People never liked the x86 PC, but had to have them to use the Internet's content consumption aspects.
But the issue I have is this: I currently have a Lineage OS Running Phone, and a DD-WRT Router that I have to re-flash to fix a terrible security vulnerability. (KRACK) and due to the design of these things, the update could possibly soft brick them. I neevr had this issue with my x86 PCs
I wonder if cars like the Tesla could use Solar panels on their roof to absorb Solar power to gradually recharge their batteries as they drive to make the battery last longer, and go further on long trips?
Why not Open Source this and Classic Yahoo? Allow people to start their own OSCAR Services the AIM or YIM Clients are compatible with, but, change the host name to whatever you want?
Currently, YIM is inoperative on Pidgin, soon AIM will be too. For Pidgin, this really doesn't matter. Some people liked the AIM and YIM Client software, a compatible "gateway" with connections to XMPP or Slack as a backend.
I get it AOL/Oath doesn't want to maintain the service. Open Source it, and let independent organizations host their own.
Part of the problem is that while yes, there are many users of the Internet who want it to stay open and free, there is a segment of the Consumer population that wants it to be Cable TV, and Perhaps Gaming Distribution 2.0
The idea behind DRM, and video rental systems over the internet is just asinine. But you have to look at where a particular segment of the Computer using public is going: Android Tablets, which is Linux turned against iteslf, and iPads. What do both of these things look like? Portable Televisions. They don't have keyboards, they don't have mice. They are tools of Content consumption.
Steve Jobs, Woz's partner, was a huge part of this. Openness on the Apple Platforms ended with the Apple II GS series, and the Macs were all largely closed to the outside world until the advent of OSX. Many Pre-OSX Macs, had proprietary EVERYTHING, and even the speaker Jack was proprietary. OSX opened the Mac world up some by giving us a MacOS running on BSD.
This allowed Mac to Survive and gve us the Trusted Computing Nightmare that was iOS. All the sudden you have what the DRM Corps want: A Computing platform where everything is a Rental transaction, and consumers money can be funneled from their wallets constantly. Thats what is happening now with iDevice owners.
Apple should have died off back in the 90s. They should have gone out of business completely. Consumers should have resisted the introduction of DRM into computers and rejected networks like NetFlix.
While i think the removal of the repressive Chinese Government from power is the only real solution to all this. One way is to support additional protocols to support libpurple (the library responsible for Pidgin) and the XMPP Application Spectrum 2. This allows Android XMPP Clients to talk XMPP to a jabber instance, and the XMPP host to use libpurple for the other protocol.
But there are no technical solutions around bad governments. The Chinese should push for a Secular Humanist Democratic reform of China.
I wanted compulsory GSM, not a Merger. Everywhere CDMA goes, you wind up with people who can't switch, who wind up unable to keep their devices when they switch carriers in the US, Canadian users who pay exorbitant Roaming fees, so on and so forth. But the truth is there are only four real carriers in the US, two are GSM, and two are CDMA. Those CDMA carriers should not be there, there should be 5 or 6 GSM carriers that own Towers, and this confusing MVNO scam needs to stop.
It doesn't go far enough. the iPhone needs to be opened up by Apple such that it will boot Android if that is a desired configuration. The problem is the climate in some places is such that you will be the subject of bullying, harassment, and sectarian abuse if you carry an Android Phone around with you, because it looks different than Android Phones do.
There are also utility reasons as Android's software base is larger than iOS. So if desired, someone knowledgable should be allowed to wipe the Stock Rom of iOS and replace it with an Android Rom built to run on the iPhone hardware. (The catch being once done, you lose all support from Apple.) This would drastically reduce the platform sectarian harrassment by giving Android Fans something that looks like an iPhone, but runs Android as they wish.
No, Mediatek based clones from China aren't the same thing. MediaTek based "Fake" Phones like that tend to have fake hardware in them like Fake Fingerprint scanners.
I wanted a blanket phase out of CDMA... not more Mergers. CDMA is inherently Anti-consumer. What I wanted to see is a compulsory switch from CDMA to GSM for Verizon and Sprint, and a break up of Qualcomm, This is the opposite of what I wanted.
I think that the question is being answered in the wrong way. The technology itself isn't bad, its resisting the bad uses.
I and my Spouse have Android Phones. They Communicate to our Home Domain Controllers. Our Home Domain Controllers run an Application called Spectrum 2. The Spectrum 2 Server operates behind a NAT firewall, and uses an internal Account Database of registered Social Media Accounts (exccluding Facebook for security, stalking, and abuse/harrassment reasons). The Mobile devices use Spectrum 2 to translate the various proprietary libpurple compliant messages into XMPP.
The Mobile Android devices running LineageOS on the Phones see all contacts and can communicate transparently with said media services. It stays encrypted via XMPP and the Domain Controller translates it into AIM, Yahoo, Skype, Discord, so on and so fourth.
On an unfamiliar Wifi Network? We have IPSec for that. More people need to apply this approach.
Its not the device. Its the effect of disconnection from people we really want to be around. Alot of us don't want to be living the lives we are living. We are alone. The people we knew, and love are all gone. There is no one to be with us, no one to comfort us. We are in isolated pockets, all by ourselves. We can't say who we are in real life to other people. That would lead to us being ostracized by the community. Some of us the sole liberal in a community of conservatives. Some the sole gamer in a family that hates gaming.
But online, it doesn't matter how far away that other person is. They are always a tap away. That Childhood friend that you moved away from because your parents got new jobs? Can always be with you online. The friend you never met because they live on the other side of the country? You can meet them online. The family member in the hospital you are concerned about? Keep tabs online.
With the internet, there is no time when you can't have access to the people you care about constantly, and you want their attention back constantly, because you want the ideal outcome to happen. You want to hear about that things that validate you and your way of thinking, and your lifestyle, [Social Media] fullfills that need for community.
Soon you want to withdraw from the community you find hostile. You find unwelcome. In the US, thats obviously real life in the US. You'll neglect your real life relationships because they don't see eye to eye to you. the fissure between you and the real people around you will grow distant, and hostile.
I have had enough of system partition Bloatware. There better be a Linux Kernel under this OS. Its bad enough there is increasing resistence to rooting devices. I don't mind if NetFlix won't run on my Phone because I have root, or because I have LineageOS. If I can't root it, I don't want it.
The issue is ADUPS and MediaTek. BLU Doesn't want to pay the QualComm Tax, this is why their Phones are GSM only. If BLU had to pay the QualComm Fee, BLU Phones would get alot more expensive. BLU Phones use ADUPS to do updates. ADUPS is Chinese State Spyware. Its intended to be installed on Phones from companies like Oppo. To spy on Domestic Chinese Citizens.
What BLU is saying here is: We have to have ADUPS in our Roms to be able to update them. People will root our Phones if we don't have ADUPS. You aren't Chinese citizens, so it doesn't really matter if the Chinese spooks are spying on you.
The real problem here is, yeah, you can remove ADUPS if you root the Phone. I did this. I also removed MTK Logger. If you root the Device however, and then try and update, the Phone will soft brick due to the way ADUPS updates the device in an inconsistent Manner. So getting a new Stock Rom means a complete Re-Flash and Re-Root, and eradication of the User Partition EVERY update to prevent Soft Bricking.
Lineage OS needs to go to war with Blu on this and make a Lineage OS Rom for every Android device Blu Makes.
They need to stop permitting Saudi inspired Colonialism in London.
I draw a stark difference between Shia, Amadi, Sikh, Hindu, and other refugees who come to Britain in the interest of co-existing in a Pluralistic society in the UK, they should be welcome, they should be met with understanding, and tolerance.
Then there is the attempt by the Saudis to create a puppet State in a section of London. The Sunni Wahabis are creating several such puppet states all over Europe. Its colonialism, and it needs to be stopped. They need to stop the flow of Saudi money, pro-Saudi propaganda, shut down and dismantle Sharia courts, prosecute cases of FGM, and arrest radical gangs.
The Saudis foment racism just as bad as any white Supremacists do in the US. While it has been a largely internal matter for the Saudis, there are Saudis promoting a return of Black African slavery, and female sex slavery. They are actively commiting a Genocide against the Shia Houthis in Yemen. They nearly massacred the Yazitis.
Look, the truth is the war on Terrorism is really the war against Saudi inspired Sunni Wahabi aggression. The Saudis started it, and it won't end until the Saudi regime falls. If we ever want to live in peace and security again, the Saudis have to be stopped.
BLU Phones are Easily Rootable, and until the R1 HD, did NOT have locked bootloaders that prevented the installation of TWRP Recovery. However, Because they used MediaTek Chipsets instead of QualComm, they were GSM Exclusive. (Meaning: No CDMA because QualComm has a Patent on it in the US.)
That means ATT and T-Mobile only (and their Associated MVNO carriers.) No Verizon, and no Sprint. CDMA is very pervasive in the US. Most LineageOS (formerly Cyanogen Mod) Programmers are from the US, so because of that MediaTek based Phones are a Tiny, Tiny, Tiny Minority. Wal-Mart Stopped carrying BLU Phones in the US because People would buy them, find out they were on a CDMA Carrier, (Sprint, Verizon) and then Wal-Mart would be swamped with Returns.)
BLU started locking the Bootloaders with the R1 HD due to the Lock Screen ads. People removed the ads, and denying them ad revenue seemed like theft to BLU.
I have a BLU Studio 5.0C, an, its rooted, and I removed ADUPS. However the version of Adups it used was not the version that was stealing people's info. I really like the quality of the Phone I have. I don't like that it has a MediaTek Chipset for which there is no Lineage OS Build.
BLU Needs to cough up Specs and Drivers to the Lineage OS Community, and start selling LineageOS on their phones, and don't put ADUPS on their Phones. They need to make amends with the Android Community. Because what they have been doing is selling people's personal info to the Chinese by using ADUPS.
The US Government has a terrible Internet access infrastructure because the US Government hates the Internet, US Cable Industry hates the internet, and US Right wing Religious institutions hate the internet, and the Telecom industries don't want to roll out new infrustructure. US Movie industries hate the Internet too.
Yes the US Government needs to fix the Internet. We won't get that until the (current) Right Wing US Government is removed from power and a Left Wing US Government takes its place. That probably won't happen without a Civil war in the US.
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People never liked the x86 PC, but had to have them to use the Internet's content consumption aspects.
But the issue I have is this: I currently have a Lineage OS Running Phone, and a DD-WRT Router that I have to re-flash to fix a terrible security vulnerability. (KRACK) and due to the design of these things, the update could possibly soft brick them. I neevr had this issue with my x86 PCs
BLU Needs to stop locking their boot loaders, and start letting people LineageOS their devices. ADUPS is turning into a Meanace!
Flash the Phone with Lineage OS. Thats what I do with my Phones.
I wonder if cars like the Tesla could use Solar panels on their roof to absorb Solar power to gradually recharge their batteries as they drive to make the battery last longer, and go further on long trips?
SMS Text is mapped to a Phone Number which can be mapped to a real person.
An unwillingness of end users to install other programs.
Why not Open Source this and Classic Yahoo? Allow people to start their own OSCAR Services the AIM or YIM Clients are compatible with, but, change the host name to whatever you want?
Currently, YIM is inoperative on Pidgin, soon AIM will be too. For Pidgin, this really doesn't matter. Some people liked the AIM and YIM Client software, a compatible "gateway" with connections to XMPP or Slack as a backend.
I get it AOL/Oath doesn't want to maintain the service. Open Source it, and let independent organizations host their own.
This would mean the blocking access to publicly funded science. This is a first ammendment violation. (this part of the ruling would be.)
Part of the problem is that while yes, there are many users of the Internet who want it to stay open and free, there is a segment of the Consumer population that wants it to be Cable TV, and Perhaps Gaming Distribution 2.0
The idea behind DRM, and video rental systems over the internet is just asinine. But you have to look at where a particular segment of the Computer using public is going: Android Tablets, which is Linux turned against iteslf, and iPads. What do both of these things look like? Portable Televisions. They don't have keyboards, they don't have mice. They are tools of Content consumption.
Steve Jobs, Woz's partner, was a huge part of this. Openness on the Apple Platforms ended with the Apple II GS series, and the Macs were all largely closed to the outside world until the advent of OSX. Many Pre-OSX Macs, had proprietary EVERYTHING, and even the speaker Jack was proprietary. OSX opened the Mac world up some by giving us a MacOS running on BSD.
This allowed Mac to Survive and gve us the Trusted Computing Nightmare that was iOS. All the sudden you have what the DRM Corps want: A Computing platform where everything is a Rental transaction, and consumers money can be funneled from their wallets constantly. Thats what is happening now with iDevice owners.
Apple should have died off back in the 90s. They should have gone out of business completely. Consumers should have resisted the introduction of DRM into computers and rejected networks like NetFlix.
While i think the removal of the repressive Chinese Government from power is the only real solution to all this. One way is to support additional protocols to support libpurple (the library responsible for Pidgin) and the XMPP Application Spectrum 2. This allows Android XMPP Clients to talk XMPP to a jabber instance, and the XMPP host to use libpurple for the other protocol.
But there are no technical solutions around bad governments. The Chinese should push for a Secular Humanist Democratic reform of China.
I wanted compulsory GSM, not a Merger.
Everywhere CDMA goes, you wind up with people who can't switch, who wind up unable to keep their devices when they switch carriers in the US, Canadian users who pay exorbitant Roaming fees, so on and so forth. But the truth is there are only four real carriers in the US, two are GSM, and two are CDMA. Those CDMA carriers should not be there, there should be 5 or 6 GSM carriers that own Towers, and this confusing MVNO scam needs to stop.
It doesn't go far enough. the iPhone needs to be opened up by Apple such that it will boot Android if that is a desired configuration. The problem is the climate in some places is such that you will be the subject of bullying, harassment, and sectarian abuse if you carry an Android Phone around with you, because it looks different than Android Phones do.
There are also utility reasons as Android's software base is larger than iOS. So if desired, someone knowledgable should be allowed to wipe the Stock Rom of iOS and replace it with an Android Rom built to run on the iPhone hardware. (The catch being once done, you lose all support from Apple.) This would drastically reduce the platform sectarian harrassment by giving Android Fans something that looks like an iPhone, but runs Android as they wish.
No, Mediatek based clones from China aren't the same thing. MediaTek based "Fake" Phones like that tend to have fake hardware in them like Fake Fingerprint scanners.
I wanted a blanket phase out of CDMA... not more Mergers. CDMA is inherently Anti-consumer. What I wanted to see is a compulsory switch from CDMA to GSM for Verizon and Sprint, and a break up of Qualcomm, This is the opposite of what I wanted.
I think that the question is being answered in the wrong way. The technology itself isn't bad, its resisting the bad uses.
I and my Spouse have Android Phones. They Communicate to our Home Domain Controllers. Our Home Domain Controllers run an Application called Spectrum 2. The Spectrum 2 Server operates behind a NAT firewall, and uses an internal Account Database of registered Social Media Accounts (exccluding Facebook for security, stalking, and abuse/harrassment reasons). The Mobile devices use Spectrum 2 to translate the various proprietary libpurple compliant messages into XMPP.
The Mobile Android devices running LineageOS on the Phones see all contacts and can communicate transparently with said media services. It stays encrypted via XMPP and the Domain Controller translates it into AIM, Yahoo, Skype, Discord, so on and so fourth.
On an unfamiliar Wifi Network? We have IPSec for that.
More people need to apply this approach.
Its not the device. Its the effect of disconnection from people we really want to be around. Alot of us don't want to be living the lives we are living. We are alone. The people we knew, and love are all gone. There is no one to be with us, no one to comfort us. We are in isolated pockets, all by ourselves. We can't say who we are in real life to other people. That would lead to us being ostracized by the community. Some of us the sole liberal in a community of conservatives. Some the sole gamer in a family that hates gaming.
But online, it doesn't matter how far away that other person is. They are always a tap away.
That Childhood friend that you moved away from because your parents got new jobs? Can always be with you online.
The friend you never met because they live on the other side of the country? You can meet them online.
The family member in the hospital you are concerned about? Keep tabs online.
With the internet, there is no time when you can't have access to the people you care about constantly, and you want their attention back constantly, because you want the ideal outcome to happen. You want to hear about that things that validate you and your way of thinking, and your lifestyle, [Social Media] fullfills that need for community.
Soon you want to withdraw from the community you find hostile. You find unwelcome. In the US, thats obviously real life in the US. You'll neglect your real life relationships because they don't see eye to eye to you. the fissure between you and the real people around you will grow distant, and hostile.
Repeal the DMCA by any means necessary. Whole cloth.
I have had enough of system partition Bloatware. There better be a Linux Kernel under this OS. Its bad enough there is increasing resistence to rooting devices. I don't mind if NetFlix won't run on my Phone because I have root, or because I have LineageOS. If I can't root it, I don't want it.
FTP supports TLS and Kerberos. Why was it not a requirement that to use FTP, you need a Kerberos Ticket from the KDC?
The issue is ADUPS and MediaTek. BLU Doesn't want to pay the QualComm Tax, this is why their Phones are GSM only. If BLU had to pay the QualComm Fee, BLU Phones would get alot more expensive. BLU Phones use ADUPS to do updates. ADUPS is Chinese State Spyware. Its intended to be installed on Phones from companies like Oppo. To spy on Domestic Chinese Citizens.
What BLU is saying here is: We have to have ADUPS in our Roms to be able to update them. People will root our Phones if we don't have ADUPS. You aren't Chinese citizens, so it doesn't really matter if the Chinese spooks are spying on you.
The real problem here is, yeah, you can remove ADUPS if you root the Phone. I did this. I also removed MTK Logger. If you root the Device however, and then try and update, the Phone will soft brick due to the way ADUPS updates the device in an inconsistent Manner. So getting a new Stock Rom means a complete Re-Flash and Re-Root, and eradication of the User Partition EVERY update to prevent Soft Bricking.
Lineage OS needs to go to war with Blu on this and make a Lineage OS Rom for every Android device Blu Makes.
If I had the Congress of the US to back me, I would pass a law proactively banning the use of Encrypted QAM.
Beyond that, everyone who can Cut the cord should.
They need to stop permitting Saudi inspired Colonialism in London.
I draw a stark difference between Shia, Amadi, Sikh, Hindu, and other refugees who come to Britain in the interest of co-existing in a Pluralistic society in the UK, they should be welcome, they should be met with understanding, and tolerance.
Then there is the attempt by the Saudis to create a puppet State in a section of London. The Sunni Wahabis are creating several such puppet states all over Europe. Its colonialism, and it needs to be stopped. They need to stop the flow of Saudi money, pro-Saudi propaganda, shut down and dismantle Sharia courts, prosecute cases of FGM, and arrest radical gangs.
The Saudis foment racism just as bad as any white Supremacists do in the US. While it has been a largely internal matter for the Saudis, there are Saudis promoting a return of Black African slavery, and female sex slavery. They are actively commiting a Genocide against the Shia Houthis in Yemen. They nearly massacred the Yazitis.
Look, the truth is the war on Terrorism is really the war against Saudi inspired Sunni Wahabi aggression. The Saudis started it, and it won't end until the Saudi regime falls. If we ever want to live in peace and security again, the Saudis have to be stopped.
BLU Phones are Easily Rootable, and until the R1 HD, did NOT have locked bootloaders that prevented the installation of TWRP Recovery. However, Because they used MediaTek Chipsets instead of QualComm, they were GSM Exclusive. (Meaning: No CDMA because QualComm has a Patent on it in the US.)
That means ATT and T-Mobile only (and their Associated MVNO carriers.) No Verizon, and no Sprint. CDMA is very pervasive in the US.
Most LineageOS (formerly Cyanogen Mod) Programmers are from the US, so because of that MediaTek based Phones are a Tiny, Tiny, Tiny Minority. Wal-Mart Stopped carrying BLU Phones in the US because People would buy them, find out they were on a CDMA Carrier, (Sprint, Verizon) and then Wal-Mart would be swamped with Returns.)
BLU started locking the Bootloaders with the R1 HD due to the Lock Screen ads. People removed the ads, and denying them ad revenue seemed like theft to BLU.
I have a BLU Studio 5.0C, an, its rooted, and I removed ADUPS. However the version of Adups it used was not the version that was stealing people's info. I really like the quality of the Phone I have. I don't like that it has a MediaTek Chipset for which there is no Lineage OS Build.
BLU Needs to cough up Specs and Drivers to the Lineage OS Community, and start selling LineageOS on their phones, and don't put ADUPS on their Phones. They need to make amends with the Android Community. Because what they have been doing is selling people's personal info to the Chinese by using ADUPS.
The US Government has a terrible Internet access infrastructure because the US Government hates the Internet, US Cable Industry hates the internet, and US Right wing Religious institutions hate the internet, and the Telecom industries don't want to roll out new infrustructure. US Movie industries hate the Internet too.
Yes the US Government needs to fix the Internet. We won't get that until the (current) Right Wing US Government is removed from power and a Left Wing US Government takes its place. That probably won't happen without a Civil war in the US.