No, Musk is just a moron. You just need to look at his interactions with former staff to realize it was his ego and inability to admit being wrong that ran the company into the ground.

He’s been behaving like a bratty child, except he’s the owner of the company so any tantrums he throws have direct influence.

Or he’s just a narcissist that can’t run a company if he’s not held on a leash by people who actually know what they’re doing.

Because dealing with identity theft and credit fraud in your name is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Not a very good scam when getting caught is pretty much inevitable.

The leaked email has his name on it and the leak claims it was an email from Elon to employees. Can’t really tell if the leak is real or fake, but if it’s real then Elon is definitely the one who wrote it.

Based on his proclivity to say dumb shit and his inability to keep his mouth shut, I’m inclined to believe it’s a real leak.

Teslas are not luxury cars lol.

It’s because it’s owned by a personal data vacuum corp.

You don’t need direct file access and prevents a third party device from potentially transferring malware to it.

What malware lol. ClickForFreeMoney.apk? Even then, the applications are sandboxed pretty well. Even if you install “malware” it won’t be able to do much unless you also grant it permissions to access personal data.

As for trusting ad blockers, unless you are downloading and building each update yourself. You are still susceptible to a supply chain attack or bad actor even by using open source.

Most adblockers (all the good ones) don’t require frequent updates. They frequently update filter lists, which don’t execute any code and therefore can’t do anything malicious. And what you said applies to every application ever. Anyone can have their credentials stolen and used to publish a modified application.

I’m just trying to make the argument that iPhone isn’t inferior to android and vice versa

I don’t disagree, Androids and iPhones are pretty much at feature and quality parity nowadays. But it sounds like you’re starting from a conclusion and working backwards, which is not a good way to think.

That’s not access to the file system lol. That’s just apple’s cloud storage/transfer solution that requires an account and Internet. I mean you can do the exact same thing on Android with Google drive or whatever storage/sync cloud service you prefer.

After getting an iPhone for my mom, and running into multiple issues just setting up the account, including an apparently rare known UI bug*, I can’t say I am convinced by the “It just works” slogan.

I really don’t see the difference in experience for an average person buying any big brand android phone vs an iPhone.

*something about an old account re-setup not working on the phone and apparently some steps had to be done in the web interface. The phone UI was just giving an unspecified error and I had to dig deep into Google to find out wtf is wrong. A non-tech person would have no chance of solving it on their own.

It’s literally just one toggle? It’s been the same for over a decade.

Russia is ruled by fascists. how can you call them leftists while they shill russian propaganda?

Russia is very much quickly tumbling towards USSR communism. There is massive support for return to communism from the officials and the population. People are erecting new statues for Stalin and getting popular support. Criticizing historical communist leaders is likely to get you legally persecuted.

Why are people thinking that communist loving Russia is leftist… Gee I don’t know.

Incoming “USSR wasn’t communism, and nothing has ever been communism”.

They are capable of detecting it because they aren’t putting much effort into being undetectable. If there was a need, uBlock Origin itself could be made entirely undetectable.

Of course the YouTube script running in your browser will be able to detect changes made to the page and request blocking. However, the said script can be modified by a different extension to either receive incorrect data about blocked requests and page information, or to send a fabricated result back to the server. Google can react to it by modifying the script, and the extension would need to adapt accordingly. It’s a game of cat and mouse.

If there was a need, we could have YouTube running in an entirely clean headless browser with no adblockers, while the real browser we use pulls data from it and strips out the ads.

Ultimately, currently we have the last word on what happens on our end. Unfortunately, Google’s webDRM, pushed by traitors to humanity Ben Wiser, Borbala Benko, Philipp Pfeiffenberge and Sergey Kataev, is trying to change that.

I like watching YouTube on my android TV and I can’t use ad blocker there.

Yes you can.

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext

it actually shocks me when I see someone open YouTube and an ad pops up it feels weird

Same but I haven’t been giving Google money so they can further ruin the internet.

Cringe

Wasn’t it the blahaj admin who defederated from some popular instance because it had an “adorable porn” community, claiming that contained child abuse content. Nevermind that a subreddit with the same name has existed for like a decade. And when proven wrong they doubled down and never admitted falsely accusing people of serious crimes.

Beehaw’s reasons for defederation were completely unrelated to what’s happening now. They didn’t want the general public to have access to their “safe” community.

They sold $1.3 million of monitors with this tactic, according to the article. So the fine is not that unreasonable, relative to what we usually see.

However, I think it should be about 20 times larger. Only 5x the revenue is not enough of a deterrent, because it’s not likely they get caught anywhere near one in five times. If a person steals $500, fining them $2500 and letting them go would be absurd.

These fines should be a “holy shit we fucked up really bad” situation with CEO and the whole board getting a 4 am call. Not a “whatever, back to business” situation.

He didn’t defraud the rich lol. The exchange was one of the most popular among cryptocurrency users. There are no minimum and no sign up fees. The number of people he defrauded is probably in the millions.

If anything, knowing crypto, the rich almost certainly had insider knowledge and withdrew their funds before everything collapsed.

What? You just install the uBlock Origin extension. Are you saying it overrides domain and element blocks from uBlock?

It’s open source so if you could point to the code that does it, that would be great: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src