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Android 14 is here. Here's what's changed. - Fairphone
  • They come out with all the security updates (anywhere between 2 weeks and a month after Google pushes them out). They don't wait for a feature update to push out security updates.

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    Android 14 is here. Here's what's changed. - Fairphone
  • It's a bit annoying (I know I'm still not getting it on mine despite the announcements), but their handling it of major updates (performance wise) have been decent on my end. I do love my FP5, but it's a bit hit and miss according to experience I read about online. I know my experience of their headphones (the most recent ones, the wireless buds) has been horrendous but I would recommend the FairPhone personally.

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    It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone
  • to be fair to the incompetent people in law enforcement, I do believe "trying to kill a presidential candidate slated to win and being a millimeter away from getting it done" would justify relying on a 0-day.

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    It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone
  • "We tried 0000. Tony, write up a press release about how incredible we are at our job and how we spent 400% of our usual overtime on it and send it to the tech press. Make sure they mention we need to triple next year's budget for security and shit."

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    It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone
  • Exactly. The article doesn't shy away from a bit of free publicity for Cellerite. Which is nowhere near as much of a magic bullet as the "tech media" makes it out to be.

    How do I know it? By doing the most basic of research by heading to their website and looking at their manuals and documentation.

    And Cellerite won't tell you this publicly because their bottom line depends on their ability to massively overprice their services which they sell to technically illiterate people.

    Any article that mentions Cellerite without a caveat about the dubiousness of their publicity can be disregarded and shouldn't be taken seriously.

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    Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI
  • Laura will be protected from all scrutiny just because she is a woman

    Lol what, no. It's because she's for all intents and purposes the CEO, and better yet, an overly paid CEO. When's the last time you've seen the CEO getting their comeuppance?

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    Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI
  • You rarely stay very long in those companies nowadays. Unless you aim at becoming CEO in 20 years' time. But otherwise, you just get your golden parachute after a couple of years of doing horrible shit.

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    Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges
  • The whole point of federated social media was to get out of walled gardens, yet here we are, building a walled garden.

    To an extent yes, but I think it's pretty easy to see why people are building their own closed communities on the Fediverse. That was the whole "selling point" of it at the beginning. "Not happy with Twitter? Just spin up your own fedi instance where you have your own rules and you can control who joins and who doesn't".

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    Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges
  • You know that it is comically easy to scrape stuff off of the fediverse, right?

    Yes, so why would you argue in favour of making it even easier? Do you see why people aren't too hot on that?

    If you are worried about scraping, use Facebook. Facebook has teams of people who combat bot/scraper activity.

    I don't use Facebook for philosophical reasons and that's why I've picked the Fediverse as a whole. I find it amazing we still need to re-explain that all the time.

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    Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges
  • We're talking about Meta and Dorsey's baby (yeah sure, he's not there anymore but we all know what kind of company he backs) and you're talking about startups?

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    Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges
  • Instead, if Bluesky grows, I can see people move away from it.

    When has that ever worked?

    This is how we wish to present ourselves as an alternative to corporate social media?

    The whole idea in the first place was to NOT be corporate. It's pretty understandable that when those corporations come knocking pretending to be nice, a lot of people want nothing to do with it.

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    Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges
  • I keep seeing this argument but like.... no. It doesn't scrap stuff, it merely facilitates scrapping. Come on, can we stop pretending for a second.

    "I didn't kill him, the bullet, gravity and velocity did."

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    America Can’t Surpass China’s Power in Asia, But It Can Still Prevent Chinese Hegemony
  • Lol, and do you think it had to be the Americans to stop them. Or that they cared before they got attacked. Or that they would do it again if the us left (I know as an American, you have 0 understanding of history so let me tell you: the Americans left the people who did all that in charge of Japan because it was convenient for them).

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  • Requesting /c/TeachingUK

    For UK based teachers (currently not based in the UK at the moment, but have been in the UK for a while and might be heading back soon). It appears evident that the "reddit equivalent" are a bunch of conservative scabs so it would be worthy to have something in a more progressive place.

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