Posted by speckx 2 days ago
That's a bit of an oversimplification that makes this sound more concerning than it is. Not that it's 100% un-concerning, but I suggest that anyone concerned about this read the linked docs. It really was designed to be quite privacy preserving, though it's obviously a difficult challenge in this context.
The face alone that if you spend 10 minutes within someone's proximity will get flagged is 100% concerning. Of course they keys will only be handed to government health officials, but we all know what that means.
Keeping the name out of that data does a lot for privacy. With a name in there, you could use the data to find my name and figure out my address. Without the name in there, you don't know which point I even am without knowing some of my locations from another source.
The contact tracing APIs very deliberately avoided GPS for exactly the reason you mention.
You will need to turn off your Bluetooth if you want to stop advertising a rotating random number.
The only difference with the contact tracing is that a key, on the device, can correlate the ciphertext. I have it off because the utility was never demonstrated.
Make something novel? RTOS like response like blackberry, secure, fully opensource and such? With the era of LLM accelerated developement (don't crucify me), this wouldn't be such unreachable goal.
We would have to sacrifice bank apps but imho still worth it.
But app is not the hardest challenge compared to supporting all the hardware, camera, screens and the many core protocols
Unfortunately, I suspect things like RiscV are just going to accelerate this as it means anyone can make any spec they want so long as the application code compiles to it.
Next one will probably take a while, but be a relative hit.
Apparently, they produce the phones in batches, not sure when the next one is due?
(And the Jolla's "hardware privacy switch" feels like a bad joke: yes, the switch is hardware. What it does (if anything) is fully handled in software.)
But not exhaustively no, because why would I? it’s just the first google result for ”openstick”.
It’s a pretty cool project with a cult following. If you’re interested you could spend years working with the same devices and then verify the information yourself.
What I would like is to take my existing iPhone 13 Pro and install a real Linux on it so I could guarantee decent hardware. You know, like we could do with pretty much any computer before smartphones.
I don't remember all the details but I had a Mac G3 around the same time I started using Linux: I don't remember the story about installing Linux no Mac hardware as being a particularly easy one.
Now I'm not saying that years after the fact, Linux wouldn't run fine on Intel Macs. But if I recall correctly it always has been a bit of a bumpy road.
On modern Macs, it's pretty easy to install Linux with Avahi.
To be clear, I don't necessarily need it to be easy to put another OS on there. I just want it to be possible. As far as I'm aware, there's no way (officially or unofficially) to install another OS on any recent iPhones. Someone might eventually figure out how to break the bootloader on the iPhone 13, but I personally think it should be something that the owner of the phone is allowed to opt into.
I'm sure that the Pine folks have very good reasons for not having 5G support, but those reasons don't really matter to the end user.
An old smartphone or tablet can do that job and stay in a drawer at home 99% of the time.
As for Uber and messaging, you are moving the goalpost.
uber still worked from the webpage last time I checked.
There are messaging apps available on linux.
I mean, if they can force Microsoft to support other browsers than IE6, then why can't they force banks?
*(or BB, webOS, Windows Phone 7 Phone OS Phone Microsoft, Symbian, etc. if old enough)
Why wait for Brussels beaurocrats we all have this much and not have the most important tech country in the world make this law?
Open/individually accessible APIs would have to have be a movement, like the one with open formats for interacting with eGov.
Unfortunately, that's not an option for most people, the only choice is to complain - but not like there's any other option on the market that behaves better. Or there's some other drawback, or different UI to learn...
https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-16-official-lineageos-23-for-mi-...
> While the AOSP isn't exactly dead (yet), it kind of feels like it's just a question of time.
FWIW one can also do that on stock Android or its GrapheneOS variant pretty conveniently, including storage access, am, boot background processes, etc. It is not as complete as being root on Linux proper but still.