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  • who@feddit.orgtoprivacy@lemmy.ca•A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data (via duress passcode). Now He Faces a Felony Charge.English
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    12 days ago

    they’ll also support Motorola.

    Motorola (the company whose name and reputation has been well known for decades) no longer exists. Its successor is called Motorola Solutions, and it’s not the company making the upcoming GrapheneOS phone. That device is coming from Motorola Mobility, which is a completely separate company, owned by China’s Lenovo.

    thus making me wonder whether the Chinese government can affect it

    They absolutely can. And, since they have the means, the incentive, and no reason to fear repercussions, they probably will. The questions on my mind are how they will affect it, and who will find out.

    I hope the hardware and firmware features used by GrapheneOS will become common some day. I think Sony’s Xperia line comes close. Perhaps the GrapheneOS maintainers should talk with them next.

  • who@feddit.orgtoGames•What games did you sleep on for too long?English
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    14 days ago

    I had been massively burned by empty and dull mission based open world games.

    Some “open world” games merely tick the boxes of having a somewhat large area and the ability to traverse it. That alone turns out to be incredibly boring to many of us.

    Give me a game world that’s interesting and rewarding to explore. Unique encounters. Unmapped discoveries. Surprising characters. Varied environments. This aspect of an open world is one of the things that Skyrim did fairly well. I wish more game designers would run with the idea.

  • who@feddit.orgOPtoNews•Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock CamerasEnglish
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    20 days ago

    While the article you linked describes Flock installing cameras without permission from the county, that doesn’t mean they failed to get permission at all. Note that the very first paragraph says the Treasure Island Police Department was their customer, and the bit you quoted implies that the Lake County Sheriff’s Office had previously deployed cameras.

    In other words, it looks like Flock did have permission from city agencies, just as I thought. So your claim that Flock installed them without permission appears to be incorrect, at least in those cases. That complicates the issue, and makes arguing for their removal and ban more difficult for the many citizens who want them gone.

    (And to be clear, I do want mass surveillance gone.)