wagoner @ wagoner @infosec.pub

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I hated how Twitter likes influenced the algorithm. A subject-specific account I had there had its feed all messed up when I liked anything not on topic for me. So I had to use them strategically, which was a pain.

Maybe as a miniscule offset to the ungodly sums still being spent to prop up the fossil fuel industry.

From the arstechnica article:

Let's talk about that industry-leading 8–10 years of Android support, which doesn't necessarily mean 8–10 major OS updates. For now, Fairphone is promising "at least five operating system upgrades" because that is how long its weird Qualcomm chipset will officially be supported. Fairphone says Qualcomm will support that chip "until 2028" and after that, "Fairphone commits to extend support until 2031 and is aiming for 2033, giving users a total of eight to ten years of software support."

Normal Android OS update development has a chain of custody: Google makes an Android release, then the SoC vendor, in this case Qualcomm, takes that release and integrates its drivers and proprietary code, then the phone vendor, Fairphone, adds support for the rest of the hardware and ships it. Qualcomm, in an effort to boost its profits and force an artificial upgrade cycle on the market, opts out of this process after a few years, which usually forces these devices to become e-waste. Fairphone, through a herculean development effort, has been the only Android OEM to keep going even after Qualcomm drops support.

Look closer, there is a cap on the Android versions upgraded

I don't have business before the supreme court but I sure as hell have an interest in their rulings. We all do! That's such a BS defense they and others make.

From the article:

"Google previously ran a pilot program that let political emails bypass the Gmail spam filter. Google said in a January 2023 court filing that "the RNC has chosen not to participate in Google's FEC-approved Pilot Program"

Firstly, what the hell, Google? Also, on brand for GOP to refuse a solution (to a problem of their own making, with spam-style emails) in preference for pushing an unfounded grievance into the ground.

This is huge.

Seems like that would be a good outcome. Less needless consumption.

It's always supposedly about protecting the little guy, the small business person. While also, just coincidentally mind you, also protecting mega corporations that bankroll the GOP.

Which you will need to prove by sending your personal identification to a commercial third party provider. Who will eventually get hacked and your data will be leaked.

It's fortunate that Uber is famous for following the rules.

I feel it actually creates an incentive for the tweeter to create their own outlandish and missing headline. So it's even worse. Plus it will be harder to determine if you've already read the article as the description is likely to be different most times when you see the article posted by different people.

Why?

Have you tried cloning the app and making adjustments to it? https://appcloner.app/

I never said anything specific to an eco system

Didn't we originally think the same ("you're protecting nothing") when it came to the ocean, the Rain Forests, lakes, streams, the Arctic, etc? Until we learned otherwise. By that time, the profit motive was too entrenched to ever allow things to change.

By way of example, what if the moon were mined to such an extreme that it changed its orbit? Wouldn't that impact it or the earth itself? What if the moon were no longer there at all because that suited a future trillionaire's aim to add another billion to their bank account?

Let's not make dirty industrial activity clean, let's move it off world (destroying another different planet). Because, you know, that's apparently easier than actually solving the problem.

Are you saying they already (over)spent in unrelated opex areas the savings from going to the cloud? I'm unclear if you're saying it's a consequence of the move to the cloud.

Pirating taxis?

I have found the opposite is true - the manual release is the first and only one people go for until you train them to use the button