There’s a relatively nonviolent solution America can do, but it would be complex to organize. Stop. Anyone that can stop working for even a day, or a week. Just pick a starting point and stop working, buying, consuming. They can’t fire everyone.
Same as Apple: total platform control. Like HP and printer ink.
Isn’t that the way with almost every tech introduced into phones? “Track your phone while off (for arbitrary unit of time)” = you’re tracked by any Bluetooth beacon networks whether you want to or not. Also, “you’re now part of a beacon network whether you want to or not.”
Any 911/safety feature is just a reach for more tracking/stalking.
You get to contribute to traffic and wifi mapping so the company gets free telemetry they can use for whatever they please at the expense of your battery.
We’ll introduce notifications and then not give the user enough control, so notifications can become malicious nags to get you to look at your phone as often as possible.
We’ll introduce app stores that become gamified by the app devs, that push updates weekly or more frequently. The changes? Nothing, the dev just wants to reset the ranking of reviews and get the user to notice their app again for more user engagement, meanwhile, burning out your flash with every pointless update.
Oh, shoot, people are using phones too much, we’ll introduce “night filters” that only partially filter out blue light, and then let you feel ok about using your phone all night instead of sleeping.
Reckless transmission of telemetry from every app, which often have some blanket permissions to reach into your phone and extrapolate what other apps are there, characteristics of your phone to fingerprint. If you’ve ever used an app tracker blocker like 1Blocker on iOS or NextDNS or DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection on Android, you’ll see some apps are spatic about gathering and transmitting telemetry. (Worse, some just start firing telemetry attempts at insane levels, like thousands an hour, if they can’t connect to the Internet, further depleting your battery.)
If you ever spin up an OS like Graphene that has all this telemetry junk removed, you’ll be surprised to find out that your phone’s battery can last days. That’s an actual useful powerful feature to have, runtime. And instead of having switches like in iOS to “only charge when you’re charging off green energy” you’re being more green by only having to charge your phone every 3-5 days. The charge/discharge cycles are also reduced, so your battery is now lasting years instead of 12-18 months.
I used to work on phones, it was so great getting to help design these pocket computers the way I wanted to use them. I honestly saw the future being something like, “ok, cloud is a bit of a trust reach, but on the other hand, your phone becomes a cheap access terminal.” I assumed we’d hit a point, with how cheap the hardware inside the machine is, (to this day) where phones would ostensibly become something you could grab from a vending machine. They’d eventually become highly recyclable so you could just take an old phone and chuck it in a recycling bin to have the parts repurposed/recycled.
“Oh crap, my phone just fell out of my pocket and got run over!” Go to vending machine, chuck old phone in recycling, log in to new phone, old phone is nuked remotely if it still functions, new phone starts caching your “phone”. You’re back in business in minutes.
Phones would have no value to be stolen, phones are accessible to all walks of life, a fairness of technology access helps balance the world.
None of that happened, instead, it was a war of walled gardens, information hoarding, privacy violations, expense, distrust, and loan pyramid schemes so people can dump $1500 on $50-$200 worth of parts that will probably just end up being stolen and sold in aftermarket/underground markets in countries that are less well-off.
I’m kinda irked I ever tried to work on the tech to make lives better and do not regret my choice to not go back to that industry.
A bunch of old people that burned the world are afraid of losing their power and wealth, and as climate change becomes the unstoppable force that even they can’t stop, their hunger for power accelerates. They brainwashed the low-educated general masses (including brainwashing tech billionaires who have long since forgot what intelligence is and are easy to manipulate) through decades of biased media and promises they’ll never keep, all the while building a plan that’s mostly just copied from the Nazis, as they themselves aren’t really that intelligent, but some are cunning. The cunning and greed begets plans to keep the wealth and power. The plans are so fundamentally wrong and evil, they can never admit the wrong and evil part. They try to hide it behind “Christianity” to sleep at night.
Then, they wait for the correct time.
It was icing on the cake to have a senile mango to be the puppet.
Crazy how California is speed-running a transition from liberal to left to Authoritarian almost as fast as the Federal government is transitioning from conservative to right to Fascism.
If America as it is known survives this, massive reforms will have to take place.
Random things like:
And at the end of it, governance should be made boring again. One shouldn’t get into the job to be Lauren Boobert the reality TV trash soundbite handjob star. It should be a paper pushing position that keeps the country and its “economy” going.
Probably some other stuff this ramble forgot to add.
It’s weird how business, boards, even HOAs seem to have a better set of checks and balances than the US Federal government.
You’re supposed to take it to the Apple store, where they will charge you $800 to “clean” the keyboard, by replacing and throwing away half the computer. This is the correct user experience. /s
Apple hates making functional serviceable machines anymore.
This is by design. Have it happen in select locations (Colorado, Massachusetts) so the rest of the country can dismiss it as, “well, at least they aren’t here,” or a detached, “they probably deserved it,” while the behavior is normalized. They’ve started in Tennessee now to get red states normalized.
It’s all a highly illegal long con so people don’t realize the country’s freedoms and laws being slowly eroded until it is too late.
Stay vigilant.
I really wonder if testing in Europe could be part of the issue. In the US, everyone is a privacy moron and leave things wide open. Elsewhere, people are more conservative about sharing location in general, let alone joining a “community-supported” device location mesh network. (Google’s and Apple’s are also separate “networks” and don’t share, other than being able to both track AirTags and similar trackers to report stalkers.) They also aren’t as frequent to have the latest and greatest phones/devices elsewhere, as American corps all rig up loan pyramid schemes to push units as frequently as possible.
Apple customers also tend to be more trusting of that 100% closed-box company’s software, it’s completely possible more people have that feature turned on, making it more functional (and with Apple’s dark patterns to trick users into re-enabling features, they may even be unaware it is on.)
The article author could have done a little more minor technical diving as well, using LightBlue Explorer on an Android device to find the MAC address being transmitted when the phone is turned off, and then look for it later.
Apple’s devices when using their “Find My” network, while off, actually start using a different Bluetooth MAC address than when the device is turned on. Android’s may behave similar.
Gotta say, this is one thing I miss on most review sites these days. They’re so basic, they do the bare minimum, very little black-box engineering, very little sleuthing. It’s more important for them to receive free demo units from the manufacturer than to do actual tech journalism.
They seem to have a very selective presence. With purpose. Limited visible scope in a few states, other states see no presence, and thusly conclude it can’t possibly be as big a deal as this precedent-setting behavior is.
It’s next-level evil. Normalize the behavior, scare those you want, make those you want on your side to assume it isn’t nearly as bad as it is.
The modern them actually has an app that lets you build out recipes and/or scan barcodes to track what you eat, they use a distilled version of nutrition called “points” and you’re allocated Y points a day to try stay in your food budget.
I think their older system was also points based just not software.
The app has training content and some kind of social community (that people say is quite terrible apparently because of the other users).
It isn’t a bad concept, and helps one understand that a slice of pizza is insanely unhealthy if one didn’t already know that.
Where it falls apart is their skeezy subscription model. Best time to sign up is around New Years, if you do bulk pricing you get a discount for the year, if you sign up partly through the year, that discount only lasts 10, 8, 7 months, however many are left. If you want to get a better rate, even their customer service says to just cancel and then sign back up after you’re canceled. If they had honest flat-rate pricing and curated their social space/education material better, they’d likely have had something to offer…Instead, like most health tracking/exercise/apps that cost money, it’s difficult to manage, expensive, and abrasive to cancel.
Like so many businesses that went “app” - they didn’t embrace a usable and sustainable model that fit on a digital platform, and instead basically phoned it in.
Geopolitics isn’t so one-dimensional. The US has long-standing agreements with Israel for intelligence, tech, and weapons in the middle east, like it or not. That can’t just be unraveled at the drop of a hat without risking planetary stability.
Should the US not have put themselves in such a position in the 1950s? 100%. Should they have been more aggressive and quick on doing anything when the genocide started? Probably.
It wasn’t “the democrats” or “the republicans.” It was the US Federal Government as a whole. Choosing or abstaining a vote for a candidate solely on world events outside the US wouldn’t have fixed that in any universe.
Reality can’t be governed by aspiration, well, actually, I guess it can, because a bunch of idiots decided to hold back their vote that could have saved their own damn country, and look where the US is now, and now is only the beginning.
“Oh, I know, I don’t like that my current Federal Government isn’t being proactive world police in other countries even though I call out my nation for being proactive world police in other countries, so I’ll show them by not voting for a Presidential candidate. They’ll get my message…What do you mean a Genocidal Fascist Satan crew will win if I don’t vote? They’ll get my message! That’s unpossible! I couldn’t possibly be taking an action that will accelerate their genocide and lead to more genocide right in my home town?!”
Maybe too many people live in the world in their head instead of reality.
Every single vote abstainer is complicit in every terrible thing that is currently happening in the US.
Aww, how cute, he wants to choose the prison he will rot in while awaiting his execution.
Simple-minded spineless shit with no concept of how actions have consequences also works. No concept of empathy, (viewed as a weakness in fact because emotions are scary and hard and complex while simple hate is easy) no value in life of any kind.
One is a republican when one is dumb, rich, or both. Mostly the former.
Kinda sad really, so many simpletons that are easy to manipulate and they all have been played like a fiddle for 40 or so years to do the bidding of Evil.
but they also don’t have the right to hinder the feds from enforcing their own laws
The Feds aren’t following their own laws. They’re doing whatever they please without warrants, breaking into vehicles and abducting people, which is not allowed by their own laws. They’re breaking into homes without warrants and stealing peoples’ property, money, and people, which is against their own laws. They ignore court orders if they don’t want to follow them. The Gestapo is doing whatever it wants, ignoring the law.
So, in turn, their Federal laws are meaningless to states and the citizens of those states.
His job is but to sign their documents when they tell him to.
There’s no way on this Earth that Mango Mussolini knows words like “axiomatic” or “plenary”.
Federal supremacy with respect to immigration, national security, and foreign policy is axiomatic. The Constitution provides the Federal Government with plenary authority regarding immigration to protect the sovereignty of our Nation and to conduct relations with other nations, who must be able to deal with one national Government on such matters.
“I need to save Tesla stock so I’ll just lie long enough for people to forget.”
Pretty funny/terrible that there is so much news about all these turds (probably by design) that it becomes exceedingly difficult to search to fact-check older things and bring up previous articles one remembers. Even AI has problems parsing the searches. It is like 1984’s information-deletion theme isn’t even needed. You just create enough noise that the signal gets lost.
Re-found this info though to float it back up to the top: https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/elon-musks-political-shift-family-34222327
Discussing with MailOnline, Errol conveyed his satisfaction at observing Elon own up to his background, stating: “I think for the first time Elon was accepting who he is. Until recently, he’s been a sort of character on a stage.” He then added his thoughts on his sons’ initial political trajectories saying, “When you come from South Africa, Lefties think you’re a Nazi. To succeed, you need to be accepted by them so my sons, [Elon and younger brother Kimbal, a hugely successful restaurateur], started to become these flaming liberals – turning away from South Africa and their roots, which included me. Finally, Elon was embracing his heritage and his destiny,” reported the Mirror.
Of course, “South Africa and their roots” == Apartheid, white nationalism, and all the usual stuff leading up to Fascism and Godwin’s law.
Rep Guthrie, who apparently voted to impeach Pres Biden, and the secretary of homeland security, as well as being anti-abortion and in 2011 voted for “a controversial provision that allows the government and the military to indefinitely detain American citizens and others without trial.”
Seems to have just the right amount of education to be writing legislation around technology. /s