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Guy has a lot of data and a few speculations as to why people are "less weird than they used to be".
People are less weird than they used to be. That might sound odd, but data from every sector of society is pointing strongly in the same direction: we’re in a recession of mischief, a crisis of conventionality, and an epidemic of the mundane. Deviance is on the decline.
Watching Sandra Bullock (61 years old) Cate Blanchett (56), and other 60something actresses and how they look. They all have a look, which I suspect is a result of personal trainers, dieticians, and plastic surgery. It finally hit me: Gelflings. They look like gelflings.
No judgment--I assume being anyone in #Hollywood, especially a woman, brings ridiculous image pressure. I'm just saying they look like gelflings.
(Furthermore, let it be said once again that Helena Bonham Carter can do no wrong)
I just installed the latest version of linux-firmware-amdgpu (20251125) and there's no more I2C access to SMU busses (9070XT). Previous version works fine. More specifically this...
Data regulators in Thailand said they are blocking the Sam Altman-founded company Tools for Humanity from collecting iris scans in exchange for cryptocurrency payments.
A crayon drawing of a pair of pet mice playing in a tree as it's being trimmed. The brown mouse is playing in the tree while the white mouse is giggling at him in the foreground.
In the background are varying colors of tinsel and varying artworks that the mice's caretakers made over time.
There are also some ball ornaments of varying colors strewn about the scene.
This was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount lens attached to it, and I fired the flash for this one in an attempt to get the glitter crayons I used to show up in the shot.
i should've left it at this I think, it's obvious things got out of hand when I made another comment contradicting this that I think porn is evil; most things in life are evil, porn being evil isn't spectacularly noteworthy.
@HarryParatestes I doubt anyone ever got pregnant or an STD from being in an ICE facility, and unlike sexual assault, people made a bad choice in coming here illegally.
#aint gonna eat out I admit you've got the biggest brown eyes And you know how to Part your lips to tantalize Sure You can get any man you want going and ya do it And don't say you don't know Ya do Felix Cavaliere, American rock singer, songwriter, and keyboardist (Rascals is 83 youtu.be/me3Fkc_QxuA?si=oBfKGa…
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the Russian space corporation that operates Soyuz appeared to downplay the incident 🙄although “video imagery of the launch site after liftoff showed substantial damage, with a large service platform appearing to have fallen into the flame trench below the launch table”…
#Russian made any thing is not to be trusted (my personal experience during #Soviet era fol lows
my aunt bought her first ever car - a new Moskvich. she was so proud. 3 days later it was broken & left by the side of the road. no parts. no garages. no tow trucks. (she lived in tri-cities Sopót/Gdynia/Gdansk so it was not a village).she never saw the car again. (1978)
A Pogo remix of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Details below.Temba, his arms wide! In Tamarian this signifies the giving of a gift, first heard in the excel...
Just tried to use FreeOTP. What a piece of crap. Every random string of numbers, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and symbols got rejected as my password. I guess its super-secure if not even the legitimate user can use it 🙂
> But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
> Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought all of you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Robert Altman's "Brewster McCloud" (1970) is a spiritual predecessor to Wes Anderson, a zany, bizarre movie with a large ensemble cast filled with idiosyncratic characters, stilted dialogue, quirky camerawork, and an oddball plot that uses a quirky professor's inane lectures about birds as a framing device for the gonzo action Rather enjoyable movie, although I imagine a lot of people will think it's dumb as hell (it is, but who really cares?).
First a Democrat, Chuy Garcia, sets it up so his seat passes to his hand-picked successor. Now this GOP jabroni wants to hand his seat over to ...his brother 🙄
During the release of Super Mario Bros 3, Nintendo accidentally left several unused stages in the game that were not initially accessible without modifying t...
The year is 2038. In western countries, all social media is banned unless the webpage has embedded Google Analytics, the feed contains at least 75% advertisments, the user has been identified by the server operator using 200 points of ID, and the posts of no more than 5 people you follow are displayed in any 24 hour period. The Prime Minister lauds how free we are compared to the Russians and Chinese, (especially the Chinese, who get free electricity but don't even get to choose which company supplies it).
In the west, some maladapted individuals oppose the current system, even going so far as to browse social media that contains no advertisments. Fediverse servers can no longer run via ...co.uk, ...au, ...org, ...com or similar. To read their DMs, Fediversians must set up temporary mesh networks and ssh into their servers located in:
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Panama (1 vote)
Antigua and Barbuda (1 vote)
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Radio Free Albemuth Satellite IV (2 votes)
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I am the founder of @yaleprivacylab , where we have investigated #privacy and #security issues in #Android apps since 2017. I can say without hesitation that this change makes Android users less safe.
Android is based upon free and #opensource software (#FOSS) and that has always been defined by user choice. Blocking the capability to install apps directly from trusted sources outside #Google Play is not a small tweak. It removes a core freedom...
@yaleprivacylab We should not need permission to run software on devices we own.
Framing this change as protection does not reflect the reality of the #Android ecosystem. #Google Play has long allowed unsafe apps, invasive tracker SDKs, and supply chain threats that slip through automated review. Independent audits have consistently revealed these issues inside of Google Play, even *after* Google claims to have scrubbed.
@yaleprivacylab I think they were envious of Apple's walled garden and the enormous profits (at the expense of its users and numerous others indirectly affected along the way) that it allows.
It's difficult to change from an open system to a closed one, but they seem to be trying.
We are fast reaching a point where people need to just not even allow stock Android to exist on a device at all. But blocking third party distros will certainly be high on Google's list of things to kill as well...
@nazokiyoubinbou @yaleprivacylab For this reason, I think the most sustainable development efforts are those that direct energy into true GNU/Linux smartphones. That's one of the reasons why our @privacysafe dev team is putting our efforts there before targeting Android or iOS.
From my testing, the most featureful and stable experience is @ubports on a Fairphone. But the UI/UX is definitely not what most Android or iOS users expect, as it developed in parallel to them over many years
These non-Android distros run on plenty of "normal" consumer phones now. That's not the barrier - there's always other issues with market penetration, critical mass, mainstream adoption, enterprise use etc.
Generally, consumers may demand iPhones, but only use Android because it's bundled with carrier plans...
@verita84 @privacysafe @yaleprivacylab @nazokiyoubinbou For this conversation, it's worth noting that *not* believing in GNU/Linux smartphones and investing in Android has got us to this point.
Is it time to diverge and invest in future sustainability? Nothing stops devs from building for Android and iOS (and I think they still should) but let's start treating GNU/Linux mobile devices as first-class citizens. It's been decades of skittering around Google.
Good luck. Companies already have to have a lot of resources hiring Android and IOS devs. Now you want to add another option to the mix. All the current Linux phones suck and are buggy trash.
I've been at this now with Free Software for 25 years and plan to continue for at least 25 more. So, I see a LOT of progress and of course setbacks as well.
Many technologies are used by thousands or millions, but never reach mass adoption.
I don't have a savior complex. If I can't save the planet, I still try. How else?
@privacysafe @yaleprivacylab I don't know. From where I'm sitting I haven't seen too many such options and most people who have had the opportunity to use them all state the same thing: that they just aren't production ready. Not as in "too different to get used to" as in "lacks the necessary features/reliability/etc."
And the hardware issue is absolutely 1000% an issue that can't be brushed aside. SoCs using ARM, Mali, etc etc are all so proprietary that even those who sign the NDAs and pay the millions to gain access still don't quite 100% know everything about writing stuff for them. True open source can't use such drivers anyway. But reverse engineering is a painful, long experience and they change every generation without following any rules.
@yaleprivacylab For example, the X-mode SDK persisted long after it was banned in the USA by the FTC enforcement action, and was still present in many #Google Play apps until Google was called out by my own investigation. Initially, Google responded by saying I was wrong but then acknowledged their error in press. Long after that, other tracker SDKs associated with X-mode and the wider ad-tech #surveillance economy have persisted.
@yaleprivacylab In many cases, the safer and more privacy-conscious option is to use @fdroidorg to install apps. F-Droid is just one organization that is much more serious than #Google about checking the safety of their catalog of apps. Sometimes, the safest option is installing APKs directly from trusted developers.
I'm Glad to hear that Fren. I Love seeing you doing good. Makes me happy. 🥰 I am doing good as well Just relaxing with my dog while eating some Pizza Rolls.
The "rules-based order" has collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy. If we want something better than the current "might makes right" system, we need a global popular movement to do it.
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It's difficult to really blame the cop, it was a traffic stop and he did call an ambulance. But I can't imagine a shittier way to die than having your heart explode while handcuffed and surrounded by slackjawed cops.
🚨 Paris, minutes ago. During Macron’s live address to the nation, a Republican Guard soldier posted directly behind him suddenly BREAKS protocol ⚠️
He shifts rapidly, glances around nervously, then abruptly turns and marches off stage in full view of the cameras while Macron continues speaking without missing a beat. x.com/MattWallace888/status/19…?
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