Great example of the paradox of tolerance.

It’s good that Romania is defending its democracy - Georgescu is a fraud as much as he is a clown, clearly unfit for office as he will not uphold the rule of law and will abuse his power.

With that said, where do you draw the line when barring people from running? Some will see this as an attack of democracy itself, in which anyone is allowed to run for office and is elected by the people. Blocking adversaries from running isn’t exactly the definition of democracy.

Unless the secret service declassifies its evidence that Georgescu is in any way affiliated or promoted by Russia, I see this going downward, with him and his ideology getting even more supporters due to this paradox of tolerance.

If you didn’t want to get robbed, why did you wear that expensive watch?

Please bless us with some sources so that we can read more & discuss deeper.

I learned this from a friend of mine: If a crowd of people tells you that you’re blind drunk, perhaps consider that you might actually be.

Same principle. Happy to see someone pushing it out there.

“My people” you aren’t some king man

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/29/musks-x-censors-coverage-of-arlington-incident-citing-potential-spam/

Elon, free speech advocate, this you?

As long as the car isn’t dependent on an Internet connection or the manufacturer’s server and the ports aren’t proprietary, I think you’re good. I expect a car to have these.

I tried fooling it myself several times with the aim of getting satellite connectivity in my unsupported country, to no avail.

Used a German SIM card (where this feature is supported), went in my basement where there’s no cell service so that it can’t read MNC or MCC from any networks nor can it read GPS precisely (the circle spanned almost all of Western Europe, that imprecise I mean), used a Raspberry Pi as a router with country code as DE, disabled Wi-Fi, used VPN, used the Xcode debugging tools to simulate iPhone location to Germany (this usually fools all apps into thinking I’m in Germany, including Apple’s own Find My), all to no avail. And there’s no way to feed countryd any custom data.

It’s insane.

As a developer, you don’t really get access to any of that.

Mainly, you can’t access any history of calls and messages at all, nor can you automate sending one. All interactions with calling or texting has to be done with user interaction. Namely, calling requires the user to confirm the call, and sending a message requires the user to confirm, and they can also edit the message beforehand.

I don’t think that’s bad, given that messages are some of the most private things on our devices, and personally, I never had to use any of these or required more access. But more choice is always appreciated.

An European iPhone, aka an iPhone which will get these features, is identified by a background process named countryd, introduced in iOS 16. Its only purpose is to compute and predict the most likely location of the user (as in country/region) and lock down features accordingly.

These are only some of the factors taken into the equation:

• GPS location
• Wi-Fi location
• Wi-Fi hotspot country codes
• Cellular/GSM country codes
• IP address
• Home and roaming operator regions
• Apple Account region
• Device region
• Satellite reachability

countryd takes in all of these and more as input to provide the most likely country of the user. If that country is in the EU, then 💥 Sideloading, Default Apps, etc etc etc goodies

I’d like some of them to connect to my local network, but not the Internet. I’ll work it out myself from there onwards and make some remote control solution myself, thank you.

This couldn’t have come at a worse time, given their DOJ suit.

Thanks for sharing your insight!

You see, in the States, your credit score is an indication of how likely you are to be responsible and comply with the terms of a loan or other bank-related contract. If you have a low score, you don’t get a loan, because the bank sees you as a risk that you will not give their money back. You can still live your life normally, even with a low score, and possibly even rebuild your score over time. Only what you do with money influences your credit score.

In China, the social credit score is an indication of how loyal you are to the regime. A low social credit score, which is earned by disrespecting the regime or not following the silliest of laws, forbids you from using public transport, buying stuff, or getting education.

You can’t miss that contrast.

But there’s literally zero phones which can use it

Except the only user is Trump himself

Basically the mother of all search engines. Merges Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. into one.

As an AI language model, I can’t help you with that.

you can’t get 67% of family members to agree on who goes to the shower first