Solange rechzeitig vor der nächsten Wahl neue Lügen und leere Versprechungen aufgetischt werden und es zur Wiederwahl reicht hat es seinen Zweck doch erfüllt. Dass Wähler ihre Entscheidung mal vom Verhalten in der Vergangenheit abhängig machen anstatt von Marketing-/Propagandablabla auf bunten Plakaten ist ja bisher noch nicht unbedingt eingetreten.

I didn’t even know about the others, thanks :-)

sftpgo is a nice project to host files in a secure way without too much hassle.

While I don’t agree with your first point from my experience, the second one is very true. Especially for memory consumption, your typical Java app easily occupies five times as much as something more bare metal.

There aren’t many distro with a base system as tiny as Arch. It’s not a bad choice at all. It’s on my server since many years, working perfectly reliable. Everything except the base system is inside Podman containers. Why not?

Just use the piped.video frontend.

It doesn’t make sense for them to do because their customers don’t seem to care.

“Malicious” implies intent.

It’s just a guess but all of Googles failed messengers were probably available for iOS, too. Apple on the other hand is known to intentionally make things incompatible with other brands.

I can only tell you about Europe, because nobody here seems to use imessage. SMS are basically dead since the first generation of smartphones came out. They are used for OTP codes from banks sometimes but that’s it. The only reason why people use SMS in the US seems to be Apple. They didn’t make SMS worse than they were (which would be hard to achieve), but they basically force people to keep using them. Well, or abandon their apple friends. For the API, I think Apple could afford that, honestly. They don’t have to handle the data between Android phones if they support some form of federation. Only between Apple and Apple, and Apple and Android. Your operator also handles SMS when they go to or come from other operators. I think Apple just likes the peer pressure they seem to create with that app in the US. From a business perspective that might be smart, sure. Still, very malicious behavior. I’m glad there’s more and more regulation coming up (at least in the EU). If imessage wasn’t a niche here, they’d have to comply.

The Tesla comparison would work better this way: while you’re driving to another Tesla owner’s place, you’re having a smooth ride, no bumps, car works as expected. Then you put your other friends address into into the navigation and the radio switches to noisy FM and one of the headlights starts to flicker. It’s lock-out because no non-iphone user can join that club. It’s not lock-in, because every iphone user could easily switch to one of the “cross-platform” messangers. Not that I like Google. They’re both sh*t. But just opening up your infrastructure for others doesn’t mean you have to develop and maintain apps for other OSes.

Wikipedia sais WhatsApp was released 2009, two years before iMessage. So the idea wasn’t new and they most likely didn’t lock out Android users by accident.

Once you slightly climb the career ladder, vocabulary turns into marketing bs. Suddenly you most not say “problem” anymore. They’re “opportunities” or “challenges”. So at that level you don’t get “fired” because that would sound bad for the next company you’re going with. You’re looking for new challenges elsewhere. Leaving behind a dumpster fire like in this very case.

I think that’s for LGPL. For GLP any form of linking requires the code to be licensed under GPL, too. The dynamic linking except isn’t that bad of you think about it. It gives you the freedom to update or replace the library at any time. For security critical libs (TLS, GPG, …) that’s a big plus.

Du musst verstehen, man kann nicht für jedes Gesetz den Schutz der Kinder als Begründung nehmen. Die sind im Moment schon durch die Untergrabung der Verschlüsselung belegt. Außerdem haben diese Kinder nicht die FDP gewählt, sind also selbst Schuld dass diese sie nicht vertritt. Am wahrscheinlichsten hat aber einfach ein Pro-Zigaretten-“Lobbyverein” ein paar Scheinchen springen lassen.

Das hat bei der Fußball WM ja schon so gut geklappt.

GPS location please.

Obviously I don’t want to know it but be sure there’s hundreds of Google employees that can freely access it.

Geht auch ohne Einstichstelle. Vielleicht hat jemand seine Globulis vergiftet. Paarmal mehr verdünnt oder zu oft geschüttelt oder so.

Crazy of you think about it. Kind of sad actually.

Es ist gut möglich, dass es eine Backdoor in der Hardware gibt. Deutschen Behörden würde Apple aber sicher nicht aushelfen. In den USA ist der Druck auf die großen Konzerne allerdings ziemlich groß. Würde deshalb pessimistischerweise annehmen dass das bei allen TPM Chips und ähnlichem der Fall ist. Allerdings müsste man schon ein ziemlich dicker Fisch sein um die NSA oder das FBI auf sich zu ziehen.

I second this. People usually recommend Ubuntu for beginners which I can somewhat understand because it’s super easy to get started. But the downside is that you’ll most likely stay a beginner and don’t understand the absolute basics of a Linux based OS because, well, most of the time you don’t have to. Then you make a beginner’s mistake once and there you go.

The problem with only panels and wind is the fluctuation. We need at least a small “baseline” power supply that works when there is no wind at night. Storing large amounts of energy is the missing piece here to get rid of conventional power plants altogether. We’ll get there eventually.