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…I’m seeing people say “just don’t use an iPhone.” It’s not that simple when everyday things like financial apps with two-factor authentication are locked into the two main platforms.
We need legislation to ensure critical services use open standards so you can use your Pinephone to buy lunch in the future.
It’s shocking how easily some folks jump to “just go live in a cave.” No, that’s not an acceptable alternative. We deserve to partake in modern life without sacrificing our human rights…
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Apple have announced a set of measures aimed at improving child safety in the USA.
Here's why Apple risks opening the door to mass surveillance around the world while arguably doing little to improve child safety.
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4604/apple-opens-door-mass-surveillance
This move by #Apple
> _“is the endorsement by one of the largest industry players of the principle that ubiquitous #spyware on consumer computing devices is normal and acceptable in free societies. […] The core question is whether we wish to normalize the sale of personal computing devices that come preinstalled with spyware outside the control of the user and owner, however noble the purpose to which that spyware is initially put. The answer free societies have given to that question for the past five decades is the right one: No.”_
https://www.cato.org/blog/apples-iphone-now-built-surveillance
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Things I want in my #house (if/when I have one), #4: a fixed pull-up bar.
#sketch #cartoon #drawing #reMarkable #reMarkable2 #homeSweetHome
#sketch #cartoon #drawing #reMarkable #reMarkable2 #homeSweetHome
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Basically, if Apple implements this, it means your phone is no longer your own.
Every iPhone and iPad will come with parental controls activated. The parents, in this case are Apple, and your national government.
If you, yourself, are a parent, you will have the option to activate a second level of parental control for your children so you are notified if they share nude images. In some cultures this will lead to a stern taking to. In others, it will lead to honour killings.
@admin@masto.nogafam.es Mi experiencia personal con #Diaspora fue decepcionante: mala usabilidad, falta de funcionalidades importantes, y estancamiento (desarrollo muy lento)… 🤷♂️
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“Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc. [has] access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools … hackers were able to view video from inside women’s health clinics, psychiatric hospitals and the offices of Verkada itself.”
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> _“Think of #audiobooks as entertainment modes in themselves. […] It’s still possible to commune with a great soul in this way, but first and foremost, it’s with the soul of an actor—nothing wrong with that, but not necessarily what I’m looking for.”_
> _“#Audiobooks aren’t like reading the #book. #Reading is a more intimate connection between one person and another. When one reads a book, one communes with the author. Sure, editors and publishers have some say in what goes into a book, but the roles of these people and entities are often transparent compared to the fundamental communication from writer to reader. In the audiobook form, there’s a soul obtrusively in between the writer and reader—the narrator—who takes over the role as central communicator. Even if the text is read word-for-word, the way the narrator’s voice sounds is too present and their inflections too dominant not to be the main influencer of the experience.”_
> _“The consolation prize of so much #commuting meant I could [read and] listen to [#podcasts] as much as I wanted.”_
> _“The one constant of my #reading life is that I always want to read more.”_
> _“The painful truth of my #reading life is that I read slowly. It’s not uncommon for me to read only 10 or 20 pages per night. […] [Over the course of a year, that comes to roughly [ten 370-page-long] books.](https://www.goodreads.com/review/stats/64930929-tripu) This isn’t a horribly small number, but […] I have to be selective.”_
> _“I’m a devoted reader. I want to be a dedicated audience to whatever #book I’m reading. […] I want to commune with a great mind, wordsmith, soul. For the right experience, I submit myself to it willingly.”_
A recent article on #Quillette on #TheGreatestBooks, #books, #literature (and #audiobooks):
https://quillette.com/2021/07/28/listening-to-literature-what-we-gain-and-lose-with-audiobooks/
I felt identified with so much, that here go eight direct #quotes that I make my own, where I made just a few edits (between square brackets):
@fidel
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I meant my site where I use my real name — not tripu.info . The one I link to on LinkedIn etc.
