GrapheneOS is fantastic. I've been running it for over a year, and it's what I've mandated that my teens have on their phones also.

You should read up on what GrapheneOS actually does. Most google apps will work on it, if you want them to.

My daily driver user profile has no google apps installed nor google services enabled. I have an alternate user profile with sandboxed google play enabled, where I can run google maps or a handful of other dumb apps, when/if I want to. Even then, sandboxed google play (GrapheneOS exclusive feature) is a much better implementation than running the same app on a vanilla google phone. And, when you don't need that specific app, and are logged out of the "worse privacy" profile, the app and the google services are 100% inert.

I take a different view towards things: if the _only_ way I can use a service is to use their shitty mobile app, then I try very hard not to do business with that company at all.

Waymo, for instance, absolutely refuses to run on Graphene because they want strong integrity/attestation. Note that in the case of GrapheneOS, a GOS device is _more secure_ and _more trustworthy_ than any other consumer android advice. So app developers using the Google integrity APIs in such a way that Graphene is blocked are not interested in security, they are either stupid or are are interested in exfiltrating your data, so much so that if they cannot have their data harvesting rootkit on your phone, they refuse to let you use their service. So idiots, evil, or evil idiots. Inany of those cases, why would you run those apps? Why would you do business with those entities?

In my daily driver profile, I use almost exclusively FOSS apps.

GrapheneOS + immich + NextCloud does a pretty good job of completely replacing the google stack for someone who is privacy concious and into self-hosting.

When talking to nosy people or organizations, I just tell them I don't have a smartphone. We should all vigorously resist the idea that having a smartphone running corporate spyware is a requirement for modern life. In government, and also in our consumer choices.

It's a digital bank and somewhere deep in Slashdot's bowels, the two are linked.

https://www.alfiekohn.org/arti...
"You can tell a lot about a teacher's values and personality just by asking how he or she feels about giving grades. Some defend the practice, claiming that grades are necessary to "motivate" students. Many of these teachers actually seem to enjoy keeping intricate records of students' marks. Such teachers periodically warn students that they're "going to have to know this for the test" as a way of compelling them to pay attention or do the assigned readings -- and they may even use surprise quizzes for that purpose, keeping their grade books at the ready. Frankly, we ought to be worried for these teachers' students. In my experience, the most impressive teachers are those who despise the whole process of giving grades. Their aversion, as it turns out, is supported by solid evidence that raises questions about the very idea of traditional grading. ...
1. Grades tend to reduce students' interest in the learning itself. ...
2. Grades tend to reduce students' preference for challenging tasks. ..
3. Grades tend to reduce the quality of students' thinking. ...
4. Grades aren't valid, reliable, or objective. ...
5. Grades distort the curriculum. ...
6. Grades waste a lot of time that could be spent on learning. ...
7. Grades encourage cheating. ...
8. Grades spoil teachers' relationships with students. ...
9. Grades spoil students' relationships with each other. ...
      A friend of mine likes to say that people don't resist change - they resist being changed. Even terrific ideas (like moving a school from a grade orientation to a learning orientation) are guaranteed to self-destruct if they are simply forced down people's throats. The first step for an administrator, therefore, is to open up a conversation - to spend perhaps a full year just encouraging people to think and talk about the effects of (and alternatives to) traditional grades. This can happen in individual classes, as teachers facilitate discussions about how students regard grades, as well as in evening meetings with parents, or on a website -- all with the help of relevant books, articles, speakers, videos, and visits to neighboring schools that are farther along in this journey. ..."

I'm not familiar with the support the NYT gave the Nazis, but there's always the Daily Mail.

Given the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, I usually assume incompetence.
Someone put that far more eloquently several years ago, but I forgot their words.

Good thing they don't do anything complicated up there like scheduling trains. Or airplanes.

Good job that the computers they use when scheduling trains or aircraft are using some form of Unix (or IBM big iron).

Youtube is full of 10's of thousands of videos of very confidently wrong cops

Some of which are marked as AI generated, and some which are not marked as such. I've seen some very plausible YouTube videos which then failed simple fact checking.
In this case though, a policeman simply decided that Ms. Crump's car was "the one" and ignored evidence to the contrary, maybe demoting him would be sufficient punishment. I do agree with King_TJ in the comment above though, there's a good chance that the vehicle owner is milking this incident in order to get that vehicle replaced (and serves the police right for supplying her with possible cause).

No. Gravity comes from a lack of space.

Don't you mean the first eight times?

1. I get the privilege of downloading the ad data as well as their website when not on WiFi
2. I get to watch my screen not render properly because the ad is not constrained to the allotted space
3. I get to have ads inserted via QUIC, which several browsers switch to without your consent or knowledge, which amounts to a man-in-the-middle attack
4. If the ad installs malware, the site I visited will say, "We got them from this Generic Ad Network, so it's not our fault." GAN will then try to say, "It's not our problem. We only distribute the ads, not make them." Meantime I'm stuck trying to clean out the junk it installed when the ad downloaded.
5. In videos, ads don't always match up with where the commercials used to be during the original broadcast, and the sudden cut-in of an ad makes me think of the Emergency Broadcast System ("this is only a test").

Enforce size, space, and timing restrictions, and I wouldn't mind the ads so much.

At first misread that as 'shooting a cat away' and was "Damn, Apple getting nasty under Ternus!"

Why? Do you even pay anything for data? You probably pay a fixed amount for the physical connection and right to use your provider's network.

"They have an elaborate arsenal in place of high-tech surveillance equipment that really seems overpowered for what their day-to-day needs are, and also incredibly expensive."

Someone had to sign off on this, presumably someone accountable. Who? As far as the police are concerned it's "boys and their toys" but they are not the ones footing the bill (unless they use this to stalk their ex-wives, but that's a different matter).

James P. Hogan wrote about some of these concerns in his 1979 sci-fi novel "The Two Faces of Tomorrow". Sadly the biggest taken-for-granted idea from his novel that now seems fantastical is that governments and engineers cared about AI safety over profit (i.e. the AI developers did not try to privatize most gains while socializing most costs and most risks). From the Goodreads blurb "Midway through the 21st century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world's affairs. A proposed major software upgrade - an artificial intelligence - will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence. ..."

You raise a deep issue worthy of a lot of discussion when you say: " A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one."

Your points also align with my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

General Franco was Spain's dictator between the late 1930s and the mid 1970s which was when he died. He came out as the victor in the Spanish Civil War with substantial assistance from Adolf Hitler, he was an admirer of Adolf Hitler, not least because of that help (not that Hitler felt the same way about Franco *). It was for this reason that Franco aligned his Timezone with Germany's, something which would be equivalent to permanent DST except that Germany also has DST so Spain now has "Double DST" for 7 months a year.
The Spanish have adapted and overcome, they get up late and go to bed even later.

* During the war, Franco wanted Hitler to help Spain take Gibraltar. No.
  Hitler wanted Spain to join the war rather than remain neutral. No.
  Hitler really disliked Franco's reedy voice.