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NATO Should Have Dissolved in 1990 - Jeffrey Sachs

NATO Should Have Dissolved in 1990 - Sachs

NATO should have been dissolved back in 1990 as the alliance had fulfilled its mission of confronting the Soviet Union, renowned US economist and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs said.

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US Push to Split Russia, India and China Backfires — Driving Them Closer

The Global South could benefit from cooperation between Russia, India and China, China Forum expert and economics Professor John Gong from the University of International Business and Economics tells Sputnik.

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Geometrinen_Gepardi

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It's taxation.

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my country taxes the shit out of us and we are still poor.

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Taxation + efficiency + [less open]corruption

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i don't think so, can you source that claim? those are just meaningless words diverting from the fact europeans bullied us into operating our services for their profit instead. also cheap extractivism from your colonies.

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Prove that us taxes are more corrupt than any nordic country? Okay here it goes: i have a brain. Thanks.

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who is talking about the US here? what does neocolonialism has to do with internal taxes at all?

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BrainInABox

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Who said anything about the US, you smarmy dumbass?

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MajorMajormajormajor

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~~While many European countries were heavily into colonizing, I don't think the Nordic countries were that excessive into the practice. At least, not to have an empire to extract resources like Britain, France, Spain, etc did.~~

It would appear I was wrong on this take.

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what?? european countries literally control energy distribution in many cities in my country, transportation, and heavy extractivism. that's very much including nordic countries. they are still heavily into colonizing.

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TheOubliette

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Nordic countries are subimperialist. They receive the benefits of unequal exchange, unfair trade agreements, technological advantage, and so on but rely on the explicit mechanisms of enforcement to come from prime imperialists pike the US.

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MajorMajormajormajor

in reply to TheOubliette • 1 settimana fa • •

Fair enough, I was unaware of the situation. I always heard of the big colonizing countries being responsible for a lot of issues, but I can see how that could still impact other countries.

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TheOubliette

in reply to MajorMajormajormajor • 1 settimana fa • •

It's less obvious but can see how the Nordic countries fall in line with imperialist structures. I'll expound a bit but it is not in any way in disagreement.

The nordic countries lend weight to unequal IP restrictions and dollarization and the IMF, they never do anything material against imperialist wars (they actually want a piece of the pie by providing arms), and now that they are accepting their role as NATO pawns they are increasing their military budgets, cutting the welfare state, and allowing their fascistic political foemations to thrive while suppressing the left. They all openly tolerate "Israeli" genocidal fascism and even carry water for their project against domestic dissidents. Nordic countries are deeply embedded in global capital monopoly, the engine of imperialism, whether it is Norway as a petrostate or shipping logistics like in Sweden and Denmark. And they do not do this reluctantly and with policy against imperialist aims. Internally, they are fanning the flames against POC immigrants as the big scapegoat for why their lives are materially deteriorating - not their own state's willing deindustrialization or cuts to services.

To put it simply, they are liberals. They briefly were the selective snapshot of "successful" liberalism if you didn't peek behind the curtain of global exploitation (who grew that "luxurious" pineapple and what were they paid!?). The global financial system propped up states in their region as a means by which to oppose communists, as if communists were there to steal your children or do the genocides that imperialists constantly engaged in. That system is no longer intentionally doing this, it is neoliberal and there is no communist current in Europe. We now watch it decay into the hallmarks of fascism. The empire is pulling back its subsidies, reversing them, and all of "Europe" is collaborating for how to react to this in the worst possible way.

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Sandouq_Dyatha

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superior white skin and blue eyes and blonde hair too?

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definitely at least some eurocentrism

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Almost, it's imperialism. The Nordic model depends on the global system of imperialism to both have safety nets and huge profits for capitalists.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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Capitalism is great, there’s a reason why Russia and China embrace it.

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Smackyroon

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What a braindead liberal take

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CaliforniaSober

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I wouldn’t call it “liberal” that sounds topical it sure is a brain dead take tho

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Mrkawfee

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I used to be a liberal before I realized they are apologists for Empire and their talk of morality and interconnectedness is just rhetorical shielding for resource extraction and, lately, genocide.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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lmfao China does not embrace capitalism even in the slightest, meanwhile Russia's public sector is almost as big as China's

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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Julan Du and Chenggang Xu analyzed the Chinese model in a 2005 paper to assess whether it represents a type of market socialism or capitalism. They concluded that China's contemporary economic system represents a form of capitalism rather than market socialism because: (1) financial markets exist which permit private share ownership—a feature absent in the economic literature on market socialism; and (2) state profits are retained by enterprises rather than being distributed among the population in a social dividend or similar scheme, which are central features in most models of market socialism. Du and Xu concluded that China is not a market socialist economy, but an unstable form of capitalism.

Source.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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Great, plenty of other economists have concluded the opposite. Here are a few books you can read to educate yourself.

The East is Still Red – Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century

China provides a powerful example of what socialism can achieve. Not only is the Communist Party of China committed to Marxism, but it is a leading force for the development of Marxism.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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Something about paying $147 to a capitalist to read books about socialism seems strange.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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Imagine living in year 2025 and not being able to figure out how to find a PDF online. Explains why you're such an ignoramus I guess.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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Why not share the pdf’s and remove a barrier?

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Sandouq_Dyatha

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

why not read the book for you as well as a bedtime story?

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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I could use the company and sometimes I get bogged down with big words.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Because people doing work need to pay bills and make a living? You also seem to be confused about what capitalism is. A worker selling their own labour is not capitalism. Capitalism is when you use capital to buy up the means of production and then hire workers to work for you and appropriate the value they produce.

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CaliforniaSober

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Wow you have some bad excuses…

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Why?

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

That's a very liberal understanding of socialism, and explicitly rejects the fact that China is in the beginning stages of socialism, not claiming it's a higher stage. The large firms and key industries are publicly owned, while the medium and small firms are cooperatively owned, privately owned, or joint-stock. Cheng Enfu made a model to make it easier to understand:

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 settimana fa • •

The CCP got into power seventy-six years ago how long does it take to get into the next stage?

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

It's gradually increasing, it doesn't work in spurts or hard lines. There isn't a "go to next stage" button on Xi's desk.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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Makes sense but seventy-six years is a really long time.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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They went from a colonized agrarian country emerging from a civil war to arguably the most developed country on the planet in only 76 years. That's incredibly rapid progress. Britain has been capitalist for centuries and has been the world hegemonic empire for a good portion of that time, and yet is less developed. If your point is that going from an agrarian economy to where China is today in less than a century is slow growth, then I'd love to hear what passes your impossibly high standards.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 settimana fa • •

There’s four stages, they’ve been in the first for seventy-six years.

Doing the math it seems they’ll need another two hundred and twenty-six years to reach the final stage if they got to the second stage tomorrow.

I’m not sure if I have impossibly high standards or thinking it’s reasonable to wait another nearly quarter of a millennium might be incredibly low standards.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Why on Earth would you imagine each stage lasts a specific number of years? Why on Earth do you think thr timer should only start at the founding of the PRC? Why on Earth are you framing it as every stage up until communism is a sacrifice as compared to capitalism, and not as a system gradually and rapidly improving further and further?

This is incredibly incoherent on your part, and thoroughly liberal.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 1 settimana fa • •

Should I base it on the founding of the CCP in 1921 instead?

That’s a hundred and four years ago so the math would be closer to three hundred and twelve for the final stage.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Why not thousands of years ago, when China was first rising? Why not 5 minutes ago? All of it is arbitrary and vibes-based for you, again, there's no reason all stages take the same time, or why you're framing it as many years of sacrifice to finally become a "good society" in several hundred years. It's ridiculous.

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

China was a largely feudal county working its way out of brutal colonial exploitation - for which the exploiters have never paid reparations and still held on to Hong Kong for decades.

How long does it take to build productive forces and modernize while still subject to unequal exchange and general imperialism? That is a social and political question, so you tell me about where China was and what its path has been. How many other imoerialized countries jave eliminated absolute poverty, by the way? Not just taking decades to do it, but accomplish it at all.

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CaliforniaSober

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Blah blah blah [points to China] “is this Ronald Reagan? “

Cite whatever paper you like this is dumbest take possible…

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

"Two Chinese said it. What, that isn't enough for you tankies!?"

A definitely-not-racist liberal.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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You’re accusing me of being racist because the source I quoted is written by someone in London and Hong Kong?

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

I'm calling your tokenizing logic racist. The lack is thought you put into the entire endeavor. I cannot imagine being this lazy, incurious, and racist. Sort yourself out.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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I’m well sorted and well adjusted thank you very much for your concern though.

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

No, you are arrogant and this leads you to false confidence that you can correct people who know more than you by hastily googling, "studies that say China is capitalist" and quoting the first result, patting yourself on the back, and thinking, "you did well, kid".

Get your racist shit out of here.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

in reply to TheOubliette • 1 settimana fa • •

I’m unsure why you think you know me well enough to know what I know or don’t know.

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

You think I can't read your comments or something? This is a habit of yours.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

in reply to TheOubliette • 1 settimana fa • •

You are the first person here to ever accuse me of being racist and that’s including my Lemmy.world account with the same name that I’ve had for over two years.

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Lemmy.world tolerates racism, same as what it wants to be, Reddit. And likely so does the society you live in.

Like I said, sort yourself out.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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I feel like you’re attacking me instead of the facts I laid out because you feel like it’s easier.

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

You didn't lay out any facts. Did you forget what I'm criticizing you for already?

I don't hear any sorting! Just whining to justify yourself. Get to it!

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

in reply to TheOubliette • 1 settimana fa • •

You’re criticizing me for being racist because the study I used as a source was written by someone in England and someone else in Hong Kong.

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

And the bad faith malding continues.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

in reply to TheOubliette • 1 settimana fa • •

Sorry if I misunderstood.

What are you accusing me of being racist for?

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Scroll up. You're going in circles.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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Yes we definitely are.

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Nope just you. Kinda sad that your defense response is to pretend to be illiterate.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

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I’m just trying to understand your point.

Should I be insulting you by calling you an illiterate racist instead?

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

I already explained and you avoided it and started doing this pitiful little song and dance. Maybe you can pay someone to take you seriously, because I don't think anyone is going to do it for free.

Goodbye, chump

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SatansMaggotyCumFart

in reply to TheOubliette • 1 settimana fa • •

If I made a comment like this directed to you I would definitely get a rule one removal.

But I wouldn’t do that because I think it’s rude anyways.

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TheOubliette

in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

Okay tiger

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алсааас [she/they]

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"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" - Fidel Castro

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in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • 1 settimana fa • •

china is transitioning socialist. i have no idea why russia is even specifically relevant, they are one of the capitalist countries yes?

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for_some_delta

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Wikipedia has a list of Chinese billionaires. Software Developer salaries in China are similar to salaries in the west. Laborers appear to make far less than owners. I do not know why an individual needs billions. Seems to violate, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs".

Maybe the billionaires do not own the capital their laborers use. Maybe the relationship between Chinese billionaire and worker is not exploitative as per the meme. Do the workers control their labor?

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to for_some_delta • 1 settimana fa • •

China is transitioning socialist, in the direction of capitalism xD

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Cowbee [he/they]

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The large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and the economy is developing further and further along a coherent central plan. It's still in the primary stage of socialism, but it's only getting further developed, not regressing into capitalism:

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to for_some_delta • 1 settimana fa • •

Yes, China has billionares. In fact, Roderic Day wrote an essay called China Has Billionaires, you should read it. Ultimately, what determines if a country is socialist or not is not if there are billionaires or not, and isn't about not having any private property at all or not. In the PRC, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and the small and medium firms are a mix of private, cooperative, and joint-stock ownership. The state has control over the capitalists, and the workers have control of the state. It's in the primary stage of socialism:

China Has Billionaires

US Presidents historically reach their highest approval ratings due to war. George W. Bush reached an all-time-high of 90% in 2001 as the wrathful nation geared up to invade Afghanistan, and his father George H. W.

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in reply to for_some_delta • 1 settimana fa • •

as i mentioned, china is a transitioning socialist economy. this is important to understanding it. here:

currently, a minority of chinese companies are private, and have been declining. they represent a very small minority of total revenue. a capitalist country will never be capable of distributing such enterprises to local jurisdictions like china is, or even almost eradicating poverty over these last few decades.

they are still using free markets for a minority of their economy, which does concentrate wealth. they are not numerous in relation to the size of their economy (or per capita), and some of the examples made of them when they step out of line really puts things into perspective.

Developer salaries in China are similar to salaries in the west

so... kinda high? i wish i was getting paid as much as a western dev, with the comparatively lower cost of living of a country like china. or mine.

Chinese mining tycoon, executed in February 2015

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The End of NATO and Zelensky's puppet regime?

The Putin-Trump Summit at Alaska, US, in August 2025 was a landmark event that will redefine the global security architecture, especially in Europe.

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Maeve

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I hope so.

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hexagon

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I Miss Obama clearly stating that Russia is a regional threat who can only be dangerous for neighbours, it’s been 3 years of war? They got a bit more than half neighbouring territories, that is the end of nato? Russia already collapsed twice for the inability to understand they can’t win war, I’m just waiting for them to do the same thing they did with Afghanistan, go on until they collapse so that we can not hear from them for another 20 years, the propaganda there must be very strong, they couldn’t even keep Syria anymore; couldn’t even protect Iran, not sure where the hell is this global superpower, must be brain damage

The most useless and annoying micropower of history that could just have kept exporting gas and be happy, who is so narcissistic that thinks anyone wants to attack them

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Ah NATO, once a fash org always a fash org

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алсааас [she/they]

in reply to bubblybubbles • 1 settimana fa • •

But the PCI and the "historic compromise" did their part as well!

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Kopfrkingl [comrade/them]

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NATO is not a defense alliance, it's a subterfuge for imperialism, they are unified imperialists if anything — I wish people in the left would realize this. It's concerning how many show support for this organ of bourgeois control. There are a multitude of such examples as shown in the meme where they shown their true colors.

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When you're about to whine about tankies for the 6th times today

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USB-C ports no longer sending/receiving data (Lenovo X1 carbon)

I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 12. The other day I noticed both of my USB-C ports are not receiving or sending data. External drives won't mount and my dock won't send signal to my monitor, but when I plug in my charging cable I am still getting power. When I use "lsblk" nothing shows up, even though sometimes I hear the chime signaling something has been plugged in (but it's inconsistent and sometimes doesn't chime).

Both of my USB-A ports are working properly and receive data, so it's only my USB-C ports.

I'm running Ubuntu 24.04.3. I tried to revert back to an earlier kernel in case that was the problem but it didn't fix the issue.

Anyone have a similar issue? Thanks!

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stravanasu

in reply to collar • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

X1 Carbons of several generations have been notorious for their Thunderbolt defects, which appear after a while. For instance this or this (sorry for the Reddit links), and there are others related to connecting to screens. Right these days I'm dealing with the Thunderbolt-charging defect in my Gen 9. Luckily still under warranty.

Best of luck with your problem! I suggest you use your warranty if still active (and better with on-site assistance than sending the thing).

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collar

in reply to stravanasu • 1 settimana fa • •

Thanks for the reply, sorry didn’t see until now.

Yes, what ended up happening was the computer was still under warranty and had Lenovo premium service (I didn’t pay anything extra for it, maybe it comes default with the X1 Carbon?), so a tech came out a day later and replaced the motherboard. It was actually super simple and I was back up and running in no time. I haven’t had any issues since.

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stravanasu

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Great to hear! All's well that ends well 😀

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brownmustardminion

in reply to collar • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Try turning off the device, remove the battery, then take a safety pin and compressed air and scrape out any dust I'm the usb-c port then spray with air. I had a issue with my phone charging but not getting data. I spent a solid 15mins doing the above and it fixed it.

A good test is to see how firmly the usb-c sticks in the port. If it comes out pretty easy or feels seated sloppily then it probably just needs a good cleaning.

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collar

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Sorry for the delayed response. I tried the reset button and there wasn’t any blockage or weak connection to the port itself.

Turns out the computer had Lenovo premium service so a tech came out the next day and replaced the motherboard. Hopefully I won’t have another issue 😬

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A red state community bet on carbon capture. Trump is blocking it | Amid fierce global competition to dominate the industry’s future, the Trump administration puts U.S. companies in a bind

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Rick_C137 via Linux

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Rick_C137
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Cheap SBC x86-64 ?

Hi,

is it exist cheap ~$60 SBC in X86-64 ??

::: spoiler No thank you for Rapsberry PI
\
I used Raspberry PI SBC for a while now.

But it's really hard to found a Linux distribution that support
- RPI (arm64)
- sysVinit 💖
- And that I like

Please don't bring systemD in this discussion thanks.
:::

( first row is for reference )

brand	model	Price €	GPIO pair	CPU	Lan Ports	idle watt	Surface area cm²	Storage ports	WiFi / BT	url
Raspberry Pi	Pi 5 B (4GB)	52	12	Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz.	1x 1GbE	3	47	SD
radxa¹	X4	90	12	N100 ▼	1x 2.5GbE	18W ?	47.6	M.2², eMMC²	W6, BT5.2
HardKernel ?	ODROID H4	109	??	N97 ▲	1x 2.5GbE	N.C -> 60W ?	144	eMMC, M.2, SATA		hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/

last update: 2025-08-31

Seem unavailable on the europe market.. ↩︎
Might not be bootable ! TBC ↩︎ ↩︎

quick summary

Monolithic design: Systemd is a large, complex piece of software that combines many system management functions, rather than having separate, specialized tools as in the traditional Unix philosophy.

^rentry.co

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Papamousse

in reply to Rick_C137 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Have you tried MX Linux? It is based on Debian, they have a distro for RPI, and they have no systemd

mxlinux.org/download-links/

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Rick_C137

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Thanks @Frederic@beehaw.org \
Yes, Nice distro, but unfortunately their RPI respin use systemD 👎 \
\
forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.ph…

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Rick_C137

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Thank you all for your input's ! \

So I have created a table , that I'll put in my first post.

Feel free to post update like

|brand|model|Price €|GPIO pair|CP|Lan Ports|idle watt|Surface area cm²|Storage ports| WiFi / BT|url| \
|Raspberry Pi|Pi 5 B (4GB)|52|12|Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz.|1x 1GbE|3|47|SD|||

or even without the row header

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ScoffingLizard via Privacy

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Does anyone have a Faraday bag for phone that works?

#privacy

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u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

in reply to dysprosium • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

No. Originally it was a testing username for UNIX shell. I just hit the keys randomly for numbers. Well, somebody verified my account, giving it higher value and making it not temporary.

Then SDF also made a Lemmy instance, and not understanding that being a separate product, I re-used the same username.

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dysprosium

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Sorry

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Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]

An estimated Twenty-seven ships to set sail for Gaza from multiple ports to break Israel’s siege on the enclave.

This will be activist Greta Thunberg’s second mission, having been taken captive by Israel earlier this year when her ship and fellow crew members were sprayed with illicit chemicals and boarded unlawfully in international waters. The Handala and her crew also suffered a similar fate earlier this summer.

Dozens of people gathered on Saturday at the port of Barcelona where a flotilla will set sail for Gaza on Sunday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is hoping to break… the naval blockade imposed by Israel along the coast of the Gaza Strip since 2007... (AP video and production by Hernan Munoz)

Additional information:

The Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know

Largest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know

More than 50 ships are heading to Gaza to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade and deliver urgent humanitarian aid.

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Onno (VK6FLAB) via Privacy

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Chinese Pudu robots found open to hijacking

Researcher who found McDonald's free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots

: The controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots

^{Iain Thomson (The Register)}

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Onno (VK6FLAB)

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Privacy breaches come in many guises .. this is one of them.

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Autonomous User

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Who controls the robot? Why should we cry when a thief gets hacked?

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Onno (VK6FLAB) via Privacy

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McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes rotten security

McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

: Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped

^{Iain Thomson (The Register)}

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ArmchairAce1944

in reply to Onno (VK6FLAB) • 1 settimana fa • •

That makes sense. But maybe there is something else... Hollywood exaggerated what could be done too soon.

Take the classic 1995 films The Net and Hackers. (I love hackers now in a bittersweet way because of just how sincerely positive they felt towards the future and the future of the internet. Genuinely believing that it will forever be a place of a freedom and ruled by wild west cowboy hackers who will not only do things out of curiosity, but also never sell out. To be fair, they were going by The Hacker Manifesto ).

In The Net, you have a terminally online cybersec specialist (a female cybersec specialist, and terminally online... in the mid-90s. The former is believable, the latter is not... there just wasn't THAT much to do online at the time) who gets her life torn apart when people erase her very existence using the internet. They state that 'everything is online now' meaning everything can be accessed and destroyed, thus rendering her a non-person with no records of who she because they purged all databases of her records.

In Hackers, you have somewhat the same thing play out... but it was done as a gag and clearly undone later. There is a US Secret Service agent causing the protagonists some trouble, so they make trouble for him by creating online dating profiles with his name and contacts (and putting extreme fetishes he does not have, thus having him be called by all manner of weirdos), cancelling his credit cards, and the funniest part: They have him declared legally dead somehow. All of this is undone of course, and the whole sequence played for laughs, but it greatly exaggerated what was and what wasn't online at the time.

One thing that absolutely COULD have happened that I didn't think was possible was in the 4th Die Hard movie, Live Free or Die Hard... in the movie the bad guys hack a city's traffic lights and make them all green all the time, thus causing numerous traffic accidents. I rolled my eyes when I saw and said 'nah, that can't happen'... only for me to read later that not only could such a thing happen, but it could happen in the stupidest way possible. Some hacker managed to find a clear-net website of some town that had their traffic light control on... and it was 100% unsecure. Meaning anyone with the URL could have just gone on and caused a lot of damage. The person who discovered it, thankfully, did not. But the fact that it COULD have happened was astonishing to me.

Now you have so much shit going on it isn't funny. I can't keep track of all the major hacks that just keep happening. From the Tea hack, to Las Vegas being compromised, to all sorts o shit. It is just incredible.

manifesto from 1986 by Loyd Blankenship

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

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Ilovethebomb

in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • 1 settimana fa • •

I have serious doubts about the traffic light thing, any even remotely well designed systems would have interlinks that don't allow green from multiple directions.

Shutting them down or changing the sequencing, sure, but not multiple greens at once.

jumponboard via Linux

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How to set permissions for flatpak vscodium?

I frequently encounter issues. Does someone have a working setup or should I simlpy use distrobox for IDEs?

#linux

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stuner

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What kind of issues did/do you encounter?

The VS Code/Codium essentially provide a separate development environment within the flatpak container. All the tools there, and the shell are separate from your actual system. There are some ways to work around this (github.com/flathub/com.vscodiu…). I gave up on the Flatpak and installed a native package. Containers are nice, but they have their limitations.

com.vscodium.codium/README.md at master · flathub/com.vscodium.codium

Contribute to flathub/com.vscodium.codium development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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just_another_person

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Actual errors would be helpful.

WaffleWarrior via Privacy

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Let's be honest, if Microsoft failed Linux Phones will fail

It's inevitable....you people are going to have your Android given the iPhone treatment and you are going to LIKE IT! 🫨

Seriously though, alternatives? Grapheneos Mastodon page is a dumpster fire at times. One minute they are as ferocious as lions claiming they will never surrender.....the next they are lamenting that Google won't feed them and they need a new hardware supplier 🫩

CalyxOS folded quicker than a wet paper bag at a simple management shift! GrapheneOS and it's days are numbered

So what's the real option going forward?

#privacy

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ClusterBomb

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I'd be interested in the lottery numbers if you can get them for me.

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queermunist she/her

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Nationalize Google and Apple.

💅

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murky0106

in reply to queermunist she/her • 1 settimana fa • •

That's a terrible idea

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queermunist she/her

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That's what Google and Apple want you to think, and they've spent a lot of money to make sure you keep thinking that way.

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belluck

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Look at the current US government and tell me again that you honestly believe that is a good idea

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murky0106

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That's what I think as well. They want these monopolies

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queermunist she/her

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The current US government wouldn't nationalize industry.

Doesn't that tell you something?

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lev

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Nationalise *without compensation ;)

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Comrade_Squid

in reply to lev • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Under workers control ;P

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murky0106

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I love the idea of Linux mobile but i think it is going to be limited by upstream support from SOC manufacturers. Personally I think we are going to have to keep using android and if it gets bad enough it will be less effort to get an open source fork of android working than reinvent the wheel with Linux mobile. Although I'm not a Linux or android dev so I could be wrong.

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WalnutLum

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I assume a lot of android foss app developers are going to refuse to register and the projects are going to need to be forked.

Personally I'm getting an old feature phone and an ipad mini that only has wifi. If my choice is between apple iOS and google iOS I'd rather just not use anything to do with Google.

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ExcessShiv

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If app support breaks even more or gets even jankier on grapheneOS than it already is, I'm folding and getting a dumb phone instead.

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muhyb

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At that point I would just install Ubuntu Touch on my phone, which is currently supported by UBports. At least it would still be smart in a way.

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Eirikr70

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Let's not bury GrapheneOS too fast!

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kyub

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1. There is no universal definition what a technology needs to achieve in order to be "successful" or "failing". Linux, in particular, depending on perspective, could have either "failed" literally all the time because it hasn't (yet) achieved desktop dominance, or it could have been massively successful on the other hand because it has been dominant on servers and mobile phones (in the form of Android). Now if we look at desktop Linux in particular, it has also somehow "not failed" at the same time, because it has continued to grow. It was stagnant for a very, very long time at around 1% market share but recently it's been steadily increasing up to about 5%. Again, depending on your definition or vibes, you could call this either successful or failing. Which is why these terms in isolation are kind of meaningless.
1. Microsoft is a company, Windows Phone was a product by that company. If a product from a company "fails", the company will abandon that product. It's that simple. Sure, gaining foothold against established iOS and Android is super hard. Which is the reason why Microsoft's effort failed. But, they are just a company. Linux, on the other hand, is at its core a world-wide community-developed open source software project (as well as most of the software that runs on top of it) and so it doesn't really matter if it grows up to Android or iOS size. It's still being developed as long as people want to develop for it. There's no single CEO looking at some statistics and calling to cut that project because it doesn't serve his definition of success.
1. In general, any project that strives to eventually rival established software products within a market has a steep uphill battle. It's the network effect. Developers develop for iOS and Android because 99% of the user base uses those two mobile OS. Only very few developers will be like "oh there's this new thing currently at 1% market share, sure, let's help it grow!". This alone prevents lots of apps you'd like to see on mainline Linux based mobile OS to ever exist for it. So you need to fall back to some workarounds like Waydroid, to run Android apps on Linux in the meantime, while Linux on mobile continues to grow and continues to attract developer attention. This can take a long time! On top of that are anti-competitive and monopolistic strategies and tactics being used by Google and Apple to ensure they remain on top of the mobile OS food chain. One such example is Google's so-called Play Integrity API, which is basically a form of DRM. Some app developers have been misled by Google's marketing to believe that they should implement it to ensure that their app is running on a "secure" device or environment. What they fail to realize is that Google uses that to basically label every non-Google-sanctioned Android distribution (like Graphene or Calyx or Lineage or many others) or Android runtime environment (like Waydroid) as "insecure" or other negative terms, which then prevents the app from being run at all. Furthermore they plan to restrict "sideloading" which means they want every app to only be distributed via Google's app repository. This means Google wants to exert a ton of control over the developers, the platform and every single app that runs on it. Developers are usually being lured into this via marketing tricks that this would much more secure than it was before or similar nonsense. What they fail to realize is that this also destroys flexibility and freedom for the users to choose what they want to install, and from where. On desktop PCs, you have had these freedoms for forever (even Windows(!) is much more open and neutral than iOS or Android are these days) - you obviously also should have these freedoms for your mobile OS because it's also just a computer with an OS on it. It's simply none of the business of the OS developer to tell the user which apps he should install and from where. OS and apps are completely different things from completely different developers. Choice is being limited significantly when Google centrally controls what apps are being distributed at all, there's 1 company telling you which apps you can and can't use. This is obviously bad and should NEVER happen, but many developers, users and other people confronted with this are easily lured into Google- and Apple-operated cages by fake security talk/marketing. That means they help establish Google's and Apple's monopoly on mobile OS. This, combined with the network effect for app developers, is why it will take lots of time and also not a commercial product (because no commercial product will have the amount of money or time to compete with Apple or Google) to rise up to these monopolies until a third viable option is on people's radars. Linux, due to its open source nature, is the only project that CAN achieve this because it can't fail. It can only grow. But we also need to ensure that at least Android remains a somewhat neutral and open platform. If Google becomes more like Apple controlling literally everything, it gets even harder for alternatives (and for Android users in general).

Linux phones are usable right now, but of course you have some limitations in practice... many apps aren't available or you have to use workarounds. If you mostly use open source applications you could be fine though. Although it's likely that you still need a secondary, small Android-based phone that you turn on just for those rare cases where you absolutely need a certain mobile app and it's only available for Android. At least while Linux mobile OS usage is still low. It's probably going to grow faster in the future, because those monopolistic companies usually enshittify their products and services at some point (Google is already well on it) and then regular Android/iOS users become so annoyed at what they're using that they also open up more for alternatives. It's basically what's happening in the desktop OS space right now - Windows continues to become more user-hostile and annoying to use, and desktop Linux passively (as well as actively) becomes more popular as a result. At some point, these companies forget what made their products popular in the first place and are only operating in the mode of milking users for data and profits, because they don't need to work hard anymore to improve the product - it's already popular enough. At that point, regular users who normally don't care about things like freedoms, privacy and ethics in the product they use will notice that things became worse and might switch simply because of inconveniences they didn't have before.

Another very good option beside Linux-based mobile OS these days is GrapheneOS. It's the best Android-based distribution you can have currently, nothing comes close (not going to elaborate here because long post is already long). But you still should be prepared for increasing hostility from Google towards unofficial Android distributions, and some apps which use the Play Integrity DRM to not work. If you encounter this, make sure to let the app developer(s) know. They need to realize that they are only serving Google's interests with this, not their own.

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Björn Tantau

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Funnily enough Microsoft actively killed the Linux phone when they took over Nokia.

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artyom

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Define "failed"?

Microsoft is a business. If they aren't able to sell phones, they fail. Linux doesn't sell anything and yet is able to keep trucking for 30 years.

Can Linux mobile hardware OEMs fail? Can and have. But the software community presses on. Not as quickly as I would like but they press on regardless.

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PotatoesFall

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I'm confused are you talking about android or linux phones?

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cerebralhawks

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Happy with a phone that’s basically based on UNIX and isn’t run by a personal information broker. I can put Google apps on it if I want (and I think I have a couple) but ultimately it’s up to me what I want advertisers to be able to buy.

I dunno, just seems better, especially given the two cost the same. So all that personal information they sell doesn’t work out to a cost savings for you, plus the phone they make themselves is like 20-40% slower, newest model to newest model. So in a sense you’re kind of paying them to sell your data? Not my cup of tea.

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flatbield

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Fairphone is the open platform. The GrapheneOS guys could start working with that. It is an actual project including a hardware supplier not bound to Google. Another one is Purism, but their stuff is often very expensive. As long as the Pixel is a fully open hardware platform we will be fine, but they could choose to lock it down at any time.

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upstroke4448

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GOS is already working with an OEM to produce their own phone. I think they said they are around a year away.

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communism

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I'm not following the GOS stuff super closely but last I saw they said they were a year away from having their own hardware, and that Pixel support would be able to continue. See this thread: grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

No need to reinvent the wheel so pre-emptively. If GOS does go down (which it sounds like they are trying their best not to), I'll probably switch to a Linux phone or just not have a smartphone.

GrapheneOS

2025-08-27 19:52:50

We've received the Pixel 10 we ordered and have confirmed it supports unlocking, flashing another verified boot key and locking again.
Our Pixel 10 support will likely only be possible to complete after we finish porting to Android 16 QPR1 which is being released in September.

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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

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A phone is a surveillance device.

The networks it is able to connect to have been compromised by attackers using backdoors built into them for the use of law enforcement. The legality of collecting information transmitted across those networks has been enshrined in law. All hardware and software companies which work with phones are targeted for infiltration by multiple foreign and domestic intelligence agencies. Friendly nations exchange intelligence packages and techniques for bypassing phone security with each other as a matter of fact. Foreign intelligence services’ surveillance technology is integrated into local law enforcement.

You cannot privately or securely use a phone.

Adblocking is not privacy or security.

Playing Super Nintendo on your phone is not privacy or security.

No amount of open source software will save you from the global intelligence state who have targeted the linux kernel and various distributions.

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technocrit

in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • 1 settimana fa • •

You cannot privately or securely use a phone.

This is probably true of most devices, but people can still try to improve their security and privacy. Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good and so on...

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phase

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You wrote "you people". You exclude yourself with some controversial headline. I stopped reading.

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It do be like that...

#memes

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TJA!

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I don't understand what you are trying to tell me. But I also haven't ever used an Uber.

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Obi

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My guess is this is supposed to represent the experience of trying to act normal with your uber driver that's driving you back from the club/bar while you're drunk/high as hell.

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mmagod

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i get that some people don't like talking much.. but i mean.. personally i'd be creeped out if someone gets in my car and expects to be given a ride without saying a word.

DecaturNature via Privacy

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Neural Privacy: EFF interviews Yuste and Genser of the Neurorights Foundation

"How to Fix the Internet" has an important interview with neuroscientist Rafael Yuste and human rights lawyer Jared Genser, who together established the Neurorights Foundation, focused on expanding human rights concepts to neurotechnologies —tools that can record, interpret, and even manipulate brain activity.

They have contributed to getting laws passed nearly unanimously in three states of the USA and also discuss reforms in Brazil and Chile. This is an important issue to understand, and now seems like a short-lived opportunity to get laws passed before wealthy companies become involved in these technologies and start lobbying for their own interests.

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/podc…

Podcast Episode: Protecting Privacy in Your Brain

The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't just around the corner – it's already here.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

#privacy

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NightOwl via World News

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German cabinet passes bill for voluntary military service

The bill foresees certain annual recruitment targets for the new voluntary scheme: rising from 20,000 in 2026 to 38,000 in 2030.
If these numbers are not achieved, the government could opt instead to reinstate conscription, subject to parliamentary approval, according to the latest draft of the bill.
Already the current bill contains some mandatory elements, with all young men required to fill an online questionnaire regarding their willingness and abilities for military service after turning 18, to gain a better overview of the potentially available personnel.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/german-cabinet-passes-bill-voluntary-military-service-2025-08-27/

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Global_Liberty

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Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of decades of funding Russian genocide in exchange for cheap natural gas.

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hotshot

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They are also looking into cutting social programs. This coupled with Britain and France potentially needing an IMF loan is not great news for Europe.

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Yo yo! Help me choose some better private services!

Yo yo!

I’ve been working on making my life more private and need some assistance picking suitable replacement options. Please let me know what you think of my list of if there are any opportunities for improvement! Here’s where I’m at …

Apple Maps
-OSMandMaps. Seems like a good option, but it’s not ready out the box. I need to do more tweaking with it.
-Magic Earth. Haven’t tested it yet, seems good. But I’m looking for free options first before I dabble with paid stuff.

AI (ChatGPT)
-Lumo. Chat is really good. But I understand they are good because they syphon data illegally, so I’m ok “downgrading” when switching AIs. Lump seems pretty good so far. I can tell it’s not as advanced but it will do me fine for what I need. Also, i assume once I pay for lumo pro it will be more “powerful”.
-Maple AI. Seems dope, also I like the pay model, pay for what you use over “x” amount of inquiries. Does anyone know how I owledgable/powerful it is?
-local AI OR Ollama. These 2 are beyond my knowledge. I don’t understand how I run these on my own server? If you know anything about these please ELI5.

Google Docs
-OnlyOffice. Seems like it does everything I want.
-cryptpad. Just heard of this today, need to explore more. Seems dope, but it doesn’t have an app? From what I’ve seen definitely a strong contender.

Photo App (I haven’t looked into any of these yet)
-Protón Drive.
-ente photos.
-I’mmich.

Google Drive
-protón drive.

#privacy

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communism

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Maps: CoMaps all the way. Very nice, polished map app using OpenStreetMap

AI: Just use Ollama. It's dead simple to run it on your local machine. They have docs here: github.com/ollama/ollama/tree/…

Productivity suite: LibreOffice. If you want sync use Nextcloud (needs to be hosted) or syncthing (no hosting necessary).

Photo app: Nextcloud Photos app if you want cloud sync. I take it you use iOS given that you specify Apple Maps, in which case idk what foss photos apps there are on iOS, but Fossify Gallery on Android is good.

Cloud storage: Nextcloud. By definition, cloud storage needs to be hosted, so if you don't have a server, you can use something like Proton Drive or Cryptdrive, or find a public Nextcloud instance that lets you sign up (Disroot has one).

ollama/docs at main · ollama/ollama

Get up and running with OpenAI gpt-oss, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3 and other models. - ollama/ollama

^GitHub

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Autonomous User

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Software is private, not services.

Five via Privacy

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Five
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security

How do police identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder repression?

^CrimethInc.

#privacy

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AbouBenAdhem

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Take all this with a big grain of salt—it’s based on the oddly naïve assumption that the police are trying to catch the actual instigators, and that they need real evidence to get convictions.

In my experience, the objective of the police is to create a particular public narrative (which they present to the media after the fact): the police acted with restraint, respecting the peoples’ right to assemble, until a handful of agitators turned destructive and the demonstration threatened to escalate into a major riot—at which point they swiftly intervened, caught enough of the agitators to prevent an escalation, and saved (most of) the city’s businesses from destruction.

Now, they do want to intimidate the crowd to keep things from escalating too far, but they also want to allow for some destruction to legitimize their tactics and to support the argument that the police force needs more officers. So they leave the actual instigators alone, because they’re useful to their narrative (up to a point) and because the police don’t want to engage with a group prepared to fight back. (What they really want to avoid is a large crowd seeing the example of multiple people physically resisting the riot police without being immediately subdued.)

Instead, they target:
* Journalists, street medics, and legal observers, to remove the demonstrators’ sense of institutional support and legitimacy;
* Anyone whose mugshots will alienate public support—the homeless, minorities, and anyone whose face is vaguely weird or scary;
* Anyone unable to resist a violent beating (like the disabled, elderly, and children) for pure shock value and crowd intimidation; and
* People who came dressed in black bloc fashion, but are clearly by themselves, passive, and not part of an organized group.

These last are the only ones they will try to prosecute, and often their black bloc attire plus the testimony of cops who claim they saw them engaged in destructive activity will be enough to get a conviction. In this case the anonymity of their dress backfires, because the cops can pin the actions of anyone with similar clothing and body type on them by claiming they saw the act first-hand and caught the suspect immediately afterward.

Meanwhile, the real instigators are convinced that they escaped due to the brilliance of their tactics and not because the cops had no interest in catching them.

That said, all this goes out the window when dealing with Trump’s federal agents: they’re working from different narratives with no pretense of protecting businesses, maintaining local support, or respecting anyone’s rights.

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75+ Flock Cameras Disabled in Bay Area

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/35231913

75+ Flock Cameras Disabled in Bay Area

^{unravel.noblogs.org}

#privacy

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makingStuffForFun

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"some anarchists disabled 75+ flock cameras in oakland and sf'

Anarchy in the USA.

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birdwing

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Based and privacypilled

Five via Privacy

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Five
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75+ Flock Cameras Disabled in Bay Area

^{unravel.noblogs.org}

#privacy

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wuffah

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If you know Flock, most of their cheap cameras go down all by themselves. Even when they’re operating as intended, their capture rates are under 70%, which is why you usually find them in pairs monitoring the same direction of traffic. That dinky solar panel can barely power them through the night so most of their cameras are dead in the early morning hours.

The only way Flock stays in business is by literally giving their cameras away by illegally installing them in municipalities and waiting for them to be ordered removed. You’d probably be doing most cities a favor by taking them down.

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eldavi

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easily reproducible stuff

when i lived in austin, i witnessed several instances of "texan progressives" call the police on protestors for preventing the self driving taxis from stealing peoples in jobs by sitting in the street to block them; while people in san francisco & oakland looked the other way when protestors threw paint destroyed the sensors on the self driving taxis.

californians have the proper mindset to affect change and i REALLY miss living there sometimes.

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N0t_5ure

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Is there anything of value in the camera set-ups to steal and quickly turn into cash? If so, an information campaign to raise awareness of the value amongst crackheads and meth addicts could work wonders.

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lemming741

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Can't be that hard to turn them into solar phone chargers

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sunzu2

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The corpo wars are coming except it will be plebs v the corpos.

ArmchairAce1944 via Linux

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ArmchairAce1944
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Nvidia driver issues...

Well guys! I did it! Linux mint on my desktop! Finally! Everything seemed like it was going swimmingly save for some minor issues. But then I ran into one: I did use stability matrix to make furry porn (very bad furry porn, don't ask) but when I tried to run it, it kept telling me it had issues with python and cuda and other stuff. I wondered if the problem was just python libraries or my nvidia drivers. I did manage to get a workaround, but it simply wouldn't use my GPU... in fact, I think I am having a super hard time seeing if I am even using it properly.

Speaking of drivers I tried to install the latest one, but that caused a problem. I use multiple monitors (because of course I do). Three in fact, but only one ended up working with the other two entirely unrecognized. And I still wasn't able to use my GPU to get stability matrix (or even stability forge without that) and my games still can't run on max graphics settings. I've been looking around for some help on this and trying to work on it all day, with limited success. It is basically the only major thing going wrong with my transition from windows to linux.

Any help here?

#linux

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Mereo

in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • 1 settimana fa • •

Have you decided on Mint yet? If not, the Bazzite distro will be easy to use. All you need to do is download the Nvidia image and install it. It will work right away. Steam and the Nvidia drivers are already installed and configured. No configuration is needed.

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ArmchairAce1944

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I suppose I can change things... I mean I haven't been on linux mint that long... I didn't hear about Bazzite. Let me try to fix this before I try to use a different distro.

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Mereo

in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • 1 settimana fa • •

Ok. If ever you want to try Bazzite, here's the download link: bazzite.gg/#image-picker

Then choose: Desktop > Nvidia RTX Series > KDE > Traditional Desktop.

Bazzite - The next generation of Linux gaming

Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

^bazzite.gg

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tyler

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I went through about six distros in a week before deciding. Mint and zorin were both terrible on my nvidia card.

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ArmchairAce1944

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As it stands right now, due to Just_Another_Person's link (itsfoss.com/nvidia-linux-mint/) pretty much took care of most of the issues. There is a minor issue with using LM studio and trying to load LLMs offline (privacy... if there is anything I miss about computing in the 90s is that there was very little in terms of any outside company looking into what you were doing on your comp), but that is not a major deal for now. I can use LLMs with small context windows. The large context windows were painfully slow anyway.

Install Nvidia Drivers on Linux Mint [Beginner's Guide]

Struggling with Nvidia and Linux Mint? Here's a detailed beginner's guide that explains plenty of things around installing Nvidia drivers on Linux Mint.

^{Ankush Das (It's FOSS)}

ecoenginefutures via Memes

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ecoenginefutures
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Solarpunk

#memes

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Sentient Loom

in reply to ecoenginefutures • 1 settimana fa • •

This applies to "teens" until they have to get jobs and do what they're told or else be homeless.

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ecoenginefutures

in reply to Sentient Loom • 1 settimana fa • •

I assume you’re projecting yourself onto the “teens”, in such case I’ll let you know that the future is solarpunk and there’s very little you can do at an individual level to stop it, I’d suggest you to participate in it tho. Reality rewards the ones that correctly predict the future, so this is your chance to hop on the train and make your future >even< greater! Much love!

Pro via Technology

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We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

::: spoiler Comments
- Hackernews.
:::

Your Phone Already Has Social Credit. We Just Lie About It.

Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you…

^{Natalie Pang (The Nexus)}

#technology

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Leaflet via Linux

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What are some good shell tweaks?

A short while ago, I saw a blog post from someone about modernizing their shell. Unfortunately, I lost the blog post, but there was some really good stuff in there. Just mentioning this in case someone knows what I'm talking about.

One tweak I remember they mentioned was about fixing programs that have broken formatting. It prevents scenarios like

user@hostname:~$ echo "hi"
hiuser@hostname:-~$

where the output and shell prompt get placed on the same line. I noticed this happens with bash with C programs that don't include a \n in the final printf statement.

#linux

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wuphysics87

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set -o vi

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theshatterstone54

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Here's my .zshrc:

gitlab.com/theshatterstone/dot…

and ~/.config/zsh:

gitlab.com/theshatterstone/dot…

This config uses Starship for a prompt (starship.rs/), Homebrew as an extra package manager, and my own custom fetch script at:

gitlab.com/theshatterstone/fet…

A lot of it was taken from Luke Smith's zsh config. Say what you will about him, he's got a good zsh config. Link:

.zshrc · main · theshatterstone / Dotfiles · GitLab

My new Dotfiles repo

^GitLab

Pro via Technology

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Disney to Pay $10 Million to Settle FTC Allegations the Company Enabled the Unlawful Collection of Children’s Personal Data

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/disney-pay-10-million-settle-ftc-allegations-company-enabled-unlawful-collection-childrens-personal

#technology

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floofloof
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Leaked Emails Reveal Jeffrey Epstein's Connections to the Surveillance Industry

Yahoo fait partie de la famille de marques Yahoo.

^{www.yahoo.com}

#News

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geneva_convenience

in reply to floofloof • 1 settimana fa • •

Palantir? Check.

Paypal maffia? Check

Israel? Check.

Yep. It's conspiracy time.

Pro via Technology

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Pro
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Google is having ‘productive discussions’ with Trump lawyers about his deplatforming suit

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60643878/175/trump-v-youtube-llc/

#technology

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Software Freedom Day 2025 - New Jersey

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/41246302

We're having an event for Software Freedom Day. It is a world-wide event, and we are having one right here at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
September 20th, 2025 from 11am-4pm
We'll have talks about what free software is, and why it's important for everyone. What kind of software is available for your existing computer, and how you can use Free Software to use your computer past the date that the manufacturer wants to keep updating it. There will be a talk on self hosting, so that you can run services that reduce or replace your reliance on outside big tech companies, and keep better control of your data. Talks about Wikipedia and Open Source are proposed. There will also be a talk on Social Networking with free software called "Mastodon and the Fediverse" that will show how you can network with people without giving your data to big tech, and without the algorithms that don't work in your best interest.
Here a link for more information:
softwarefreedom.neocities.org/
We'll be happy to discuss any details.

#linux

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WaffleWarrior via Privacy

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I give up 🏳️

I give up.... Privacy is a fool's game and it's a losing one at that. We are slowly entering a world where more and more requirements are made on people to own a regular non-hipster cell phone. There are places you can't even buy parking or look at a restaurant menu without having a proper cell phone.

Maybe the answer is not to flash some obscure on life support operating system on your Google pixel but rather.. maybe the answer is to work within the system and simply adjust privacy controls as allotted?

#privacy

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Too stubborn to give up 🏴🏴🏴

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iconic_admin

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Mereo

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

The trick is not to go too extreme too quickly. It has to be a gradual transition to using privacy-respecting products, or else you'll burn out.

I started by switching from Windows 10 to Linux, then using ProtonMail instead of Gmail, then Lemmy instead of Reddit. I'm slowly transitioning to other services and software that respect my privacy.

Look at it as a journey.

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ScoffingLizard

in reply to Mereo • 1 settimana fa • •

I needed to hear that. Getting off Amazon, Facebook, Instgram, and no Paypal was probably the easiest part.

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iconic_admin

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I agree with you. I’m a privacy advocate but there are some things I have given up on. I have an iPhone and just live with the fact that it has much more telemetry than I want. It’s better for work because everyone else has an iPhone, etc. However, on my personal computers I run Ubuntu LTS with all telemetry turned off. I use Firefox with ublock and privacy badger, if I want extra privacy I’ll use a VPN. But even then you have to trust the company that runs the VPN isn’t secretly recording your browsing data, it’s a gamble.

My main point is, fight for privacy where it makes sense. Don’t waste your limited time fighting it where it doesn’t. That’s become my personal philosophy, your mileage may vary.

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Mereo

in reply to iconic_admin • 1 settimana fa • •

Exactly. The most important thing is to do what we can.

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artyom

in reply to iconic_admin • 1 settimana fa • •

The problem is there are lots of places where fighting makes sense but you have no control. 99% will turn all their info over without batting an eye.

I was invited to an event recently on Partiful. If you're unfamiliar, this is the company founder by a bunch of former Palantir execs. The only way to RSVP or see the event info or get updates or anything else is to turn over your phone number. I told the person who invited me that I wasn't comfortable giving these people my info and they responded along the lines of "okay, don't come".

I went to a food truck a while back and they wouldn't even give me a menu or accept my order at the window. Told me I needed to download, order and pay through their shitty app.

Anyone who has my contact information volunteers it in it's entirety to any shitty app that asks for it. They upload pictures of me (along with the according metadata) to surveillance databases without my consent or knowledge, thinking nothing of it.

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Ildsaye [they/them]

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

None of our individual strategies are "the answer". The situation won't be turned around by individuals making personal choices, but by organized efforts. A world in which Terms and Conditions don't supersede your rights is possible.

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Alas Poor Erinaceus

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

@WaffleWarrior@lemmy.zip, what specific problems are you running up against? I'm confident that my fellow lemmings and I can help you figure out how to minimize or at least reduce whatever privacy related tech issues you're having.

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DominusOfMegadeus

in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus • 1 settimana fa • •

My mortgage broker or lender clearly sold my phone number to spammers.

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swelter_spark

in reply to DominusOfMegadeus • 1 settimana fa • •

I use a cheap VoIP and have a number specifically to give out to businesses. It offers way more control over call handling than a typical phone service, and I can change it whenever I want without having to give family & friends a new number.

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infjarchninja

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

The cypherpunk manifesto, 9th March 1993

32 years ago we faced the same nightmare. I was 37 years old back then.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any.

We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place.

People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers.

The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.

Privacy is not secrecy.

A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.

Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

activism.net/cypherpunk/manife…

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

^{www.activism.net}

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hansolo

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

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frongt

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Picking your battles is not giving up.

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Eirikr70

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There's no such thing as total privacy. When you walk in the streets, people can see you and that is no problem. Same goes online. You have to reach YOUR balance between privacy and convenience. I have reached mine with two excellent tools that are GrapheneOS and AdGuardHome. Of course I have also excluded privacy-invading apps such as WhatsApp or Google search. I suppose I evade 80% Big Tech usual tracking and I'm happy that way.

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LoreSoong

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Any place asking me to scan a QR for a menu, or need an app for parking probably wasnt worth it to begin with. Yes practicing privacy is not going to "feel" good thats exactly what they want. Just keep fighting back where you can, Make it as unlikely as possible for them to get what they want.

Every person In this comment section has leaks in their system. Unless they are some data security expert, theres simply no way to get by without being "exposed" at some point.

Keep up the good fight. Its worth it. Your eyes and your data are the new currency. Keep their hands off it.

Edit: there is alot of good info in this comment section people should upvote & downvote this post to balance it into being "contraversial" to get more eyes on it. Simply downvoting someone with a "bad take" Is imo unproductive.

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ushmel

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Almost every one of these places (that's truly worth it) will have a way to pay without tech. They still want your money. Hell, ask the guy behind you on line, they'd probably take the credit card points.

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flatbield

in reply to LoreSoong • 1 settimana fa • •

Avoiding apps if you can and focusing on using the web and/or PWAs as a good direction too. Lot of the stuff out there for apps really should not be an app to start with. Then there is F-Droid which has most of the actual apps you need.

The ones not in fdroid and where you can't use a web app, and must have, these are not so many. For me this is some health devices, some transit and travel apps, my local library, a hearing test app, Google Maps, my bank app (for check cashing). All of these also run just fine on GrapheneOS. Lot of those don't have to be on my phone though if you only have one android device maybe they do. Really transit and travel apps, maybe my local library, and Google Maps are the only ones I use out and about.

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land

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

No, thank you. I’d rather be without a phone than bowing down to these corporations.

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Vanth

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I want to run a bit faster than my hiking buddy to avoid being caught by the bear. I want my car or bike to look more of a pain to steal than the one parked next to it.

There's no perfect privacy. I want to outpace my peers so that they are the more attractive targets.

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flatbield

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Just install GrapheneOS. Simple.

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LoreSoong

in reply to flatbield • 1 settimana fa • •

I think they were saying that, with the google pixel reference in the post. Graphene also has issues, certain apps and services flat out dont work, Its not for everyone. but it is infinitely better than stock imo.

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flatbield

in reply to LoreSoong • 1 settimana fa • •

Yes some don't work but frankly none I needed. Originally my banking app did not work, but they upgraded it and after that it worked fine. So I would say mostly it just works. Not all apps even work on all stock phones either.

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sunzu2

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Being treated like cattle is for everyone though it seems.

Normies get what they deserve

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LoreSoong

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Its a fight against corps and bad actors. Why attack potential allies? Genuinely hate people like you. you arent better than these people, get a grip.

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sunzu2

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That's not an attack, thats a comment on the current reality.

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Ilandar

in reply to flatbield • 1 settimana fa • •

Typical GrapheneOS user. Blindly shills it without even reading the thread.

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flatbield

in reply to Ilandar • 1 settimana fa • •

I did read the post. Way easier to install GrapheneOS then it is to fiddle with non-existent privacy controls on stock. GrapheneOS is highly popular and pretty much just works so the on life support thing is BS. Yes if you must have one of the few apps that don't work, sure you'll have to use stock or just not use the app. I've not found any apps that I need that don't run on GrapheneOS but there are some.

Keep in mind too, that not all apps work on all stock phones either for one reason or another.

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Ilandar

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GrapheneOS is highly popular and pretty much just works so the on life support thing is BS.

I think perhaps you missed the context there. The future for Android custom ROMs like GrapheneOS is looking quite bleak currently, even its developers have acknowledged this.

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flatbield

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Why? Google closing android development? Lack of hardware to install it on?

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sunzu2

in reply to Ilandar • 1 settimana fa • •

God forbid the normie has to do anything to protect himself.

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HubertManne

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

I get the feeling. My wife and I keep wondering how long we can refuse to use smartphones. I like polluting the data pool. There is a developer app to set a faux location for the phone. anything I can do to send wrong data is a bigger thing to me than not sending the data.

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Ilandar

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Unless you are an activist willing to dedicate large amounts of your time to the cause, that is probably our future.

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upstroke4448

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Why even post this? do you really need outside validation every time you decide to give up?

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Mechaguana

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Eh privacy isint cheap, you gotta have multiple devices so it doesnt get too complicated

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golden_zealot

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

Maybe the answer is not to flash some obscure on life support operating system on your Google pixel but rather… maybe the answer is to work within the system and simply adjust privacy controls as allotted?

And when those controls are removed because most people went along with it and they were determined as a waste of development time by a corporate or government entity because people also give up on that then what? This is not an answer to anything, it's complacency that will just erode privacy more and make the problem worse.

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ganamasawa

in reply to WaffleWarrior • 1 settimana fa • •

The simplest thing you can do is to just use your phone as little as you can.

I use a regular phone because my model doesn't support GrapheneOS or other custom OSs. So I just use my phone as little as possible: calls, whatsapp/LINE/telegram almost only for info about meeting people, not to discuss deep stuff. Proprietary backup deactivated. No games, no superfluous stuff if not a hardened Firefox as browser and my Bank app (sigh). All other few apps I have are FOSS and/or privacy oriented. I use syncthing with encryption enabled so I can backup all data on my desktop with little hassle and regularly delete photos/chats on my phone.

If I have to use a privacy invading app on my phone to buy a parking ticket or something similar: I download the app, block all permissions, use it, delete cache/datas and then delete it.

If I lose my phone tomorrow it would not even be a big deal because I have almost no data in it. I know it's not a perfect model since a few apps and the phone itself do have telemetry, but it's better than going around with a device filled with sensitive data. It reduces a lot of stress and it's very manageable for me.

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that's because you are trying an individual solution to a collective problem.

going for the roots of it involves going for the corporations and oligarchs taking control of our electronics, not simply installing a private rom.

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eelectricshock

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Both ends need working on. I think creating and supporting new movements require change, it starts with individuals fighting for more rights on a microscopic level. Shifting to GrapheneOS will accelerate Google to make changes for the good of all of us.

Be wise and patient. I think our older politicians don't accept these concepts, but as our young grow into old then we've got a platform to fight for.

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illusionist

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He is exaggerating a lot

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au lot.

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Speaking of AI product logos, a treatise

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This came out pre-AI.

June 20, 2019

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Looking confused at my 2009 course certificate on neural networks and Markov chains...

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DSTGU

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Yea, Manifesto would be a better name

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Syncthing setup that is suitable for a battery powered Linux device

Hi guys, I recently installed Linux mint on a spare laptop I had to check if I can daily drive this and since I run Syncthing Windows setup on this device before and I essentially want to replicate that setup here which means Syncthing starts up automatically on login but with the condition that the device should be connected to ac power and if it gets disconnected kill the process right away. I could easily have this in Windows setup and also in Syncthing-fork for Android with a simple toggle. How can I replicate this Linux mint as well?

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Will throttling the CPU use less energy? Phones often do the opposite, they race to idle

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer

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In theory, yes, but it wouldn't be as significant as stopping it entirely (or pausing it instead of a hard start-stop). I only mention CPU limits because it's extremely easy to implement.

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What kind of sorcery is this? Why can't I see that comment when I am logged in, despite the fact that I am a mod?

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What the heck is happening?

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What kind of sorcery is this? Why can't I see that comment when I am logged in, despite the fact that I am a mod?

Post.
This is happening even on my alt account(Reddthat).
What the heck is happening?

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" conversationalist"?

You're using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.

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where is the "little guy"?

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Russia & China are destroying us, openly, and we haven't done anything about it

I have thought about this a lot, and I came across this Wikipedia page about a Russian book today, and this book about China's plan, and it both terrified and enlightened me further. Based on these two pages (read them before reading this), I have a couple of additional thoughts (closer to conspiracy theories, but anyway):
- The Israel-Hamas conflict (and a genocide) is a distraction from Russia and Iran (yes, they disregard human lives that much), to avoid people from figuring out their plans, keeping a far-right Israeli government, and distracting from Ukraine. It also allows for Iran (and thus Russia) to test against missile and drone defense systems in Israel (that are the best anyway, therefore anything that passes will shred through any Western nation).
- Climate change isn't ignored; rather, it is done purposely. If farming fails, we will be in starvation, allowing them to take us out/dominate us much more easily. Additionally, there are studies that prove an increased temperature leads to lower productivity, thus proving this hypothesis further — and Russia won't feel as big of an impact there, especially in winter.
- The “AI” hype is being funded by both Russia and China, to lower our critical thinking, also allowing us to be tricked and attacked more easily. Furthermore, it increases the speed of climate change, and takes away even more clean water from us. This allows them to be able to poison our waters much more easily, since only a select few freshwater points will be out there,

2015 book by Michael Pillsbury

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No, I am not an astroturfer. I have my own opinions and assumptions, just like anyone else. I have been Lemmy for some time already, have made a couple of posts, and I ain't goddamn funded by any government.

tactic of creating artificial "grassroots" organizations

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You have Nazi opinions.

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Why did PinePhone fail?

Six years ago the entire Linux enthusiast space was super excited for the PinePhone, then everything fell apart. What went wrong? Was PINE64's favoritism towards Manjaro the sole issue or were there other problems?

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Sailor88

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Made with low end hardware

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weirdo_from_space

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I don't think this is it, a lot of people were ok with that. The problem is drivers, they seemingly never matured enough to get the device to a usable state. Why?

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cole

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if you've ever used one then you know that that is indeed it

it is unusable

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carzian

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

So I think there were a few issues.
- the original pinephone was basically too slow to be usable
- there were a few hardware quirks that had to be fixed in software but made mainlining drivers for it difficult
- the lack of community updates (and you could argue overall community management) caused some developers to move away while also impeded pine64s ability to attract new developers
- the lack of any sort of funding for developers made it difficult for people to work on as any more than a hobby (not necessarily pine64's fault, but it's the reality)
- poor battery life (better idle and sleep support would have been software issues but the hardware was designed to be cheap instead of really useful)
- daily driving Linux on a phone is a poor experience - not pine64s fault but there's a bunch of support missing in Linux that needs to be developed before early adopters can really use Linux phones. Modem power management, audio switching between Bluetooth and speaker, MMS support, camera support, etc.

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Ardor von Heersburg

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

I own the original PinePhone, and it's nice to tinker with, but honestly it's far too slow to be usable on a regular basis. Perhaps the PinePhone Pro is slightly better, but most likely still not good enough.

Couple that with the other issues described by @carzian@lemmy.ml , and it's pretty clear why it failed.

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Grass

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its so slow that it feels worse than a gen 1 iphone. even with a super stripped down alpine based os it's unbearable even just making calls or text and not using any software beyond basic phone apps.

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tomalley8342

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

The only reason why consumers like you and me get to enjoy free software on modern PC hardware is because of the expectation of open standards and interoperability set way back when the industry was still growing and computer users gave a shit (or rather, when only the people who gave a shit owned a computer).

Much to the industry giants' enthusiasm, mobile hardware stacks were developed without this baggage, and so unless something fundamental changes, all mobile devices trying to focus on free software will be doomed to failure by abysmally poor hardware support and aging hand-me-down hardware.

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weirdo_from_space

in reply to tomalley8342 • 1 settimana fa • •

I hope Raptor Computing sticks around. If I manage to get a well paying job I'd love to move on to the POWER ISA on desktop and a Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch.

I know it's exteremely expensive (I mean the POWER desktop) but with the recent Android news I believe the time for compromise has passed. Those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to do so should adopt fully open hardware whenever possible.

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ninth_plane

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Did it fail? I hate headlines like this. Just because it isn't popular now, doesn't mean it didn't make progress in its space.

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utopiah

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Did it fail?

Yes... it did. I have both (details in this post) and I'd love to use either daily yet I don't do it. I also don't know anybody who does.

Was it useful? Absolutely but IMHO the fact that the 2nd version is not fully usable (camera, power usage, etc) without active progress despite being a 4 years old specifically targeting tinkers is not a success. I'm genuinely wondering who would want a PinePhone 2. I'd love to but based on what happened with the Pro, I'm not sure I would despite using my other Pine64 on a daily basis.

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weirdo_from_space

in reply to ninth_plane • 1 settimana fa • •

It absolutely failed. Pinebook succeeded, they wanted to build a cheap Chromebook alternative for Linux enthusiasts and they did it. Pinebook Pro was a functional product and it was well received.

Pinephone failed, it made some progress but it never reached a point where a Linux user with basic needs could daily drive it. It seems like Linux phone space moved on to Halium at this point.

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utopiah

in reply to weirdo_from_space • 1 settimana fa • •

I have both the PinePhone and the PinePhone Pro, IMHO :

lack of Android apps (yes, I know, weird to open with that but for a lot of people, that's the 1 thing, not actual calls or SMS) despite Waydroid because it didn't exist initially then requires higher specs
bad power management : the battery is small so without spot on power management one ends up with less than a day of normal usage, that's a show stopper for most
lack of updates : the PinePhone Pro was available without camera support, no big deal, most were expecting based on the initial pace of updates that it would eventually come but even today checking wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone… it's either Not implemented or Not working

... so with all that very very few people used either as a daily driver and thus even less probably invested time to make it actually usable.

It's amazing as a tinkering device with connectivity... but in practice I went instead to a deGoogle Android phone (with /e/OS by Murena). I still have other hardware by Pine, e.g. PineNote or PineTab2, so I do enjoy they provide a very valuable service to the community and I'll keep on, probably, getting more from them but one has to be pragmatic about the software limitations coming from a company that basically does not provide software for the hardware they sell.

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1peter10

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Regarding Android apps: I hope that gitlab.com/android_translation… will make a difference here going forward. A Wine-like approach is just so much less of a resource hog.

Regarding the Camera on the PinePhone Pro: It somewhat works by now, if not on every OS. Be it with libcamera or Megapixels 2, we're getting there. I suppose it's just that nobody told the Wiki.

android_translation_layer / Android Translation Layer · GitLab

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utopiah

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Right or gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/valv… is also pretty positive but until it's actually done and does support banking apps (which might not be possible due to a lot of restrictions, e.g Google services, signed ROM only, etc) then everybody will remain on the fence.

Good to know for the PPPro. PmOS indicates the support as partial wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PIN… I should try again at some point.

Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux

Valve appear to have some pretty ambitious future plans for Steam, as we've seen recently in a leak (and not for the first time) that Valve has plans for ARM64 and Android support on Linux.

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1peter10

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Just 2ct's on the banking thing (sorry if it sounds rude, but I just can't hear it anymore):

Just forget banking apps of you don't want to stay on iOS or proper Google Android forever and ever and ever, even AOSP-based OSes struggle with that (a lot).

Go to a bank that still has a proper website and allows some kind of hardware device for TAN (and tell them that this is why you are leaving/joining) - we need to show market demand for alternative solutions or else these will disappear completely over time.

We also need to make regulators/politicians understand, that taking part in life must be possible without owning a device blessed by Google or Apple. We really need laws here.

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utopiah

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It's not rude but it's incorrect. I have a deGoogled phone and do mobile banking with it. I don't know for how long though but just to say it's possible today.

Yes though I do recommend relying on a bank that does not force its customers to use Apple or Google only. I hope they'd be a way to disclose that beside just name & shame.

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1peter10

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Glad that works for you!
With my bank (comdirect.de) I can use a mobile website, and if I were to use something AOSP- or Halium-based, I could also use their PhotoTAN app, which, as the name implies, needs a working camera in Waydroid (on my OP6 with pmOS, the cameras work via libcamera, but not in Waydroid), so I have a small gadget for all these TANs.

My main worry with the "let's just use Play Store/Aurora store and the run that apk"-approach is that it does not really send a visible signal to banks that they need to keep considering customers that don't use Android proper.

It also always means that the next update (e.g., after some consultancy or some audit happened) may not work any more, meaning, access may be revoked at any time. Complaining to customer service or in Play Store reviews may have an effect, but it will still hurt. I think I would feel a tad safer if a banking app lived on FDroid... but sill.

I hope this gets my point across.

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utopiah

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100% get your point and indeed agree. I think verification overall is pretty much tied to iOS/(Googled)Android so my (probably naive) hope is that physical token or passkeys that are NOT platform or service dependent gain traction. That's why I got excited when github.com/keycloak/keycloak/i… was recently merged. I still have to test it but anyway more and more of the services I use online (self-hosted or not) are now behind "Log in with a device" and/or WebAuthN where I feel I can properly login, using e.g. YubiKey Bio or NitroKey, without anybody in the middle "owning" my identity or at least the verification step. I believe this is pretty much the "last battle" to have secure interactions without a central (commercial or not) actor in the middle that can use this to reshape our behaviors and interactions.

Passkeys support

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banazir

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I'd say it didn't fail. It was never really a consumer phone. It was an attempt to get hardware in the hands of developers, and it achieved that.

Other posts here discuss why it didn't receive wider adoption.

I daily drove my PinePhone until I could no longer receive MMS messages, since my service provider has a different APN for the internet and MMS. That, and the modem became more unreliable over time. I like my PinePhone, but an average user would never adopt it as it is.

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weirdo_from_space

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Except it absolutely did. Sure, it got hardware in the hands of developers, but that effort didn't amount to anything. Pinebook paved the way for Pinebook Pro, which made good on company's promise of an open, affordable, low power laptop for Linux enthusiasts.

This never materialized with Pinephone, it didn't even mature enough to satisfy most of the early adopters, who for the most part only wanted reliable calling and texting.

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1peter10

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Having had both a Pinebook and a Pinebook Pro and two PinePhones and a PinePhone Pro at some point in time (I co-hosted a PINE64 podcast for a bit), I don't follow. If your point is that the PinePhone (Pro) have never been a great for everybody, I think the same is true of Pinebooks (Pro), they're definitely are among the worst laptops I have ever had. Various just as cheap ARM-based Chromebooks (especially the ASUS C101p) I've had were/are just so much better.

The PinePhone really helped with development of existing Linux on Mobile projects and caused the creation of some additional ones, as evidenced by the massive number of projects on pine64.org/documentation/PineP…

The Community Editions helped projects like UBports or postmarketOS financially. Some people even daily drive the device (despite being slow, I've found Sxmo and Sailfish OS to be acceptable, with Phosh coming in third).

While I don't recommend it anymore for anyone who wants to use GTK based stuff on it, I'd view it as a success (I don't view the Pro as a success though, even though I believe they should have cancelled the A64-based PinePhone, not the Pro - a PP2 was IMHO overdue around 2023/2024). With better Quality Control, better relations between PineStore and the wider Community and a different default OS (putting the heavy Plasma Mobile on it was just nuts, and Manjaro definitely is not my favorite distro, to say the least) for the Beta edition, it could have been an even bigger success.

Yes, it didn't work for everybody, but as getting to a working laptop is so much easier than getting to a working phone (think of calls: the device has to manage to wake up at any moment (and fast), audio routing must be switched, echoes must be cancelled etc.) with the sky-high user expectations attached to phones (and the shitload of semi-hostile phone carriers across the world), I regard the PinePhone as quite an achievement.

Releases

The following page provides a comprehensive and alphabetically organized list of available releases and tools for the PinePhone. For guidance on installing the operating systems, please refer to the Installation instructions.

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someacnt

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Tbh, AOSP is good enough of a basis. GrapheneOS thrives on it.

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Mactan

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I remember an entire shipment of phones went to Australia instead of its proper destinations and then it was stuck there too expensive to send again

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weirdo_from_space

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Holy shit, I didn't even know about that. Damn...

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