Yeah.

Edge still has its problems, but it’s nowhere near the hot mess it wass in 2015 when it was basically a reskinned IE. Once they switched to Chromium it was still a hot mess, butit did get polished and has all the features you’d expect of a modern browser.

That being said, Edge is the main innovator behind built-in AI chats and similar bloat, which Chrome also likes to shove down people’s throats.

And although the feature has existed as a Firefox addon for ages, I think the first browser to support tab groups and horizontal tabs was Edge.

So since both are pretty on-par feature (and bloat) wise, run the same engine and are made and maintained by billion-dollar corpos gobbling user data, both seem like two sides of the same coin.

So for ‘normies’, it pretty much boils down to which ecosystem you’re more ingrained - that will make you prefer Edge or Chrome.

Us lunatics on Linux and/or ActivityPub prefer an independent option.

Security wise Fairphone isn’t up to GOS standards, so a collaboration wasn’t on the table either way.

I don’t know the situation, but if it’s as this part of your comment implies, then that’s clear bridge-burning on Graphene’s part.

If the current phones don’t have a chip or whatever, that doesn’t mean they can’t reach out to Fairphone and say “Hey, we’d like to promote our OS and join up! However, we requure such-and-such hardware. Are you interested?”

Saying “It doesn’t have the chip, a deal with them will never work” without reaching out isn’t productive.

I assume that Fairphone has quite the problems competing with more established markets and the OS is an afterthought, so they went with /e/. But hey, I might be wrong, and it’s all a conspiracy to maie an illusion of choice with Fairphone+/e/.

But if the mission of Fairphone is fair production and repairability, the fact that security and privacy are afterthoughts seems like a reasonable (but foolish) standpoint. They should care.

However, since the mission of Graphene is security and privacy, that seems like they should be the ones to reach out and try to provide their world-class software to as many people as possible. This probably includes supporting more than one make of phone.

Well, I was thinking along the lines of, if you fall for a crypto scam, 24 h does nothing about it.

If someone calls as a Nigerian Prince and you want to buy in, a cooldown won’t help either.

If someone impersonates your close family, it just might. But I imagine scammers are smart enough to dissuade the victim from calling the known number with a reasonable excuse. Then the cooldown wouldn’t help in this situation either. Something something scammers being good and all that.

And even if we disregard all that, there’s always the option of having the switch have no cooldown if set during initial device setup. Afterwards - sure. Give a 24 or 48 hour cooldown.

If someone wants it immediately - they can do a factory reset.

But the problem is - this is not what’s being done. What is being done is the start of a 72 hour cooldown, then 1 week, then 3 months, then no option to switch off at all. This is what I’m against, and what most other Lemmings are.

And to top it off - acting like this to “protect users” is a slippery slope of ignorance in and of itself.

You see, putting users under a glass dome (what all these “security” measures are) takes away their knowledge. With enough hand-holding (“security” or otherwise), they end up dumb, ignorant and incompetent.

“With great power comes great responsibility”. Well, the opposite is also true: “With no power comes no responsibility”.

And such powerless users are the ones who will, ironically, fall for ALL the scams.

The ones who are so “protected” that they have no common sense idea of how and what their phone does.

Once “logic” turns to “magic”, you’re in for a wild ride.

Because, even if they do know (which most won’t), they won’t be able to prevent the scam.

Why?

Because they’re mostly locked out of and don’t have posession of their phone.

They may be the owners, but Google is the one who can do what it wants with the phone. Not the user.

Of course it wouldn’t work.

Do you think putting a 24 h lock on your grandma’s front door will prevent scammers from coming in?

No. No it won’t. Any good scammer will be organized enough to start the scam and release the lock, then return after the timeout to finosh the job.

Do you think people vulnerable to scams will magically notice the scam in 24 hours?

Also, do you think most scams use sideloaded apps? Amazon gift cards are an easier vector. There’s also premium SMS.

Modern scams have nothing to do with security. They prey on people who fall for them. No security measure, save for a trusted friend telling them it’s a scam will work.

What this is is a thinly-veiled attempt to lock users out of using their own devices and to strenghten a slowly-crumbling ecosystem.

Of course it did.

For two reasons.

First - if anyone complains they can always say there exists a bypass, no matter how idiotically unworkable and annoying the process might be.

Another aspect is that devs will probably want to test their apps easily and quickly - App stores are notorious for updates taking a few days to be approved. Even for Google, full-on lockdown might seem overkill. They don’t want to bother with speeding up their update approval process so devs can push test builds through the Ecosystem. Giving some route towards sideloading is a much saner solution.

Otaku is the Japanese direct equivalent of “nerd” in English.

In English otaku is used to describe a nerd nerding over Asian stuff (anime, manga, games, whatever). Some gatekeep it for Japan-only stuff, while others use it for K-pop and K-drama as well.

In Japanese it’s the opposite - they use “nerd” to decribe people nerding over American stuff.

Edit: both loaned versions are a bit more derogatory than their “native” version.

To be honest, even this seems like a step in the right direction, as they’re direct and transparent about exactly what they use. Sure, it should be normal, and those toggle popups with a “Reject All” that does not cover everything (usually strategically leaving “legitimate interest” be) should rot in bankrupcy after a fine. Without large and sure fines, it’s the cost of doing (profitable) business.

Hopefully, eYou will see the good aspects of not using invasive tracking tech, especially america-based black boxes.

Since when is UX the cause of a need for third-party plugins?

LaTeX is an incredibly mature piece of software, since it exists for some 50 years and is (and was) incredibly popular. Of course newer players won’t have as much ready-made plugins, let alone first-party packages for most stuff.

Latex surely had the exact same issue when it wasn’t as mature as it is today, but in time people wrote plugins and in more time they were included as defaults.

Comparing them quality-wise on equal footing and proclaiming Latex better than the younger, less popular alternative with less developed community code is disingenuous at best.

And UI/UX has absolutely nothing to do with styling: both are features, and one product happens to have one while the other happens to have the other. They’re not mutually exclusive in theory.

However, I will give in that usually resource limits mean only one gets included. But that’s corellation and not causation: good UX does not cause bad feature parity. The core cause is both requiring resources and one is usually made the top priority.

FSFE should report them to the GDPR authority, but also financial ones.

The article says Nexi reached out after ‘cancelling’ the contract - meaning FSFE was financially offline for those few days. If it were a ‘normal’ business this was done to, they would sue for damages to hell and back.

And so should FSFE.

Since when is Graphene’s logo a football and Motorola’s the Super Mario M?

That’s still on the human that opened the PR without doing the slightest effort of testing the AI changes though.

That makes sense when talking about people’s accounts.

A “Claude” account serves PR (as in public relations) purposes, and having to do a stringent human review before submitting a pull request is bad for PR.

Which by no means is me saying submissions from the Claude account need to be banned, but that the “Claude” account’s goals are probably to have Claude do all of this “himself” - which is a recipe for disaster.

China builds world’s first 20GW microwave

For some reason it took me at least 5 reads to notice the word weapon in the title properly.

Britain is clearly speedrunning becoming Airstrip one

Well, that sounds very undue-processy of them. Obviously what a same, civilized society would allow.

I know I write essays which is a weak point of mine. One I should address, but I see the gist of my message didn’t get to you.

For one I use (and like) Inkscape and have strong negative feelings towards Adobe (and run Linux). Just like most of the folks here. That, however, should be pretty clear-cut from my original message.

They have a point.

I’m kind of the other way around:

I’m used to Inkscape since forever. I’m no graphics design expert, but do know my way around Inkscape for simple SVG editing, mostly stuff shamelessly taken off Wikimedia.

Way back in college, I enrolled in an elective “graphic design” course. Of course, being a course, they used Illustrator.

That thing works nothing like Inkscape. It was a long time ago, but I remember being baffled by it, to the point of being unable of doing basic stuff.

To be fair, I had no need for learning Illustrator and no wish to do it either, so I quit the course while I still could and exchanged it. I just felt like i’d be losing my nerves on switching, when I had better stuff to do than becoming dependant on Adobe and losing my minf in the process.

Both programs may indeed sport menus in the same spots, but the menus aren’t the same. They may look like the same thing, but they’re really not.

It’s kind of like a bus and a train. Illustrator (the bus) sports all the nice stuff (i assume) from other Adobe stuff. Just like a bus uses the same road like cars do, with the same signalization.

Inkscape is more like the train. It does things differently from say Krita or Gimp, but it also does other stuff than either Krita or Gimp. Which (dare I say) makes it more effective at what it’s meant to do.

A free alternative is an old phone you don’t use anymore, permanently in airplane mode and with just the regular camera app. Can be one where the battery doesn’t hold a charge anymore that you just have plugged into your car.

How is it supposed to be recording?

AFAIK dashcams are usually connected to the car so they run when it does. Having tp manually turn it off and on (and having to wait 20+ seconds for Android/iOS to spin up) & fiddling around the phone to start recording seems like way too much work. Or am I missing something?

It isn’t misleading (that’d be a technically true headline, which this isn’t). This is a downright lie, or as some might say, “fake news”.

It all depends on your security model.

If you want to stuff some cash, you probably want that easily accessible.

If you want to hide something you’ll need in a few years, you’ll probably stuff it under a pile of junk.

If you want to make your family heirlooms safe until you reveal their location on your deathbed, planting a tree or building a house on top of them is a valid ultra-long-term option.

No. They want to protect themselves from… Their own security forces.

Yeah, checks out. Our little parlamentarians are all big pedos (at least the ones pushing for this shit).