It’s wasting so much space.

Das wundert mich jetzt irgendwie kaum, dass ein in China entwickeltes und hergestelltes Produkt das tut. Dort ist die Totalüberwachung komplett normalisiert. Dasselbe gilt ja für UK und USA…

Generell sollte man bei allem was ein Mikrofon und/oder eine Kamera und/oder einen Netzwerkanschluss hat, sehr genau hinsehen, was da passiert. Viele Konsumenten interessiert das aber leider überhaupt nicht.

A common theme seems to be that life is hell for those women being harassed and catcalled, but since they’re not starting fights or lashing out like men would do, they’re often not taken seriously, or men think they don’t have a problem with being harassed. The issue is not seen.

I don’t know what can be done about this apart from dismantling companies which allow this to continue. As the Rolling Stone portrays it, Musk has infested the company with his hostile takeover and this isn’t going to change.

The phrase ‘boys will be boys’ might have a kernel of truth. Only that you shouldn’t use it as an excuse, but as a warning. Men should also be aware that they’re men.

They recently had another breach:

Update as of Thursday, September 15, 2022

Our investigation determined that the threat actor gained access to the Development environment using a developer’s compromised endpoint. While the method used for the initial endpoint compromise is inconclusive, the threat actor utilized their persistent access to impersonate the developer once the developer had successfully authenticated using multi-factor authentication.

I don’t trust a software company which has idiot developers like this with my data. Any IT professional should be able to keep their computer clean.

It’s OK if a breach like this occurs every few years. But having several incidents within a few weeks to each other just reeks of incompetence.

Asiaticus? Arg prätentiöser Name :D

vermutlich eine anonyme SIM-Karte und es kann sein, dass das hier ein Spam-Account ist. Mal schauen, was sonst noch so gepostet wird…

Man muss es ja nicht direkt übertreiben. Das ist schon “schlimm genug” für viele Hersteller und wird die Situation vermutlich deutlich verbessern. Günstige Ersatzteile sind dann vielleicht ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal und man kann seine Kunden länger binden als es mit einem Smartphone alle 1-2 Jahre der Fall ist. In der aktuellen Situation müssen die Hersteller sich jedes Jahr erneut um die Gunst der Käufer bewerben.

Answering fire with fire usually just results in the forest burning down.

Keyword extraction, AI summarization. Those phrases might get you started.

Citation needed.

Isn’t capitalism the embodyment of a few bad actors versus masses of consumers, though?

What does that lead to? Isn’t awareness and not buying into the propaganda hidden beneath microtransactions enough? You’re allowed to enjoy stuff even though you can do the minimum to not support it.

I hate EA, Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft because they exploit people for money and generally make game dev hell for many workers. The fact that they also do propaganda for the CIA or whatever doesn’t change that I can’t enjoy their newer games anyway.

The old games are pretty fun. Pirating (which I don’t condone, please don’t sue me daddy) or buying used is an option.

Never touching that shitty franchise again after this.

Why did you touch it before? It was always a pro-American propaganda tool, they didn’t start with the newest iteration, but rather with the very first one ;)

Es würde auch Sinn machen die Hersteller zu verpflichten die Systeme spätestens für alternative Systeme wie LineageOS zu öffnen, wenn keine Updates mehr kommen.

Auf jeden Fall! Wenn man sich mal anschaut, was z.B. mit GrapheneOS und dem webbasierten Installer möglich ist, wäre das ein toller Weg zur Vermeidung von sehr viel Müll.

From the book:

We are not a Linux clone, or POSIX-compliant, nor are we crazy scientists, who wish to redesign everything. Generally, we stick to well-tested and proven correct designs. If it ain’t broken don’t fix it.

That almost sounds sane! Refreshing to see a project which doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel.

Scotland as well. That doesn’t make either a real shithole though. Bet you never lived in one ;)

Germany or Scotland?

AFAIK, in Germany teachers and other employees of the state aren’t allowed to strike. Source: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/faq-beamte-streik-103.html

Nice review, thanks! I’ll definitely check that out.

I’m answering the quote you got from the article:

"[…] I don’t like making political statements. We are here to play football, and if we can’t even do that because we are making a statement and just saying normal things, like ‘no to discrimination’ or ‘no to racism’, and you cannot say that, then hey, then what?”