Salvo

@Salvo@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again, the EU ^^ is overstepping their mandate. There is no benefit to endusers if Google, Opera and Firefox are forced to use WebKit for rendering on iOS only. There are disadvantages for Opera, (who are Nowegian), but no other European companies.

  There are huge benefits to endusers if their phones batteries last more than 15 minutes because Google and Opera are trying to backdoor their privacy.

  ^^ the EU’s regulatory bodies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there is an ounce of truth in that, but Corporations don’t “want” things. Investors want dividends and ROI. Executives want golden handshakes. Employees want a pay cheque.

  Someone is financing the Astroturf campaigns. Someone is directing who they lobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is like saying that Safari is just a reskinned version of KDE Konqueror. It is patently wrong and oversimplifies the development processes.

  While Apple did use Konqueror as a base for WebKit, and some of that code was pumped back into Konqueror, they are not the same. Chromium was also based on WebKit but has had so much code replaced that it is also essentially different code.

  I recommend Ken Kocienda’s book “Creative Selection” about the development of the iPhone and WebKit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Although I would prefer to roll-my own but Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS and SailfishOS all run on the FairPhone.

  YMMV for software support, but the non-Android Linux-based phone OSs will suit most people’s needs, as long as Angry Birds isn’t a killer feature of their phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still amused by the whole USB-C push to “Reduce eWaste”.

  By legislating that everyone should use USB-C, they generated a lot of eWaste in the form of legacy USB-A, B, micro, lightning, etc, as well as requiring more cables in the form of USB-C to USB-A, B, micro, lightning, etc. cables in the transition phase.

  The various different types of USB-C cables (power only, data only, Thunderbolt 4, etc) as well as the glut of different incompatible USB-C interfaces has made things much worse.

  It reminds me of the XKCD comic about introducing new standards to reduce the number of standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The credit card game bans are all coming from one Australian Religious group.

  Similar Astroturf groups are being used to create fake grassroots community groups to PrOtEcT tHe ChIlDrEn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are lots of people who make that assumption. These are also the most likely demographic to fall for a fake App Store scam.

  That said, Apple have done a piss-poor job pruning their “Walled Garden”. If they really cared about user privacy, Facebook would have been banned multiple times for privacy violations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how home-grown European companies like Fairphone will be affected by this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen title cards change on unwatched videos from something that is innocuous and directly related to the content to something with a scantily clad female, tangentially related to the video who is much younger than me.

  While not technically Jailbait, the title cards are sexualised.

  I mainly watch renovation, restoration, cinema, off-roading, engineering and fabrication.

  The majority of this content is male-dominated and I do appreciate when videos aren’t bursting with aggressive machismo. I think the algorithm has determined that when I watch a video with a female host it is because it thinks I am being pervy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loops is a Fediverse equivalent.

  It is not a medium that interests me, I have found the content on Loops to be mediocre.

  That said, I have found the content on TikTok to also be mediocre and YouTube clips are just jailbait clickbait.

  Yes, I know it is algorithm generated, but I am pretty sure everyone is just getting jailbait clickbait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta seeking unfettered access to iPhone user data via EU DMA interoperability requests⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is (one of the reasons) why Apple have been so defensive about their ecosystem.

  They have slowly been building their security to protect their customers from bad actors, as the bad actors have been slowing finding ways to exploit people.

  In early versions of iOS, there was little to no security, all apps had unfettered access, Apple started restricting access to more and more of the users data, and the arms race began.

  Now the bad actors have tricked legislators into violating user security in favour of their scams and data mining reselling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have AppleTVs on every TV in the house and none of the TVs have ever been connected to the home network. Same with the rest of the extended family.

  We also have a HDHomeRun in each house for those rare occasions when we want to watch Broadcast TV.

  The only time a TV changes from HDMI1 is when someone wants to play PS or XBox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which James Bond movie do you consider the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They weren’t cheesy Cinematic Bond. They were realist Book Bond.

  That said, they said the same thing about Daniel Craig in Casino Royale.

  Connery had a bit of Dad-Joke cheese, especially in the later movies. Lazenby had slightly less cheese, but he only got the acting role because he was such a good con-artist/actor. Moore had all the Cheese and all the Camp. A few wheels short of Niven/Austin Powers. Dalton bought it back to the hard gritty roots, with a few jokes to dull the violence. Brosnan was a good balance between Moore and Dalton, primarily action/espionage with a bit of Cheese to appeal to the Moore fans. Craig removed all the cheese and went back to gritty. Almost like Dalton but with honest reality-based action.

  If you like Craig but don’t like Dalton, ask yourself what is more realistic, an Aston Martin rolling without the help of a hydraulic ram or a Mack Truck pulling a “mono” on eight wheels?