Fascists get very, very upset when the rest of us, the reasonable people, don’t want fascism. They are disappointed in us when we don’t want to be ruled by their rulers.
They are truly stupid and harmful human beings and they should be loudly ostracized in every community in which they dare to advocate for fascism.
All the apps that collect user data that has nothing to do with the actual function or purpose of the app.
Like–why does this solo word puzzle game need access to my contact list, camera, and location?
What a cool idea!
There is no system of government in the world that has been able to stand up to individuals with billions and billions of dollars.
The billions and billions of dollars have all the power and no system can escape that power.
We need to stop the billionaires.
This is so good.
1990s TNG had a good heart.
Also making giant rebar craps all over
Right there with you.
If no one’s enforcing court orders, then those court orders are irrelevant.
How far is this fucking fascist going to have to go before someone does something to stop him? The fascists don’t give a shit about the law, and from all current readings, no one with the power of the law cares to challenge the orange cunt on this.
Yeah, I have an older Motorola phone that I’ve used to try and get Android alternatives, and none of those three systems will work on my phone. It doesn’t look like any of them will work on my new phone either, but that might just mean I have to try it.
Google/Android also seems to make it as difficult as possible to install any alternative system. The easiest I saw was /e/OS because it was all automated, but after about 10 minutes it informed me that my Motorola phone just wasn’t supported.
There’s such a long ways to go with this sort of thing, but I think it’s pretty clear that the world desperately needs a user-friendly, non-corporate alternative to Android/iOS.
It’s really a bummer that we’re all carrying around powerful little computers with us but the corporate operating systems for them use much of that processing power for their own data collection/profits/purposes and tries to prevent us, those of us who own the phones, from using that power for our own purposes.
There’s a lot of good stuff on F-Droid, and it’s nice to see a university doing a project like this.
I’m still waiting on a solid, consistent alternative to Android. It seems we might be getting there with tiny steps.
what the hell are you talking about dude
Under the Far Right government in Finland, homelessness increased.
Now, maybe Finland can get back to having real public options available for housing without asking if anyone ‘deserves’ to have a roof over their heads.
The Far Right, no matter the country, always succeed in turning everything good about civilization into shit exclusively for themselves. If we ever have another national election in the United States, I don’t think the Far Right fascists will be able to win anything.
(and that, admittedly, is an incredibly hopeful view)
It’s 100% fascist rule, pure and simple.
We have a handful of national politicians who are trying to resist while the vast majority of them are simply playing along to preserve their own status and power. Democrat/Republican haven’t meant anything substantial for a while now–you have to look at who’s paying them (via ‘donations’ or otherwise) to know.
We can hope that they start killing each other (which they’d do if they had any backbone). Otherwise, our options are both extreme and extremely limited.
Leon dying would help.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?!
COP KILLER!
The world is toxic because of people like Leon.
It’s not ‘someone’ I’m talking about. It’s a very specific person, and Leon barely qualifies as a person. He’s like a disease of culture/society that needs to be eradicated before culture/society dies.
Bluesky isn’t bad. Maybe it will be eventually, but they are focused on open protocols and don’t act as a walled garden.
When regular working people eventually win, we’re going to have to reinstitute all the controls that we had for decades preventing single corporations from owning too much of the media. Break it up into little pieces. One of the first things corporations did when they got their first man, Reagan, in power was consolidate the airwaves; they know that’s the tool necessary for them to repeat and spread lies, and without this tool, they’re going to lose.
It’s not an accident that Sinclair owns most of the local tv stations broadcasting to rural markets and that all the AM radio stations are run by a small handful of Conservative propagandists.
We’ve gotta get that shit shut down–a limit on the number of stations any company can own, massive fines for violating standards of truthfulness, etc.
Because they’re smart and they want to establish free, open-source software as the norm.