spurgu

I get you. I used to buy Nexus devices as well as some of the first Pixels, until at some point the prices shot up to ridiculous levels for a phone and I went with other brands.

Last year though the Pixel 8a was selling for 350€ and I got one. Luckily, given the recent developments. Will be installing GrapheneOS.

Same. I've been working with and managing thousands of WP sites for over a decade and the only issues I've had have been with sites acquired from 3rd parties with random themes and plugins (and old WP versions) that break if you update something. Those have gotten hacked and have caused many headaches.

Basically no issues with sites built in-house. As you say, only reputable 3rd party plugins (like for SEO, caching, multilang) most others made in-house.

Can't you do that editing with EmDash..?

> Or you could pass an EU Constitution that enshrines basic rights including privacy

That, and (somehow) enforce the basic principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, which they are supposed to do already. That would go a long way towards not misusing that centralized power.

I will have to read up on that 2005 event, sounds weird to me that countries would complain about there being constitutional rights at the EU level. Not sure how those rights would conflict with local ones. Unless there were positive rights, like "the right to internet" or the like, which would be ridiculous and not what I'm proposing (just basic negative rights).

> Sensationalist framing aside, how does any government become a body that decides anything?

Powerful people get together and decide that they know what's best for people. Then they claim that there is "consent" because people are given the right to vote and that there is a "social contract" that no one actually has signed, which everyone should still abide by.

What you're describing is how the process in the EU works. So in essence it is "the EU".

It doesn't seem to have any limits or restrictions on what it can do as an institution. It forced idiotic bottlecaps on all of us for shit's sake... and it has little consideration for privacy laws or constitutions of individuals, otherwise this proposal would've been thrown out automatically each time, if there was anything resembling constitutional values governing the EU's mandates.

It's like being governed by a neurotic unhinged monarch.

Problem is that once you've gotten this thing through to begin with it's comparatively easy to make slight amendments later, also of course with the justification of "protecting the children".

Yeah this is the gist of it. Cloudflare provides an important service that is quite challenging to implement by yourself.

It doesn't change anything with their higher tier sales. Those are bought for a reason that a lower tier device cannot satisfy.

My worry (from Apple's POV) is that all the people who buy the cheapest Mac (currently for $1k) will instead go for this new "base model". And I suspect there's a large cohort of people who "just want a Mac".

Very much so. I still have my M1 bought in 2021, haven't felt like there is any need to upgrade to any of the newer ones.

And so it's just a bill away from the data is suddenly being available for any purpose. For public safety of course. The same people who want Chat Control to scan our messages for sure want to scan and raise alarms for suspicious behaviors in public places too. They just can't implement it all at once or there'd be an uproar. But if it happens slowly like this, bit by bit... frogs getting boiled in the UK (and elsewhere too).

Really? You don't become a doctor by being smart?

"F-you" or "Fuck you"?

Indeed. The more powerful tools there are available, the worse kind of people get drawn to them. And the more it corrupts those with initially good intentions.

People seem to be longing for a God of sorts in their aspirations towards authoritarian governments (naively believing that those with the power will be (and remain) benevolent and act in their best interests and with fairness).

I love having the fingerprint reader behind the screen on my Pixel 8a. It has a clear benefit vs. the back; you can unlock it while it's sitting on the table, without lifting it up.

Hey, I've been looking for a tool that can do reverse NS lookup for a nameserver pairs (ie. which domains have nameservers ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com) but all the services out there that I've found can only do one. Is this something you would consider implementing?

Yeah seems rather inefficient to power two computers but only use one.

Indeed. I'm using a $150 Moto since three years back when the charger port broke on my previous phone.

I can't imagine what people "need" high-performance phones for, other than gaming, and for that as well there are much better alternatives.

If I could hook it up to a docking station and use it as a full-fledged computer that would change things I suppose.

That's worrying indeed.

> None of that applies to gambling though.

Are you sure about that?

> Not only is there nothing to learn from failing that you couldn’t have learnt before placing a bet

Just look at investing with fake money portfolios vs. making decisions with real money. Or playing poker with play money. It's a whole different game mentally and some lessons you just don't learn unless you got a real stake in it.

> but success could mean addiction and the eventual ruination of your life and the lives of those you love.

In my case my success (in poker) led to a prosperous career playing professionally. No lives ruined. YMMV.

Poker, or sportsbetting, is not gambling any more than investing in the stock market is, or choosing a spouse. Sure, you can gamble and YOLO your life savings on either of them. But you can also learn to make better decisions, the hard way. Or try and fail and lose money in the process. Rather than having a small set of "safe" pre-chosen options laid out for everyone.

Disclaimer: Games where you play against the house (that has an edge) like slots or roulette is gambling. But again, just because there are people playing slots to make a profit doesn't mean that we should ban being an idiot. Life is dangerous and you will eventually die from it. This is more of a personal philosophical opinion than a "what's best for people" one (which I think is wrong).

Which merged with MobilePay.

Side note: I stopped using it (in Finland) in the beginning of the year when they launched their new app that exposed users full names (including middle names). On the old MobilePay you were able to set an alias. "For our safety" of course.

What the fuck do you have against people "ruining their lives"?

I've made a ton of bad decisions in the course of my life. And I'm all richer for it. Don't take that away from me.

I despise the nanny state policies of my homeland Finland. I've been a nomad for the past decade and a half due to it because I don't want to settle down in a place where people think they should be able to force other people to not make what they (or "the majority") think are stupid decisions.

You will always find justifications once you start going down the rabbit hole of "what's best for them".

I thought so too but that's because I'm logged in with setting to use old Reddit. www.reddit.com works in incognito.

"I won't help building roads because criminals might drive on them"

Law enforcement are blaming the road builders, that's what's wrong with the picture.

Yeah same.

One aspect could be overall lower attention attention span, where people start zoning out in the middle of the test and don't try that hard.

I would guess/assume that work phones of MEPs are restricted to a specific set of manufacturers and models, which makes targeting different from having to consider all options.

They might also have specific software installed across most of them that could be part of the targeting.

...or it's non-software-engineers writing those pro-government comments.

(just the logical conclusion of the statement, intentionally made blank)

That sounds like your ideal. Mine would be when there is no authority that says which plants or substances I can put in my body. I don't want/need an authority to enforce "what's best for me".

He clearly doesn't mind police states.