They both represent the company. The company came on strong all ban-hammery, the news flashed around, his repo got forked over a thousand times in a matter of hours.
Haier found themselves on the defensive suddenly, so they got one of their engineers to play nice.
They now know they have 300k users who are pissed at them. People are choosing other products over this already.
Fuck them. With a pineapple. Corporations aren’t people, I owe them no consideration, no courtesy, especially when they act like this.
And that UX makes it a hard sell to non-tech/privacy folks.
I had a few converts, then they pulled SMS. My converts left.
Telegram has its problems, I completely agree the encryption issue is problematic. But how do you get non-tech people to use a tool like this when to have a new device get the history, or signing into multiple devices simultaneously, requires transmitting an encryption key? I really don’t know.
I know SimpleX is working on this very issue - their current approach requires switching between active devices by scanning a QR code (or sharing code between devices out-of-band). So currently only one device can be active with your credsntials/ID. It has an ok UI, I’d say slightly better than Signal. But it’s security and privacy are just about the best I’ve seen.
This seems to be the big hurdle - people want a simple login, most don’t care if their convos are stored in servers iut means they can just login.
I’m using telegram with a few people for just this reason, since it gets us off SMS. They like that they can use whatever device is in front of them.
Getting people to switch to Telegram is far easier than anything else, since it’s UI is much better than Signal, Wire, XMPP clients (which can be some of the best).
We know exactly how bad Whatsapp is from a privacy standpoint - I’d choose telegram over it any day.
I wouldn’t doubt that it is, and we just don’t know about it.
The NSA (CIA?, well Fed assholes) installed surveillance gear in Verizon data centers in the 90’s so they could listen to any phone call or read any text message. It was reported about 1996ish.
Never heard that it was removed, or if they were in other telecom systems.
So yea, my guess is it’s already there. Even worse, people in the right positions are probably controllable (again, good old CIA/NSA at work, thanks Hoover, ya jackass). Don’t need a law or specialized gear when the right people are already compromised.
Just read up on why Bill Gates even got an audience with IBM…
It’s so odd so many people still believe the Warren Commission when another commission about 1973 ruled there were at least two shooters, one in front on the grassy knoll.
The first doctors to treat him documented an entrance wound at his trachea.
Primarily it means these companies know where your kids are, and they are building a dB of locations and other info of the kid (likely including online activity via other ops on the phone, etc), starting tracking early.
Second, it’s a poor way to manage trust between parents and kids. I refuse to use it, and refuse to help anyone I know use it, and explain to them why.
If you don’t trust your kids, then work on resolving that issue. And before anyone says “I trust my kids but not other people”, well, you gonna go everywhere with them to protect them from other people, or teach them how to navigate life, and learn to develop their own independent judgement?
There are self-hostable tracking systems. One is in my queue to setup for family/friends. It’ll be configured so anyone in a circle can use it, but these people trust each other. We intend it for arrival/departure notifications more than anything.
Commenting largely to watch - I use Syncthing as my daily driver sync tool, and Resilio for the on-demand stuff.
Resilio has on-demand/selective sync, but I don’t recall if it’s open source, I don’t think so. Plus, it’s hard on memory with larger folders, as it keeps the index in ram. My media sync folder really impacts my desktop, and I only run Resilio on my mobile devices when I want to sync something, then turn it off.
I’m not so sure the VMWare/Broadcom story is as much ignorance as many are, but rather intentional. They see the big bucks are in the large cloud providers, and knowing it’s not easy to switch away from your current virtualization, they can bend them over a barrel for a year or two and see massive profit gains. Those providers may consider transitioning to other products, but VMware will lock them in with new contracts first.
And for the resellers and SMB customers, it’s pennies compared to the cloud providers.
Fine, I can see the SMB space embracing things like Proxmox/KVM. It runs on x86 hardware, so if we see companies like Dell providing on server hardware, it’s game over in the SMB space for VMware. Imagine having to choose to renew a VMware license for 30% more, or just build new hosts running Proxmox, and transition. Especially since all hardware has a limited lifespan, often 3-5 years in SMB. So a server replacement is just around the corner… Good time to transition.
SMB has hit the point of being the “next market”. There’s a smaller set of enterprise environments, many more SMB’s, and there’s more volatility in the SMB space. So being able to support them, and manage mergers, etc, without worrying about licensing, is a huge benefit. Licensing in SMB is a hellscape, especially when dealing with mergers/transitions.
If you can’t get a Pixel, look for a phone on the DivestOS list (or the Lineage list, it can be way better than stock Android since it lacks Google anything).
DivestOS is Lineage, with some more work done, kind of between Lineage and Graphene. I really like it, actually prefer it over Graphene for my use-case (it can run MicroG as a user app in a work profile, so kind of a stepping stone for getting away from Google).