Venezuela’s got big oil reserves but is limited in the extraction by older extraction tech, you’ll need a few years before extraction can be better, if big oil invests… I’m not sure the conditions are right (beyond the next 3 years)

Even if you have oil in the ground, you still are subjected to the price of oil and gaz, your area’s prices, sure, but it’s going up across the board.

Proprietary blobs are also present throughout regular linux distributions. And I hear and participate with the moans they generate but users understand that sometimes modems, wireless chips or GPUs (main culprits) have us stuck at the onset of using Linux at all. Debian had to reverse it’s procedure from a default free only to default mix and user has to specify if he doesn’t want proprietary firmware installed. Even graphene OS has to make do with proprietary firmware.

Jolla has sailfish OS as the official ROM and it has for quite a few years now (for all their past phones). It’s not marketed as a dev experimental.

Linux on servers does not have the same hardware requirements as GrapheneOS.

There is an app on flathub.

I wonder if there is a mix up in our minds between the use of auto-tune to “correct” a voice track and the voluntary use of extreme auto-tune options to create music out of an otherwise bland track (like daft-punk used to do…).

I’m not a musical artist so I don’t know exactly how far auto-tune goes or if you can classify all voice mods as auto-tuning.

There is also that french privacy advocate Christophe Boutry who got his Qonto account closed because he talked badly about Pallantir and Thiel is a big investor in Qonto.

Setting a factory in France is a hostile activity too?

I guess using Olvid is terrorism.

Yeah… I don’t think it will harm economic growth (it’s just Goggle, Microsoft etc who won’t get maintenance and sys admin contracts, plenty of other probably will) . But let’s entertain Google’s point of view: even if we sacrifice a bit of economic growth, at least we’ll not get blackmailed by those who threaten us. Whereas right now? We’re threading very muddy waters.