Yes. All my fedi services are still happy tho :)

Some phones do still work without, but i think most dont.

No i mean it literally is a stage play script satirizing Shabana Mahmood. Some of my favorite sections:

Shabana Mahmood had been dozing in bed when Shabana Mahmood had burst into her room and pulled back the duvet. Shabana forced her eyes open, trying to make sense of this unexpected intrusion. She reached for her phone. Where was her security detail? Surely this must be a mistake.

“I need to call Keir Starmer,” Shabana sobbed. “He will vouch for me. There must have been some mistake.”

“No mistake,” Shabana snarled. “And don’t go bleating to Keir. He’s the one who signed off on all this.

“Can’t you just give me a few more days? Why don’t you go and deport David Lammy first? I can give you his address.”

“This can’t be right. I couldn’t be more British if I tried. I’ve integrated so well I’ve even become home secretary. I’m a Labour politician whom Reform are happy to call one of their own. I have a couple of Union Jacks to drape myself in when I appear on GB News. I’ll even sign something to say I hate immigrants.”

“Not good enough, I’m afraid,” said Shabana. “The thing is you still look foreign. So pack up your things. On second thoughts, don’t bother. Because we’re going to take all your possessions anyway. Everything from your phone, your jewellery to your house. Just so no one comes over here with the idea that they can come over here, contribute and make a life for themselves.”

Fresh from deporting herself, Shabana appeared in the Commons late on Monday afternoon to give an update on her asylum and deportation policy. The system was broken, she said. There were dark forces at work. Somehow she made this sound as if she thought this was a good thing.

I was really confused until i understood that this is a satire comedy story.

some devices will bypass the battery when permanently plugged in. I have an old phone i use as a syncthing node and i log the battery current on it. It never actually gets used by the phone, it only suffers from some very slight internal discharge.

has me reconsidering my use of syncthing

This is about a third party piece of software that isnt directly related to syncthing. The devs of syncthing have however been recommending syncthing-fork as their choice for android, so it definitely needs clearing up.

Especially because some idiot painted over the key and thread.

I really hope our entire government goes to prison for life. I know it wont happen but i wish for it anyway. Merz is a nazi and a terrorist.

The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in effect since October 10 is a key reason for lifting the ban.

There is no ceasefire. Israel hasnt ceased firing for even a single day.

Yeah my thought after reading the headline was “only good if they make that collected data public”, because if its not then this is just like what google is doing with captchas.

Who cares tho. Anyone who sells now still made massive gains. Only gamblers think about “potential gains”.

I havent used this specific app but ones like it, but this should do what you want.

https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.pranav.applock

“If we already have enough resources to completely eradicate poverty from the planet, then why do we still fight over resources.”

Because war and conflict is good for making money.

To answer your question we DONT need to worry about winning the AI race, because there is no such thing. Its just a made up concept that allows companies to claim handouts from the US government under the guise of protecting national security/interests.

Google, microsoft and apple have been loyal dogs for china for many years. This has been public knowledge for at least a decade if not two.

Yes and the new thing that happened is the section “17a” shown in this post i would assume.

From a post here two days ago: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/this-is-a-political-deception-new-chat-control-convinces-lawmakers-but-not-privacy-experts-yet

I guess this is an addendum to this proposal to clarify that these rules dont classify as making scanning mandatory.

The www is the same for everyone no matter which OS you use sadly. The need for accounts doesnt go away completely on linux but at least not for anything OS related. Syncthing was a great example mentioned here. P2P, serverless, accountless, resource efficient, private, secure. Peak software design.

Thats a very good point and probably exactly the idea. Dorsey has always just been an actor that says one thing and thinks another.

They are going to make this into a “1 step back 2 steps forward” type of situation. This is that 1 step back and in a few months there will be 2 steps forward where they will completely ban all non play store apps.

At this point, anyone that doesnt think Israel as a whole should be sanctioned into poverty, similar to how Cuba has been, is a fascism/terrorism supporter in my eyes.

Going to college doesnt allow you to buy a house at 30 either lol