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Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by lostmsu »

alphabettsy wrote: post #88
unnouinceput wrote: post #82

Quote: "These machines are the first general purpose computers ever where you have to make an exclusive choice: you can have a fast and efficient machine, or you can have a private one." I call BS on Apple having the fastest machine, even at current moment, not to mention in the future. I can make a gaming rig with latest Ryzen CPU that will run whatever I want and be both faster and cheaper than Apple's expensive cr…

How about efficient? A Mac Mini is extremely efficient.

That whole thing is temporary until 2021 when other companies will get a chance to use 5nm fabs.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by Jayakumark »

This is really bad , apple touts itself as a privacy company but it seems like a fox in disguise and meddling with VPN is just completely immoral. Now google and Microsoft seem better to me as they at least tell you we are getting your telemetry data and don’t modify vpn traffic.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by pizza234 »

zepto wrote: post #61
deadbunny wrote: post #16

Yet despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth - both in the article and in the comments here in the various threads - people are still making excuses for continuing to use Apple/Google/Microsoft/et al products because the alternatives are a bit rough round the edges. These companies have repeatedly shown that they don't respect people's privacy and people have resoundingly responded that neither do they. I would…

The alternatives are still completely unusable by most people.

Not anymore. Consumer usage nowadays is very browser centered, which is something one can experience with a Linux distro on pretty much any machine.

I agree that it's not as much as a polished experience, but that's the point as indicated - trading off polish for ownership.

I'm excluding from the discussion professional documents editing - compatibility with Libreoffice is mediocre (at best) in my experience, but having very good compatibility is not a consumer requirement IMO.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by JimTheMan »

damnencryption wrote: post #21
deadbunny wrote: post #16

Yet despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth - both in the article and in the comments here in the various threads - people are still making excuses for continuing to use Apple/Google/Microsoft/et al products because the alternatives are a bit rough round the edges. These companies have repeatedly shown that they don't respect people's privacy and people have resoundingly responded that neither do they. I would…

I was looking into various differences among demographics which use and prefer apple products. Nobody rated any of the problems often thrown in here as a priority. Majority of iPhone users are women and HN/reddit are primarily men dominated. It should be no surprise that apple caters to aesthetics over thermals and you see people complaining about that on these platforms. Apple customers put status and prestige when…

>Majority of iPhone users are women

I sold iPhones for years and never noticed this trend. I highly doubt it is true in any significant way. I would also challenge the assumption that women want aesthetics over some other factor. In this day and age, that's an incredibly 'old fashioned' statement to make.

From what I could tell. People bought iPhones because they were:

a)Cool and of good quality. (Your everyman can just go buy an iPhone and KNOW it won't be junk. They don't know the other brands and researching stuff is a pain in the ass)

b)They were used to using them and didn't want to use android/didn't like using android phones

c)They had shit experiences with other platforms and just wanted something 'that would just work'

d)The iPhone really was the first good smartphone on the scene. They have inertia associated with points a->c above.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by sneak »

unnouinceput wrote: post #82

Quote: "These machines are the first general purpose computers ever where you have to make an exclusive choice: you can have a fast and efficient machine, or you can have a private one." I call BS on Apple having the fastest machine, even at current moment, not to mention in the future. I can make a gaming rig with latest Ryzen CPU that will run whatever I want and be both faster and cheaper than Apple's expensive cr…

If you know of any other 8 core, 64 bit, 220+ ppi, >=13", 18 hour battery life machines with a great keyboard that weigh less than 1300g, please do let me know. Bonus points for metal enclosure.

If you find such a beast, I will buy it instantly, and I will happily ignore the fact that the MBAir will still have a better trackpad and speakers.

I am not looking to buy a "rig", but a laptop.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by inshadows »

anshumankmr wrote: post #47

This doesn't apply to Ubuntu,right? As in Canonical isn't doing something like this, right??

It applies precisely to Ubuntu as well: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...

In a world where Snap is ubiquitous, Canonical is in charge of software running on your devices, not you.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by nemosaltat »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #83
zepto wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The alternatives are still completely unusable by most people.

Android handles this reasonably well. I can use F-Droid reproducible builds where possible and fall back to Play Store (or Amazon App Store) apps for apps I don't care that Google (or Amazon) knows I'm running. I get to choose where I want to make the trade-off between privacy and convenience. If I want convenience, it lets me go further than any Apple product, and if I want privacy, it also lets me go further than a…

I’ve considered making the switch back to Androids to play with F-Droid, do you have a device recommendation?

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by forest_dweller »

thotsBgone wrote: post #86
damnencryption wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They are in fact correct that [insert anything] are scary and too complex for them to manage, and they want someone they can trust to do it for them Is this an argument for forced autonomous cars or stopping selling of knives because they are scary and you can cut yourself while cooking?

Forced autonomous cars: Yes, once they are good enough. We make people wear seat-belts. Same thing. Stopping selling of knives: Yes, once we have a safer way of cutting things. Though the real problem is probably people cutting each other on purpose, rather than themselves by accident.

> Forced autonomous cars: Yes, once they are good enough. We make people wear seat-belts. Same thing.

Selt belt wearing is rarely enforced anywhere (especially in Europe, in Italy nobody wears one even though it is illegal).

As for autonomous cars. If they ever work, one of the first mods people will do is to add a steering wheel.

> Stopping selling of knives: Yes, once we have a safer way of cutting things.

Knives are a safe way of cutting things. Billions of people use them everyday without issue.

> Though the real problem is probably people cutting each other on purpose, rather than themselves by accident.

How are you going to stop people from making knives? Humans have been making them for several 1000s of years, IIRC Chimps can make them now. In prisons they literally make shives out of toilet paper.

In the UK carrying knives is banned and their sale is heavily restricted. However in our capital city we still have a lot of knife violence. Guns are also heavily restricted but people still have those illegally and people do get shot. My uncle is a convicted bank robber, he had plenty of guns.

You are solving the wrong problem. You must solve the problem of why people are being violent to one another. That will actually make people safer.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by rsanheim »

falseAss wrote: post #75

if trustd really cannot be blocked by any vpn, i am wondering how's large corporates will react for this new macbook, e.g. whether to continue allowing employees to use this new macbook as working machine.

The tech corporate response may be one of the best avenues to actually apply any leverage against apple with this current situation. I've already heard of friends at big-tech companies where network admins are applying corporate wide VPN policies to block apple's ocsp.apple.com requests after the outage that happened yesterday and basically nuked productivity for hours. In some cases it meant engineers _could not_ deploy code due to an apple outage because `terraform whatever` wouldn't work, which is pretty outrageous.

Re: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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Post by rsanheim »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #29

This is sad. But the solution is not to use Signal. Resistance if futile that way. I believe the only solution is top-down: voting governments that can change this once and for all.

It can be both things. Use signal if you are sending messages that are security sensitive, or if you want to prefer secure messaging by default. But of course vote and talk to elected officials and agitate for policy changes as well.
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