| ▲ | pjmlp 12 hours ago |
| I wrote to the EU contact about this, got a patronising reply about how good it is, app being open source and what not. Clearly tailored to the regular normie without technical skills. |
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| ▲ | noir_lord 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Probably because the reply was written by someone without technical skills. I’ve written to politicians over the years about technical matters and it’s uniformly either a clearly form response or an inaccurate summation of the technical risks, if I’m been charitable because they don’t understand them either. At a certain point it begins to feel pointless. |
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| ▲ | palata 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | > At a certain point it begins to feel pointless. I think you're right that they are incompetent. The point is not to make them understand it, but rather to make them see that enough people care. The problem is that most people don't write, so the politicians don't see that they care. Same thing for companies. How many GrapheneOS users say "well when it stops working, I just move to another service, and if there is none, then I live without the service entirely". That way the companies never see that there is a need. | | |
| ▲ | __MatrixMan__ 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | > How many GrapheneOS users say "well when it stops working, I just move to another service, and if there is none, then I live without the service entirely". Being prepared to be this voice is one of the reasons I'm a Graphene OS user. Another is that it helps me avoid accidentally writing code that depends on google play services. When you've got an agent doing most of the driving, it's easy to not realize that your app is broken without google, unless you're testing it on a degoogle'd device. |
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| ▲ | palata 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Where did you write? Is there a link or something you could share? I am not in the EU so I assume I can't, but would be nice to share a link so that other EU citizen could write. If enough people write, they may start finding it relevant. |
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