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Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by nomel »

Klonoar wrote: post #179
jckahn wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's all fun and games until you learn that physical media has a limited shelf life.

It’s why you archive the things you buy on physical media.

> you learn that physical media has a limited shelf life.

Their point is that physical media itself has a limited lifespan.

You need to continuously "refresh" it every 1 to 10 years, depending on the physical media you choose, or it's most likely corrupted. I've lost many HDD, SSD, SD cards, and about 50 "archival quality" DVD/CD to time, with all manufacturers having somewhere around 3x to 20x exaggerated claim of longevity. I'm guessing their numbers are based on some temperature/humidity controlled marketing BS, rather than anything resembling reality.

SD Cards are the saddest. I've seen many older members of my family shed tears when they pull out their SD cars they carefully stored in a drawer/safe, and they're junk. Charge drift be a harsh mistress.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by al_borland »

hunterpayne wrote: post #189
raincole wrote: post #169

> > Otherwise, please make sure you de-Apple, de-Google, and de-American Stack yourself when you have time, clarity, and focus to do it. Start today. So American companies are complying UK laws, and the conclusion is that UK citizens should "de-American"...? Am I reading it wrong?

No, you got it right. Anti-Americanism is one of the few canards that the UK government can use as a boogieman to force through their most questionable policies. One of the most shocking things about Europe when I have visited is what your average European (or Brit, since I guess they don't call themselves European anymore) thinks the US is like (even ignoring politics, just basic standard of living stuff). They've n…

What are they being told, and how can it take hold, when there are so many movies, YouTube videos, tv shows, news outlets, etc that show what it’s like in the US?

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by MattTheRealOne »

culi wrote: post #56
omnicognate wrote: post #48

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I can encrypt anything and store it in anything that provides storage. Why are people acting like "end to end encryption" is a feature you need a cloud service to provide to you. Rather the opposite - it's really something you can only do yourself.

Sure, but almost no one is managing their own keys and knows enough about the various e2ee algorithms to make these decisions on their own. Do you know of a good piece of software or tool that lets a layperson interface with any cloud storage provider?

https://cryptomator.org/

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by al_borland »

vkou wrote: post #79
infinitezest wrote: post #69

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It must be nice to live somewhere that has politicians that represent the will of the people enough to have a take like this. Where I live, your vote only counts if you have enough money.

You're asking for a monkey's paw. The current ruling party in the US has given its voters exactly what they think they wanted, and it's a fucking disaster.

My day-to-day life has never been impacted by who is in the White House. Where is the disaster?

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by wbadart »

disambiguation wrote: post #180
smsm42 wrote: post #143

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You may think you're being sarcastic, but you are just stating a true fact here. For about 99.9% of this planet's population, it's not just hard, it's something they'd never ever know how to do and have no intention to ever learn. Like it or hate it, but that's what it is. And, for 99.9% of people who know how to do that, they'd still be too lazy to do it properly (hint: where do you keep secret.txt exactly? What hap…

The double entendre occurred to me, I don't disagree. But the relative ease does not merely apply to users, but to the barrier of entry for alt products as well. Consider that the current paradigm is contingent on the "blind trust" users have held in tech for a long time. It's possible that a new kind of app will thrive in a different paradigm. For example, is there any reason we couldn't have a simple "message wrapp…

I think that's what Silence was (for SMS): https://f-droid.org/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure/

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by tombert »

zmmmmm wrote: post #227

I know this is a tangent but honestly, this is why the Google decision to de-openify Android is insane even from Google's point of view. Who would want to be an iron clad gate keeper when the world is descending into authoritarianism? You just paint a giant target on your back for the authoritarians to come after. If Apple had supported open iCloud alternatives for backup and other services from day one, it woudn't e…

I mean, I think the answer to this is the very simple: they think it will lead to more money.

I'm sure someone in a board meeting saw something about GrapheneOS and LineageOS and Cyanogen and feels like if they de-open Android, some (or most) of those users will move to vanilla Android, and that will lead to profits.

I'm not saying that they're right about this; I think ultimately very few (if any) people actually know how to run businesses and it's all about giving an appearance of maximizing profitability, and as long as it leads to a potential short term stock boost then these executives get their huge bonuses and they can just blame the next guy when things break.

This isn't really theoretical; look at how Jack Welch took one of the most respected companies in the world, more or less integrated ponzinomics to temporarily bump the stock prices, and 20+ years later GE is kind of a joke and isn't even on the S&P500 anymore.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by tombert »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #199
nickcw wrote: post #87

Very clever image and caption (right at the bottom of the page) > Header image by me: Alan Turing memorial, Manchester, where he reminds you why keeping data private can be a matter of life and death. The image shows a close up of a statue of Alan Turing, his hand holding an apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Death

The very Wikipedia page you link explains in great detail why, although we can never know for sure, it's actually unlikely that he committed suicide, and more likely that his death was an accident. The suicide story will probably never go away, because it's too good a story. It fits so neatly into popular culture.

Even if he didn't kill himself and even if it was an accident, he still was very much fucked over by the British government. They stripped his security clearance and made him a felon and made him take female hormones. This guy cracked the uncrackable code and basically (co)invented Computer Science, but all they cared about who he had sex with.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by kristianp »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #199
nickcw wrote: post #87

Very clever image and caption (right at the bottom of the page) > Header image by me: Alan Turing memorial, Manchester, where he reminds you why keeping data private can be a matter of life and death. The image shows a close up of a statue of Alan Turing, his hand holding an apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Death

The very Wikipedia page you link explains in great detail why, although we can never know for sure, it's actually unlikely that he committed suicide, and more likely that his death was an accident. The suicide story will probably never go away, because it's too good a story. It fits so neatly into popular culture.

From the wikipedia article: > Turing may have inhaled cyanide fumes from an electroplating experiment in his spare room

How would he have put himself quietly to bed if he had gotten a fatal dose of cyanide in the spare room where the electroplating was taking place? Wouldn't there be very fast respiratory distress?

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by ta9000 »

protocolture wrote: post #229
InTheArena wrote: post #134

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The first two are reasonable positions. The third, on the merits of the argument in the article, is absolutely bonkers. It's the UK government that is unleashing this stupidity on the world. There is no European alternative that is any safer, and it's the UK's own hands that are at fault in the first place. Not that there aren't other reasons to be skeptical of American companies' right, but it's just so easy to fall…

>The first two are reasonable positions. The third, on the merits of the argument in the article, is absolutely bonkers. It's the UK government that is unleashing this stupidity on the world. There is no European alternative that is any safer, and it's the UK's own hands that are at fault in the first place. Disagree. Australia and also likely Canada have identical these laws. And once the capability is in place, its…

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Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by tasn »

tombert wrote: post #236
zmmmmm wrote: post #227

I know this is a tangent but honestly, this is why the Google decision to de-openify Android is insane even from Google's point of view. Who would want to be an iron clad gate keeper when the world is descending into authoritarianism? You just paint a giant target on your back for the authoritarians to come after. If Apple had supported open iCloud alternatives for backup and other services from day one, it woudn't e…

I mean, I think the answer to this is the very simple: they think it will lead to more money. I'm sure someone in a board meeting saw something about GrapheneOS and LineageOS and Cyanogen and feels like if they de-open Android, some (or most) of those users will move to vanilla Android, and that will lead to profits. I'm not saying that they're right about this; I think ultimately very few (if any) people actually kn…

I don't have exact numbers, but I'm sure Graphene, Lineage, and all of the mods combined are much less than 1% of all android users; as well as these customers being less profitable than average as a marketing target.

Posting this from my lineage phone.

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