taladar @ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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Not that I necessarily disagree but why the EU in particular when pretty much every other western country is just as complicit with Israel?

Being dragged kicking and screaming into making some progress is more how I would have described the political side of that though.

Because, at least for now, the US has the greater power to fuck up our lives with the information gathered.

I suppose you mean the same effect I have noticed with our younger apprentices who know very little about the way computers work anymore since they grew up with phones only, they don't even know what a file system is any more.

No, most of it is coming from BILD and the other traditional media that poisons our public political discourse for decades.

They started out feeling oppressed even when nobody did anything to them, based entirely on misinformation.

Fines need to be 50% of monthly worldwide profit and increase by 5% for each month of noncompliance.

Profit is a bad metric here, they have decades of experience pretending they have no profits. Make it 10% of company value each month.

Typically that is also the way you can use multiple accounts to unlock the same hard drive encryption. You just encrypt the actual key with each of the account passwords.

Android is very much designed with every application in its own little silo that needs the permission of the OS vendor or something off-device (like a cloud service both apps access) to communicate with each other. This means, among other things, a very limited ability to do software development on the device and run your own applications, a very limited ability to automate applications, no chaining of workflows (e.g. read some sensor in one app, process the data in another, graph it in a third). You also generally don't have administrator/root access on the device and if you do get around that restriction a lot of the applications for things like banks will refuse to work. You can't properly control which data your device collects and where it sends it. Your ability to debug the behavior of your own applications and device is severely limited.

, so if you have su access, that should give you all the power you need.

Still won't save you from the complete isolation of the apps from each other, only allowing you to exchange data between them at the OS maker's generosity.

Now the question is if people will be stupid enough to replace all the freedoms their desktop OS still gives them with the vendor controlled shit show that is mobile OS.

Agreed, the US Supreme Court is entirely responsible if they receive more ridicule than respect these days.

So certain lawsuits won't be possible anymore because advertisers don't like to be associated with that kind of content?

Well, at least the US did remove a giant obstacle to a lasting peace from the war - Trump.

Sexbot transformer cars?

[Your smartphone knows when] the phone is charging

Out of all the things that someone tried to scare me into worrying about that must be one of the most ridiculous.

The real questions is if that would make their statements be closer or further from reality. Historically they have been pretty good at talking about things that had very little relationship with reality already.

Perfect illustration of somebody who mentally reduces other human beings from persons into groups.

Yes, I consider all the people who argue "the Gaza genocide should be the most important political issue of our time in every country of the world" one group, namely the group of people who bring it up in every political discussion everywhere.

The curious thing is that somebody who thinks like that about human beings is pushing a “nothing we can do about it with certainty, let’s not talk about the Gaza Genocide”…

The curious thing is that somebody who complains about the genocide why the extremist right wing party in Israel keeps derailing discussions on how to prevent extremist right wing parties from gaining power in other countries too.

Second: how exactly does the political system in the US make this behaviour of the German authorities and political class any less hypocrite? In fact, how does it at all relate given that Germany has a mixed system including a Proportional Vote component, so totally different from the US?

The common theme between Germany and the US is both countries are in various stages of a struggle of right wing extremists gaining power while at the same time the political discussion on how to stop that is sabotaged by people bringing up the Gaza genocide as if any of the options would change anything about the Gaza genocide in the slightest. Will the Gaza genocide be any more or less likely if we do or do not ban the AfD in Germany? No, it won't, so shut up about it in the context of this discussion and stop trying to derail it.

Best just give up on politics altogether to stop evil-doing! How convenient for the evil-doers.

Can't do that, then you would have succeeded in your goal of allowing them to come into power.

In a similar way a straitjacket won't make the patient less suicidal but it will prevent them from cutting their own wrists. It is not meant as a long-term solution.

I am so sick and tired of people using the Gaza genocide as an excuse for political action or inaction in their own countries without any evidence that their preferred option changes anything about the Gaza genocide. Isn't it enough that you people got Trump elected in the US by implying that somehow Kamala Harris would do less against it than the literal admirer of dictators?