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  • Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update

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  • There's already a compatibility layer and it works really well. Most android apps run fine on Linux. The big problem is Googles security layer which is also what causes problems for alternative Android builds like GrapheneOS or PostmarketOS. That prevents you from running certain apps (mostly banking but notably also includes Google Wallet preventing tap to pay) on devices with unlocked bootloaders as well as Linux. Any non-official version of Android, or even an official version running on a device with an unlocked bootloader is going to have a problem.

    Beyond that having tried a Linux phone as of a couple years ago it had significant usability problems such as unacceptably high battery drain and the inability to receive push notifications when the screen was locked. Some of these issues may have been solved since the last time I tried it, but at the time the experience wasn't one I would recommend to anyone nevermind the average person.

  • Everyone is stealing TV

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  • As always piracy is a symptom not the problem. People pirate when a) they don't have enough money or b) the experience for paying customers is significantly worse than for pirates, or c) the price of services far exceeds their perceived value. Piracy was down for a while because Netflix and Hulu were relatively cheap (or free), ad free, and the economy was doing OK so most people had a little disposable income.

    Now that we're in a recession that's starting to look like it might turn into a depression and Netflix and Hulu (and others) have cranked the prices of their services up and stuffed them full of ads, yeah I'm not in the least surprised to see piracy surging. Every time you turn around there's another email from some service letting you know they're raising prices another couple bucks a month, and a bunch of people cancel their subscriptions and start sailing the high seas.

  • Air Force One being repainted in Trump’s preferred palette: reports

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  • Aircraft in the presidential and VIP fleet will be repainted in red, white and blue, according to reports from several outlets, including CBS News and Fox News. The new design is also expected to include a gold stripe.

    The photo in the story is the current design. It's Trump so you know it will be some combination of tacky and ugly.

  • Password managers are less secure than promised

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  • Keepass (and its client variants, like KeepassXC which is pretty great) is even more secure because there is no server, just an encrypted file you can store anywhere.

    And simultaneously less secure because it's up to you to handle keeping your vault synced between various devices and most people are significantly worse at keeping systems secure than the professionals at the password managers.

    Self hosting a server of some kind or using something like Keepass on a single device (with offline backups) is the most secure option, but as usual with security doing so trades significant convenience for security. For most people who are uninterested in making sure their servers are kept up to date week to week letting professionals handle it is the better option.

  • Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online

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  • In a truly healthy open source project there are many maintainers from a diverse set of countries such that no one person can stop the project, at best they could stop one fork, but others would still exist. Unfortunately far far too many projects have a single maintainer. The open source world has a severe problem with an unacceptable bus factor on many foundational projects. It's hard enough finding one person to maintain some of these things, finding more is a significant problem.

  • Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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  • They should save time and just ask for the pro-ICE accounts, it will be a much smaller list. Then again most of that list is probably already working for ICE.

  • 330 gallons of sulphuric acid was purchased for Epstein Island

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  • I think that would very much depend on the size of the system. If you're processing a gallon of water a day that's probably true, but if you're doing like 60 gallons a day probably not so much. It sounds like he had a reverse osmosis plant in the island that likely supplied all the water in the island so probably even for things like showers and maybe even swimming pools (I assume he had a swimming pool, it sounds right for a rich douchebag like him).

  • 330 gallons of sulphuric acid was purchased for Epstein Island

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  • Might depend on the source water. The article mentions it's used for water softening so if you're starting with water that has low mineral content maybe it's an unnecessary step.

  • 330 gallons of sulphuric acid was purchased for Epstein Island

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  • The records seem to indicate it was used as part of the island's reverse osmosis water treatment system. There I saved you a click.

  • Homeland Security Shutdown Draws Nearer as Democrats Block Funding

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  • Oh no, people's genitals will remain un-gropped at airports, how will the country continue to function.

    Could they just forget to fund DHS for the next forever, that would be great.

  • British Woman Shot Dead by Father After Arguing About Donald Trump

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  • Stand your ground is about removing the duty to retreat from an attacker if at all possible before defending yourself. It has nothing at all to do with, by his own admission, an accidental discharge. You're right that it's likely due to Texas being a backwards ass shit hole, but it's not because of stand you ground, more likely they just had a bunch of MAGA asshats in the grand jury and they heard a Trumper shot a liberal and just decided to drop the case.

  • British Woman Shot Dead by Father After Arguing About Donald Trump

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  • How the fuck was this not at a minimum accidental manslaughter if not outright murder? I can't imagine any possible scenario with what's laid out in the article where this isn't some kind of crime.

  • GOP senator says she went from ‘I don’t care’ to ‘I see what the big deal is’ after reviewing unredacted Epstein files

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  • That's nice but it means nothing if she doesn't do something about it. Release the files and impeach Trump. Anything less is just putting on a show to try to sway voters for the midterms.

  • Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail. The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.

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  • The take away isn't that they're not incompetent, they absolutely are, it's that the bar to getting away with all of that was way lower than anybody ever thought. All those checks and balances, laws and conventions, and distributed powers ultimately mean nothing if someone controls enough of the government and the one thing Republicans have been highly competent about is making sure a majority of every branch of government has been packed with loyal Republicans. Once that was done nothing else mattered, it's Calvin Ball from here out so it literally doesn't matter that they're all knuckle dragging morons.

    At this point there are only three possible ways of fixing this. In order from best to worst the first possibility is that MAGA doesn't feel bold enough to outright ignore the midterms and they lose their majority in at least the legislative branch. The second possibility is that they fuck with the midterms so obviously that the military feels compelled to actually follow their oath to defend the Constitution and stages a military coup to oust MAGA. The third and worst possibility is that the military fails to act and it's up to regular citizens to stage a revolt which would likely lead to a second civil war. Best case scenario in that case is that the military either sits things out or else fractures and sides in part with each side. Worst case the military sides with MAGA.

  • Voters are worried about the cost of housing. But Trump wants home prices to keep climbing

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  • He wants the biggliest inflation anyone's ever seen. Inflation so yuge Venezuela will be impressed.

  • What Happened To WebAssembly

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  • It's a workaround for the historical trash fire of JavaScript in the browser. Since nobody could agree on a way to do something other than JS in the browsers they came up with this gradual replacement where initially WebAssembly was just a special version of JS, then they turned that into a bytecode interpreter. The end goal was to let you use any language as your browser scripting language but the implementation isn't there yet. It's pretty painful to do anything with the browser APIs via WebAssembly because you're still using the terrible JS APIs rather than something more ergonomic for the language you're using and you need to write JS shims around all your non-JS code.

    Basically it's a start, but it falls short of what's needed. Since you end up needing to write a bunch of JS anyway you're mostly just creating more work for yourself rather than being able to avoid JS in the first place.

    That said, by accident it's also created something close to a universal bytecode since a very wide variety of languages support compiling to WebAssembly.

  • WATCH: Trump says he will revoke church tax exempt status if leaders 'say something bad about' him

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  • I don't think he'd have the ability to target specific churches like that, he'd have to remove the blanket religious tax exemption so it would apply to all of them. I think the only way he could target specific churches is if he somehow got them reclassified as not religious institutions and I'm not sure how he would manage that. Doing that to something like the church of scientology is one thing, it's already on shaky ground, but trying the same thing on something like the Episcopal church is something else entirely. Unfortunately I could see him maybe succeeding at getting TST reclassified.

  • Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.

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  • Any police testimony not accompanied by some kind of recording should be inadmissible in court. Likewise any evidence collected while a camera isn't recording should also be inadmissible. Police have shown again and again that they can't be trusted and they're almost always a less reliable witness than some random bystander. It's about time we actually started treating them that way.

  • WATCH: Trump says he will revoke church tax exempt status if leaders 'say something bad about' him

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  • Oh please let him actually do it. It would be one of the only positive things to come out of this toxic festering dung heap of an administration.