Solution to emerging markets capital access problem is not making the current predatory system more efficient, but investing in micro credit. Which will never happen at scale because it generates lower returns (better to have 10 bad payers than 1000 good payers)
Also, those markets, "venture capital" usually means vertical lending platforms. Healthtech? nah, just credit for dental treatment. Edutech? nah, just credit for classes. Etc.
On 1. gemini (et al) is not replacing stack overflow. its just regurgitating content it ingeated from stack overflow.
while SO allowed for new answers to show up, any new nextjs bug i ask about that is not yet common place on SO, i get some allucionation telling me to use some made up code api based on the github issue discussion.
well, I hope the companies doing that have someone watching contact@ to cut my acces when I send my version of thr updated terms of service, since allowing my usage can imply consent. Right?
and you get absolutely nothing in return. Yeah you will have root access sometimes. But other than that, android is not opensource anymore.
I mean, it never was because you had hundreds (no exaggeration [1]) closed-binary blobs running (not to mention a whole OS on things like radio and camera, running on their own SoC), but now you cannot get even close to a proper of the userspace since google already anounced they will not be mainlining anything back to AOSP
> and you get absolutely nothing in return. Yeah you will have root access sometimes.
You get improved privacy and security, at least on some fronts. By default, GrapheneOS does not provide root access and recommends against rooting the device. Is there a trade-off? Certainly. Security and privacy are always at conflict with what a completely open platform can provide. Given the amount of access to personal information that goes through our devices and the number of bad actors out there (both behaving legally and illicitly), some people believe
it is worth the price. At least GrapheneOS offers more transparency than Android or iOS.
The bit about clamping down on open source, that is very much disappointing. I doubt that it is going to go away entirely in Android. On the other hand, hopefully it will provide incentives for companies to explore developing more open alternatives and consumers to explore buying more open alternatives. It won't be a huge market, but many of us have avoided growing so dependent upon the current platforms that we couldn't simply walk away.
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