Droves of peole telling you how this isn't worse than the alternative in 3... 2... 1...

True, but (the possibility of) accountability isn't necessarily always only tied to regulation. Sometimes it's intrinsic.

Some times you can regulate it away, but it still.lingers (e.g. soldier following cruel.orders), and all you have to do to hold.on to it is to ignore regulation that says otherwise.

Other times it's intrinsic, and it follows laws of nature (my previous example), and holdong on to it creates a Kafkaesque dituation only.

Like woth everything else in life, this is also a matter of degrees of course.

But the main point stands: to be "responsible" means to have a viable alternative with fundamentally different outcome (in the sense of the topic of responsibility).

Deciding whether to shit in the woods or in the field doesn't make an animal responsible for their act of indecent exposure, even if technically there might have been a decision process involved. That's because it has to shit somewhere, and it doesn't have the option of building a toilet sheltered from others' eyes.

You get the picture.

There's a difference between being something and doing something. It's the same as the difference betweem being responsible, and being involved.

We're all members of this society. We all need to eat, sleep, fuck, go to work. I can't not type on a plastic keyboard, since I'm required to type for the work I do (which is a useful, necessary service to Society), and the only keyboards I can buy are plastic.

The only thing I can do is throw whatever weight I have in the right direction - e.g. buy electric instead of internal combustion, use decomposable or paper instead of plastic, upgrade heating to heatpump instead of gas etc.

This is why I'm (for the most part) not responsible for the mess. My mere existence doesn't make me an accomplice; that's not a reasonable stance to have. I only will have made myself responsible when the decisions I make could've been either way, but I chose the way of personal gain at a steep price, instead of social responsibility.

No, most of them work nicely as far as I remember. (I don't have Netflix anymore so I can't check - but it used to work.)

Please do, you'll be doing us both a solid.

What a useless reply. Reading that was 27 seconds of my life I'm never getting back.

I may be naiive, but... why is this even illegal? What's the reasoning?

A witness should obviously not tell lies, but "cross examination" is, by definition, a very experienced person with law and law-language trying to poke holes in a person's story who might or might not be very experience. It's basically a roll of dice whether the witness is a lawyer or a layman; yet if they're the latter, they're not allowed access to knowledge and experience of the former?

It sounds like a rigged fight. As if the opposition is allowed to put a professional boxer into the ring, but you're only allowed to bring your "bare witness", and if they lose, you lose...

Not all banking apps are the same od course. But my impression was that the GrapehneOS community is generally aware of the problem at large, and generally feels motivated to fix issues that pop up with such apps, if made aware of them.

Engine, transmission and fuel tank of an internal combustion engine car weight just about the same. And their center of gravity is higher than the typical battery layout.

It's not Google's acknowledged that tje GOS guys want (as I understand
it), they just want the vendor to support, bugfix, security-fix their own product.

The system isn't just the OS, there are also parts like the radio firmware and specific drivers. Not updating those subverts the whole security work that GOS team puts into this, so essentially they say it's over whrn the.vendor stops caring.

With Pixel, GrapheneOS supports devices only for as long as there's upstream support from the vendor.

No, just install Google Play (from the GrapheneOS built-in app store), and start using it. It's the official Play, with official repos, just runs sandboxed and unprivileged like e.g. FDroid would.

Most do, yes. I used to have Disney+ streaming (now using self-hosted Jellyfin so I wouldn't know anymore). And the typical banking apps I have also work fine.

Ok, so the reason EVs aren't a thing in the US is because Average Joe is driving a Lotus or similar, and is afraid of trading his 7-digi sports car for something with... worse handling?

Let's say I'm slightly skeptical.