I see it primarily being a boon for the Android forks. Also it hasn’t happened yet and may not, this is clear malicious compliance with antitrust rulings, and you can’t just bribe the EU by buying Trumpcoin.

When you have videos of all the most powerful people in the world doing pedophilia, they just let you get away with it.

The OG Gossip Girl novels are literally about high schoolers dating adult bankers, it’s not even like it was a secret even after the culture started to shift.

People who support Trump often say “I don’t see him as a weird sex guy” but if you’re not from the NY Metro area in the 80’s to mid 90’s, you have no idea how normalized pedophilia and near pedophilia was. Seinfeld openly dated a 17yo in the late 90’s even. One of my grammar school teachers was an open pedophile, and NO adults cared. The kids just all tried to avoid being the kid who caught his fancy the year you have him. They eventually did fire him much later in the late 90’s as the culture shifted, but this shit was tolerated to celebrated for at least like 16 years regionally.

Except it was an open secret in the NY Metro area from the 80’s and 90’s that Trump was big in the “Klub Kidz” scene where rich people would bang teens who came in from CT and NJ and upstate. He was literally snorting coke off lithe 14yos with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali at Studio 54.

Cellular modems have been backdoored for the benefit of Israeli security firms and their authoritarian clients for over a decade now. Good opsec means limiting how much data is available on any phone you connect to the cellular network, that’s just been the reality for years. I’d recommend a pager but Israel puts bombs in those…

Linux phones are as private as Linux, but AFAIK it’s VERY rough, like no MMS implementation rough. Waydroid exists, but your mileage may vary per any individual app as per it actually running.

I would be VERY shocked if The Guardian Project added Gmail alongside tor, but we all have different trust models…

It’s in the Guardian repo ala torbrowser

I think they plan to just sell yachts to each other at the oligarch level.

Signal is in F-Droid and works completely degoogled on Graphene with no Google Play. The annoyance is no notifications, but if you’re rolling completely Google Play free, you’re probably used to needing to just check several things a day for lack of notifications on multiple apps, since everyone under the sun is trying to shovel all your notification contents to Google (I assume for bribes of some sort from Google).

I think the real reason it has amped up so much is the mass availability of the capacity to IPTV stream HD or even 4k sports content live. The money in mass media is ALL sports. Everything else we consume made by a traditional media outlet exists to occupy the dead time between sports events historically. When people were pirating Friends episodes, sure, that cost Comcast some DVD sales that were nice to have, but it wasn’t worth too much effort to enforce. When you can stream live sporting events that threatens the entire business model and is an existential threat.

I think a Proton or Tuta is a better option for most people than dealing with a transactional SMTP provider, which is almost certainly selling all outgoing email contents for AI training at least if not even more nefarious things.

I wonder how much the bribe was and how he is receiving it. Hope he got at least 9 figures for selling out hundreds of millions of people.

Well, the way I see it is it’s like taking candy from someone who says “I put razorblades in this candy” versus somebody who says “I did not put razors in this candy.” Sure, maybe the latter is lying but are you going to pick the former? There’s really no viable way to run your own email server with actual delivery anymore, and it’s clearnet in transit anyway, so I don’t really see the downside in “trusting” Proton or another provider enough to pick that over Google. To get any benefit, you would need to move things over though. If you’re unwilling to do that work, the reality is you’re just on Google and Microsoft and training their AIsand it is what it is. If you think about it, though, even if you move half of your logins to Proton or Tuta or whatever instead of Google, you are depriving them of half of what they know about you going forward.

“Liberal democracy is the moderate wing of fascism” as they say, except with Starmer, not so moderate.

I wonder among the Labour ministers who were complicit in his ouster, how many were always cryptofascists planning this from the start in secret like Starmer, and how many were actually fooled by use of the magic word to make people go away, “aNTisEmiTisM!”

Division? The Labour and Tory parties are literally indiscernible on policy in a way that is completely unprecedented post-Epstein associate, Sir Kier.

Epic own.

Skill will get you laid off by a 23yo Dartmouth grad who doesn’t know anything about computers to be replaced with a robot or foreigner who will do a worse job either way. NOBODY SHOULD ENTER THIS FIELD IT IS A SCAM! Become an electrician. There is no future white collar work, and especially none in tech.