Been thinking about getting into #locksport for a while. I finally picked up a basic pick and a cheap lock from the dollar store (under the assumption that it would be relatively easy to pick). Strangely enough, when I insert the tension bar, the barrel spins without resistance or disengaging the lock.
I know I'm a total newb, but everything I've researched up to this point says this shouldn't be possible. What witchcraft is this?
Picked up a crochet kit from the dollar store. We've never done crochet, but the kit purported to contain all the necessary materials (it does not) and instructions. The instructions are very hard to follow. There seem to be important steps missing.
At this point, I'm going to consult outside sources if necessary, but I'm going to figure this out on principle alone if nothing else.
if this is one of the animal kits from Dollarama, there are mistakes in the instructions. I had great difficulties with the one I bought. There are YT videos with the corrections to make the kit work out. May the spite carry you through.
When Katy and I do groceries, we'll often try a store brand we've never used before if it's cheaper. If we don't like it, we'll usually end up finishing it and just making a mental note not to get it again because I hate wasting food and we're in a position where we have to be very intentional about our cash flow situation.
This relish we just got though... we've decided to make an exception and just yeet it into the sun. It's just not worth punishing ourselves over it.
trans people are one of the most diverse groups of people in the world and i think that's beautiful. we literally come from all backgrounds and all walks of life
so if anyone ever tries to tell you that trans people are somehow a majority of white people from well off backgrounds please reflect on the picture below and consider that this MIGHT NOT BE OUR DOING
please then also consider that the person with this narrative is trying to erase some of the most vulnerable people on here, and consider why they might be doing that
then walk away from that transphobic bullshit as fast as you can and don't give it any more of your time
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@riley Dysphoriaโ or being shot or from medical abuse during infectious disease outbreaks. In my region, we lose outgoing, young, Black trans women to violent hostility every year.
Who knows what happens to anyone else, because as far as I'm aware, there's zero recognition of local and mainstream media of any other trans people existing except as a vaguely demonic group of child changeling puppets. It's very recent when my local newspapers started to make an attempt to get the names and genders of victims correct.
It makes me worried every day about, specifically, the young BIPOC women and feminine enbies I'm connected to online. The ongoing campaign in the fediverse trying to erase their existence here doesn't help set up support networks.
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@shadowfals Ah, yes, the very dangerous second-hand gender dysphoria. The one where fascists feel icky because a trans or gender-ambiguous person exists.
There's also like a whole conversation of "transition is for the privileged."
And that's why gatekeeping needs to be pushed back on. Because yeah, traditionally transition HAS only been for the privileged - people who can afford hormones, surgery, etc. People who don't get kicked out of their homes for being queer.
LOTS of people choose to suppress their identities or not medically transition because they can't afford/can't access the care they'd need in order to hit their personal goals.
And of course, those same barriers are the ones that disproportionately affect non-white, non-affluent people.
Gatekeeping ends up ultimately being racist and classist, is what I'm saying.
I'm looking to maybe replace my watch. I currently have an F-91W. I mostly like it but I have two specific complaints: 1) It lacks a timer. 2) The backlight kinda sucks.
I'm looking for recommencations on a new watch. These are my requirements: 1) Resolves the above issues. 2) Must be cheap. 3) Bonus points if I can set more than one alarm.
Also, it doesn't specifically need to be a Casio.
Edit: additional bonus points if I can re-use the strap I got for my F-91W
I'm going to send this your way in case this may be something you want. It definitely adds a timer, but I can't remember if it improves on the backlight.
It's a bit thicker than the F-91W. But it's feature packed. Small quibble with the bezel not being ample enough to see clearly when an alarm is on or not. But otherwise it's a winner. Great backlight too.
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I also really like the Casio W-800H. It doesn't come with a countdown timer or 5 alarms like the F-201. But it's modifiable for both. I bought 3 of them back during the pandemic for $12.50 each for me & our boys.
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Cleaning my #FountainPens today. I don't know why, but I frequently have a hell of a time getting all the ink cleaned out of my Jinhao 10. I wish I weren't such a perfectionist sometimes.
Every time I would take the part of the pen that the converter plugs into out of the ultrasonic cleaner, a little bit of (still quite dark) ink would would drip out.
I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. It turns out that this part is so narrow that the surface tension of the water was causing an air bubble to get trapped inside, preventing the feed from being properly cleaned. I solved it by manually injecting some soapy water with a syringe inside to blow the air bubble out and it cleaned right out afterward.
Still, that's two hours of my life I'm not gonna get back.
One of the more obnoxious parts of the #ADHD experience: the amount of cold toast I eat because I put bread in the toaster and promptly forget that it exists.
@VulcanTourist Yeah, the trouble is that I have so many different reminders for so many different things that sometimes just the cues themselves can be overwhelming. ๐ซ
Yeah, I've been watching on twitch.tv/midnightsumo for a couple years now, and it's a serious distraction. Mostly I show up for the last 4 hours each day, but sometimes watch lower-division which are fun. #sumo
@calvin ๐๏ธ The first time I heard this substitution used, it confused me. Someone was talking about their Wi-Fi bill, and I thought, "wait, that's a bill?"
"The Internet" now refers to: A browser made by Google or MS, Facebook, Twitter, a bank's web site, a phone, online casino, or the hamster dance.
It does not refer to: A global network of computers, ethernet, or whatever hacker thing you're doing with telnet in "a shell" I'm gonna call the FBI on you if you start WW3.
You know, it's weird. When you think about it, a book store or library is basically a giant nexus to an incomprehensible number of other worlds. This should really fill people with more awe than it generally does.
On the contrary. I, with great reluctance, allow work productivity to substantially intrude upon my personal interests, in exchange for modest monetary remuneration.
The thing about being in the Mormon church for 12 years is that bits of it stay lodged in your brain forever despite your best efforts. I just caught myself humming a hymn, ironically enough while making my morning coffee. That just feels... wrong. #ExMormon #apostake
In the future, I recommend meal prep; it reduces the jit cooking overhead by a lot, tho it can't eliminate it entirely for most dishes. Many of my meals are (quinoa + beans + nooch + 99 secs. in the microwave).
In the present, I recommend the a ready-to-eat snack that's pareto optimal for you measures of nutrition, distance, and cost. I find a small bag of cashews with as little added salt as possible works well for me. Others have suggested packaged "cheese" and crackers.
I'd rather eat out all the time, or at least do takeaway, but cooking at home + meal prep was the only way I could get my sodium intake down to reasonable levels.
(My BP stubbornly remains high, tho.)
These days I continue it because the closest restartant (that isn't a food truck or also a convenience store) is a 15 minute drive away, I think.
So I think at least a part of my problem is the browser on my tablet. This problem only seems to happen when I'm using that. I'm still going to take measures to keep Meta/Amazon/Bytedance's bots from crawling my server because they're all over the access logs and they're certainly not helping matters. Also, they have absolutely no reason to be doing this at all.
If there is a Palestinian account from Gaza on your instance and it is *not* exhibiting bot-like behaviour PLEASE AT LEAST CONTACT ME before limiting/suspending it so @joynewacc and I can attempt to verify them by having a video chat with them on Signal and adding them to Gaza Verified:
Blocking the accounts of Palestinians in Gaza on the fediverse is like repeatedly slamming the door in the face of Anne Frank.
Please have some humanity.
Also, if your server is a safe space for Palestinians from Gaza, please respond and let me know and Iโll add you to the list at gaza-verified.org/guide/
Iโve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. โ Aral Balkan
This is a good initiative. It's one of the difficult moderation issues: you want to keep your users safe from scammers, but you don't want to make a mistake and block an actual person.
Of course Palestinians are welcome on mastodon.world. (Or any other of our instances)
We happened to have a signup yesterday, but he hasn't posted yet or filled the bio, we'll wait until that's done. Then I'll send you the account. (They mentioned in the signup they are from Gaza)
Dear @hachyderm, some Palestinian accounts like @mohshbair or @Dr_Nadeen98 are hidden from Hachyderm users to protect them from bots, but these accounts and probably some more aren't bots.
They're actual Palestians living in Gaza under genocide, and have been verified by multiple people who had video calls with them.
@aral and @joynewacc run a website gaza-verified.org that lists accounts you can definitely unhide from Hachyderm users. See the message above in the thread.
Iโve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. โ Aral Balkan
Hello! Thank you for reaching out to us; however, these accounts aren't independently limited. They're limited because right now there is a temporary limit on Mastodon Social while they combat a spam wave that has been on-and-off since mid July. We have posted about it here:
We've received a few questions about the Mastodon Social limit over the course of the weekish they've been Limited due to the latest wave. To reiterate: the instance-wide limit is temporary, and as the wave dies down to manageable levels, we'll lift it.
Hello everyone! Thank you for all of your reports, looks like there's another spam wave so we're going to temporarily limit a few places to help mitigate that a bit and also #HugOps to all of the mod teams out there there.
Iโve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. โ Aral Balkan
All accounts, including Palestinian accounts, that follow our code of conduct (Donโt be a dick - No hacking - No violence - No fascism - No colonialism - No white supremacy - No religious extremism - No nationalism - No racism - No homophobia - No transphobia - Safe space for LGBTQIA+ - Safe space for neurodivergent) are welcome here. Depending on how people intend to use their accounts, we do ask that people CW if they're going to post war imagery and similar.
This is great, specifically: moderation already exists and is working (er improving) now we can restore customer service to the users. You might see this as a pilot project or a best attempt, I see it as a model for the future.
the fascist in the U.S. administration fully fund and support the new Nazis doing the genocide and will continue to wipe out the entire region until a country fights back and make Nazis dead again.
Iโve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. โ Aral Balkan
as a regular user, would it be better to contact you first/instead of reporting to admins when being directly contacted by such accounts?
I am fairly certain that they were bots just due to their behaviour outside of the messages they sent to me, but obviously didn't put all that much effort into verifying that before reporting
No such thing as late. Iโm limiting it to Mastodon instances just to keep things simple for everyone at the moment but Iโve bookmarked this if we get to a point where we have the bandwidth to support Lemmy also ๐
Really appreciate your support and I might have had a little chuckle at one of the posts on the anarchist.nexus server ;)
Iโm conflicted when reading the posts here about #USPoli that get past my filters. On the one hand, itโs beyond distressing to see a country where so many friends live descend into overt fascism. And to see so many posts about life just going on as if everything is fine. On the other hand, I know that I try to do post here that emphasize positive actions in the face of whatever the fuck is going on (because we're not immune in Canada), and Iโm certain that many others do the same. And folks here are not necessarily posting about all the shit that they go through.
This is not, at all, a criticism of what *any* of the folks I follow post or repost. Itโs general rant about whatever the fuck weโre living through, and my occasional feelings ofโฆ whateverโฆ about it all.
Iโm never sure what to post. If I report on what Iโm doing against fascism, I might put someone else in jeopardy. If I say noting about it, others might think I donโt care or that Iโm not involved. Usually I post what helps me get through the day, like scenery, trips, garden stuff, an interesting read. I think itโs important to realize that life goes on regardless and whatever we post on here isnโt the entirely of what we are or what weโre doing.
For those of you who may not know. It would appear as if the Guppe groups are down for good. Apparently the bloke who ran it got knifed in the back by the domain being sold to another ahead of schedule and before he could renew it. Whether he will be able to get it back up and running in another way, I don't know. Fedigroups run a similar service, for those interested. I tagged the autistic one above. about.fedigroups.social/home I'm not sure how widespread this information about the Guppe groups is yet. But, for those of you who us it a lot, whether for autism, or anything else, it may not be the worst idea to post something similar to this to your followers and help spread the word.
From Fedigroup website: "All our data is processed, stored, and controlled using computers with the United Kingdom." - with the UK age verification laws I worry that service will run into problems... Oh well.
Here's the info I was able to find, if anyone else is looking for more information about what happened. And if anyone else has any further information, I'd like to see it.
Hey @wmurphyrd ๐ I notice as of September 2025, the domains gup.pe and immers.space seem to have expired and a.gup.pe has been replaced with a WordPress installation full of SEO-targeted content ab...
@eaterofsnacks I always thought of it like a round robin email. Going out to everyone regardless. It also had the advantage over hashtags of reaching everyone, regardless of whether individual instances could see one another, so it was great for the smaller, less federated ones.
Since a.gup.pe didn't support following from my deployed Fediverse service (GoToSocial), I have resorted to just following the Tags via relay.fedi.buzz, e.g. @tag-actuallyautistic@relay.fedi.buzz. Works pretty well.
@sasutina13 On the actually autistic profile page, the admin is given as datatitian@social.coop Deliberately missed out the initial @ so as not to link him in.
I consider it, to say the very least, an extreme disappointment how many domain registrars will fall over themselves to sell your domain out from under you if they think they can get more money from someone else. I personally know people who had domains stolen from family members with the active help and collaboration of GoDaddy, to name-and-shame but one offender. (Albeit one of the worst.)
@Uniflame As in @actuallyautistic They basically acted as boosts for your posts to all those who followed them. It had slightly better range than the hashtags, which tend to be a bit more organic in how they spread.
@Uniflame I'd suggest people don't mention the @ actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe group in full.
It's no longer forwarding posts and we don't currently know what happens to posts sent to the former group addresses. They could be collecting them for some nefarious purpose.
So, I watched this YouTube video on the origin of the concept of imaginary numbers. While the content was fascinating and presumably well-researched, my brain couldn't stop looking at the abacus prominently displayed on the guy's desk. It was upside down for the whole video.
I keep wanting to resurrect my homemade 8-bit CPU project (heavily inspired by Ben Eater's breadbord computer). One of the changes I want to make is to have a variable speed clock module that you have to manually turn a crank to run. The faster you crank, the higher the clock speed.
Is this practical? Not in the slightest. It would be really cool though.
If you want to play the game of making fake "security scan" announcements over your PA system, it might add to their credibility if they didn't sound like they were made by a professional voice actor in a recording studio.
"In order to make it to the first interview, you will need to perform a take-home assignment. You will perform an emergency underwater TIG weld on an oil platform within the next week on a 15 minute timer. We expect you to provide your own equipment, material and your own oil platform".
@Alda Vigdรญs That reminds me of an eight hour interview I did with a certain well-known company. They then turned around and instead bought out the company I used to work for.
@me Like I've said elsewhere in this thread, companies are known for setting up sham job interviews to gather intelligence on their competitors. In this case they may have been using you to research a potential acquisition.
As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.
There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.
big difference is that nuclear engineering is regulated and has mandatory ceritications and licenses, which show you have the skills required. While certifications exist in the software world, they're not the same unfortunately...
That being said, take home assignments and all that are terrible metrics in interviews.
@projectmoon I have no certifications or licenses beyond that of a college degree. People self-select into these sorts of high integrity regulated careers - frauds get found out really fast due to the work process, it's a small industry, and unless you're a high-up exec there's not enough money here to make it worth the effort. Tech-wise it's no more or less demanding than software but the work is substantially more consequential. Why go through all that abuse just to spend your days gluing together frameworks to build yet another pointless and disposable website?
I don't disagree, really. I went through this at the beginning of 2024. Some companies have insane requirements. I know my skill levels. The places I got hired by didn't have take-home tests. They did have discussions about personal projects, though. And in one I showed off some code I had already written. I think that's far enough, as it gives the interviewer insight into what motivates you and how you approach things. Short of some kind of regulatory framework and nationally-administered software engineering licenses, I don't really see an alternative. Part of finding an employee is making sure they can do what you're hiring them for. Take-home tests or live coding exercises are a stupid way to do it. Discussion of a relevant business problem with maybe light pseudo-code, yes perhaps.
I don't know. I really can't think of a better way...
@projectmoon @arclight I've ended up using take-home exercises because quite a lot of candidates didn't have a public portfolio to discuss. Where a portfolio or project exists, I love to discuss it, but early career people, people who work for companies that make it hard to open source even your personal passion projects, or people who don't have free time to write software outside their jobs, all these people tend to lack a suitable project to discuss. This makes the hiring process suck for everyone involved ๐
@glitzersachen Well, much of trial lawyers' work is usually public, and rumoured about. So, at least some lawyers often do have a sort of 'portfolios'. And until relatively recently, it was commonplace in most legal systems to, as a professional courtesy, arrange that lawyers who, perhaps just beginning out in a corporate lawshop, ended up doing much 'quiet' work, would occasionally also get to do litigation, which is often seen as a more valuable kind of lawyering than, say, writing test cases to a complicated contract exactly because of the visibility. (The 'relatively recently' clause concerns the "paralegal" career track of some legal systems, which nowadays can often do much the "low-grade" lawyers' work, but without litigation privileges, and thus, without the tenure track.)
Not all legal work is in trials. I suppose most of it isn't any BTW there are also the confidential parts of a file (client/lawyer consultations and notes) that are not public.
> The 'relatively recently' clause concerns the "paralegal" career
@glitzersachen @riley @vla22 @projectmoon @arclight Back where I'm from, if you don't have sufficient family connections, you'll be stuck in the public sector denying visas or at a collection agency until you pass the High Court bar exam.
In Germany, it's seems to be kind of routine for lawyers' websites to explicitly say that under the law that regulates lawyers' payment, it's categorically prohibited for a lawyer to offer any free legal advice.
I haven't yet figured out if pro bono is a thing in Germany, or if, maybe, there's some special twist for this in the law.
> prohibited for a lawyer to offer any free legal advice
But, AFAIK the fee is negotiable. There are sites that provide consultation for a fee as low as 50.- EUR.
> if pro bono is a thing in Germany, or if, maybe, there's some special twist for this in the law.
My understanding -- IANAL, though -- that the RDG has specific provision for law students providing pro bono legal advice under supervision of a qualified legal professional.
@glitzersachen These are generally called 'legal clinics' in English. They're useful, but they can necessarily only deal with relatively routine matters. Classic pro bono involves an already fully licenced, and often, rather experienced, lawyer working on a case that is significant โ which often means, in some ways, complicated โ without charge.
So my partner and I do Instacart to help make ends meet. We have supposedly opted out of heavy orders,* and yet we were assigned an order with three cases (40 x 500mL) of water. That's 60kg (assuming negligible packaging weight).
This begs the question: what exactly is their threshold for what is considered a "heavy order"?
* because they don't pay anywhere near enough for us to destroy our bodies like that.
EDIT: The solution was simple but "bonus points" for anyone that can explain why my method didn't work.
ORIG:
I would like an org-mode-custom-command to display an agenda which is only made from the
I am using many different org mode files for various projects, and I rev them by adding the date to the filename eg filename-2020-09-17.org. I realize I could use version control but in this case t...
"If the current buffer is in Org mode and visiting a file, you can also first press โ<โ once to indicate that the agenda should be temporarily (until the next use of โSPC o aโ) restricted to the current file. Pressing โ<โ twice means to restrict to the current subtree or region (if active). "
In other words, execute org-agenda then press "<" before the command you want to run against the agenda.
A colleague pointed out today that weโve spent decades convincing developers not to mix data and instruction streams because of the huge security concerns.
Then LLMs come along and basically wrap an eval() around anything anyone types.
Lately, things around the apartment have been failing in ways I didn't even know could happen. I had to pick up a new shower head because the old one exploded while I was in the shower yesterday (clocking me in the head in the process).
I'm beginning to think this apartment has it in for me.
"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.
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I agree in spirit, but man... Its only 50% rentseeking... My elderly parents and computer illiterate siblings and coworkers would get in trouble fast if they weren't constrained by 3 software platforms: mint software manager, android play, and MS whatchamacallit. I have pounded it into their heads: never download software candy from strangers. (I live in an anti-apple pocket of the world)
But then, i guess all three of those do let you do your own thing to varying degrees.
Imagine buying something from a local store instead of amazon was called "sideshopping" and there's a massive campaign to delegitimize buying items from stores not approved by amazon. Completely absurd. Why accept that exact ideology when it comes to installing software on your phone?
the review process at Google can be a PITA, but for a good reason. Permissions to access more than an app really needs can be exploited for harvesting private information on a seemless update that most won't even notice. Side loaded apps downloaded from say APK mirror can have been tampered with using smali edits and you won't know. What Google should do is certified dev signing keys to trace and confirm if an APK is legit or not and coming from the actual dev, regardless of being side loaded.
Once youโve bought the hardware, itโs yours, not a lease where the vendor still dictates your choices. Calling it sideloading makes it sound like something shady, when itโs just freedom to install what you want.
Google is selling the sideloading-ban as a measure to enhance security. But would this โsecurity measureโ also affect app stores that are already more secure than Googleโs Play Store, like @fdroidorg ?
the whole case of why I've always had an Android phone: I'm a dev, if I want something I can write and install it.
I almost never do of course, but it's completely fucked up for Google to expect me to register an account with their service to receive their blessed key material in order to install my stupid side project on my own device
Google is actually brilliant here. Unlike Apple, they don't need to manufacture all the devices. They can just create a software walled garden on anything running their OS.
word. And yet a German court recently decided against ad blockers ... apparently they are a copyright violation, or some such non-sense. Maybe we should flow with it and charge them for the use of display surface?
I like Samsung's Auto Blocker. It runs my phone in pure mode with everything locked down and secure. But with flip of a switch and fingerprint scan, I can use Dev tools or sideload apps. Then flip it back and all of it still works. I'd be furious if this was the only way.
on one side, how different is what Google is proposing from what Mozilla has been doing with side-loaded extensions, which they have to certificate even if you host them yourself?
on the other side, why did I see no one complaining about the Mozilla stance on this?
I'd argue there's a critical reason besides rent-seeking: security.
It's a genuine conflict between user rights and the need to protect the average person. Phones hold our banking apps, 2FA tokens, mics, cameras, and countless secrets.
When a sideloaded app steals data, the user doesn't say, "My sideloaded app failed." They say, "My Android/iPhone got hacked." The OS developer takes the blame.
Android's approachโallowing it, but behind a clear security warningโseems like a decent compromise in this difficult balancing act.
Amen! And then there's my cars infotainment center that I can't even sideload!
Edit: I'm sure there are some absurdly smart people here who could tear apart the dash board and hard wire into the computers pinout to do it. But that's a little beyond my capabilities.
I agree: if someone buys a "computer" or a general purpose device, your point certainly holds.
But on the other side of a fine line I imagine (perhaps older) game consoles: when the original Nintendo came out, that company was not expected to help you run Atari software on their hardware.
They'd not prevent it - if you could figure out it, good on you. But Nintendo shouldn't be expected to make that work.
Not-supporting versus actively-preventing is the key difference for me.
I did not know of this word. It sounds a bit like the word โjaywalkingโ which was invented by car companies to shame pedestrians into getting out of the way.
This is crazy because even on iPhones it's perfectly possible to install applications that are not approved by Apple in any way, by regular users with no privileges. It's a hassle (at least initially) and it has limitations, but the fact that you can and you won't be able to do the same on Android is crazy.
There's also no reasonable case for an OS developer or app developer to have a say over whether I can have root access to my own device. Yet there are a whole shit-load of things I can't do on my phone because it is rooted.
As someone who developed operating systems for 50 years I know that there are reasonable cases; but, as none are relevant to Googleโs latest behavior, I will not elaborate.
Since a mobile device is mostly a general purpose system you should be able to run any software that doesnโt violate laws and itโs not the OS vendorโs responsibility to enforce laws except those regulating the radios in the device.
IMO the only long-term solution to this is Android getting completely separated from Google. The "annoy users into submission" approach they take with Play Protect right now is already very much overstepping.
It is known that sideloading is a real risk for most of Android users*
*The bad guy comes to your home, enable ADB debug, you let him connect your phone, you give him your pin, you let him few moment to load a naughty apk (bring coffees) and VOILร ! ๐ฅ
BTW I had today to clean a fully stock up to date Android (you even can install bank app on) because of a "legit" Play Store bloatware setup'd lots of other adware apks ๐
Those who make these decisions have goals to make as much profit as possible. And in fact we get a regression. Debian is the friendliest system for civil society.
This list of replies is a hilarious string of people pretending that theyโve never looked at someoneโs Windows machine *so completely fucked up with malware and viruses that the owner just blithely clicked on and installed* that the only solution was to nuke it from space and *buy a whole new computer*
For a good fifteen years the number one reason for tossing perfectly good hardware and buying a newer Win PC was virus/malware infestation. Might still be, I have no idea.
at this point I just want a fucking slab that lets me call from Linux.
I want postmarketOS on an AMD Ryzen with only 64bits (dump the 32, make a bloody atom ryzen you cowards), and a pure-64 Steam build. I want a slab that lets me play anime games if I bloody want to. And deploy a Linux fleet management solution. AND JUST LET ME DO MY THING.
Ma and Pa _need_ some form of sandbox. Sandboxing should be optional. But some form of sandboxing should exist when non-tech people will use computers.
I remember when the ability to run a wide variety of programs on a given piece of hardware was actually strong selling point. Like with my first computer, a Commodore 128 - you could run BASIC AND CP/M.
Especially as this newest move of Google is redundant: play protect is already built in all Google play services using phones.
It already flashed and remains suspicious Appa and known malware from all sources.
So how exactly is locking down the signing keys for apps that are allowed to run at all and connecting them with government ID for developers helping security?
counter-point: run your software outside this rentseekers sandbox then. itโs absolutely a bad look for them if something happens to you while in their ecosystem (randsomware, malware, identity theft, etc.)
just because you own the physical memory registers doesnโt mean youโre ever making use of them without this rentseekers work and IP.
exactement , a croire qu'ils veulent tous faire des systรจmes totalement fermรฉ et intrusifs. Je me demande parfois s'il ne cherchent pas a dรฉvelloper le hacking autour de leur Os ..
sideloading is a bullshit word made up to make doing what you want with what you own sound more scary. Let's call it what it has always been called on PC.
Got another spambot requesting registration on my server. This was the masterpiece they included in their request:
Hello, Iโm excited to join this community. I value respectful, meaningful conversations and aim to contribute positively. My interests include [briefly list relevant topics or hobbies], and Iโm looking forward to connecting with like-minded people here. Thank you for your time in reviewing my application.
@Kevin Karhan Registration on this server is only open to friends and family.* There is a very prominent notice to that effect on the registration page.
* I don't have the resources to run a server that's open to the public.
Any Waterloo folk want to talk about sovereign tech? I think we should do a sovereign tech meetup. This stuff is feeling really important and so I'm starting to think.
@Bob Jonkman But like - literally - I'm thinking we grab a patio spot at like - the Piper Arms or somewhere simple? And do a meetup? Labour Day feels like it would be symbolic but busy?
I think it is a good conversation and I am going to follow you for your thoughts about it, but I cannot do meetups with any level of consistency these days. I know extremely little, but am interested in getting my stuff off of US servers.
@Rob Drimmie Hey! I don't know if I can say much! But I'm mostly just trying to figure out what kind of conversations we as tech workers can have to improve the situation. All my stuff is hosted from my house though so I'd love to talk.
(We talked many years ago when I was working for for Athena Software if you recall! Hello!)
@Stephen Childs I'm thinking I'm going to suggest a time in early September, find a restaurant, and get some core questions and figure out what people want to talk about
With #3DPrinting being so accessible and #PCB manufacturing being reasonably inexpensive, I wonder how much I'm underestimating how difficult it would be to design and build a fully #FOSS #game console. I'm thinking something reminiscent of the #NES; I'm not trying to compete with modern consoles.
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@Digit At the moment, I'm very broke and my executive function sucks since I'm off ADHD meds, so it'll probably take forever for me to finish, but It's something I want to do.
It does look like someone's beaten me to it, but I'm not trying to be the first, just to enjoy the challenge.
And indeed. It's the adventure, the learning, the creating, more than the having.
(and yeah, I hear ya on the executive functioning fails... I've never yet had medication for my ADHD (not even officially diagnosed), this place is a mess... and yet, when the idea struck, and I followed the inspiration, the whim, at the start of this month, much to my astonishment, I made a fin, from zero to proof of concept, in less than a week, and development continues... ks392457.kimsufi.com/drnw/fin.โฆ | codeberg.org/Digit/fin/ | youtu.be/dhJaNQi8400 ๐ฎ ... So it happens when it happens. #ADHD -> #VAST ๐ )
Maddie
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Maddie • •Ashton Wiersdorf
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •I recommend getting a Master Lock 140 and a beginner set from JimyLongs (jimylongs.com)
I just taught a big group of people the basics of Locksport and by the end of it at least 8 people popped their first lock.
JimyLong's Lockpicks
JimyLong's Lock PicksRon Bowes
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •that's probably not a pin and tumbler lock - the cheapest locks are warded and you can open them by pushing a button on the inside basically
Like somebody else said, Master 140 is one of the better ones to learn on
I list recommendations here, but the links might be out of date: skullsecurity.org/2019/how-do-โฆ
How do I start picking locks?
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