They know it’s BS but they’re not concerned with providing anything of value. It’s all about making a profit at any cost. If it’s legal they’ll do it, screw ethics. Hell, if it’s illegal but the punishment is a fine, that’s just the cost of doing business. Fuck MBAs and suits.

In the United Kingdom yes because of our authoritarian Online Safety Act that came into power earlier this year. If I join a discord channel marked as nsfw I get a prompt for id which I bypass with a VPN in another country.

The issue with this is that like 95% of android devices run android with gapps and re-imaging your phone is becoming increasingly more difficult as manufacturers lock down their bootloaders. Normies who aren’t technical are not gonna want to mess with that shit. I’m not saying this to instill hopelessness but highlighting that it’s a challenge.

For censorship circumvention, mainstream tech is gonna continue to be increasingly useless. We need to educate people about these matters and also try to encourage people to lean heavily into decentralised comms like lora/meshtastic

They’re banning non google-drmed app installs

Same take my friend. I agree - Tim’s personal politics are kinda irrelevant in this context. Best for apple=compliance with whoever is in charge so they get to keep their money printer. Corpos gonna corpo

You’re giving apple too much credit. Tim Apple literally gifted trump a golden statue. The press are reporting that this is directly in response to a request from the DOJ. This isn’t apple having a moral epiphany and thinking they’re doing ice targets a favour. Corporations don’t do that sort of thing unless it will make them $$$

I personally only visit neighbourhoods where the frogs respond to my chirp of greeting by rolling around on their backs and allowing me to pet their tummies

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That’s cool! Can you recommend any resources on this? I’ve thought a lot about this sort of thing. I’m guessing semiconductor fabrication requires a lot of complex upstream tasks and isn’t the sort of thing that’s feasible at home. Would love to be wrong!

Love him in any roles where he uses his regular British accent. Let’s not make him do Baltimore accent ever again. In fact, probably best we forget that happened l tbh

Not sure when exactly but some banking apps in the UK refuse to run if they detect developer mode is enabled and, given the general trend towards locking everything down, I expect many other mainstream apps to enforce these checks at some point.

I guess one could run two phones, an official phone for banking etc and another one with dev mode for pissing around but these rules will reduce the number of people who install unverified apps to a very small number

Yes they are, for all intents and purposes, making it impossible to turn off advanced protection. The only way to install unverified apps will be via developer mode and if you turn that on a bunch of apps refuse to run until you turn it back off

I think a better one is “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”

Make the choices that are within your remit to control but cut yourself some slack for not being able to entirely subvert the current world order as one person. We need to be better organised for that.

And, like you said, don’t buy products made with child slavery.

Kind of cool of them to lay on one car per tourist visiting Vegas this season!

Working as intended! POSIWID in action

Aphant here! I would actually love your theory to be true but unfortunately no amount of training or practicing makes me better or even able to visualise. Believe me, I spent many years trying and practicing art before I heard about aphantasia and realised thats what I have.

If I looked at 10k slop pictures and their corresponding prompts I wouldn’t be able to imagine the outputs any more than I already can (which is not at all).

Likewise I can’t do meditation or self-hypnosis where the guide says stuff like “imagine you’re lying on a beach” etc. At least it makes me immune to those stage hypnotists who try to get someone suggestible up on stage.

veilid is a framework designed for hosting completely anonymous P2P apps. They already have a chat app reference implementation - (think P2P signal) and there are others popping up like vdrop

You should see how many calories are in plutonium and uranium. If you eat a pellet of either one it will be the last meal you’ll ever need in your life!

I can think of a couple of good things!

We proved the efficacy of mrna vaccines and deployed them at an unprecedented scale against a novel virus that had us all locked in our house. If it hadn’t worked, our governments were pinches this close to sacrificing us all for the greater good economy anyway so realistically these vaccines probably saved billions of lives.

We’ve also deployed a huge amount of solar energy and started replacing combustion engines with electric ones on a huge scale in some countries.

There has also been a lot of bad stuff though…