Can someone tell me why GrapheneOS is considered more “private” and “secure” than LineageOS, and how that relates to only supporting the flagship phone line from one of the United State’s larget corporations?
I currently run LineageOS on an old OnePlus model. Before that I only purchased HTC phones because I liked their simple, durable hardware and lack of bells/whistles, until the US blocked domestic sales to boost sales of US models because they’re Chinese.
Yeah that’s a good point, on second read I see that the only mention of kernel-level anticheat made in the article were by the author, and nothing from the Valve rep themselves. Maybe I reacted too soon, and Valve is just trying to get devs warmed up to the idea of using better and less-intrusive anticheat systems.
No thanks, Valve. One reason I switched to Linux was a game ecosystem absent root-level surveillance software. There are many other, better ways to discourage cheating in games.
I decided that no video game is worth handing over the reigns of my personal computer at a root level to a corporation.
Something about the kind of person who has such a need to prove their ability to shoot other people in a game that they’re willing to give a corporation complete control over their home PC…
I must say, Gordon, you come at a very opportune time. Alyx has just installed the final piece for our resurrected labor strike. It’s a Red Cup Day!
Yeah at this point the anticheat of the multiplayer military fps genre really is the opiate of the masses keeping windows at the top of gaming market share. Because no OS besides windows would ever allow for something so wildly insecure.
I play the genre, in fact PUBG is one of my favorite games (Judge me as you will), but I made the decision a few years back that my control over my own computer, my privacy and security in my own home, my ideological rejection of the stranglehold microsoft has over the home PC, were all more important than my ability to play a handful of violent, samesie, DoD-funded military apologia.
I have zero regrets. I do miss PUBG from time to time. But no, in the end it wasn’t really an excuse to not switch.
I am so painfully aware yes lol. Like my brain min-maxxed that specific attribute. But thanks! A lot of young people don’t know this.
In the case of my autism I was fortunate enough to not reflect it back on myself in most cases and instead was just frequently frustrated with how shockingly fickle, arbitrary, flighty, shortsighted, and ethically inconsistent other people seemed to be.
My mom did her best to turn it inward by always telling me I was “too judgemental” but she had already raised me with enough confidence and privledge by that point that instead of crushing my spirit it just made standing up for myself extra frustrating.
Well that’s a funny coincidence, I’ve removed Google URLs and services from all my devices and browsers.
You need to read the article. It explicitly and IMO satisfactorily answers your excellent questions.
It’s an atrocious system, innocent people get killed every year over it.
So Protonmail was required to log the IP of the user after being ordered to via the proper international Swiss legal channeks, per Swiss/Europol law. And at some point recently, Protonmail thus removed the copy from their frontpage that advertised never tracking IPs.
What the article doesn’t really explain, is what exactly changed about Swiss or euro law? And when? What rules or acts have sprung up that made this possible? Or, was this always something that was possible that has only just now made precedent?
It’s important to hold accountable the named individuals who are harming individual security, safety, and trust in this manner so that they can be prevented from continuing to do so.
Heh no worries I think I did that in a lot of my comments on here today too!
I feel like that’s sort of dodging the spirit of the question in favor of discouraging a common layman complaint? A modern car has hundreds if not thousands of ICs beyond the 2 or 3 required to run a cat so “You’ll die of asthma without a catalytic converter” isn’t really a terribly applicable response to the “Why is my VW a tangled mess of parallel plugs, sensors, and shockingly often general purpose CPUs?” that was the energy of my [I thought rhetorical] question.
I do cede, we need at least some of them to keep these clunkers from immediately obliterating our environments and themselves. It’s just that almost all of them need not be more complex than “24 transistors in a plastic shell” that almost any nation has the capability to fab. I guess a rephrasing of my gist is “We shouldn’t rely world elite microscopic lithography facilities to make an automobile”.
A monthlong standoff between China and the Netherlands over Nexperia has prompted carmakers in Europe, the U.S. and Japan to warn of possible production problems due to chip shortages. Although the chips Nexperia makes are very basic, they are used in large numbers in the electronic systems of cars.
Man I dunno maybe stop turning cars into computers?
Cory Doctorow is right. Canada shouldn’t enact retaliatory tariffs against us. That’s just stooping to our level, hurting both Americans and Canadians even more. What Canada should do is repeal any and all laws that were passed merely due to the pressure of potential tariffs from the US if they didn’t.
Like international any-piracy laws. Like anti-right to repair laws. DMCA clone laws around the world were passed at the threat of US tariffs, and now our load is blown. Let Canadians copy and pirate US-owned media without the US media companies being able to do fuckall about it. Let Canadians create companies that export repair guides and kits for locked-up systems like John Deere tractors.
DC would like to have a word.
All technology has the potential to be both liberatory and oppressive, all that ever matters is who wields it and to what end.
Lewis Herber (Murray Bookchin) - Towards a Liberatory Technology
Thank you so much for going into detail! That’s exactly the kind of features breakdown explanation I was hoping for.
Interesting that it’s Google of all companies implementing this stuff on their phones. Seems too coincidental to be accident. Maybe they have a security zealot in an executive position at Android, or maybe there’s a power clash of some sort between them and law enforcement. Or maybe it’s as simple as the government wanting a line of secure devices that they don’t have to worry as much about taking abroad and Google was the contractor of choice. I’m too cynical to believe that they’re doing it out of concern for their users under legal duress.