Maltese_Liquor
@Maltese_Liquor@lemmy.world
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
I’m not sure it would cover open source software since it seems to be more concerned with data than the actual code. If that open source software is being used by a company controlled by a foreign adversary then that would probably apply but if it’s open source software created by a foreign adversary but being used by a US company I don’t think that would.
The actual wording of the bill seems pretty vague so I could be wrong and they might be able to apply it just to software but that would kind of to against the entire option B that they’re currently giving ByteDance where they can keep Tik Tok running by selling it to an American company.
- Comment on The New Age of Airships Is Here—And It’s Electric 1 year ago:
It’s rigid airship!
- Comment on Google Is Offering Serious Cash to Lure iPhone Users to the Pixel 8 1 year ago:
Fair enough. Maybe one day these companies will stop being total dicks about tying basic functionality to proprietary apps and OSs and we can all finally just choose the stuff we want to choose. Will probably never happen but I can dream.
- Comment on Google Is Offering Serious Cash to Lure iPhone Users to the Pixel 8 1 year ago:
Google has no ability to offer iMessage compatibility as it’s locked down by Apple. Allegedly Apple devs had a version of iMessage ready to launch on Android and the Apple execs decided to kill it because they felt that keeping iMessage exclusive to Apple would keep users locked in, which clearly they were right about. I’m not interested in a discussion over which phone is better than the other but I don’t care for the false narrative that Google is the one keeping iMessage off of Android.