Amju Wolf

The website generates a random value, your government signs a cert for that value. That’s what makes it single use and zero trust.

MAS has activation for the 3 years (or maybe even 6) of the extended support too…

The fucked up part is nowadays third parties like banks or sometimes even governments make apps rely on Google services, so you can’t use an ungoogled phone for stuff you actually need for life…

It’s a bailout where the taxpayers actually get something back.

How is it legal to bail out whole banks or other large companies and not get anything in return?

Sure I can use my bank’s website (and it’s a shit experience) but they still want me to have their own app for authentication… Don’t even offer anything else at this point.

This might be an issue because f-droid re-signs apps with their own keys…

I mean depends on enforcement I guess.

Why exactly do we need signing authorities? Software isn’t zero trust like websites. You do need to trust the developer - even a legitimate one. Signing apps with verified developer keys will only hurt small independent developers, open source projects and freedom enabling stuff like user patching.

It only works to solidify monopolies and doesn’t protect you against shit.

The thing is, he does that fairly rarely, and seems to have mostly learned (to at least keep his mouth shut).

And TBF I don’t think he could build a company like that without a bit of cockyness, and he certainly does deserve recognition for what he achieved.

The vast majority of stuff they do - even if it’s a fuckup - they actually handle well and make everyone whole. In away they’re sometimes forced a bit by circumstances but in general I feel like they’re genuinely trying to do their best and be fair.

Um, can you give some examples (with proof) of where LTT got paid to give a good review?

That’s an extreme accusation, and everything I’ve watched for the past decade+ seems to contradict that.

For obvious reasons that’s something they want to avoid. Hell they’re still happy to get on the bad side of companies for integrity, they’re just way less aggressive and outspoken about it compared to GN.

In fact I feel like GN sometimes overplays it a bit.

I mean it’s fair to avoid “drama” no matter who stirs it, but most of their controversies were fairly well handled and largely overblown.

I think my biggest issue was the whole “trust me bro” “warranty”, but that was mostly a cultural clash and Linus still had some good points even originally when he talked about it, even if the way he did so was extremely tone deaf.

Again, what? Where? Their most informative videos do reviews and testing, which is regular journalism at best.

I can remember maybe one or two videos that were somewhat investigative.

It’s just not what they do or what they claim to do.

Especially since they could ship the JS polyfill With the browsers. Seems like a decent middle ground to me.

In this case it is purely fault of the money incentive though. Noone would spend so much effort and computation power on AI if they didn’t think it could make them money.

The funniest part is though that it’s only theoretical anyway, everyone is only losing on it and they’re most likely never gonna make it back.

I don’t think LTT ever did or claimed to do investigative journalism (or really journalism at all)?

They make entertainment videos that sometimes have mildly informative value.

Forgejo is a great fork. Just like Gitea you can have a public instance of it.

The main issue for collaboration is you’re putting extra hurdles in the way (people needing yet another account).

Um, no? They can provide an IBAN and then you can pay almost instantly with most banks, with the worst ones taking a business day or two.

Revolut literally has this as a feature, single-use cards.

Additionally at least in Europe 3Dsecure is very common. It’s opt-in which makes it kinda weird, but still widely used.

Didn’t even know there was an EU website for that. Would be neat to have it there.

Huh? They just made the walls. Out of cement.

Making the walls of a house is one of the easiest steps, if not the easiest. And these would still need insulation, electrical, etc. And they look like shit.

Reddit certainly had its problems but was actually pretty good for the ~15 years before it started getting enshittified more and more to try to extract value.