Amju Wolf

The fucked up part is nowadays third parties like banks or sometimes even governments make apps rely on Google services, so you can’t use an ungoogled phone for stuff you actually need for life…

It’s a bailout where the taxpayers actually get something back.

How is it legal to bail out whole banks or other large companies and not get anything in return?

Sure I can use my bank’s website (and it’s a shit experience) but they still want me to have their own app for authentication… Don’t even offer anything else at this point.

This might be an issue because f-droid re-signs apps with their own keys…

I mean depends on enforcement I guess.

Why exactly do we need signing authorities? Software isn’t zero trust like websites. You do need to trust the developer - even a legitimate one. Signing apps with verified developer keys will only hurt small independent developers, open source projects and freedom enabling stuff like user patching.

It only works to solidify monopolies and doesn’t protect you against shit.

Um, can you give some examples (with proof) of where LTT got paid to give a good review?

That’s an extreme accusation, and everything I’ve watched for the past decade+ seems to contradict that.

For obvious reasons that’s something they want to avoid. Hell they’re still happy to get on the bad side of companies for integrity, they’re just way less aggressive and outspoken about it compared to GN.

In fact I feel like GN sometimes overplays it a bit.

In this case it is purely fault of the money incentive though. Noone would spend so much effort and computation power on AI if they didn’t think it could make them money.

The funniest part is though that it’s only theoretical anyway, everyone is only losing on it and they’re most likely never gonna make it back.

I don’t think LTT ever did or claimed to do investigative journalism (or really journalism at all)?

They make entertainment videos that sometimes have mildly informative value.