Lake Biggly

Lake Putin

Lake Natalie

Or the classic - Lake Trump

I don't really want either. Its not a binary choice.

Back when Grindr was owned by a Chinese company there was concerns that data from the platform could be used to blackmail western politicians and civil servants.

I can't remember the details but my point is - just because you don't live in China it doesn't mean you're risk free.

You know the two aren't really the same, right?

I feel like you wouldn't get away with that nowadays.

I think you've overestimated how much I want to communicate with other people 😅

I think Lenovo would've been prevented from teaming up with Graphene if there wasn't a way around its security measures, be that hardware or software.

Good luck, dumb phone means no encryption, SMS and MMS are stored plaintext and freely shared with US three letters and phone convos have been spied on en masse since the 80s.

That wouldn't be an issue, if say, the dumb phone existed for emergencies only.

you'd have to give up phones

I did mention that as a possibility

Realistically you'd need to fall back on the postal service, but people can steam open letters

Well there's always carrier pigeons and jungle drums.

You constructed this overcomplicated chain of thought that supposedly proves GOS sold out

Actually, that's not what I'm saying. GOS is a small team, and they've confirmed that most of the work has been left to Motorola/Lenovo. Given what we know about the Chinese state, its not a stretch to imagine that interference has happened.

And I'm not arguing anything. All of what I've said is possible based on what we know (through verifiable information in the public domain) about the activities of the Chinese state. If you choose to call that a conspiracy theory thats up to you.

If you read what I originally wrote I mentioned that Motorola had done most of the work in porting GOS to their hardware. To me that sounds like Motorola/Lenovo having oversight of both hardware and software. I'm not an expert in the capabilities of the Chinese state but I'd put money on them using their influence to give them an advantage on GOS.

Again, I'm not a fan of US or Chinese tech. I'm not a fan of either regime. I don't know what the alternatives are. I'm on an older Pixel running GOS but I won't be upgrading to Motorola - once this phone dies I'll probably get a dumb phone or give up mobiles entirely.

Interestingly, Motorola itself is doing "a large portion of the work of porting GrapheneOS to their devices".

...and Motorola is owned by Lenovo, which is effectively controlled by the Chinese state.

I love GrapheneOS but jumping into bed with the CCP is bad, bad idea.

Edit: I'm not a fan of US tech either, and this isn't an "I hate China" post. They are both awful countries.

Reform wants to slash £50 billion from welfare spending.

Got it.

Here's what it could mean for benefits

Well they'll be slashed, I'd imagine?

More users.

And for lemmurs to stop being so binary and assuming every discussion is a war zone. Defend a Jewish person and you're a fascist. Defend a Palestinian and you're anti-semetic. Make a 'whore' joke and you're a misogynist. Criticise capitalism and you're a tankie. Accidentally and innocently misgender someone and you're transphobic. Defend trans folk and you're woke. Its all so bloody exhausting.

Love this but i'll bet Facebook/insta/Amazon/apple/etc are as popular as ever in Canada.

Should stick to mascara and couch shagging. Leave trade diplomacy to the big boys.

Good for Carney. I wish more world leaders would stand up for themselves.

Senior prom

I thought this was already common knowledge

I wish it was as the title suggests. I have a deep love of parmesan. I'd love to think it was a viable currency.

Gasprom.