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Zak

@ Zak @lemmy.world

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  • How often are your windows open? What about during Winter? or during Summer? Do you open windows to let in fresh air?

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  • They're definitely not going to run out of oxygen. They might experience mild symptoms from elevated carbon dioxide or allergens.

  • How will the Fediverse navigate a dying internet?

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  • Instances subject to the legal systems of jurisdictions with age verification laws probably need the feature to exist to continue operating legally.

    I don't think the current structure of any of those laws would require instances to demand verification from other instances, and any instance operator who did such a thing would be socially unacceptable to the current population of the fediverse.

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  • Electric shocks for behavior merely deemed undesirable or noncompliant are barbaric.

    I could imagine them being justified to prevent self-injury when other options have been exhausted. Perhaps they're preferable to constant restraint or sedation.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • I haven’t found anything I want to install on my iPhone that I can’t. At one point it was emulators

    So you have found something you wanted to install on your iPhone that you couldn't, but Apple has decided to allow it for now. I think it's pretty obvious how this is a problem.

    Of course you're not going to find apps that exist that you can't install because Apple says so. People won't bother making them if they can only be distributed to the tiny handful of users with jailbroken devices. Of course it comes up on occasion when Apple withdraws permission, with ICEBlock being the recent socially important case.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • Way I see it, my iPhone is a pocket version of my Mac.

    The thing is, you can install software from whatever source you like on your Mac. That's not true of your iPhone - even in the EU and Japan where they've been forced to open up a little, apps can only be installed with Apple's permission.

    Macs were completely open in that regard until recently. You could install apps from wherever you want. Now, Mac apps have to be notarized by Apple or installing them requires use of the command line. That's obnoxious, but the user still has the final say, unlike the iPhone.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • (“Linux” here as in “GNU/Linux”, as opposed to “the Linux kernel”, which Android phones also use.)

    I feel compelled to point out that PostmarketOS, one of the popular Linux phone options is not, in fact GNU. It's based on musl and BusyBox, not glibc and GNU utils.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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    • Google has announced that a workflow for advanced users to install whatever they want will remain, but hasn't published details. Many people don't entirely trust them about this.
    • Third-party Android builds like LineageOS won't be affected. These need a device with an unlockable bootloader. They can run any Android app that doesn't intentionally sabotage them (some banking apps do this).
    • Linux distributions for phones exist, and can run Android apps via Waydroid. This provides the most freedom for the user, but the highest effort. This is mainly suited for Linux hobbyists right now.

  • How many daily drivable desktop operating system( familie)s are there?

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  • In this context, I think two operating systems are in the same family if software for one can be recompiled for another with minimal changes without heavyweight compatibility libraries.

    In that sense, I would put BSD and traditional desktop Linux distributions in the same family even though they don't share low-level code, and I would exclude Android even though it uses the Linux kernel.

  • Federated blog platforms? (ideally lightweight)

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  • Wafrn might be worth a look. I've been meaning to try it myself.

  • Federated blog platforms? (ideally lightweight)

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  • Mastodon's character limit is pretty easy to change when self-hosting, but it has other limitations like a lack of even basic formatting and images inline in posts. I think that's true of several of the others as well.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • There is a risk Google could tamper with the app for specific users if they're installing it from Google Play. I think it's likely security researchers would discover that if it was widespread, but there's a chance Google could do it undetected if they targeted it selectively enough.

    People who are concerned about this can download the APK directly from Signal and check its signature before installation.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • Signal uses reproducible builds for its Android client, and I think for desktop as well. That means it's possible to verify that a particular Signal package is built from the open source Signal codebase. I don't have to trust Signal because I can check or build it myself.

    If I don't have extreme security needs, I don't even have to check. Signal has a high enough profile that I can be confident other people have checked, likely many other people who are more skilled at auditing cryptographic code than I am.

    Trusting the server isn't necessary because the encryption is applied by the sender's client and removed by the recipient's client.

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • While I do think everyone should avoid short-form video because it's junk food for the mind, non-users have to care about it because enough people use it that it steers public opinion.

  • Anyone here think smartphones and tech like that kinda peaked in 2019 arnd that time?

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  • I'm still using a phone from 2020. It's fine. If I got something new, it would probably be bigger and lack a headphone jack.

    A new phone would have a better camera than my old one, but it would not be as good a camera as my Olympus, which I use when I care about the result.

  • What's the worst travel delay you've experienced?

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  • The airline probably owes you money under the EU 261 passenger rights regulation.

  • What's the worst travel delay you've experienced?

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  • Thus, a seatless bus. A what?!

    That's pretty common at European airports. It's rare in the USA, but I've seen it.

  • What's the worst travel delay you've experienced?

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  • I had four overnight delays in three round trip transatlantic flights in 2025. The airline was at fault for three of them.

    When the airline is at fault for a delay of four hours or more on a long flight that starts or ends in the EU, they owe the passenger 600 Euros, a hotel room, and meals, so those were long delays but not exactly terrible experiences.

    Getting stuck for 20 hours in the Newark airport due to weather wasn't as pleasant. The airline did not owe me anything because weather is not their fault. There were hundreds of other delayed travelers sleeping on cots in the halls of the airport. They did not have a cot for me.

  • If a multi-dimensional political compass existed, how many dimensions would it have? What would be those dimensions?

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  • Here are some more options:

    • Individualism vs collectivism
    • Essentialism vs constructivism (are important traits of people fixed, or mutable?)
    • Belief in conspiracy theories vs skepticism (people who believe one conspiracy theory usually believe many, also predicts mistrust in institutions like traditional media and scientists)

    It's worth thinking about whether dimensions like these are cause or effect, and political or personality traits. zlatiah points out that there are techniques for identifying which ones cause political behavior.

  • OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse

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    • Reasonable: prevent downgrades when the bootloader is locked
    • Sketchy: prevent downgrades when the bootloader is unlocked
    • Unhinged: hard-brick the device when a downgrade is attempted