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The who python web feels underused to be honest.

Maybe if browsers start shipping or downloading WASMs for python and others on request. And storing them for all sites going forward. Similar to how uv does it for for venvs it creates, there are standalone python version blobs.

Keep Android Open 9 months ago

yup it will, but this is where some legislation might help to get certified 3rd party ROM images that will pass. Its a tricky topic though.

Keep Android Open 9 months ago

Banks are all moving to MFA through an app, which then needs play protect, which then maybe need TWRP/Magisk.

Keep Android Open 9 months ago

Secure boot and OEM bootloader unlock should be able to work with images so you can lock a phone after the upgrade again.

I managed to get a US refubished Pixel 2 somehow with a fuselocked bootloader here in Ireland. I bought it second hand but I've no idea how it got that way. But I'm suck on the Pixel image and I wanted to use it for ROM testing etc.

Keep Android Open 9 months ago

I just wish they had two sizes, a pocket version please. I have small Trumpian hands.

Keep Android Open 9 months ago

Would that have really stoped google having its own cloud/app layer on top of the base system? OEM could still lock the bootloaders.

Unless, maybe the EU, enforce a right to repair and tinker we'll be at the mercy of these companies with their walled gardens.

I'm watching videos of ICE kidnapping a woman and her kids while shes in their school, to be brought to god knows where, that would not look out of place in the 1930s.

When you have a full time secret police that wanders the streets kidnapping people, yeah that has a chilling effect, people want to keep their heads down.

And its tricky, because they will ignore the huge protests, and they want some sort of armed or civil disobedience when it comes to their secret police because they are looking for excuses to label them Antifa terrorists and escalate.

I don't see the obvious play here for Americans looking to fight this. Maybe the Midterms could help, maybe if enough local action, maybe the US to too big to cow like that, maybe the blue states have enough independence to survive the federal overreach, maybe Trump dies and MAGA dies with him.

It is literally quid pro quo right now. you have to play the game and I don't blame them as such.

But PSF doing this and not playing the game is really awesome. I just hope they can fund themselves through other means.

EU should be stepping up more with funding for projects like this as a replacement for US tech. Major secure reliable funding for open source projects that EU infrastructure can be built on would only increase our independence.

There was an illusion you could trust certain countries, political institutions and, for some bizarre reason, certain billionaires-cum-oligarchs.

Recent upheavals and actions have really pushed people to question exactly who and what you can trust.

Also the recent focus on strategic elements with regard to globalisation also plays into these choices now - where it might have been dismissed a couple of years ago.