This send like the relevant bit:

Qualcomm said in a statement smartphone makers have “indicated a preference towards standards-based solutions” for satellite-to-phone connectivity.

“We expect to continue to collaborate with Iridium on standards-based solutions while discontinuing efforts on the proprietary solution that was introduced earlier this year,” the company said.

And why should you need permission to do this?

Xiaomi historically had a problem with resellers installing malware in custom ROM on their phones, so they started putting up more and more obstacles to unlocking the bootloader over time, while still providing an avenue for legitimate customers to unlock.

I don’t know what spurred the current action though.

It’s worse than that. All this China big brother talk is just a variant of xenophobia. It’s a talking point they’ve been trained to slam their foreign “enemies” about without ever thinking about it at all of what the actual harm they’re concerned about would look like.

This is such a eyerolling take based on stereotypes.

Before America banned Huawei, Huawei was widely recognized as having the best camera system on a phone. Under your worldview they can’t invent anything themselves and somehow borrowed their way into being the best.

It’s addressed in the article. It’ll just share the credentials from your phone.

Name one modern phone >= the size of the legendary Sony Z Ultra.

Really annoys me how Android is always closing my apps in the background like how even I switch back to the browser it has to reload the whole page. More RAM sounds good to me!

Turns out it costs more to make things in Europe.

It seems useless if I was forced to unlock my phone by someone violent, like the police.

My life seems a great deal more boring and uneventful than most people around these parts.

it’s that at any point a decision can be made which you have no control over

This is true for any software you didn’t write. Plenty of FOSS software has gone in directions I didn’t like.

The only real difference is whether decision makers have a profit motive. That’s important, but that said, it’s not everything.

Great, now take the same freedom fighter bots and tell them to argue IP policy on social media online. We can hear all about the right minded ways to think about intellectual property and how all the comments around here are misinformation.

It’s like people lose their minds when you throw an enemy into the sentence. I don’t think these people crafting propaganda bots are heroes, even if they are on “my” team. Go down this road, and you can throw away forums like Lemmy, it’ll just be bots arguing with bots.

Honestly, if you look at it in a vacuum, this looks pretty similar to what the other side is doing.

It’s a bot that draws from its own side’s narratives and pushes that line.

Take away Russia from the picture and think about how often our media pushes a spin on other subjects that isn’t exactly the truth.

Doesn’t look so much like “social media propaganda bots versus AI-driven bots arguing back” as much as propaganda bots on both sides spewing whatever their masters want us to see.

What poor quality journalism writing.

How can you have a headline like that without addressing what makes the contents of the program unusual and what makes the program controversial?

I see a lot of people online saying this kind of thing, though I gotta wonder if it’s mostly old people who can’t adapt new paradigms.

I would never buy a computer without touch anymore. The thing the ergonomics argument misses is just because you have touch doesn’t mean you can’t use a mouse (or touchpad) also when it makes more sense. Tiredness is never an issue for me.

There are some things that are just infinitely more natural with touch, using an electronic device that lacks touch just feels like using incredibly outdated technology to me now.

There’s a better translation right here in this thread. “Hurting our relationship” is not so literal and so doesn’t sound daft in English.

It feels shady the way the media uses this overly literal translation of ‘hurt the feelings’ all the time in order to make the Chinese sound ridiculous. Could make any foreign language speaker sound ridiculous by cherry picking funny but common phrases and translating them literally.

Your phone keyboard statistical engine is not a very insightful comparison to the neural networks that power LLMs. They’re not the same technology at all and just share the barest minimum superficial similarities.

I hate the cynical nihilism around here so much. It plays into the Republican and big business hands so well it might as well be propaganda.

We had net neutrality before under the Democrats. The Republicans got rid of it when they took power.

Bothsidesism is juvenile bullshit.

Good article, but it doesn’t support your thesis that the sanctions are about China hacking at all. The idea they’ve managed to achieve this through hacking to steal technology is completely non-existent in the article.

Wouldn’t this justify vandalizing any type of machine whatsoever? Get in an elevator and nobody is looking? Stab the control panel so they have to get a human in the future making the elevator. See a car and no one is looking? Set it on fire so they have to use a human pulled rickshaw instead.