This was ONE GUY??? What a legend! I hope his family knows the giant positive impact he’s had on so many people, and is able to find some sort of comfort knowing he will be missed by so many strangers. A true tragedy.

Edit: autocorrect

Interesting delivery on quishing. Ingenuity was never their weakness, I suppose.

I hate that we need this.

I’ve been on calyxos and grapheneos since at least 11, and didn’t realize they were gone from the google variant of android, since I’ve had them this entire time. I wonder, now, if it’s an AOSP thing or a calyxos/grapheneos thing.

You just described about 60% of the internet. It’s infuriating it came to this.

Eu needs to just block fb en large and be done with it.

The company said the changes are for users in the European Union, in response to evolving EU regulatory feedback

Sounds like a petulant child throwing a tantrum for being told ‘no’.

minimal set of data points including a person’s age, location, gender, and how a person engages with ads.

Sounds like they’re skirting the regulation.

allowing people to connect with the brands and products that are most relevant to them.

“Connecting with brands and products” is not even remotely close to why people use social media.

Tf are they going on about?!

Angels in the Outfield was a strange movie.

Agreed! When everything is actively against us, we must band together against everything.

I think I’ve seen this plot in the movie I Am Legend.

If you have a factory pixel, you don’t need to root. You can unlock bootloader and install a rom that has it (calyxos or grapheneos I know have them). You can root, but you don’t have to.

Didn’t know that. Just been manually rebooting. This is is much easier and more secure. Thanks!

I saw the name, and immediately thought, “sweet! Another kde tool!” Then finished reading the title lol Looks like a good editor nonetheless

Edit: requires access to manage storage, which is excessive for a text editor. Pretty sure it has to do with its other features, which is fine, but I don’t feel comfortable with this type of access for any third party app. If you’re fine with this access, Xed/Karbon really looks useful. I might add it to my coding tablet.

GPT4All and Jan.AI are good places to start.

You also use Signal :fistbump:

Nice try

🎶 Beauty and the beast

We each have our own levels of acceptable privacy posture. Signal make it easier for the masses to get off, say, Whatsapp and feel little to no real hurdles. I agree with you, though, that the phone number and physical phone requirements are a hard sell for people with a more strict posture requirement, which was the reason it took me long to get on it. But, alas, I had to settle, because SimpleX wasn’t available on iOS at the time (my family and friends are on iphones) and it is much more private that Hangouts or Whatsapp (which I still can’t believe we were on). We did try Matrix for a time, but it wasn’t “production ready” then, which was a deterrent to them as well. Signal being centralized wouldn’t be a huge deterrent for me, if it wasn’t for their continuous push to keep it that way and them actively preventing decentralization, both of which have been scratching me the wrong way for a while. I had a conversation with my groups to switch to something else, but they’re not all on board. Signal, they say, is “as easy as Whatsapp and more private”. I mean… they’re right, but we could have better.

Aw dang. You got a point…

Care to elaborate? I haven’t heard anything concrete against it.