That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
Sounds like an oligarch propaganda piece.
How has the iPhone contributed to empowerment and liberty? It’s a technology tool that can be used for both good and bad things. There is nothing “inherent” about smartphones that leads to empowerment and liberty.
And I don’t think he gives a shit about anything beyond his financial position and maintaining his social status and legion of fanboys.
Brave has investments from A16Z, a VC fund that has been involved in multiple pump and dumps and shoes founders are fundamentally opposed to democracy and human rights.
Apple offered ADP in China right? Padme_anakin.webp
FWIW, I did not have a single book with DRM issues. That being said, I don’t have too many “hot bestsellers” or something similar.
Get them out of Amazon:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503
It works, I just exported alk my ebooks into epub earlier today.
I normally dislike “Fuck [X]” type posts, even if I agree with the sentiment, but I completed to make an exception.
Fuck Elon “pedoguy” Musk!
It’s too bad we can’t send Elmo, his collaborators and sycophants right into the sun.
I was able to export (you’ll have to remove DRM via plugin) all of my Kindle ebooks into epub using “Method 2a” of this guide:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503
It’s can be a massive pain with some metadata issues, but at least it works.
I’ve been meaning to do this for years, but have always been too lazy.
I am really hoping they will provide at least 2 more years of updates for everyone (perhaps the EU can force them to).
Add Elmo and pedoguy.
It was easy to figure out that their marketing around privacy was complete bullshit. If you read their privacy policy (the current one or say one from ~10 years ago), it’s pretty clear they give themselves the right to collect everything and do whatever they feel like with your data. Sure, it’s all couched in comforting sounding language, but that’s just a ruse.
The irony is that both Apple and Google are not your friends.
like too many episodes have Harry or someone show up at the end to deliver a five minute exposition explaining what was happening.
This sounds like some teenage level writing.
Apple are going to be doing a series based on Neuromancer as well.
As someone who really enjoyed the novel, I am not optimistic at all. I don’t mind having a different interpretation of the novel’s story, I do mind a low risk, shallow “made for streaming” reinterpretation.
Agreed, moving away from American tech stuff is becoming a priority.
American oligarchs are no better than the oligarchs who work with putin or Xi. Perhaps even worse because they tend to be much more dishonest in their rhetoric (constant pompous rants about “changing the world for the better”).
The one silver lining about the new US administration is that it has helped undermine some fundamental notions around American exceptionalism.
American oligarchs are not that different from oligarchs in other countries.
I’ve been searching for an alternative search engine. Found Searx to be subpar.
Was thinking about Kagi, but if they work with the russians, that’s an immediate no go for me.
The irony.
This is how you know they are a bunch of malicious bullshitters.
This is exactly the type of narrative about Snowden’s alleged sainthood that I was talking about.
Snowden publishes content in his social media that directly aligns with russian propaganda messaging (and can be directly correlated with calendar events) and also openly boosts and promotes anti-Ukrainian rhetoric. For example, statements like “all Ukrainians are Nazis” by Glenn Greenwald, (who I will add says this without being stuck in russia). I will also add that Snowden is clearly deeply engaged in his social media fame. Surely if he had reservations about being forced to promote russian genocidal messaging he wouldn’t be shitposting about the Nvidia 5000 series GPUs.
I say Snowden is a piece shit for doing this.
You reply that we must ignore this and we must always assume that under any and all conditions the bad things he does is because of someone else and he always innocent.
You’re making a claim of innocence that goes against the evidence that we do have (his social media account, that Snowden himself states is not run under pressure), yet you weren’t (initially) willing to make any arguments to back up your claims.
You then bring up Navalny. What does he have to do with what we are discussing? Did you bring him up because that’s all you know about russia?
When did Snowden start a russian political party that opposed putin’s rule? How did he start such a party without knowing russian? Did he do it remotely from the US? And russians supported him even though he worked for US intelligence? This does not sound realistic.
What sort of information did Navalniy reveal about US domestic spying? Are you saying he left Germany and returned to russia because he was afraid of being captured by US authorities for revealing classified US intel info?
This is a very sophomoric argument that assumes the russians are some star wars bad guys that are incapable of any kind of sophistication in their external influence operations.
I never said anything about Snowden being a bad guy for not publicly opposing russian interests. I said he is a piece of shit for going along with supporting russian genocidal imperialism. These are two very different things and I don’t understand why you are bringing up “opposing putin”.
All that Snowden had to do was to not promote russian genocidal imperialism. Or at the very least to not be so casual about it if as you claim (for which you provided no arguments) he was pressured.
I am not belittling the impact of the smartphone, just being critical of the positioning around iPhone bringing “liberation” and “empowerment”. It has the capability to do that, but it also has the capability to enable less positive things.
There are also some inconsistencies in your story.
The iPhone launched without an app store and the app store concept existed even before iOS/Android.
From my experience living in developing countries, work type use cases do not use iPhones. If anything in developing countries an iPhone is exclusively a status symbol.
Claiming the iPhone alone was what got hundred millions of people out of poverty is a ridiculous statement. There are so many other factors at play here.