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Nothing really. They did once put a scan on someone's IP after the authorities asked them to. But it was a court order. Makes sense.

I don't use them because I think Email is beyond saving anyway. 90% of our mail goes to or from Amazon, Google or Microsoft anyway. OpenPGP is not used by anyone, even Phil Zimmermann famously refused to use it. There is so much spam and phishing that most institutions no longer send anything of value by email, it's just a notification service for "please log in to our portal to view your message". Email is just so broken and the workarounds so feeble that it's beyond fixing.

Email as we knew it is just gone and done. I just use O365 because it's cheaper and offers me a lot more (like 1TB cloud storage which I use with Cryptomator). Proton Drive is too expensive for me and I like doing the encryption on the user-end anyway because that offers real end to end security. I applaud what proton are trying to do but it's too little too late and I don't want to use a special email client. If they want to promote privacy they should do it with something where that's still possible.

And for VPN I prefer mullvad anyway because I like the way they sell scratch cards on Amazon. And my password manager I self-host.

But really it's not a bad service if you can afford it and don't want to go for Microsoft and Google.

Yeah there was actually a Samsung reuse-for-IoT program for old hardware.

Unfortunately it was really dumb and you could only use your phone for a few usecases blessed by our Samsung overlords. As far as I remember you could use the phone as a light sensor or something which was terrible overkill.

It wasn't anything like postmarketos. It's been deprecated or killed off silently too in the last few years.

Unfortunately the S8 are hardly supported by AOSP distros. Lineage only supported the S7, S9 and S10 (the latter two it supports still) but the S8 was never on the radar somehow. Postmarket doesn't support it either. The only distros I found were a few once-off images (so no updates whatsoever) on XDA-Developers, with lots of things non-working.

Considering that Alzheimer can sometimes be staved off by practicing the brain, it makes sense.

After all, we all know what men really think with 😂

This is nothing like a Dutch pancake, which are much more like the French crêpe.

Ik snap het ook niet.

I don't understand either :P

I think the biggest problem with the US system is the FPTP thing, the winner takes all.

This always leads to two parties that become pure enemies because of the zero-sum game that ensues. A loss for one is a win for the other, there is no incentive to collaborate.

Our coalition system is not perfect because it often causes very uncomfortable coalitions of parties not well suited. But at least it doesn't feel like a stalemate.

To be honest I don't really care about this at all.

I also owned an S8 which I used for years until they dropped support way too early. It's been my best phone ever. I have an S23 now (which was a unique chance to get a real Snapdragon in a Samsung here in Europe). It's smoother but I'm not sure if it will be acceptable to you.

I still loved my S8 more though. With its 3,5mm jack, Notification LED, flat camera (nothing sticking out), curved display and higher resolution than the S23 has today.

I doubt they'll let that happen. Every regime needs a scapegoat minority to oppress and blame for all their own failings 😢

They'll just resurrect the iron curtain.

And they are doing it again. CoPilot for Windows, CoPilot for Github, CoPilot for sales, CoPilot for Microsoft 365, Bing CoPilot. All different products with different properties.

Seriously, wow... I have probably not made that much in my entire life and I'm almost 50. Wtf.

If I have heart surgery here (which I hope I won't!!) it would cost me exactly $0. Yes the money still has to be paid but it won't cost the community even close to that much of course. Because here nobody needs to make a profit of it. Wages and hospitals have to be paid yes, but they don't turn a profit for investors.

Another detail is that if they try to tax them they will flee to tax havens or create them

Taxing does work, but you have to do it across the board globally and don't allow countries to offer evasion.

The Netherlands is already thinking about how to create new tax exemptions to avoid having to obey the 15% minimum corporate tax globally. Our neoliberal government is always scheming like that 🤬 They undermine corporate taxes in other EU countries by giving the multinationals a cheap cop-out.

Right now they are planning to cash the 15% but to give money back the following year (called tax credits). I mean this law was finally there for a reason and now they find new loopholes.

There was no real left in Europe after WW2 and the Marshall Plan. Only social democrats, which really are right-wing since they defend capitalism.

Well France is pretty left, even still :P We're all pretty jealous of their worker rights. My own country the Netherlands was socialist too but the neoliberals indeed kicked in and screwed everything up. Which then turned the worker demography to anger and now they are massively voting for the fascists. As if that will help... But yes especially Holland is very beholden to the US. England too. But the rest of Europe not as much.

I don't see a big American-led conspiracy here though. I think the worker community just got so rich they became conservative. And started wanting more and more and looking towards the glamour of the US (while completely ignoring the huge problems in their society among those who are not so lucky to 'make it').

China is far far ahead when it comes to developing society for the people. The government there is spending trillions investing in infrastructure, health, education, housing.

Society for those who don't step out of line even a little though. There's a big difference in caring about your population and just making sure your worker cattle is fed enough not to stir trouble. They have had a huge scare with the mass protests of their draconic covid measures which had the potential to really get out of hand. They are super afraid of this, after all revolution is how they got to power themselves.

They recently declared housing to be a human right and started decommodifying it.

Meh if they'd care about human rights they'd actually respect them. If you see how they treated people during covid with zero respect for individual rights, how they treat the Uyghurs, what they did during the olympics. Mass surveillance is rampant. You can't say anything that steps on the CCP's toes or you get silenced (look at what happened to Naomi Wu). I agree they do manage some things better but their society is not one I want to live in or even consider visiting.

Decommodifying housing is good though, I agree. In Europe only Vienna really does that with a great public housing programme and it works really well. Holland used to do this too but things are really messed up now after 3 decades of neoliberal regime.

You can check any major city in China nowadays and they all have much better quality of life than any comparable city. That meaning major metropolises in developing countries (so places like São Paulo, Buenos Aires, México City, Johannesburg, Jakarta etc.). Housing is much cheaper in China, salaries are higher, cost of living is lower…

All those places are incredibly unsafe and have huge income inequality. You can't call those socialist :) I have been around the world a lot and lived in different places. These don't offer welfare for the poor.

I mean Johannesburg is where they sell car-mounted flamethrowers to fend off carjackers. São Paulo where the police don't even dare to follow suspects into the favelas. Mexico with its cartels that have actual armies. Socialist paradises they are not.

China is doing better because they are not really a developing country anymore. They have much more money than any of those because we've moved all our factories there.

The one developing country that I do look up to is Cuba. They have the second-highest amount of doctors per capita in the world, after a middle-eastern country, I forget which. Despite their authoritarian regime (and all the boycots from the US for no reason at all) people seem to do pretty well. I hope to visit it some time to see if things are really as good there on the ground.

It's not great. They finally added OpenGL acceleration but now the PoI icons are twice as big as normal so they are cluttering the map a lot.

And without that the app is pretty slow. I do love the way it is so configurable though. I have no issues with location.

Or OnlyFans 😆 They almost went out of business. It was really disingenious to have a porn site..... ban porn? 🤔 😶

I don't think porn is a huge part of Reddit though. I always loved the way they had these great amateur communities of real exhibitionists, but lately things have been ruined anyway with more commercial people just teasing their onlyfans.

But due to the niche communities there, I think reddit banning porn would be a real opportunity for lemmynsfw. A mainstream community is much harder to move but a niche community can move pretty rapidly.

Which is also what you want really, if you have everything on WiFi. High density setups with really small cells so you can reuse channels. A building with high signal attenuation helps with that.

Having said that I'd never want to work for a company like Google.

PS:

Bad radio propagation means Googlers are making do with Ethernet cables, phone hotspots.

"Making do with Ethernet cables"? For me that's still the most reliable and secure way of doing networking on computers. You're at a desk, why not have a cable there. For mobile devices, sure. At my work every docking station has a cabled connection luckily.

The center and the extreme right both seek to protect capital at all costs. One believes “decorum” and “the structures of power” are necessary to maintain capitalism, one believes an extreme restructuring of power is necessary to “save” capitalism.

And the reason they want to keep captalism is because they want to keep their privileged position because they are afraid they will lose something. Which isn't really true, we have less money than the richer people in the US but also a lot less worry because we have labour rights, free or cheap healthcare, much lower crime etc. And cost of living scales with income anyway. I would never want to work in the US where I can be fired "at will", can go bankrupt when I have a medical issue and have a much higher chance of getting murdered than anywhere else in the western world.

Also, if we go full capitalist, the Chinese will beat us at this for sure because their government cares absolutely nothing about their citizens and they can always hollow out their society's rights more to compete. They pretend to be communist but they're actually ultra-capitalist. But they can do the race to the bottom much much better than we can.

What we should go for is an ethical society that balances the interests of capital with society, environment etc, which we are much better at than any other major power. It's our strength. Unfortunately these guys are breaking these efforts down, sowing discord, and undermining our stability for their own personal gain.

The problem is what do we do about it. I've started blocking all the ex-friends who have been infected by extreme-right propaganda but in my country 24% voted for this trash in the last election, it's ridiculous.

I think the whole movement has been enabled by the central right because they have been undermining welfare for decades while framing the left as being lazy and just wanting to take everyone else's money. It makes people's lives much less secure and this insecurity is what breeds the extreme-right anger.

YES! So true.

Many times something doesn't work, you log a ticket and they're like "according to the docs it should work so you're doing something wrong" and you get into an endless loop of providing logfiles and doing random updates because really their 'premium' support (which isn't even microsoft but accenture) has no clue whatsoever. They don't know anything more than anyone who read the docs. It's like you're in a courtroom and you have to prove your innocence before they're going to lift a finger to help you. At least in a real court you're innocent until proven guilty 🤦‍♂️

Then eventually after a month or two you bug your account manager enough that they finally escalate the issue to someone who actually knows something at microsoft and they're like "oh yeah that feature doesn't work properly, try this". I mean for real. 🤬 So much wasted time.

Yes that's the exact feeling I have. Fast food.

We've been moving from a lot of best-in-class services to Microsoft ones and this is exactly it. They're always just good enough to be passable but never great at what they do. The only real benefit they have is that a lot of stuff is "free" with other things (how Teams is killing slack despite being piss-poor) and that everything integrates better with Windows. And they're always behind the competition, like Intune was much much worse than the competing MDMs when we had to use it, and they've only kinda caught up by now.

It's a smart move because even if you do have an AAA product sooner or later some smartass manager is going to be looking to make a name for themselves and cut costs with something that's 'free'.

EntraID is pretty much the only time a MS rebranding actually makes sense because Azure Active Directory was confusing as hell.

All the other ones, like Lync -> Skype, Yammer -> Viva, Intune -> MEM were just marketing running wild for the sake of it and putting their customers up with the burden. And CoPilot is a disaster because they're dumping a whole load of different products under the same labeling and nobody knows what the hell is what anymore, even experts.

They don't want their "kids" to leave the beautiful walled garden where everyone pays a fee to be there :P