FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 4 hours ago:
Of course you could - someone made those existing ones, didn’t they? Now getting something else to read it, that’s the bigger issue.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 4 hours ago:
Great input, thanks for that.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 12 hours ago:
In sue what world you’re living in, but in the one where these digital id laws are being pushed in all the big western countries, the anti-Christian governments are all in power.
The USA are the only one where the extremely religious Christian’s have any real power and they’re the only country pushing back.
What exactly are you basing your argument on?
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 18 hours ago:
Another example I just saw posted about right now:
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 18 hours ago:
It’s literally neither of those lol.
Governments are doing this because they want control and they want to know all the stuff that Google and Apple etc know. It’s got nothing to do with religion or big tech lol.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 18 hours ago:
Can you not read? WEF - not JEW.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
They just do whatever they want though, because there’s no one to pull them up.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
These are also the most likely demographic to fall for a fake App Store scam.
When they could only pay via Apple’s payment processor in-app this wasn’t an issue. Now it is.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
It’s 100% the WEF.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
The EU should have had no ability to make Apple allow alternative app stores or have to accept alternate in-app payments. They should have no ability to force Microsoft to give new users a choice to use a competitors browser on startup. For example.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
What the app store says is irrelevant because people aren’t going to get their credit card details stolen via a app on their iPhone and then go read up on the app store who to contact - they’ll contact apple.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
The difference is that products that corporations make don’t have to be like government run products. They don’t have to be for everyone. They don’t have to accept all payment methods. They don’t need to work inter-operably with other products. I’m ok with corporations being their own “micro-governments” and being beholden only to their shareholders, because that’s what I expect of them.
They can be for a very small subset of people, they can have features locked behind paywalls, they can have vendor lock in, they can only accept specific payment methods. If you don’t like what they do, you don’t have to use them. You think you’re entitled to use them how you want though, which is wrong.
The problem that people like you don’t understand is that the EU has started mandating that companies do things that are against their own interests, that actively harm them, and threatening them with gigantic fines if they don’t fall in line despite not doing anything illegal or wrong. People like you celebrate them strong arming companies this way because you didn’t like something that company did at moral level, when morals have no place in the conversation. Calling it “anti-consumer” just means “I as a consumer don’t like it” in most cases, not that it’s actually “anti-consumer” by definition.
Now the strong arming of foreign companies has shifted directly into surveillance and authoritarianism, and people like you don’t really have a leg to stand on when arguing against it because it’s what they’ve been doing all along and you congratulated them in doing so.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
🤣 and I see we have another person who doesn’t understand why government overreach is a problem because they’re too busy saying “govern me harder daddy”.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
Do you really think that the average person who pays in app by a non-Apple payment method is going to understand that Apple isn’t the company to contact given they have been for all this time?
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
No, not everyone is good when they’re doing good things and bad when they’re doing bad things. The EU have been doing things that many, especially on here and reddit, consider “good” only because of their biases. They’re not objectively good things, but subjective. Things like forcing Apple to allow other payment methods was championed, but imagine if your business is forced to let your customers pay someone else to use your system, and then you’re the one that had to handle all their complaints because they got scammed.
The EU has been overstepping their bounds for years now. The difference now is that they’re doing things that everyone knows is authoritarian. They’ve been authoritarian all along, but the lefties were ok with it because it was authoritarianism that they agreed with.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 day ago:
I’ve been saying for YEARS that the EU has been overstepping their bounds by forcing companies to do things that they should have no right to force them to do, and that the EU is becoming a threat. I was downvoted every time and called a “bootlicker” because people loved the EU dictating terms to the “big bad american corporations”.
Well now the EU have gone full nanny surveilance state, and people like those who argued against me have no one to blame but themselves. Congratulations.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 day ago:
I don’t think they did. Unless you have evidence otherwise, I think this is a rumour which comes from a misunderstanding of how deletion tools worked.
They did it to my comments. I had a like 15 year old account, hundreds of thousands of karma, and I deleted all of my comments that I could view in my profiles history and then deleted my account. Days later I found not only was my account undeleted, all of my comments that I deleted were back as if nothing ever happened - and my account was banned.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 day ago:
“It’s another move to protect against AI scraping.”
Not because they’re against AI getting their data, oh no - because they SELL their data to google to use for their AI.
- Comment on Does it damage my phone in any way it I use a faulty cable to charge it? 1 week ago:
A cable making your phone say “slow charging” doesn’t mean the cable is “broken”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Statistically and realistically this relationship isn’t going to last btw.
Many of my friends, especially women friends, didn’t want kids. We’re certain they would never want kids. They pretty much all now have kids, multiple kids.
You guys are kids. Don’t forget that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Absolutely 100% too young. When you’re 27 you’ll look back at when you were 22 and think you were so dumb compared to now. When you’re 32 you’ll think you were dumb at 27, and that at 22 you were an absolute imbecile.
At 22 you’re basically still a teenager mentally. Making major permanently life altering decisions at 22 is a terrible idea. There’s no need to get a vasectomy until you’ve got kids and don’t want any more imo. There are plenty of non-permanent contraception options for until then.
Not to mention getting a vasectomy will massively decrease your potential wife pool.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
What surprises me is that Samsung isn’t trying to get better hardware to get more market share.
You say this about the company that invented folding screen phones? lol
- Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development 4 weeks ago:
Just like Stack Overflow then haha. It’s usually either
“I copied this persons code exactly, why doesn’t it work in my completely different codebase?”
or
“I copied this persons code exactly and it works in mine! I don’t want to touch it in case I break it cause I don’t get it”
haha
- Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development 4 weeks ago:
If you already know what you’re doing, AI generating code is redundant.
Nah, it can be really useful for people who do know what they’re doing as it can be used to generate the “charlie work” (IASIP reference if you don’t know) things like unit tests and documentation and things like that pretty damn well.
- Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development 4 weeks ago:
Sorry but a study of 16 developers isn’t a big enough sample to get any meaningful data, especially given the massive range of skills and levels of development.
I’m a developer and I use AI - not much, but when I think it can help based on the suggestions that it gives me since it’s integrated into visual studio. It doesn’t slow me down, it speeds me up. It could slow you down if you rely on it to do everything, but in that case you’re just a bad or lazy developer.
AI is a tool to use. Like with all tools, there are right ways and wrong ways and inefficient ways and all other ways to use them. You can’t say that they slow people down as a whole.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 4 weeks ago:
You came at me saying I said something I didn’t. You’re the one not having a good faith discussion.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t say that trump got it under control, just that it is under control now while it was out of control at almost all time highs during Biden’s term.
- Comment on Streaming Subscriptions May Get Tougher to Cancel 5 weeks ago:
What type of logic is this? Because rules didn’t force them to make it easier it will get harder?
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
Inflation is currently at the lowest it has been since the first 2-3 months of Biden’s term.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
It sounds like you just want to know at what arbitrary amount of time trump gets the blame for Biden’s failings, even though they are Biden’s failings.
There are some things that will always be the Biden admin’s fault, like the rampant inflation and price increases that lead to the current cost of living crisis. That inflation and those increases of prices across the board haven’t gone away, and likely never will. The only way they do is by absolutely massive deflation, or a depression in other words.
Something that cost $5 in 2021 should only cost $5.50 or so now if inflation didn’t go crazy, but instead it costs $8 because of the Biden admin. Trump can’t “fix” that. The only ways are a depression, which would be seen as a failure even though it’s what’s needed, or for real wages for every person in the country to skyrocket 30% more than inflation, without causing extreme inflation, which isn’t possible.
The tariffs are a risk, for sure - but the goal of them is to make things cheaper after a bit of short term pain as countries reduce their tariffs on US products to below where they were before to make the USA reduce their tariffs back to what they were, because the countries can’t survive without US exports. It’s a negotiating tactic, and it’s already worked with a lot of countries. The big one still in the air is China, but it’s showing good signs.