linule
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- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
No problem 😊 thanks again for explaining.
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
I mean canonical the word, not company? name.
And ok, interesting to know that PostmarketOS might be what’s closest to that.
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
Very interesting and informative, thanks for explaining. My understanding was that UT just conveniently copied/reused some hardware interfacing components from Android, since Android uses also a Linux kernel too and why reinvent the wheel, especially with the plethora of phone manufacturers available, which you really don’t really want to do again. But I didn’t know about it using Android kernel, or needing an existing Android install, which sound indeed like deal breakers. There might be a good reason, relating the reuse of components, but clearly out of my depth here.
I still think that it is important to standarize a canonical Linux core, or something like that, that can unify more development efforts, or if not needed, at least a marketing presence to raise funds. E.g politicians usually don’t understand a word of tech, and you’d need something like “The open source interoperable alternative to Android and iOS” to be appealing instead of coming with Alpine, Debian, etc. which will sound just like geeky and fringe and subsequently not get substantial funding.
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
What’s the pitch here? Initial impression is that it makes the ecosystem fragmented, as now (along with Ubuntu Touch), people have at least 3 different projects to fund. There needs to be a core standard that unifies the efforts and funding.
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 1 week ago:
They need funding. Some people, countries and unions have an increased interest in tech independence.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
Then they’re not truly democratic, which is a problem on its own
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness' 1 week ago:
Very dystopic, and inviting to refuse going to burger king again, but it also begs the question of how humane these jobs are in the first place. In an ideal scenario, people would be entirely replaced by AI (while not losing their income).
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
But what about porn / general nsfw, that doesn’t need a subscription and currently anyone can sign up / just visit those.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
Not saying that these are not possibilities, but again the technology itself and mistrust of government are, at least partly, different things. This is definitely a complex topic, spanning a lot of topics.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
Yes, and governments, at least democratic ones, represent the interests of their people, so at least on paper this is the correct way to structure things. Then you use the channels to government to ensure it’s regulated properly. If there’s no trust here, there’s a larger problem.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
Okay, it’s 2 topics then, the privacy, and basically add a mandatory authorization layer to the internet derived from your real id.
To some extent the later already exists for movies or say to buy alcohol, getting a driving license etc. in the real world, where people often also have to verify their age. So here it could be asked on what exact basis the internet should work differently.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
That sounds great. I don’t follow the topic closely (probably I should), so wasn’t aware of these developments. This should be brought up in all discussions about age verification, so everyone knows there are better options.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
So there should be a rebuttal demanding a privacy respecting age verification token, instead of just arguing against age verification, which technically does have a point. This way you disable their excuse to sneak in the other things.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
I mean a dedicated, government issued age verification token that doesn’t reveal any data to the third party other than you are allowed access age wise.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
Personal ids can also be used by non-owners, not much different than this theoretic age verification token. But yeah, ideally it would have an security layer to sufficiently confirm ownership.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 1 week ago:
Why is there no privacy respecting solution for age verification? Like the government giving you some sort of token that says you’re over 18 and that’s it?
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
Fully agree, there should be a regulation, temporary at least, that requires/incentivizes critical companies to make a mobile Linux version of their apps, as well as strategic funding and incentives to make the platforms viable. We as citizens should contribute too, increasing pressure for this to happen, spreading the message, becoming early adopters where possible, submitting feedback, contributing, etc.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
The problems driving the push for independence are fairly recent, so the current state is unlikely to be predictive.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
Time to popularize Linux phones. I read that the security model is lacking, but especially given that Android is Linux too, shouldn’t be too difficult to catch up. The EU is also interested in tech independence, so that could be one of the sources of funding. And there are a few viable early projects, like Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish.
- Comment on Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney 3 weeks ago:
A big part of the problem is to generalize the worst parts of the respective communities. Yes, there’s people that indeed don’t care about facts, and you’d waste your time with them. But there’s a larger amount of people who do.
- Comment on Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney 3 weeks ago:
The antidote for current politics
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 4 weeks ago:
Oh, that’s how you mean agile, as in opposed to rigidity, long term planning, bureaucracy, etc. in that sense you’re fully right. Though I imagine that much of it fades away if the incentives are right (e.g high pressure tends to weaken bureaucracy).
There are other rapid/flexible methods without sprint planning, dailies, etc. but this might be a bit too detailed for the general idea here.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 5 weeks ago:
Why exactly do you think that Europe‘s failure relates to agile? To me it seems more an incentive problem, which would be completely outside of software specific methodology
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 5 weeks ago:
Agile is just one possible way to organize things and many developers don’t even like it or think that it improves productivity.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 5 weeks ago:
It would be interesting to study those cases, to see exactly what failed. We’re not weak and should be able to survive in „globalization“ context. Anyway, now it’s (more obviously) a matter of security too.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 5 weeks ago:
Is there a site listing what exactly European solutions are missing as alternative? It’s so weird that a continent with population, education and wealth of Europe struggles with… software? These are all solved problems and software development becomes easier by the day. Come on.
- Comment on AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy 1 month ago:
Uhm all the non right wing parties? There‘s money there too. And it’s not necessarily so expensive.
- Comment on AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy 1 month ago:
Just create a fact-checking / pro-democracy „AI swarm“. Tired of this fear mongering where apparently only the right wing knows how to use the technology, along with foreign troll farms.