Until 'stores' like F-Droid can do background securiity updates without rooting there's anticompetitive shenanigans afoot.

Apple already got the orders from EU - it's only a matter of time.

FTC/DoJ might do something stupid like force Google to spin off Android and then the same problem still exists but Android loses its revenue stream.

Tim Apple would probably like to see this. Google could be proactive and keep Android by being less controlling but I doubt they'll make such a smart play.

But did they save $20M by doing so?

They were also using that Signal clone that sent all comms through cleartext SMTP to Outlook (per sggrc) and probably foreign intelligence so the nature of the company is quite an uncertainty.

> The FDA was created to address snake oil. The rules are that you must prove efficacy(the drug does what it says it's going to do) and safety.

FDA was created to address fraud and improper labeling. Food and Cosmetics Act.

The Safteyism Regime popped up after a media psyop about Thalidomide in the 60's which was only ever marketed in Europe. To noone's surprise it cemented power and profit in the hands of the richest Pharma companies.

There are Type I and Type II errors in this field, both of which can be deadly. Finding the balance is the minimum requirement.

Prior to 2020, FDA's worship of Safetyism had delayed enough treatments to market that prevented lifesaving treatments that the net effect of FDA was 20 Million avoidable deaths.

That was three Hitlers' worth of killing before 2020. That number has increased substantially. That's not even counting things like statins with NNT > 700 and Diabetes causation at about 1 in 40.

Montana has the right idea.

> Won't it be ironic if the US president kills the most valuable US business?

Isn't Apple an Irish business with an R&D center in California now?

They hardly pay any US corporate taxes.

> What is he prepared to do about it?

It ain't right but Apple's App Store monopoly might just get broken up if they insist on moving manufacturing to India.

It's actually interesting because last year they were saying China was the only option because you can get every size screw any time day or night because China was so specialized.

Now India has all that? Nope, it was never true, supply chain logistics are sufficient.

> Conservatism is not about "sharing", it is about keeping what's yours and getting more, never mind the direct or the opportunity costs.

You're calling Apple 'conservative' for not sharing profits with the workers in the country where they have the most direct employees?

Nobody thinks Apple is Conservative, except for that white 'power' logo they blazed for a couple decades.

> Unless, of course, you're giving $400,000,000 of airplane as a bribe to Trump.

Look up who funded 9/11. Yeah, the Saudis did the passports and apartments but where did the money come from?

Trump is investigating some folks.

It is ironic how the first time US receives foreign military aid since Lafayette everybody freaks out but they write such checks all day long.

> Interesting. Imagine the uproar of a Democrat President tried to dictate to private businesses who they could partner with for manufacturing.

Trump's positions are very close to a 90's Democrat's, before the social marxism stuff.

Obama had deported more people by this time in his Presidency than Trump has. The main difference is the newspapers had his back.

Trump's appeals to Conservatism are mostly for show.

Has Heroic made it possible to paste a password into the store login yet? Last time I tried it on my Deck, a couple months back, it was a non-starter, since I couldn't be arsed to transcribe the 32-character random string from Bitwarden on the on-screen keyboard.

There was a github issue open for a while, but it seemed to be being ignored.

It can't yet do server selection or failover.

This would be great to standardize.

Hiding from your ISP and hiding among the crowd are distinct goals.

Sometimes you need one or the other and sometimes both.

That's a well-turned phrase.

It sounds like a planted psyop story by the MIC, pissed that they can't bomb Iran. Reuters is a tell as well as the lack of detail.

If there really are cellular modems in them, did they have SIM cards or eSIM's?

If so did they run the ICCID through the carriers and see who was paying to have them active?

Then follow the money. Any natsec investigator would have done these very basic steps.

Those would be in a real article.

If all of those lead to a PLA front group then we can call in to Houston with a problem. But probably Langley, not Houston.

I was thinking this could offer a cheap alternative that could compete with carbon fiber unibodies or monocoques. Maybe a spaceframe of Superwood tubes connected by 3d-printed titanium joints? Traditional spaceframes are only expensive due to the highly skilled welding labor needed to assemble them and the fact that the tubes are either individually hand-cut or machine-cut in small batches at most.

F-Droid isn't allowed to install security updates, so no.

Competing app stores with full rights is the most free market solution to the FTC concerns, not making Google sell Android to a sucessor company that still does anticompetitive behaviors.