The inability to relock the bootloader is gigantic security vulnerability. It negates, or entirely voids, a significant amount of a devices physical security, including FDE.
There are other security issues with LineageOS, but that's part of the trade-off. There's nothing inherently sinister or incompetent about that, it's just the nature of the beast.
Regardless, I'm not here to chastise anyone's choice of OS, or to even imply that there is a right, and wrong ROM, there isn't.
I was just pointing out that there are pros and cons, and users should be aware of them when making those decisions.
Stock Google is absolutely a hit to ones privacy, but LineageOS is a often big hit to device security.
If you don't have a Pixel, and therefore can't use GrapheneOS, check and see if your device is compatible with DivestOS.
However, neither will offer root support for reasons that both devs have decent write-ups explaining within each project's documentation.
I do realize that not everyone places security above all other factors when deciding on their smartphone OS, but I think they should be aware of the trade-offs so they can make an informed decision.
This is not uplifting. This is a lose-lose as it's the type of case that this particular Supreme Court loves to add to their docket.
Eventually, SCOTUS will either rule that this does in fact violate his religious rights, or they will make a ruling siding with the school district that destroys part of the civil rights act, which is cited all throughout his filing:
"...repeatedly cites the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its Title VII section prohibiting workplace discrimination”
This entire thread was spawned from someone posting a statistic relating to violent crime rates amongst different population groups.
Financial crimes, wage theft, jaywalking, or any other criminal act you can think of, that isn't categorized as a "violent crime", is irrelevant when the discussion is about one specific flawed violent crime statistic....
Of course it's not specific, which is the inherent problem with these stats. Crimes that are not reported, cannot be factored into the crime rates.
But you rarely see this amount of skepticism when people point out how rapes and sexual assaults are also significantly underreported.
In both instances you have victim groups who less likely to go to the police and report the crimes.
I am not saying poor people are intrinsically more deviant, or criminal in nature. Many factors play into the increased crime rates of people in poverty, including but not limited to, desperation and over policing.
I also never said that undocumented migrants couldn't have crime rates that trend below national averages. I said that the notion that their crime rates were half the national average was bogus, for reasons that you seem to acknowledge as well.
My point wasn't to provide the framework for calculating the actual rates, or more approximate estimations, because frankly I don't have that skill set. But then again, no ideas I laid out in these comments originated from me either. These are all well known problems with that bogus stat.
Either people think disinformation, or "fake news", is bad, or they don't. They can't cry and scream about it when MAGA people use it, and then turn around and use it they when they feel it's politically expedient.
Please, help educate me on when is it appropriate to advocate for genocide. When is calling for genocide just a rhetorical device, and when is like actually "bad"?
If I'm calling for genocide simply as a rhetorical device, can I also call the other people vermin as well? You know, for enhanced rhetorical value.
What you're talking about has exactly nothing to do what's being discussed here....
Except for the possibility that the racist reputation of police in America may contribute to the reluctance of the undocumented persons to report when that they've been a victim of a crime...
Whew! For a split second you had me wondering whether or not you were completely full of shit, thanks for clearing that up.
So... You don't disagree that the majority of the undocumented migrant population reside within communities that have large numbers of other undocumented persons.
And you don't disagree that most perpetrators of crime victimize people within their same communities...
You just believe that undocumented persons report crimes to law enforcement at the same rates as legal residents and citizens...?
I take it you also believe the reported rates of rapes and sexual assaults to be accurate as well?
Well, if you do, let me be the first to tell you that rapes and sexual assaults are also underreported at statistically significant rates.
You're assuming that undocumented persons are evenly dispersed amongst the country, and in every community, when they're not.
While you'll find undocumented persons all over the country, like any other group, there are areas of heavy concentration that account for the majority of population. And in those areas, they tend to form communities around each other.
So if the vast majority of them live within communities that comprise heavily of other undocumented migrants, those crimes that are between two and undocumented persons, are significantly less likely to be brought attention of American law enforcement.
I'm not saying never, but that is a common enough occurrence to skew those stats and make them disingenuous at best.
The crime stats are heavily skewed as undocumented persons are significantly less likely to involve the police.
Large groups of people are pretty predictable. The actual crime rates are probably much closer to the equivalent crime rates of the cities and neighborhoods that align to with their own economic status i.e class and poverty are the best predictors of crime rates, not citizenship, or lack thereof.
This isn't an argument for, or against, any immigration policy. It's an argument against using flawed statistics.
I'm not saying to never use Firefox Android forks, but the reality is that Chromium forks are significantly more secure on Android, such as Mulch (same dev as Mull) and Chromite (Bromite fork).
Again, I am talking security, not privacy, and specifically for Android.
Here is a good write up on the topic from the developer of the Mull and Mulch browsers:
For desktop there are a lot of good Firefox forks, such as Mullvad's Browser, Librewolf, & Waterfox. If a website needs Chrome to work, I just use Vivaldi or Ungoogled Chromium.
Edit: I've made this point a few times, and always with lots of downvotes, just kind of funny. Especially when I provided a technical write-up from the developer of a security focused distro (DivestOS) as well as two popular security focused Android browsers (Mull and Mulch), but hey, maybe you all know better than he does.
Killing another country's civilian is not casus belli, especially when considering both countries are allied.
These terms are steeped in legal precedent and tradition. You may not agree them, or respect them, but that alone doesn't change how they're defined.
But that also doesn't change the fact that this should be a serious diplomatic row with serious bilateral consequences, but so should have untold numbers of other war crimes committed against the Palestinians in general, and more specifically, against countless American citizens within the occupation zones.
Also, I'm pretty sure Joe isn't cognizant about much lately, and I would wager that he only appears lucid when talking about events that happened 50 years ago.
I know right? You should really only ever need 1/3rd of a fighter jet for home defense.