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gandalf_der_12te

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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity
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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago
yeah well it's all about who carries the risks i'd say. i think that if you're willing to take the risk yourself, you should be allowed to install a banking app on any device. just beware the risk, and you need to be warned about those.

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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

interesting.

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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

yeah that makes sense actually

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Divide & Conquer

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

but then again what motivates capitalism?

anyways my point was that it speaks to some natural inclinations for some people such as greed and stuff, and why did those develop evolutionarily? because they put the people who had the traits at an advantage.

anyways religion imho is mostly a codification of the natural traits of people (called "natural law" as pointed out by my other comment somewhere in this thread), while also using some tricks to smoothen some edges. so capitalism is a direct consequence of it. and that's why i would say that yes, very much are the congreemen's decisions are in fact motivated by religion.

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Divide & Conquer

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

You think it’s all religious, and in no way related to the parasite class rent seeking in the most depraved way possible?

turn the question the other way around and ask yourself what motivates people to seek money beyond what a single person can spend. there's no short-term benefit in it so i argue there must be a long-term trajectory behind it. what is that and what do you call it?

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

i'd say it's christianity or the concept of natural law that's historically been pushed by christianity.

it roughly says that there are natural laws that are derived from god (i.e. unchangeable circumstances) and are therefore unchangeable themselves. they typically revolve around (political/military) power being the center and origin of all law; it roughly corresponds to the nazi principle "might makes right" which says that if you're too weak, you have to adhere to stronger people's rules.

that historically influenced US politics a lot. that's why you have the modern concept of "when people are 60 years old and they get sick from cancer, well that's natural and therefore good and therefore we shouldn't do anything about it." i think that's the major influence, not so much about shareholder value.

in fact medical companies would make a shitton of money if they treated every disease. it's actually hurting the economy that the US does not spend more money on social healthcare. but ideology seems to be more important to the US government in this case.

edit: eh after reading the above wikipedia article it speaks mostly about the medieval concept of natural law but that's not how the term is used these days. these days the term natural law mostly refers to things such as anarchy (as it's used by the media) and doing away with a (human-made-rules)-based world order. in other words "eat shit, be free" but for politicians.

it's used like this: "i am a politician. i want to suppress other people. because i have this natural urge, surely it must be a natural thing to do. that's why i do it". while things that would limit this behavior such as democratically elected laws and human-made laws such as the legal system are ignored because they are "not natural and therefore not to be taken too seriously". trump is the best example of this.

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Divide & Conquer

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

it's not scare quotes, it's just quotes because people call themselves leftist so it's a self-describing term. i always put those in quotes.

also note that there's no universal agreement on what "leftist" means. note i'm not putting that in scare quotes but normal quotes to distinguish the word from what it refers to. it's famous that leftists always infight because they can't agree on what leftism actually means.

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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

And who guarantees that your PC doesn’t have malware?

Microsoft is legally responsible if the software they provide is found to actually contain malware.

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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

hmm do you have a link to the product?

1d ago

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

It's in the article:

The researchers said it was “maddening” that such easy action to fight the climate crisis was not being taken, and said people should be angry. Stopping the leaks can even be free, given that captured gas can be sold – methane is the “natural gas” that fires power stations.

Gas that does not leak is gas that can be sold.

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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

sure we can, the only question is who's legally liable if things go wrong

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Divide & Conquer

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

the medical system in the US is fucked because the system doesn't actually care about the health of the people; obviously that sucks idk what you expect me to say

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Divide & Conquer

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

what's AFD?

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Divide & Conquer

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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

The problem will solve itself once fewer fossil fuels are consumed overall, there's less fuels to transport around and therefore fewer leaks ... also the companies are losing money on the leaks so they already have an incentive to fix shit today.

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i waited for this rule

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

for solar panels you need silicon with 99.99% degree purity. (10^-4 parts of impurities) you don't get that easily with medieval peasant technology. you need a high-tech vacuum chamber and some chemical to do the purification for you, and also repeated heating/cooling down. Then you need to spray the heated gaseous silicon on a surface and let it cool down slowly so it crystallizes ...

1d ago

stages of mitosis

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

I appreciate it too

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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

I should be able to tell my bank to only trust devices running an OS signed by the grapheneos key, and more importantly I should be able to tell them to trust an OS signed by my key.

How do you know that your OS installation doesn't include malware? Like there have been many cases in the last few years where npm modules were found to contain malware. Who says that's not also the case in some modules that are a part of your OS?

And more importantly, who is legally liable if malware actually does cause harm? E.g. malware acts on your behalf and sends your money to some criminal organization. Not only did you lose money, but now you're a suspect of supporting a criminal organization!

Of course that issue might be alleviated if you simply don't have any money to send anywhere in the first place. That might be a viable alternative, but it only works for some people, i'd say. Or you could also set a daily transaction limit of say $100 that you can use to buy groceries; to limit your losses that way. The limit ofc cannot be changed from your phone alone, you need to go to a bank physically to change it or sth. Otherwise malware could again change it on your behalf.

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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

I'd say if you have more alternative gatekeepers, that means you have more options and that gives the user more power (to choose).

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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity

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gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de 1d ago

i'm just guessing here but i think that the critical requirements to be able to run banking apps securely on your smartphone are:

lockable/unlockable bootloader
quality control of the operating system to make sure it doesn't contain malware/spyware
internet connection & open-protocol banking network

the first two parts are general smartphone/laptop security and operating system integrity, which can only be done through hardware/general software developers. Like i think we need reliable hardware manufacturers but also institutions that check that open source software doesn't contain malware. Like when you run apt install some-package who says that some-package doesn't contain malware?

The third one is the only part that is actually specific to banking. That's a whole separate topic and has barely anything to do with the first two steps.