Readit NewsIn practical terms, social mobility is very low.
This is kind of a silly absolutist opinion. Sure, you should have an option to have a completely open mobile OS... but to say that any OS with other priorities than complete “openness” is disrespectful is to throw literally every other consideration to the wind. I mean... really, what about security?
Ideologues tend to forget about reality, sometimes, it seems. Verified app stores, for example, are about providing security to the end user, not about disrespecting the end user.
I can’t help but feel like ideologically driven projects like often almost immediately discredit themselves with crap like this. Their software comes off as about making some statement, not providing something great, novel, and beneficial to people.
Everything a company does is for the bottom line.
App stores are there for lock-in, and for taking a percent of the sale.
The security features are a (fortunate) side effect: the company uses it as selling point.
The US is a counterparty risk.
If anything IEEE was too quick to move, but I am not their legal team.
What you are saying is that, because of the pervasiveness of US tech, all organizations having US a companies as members are at risk.
Time for the world to route around this single point of failure.
As others have said, it's incredibly unlikely that a tweet is going to change your mind about anything.
Having worked both in and out of the journalism industry, I know that journalists get a lot more worked up about what people say online than everyone else does. They think it matters a lot more than it does (probably why they got into the job of saying things online in the first place). Twitter is completely irrelevant to most people. They're vaguely aware it exists, but it really doesn't matter.
In TFA, you can see each tweet getting a few hundred to a few thousand likes/retweets, and most of those identified by the analysts as bots. So each tweet is maybe reaching an audience of a couple hundred humans, at best (and it'll be the same few hundred humans for all such tweets). How many of those humans are going to change their vote because of that tweet?
It's irrelevant.
But it is dangerous. Politicians get very nervous about elections. If the politicians are persuaded that any of this matters, then they'll be more inclined to stop it mattering. And that means laws that curb free speech online, monitor communication, prevent encryption, and all the rest of the shitstorm we're facing.
This does not solve the fact that your email archive is in gmail though.
The EU should start requiring contractual assurances by technology companies for customers of US products, guaranteeing that:
- data is 100% portable between providers
- services will not be disrupted in case of political conflicts
Failing to provide these assurances should be punished with steep fines, and eventually by forbidding said companies to operate on the EU markets.
I carry my phone in my back pocket all the time, specialy in the office where I spend most of my non-home time. It's far more comfortable than cramming it into my front pocket.
Moving with a big phone in the front pocket is also annoying: my hip and leg bones make contact with the phone, and the pressure is noticeable. By contrast, my ass is soft.
Before sitting down, I remove it. Sometimes I forget and sit on my phone. And then I remove it.
Since my phone does not bend, nothing happens.