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#Android offers what #Apple never did: you are the one deciding what runs on your device. Until now. ⚠️ Google’s developer verification scheme, with its 24h waiting period and app store fees of up to 16,000 USD a year, fades Android as an open platform. We question if Google is turning to Apple's business model. WE cannot afford two Apples. WE need to correct this course. Support our work: https://fsfe.org/donate/ 🗞️ https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20261109-01.en.html #KeepAndroidOpen #SoftwareFreedom
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Researcher Derik Kauffman discovered that #Apple maintains a hidden, undisclosed multilingual list of approximately 100,000 words and phrases that its iPhone keyboard blocks from autocomplete and swipe-typing suggestions. This list, referred to as a digital "#greylist," does not prevent users from manually typing these terms but makes them difficult to enter via predictive or spoken features. Some #censored words include slurs, swear words, and references to drugs, sex, and violence (e.g., "fuck," "al-Qaeda," "Auschwitz"), derogatory or critical political slogans such as "dictator Trump," "sleepy Joe," "right wing conspiracy," "Tibetan independence," and "United Ireland." Different languages have specific blocked terms, such as "Modi braggart" in Hindi, "immigration too high" in French, and "occupied territories" in Hebrew.
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❗️A Trojan Horse on German politicians phones⁉️ The German BSI is warning that MEPs might be affected by "Mercenary" spyware. Hopefully, this will teach politicians the harm of surveillance and make sure they oppose #ChatControl once and for all. Here's what you need to do if you received #Apple's warning:
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It's hard to overstate how disappointed I am by the recent #Apple products (except for the Duo which, playing around it it, seems like they did an excellent job). The HomeView is a confusing product that shouldn't exist. It's an iPad Mini that isn't an iPad (and actually runs for some unknown reason CarPlay apps). It exists to basically say that it exists. The new MacBook Pro with touchscreen though is the most distressing product to me, an Apple fanboy, that I've seen since the return of Jobs. Apple said for years they didn't just want to put a touchscreen on a laptop, it was a bad design. During Jobs and after Jobs the message was clear that "we'll only do this when we can do it correctly". What they launched solved none of these problems. It's a conventional MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, running an OS that hasn't been optimized for touch, with applications that haven't been optimized for touch. It doesn't do a good job at being a touch target, it's exactly the same worthless add-on that has been shipping in the Windows world for years for absolutely no reason. It is the definition of a company without vision or leadership to yeet out products randomly and see if they hit. It's lazy and it shows a lack of style and taste. It's not my job to tell you whether the thing you made is good, especially at these prices.
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I thought Apple went from #iOS whatever to iOS 26 to make it streamline with the years of release but current we’re on 27.2 and 2026 is still going They should really stop chasing trends and just put some f-ing effort into their hard- & software Do better #Apple
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Hi Mastodon 👋 Private Orchards writes advanced Apple privacy and security guides from cybersecurity professionals: Lockdown Mode and zero-click risk, VPN leaks, photo metadata, trackers and OSINT. Every guide is sourced and checked against iOS 27. https://privateorchards.com #introduction #infosec #privacy #apple #osint
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