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Well, yes. But then again the 'Take Back Control' campaign had those UKIP buses saying "We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead". An average person is a bit too removed from the GDP/investments conversations anyway.

This is such a shame. As a Pixel 6a user, I was always bothered by the battery situation of the phone but happily ran GrapheneOS on the device since buying. Recently the model had a battery combustion incident and now this. And there I was thinking of getting another Pixel phone down the line.

>TikTok also lied under oath about where US data is stored [1]. So I’m not sure why anyone should trust anything about them even if they are sold

Whether you trust a company that has been caught lying under oath is not the same as whether a company should be allowed to operate in a country.

>Even a code and security audit would leave a lot of room for things like AI driven feeds conducting propaganda campaigns. It’s not just code or infrastructure as a point in time but also data

Perhaps so, but that does not mean that those reviews should not be conducted before taking a step as big as forcing a sale. US govt could have given Tiktok US an ultimatum to go through one before coming to this conclusion.

>In the end it comes down to trust.

Yes, absolutely. The US does not trust Tiktok because it is Chinese owned, or is it because of privacy concerns, or is it both? And in any case, would determining the extent of control not help it understand the level of exposure? Grilling people at senate or select committee hearings can be revealing and is politically exciting but there was and still is more to be done to safeguard interests of people already on the platform.

Not the US govt. but independent audits of TikTok US from e.g. Oracle which never fully went through.

I find the Tiktok ban more of a geopolitics thing, less of a national security reponse.

You cannot just make assertions about something, and without substantiating them _adequately_, say 'they just told a lie, so everything that they said are lies'.

This is rooted in an anti-China rhetoric and only undermines the US position since for more than a decade many western companies' complaints against Chinese partners were about forced technology transfers.

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By the same logic with the Israel-Palestine issue, the US is currently the only state visibly blocking calls for immediate ceasefires and establishing a Palestinian state (which is essential for a two-state solution) at the UN and it can therefore be called the enemy of the most of the world.

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I think the biggest deal-breaker for me is that they chose to go with /e/OS which is not something I enjoyed after trying it briefly since the skin over AOSP to me seemed ugly and bloated and change for the sake of it.

I would like to try out the recent Zefones and the nothing phone also seems good. But at the moment I have my Pixel 6a which is serving me well enough.

>As with any college course, there are some required materials. Prospective students will need to have access to Age of Empires IV on Steam, the Microsoft Store, or with subscriptions to Xbox Game Pass for PC or Ultimate.

But also:

>All players will need to be signed into the game using an Xbox Live account, available for free.

Kmnnlm

I recently made the swtich from DDG from Searx simply bevause right-clicking on a search result to copy the url resulted in a referrer link to be copied rather than the link of the result destination.

I think the danger of such a shift is that people will no longer have the same level of incentive to make 'good' videos but rather clickbait-y ones that go viral