So, you support the expansion of their spy network? Then why do yoy support decentralization?
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I don’t see the world as black and white as you do. Apples platform has wide reach, so building freedom tech on it is not a waste of time. Everything spies on us: every phone , apple or not, even when its off. Should we stop using computers and go live in the woods?
Then Bitcoin is pointless.
And I don't see life as black and white, I just think we need to work harder on creating systems that don't rely on centralized authorities.
Thought experiment: in what areas do you think centralization makes the most sense?
Good question. Let me clarify a bit on my previous comments. I didn't intend for it to sound like I am against centralization of any kind. I apologize for the lack of context. In fact, I think centralization can be a good thing in many areas and markets. The travel and medical industries are good examples of where centralization can do alot of good. It's not like people have the resources to build their own cars or airplanes or make their own medications, right? Though, centralization is clearly not necessary in all markets and fields (banking, food, education). E-commerce is certainly debatable. I have mixed feelings on that particular market. I just don't like the fact that centralized authorities are VERY RARELY held accountable for whatever transgressions they commit against people. Anyway, hope this explains everything.
Short of rooting a pixel and installing graphene, I’d argue Apple does a lot less spying than most, and gives more control and options to the user OOB.
The point is moot. I fully agree, there is no way to escape the level if tracking going on. Only choices about how easy to make it and which companies you trust to do it. I made my choice, and frankly, I very much look forward to a spatial Damus experience.
#DamusAR #AppleVision
Yes unless you are using graphene, apple has better privacy than google devices hands down. With google you are the product, so they have inventive to collect as much data on you as possible for ads. This is why I eventually switched from my android to apple.
I like apples decision to hide eye movement from apps, that would have been insanely invasive.
Agreed. And they have responded to market pressure in positive ways, backing down on the on device scanning, and implementing Advanced Data Protection. Theyve also made hiding your personal email and location accessible to millions of people who would otherwise lack either the skill or discipline to do so themselves.
They are far from perfect, but I dislike playing the boogeyman game when literally every single other manufacturer of devices that are actually useful has equal or greater problems.
I have a feeling some ppl would say with graphene yada yada they "could" do a better job. Still respect cuz most non tech ppl needed it so not blaming apple. The flower fruitstrs started talking shit cuz of black mirror and headsets. Still tho OneLove ying yang or whatevs
I believe in choice. I genuinely *want* graphene for example to succeed. I even get to bump into the real humans behind it on here.
I also don’t see the world as black and white. iPhone is a middle ground. A lot more control on privacy issues and sane defaults for the everyperson.
A world where either didn’t exist would be poorer imo.
Heck yea dude. Started it all. Used to struggle with "Cydia" to sideload apps way early like 3 or 4 lollll maybe one day I doubt it. Im too used to android thingies
I try to be very involved in it all.
Pictured: Samsung Galaxy A8, iPad Pro (M1), MacBook Pro (2019, Intel), ThinkPad P1 gen 5…
These are a *few* of my motley crew I use *every single day*
I try to put my money where my mouth is, and appreciate every ecosystem for what it’s great at.
Omniplatform ftw
Yup! I’ve built my own desktop environment in linux with nixos. I’m not tied to apple, just love computers in general and all the ways we can take advantage of them to improve our lives.
I feel the same way about game consoles and (ahem) crypto assets.
How has Nix been for you?
I was kinda scared off by the idea of learning a functional language to install a system. 🤣
At one point I was trying to use the nix environment under macOS.
Was natural to me since i did many years of pure functional programming. Immutable systems are so much better, I’ve never had to reinstall my nixos machine after almost 10 years now
I have been thinking about running nixos. May do this soon.
I usually run debian or debian based machines.
I also thought consciously addressing eye movement data privacy on the system level pretty significant, and doing it seriously enough to highlight it during the product introduction.
Closed source inherently depends on trust, but Apple, aside from that odd automated photo library content reporting feature they abandoned, they have earned mine patiently over decades. I have had no compareable continuous experience with products from any other conventional company, small or large.
Graphene is the way to go.
Apple and Google are essentially surveillance companies.
Apple accounts/iCloud accounts retain an impressive amount of data that would make the secret police of the 20th century blush. And this data can be seized by governments without you as a user being aware of it.
Google collects even more.
Unless you are using Advanced Data Protection, in which case Apple does not have access to the data stored in your iCloud account.
Yeah, that does protect more data for sure. Not everything, but a lot more.
I have never run into someone during an investigation using this protection. You have to opt into it, so as you can imagine, most don't.
Look, man... I like everything you've done for Damus and I respect you immensely for it. Please don't hate me for having a different opinion. I don't want that. Let's just agree to disagree on this topic.