolled so far. Can we really make the market prioritize anything other than profit?

ndkapon Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”

If Hyatt is providing its name for a fee, then Hyatt indeed has responsibility for this incident

ndkapon Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

First time I saw a domain named `honda`. On further research [1], I see that many companies have Top Level Domains of their name. Why did IANA/ICANN allow TLDs of company's names?

[1]: https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt