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  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • Cool, you know who doesn’t have this issue? People who uninstalled the spyware called Windows from their device.

  • Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?

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  • Lucky for them ethical hackers (CCC) found that and did not use the data.

    In other words “ethical hackers” wasted a great opportunity to give shithead politicians a taste of their own venom. Very frustrating.

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • Hope Valve comes up with something eventually

    That could be interesting. I want to see how SteamOS goes, but the potential is grand.

    In terms of the iPhone being locked down, I’m not sure what you’re looking to do but I personally managed to get ad-free Reddit, YouTube and YouTube music ad-free (+sponsorblock) just using apps from the App Store. All of them free or one-time payment of 3 euros. It was actually easier to do than with Android where I had to “sideload” stuff from GitHub since Android is owned by google and all frontends to their programs are banned.

    As long as you get yourself an email that isn’t iCloud you can also take all your contacts and email with you wherever you want. Then you can install KDE Connect as you would on Android and can send files freely between you phone and Pc.

    This is all to say, I don’t feel more locked down on the iPhone than on Android, which was a surprise for me.

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • If android goes the way it’s going, then iPhone is the obvious choice.

  • Many EU states want to allow the US access to biometric police data

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  • And this is why I get increasingly tired of the whole privacy-seeking endeavor. Jumping through hoops to get GrapheneOS+Linux working for me, with the sacrifices that come with it, only to have my government hand out my healthcare and biometric data to the US anyway. It’s all so tiresome.

  • FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

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  • Okay so, the same industry that is trying to kill video games is now worried that a game from 30 years ago nobody ever heard of has a bug?

    Google needs to go back to taking their meds.

  • Apple to Remove iPhone-Apple Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU With iOS 26.2

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  • The dev time of blocking these features in the EU will be FAR higher than allowing apps to use the already existing and well implemented apis.

    No it won’t dude you’re just making stuff up.

    Also you seem to be under the persuasion that you’re forced to use Apple’s App Store. You’re not. Alternatives like Altstore PAL exist and are readily available if you wish. Whether you actually want to use those apps is another matter, but the choice is there.

    Why do you want to force iOS to open up so bad anyway? I get that software freedom is cool but for that you already have Android (for the time being anyway). I used Android for 15 years but now as I grow older I appreciate the minimalist and well integrated ecosystem that Apple offers. The world is better with both options. You’re demanding a world where you’re forced to have only one.

    And this is why Europe can’t create anything, everyone is so focused on changing what already exists instead of coming up with real local alternatives.

  • Apple to Remove iPhone-Apple Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU With iOS 26.2

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  • And it is, which is why the Digital Markets Act exists. But unless you want to enslave Apple into doing your bidding then I don’t understand what else you expect Apple to do. They just thought it wasn’t worth their while to enable that feature if it meant extra dev time and resources. They are a business after all.

  • Apple to Remove iPhone-Apple Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU With iOS 26.2

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  • Why would Apple spend potentially millions on creating an open API to allow other platforms to be compatible with their services, when they can just turn that service off? I get it’s cunty but it’s a smart business decision. Nobody should be surprised Apple is doing this.

  • Phone + OS review: Google Pixel 9a and GrapheneOS

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  • What compromise are you doing with GrapheneOS+Google services that you aren’t making with microG? In my experience the sandboxed version of Play Services works much better than MicroG, with the added security of using an android native service developed by Google themselves.

    You can argue “MicroG isn’t Google” but it actually is since it’s just a bunch of Google libraries with some FOSS costing on top. And again, you’re more likely to get your phone remotely hacked by a silly exploit that was patched months ago but still got you because instead of GrapheneOS you decided to use some other security-void like Calyx, LineageOS or /e/OS.

  • Phone + OS review: Google Pixel 9a and GrapheneOS

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  • What a weak line of argumentation. Hopes and dreams don’t matter on the face of reality.

    There is a reason why Journalists, activists and whistleblowers use GrapheneOS, and it is the only OS that is recommended for such use cases. It’s the only OS that has the receipts to prove their are resistant to remote penetration breaches lfrom the likes os Pegasus and common evil maidens like Celebrite.

    There are no high-risk personas using microG OSes. The ones who did are now dead.

    You’re free to use your insecure and outdated OS of choice that allows you to feel good about using the equally insecure MicroG. Just stop pretending it is a viable choice for the majority of consumers, who don’t want to have to throw away their phones because they got infected by a swarm spam bot that also drained their bank account.

  • Phone + OS review: Google Pixel 9a and GrapheneOS

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  • You can add Portugal, Spain and (I think) Estonia to that list. But really the tendency will be for more countries to adopt this technology. Whether we like it or not the degoogling/PrivSec community is really niche and most people prefer to use standard phones, and there these apps work perfectly.

  • Apple to Remove iPhone-Apple Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU With iOS 26.2

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  • Hey dude I hate Apple as much as the next guy, but this one is on the EU. Apple removed that feature as part of the due diligence towards the Digital Markets Act, it even says so on the article.

    I don’t know how the EU figured making Apple Watches not auto-connect to wifi somehow makes it more competitive for other brands though, your guess is as good as mine.

    Maybe they thought Apple users are so brain-dead they’d rather spend 400€ extra just to get their phone-recorded WiFi auto sync instead of having to log into every WiFi manually like you’d have to do with a non-Apple watch.

    But I do care about security and we know iPhones are more secure than most Androids, so I am okay with the tradeoff of less convenience to protect security.

  • Societal Collapse

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  • despite him pretending to be a lefty tankie, hes part of the bourgeoisie

    I don’t understand this argument. Engels (& by extension Marx), Lenin, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong of the ones I know of, all were part of the bourgeoisie. They could have just chosen to rest on their unearned laurels but instead chose to leave all that behind to try to uplift the working class, to varying degrees of success. Surely that deserves some merit?

    All known philosophers past present and future came from or lived in bubbles of privilege. Working class people don’t have the time or mental energy to philosophize and present our thoughts to hordes of people, we are too busy working.

  • Phone + OS review: Google Pixel 9a and GrapheneOS

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  • MicroG is insecure software and there isn’t a single ROM that uses it that passes even basic security checks. Low tier Chinese hardware is more secure than the best ROM using microG, including /e/OS.

  • Phone + OS review: Google Pixel 9a and GrapheneOS

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  • My country’s gov has a 2FA app to authenticate logins for public services, check digital IDs and pay taxes. No web version for that. Local banks also use that system to validate your KYC so you need to have it on your phone anyway.

    All of my banks are neobanks except my savings account, so also no web banking there. These banks have several “pots” which you can use to divide your money (bills, holidays, use later, etc) so the interactions with these apps are pretty much daily. I also don’t like to have too much money readily available so that in case of my card being cloned, the hackers won’t be able to take more than 100 euros from me.

    There are also public bikes that are free to use but require a specific app that for some reason didn’t work at all on my GrapheneOS install (I think due to Google Play Services seeing my Os is not signed by Google). I’ve also had issues in the past in a city where you could clock in and out of the metro station using an app, but I couldn’t use it because of GrapheneOSs strong anti-tracking features. Had to fork out extra money every time because paying for the metro through the machine would force me to charge at least 10€ at a time while the app would take the exact money due from my account if I used it…

    So yes, 1 inconvenience at a time is how these alternatives OSes become major PsITA to use. It’s not just the banks, it’s also the obscure local apps that are necessary to live a normal life. If you have free time to search for alternatives or don’t mind the extra work then it’s probably fine, but when you have a job and need things to just work then it becomes really jarring to use. Just my opinion.

  • Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?

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  • Literally the story of Monopoly the board game.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Enchant weapons/armor to +x%. It usually companies Pay2Win items that you can use to have a 100% chance of upgrading, or at least not breaking your armor.

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  • Uh?