The only reason I've put up with android for as long as I have is that I've had full freedom to run my own code and install my own applications.
Google wants to end that. That's the end of android for me.
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Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration
After the news cycle recently exploded with the announcement that Google would require every single Android app to be from a registered and verified developer, while killing third-party app stores β¦Hackaday
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@nthia This.
This is why I'm on the fedi and am uninterested in looking at other social media platforms.
It's certainly not perfect, but it's the most enshittification-resistant system I'm aware of.
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Working on a simple #web site for a client, and I'm trying to balance keeping it from becoming a bloated mess of unnecessary code, and minimizing the amount of unnecessary work I have to put into it.
For one feature they want, I'm tempted to install #jQuery. It feels like unnecessary bloat, but it makes the process easier. How much overhead does it really add?
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@AdiposeOverclocked Yeah, I have a habit of fainting around needles. It's usually fine if I'm laying down though. The doctor wrote on the form that it's a perpetual thing, but their damn cards expire anyway.
Folks, I promise I'm not just here for kicks.
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I've been agonizing over posting this for like 46 minutes now. It started as a reply to one of @FinalGirl's posts (as we're mutuals and her posts give me a glimpse into a side of Mastodon that I don't normally get to see).
So, the meat of what I want to say is that I'd love to have more Black folx in my day-to-day life. There's so much shit that I'm just not privy to because my circles are hella white...and that's fucked up.
At least on Fedi I get to hear about some of the issues the Black community faces, but I also feel like I can't do much other than *try* not to be one of the problematic white folx while boosting Black voices into my circles.
Why the agonizing? Because I know about the three types of Queer Allyβ’, and I assume Black folx deal with something similar.
- Type 1 is "okay with you being queer", but will probably vote against you if it lowers the price of eggs.
- Type 2 puts up a "love is love" sign and congratulates themselves on being such a good allyβthey might even know some queer folx.
- Type 3 has queer friends and family because it's a normal thing to have, supports them like they would anyone they really cared about, and listens to queer voices in their lives when they say there are problems. They may not always "get it", but they actively try.
The problem is that the ratio of the three is like 100:10:1 (if I'm being *really* generous).
I want to be that third type. I worry that I'm that second type. But I know it's safest for Black folx to assume I'm the first type (or worse) because that's just how the numbers workβespecially when the cost of misplaced trust is much higher than the benefit of a potential friend.
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I live very close to a large German club.
As always, It's going to be a long (and loud) October.
#locksport
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@silverwizard You wuold think so, but in this case, it was just that they wanted a really precise measurement. As @Judy Anderson pointed out, I don't know why they didn't just go with 7/8 of a cup, except that perhaps they didn't expect anyone to have something that could measure in eighths of a cup.
In their defense, my measuring cup didn't have that mark. I just went half way between the 3/4 and 1 cup marks.
Has anybody had surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
I'm due to have it in a couple of weeks, apparently to open up the tunnel in my wrist to put less pressure on the nerves.
Some people I know have been unable to use their hands much for up to ten days, one was OK within a day, so I was wondering what I should plan on.
Fortunately it's only one hand, my right, which I need for some tasks, but I can do more with my left than most right-handed people.
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Open ai (capitalized like that) has just emailed me from a .ru domain, telling me that I need to update my payment details to continue using their "Premium" service that I never subscribed to.
I'd better get right on that.
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i got one the other day that told me my subscription had expired
but it was never specific about what subscription it was or for what product
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I love how when PHP fails on this project it just gives me a blank page rather than an any kind of useful error message, essentially "something bad happened, you figure it out."
Also, testing in production is fun. π
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Watching a YouTube video about "fake foods" and the announcer was talking about how Velveeta isn't legally considered to be cheese, but "admittedly makes for a great queso".
Umm... who's gonna tell her?
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Also, she was bemoaning ingredient lists getting more "chemically".
Has anyone found anything to eat that isn't chemicals? Photosynthesis maybe?
Man, those health influencers are legit bonkers.
I like theplantslant. A bit sweary, but down to earth and relatively sciencey.
Also, NutritionByKylie. Very nice recipes and nutrition tips, very sweet demeanor. Very humane.
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Aye.
PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO SOLID DHMO CAUSES SEVERE TISSUE DAMAGE. GASEOUS DHMO CAN CAUSE SEVERE BURNS. ACCIDENTAL INHALATION OF DHMO EVEN IN SMALL QUANTITIES CAN CAUSE DEATH.
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I think, in American English, "queso" is a type of dip/sauce that is _primarily_ cheese-ish. This is opposed to Spanish (Hispanic or Castilian) where "queso" IS cheese.
But, maybe I've just been beaten down my the internet for being to "prescriptive". In any case, people often use language in ways that don't match my understanding, and it certainly doesn't mean _they_ are wrong/flawed.
(Still, it _is_ funny.)
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@BoydStephenSmithJr absolutely. We all speak our own language, I think, with some tolerance for variance.
Everything outside that is wrong.
I would argue people who speak more than two languages come around to the point that there is no "wrong". Just failure to convey meaning in a particular context.
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YouTube just recommended for us a video about the transit system in the region I've lived in my whole life. It felt weird because the whole thing was footage of familiar places, which is not something I'm accustomed to in a random* YouTube video.
* Okay, not random because YouTube obviously knows where I live and that likely informs their algorithm.
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So, I've recently discovered Tubi. Yeah, it's got ads, and I'm sure it's a privacy nightmare like everything else, but at least my ad-blocker seems to work on it.
This feels like a too-good-to-be-true scenario, which begs the question: what's the catch?
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I'm just running my own #Mastodon instance here, so I don't have a ton of reach.
I'd love it if any of you who are willing would boost/quote this post.
My current SRE role is coming to an end, and the current market is scary.
The most current project was getting 3 line-of-business applications (for a national retailer!) moved to AWS, with some infra design, and lots of Terraform and Ansible.
I've got some Python chops, too.
I'm looking for a new role, remote preferred, or local to the PDX area.
I'd love to get #FediHired
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Welp, checked the mail to see that we got nabbed by a speed camera. This is the day that keeps on giving. Now I get to figue out how we're going to make rent again. :/
I know it's important to keep traffic under control, but these cameras feel like a cash grab when there are more effective (but less lucrative) methods available.
So, I don't want to count my chickens before they're hatched, but a freelance job that I should be able to knock out in a night or so may have just fallen in my lap that will hopefully resolve this.
When I was Mormon, I'd have taken this as a sign that I was being rewarded for my faith and obedience. I don't know what it means now that I'm a filthy apostate. π
As it turns out, happy coincidences are a thing that happens sometmies.
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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?
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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-β¦
How do I start picking locks?
Hey folks, I run a lot of lockpicking villages and such, and have a pretty big collection of locks, picks, and knowledge.ron
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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.
Spite can be a hell of a motivator.
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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.
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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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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.
Question for the #CasioCult:
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
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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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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. AuΓerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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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.
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@VulcanTourist I've kinda settled on a system that sorta kinda works most of the time...ish.
I've been off ADHD meds for a while though, so that makes things more difficult.
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
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LIVE SUMO w/ commentary | Day 5 of September Grand Sumo tournament in Tokyo, Japan! | 9 hours of live sumo for 15 days!Twitch
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Of course, I'd rather combine those two. Let me know if that becomes possible.
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in reply to Zillion • • •@zillion I don't have any thoughts on the current feature phone/flip phone landscape, although I expect I will at some point in the near future.
When I do, I'll blog about it ajroach42.2com
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Replying from my other account because I used the wrong one before.
I found my Sharp Zaurus in a tub of old tech in my storage space. It is charging now. I don't see any lights but I don't remember if there are supposed to be. If this actually powers up I will consider it a minor miracle.
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in reply to UnlikelyLass • • •@Unlikelylass @BustaMarx @geniodiabolico@wandering.shop @zillion I lived in Evanston and worked across the street from the Sears Tower in the era when I was using this regularly. I remember answering an email from the wifi in a bank lobby in the Chicago Loop and I thought I was a character in Neuromancer. Later I would haul way out to Schaumburg to attend user groups and hang out with other nerds. It was so much fun from top to bottom.
#Zaurus
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I have been putting a 9V battery across the terminals for about 30 seconds at a time. The first 5 or 6 times appears to have done nothing. This last time I measured 2.7 V across the old battery so I put it back in the Zaurus and on the charger. The light is not on. I'm not really sure what the minimum voltage needs to be for the charger and the device to recognize this as functioning. I'm just throwing spaghetti at this.
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in reply to Dave Slusher - Hacker/Maker • • •@Unlikelylass @BustaMarx @zillion After running around like a maniac searching for the charger in my office, my garage, the storage space and literally everywhere a charger might sit ...
Turns out that Skylight Frames have the same barrel connector and a 5V 2A charger. I have the light!
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At this point that is all it does. The wifi is too old to connect to my AP and I have failed to get the USB networking from my PopOS laptop to connect. I might find an old wifi router and stand it up so that I can try to update some of the stuff on here.
This whole project has been like the 3rd act of The Graduate. Frantic rush to get this up then we all stare at each other like "now what?"
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in reply to Zillion • • •@zillion The most affordable linux-based phone is the pinephone.
I missed my old Nokia linux phones, so I got one a while back to play with, but never used it as a daily device.
pine64.org/devices/pinephone/
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in reply to Cary • • •@crenquis @zillion Having used a pinephone... π
They're horrible. The hardware is under powered and the software is incomplete.
The pro was better, but still barely a phone.
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in reply to Dave Slusher - SFFH • • •@geniodiabolico ADB will keep working for installing applications for people in your situation.
But yeah, this is some shit.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •I was perfectly content with my heavily de-googled G85, already out of support and perfect.
They forced an update on me overnight a couple days ago and it's completely trashed my mobile. Battery life is 1/3rd, dozens of new services (like Moto AI) that I had to go find and kill, you name it.
I wish I could get a fairphone or something.
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in reply to Longplay Games • • •@Longplay_Games Right?
But when the recent EU move that phones have to hav ea locked bootloader, who knows what comes next.
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in reply to mimo! • • •@lyncia Back to the Ma Bell days of a leased phone line, wiretapped and bugged within an inch of its life?
Does feel that way.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Android is done when Fdrioid won't run.
I have no use for a pocket computer I can't program.
Might as well have an Apple.
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I feel like this is meant to point out that android is open source and that, if phones worked the way laptops do, we'd be able to just install a fork of android.
But en.xiaomitoday.it/goodbye-bootβ¦
Goodbye Bootloader Unlock in Europe: What's Happening?
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •I'm surprised that they are doing this now, just that it feels like the global political tide is turning against Big Tech lock-in...
Can't imagine this is going to go over well in Europe, and they already got hit with something like $4B in fines last month. Killing 3rd-party app stores (however unpopular they may be with most users) is a real bad look.
I wonder what the strategy is going to be for Googleβpoint at Apple and yell "but you let *THEM* do it!" ?
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Ugh, I just read up on that and while I don't think it's as straightforward as outlawing or banning bootloader unlocking, that's certainly the approach that device manufacturers seem poised to take, since it's the easiest way for them to conform to the regulation.
I assume it's a shitty unintended consequence of a badly designed rule, but that's without knowing how corrupt the EU regulatory process is. (If it was coming out of the US FCC, I'd probably assume the opposite at the moment.)
However, one small bit of progress is that, compared to 10 or even 5 years ago, it's much easier to call up a device manufacturer in China or Taiwan and have them make you a short run of custom handheld devices to whatever specifications you'd like.
It's not economical if you only want to buy one or two (of a truly custom design), but if you're willing to buy dozens or hundreds, it's not like you need to be Samsung to make a smartphone anymore.
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in reply to Kadin • • •@Kadin2048 If you're not in the US, for sure.
But 1) They still gotta have an OS. 2) in the US, we gotta deal with tariffs on all that now, making it 2x or more as expensive, 3) most of the major US carriers require your phone to be one they have personally approved.
Some of the smaller carriers are exceptions to this but, at least where I live, my options are verizon and ATT, and both are only offering esims which will only work on devices they've approved.
It's not *impossible* to route around, but it's harder than I'd expect anyone who lives nearby to undertake.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •Yeah, I don't like eSIMs for a bunch of reasons, but as long as devices continue to have physical SIM slots (which is admittedly going to become more of an issue as time goes by), you can drop an eSIM-to-pSIM adapter into them.
Most of the ones I've seen generally have a companion app that will let you load and switch between multiple eSIMs on a single card, as well.
esim.me/ seems to be a popular choice, but there are lots straight out of Shenzhen too.
If you pick the right baseband / cellular modem, you can also change the IMEI to whatever value you want. (A *friend* of mine may have a bunch of Netgear LTE pucks that report themselves as iPhones to the cell network, for... testing purposes. Thanks, Quectel!)
But in general, I expect there's going to be a widening gulf between people who know enough about hardware to make the phone do what they want, and normies who are going to take it in the tradesmans' from the cellular companies. Such is deregulation.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •What do you plan to move to?
Some kind of Linux mobile?
I have already ditched Android for every day use and use VOIP on my Linux desktop and laptop for phone and text.
#android #linux
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> even if all i can do with it is voice and text
If there was a linux phone that could do voice and text, I'd be happy! I haven't found one.
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Unknown parent • • •Goodbye Bootloader Unlock in Europe: What's Happening?
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •When you couple this with the recent change in the EU outlawing unlocking bootloaders, the DMCA in the US making any kind of digital tinkering illegal if Washington says so, and the various Chat Control and other "For the Children" legislation ...
We're shuffling full steam ahead into a surveillance machine the likes of which are unprecedented.
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in reply to Patrick Georgi • • •@patrick That's fair. It's entirely possible, likely even, that I've misunderstood the rules here.
I didn't read much into it beyond the fact that it looked like a bad day for unlocked bootloaders.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •To expand on the issue: the changed EU regulation is basically "consumer electronics with radio components must ensure that the radio doesn't inflict harm."
That's pretty easily done in hardware if there's a will. Even when the will is there at the consumer product level but the some component supplier makes an ass out of themselves, there's a way.
Case in point: I was involved in the development of Google Wifi 2, released in 2023.
We had to deal with new FCC regulations. The issue: 5GHz radio (wifi) potentially messing with airport radars. Kind of a good reason to limit what a consumer device can do, I think.
The chipset didn't support enforcing radar detection (which is how these 5GHz wifis work: passively listen for radar pings and if they show up, they stop doing 5GHz), so the workaround we did to keep the system _somewhat_ open is that going to unlocked mode disabled 5GHz completely (2.4GHz still works).
There's no Google Wifi 3, and the company culture broke down entirely anyway, but back then I expected that "enforce road legal radio cmpliance outside the OS' control (so that we can keep the device hackable)" becomes a hard requirement for the chipset in the follow-on product.
Samsung et al deflecting and claiming they have to lock the bootloader is just them finding a new excuse for doing what they wanted to do all along, while not suffering through the backlash.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •I'm in kind of a charmed position in that I have no need for an Android or Apple device.
There are a few ways that *life* is trying to conspire to make me keep one in spite of that, but most of them are things I can currently route around.
But I'm no longer in an oncall rotation. I no longer use Okta. I can do 2FA a dozen ways that don't mandate google.
I'm not normal.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •I suspect they're going to get the same sort of pushback that Windows is with Windows 11 - people aren't going to abandon Android, they're going to perch on the last "good" update that they can and rely on community patches and updates and unofficial forks to keep them alive.
And hopefully this protest with our dollars will mean something, but even if it doesn't it'll at least buy us some time until something new and better rises to fill the vacuum.
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in reply to The VHS Wizard π¦πΌπ§ • • •@DrakkenZero Sure, I expect that will also be true.
Except android is especially adept at forcing updates.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •I suspect it's one of those things, not unlike piracy - we've always had the technology to do custom firmware and jailbreaking, it just stopped being a necessity once the carriers and Android codebase stopped being antagonistic towards their own users. But that technology has never gone away, there's still a thriving hobbyist community that's been lurking in the background maintaining the old ways.
And just like many of us old guard have dusted off our tricorns as streaming world has gotten more and more "all the worst parts of cable, but now with added extra bad stuff"-y, I am betting that we'll be seeing a resurgence and renaissance for Cyanogen or whoever the prime de-Googler is nowadays
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in reply to The VHS Wizard π¦πΌπ§ • • •@DrakkenZero I agree.
For those that have the skillset and wherewithal, and who can deal with the consequences, you're probably right.
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Unknown parent • • •@datarama Thankfully, we don't have most of that here, yet.
But I fully expect it's coming.
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in reply to Andrew (Television Executive) • • •@SarraceniaWilds This is why so many people are exiting the internet, quietly and probably permanently.
I've seen a number of tech and security people just quietly depart, and some (like @mbybee and Simone Silvestri) entirely revert their tech stack and leave.
Not sure if we'll do the same here, I mean, we're a game dev shop. It's all I can do to keep reasonably current with the cost of hardware being what it is now.
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Unknown parent • • •@datarama Most folks I know use Apple Pay or Google Wallet instead of their credit or debit cards, and the rest use credit or debit instead of cash.
It's not so much that we *won't* accept and trust a technical solution as that no one will accept there being only one option.
Too many people can't afford phones.
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I haven't left completely (obviously) but I have specifically built out a tech stack that is offline first and that I use whenever I can get away with it.
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Unknown parent • • •datarama
Unknown parent • • •@daniel I read that one a while ago. Varoufakis is brilliant.
(I don't *quite* agree with the premise that technofeudalism is something distinct from capitalism; I view it as a variant of capitalism. Capitalism has always had feudal aspects to it; what else is a corporation but a little privately-held kingdom?)
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Unknown parent • • •Daniel
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Unknown parent • • •I was in Norway recently and found it to be the same way. The transit system and many businesses relied on apps, no cards, a nightmare for MIL whose phone company (verizon) insisted she wasn't eligible to purchase an international data plan (??). It took *hours* out of our trip getting the family set up with apps to exist there. I was surprised bc this is a clear equal access issue that I imagined would be better managed there than in USA.
Andrew (Television Executive)
Unknown parent • • •Fal61mav70
Unknown parent • • •Andrew (Television Executive)
Unknown parent • • •rhempel
Unknown parent • • •@leighms @datarama you can have a tablet or second phone as a backup - I happened to have both available.
I left Denmark about 2 years ago after living there for almost 7 years - the digital system was damned convenient.
Yes, Danes are typically more trusting in government and in general it works pretty well over there.
The US is a bit nuts right now and it got there without anywhere near the level of digitization they have in Denmark. Every company has their own, slightly different mechanism method of authentication and that leads to confusion for users. The MitID was used by so many companies and social services that authenticating was trivial.
Leigh Silvester
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All fine and dandy until you lose your phone or it stops working. Older folk may struggle with phones.
This will be all of us at some point.
I lost my phone a few weeks ago and it was challenging. I do have a laptop and tried to order a phone - the bank wanted send me a verification code by text.
Andrew (Television Executive)
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Unknown parent • • •Shannon
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