Cyberwolf

Don’t forget the most important prerequisite: be a psychopath. Something something 12-15% of the world’s top CEOs are clinically psychopaths, so this is the world we get.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This is why Europe can’t create anything btw. Everyone is so focused on changing what already exists and works well instead of innovating and bringing something new to the table.

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.

I work in Cybersecurity compliance but sure I have no idea about any of this. Random guy in Buyeuropean is the expert.

I am aware Linux is more open but guess who the biggest contributors to Linux are? Massive private corporations. Without their contributions Linux would be more or less in the same level of obscurity as BSDs.

Also, I never argued that Apple’s walled garden are what make their devices more secure, you strawmanned me into that. I know the walled garden is however a factor, even if just by stopping idiots from installing malware on their devices.

Apple’s behaviour has nothing to do with security and everything to do with preventing third party competition.

Welcome to the imaginary world of oversimplifications where everything is black and white. I think you didn’t spend more than two seconds thinking about what you’re trying to argue.

On the one hand you’re fond of open source code (which I also am) because you know that open code allows us to find vulnerabilities faster. On the other you fail to see that when the code isn’t open, bad actors are less likely to find and exploit those vulnerabilities. It goes both ways because news flash, security by obscurity is a thing.

The world runs on Linux actually.

Windows is dog shit and it’s kind of hilarious that you mention them as an example of good practices when they’ve been losing market share consistently to Apple, Linux and more recently Google’s Chromebook/Android. I wouldn’t wish Windows upon my worst enemy.

And yes, Apple devices are more secure than any alternatives. The evidence is pretty much everywhere if you’re willing to look into it. It won’t take long to find. Even Google is looking to now start closing down Android and adopt the so-called Walled Garden approach you’re complaining about.

Let’s talk again in a year’s time.

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.

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.

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

There is a reason why investigative 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 from the likes of 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.

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.

I would love if the EU could come up with serviceable alternatives to Android or iOS. Unfortunately /e/OS ain’t it.

Yes we could dream Apple would comply with this but honestly at this point we already know how corporations work, they’d rather make their lives easier than compromise. The only time the EU managed to twist their arm was when they threatened to forbid iPhone sales in Europe unless they adopt USB-C.

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.

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.

Came looking for this comment! It’s my favorite font of all time. So clean and legible.

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.