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Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by Atlas667 »

potato3732842 wrote: post #430
Atlas667 wrote: post #282

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They ARE the authoritarian regime. This myth that capitalist perpetuate that the rich are not the government is the best lie out there. The rich are the government. They are the national interests, countries' industries' is their property.

Both opinions are so lacking in nuance as to be effectively useless. The rich and their interests are in some contexts the the government, in other contexts they're competing with it. Look at how Bill Gates relationship with government changes by the year and by the subject for a great example.

The only difference is that the government cant cater totally to Bill Gates, they got a couple thousand other capitalists to take care of in order to keep the country afloat.

The government is the ORGANIZED rich. It's not "everything Bill says goes".

You and me tho, the rest of us millions? We trust strangers that market themselves well, vote and then, just hope they do good by us.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by fwip »

waffletower wrote: post #149
fwip wrote: post #41

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If you google it with the words next to it, 'Home Office TCN' (no quotes necessary), the proper definition comes right up. It's written for a UK technical audience, who is likely familiar with these terms. An American article doesn't bother to define "FBI" or "USDA," and an article about breaking Python news doesn't expand "PEP" or "RFC."

Try any of those example acronyms (which are far more common in search indices IMO "in my opinion" :) and they will be immediately disambiguated by Google's top results. Type "TCN" and "Technical Capability Notice" doesn't show up after 4 pages. I needed to use an LLM and provide a paragraph of context for it to learn about it.

okay, you can also just provide a shred of context to Google

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by nrhrjrjrjtntbt »

nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote: post #366
swiftcoder wrote: post #350

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If you have a free and open technology that is sufficiently user-friendly that grandma isn't going to lose all her photos, I'm all ears

The 35mm film camera, developed by a photo lab, with pictures stored in a show e box

Shoe!

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by Aloisius »

stOneskull wrote: post #217
tammer wrote: post #210

Recent history of Apple vs. sovereign states is a real time vindication of Polanyi. Capital is always subordinate to the state (even if it proclaims to be the opposite).

> Capital is always subordinate to the state the international monetary fund has every state in debt. some third-world countries become subordinate to it, when they're not able to pay the interest payments.

The IMF is a UN agency controlled by member governments. It's subordinate to 190 governments.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD »

andruby wrote: post #336
jordanb wrote: post #251

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This is basically Pete Buttigieg

* 2007-2010 3 years at McKinsey * 2009-2017 8 years in US Navy, including deployment to Afghanistan Not that much McKinsey imo Mitt Romney had a lot more years at BCG (22 years), including being VP + co-founder of Bain Capital.

Failing to elect Romney was arguably a big mistake. Imagine what the GOP would look like today in that world.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by VerifiedReports »

eptcyka wrote: post #286
VerifiedReports wrote: post #283

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Android has been a fraud for a long time now. Let's not pretend that the "open-source" mobile OS that was supposed to free us all from vendor and telco tyranny ever approached that promise. Did they even really try? As far as iCloud "alternatives" go... Android doesn't offer ANY legitimate syncing infrastructure to compete with iCloud, open or not.

You can sync a backup over webdav on GrapheneOS.

A backup is not all a replacement for iCloud.

The point is to sync application data between native apps running on different (and even different kinds of) devices. PIM-style data (calendar, contacts, notes, bookmarks, and so forth) probably comes first for most people. Apple has also added useful stuff like Wi-Fi passwords and E-mail account configurations.

And then developers can create their own entries in the iCloud data store for their own apps. This is hugely useful.

I'm not aware of any similar facility that comes with Android, but I'd be happy to hear about it if there is.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by VerifiedReports »

flanked-evergl wrote: post #323
VerifiedReports wrote: post #283

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Android has been a fraud for a long time now. Let's not pretend that the "open-source" mobile OS that was supposed to free us all from vendor and telco tyranny ever approached that promise. Did they even really try? As far as iCloud "alternatives" go... Android doesn't offer ANY legitimate syncing infrastructure to compete with iCloud, open or not.

I switched to Android from iPhone because the sync options for iPhone are garbage.

But you neglected to state what built-in Android facility you find to be superior to iCloud for syncing data between applications.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by VerifiedReports »

beeflet wrote: post #297
VerifiedReports wrote: post #283

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Android has been a fraud for a long time now. Let's not pretend that the "open-source" mobile OS that was supposed to free us all from vendor and telco tyranny ever approached that promise. Did they even really try? As far as iCloud "alternatives" go... Android doesn't offer ANY legitimate syncing infrastructure to compete with iCloud, open or not.

You can install syncthing-fork or nextcloud

Thanks for the info.

If you have to install it, though, developers can't count on it being available to all or even most users.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by eptcyka »

VerifiedReports wrote: post #446
eptcyka wrote: post #286

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You can sync a backup over webdav on GrapheneOS.

A backup is not all a replacement for iCloud. The point is to sync application data between native apps running on different (and even different kinds of) devices. PIM-style data (calendar, contacts, notes, bookmarks, and so forth) probably comes first for most people. Apple has also added useful stuff like Wi-Fi passwords and E-mail account configurations. And then developers can create their own entries in the iClo…

You can use nextcloud for all pf that, not that I’d recommend it. There are solutions, even hosted ones.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

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Post by exe34 »

rob_c wrote: post #380
exe34 wrote: post #114

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I wish they would help get as many reform councils as possible. Given how incompetent they have been in the ones they did get elected, I think it would put a damper on the enthusiasm of their supporters.

yes, and they're totally not fighting on multiple fronts against central govt, those in the areas they're trying to run deciding that the civil service can now be a political arm of the left or from having to boot the actual racists in sheep's clothing from the party. I'm not defending any party here, I'm even highlighting some of reforms worse issues. But you have to admit it's not apples and oranges when comparing…

> racists in sheep's clothing from the party.

Could you name a few? I thought you had to be racist to join...

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