Bob Bobomb was right there.

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Google and Intel are both well-known to do quite a lot with Israel, and neither of them catches any significant mainstream flak for it. Microsoft being Israel's IBM is probably the least surprising thing I can imagine, they'll be fine.

There's really nobody qualified to be a gatekeeper of anything, because no one is disinterested. The best you can do is get some kind of oversight, and Google doesn't even have that.

I've read enough of the GrapheneOS features page to get bored, and I see a lot of good stuff there that reasonably applies to any device.

I've been thinking about this some. It's NYC, so entry from outside would imply a ground floor, less than ideal. Maybe climbing up a fire escape would work.

Making it look like a utility closet would probably work well. Still have access from inside, not restricted to where you can get at it from outside the building. All depends on the access rating of the place, of course. For example, a painted wooden panel screwed onto the wall concealing the entrance. Sure, can't access it on a whim, but could sit for years.

Keeping an eye on public records to find spaces that are under dispute with said dispute unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, then just change the locks.

There are ultimately lots of options.

So far they are only breaking it for Pixel devices, as the change is that they did not include Pixel device trees in AOSP as they have done previously. And they are using the same kind of bullshit language as Apple to justify it, except it's even dumber because instead of appealing to security they are appealing to convenience — which this change reduces as it makes it harder for their customers to switch the OS on their devices.

I'm not going to assume they aren't going to try to kill off all ability to load new ROMs onto all Android devices in the future, but so far that is left up to the makers of the specific devices. They have absolutely destroyed any chance that I will ever buy a device from Google, though.

Mod point problems are older than the prior owner, let alone this one.

I don't assume positive intent from crypto scammers, either.

But it did not do that. Yes, anyone can post, but not anyone can have their content seen. If it doesn't meet the approval of the platform's owners, statistically nobody sees it.

I don't know if he's noticed, but I've noticed it happening to my popular posts. They go up to 4 or 5 and then a few days later they drop to 2 or 3. Or very commonly, they start at 2, go up to 3, and then get dropped back down to 2. Nobody's nuking me all the way down to -1, but it's still unpleasant.

I presume they are using a bot farm to get mod points.

Accenture is the contractor which develops the web-based software I do my work in.

It is absolute shit.

They literally designed the software initially such that if things were done late they wouldn't process correctly.

I knew it was a shitfest when I first got to it because every page you see is a special case. For example, on some pages you can submit the form by hitting enter in a field, and on some you cannot.

Again literally, they have hired zero people who do my job as consultants, so they don't have anyone working for them who knows anything about the job the software is for. They are working 100% from the specification. I would say they are also working from our complaints, but they clearly aren't, because they generally don't get addressed.

Therefore things may not get worse if they use AI to do their job, because they are already not able to do it correctly.

The obvious rebuttal writes itself so successfully I'm not even going to bother.

Although Google is in the process of taking it away and therefore preparing to also be slapped by the EU, sideloading doesn't make Android phones unsafe. If you don't turn it on, then it doesn't have any effect.

Only big idiots buy Apple's story, it's not going to have any effect either.

It's a catch-22. If the government takes action to halt the spread of misinformation, they are accused of censorship. But if they do nothing, they are accused of negligence. Either way, they cannot win.

In my opinion, censorship is the greater evil. Therefore, the government should allow the spread of misinformation but should counter it with educational campaigns that spread good information. It is true that some people will buy into the information, which is unfortunate, but the government cannot (and should not) control their minds. Attempting to block the misinformation won't change the minds of people who already believe it.

Everyone has a personal responsibility to seek out good information. Everyone should cultivate critical thinking skills in themselves, listen to information that challenges their beliefs, question information that seems a little too comforting to be true, and so on. It's a moral responsibility, because the decisions that everyone makes have an impact on everyone else, and misinformation leads to harmful decisions. Not everyone will do this, of course, because some people are just lazy. Or rotten. But even so, censorship is not the right way to influence the lazy and the rotten. The only ethical option is to encourage a proper education and make the good information as available as possible.

I don't buy that argument, and here's why: They knew political parties were a problem but they didn't spend literally any time writing rules for them. What I think is that they wanted problems they thought they would be the only ones smart enough to exploit.

The founding fathers claimed all men were created equal, then gave the vote only to landed white males. They were not all the same, but they all colluded to preserve their power.

When you participate in capitalism you are seeking some level of efficiency. Your specific goals may differ, but you're trying to get a service at a price point. I like to treat people like people, I don't expect to push a button and have them vend, but that includes taking what they want into account. Politeness exists in the intersection of that and what I want. If you're bartering goods that's one thing, if you're trading money for products or services it's another. Putting a song and dance in front of it so you can pretend it isn't happening and everyone is having a good time is delusion, to which I am opposed mostly because it retards progress.