MasterBuilder

@MasterBuilder@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll review again. Last time I looked was 3 to 4 years ago.

  I’m sticking with Proton for now. If Switzerland ends up being no different than the 5 eyes, I’ll be more intent on finding a replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy — why should I care⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, what unlockable options are there? I certainly accept that I might not be keyed into everything. Fairphone is the only one i recall.

  Please, don’t just snark. Enlighten me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy — why should I care⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, take a look at LineageOS and the associated microg edition. They work on dozens of devices. I’ve been flashing ROM’s since the first Android phone and I’m still using my Pixel 2XL, degoogled. I still have my Moto X 2013 {with custim, now unusable ROM} because it is like a river rock. It feels great to hold.

  Google phones have always been unlockable - primarily for the benefit of developers.

  Calyx also offers a degoogled Android, focused on privacy like Graphene.

  If one wants a phone and own it, Google is the only sure way right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tutonota is German, which is part of the already full on surveilance state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Je suis desolee - Je ne comprends pas l’espagnol. Parlez-vous Francais ou l’anglais ? ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll pick them up in the tax-free section of the airport! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Both. Sure, the actual exchange might be made-up. The problem is that it’s entirely plausible it is real. I’ve seen this kind of exchange happen on video (which of course could also be made up). It’s common for television shows to do stories on what the “person on the street” knows about some topic. For local news stories, it’s usually to showcase how poorly educated “the youths” are today.

  Periodically a reporter will go to a public place and showcase how people answer questions that arguably should be fairly easy to answer with an elementary school education or if they check in with some news source regularly and actually understand the topic. The worst ones are where they are “confidently incorrect”.

  Jimmy Kimmel does this regularly for laughs. I’ve seen several examples going back decades from various local news programs. In all cases, I’m confident they are showing the 10% of interviewees that were the most clueless, and not showing the other 90%. Still, the level of cluelessness on the ones they do show is often truly frightening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t intend to do that. I realize you also have a growing right-wing that is on the same page as ours, and there are other excesses, along with insane housing issues.

  I also feel like the ire of the world is not as strongly directed at you. We have decadea of negative stereotypes. It comes from being “in your face” for so long and having such outsize influence in the world.

  I remember encountering several negative ideas during my term abroad in Europe during college and was very careful to avoid reinforcing any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, California was a Spanish colony, sfter all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This stuff is embarassimg. I swear, next time i travel I’m gonna have to claim I am Canadian.

  The stupid - it burns!