If your threat model includes Google as a trusted party, you’re an untrusted party to me.

It is sus that they privilege Google software in so many ways over other FOSS implementations. Saying “well Google can be trusted to be reasonably secure” is not an excuse for anyone who considers Google to be one of the primary parties they wish to keep their information away from.

I have a lot more trust in F-Droid because they take a principled stance against Google. Maybe their software is not as high quality as GOS devs would insist, but I can trust that they will not act against my interests, far more so than the GrapheneOS project.

I think this person is referring to the captcha

Tons of cited links are utter bunk, just in ways that don’t blatantly violate Wikipedia’s guidelines. So many references to slop (in the pre-AI sense) books written by people with no real subject matter authority. Actually looking at the sources section makes it a lot more apparent how flawed Wikipedia is for anything that is not cut and dry.

More websites should archive their linked content. Great practice in general.

so I can filter it out, and stuff with real artistic merit and passion becomes easier to find

I got bad news for ya

Graphene recommending this at all is extremely sus. My objective of using your operating system is to avoid giving Google any information I possibly can. Don’t know why they always recommend using Google shit in a sandbox like those packets aren’t still coming from my IP.

This is why threat modeling is important.

but what if I get arrested on some false pretenses and they use cellebrite to gain access?

Chances are they can clone the eMMC and wait for a CVE. Or threaten or hold you until you cave. If a lawsuit is your only recourse, I would expect any constitutional barriers to be ignored in practice. Your best bet is to never end up being an explicit target, which may be more difficult for certain individuals.

My threat model considers dragnet surveillance as the primary threat, so I’d compromise on surviving dirty maid type attacks in favor of reducing the information my device gives out.

Obviously if your device is being actively exploited, you cannot be private. But your security requirements increase greatly if your data footprint indicates to them that you warrant targeted scrutiny.

GrapheneOS is also open source. Fairphone could realistically fork the project without meeting the requirements deemed necessary for the maintenance effort by upstream.

Yeah, but the last stabbing was extra stabby!

The primaries that definitely happened and had a diverse range of positions on Palestine.

please take me to the gay factory

Ignoring all your weird patronization of the global south…

If you don’t like America, then get off Lemmy. Because guess what? Lemmy was largely developed by an American. Yes, I know it involved collaboration with developers from other countries, but the primary origin is still American.

No idea if the main developer, comrade dessalines, is American, but they have a Che Guevara profile pic.

Here’s a snippet from the US atrocities section of their essays repo:

“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.” - Nelson Mandela

Two of the other original devs are Nutomic and SleeplessOne1917. Nutomic has a Fidel Castro pfp, and SleeplessOne1917 uses the year of the October revolution in their username. Safe to say the devs of Lemmy do not like America. They also admin lemmygrad.ml

Might want to check your assumptions (and western chauvinism)

If you don’t like America, then get off Lemmy. Because guess what? Lemmy was largely developed by an American based communist revolutionaries. Yes, I know it involved collaboration with developers from other countries the great satan, but the primary origin is still American Marxist-Leninist.

FTFY!

“My obscure hardware setup doesn’t work out of the box on Linux, an OS where the OEMs have made no effort to make drivers compatible with or support in any way.”

“Linux is broken because I have to run a shell command to install a package.”

(you don’t actually have to, but they think so because that’s what the tutorial on page one of Google recommended.)

They need help with the basics, and Linux people, who are more comfortable with the system, recommend running some command because it is the quickest way to get what they want. The noobs then believe this is the only way to do the thing, and then believe Linux isn’t “user friendly” because nobody posted a walkthrough of how to do it graphically with up-to-date screenshots that works for all distros on all desktops.

This isn’t a Linux problem. It’s an education and communication problem.

Most Windows users refuse to do anything to install software besides mashing ‘next’ after running some random .exe they found on the internet. The same people will defend Windows by saying it’s easy to work around one of Microsoft’s 900 horrible decisions forced on you by opening regedit and creating like 5 DWORD registry keys in some meaningless path. They will not see the irony here.

Running a terminal command is not required for half the shit they want to do, but they believe so, because they haven’t bothered to familiarize themselves with how things work on Linux. They never learn this because they throw their hands up the first time their Windows workflow breaks down.

These people would have a million fewer complaints if beginner distros

• Included the Dconf app by default.
• Included a graphical util for editing JSON, YAML, INI, etc. files by default.
• Included a systemd service manager app by default.
• Published their packages as downloadable links on their website so that installation can work like running .exe files (security concerns aside)

yeah but your average user is gonna install some shit that they won’t vet. someone will 100% putting malware there

*letting a corporation decide how you’re gonna use your computer

Notice these same people don’t come out of the woodwork upon the mere utterance of “El Salvador” or “Bukele” like they do with “Venezuela” and “Maduro” even as Trump is deporting legal citizens to CECOT.

The words “dictatorship” and “authoritarianism” are clue words for followers of western publications to turn off their brains. They want to sort countries, parties, and leaders into neat little “good guys” and “bad guys” bins. These words allow them to do that with minimal effort, circumventing the need to understand the societies involved. Questioning that framing takes research effort and “sympathizing with authoritarians” so they never do it.

Naked in my neighbor’s Suburban

Literally one of the few problems that “AI” is actually really useful for solving.

Turns out that when their little marketing gimmick comes at odds with implanting a rootkit on your machine, they choose the latter. The whole hype around “AI” is excitement about subverting your agency in favor of their own. Kernel level spyware directly injects their own agency without the expense of training and running cheat detection models.

All the useful applications that can really benefit people have been neglected in favor of LLMs that can more easily serve as data mining SaaS platforms.

They just buy the data en masse from data brokers. All of the process is civil rights theater.

I have seen this exact list posted under the title “things that don’t require talent” so it was probably a typo that got overlooked.

Under feudalism: Left is about abolishing feudalism and the monarchy. Right is about preserving them.

Under capitalism: Left is about abolishing capitalism and the bourgeoisie. Right is about preserving them.