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My understanding is that tariffs in general can apply to both imports and exports, on either side.

I disagree, there are many resources for making and distributing android reproducible builds, including third-party F-Droid repos like IzzyOnDroid mentioned in my previous link.

And to my knowledge there is no technical requirement that F-Droid actually needs to build OR sign packages on behalf of anyone... I haven't seen any actual official rationale listed for it, but I assume one of the main reasons is convenience for the developers so they don't have to provide their own builds and deal with signing/losing keys.

I understand that the risk of problems can be somewhat mitigated in F-Droid by using reproducible builds, but I don't consider that sufficient for the most privacy-conscious users because:

• reproducible builds are not required by F-Droid
• it is not made clear to the user that a particular package even supports reproducible builds
• the verification of reproducible builds is not made plainly visible somewhere publicly if at all
• a user can still easily be misled by a one-off rogue package that is NOT reproducible, due to the previous point
• independent verifications of those builds reliably made by others are not common

Conversely I stay clear of F-Droid as they build and sign packages on behalf of the original developers, adding yet another point of injection for malicious code or supply chain attacks.

In my experience... not really. I would say SDL makes the task of writing controller support code within your own applications easier and higher-level, but in reality it still has not much to do with "drivers" (I assume you mean kernel modules), which the kernel and OS stack already provide multiple unified interfaces for with things like jsdev/evdev/udev/hidapi, regardless of how you access those subsystems (via SDL or otherwise).

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-desktop-mode-demo-3430991/

What OSes do not have any Rust code?

e2

So far JShelter has been the best single solution I have found, it even prevents creepjs from working at all. Nothing is going to stop casual users from getting TLS fingerprinted though.

slow news day apparently

Honestly I find his attitude to be quite commendable and I think that speaks much louder than whatever it is you disagree with.

Maybe he should have just left Trump's name out of it entirely as that seems to be what really pushed people's buttons.

People are going to twist things around no matter what is said though. Don't forget hindsight makes everyone look guilty.

What’s the best alternative to Google these days?

I think that's like asking what's the best alternative to bread.

American general population are not intelligent enough to posit this. Signed, an American

I think this is actually why history repeats itself... the majority of people just aren't smart enough to learn from past mistakes.

ah yes, that short term Constitution that never held up /s

how do we know those aren't just bots/propaganda?

Not letting people have opinions you disagree with makes me suspicious of how willing you would be to oppress others.

unfortunately if everyone shouted all the good free stuff from rooftops, they would be gone.

How so?

I don't think it is possible.

I also think people are blowing this WAY out of proportion and don't even realize their own hypocrisy.

Extreme example: Jewish people happily drive Ford cars, even though Henry Ford was the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf, specifically for his hatred of Jews.

owner of said product has openly stated that they hate your very existence

Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.