> Lend-Lease. Who do you think they leased from and what do you think they leased?

Did the US won the war alone ? who used the weapons ?

I never said we did it alone did.

But without US industry/industrialists the war would have very much been lost.

Soviet Russia simply would not have survived. That anyone was left to use weapons was because of America.

Qualcomm is apparently the main difficulty : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits...

Fairphone do manage to keep up tho. The Fairphone 3 was updated to android 13 a few month ago.

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/997918043739...

I didn't upgrade yet to 13 because they said the vendor for the fingerprint reader in the FP3 has not registered/validated/whatever for Google's security standards on Android 13 yet, thus possibly causing issues with apps that require strong security (banking apps, for example). What is strange though is that if a banking app can't use the fingerprint reader on 13, it will then default to PINs - aren't PINs weaker security-wise than biometric logins?

>aren't PINs weaker security-wise than biometric logins?

Depends on how you look at it. I'll focus on fingerprint here.

Sure, there are far more possible fingerprint features that can be identified for accept/decline decision "Does this match a registered fingerprint", than 1,0000 PIN combinations (4 digits).

But if the fingerprint reader is too lax in matching, it's possibly worse.

If you can crash the fingerprint reader system, which then accepts all future patterns, that's worse.

If you can trick the system into revealing all the biometric data it's collected, and then replay it directly without using the sensor using their debugging interface, that's worse.

That's not to say defaulting to PINs is or isn't the "least bad" option. Just that it's more complicated than the question makes it look.

There are other issues around your question in general that aren't particularly relevant in context:

You can't reasonably change or revoke your PIN.

Your device is likely covered in your fingerprints.

> You can't reasonably change or revoke your PIN.

i can, have, and will

> Your device is likely covered in your fingerprints.

true, fingerprints are not (a) secret

Sorry, that was a typing error, you obviously can do that with a PIN. Which was the point I was trying to make.

I meant you can't reasonably change or revoke your fingerprints!

Changing your actual fingerprints, while possible, is usually painful and done accidentally.

(The best you can do is change from which fingers the prints will accepted. And at best, you only have a couple of handfuls of options there.)

Thanks for the explanation. I really didn't understand it but figured there is something I was missing here.

I think monospaced fonts are still popular in the plan9/golang crowd using the acme text editor. googling "dennis ritchie acme" leads to this : https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developer... is that it ?

Thanks! This is exactly it. Previously I spent way too long searching for this.

Well, there exists "libertaire" in French (and other languages as well I guess) as a synonym, but nowadays people would hear "libertarian".

And people aren't always on the lookout, specially in casual conversations.

> Why should they be honoring the header now?

The idea was that, given a significant enough amount of people turning it on, advertisers would take notice of it and react accordingly. If it's on by default it is meaningless.

It's a tool that enable users to send a message to advertisers that they are not okay with their practices. It was designed this way. It says you are okay with ads but not with the tracking.

> There are no incentives to do so, and no punishment or repercussions if they don't.

Except for adblock. If the only option to avoid tracking is to block ads, then that is what will be used.

> Except for adblock. If the only option to avoid tracking is to block ads, then that is what will be used.

Therefore, browsers should come, by default, with an adblock feature (or simply, just bundle the adblock plugin). This DNT business is purely just lip service.

I don't get it. There is no point at all to let DNT be on by default anyway. What is all the noise about? What did I miss?

There is no local monopoly France. (for ADSL, not speaking about fiber here).

All of the "last-kilometer" connectivity is owned by the historical telephony operator France Telecom (also known as Orange after its privatization), which has the obligation to rent it to other providers. You can switch between all country-wide ISPs as you wish.

Free, as well as all major ISPs in France, rents you a router when you subscribe. This is where the filtering is done, using lying DNSs it seems.