….or a government demanding a way in.

Even your alternative requires someone to give money to a tech conglomerate. There is no perfect alternative this late into capitalism Even if there was, it’s not realistic for millions of Apple devices around the world to suddenly be replaced.

By no means should that discourage anyone reading this from taking action to control your data better, however. I also self-host and am doing everything I can to minimize my reliance on big companies, but there are time, skill and monetary gaps there not everyone can overcome.

Apple’s choices here were:

1. Do what they did, and remove the feature for the UK only

2. Create a backdoor into their OS that can potentially be used by not just governments, but bad actors too, effectively crippling security for every single device they sell worldwide and bypassing the usefulness of on-device encryption entirely.

3. Exit the UK market, which is not realistic and would leave millions of UK customers without any further recourse than to replace their Apple devices, which is incredibly wasteful and expensive (not to mention inconvenient).

Apple chose the lesser evil. What more could you possibly expect in this situation? If you want to protest, protest the government demanding that level of surveillance on their citizens.

Yep. This is exactly what I expected them to do. They don’t want the liability of losing your data or enabling your privacy to be compromised on their devices, and the eroded trust of their customer base from that.

Unfortunately the UK put them between a rock and a hard place here. As shitty as it is, I’m glad they opted to remove the feature for only that market, rather than weaken it for everyone. It sucks, but it’s the lesser evil.

I don’t think they had any good choices here. Just like the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, they decided not to make the device’s OS inherently less secure with the inclusion of a backdoor and I can at least appreciate that much.

One more time and it’s a pattern.

Fuckin eww.

I’m currently driving a loaner Tesla….got yelled at charging it today to “sell your stupid fuckin car!!”

I’m fine with having no sympathy, but the harassment and calls for vandalism I’ve seen on some posts is a little extreme.

Would it be asking too much to direct the criticism at Tesla themselves? Not everyone can afford to get out of the car they’re driving (or like me, are driving one due to circumstance), and being an asshole to them isn’t productive.

For the record, I hate this car.

Concepts of a recipe.

Says who? An anonymous source on a paywalled article from a side with a heavy bias?

Because my less biased source already proved otherwise.

At this point you’re just creating headcanon and arguing with that.

Downvoting doesn’t make you any less wrong.

Wrong.

Trump is claiming credit for all of it. Biden is claiming credit for the agreement, while acknowledging Trump was kept informed and is responsible for the implementation.

Anyone with internet access can compare what we know about the plan and what Biden proposed last year and see the similarities.

Just because Trump posted to social media first doesn’t mean he did shit.

Now you’re just grasping at air to try and not be wrong.

lol or you and that articles anonymous sources were wrong….

Its ok to be wrong. I find it kinda funny though that you had to downvote a purely factual article just because you didn’t like the development of the situation.

It can’t be the source because you used the same one 40 minutes ago: https://lemmy.ml/comment/16115856

Netanyahu says ‘last-minute crisis’ with Hamas holding up approval of Gaza truce and hostage deal

Netanyahu says ‘last-minute crisis’ with Hamas holding up approval of Gaza truce and hostage deal

Although Democrats did completely drop the ball on this and never should have sent Israel anything, we also got the terms of this deal last year from Biden, so there also that.

Oh wait you’re from hexbear. You’ll just double down anyway.

Can’t commit further genocide if there’s nobody left to genocide! 🤡

Dude Trump isn’t even in office yet lol.

Your logic as viewed by everyone else:

“If it’s good, Trump did it. If it’s bad, it’s Biden’s fault.”

PLEASE tell me you’re thinking it through more than this, then let’s have a dialogue about that thought process because I am incredibly curious how you got there.

Kool aid comes in multiple colors.

What makes you think Trump should get the credit?

Biden said his admin and the incoming Trump admin worked together on it, and Trump’s is responsible for the implementation and continuance of the agreement.

Regardless of raw GDP per capita there are wealthier nations who could do this. Norway’s positioning to do so smoothly doesn’t invalidate the decision itself.

Again, if the rest of the world curbed our addiction to fossil fuels they wouldn’t sell as much oil. But as long as they are I’m ok with them using the profits for stuff like this.

Using profits derived from fossil fuels to transition to cleaner technology is exactly what we should be doing.

There are multiple kinds, but that’s not the important part here.

Much of the world does not have the infrastructure to allow for most people to charge their car at home at all is what I meant to say, apartments are a great example. Unfortunately public transit in my area is also not great, so a car is required to do much of anything.

If you can’t go anywhere without a car and you can’t charge your car at home, it becomes difficult to justify an EV. But that’s not the EV’s fault, that’s the fault of our infrastructure failing to keep up.

Ideally public transit would be the solution, but some places aren’t likely to see improvements to that for a while.

Any country could do this, and it’s a bigger start than most are making. I think the “barely any effort” bit was relative compared to what other, bigger, richer countries are prioritizing instead.

Maybe it’s not literally effortless but compared to other countries, yeah.