Aral Balkan15h ago

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116378390202896203

If you were wondering whether the phone you paid hundreds of pounds for is yours, it’s not. It’s still Apple’s and they decide what you can do with it.

That isn’t a tool; it’s a shackle.

And no trillion-dollar corporation is your friend.

(I’m tapping this out on what will likely be my last iPhone. Hopefully the EU will get its act together so people without iPhones and Android phones can still do basic things like banking and paying for stuff with their phones by then.)

Show threadBenjamin15h ago
@aral Let's hope they will, though currently I see little fuel for that hope.
German "i-Kfz" app intentionally does not work on non Google-blessed Androids, and from what I can tell neither will eidas.
Show threadDiane7h ago

@blindcoder @aral

It'd be nice if weird community based phones could support some of the government use cases, but it's probably easier to get support for regulations that no process should require a smartphone. There should always be an alternative.

Show threadBenjamin7h ago

@alienghic @aral hence me recently asking for an alternative to an app for eIDAS, like a tan generator for online banking (which I actually still use). If the alternative becomes something like Persona, which forwards my biometrics and gov ID directly to OpenAI et al, I'm not sure if I'll still have the energy to de-Google my life.

Thanks EU, I guess.

Show threadDiane

@blindcoder @aral

I was assuming it'd take coordinated lobbying to get them to stop depending on USA spyware companies.

Why why do I have the ideas?

And be clear the issue is privacy invasive companies so they EU gpvernments don't leave the USA ecosystem and go to Israels spyware instead.

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Show threadBenjamin4h ago

@alienghic @aral I'm tired to be honest. Been participating in many things, from the "Killer-Chess" demonstrations over early pirate party activity to the biggest petition and demos in Germany, I'm tired.

I'm not saying that peaceful protest is dead, but I'm also not seeing it working where big money is involved.

Show threadDiane3h ago

@blindcoder @aral

Yeah these days they most ignore marches.

There needs to be new tactics which is why I think the global warming and Palestine rights groups are moving on to targeted disruption.