Agreed

Given that it says the phone was a Google Pixel, I’m guessing it was GrapheneOS and the activist entered their duress PIN before handing over the phone.

Could I not just set up another profile in GOS with this app installed and switch to that profile when it’s needed?

And he wants person 2 to be desperate for person 1’s job

I don’t doubt that this is all true. In fact, I suspect it is. I don’t trust platner at all. But the laser focus on the blackwater fridge magnet is weak.

I’ve worked for companies that I’ve hated that have given me sweatshirts and hats with their logo on it. I still wear them around the house because they are comfortable lol.

And you’ve never hit a cat that was hiding under your car? Are you sure? How can you prove it? Have you gotten out each time you drove away to make sure there wasn’t a cat left behind?

I don’t find this convincing. Have you asked the Waymo Taxi the same thing? I can check if I’ve run over a cat, and I’m naturally Inclined to care. I can’t say the same about a robot. Especially one that isn’t open source.

If they can avoid animals now (which they can, and do), they can improve that detection and/or logic for cats that have disappeared under the car and not reappeared. That’s not even an assumption, much less a “big” one.

I develop software for a living. It is a big assumption to think that this will be fixed with a software update. I don’t know why you act as if it’s a sure thing.

I personally don’t like the idea of driverless cars.

And there is your bias.

Yes I am biased against driverless cars. They are a new technology that is being tested without our consent, and they are dependent on corporations rather than humans being held accountable when things go wrong (something that we currently struggle with as a society). The fact that you think I should default to the contrary is strange to me.

No one argues self-driving cars are “needed.” The point is, they are a significant improvement over humans when developed correctly.

I’d rather gravitate towards a driverless society where we invest in public transit and infrastructure rather than further ingraining cars into our society and adopting private companies (who use us as unwitting beta testers) as the solution to our problems.

How are people this fucking stupid? Really? I don’t want you to answer that. I would need some rational and intelligent discussion on the subject.

You need to calm down. Attacking my intelligence isn’t helping your argument. I think I’m done engaging with you now.

This, at least, can likely be remedied fleet-wide and permanently with a software fix.

Oh? That seems like a pretty big assumption. Even if the company themselves said that a software update could fix running over a living creature, I would be skeptical.

These people are just looking for an excuse to rail against automation

Excuse or valid criticism from a negatively affected community? I personally don’t like the idea of driverless cars. I don’t think they are at all necessary to society. I don’t see them as inevitable infrastructure or even a good path forward. I don’t think my stance is unreasonable.

as if a human driver would have definitely seen the cat.

There are plenty of cats in my neighborhood and I’ve never hit one. I’d expect an automated vehicle to drive better than a human, not worse.

You talk about people “railing against automation” but is it more productive to make reflexive excuses for its failures? The fact of the matter (IMO) is that we shouldn’t be beta test subjects for these companies and this new technology.

Also, keep cats inside.

This I can agree with.

I think you’re missing the point. You say you use FOSS apps for everything. Do you download them from F-Droid?

From the article:

The future of this elegant and proven system was put in jeopardy last month, when Google unilaterally decreed that Android developers everywhere in the world are going to be required to register centrally with Google. In addition to demanding payment of a registration fee and agreement to their (non-negotiable and ever-changing) terms and conditions, Google will also require the uploading of personally identifying documents, including government ID, by the authors of the software, as well as enumerating all the unique “application identifiers” for every app that is to be distributed by the registered developer.

The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all. F-Droid’s myriad users will be left adrift, with no means to install — or even update their existing installed — applications. (How many F-Droid users are there, exactly? We don’t know, because we don’t track users or have any registration: “No user accounts, by design”)

I think the person you’re replying to might be trying to make the distinction between how Americans perceive voter fraud versus how they perceive election fraud.

Americans will see one case of voter fraud and believe that it’s widespread. Whereas, most Americans will call you a conspiracy theorist if you suggest that an election result was altered systemically (election fraud).

Idk though, their post was poorly worded, so you could be right.

Yeah, it’s a 40 series GPU, so pretty new. That’s encouraging. Maybe I will try dual booting first.

Do you have an AMD gpu? I’m running Nvidia GPU using windows 11 and I’m hesitant because I’ve heard people say that Nvidia poses problems.

PIA was also purchased by the Israeli company, Kape Technologies, which is tied to Unit 8200. If your concern is privacy, I would recommend do against it.

The very first CEO of Crossrider, Koby Menachemi, happened to be once a part of Unit 8200 which is an Israeli Intelligence Unit in their military and has also been dubbed as “Israel’s NSA “.

The sooner you realize that the call is coming from inside the house, the better. We’re dealing with a revived KKK and a government that openly supports them. These people are very capable of running their own psyops.

Isn’t this similar to what Google and the Pentagon are trying to accomplish with Project Maven? I believe Palantir, Amazon and Microsoft are also part of it.

Meredith Whittaker (president of Signal) talks about one aspect of it, Signature Strikes

At 11:45, the cop explains to them that because they didn’t avoid a stationary object in the road, they are at fault according to California law. So their insurance might not even cover it.

Tesla bros: 0

Easily avoidable object in the road: 2

“He was most certainly an edgelord, an irony guy,” one friend said. (Edgelord is online-speak for someone who likes to espouse edgy, nihilistic views). Asked about the inscription on the bullet, the friend said: “Josh was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed. I think he tried his best to write something goofy … to rile people up.”

Also, the elephant in the room here is that only ICE Detainees were shot. Why would you write “anti-ICE” on the ammo and then shoot the people that are in ICE custody? None of it makes sense unless you view it through one of two lenses:

1. What you’re saying. FBI tampered with evidence.
2. The shooter wrote it themselves and did it to rile people up like his friends suggest.

Either way, it’s being used to create/push a narrative that leftists are the violent members of society and our mainstream media is not challenging it at all.

Read the rest of the discussion. To me, you come across as part of a mob trying to defend Russian state media.

And I’m saying that’s a problem with your reading comprehension; not the content of my argument. Especially because I never defended Russian state media. I too think state media is bad. The difference between you and I is that I’m not fooled by the corporate proxy that is western media.

I’m not arguing that all of western media is perfect; much of it is corrupt (especially in the US, but that is not all of the west). But not all of it is that bad.

Again, go on…

I am aware that making sense of that diversity requires critical thought, which is in increasingly short supply in recent years.

And yet you seem to struggle to explain how it’s so “diverse.” What’s diverse about it? Who are the non-corrupt Western sources? Please tell me, since I’m so stupid 😕

but that’s not all of western media.

Please, go on. I’d love to hear more.

I still don’t get why so many people here are so desperate to defend the state-controlled media of a brutal dictatorship.

…or just accuse me of something I wasn’t doing. You’re definitely someone who approaches things in good faith, unlike the Russians.

You cannot be serious. You know Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, right? What do you think is happening here?

The only difference between Russian State media and our media, is that the western ruling class is savvy enough to launder their propaganda through privately owned media.

You can bet that with nearly two decades of data, other companies like Facebook and Twitter are doing the same. You can also bet that companies like Palantir are working to build files on each person that aggregates their data across all social media as well as other surveillance metrics. As Meredith Whitaker explains, this leads to some pretty frightening possibilities such as “signature strikes”