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It’s a matter of exposure and attack surface vs rewards for the attacker, and risk in companies are evaluated by the trio: freqency of occurrence, severity of occurrence (how large), severity of the occurrence. Banks can spend a lot because severity quickly gets very high in money.

What’s the incentive again for the next gov to properly fund the system? Oh yes: they would have to say “sorry! shit happens! that’s all because of the previous admin!!” and maybe throw one guy under the bus.

At last a piece of code free of any flaw, any exploit, invulnerable to any known or unknown attack method!

Say you get all of that, you’d be willing to trust them? Security is a continuous battle in which the defender mostly try to make the hack not worthy.

The most valuable the dataset, the more resources bad actors will be willing to spend on the hacking.

A database of “everyone”? You can imagine the appeal!

And accountability here means what? The gov gets a fine it pays to itself? A gov employee takes the blame, then what?

Until you can’t because they will deploy this absolutely everywhere to “protect the children” from whatever real or imaginary threat.

You don’t need to obviously do that, a reasonably wide lens and you “reading social media” would do the same. It happens all the fucking time.

No, I don’t think it happens “all the fucking time”. That it happens is granted. I don’t think it’s that common.

I’m saying it’s exactly the same on a phone, don’t delude yourself that it isn’t happening or that it’d be totally obvious

Smartphones have an incredibly range of usage, and no one ever advertised them as “tool to secretly take pics and videos of people around you”. And no, it’s not that easy to film people secretly: you need to maintain the phone with the right orientation for an extended period of time and if you or the target move, it gets more and more obvious.

Smartglasses are almost made for that, and the abuses are already showing out there:

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/meta-glasses-app-covert-filming-women-girls-safety-b2942005.html https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/meta-glasses-covert-recording-9.7139927 https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/world/manfluencers-smart-glasses-intl https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx23ke7rm7go

I’m not the delusional here. You’re in denial of what’s already happening. And without a strong regulation, it will get worse.

If I obviously orientate my phone towards you or your kids, you’ll be totally cool?
Now assume that a smartpervert glass wearer is doing just that but you don’t know about it.

Are you asking why the US democracy is flawed? -elected representative only care about what their donors want, not their voters -corporate owned medias decide what’s the “big” questions will be during a campaign and just forget about this until after the election

Et voilà: “this was not one of the major concern for this election!”

Penicillin was invented in a public university lab. We used to have a strong public research in the health sector worldwide.
Then neo-liberalism managed to convince politic leaders to progressively shut down public research and subsidize more and more the private sector.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dollars-funded-every-new-pharmaceutical-in-the-last-decade

This is not unique to the US. Your taxes pay for R&D, then your insurance (or your wallet…) pays to get the drugs you subsidized. And the private sector does not need ginormous margins to stimulate private R&D spendings.

The kernel update issue on Android is going to be exactly the same for PostmarketOS and for the exact same reason: proprietary firmwares and/or drivers.

There is a huge ecosystem for Android today, including apps for so many EU companies, that they would have to re-develop to port them to Linux, or they’ll just rely on Waydroid, so you still have to follow Google somewhat, and now you need to maintain both a GNU/systemd/Linux AND a compatibility layer with Android. With a fork of AOSP, you need only the last.

From a security and privacy standpoint, Linux was never designed to handle hostile apps designed to aquire as much data as possible. Android has a sandboxing system: an app cannot go and check what other apps you have. A Linux app can pretty much access everything on your system. GrapheneOS adds on top of that storage and contact scopes: you can define a subset of each per app, and they won’t see anything else.

In an ideal world, it wouldn’t matter: everything would be opensource and developed in good faith. In the real world, you still have tons of malevolent apps that people will want to use anyway, so better take that in account.

If the EU would dare, it could totally fork AOSP. Then each country, company, non-profit can build its own mobile OS on top of it.

Because like absolutely all public companies, they need to grow their revenues every year without ever a pause, and once you have reached the maximum number of subscribers you think you can get, the only path left to increase your revenues is to increase the revenues per subscriber.

Besides, these companies have been enshittifying their services so badly over the years that there is no one left among managers who can imagine they wouldn’t get away with it.

I don’t give them 5 years before they resolve to shady tactics like phone calls during which they trick you in agreeing to upgrade to a higher grade subscription, or make the cancellation so difficult that you end up paying a few more months, etc.

Nice to meet you! I’m a dude, and I absolutely love horseriding! A passion passed on to me by my father, who himself got from my grandfather, and that I passed on to my daughter! As for girls, in the stables we (daughter and myself) go to, there are many girls, but not many princesses and/or spoiled children.

I would have guessed a “horse girl” is a girl who likes horses and probably horse-riding. Wouldn’t have been surprised: when I was a teen, we had 50% boys/girls horse riders, and today it seems most teen horse-riders are girls.
But this is beyond anything I would have imagined. I guess I’m reaching that age where I can’t comprehend the young’s trends.

No, he won’t try to “cancel” the elections. First he’s trying to rig them through gerrymandering and voters suppression.
If that’s not enough, he’ll make crazy claims of frauds at different places, and will try to reverse some results.

But I can guarantee you that if none of that work, you’ll have a showdown. He knows well what awaits him would the GOP lose and he’s getting impeached. He won’t accept the results.

Just note that he’s currently using the war to kick out generals he deems not loyal enough.

To win elections, you need a candidate who brings voters from their side. Trump brought the MAGA, an inconsistent alliance of all kind of deplorables. But they were all enthusiastic about him. Neither Clinton nor Harris had that, neither did Biden by the way. Their main platform was to be not Trump, and the rest was the status quo.

At some point, the Dems need a candidate that voters actually support rather than pick as the least bad choice. So what will it be this time? Yet another meh-candidate backed by the “good” oligarchs or a candidate people actually want in power?

Maybe less traffic so with comparable reserves, you last longer?

Tesla sales in Quebec dropped by 85% in 2025 vs 2024, vs a drop of 67% for the whole Canada.

The whole EV market dropped by half. Tesla took the biggest hit by far.

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/03/12/palmares-des-ventes-les-ve-et-tesla-en-chute-libre-au-quebec-en-2025

In one word: neoliberalism. It inevitably and inexorably leads to this.

Decades of defunding education, maximizing corporate profit at the expense of the workers at the bottom, making life worse and worse for commoners.

You end up with a large group of poorly educated, humiliated angry voters. And they’ll get fooled easy by the most populist guy who “say it like it is” and offe simplistic solutions and scapegoats.

That’s why it’s happening. And US is not a single case. They just have a much higher power of nuisance.

The core will praise him for being tough and say it like what it is!

And if a few on his side hesitate, he’ll just let them in on the next insider’s move and they’ll fall back in line.