I recently switched from an iPhone to a Pixel with GrapheneOS and it's been great so far (a couple months now or so).
It's extremely usable, with only minor hiccups if you're trying to use any apps that require Google Play Services. GrapheneOS does allow you to install play services sandboxed without any special system access (just like any other app). I've replaced a couple of apps that required those to FOSS alternatives without much hassle at all.
Install via WebUSB[0] was very simple and went without a hitch, and at the end of the day is basically just a normal Android experience, just much more secure and private by default.
The CDC[0] links to a report[1] mentioning estimates of anywhere from 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year. I’m not necessarily agreeing with the previous comment, just adding some context.
The authors (one being the notable Alan I. Leshner, MS, PhD) clearly states in the report that those numbers are unreliable:
>> The lack of standardization across databases limits their comparability (NRC, 2005). The absence of clearly defined concepts complicates
data collection and interpretation. For example, definitions of “selfdefense” and “deterrence” are ambiguous (NRC, 2005; Weiner et al.,
2007). There is no standardized method for data collection or collation,
which prevents researchers from harnessing the potential power of data
across multiple datasets
Triage exists for a reason, and it seems reasonable to apply that here. If you want to accept the risks of your “lifestyle choice”, you should be the one who faces the consequences by being lower in priority for healthcare. If I exercise and eat right, when I need an ICU bed I should be given priority over someone who accepted the risk of eating fast food three times a day, surely?
Regardless of the moral issue, due to EMTALA hospitals are legally required to care for unstable patients regardless of whether they made unhealthy choices. Changing that would require an Act of Congress.
You can dump covid patients with low odds of a positive outcome off support equipment (vents and ECMOs) when healthier patients come in for treatment and equipment supply is constrained. This is already occurring (crisis standard of care).
I'm guessing that's eligible population as the numbers mentioned in the article line up more with around 66% of the total population, which isn't enough to stem the tide.
Unless you are naive enough to assume that ProtonMail is incapable of logging IP addresses (in which case they'd be incapable of serving HTTP requests...see the problem?) then they can log. And they most certainly aren't going to declare independence from Switzerland and refuse to turn on IP logging when required to by law.
Whereas with E2E-E, they actually are incapable of turning over readable emails.
what other status quo do you expect from them?
Having to provide IP logs after a warrant has been issued is the law in switserland (and most if not all of the EU).
Sure, the law would (hopefully) be changed, but at the moment, this is the best they can legally do?
Has something like this happened before in history? Where we have the tools to avoid deaths both caused by COVID and the indirect deaths caused by a lack of healthcare capacity, but the people refuse to use them?
Obesity is a similar scourge, albeit it was not completely caused by misinformation.
Tbh I now see our society as a memetic organism and I think the cleansing of people who don’t understand reality is just a part of the process at this point.
It's so deadly it requires misinformation to kill people? Why do you think it's taking years for the public to reach consensus, if this is such a threat?
i think a very real problem people face is its hard to discern what is reliable information (information overload, earned mistrust in "mainstream media", environment/culture, etc)
banning misinformation might work short term, but longterm i suspect it will further harm things... long term credibility needs to be won back the hard way me thinks...
Thanks I didn't see this before. In the infrastructure what exactly did they audit? It seems 4 servers? Is that correct? I'm not sure I understand how these companies set up their networks, but every exit point would correspond to a server wouldn't it?
I should probably clarify that I didn't really mean that Mozilla (or mullvad) is unsecure, simply that reports like this don't really tell us a lot, because the infrastructure is quite significant and it might be changing continuously. On the other hand I don't think there's anything better.
There's no number of audits they'll accept. Where they're currently "auditing" there have already been multiple audits already completed. The whole thing is a joke, it's endless by design for fundraising and that's it.
It's extremely usable, with only minor hiccups if you're trying to use any apps that require Google Play Services. GrapheneOS does allow you to install play services sandboxed without any special system access (just like any other app). I've replaced a couple of apps that required those to FOSS alternatives without much hassle at all.
Install via WebUSB[0] was very simple and went without a hitch, and at the end of the day is basically just a normal Android experience, just much more secure and private by default.
0: https://grapheneos.org/install/web