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Pxtl

@ Pxtl @lemmy.ca

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  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • I love how photo-based age verification scanning is the worst of both worlds - it destroys your anonymity, but not in a way that makes it easier to run a community where you can ban a person by their digital ID since they can just make a new one with the same face since facial recognition is too crude for that.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • Ah, my bad. I looked it up and while Android does have an analog to what iOS calls "lockdown", Android uses different terminology for it, since "Lockdown" is, as you said, lock the lockscreen to be password/pin-only (which would still be a reasonable approach before being forced to turn over your phone to somebody since those are things that are harder to be compelled to provide).

    Android's version of iOS "Lockdown" is called "Advanced Protection Mode".

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • I'd forgotten because the first thing I did when that rolled out was revert it so long-press on the power button was the power menu. IIRC the new default is like long-press-power-and-volume-down or some garbage like that to show the power menu.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • Android phones have lockdown mode too. Hold the power button to show the shutdown menu and click lockdown.

  • Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?

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  • Eventually somebody is going to use textbots to DDOS wikipedia with subtle propaganda (if they're not already doing that) and it will be impossible to protect without completely locking it down so that only established users can edit.

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    Texas launches plan to open Turning Point USA chapters in every high school

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  • Laws are only real if they're enforced.

  • One of Silicon Valley's most prominent techbros is giving lectures on the Antichrist -- and he thinks it's the Pope

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  • Isn't the antichrist supposed to be a charismatic leader?

  • In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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  • Geforce 3060, and yes. Sometimes my primary screen gets locked at my secondary screen's framerate. The whole OS is especially wonky after wake from sleep, I often have to restart Firefox and Cinnamon after wake. WebGL things in Firefox are especially finicky. The panel-applet-spice things are horrendously single-threaded, some of lock the whole UI regularly.

    I'm going to try some other Debian-based OS in the hopes that this is just Mint+Cinnamon and not the state-of-the-art.

  • In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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  • I tried Mint and it's just too buggy to use.

  • another social network?

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  • Lemmy blocking is worthless anyways it's just a mute

  • Florida GOP Legislator Files Bill Threatening to Defund Colleges Unless They Rename Roads After Charlie Kirk

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  • Hooray for crime!

  • Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

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  • You can't make observational comedy about being a young and hungry comedian/writer when you've spent the last decade being wealthy and out-of-touch.

    If he was still clever, he probably could've threaded the transphobia needle and either figured a way to make it right or made it so funny that enough people would enjoy it regardless. But now he's cranky and spoiled by success so he's just going to get angry, which is even less funny.

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    Virginia Democrats call for Republican John Reid to exit lieutenant governor race in Nazi porn scandal

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  • ... I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

  • Bit concerned about the view votes option now available.

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  • It was already public to anybody willing to put in the work and extract the data.

  • Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”

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  • Right? The collective dismissal of Mastodon from leftist influencers when the Muskening happened was eye opening.

    Like, there's a collaborative, volunteer-based platform right over there. You want mutual aid? Open-source is as mutual-aid as it gets.

    But it's nerd shit.

  • Emma Watson's so typical of the entitled generation who think they're right about everything - like the young woman who rolled her eyes at me the other day

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  • Wait, sources are supposed to be credible? I thought the joke was "yes this is an article in an actual* newspaper that is so absurd it seems like it could be satirical"

    *for a certain definition of "actual"

  • Emma Watson's so typical of the entitled generation who think they're right about everything - like the young woman who rolled her eyes at me the other day

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  • Honestly I didn't even scroll enough to realize there was a paywall I just saw the headline and that there was apparently an article below it and holy crap that headline is as Onion-y as you get.

  • Who stopped the UN escalator? Likely Trump's videographer, says UN

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  • I know I shouldn't be surprised by how unhinged they are but they still somehow manage to shock me.

  • Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is now available for Download

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  • That's weird, I haven't gotten the update yet but dark mode is working fine in FF for me. The place where it fails is ff-based webapps, which I use for YouTube music, Discord, and MS Teams.

  • People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

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  • As much as I hate the AI-gens, this is probably a good thing after that poor kid got talked into killing himself. I assume Google et al do similar already.

    Now, if the cops react to being called for a person in crisis by tazing somebody, that's a different problem.