"Don't you see? Those people find civil rights offensive too! Why don't we just compromise and only call klan hoods "divisive" rather than "hateful." That will solve the issue!"
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Anyone.
Absolutely anyone can submit a public comment on an agency’s proposed regulation. You do not have to be an academic, expert, or even someone who knows all of the ins and outs of the policy at hand. If you have something to say and think that your perspective could constructively add to the conversation, please comment.
Who would have thought that denominating a rent control measure in a currency with a 211%+ inflation rate would actually not be feasible compared to rent control in a nation where the inflation rate is like 2%?
No wonder the landlords weren't renting as many units to people, because the rent control was being made financially infeasible by hyperinflation.
That's a better photo of it than their own marketing photos 😂
Glad you could confirm its identity!
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So it's clear: This has a link where you can give public comment against the proposed new rules!!!
Go here, and either paste in what the EFF has pre-made for you, or ideally, write your own!
I oppose the USPTO’s proposed rule changes for inter partes review (IPR), Docket No. PTO-P-2025-0025. The IPR process must remain open and fair. Patent challenges should be decided on their merits, not shut out because of legal activity elsewhere. These rules would make it nearly impossible for the public to challenge bad patents, and that will harm innovation and everyday technology users.
And for anyone wondering, yes it's real.
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1990484929533419536https://archive.ph/iBgPH
Apparently there isn't much consensus on what the actual reason(s) are for yawning. Apparently fish yawn though, so that's cool.
Doesn't even register in WHOIS searches anymore for me. Apparently Namecheap will sell it to you for $2.98.
Not all of those videos are fully AI-generated, at least not entirely. (voices and video itself are real, script is AI-generated) They are still slop content, though.
From what I can tell, most of the voices are real (you can hear changes in microphone types & background noises, reverb, natural stuttering, accent changes, proper tone, etc on many of them) but a lot of the scripts seem AI-generated, along with the actual face in the thumbnail, even when the voice is real.
Most of the videos are being generated by a semi-large media generating organization who just pumps out algorithmically optimized videos. I did see a few, mostly from smaller creators, that were entirely AI-voiced as well, though.
I think most of them were just copying the thumbnail design because it got clicks. Not uncommon on YouTube unfortunately.
For anyone curious, the videos are basically just them scrolling through the websites of each, while reading off a paragraph or two of general information about what each is that has that sort of AI-generated tone and order to it.
The video creation process is literally as simple as:
- Ask ChatGPT "write me a script for a short video talking about what Actual Budget is vs. Firefly III"
- Record yourself auto-scrolling slowly through the Actual Budget website, then the same for the Firefly III website
- Record a voiceover of you just reading word-for-word the script from ChatGPT
- Slap them on top of each other
- Clone the thumbnail from the other channels that got the most clicks, just like everyone else is doing, so now all of your videos look the same.
Schools do indeed sometimes teach some conformist lessons, primarily regarding how you should operate as an individual to work within the Capitalist machine.
That does not mean we should abolish all schools. It means we should ensure schools that do sometimes push conformist messages stop doing that, while still remaining the educational institutions that they are.
Schools taught me the math I use every day both at work and at home, the history I derive various meanings and life lessons from, the art lessons I use to relax in my free time, exercise and nutrition advice that keeps me healthy, writing that I've used to publish articles read by thousands, better budgeting, leadership and coordination skills, and even some philosophy that I've used to better understand my place in the world.
Not to mention how schools are the primary way many kids create friendships, as it essentially forces you and many other people to all exist in the same, dense space, nearly every day, for extended periods of time, which is crucial for social development.
Without all of that education, I and many others would be in a much worse spot. I find it absurd you'd argue against a concept so deeply human that so many cultures across landmasses and time periods had some form of education through systems very similar to what we'd call "school" now, because it benefited not just society, but any individual that participated in it.
What do you propose as an alternative to school? No education at all, where we simply hope that people's personal experiences will lead them to the right answers and knowledge they could need for their future?
I can understand that a lot of people would not want a machine that can't play their favorite game. I think it's a bad idea to simply shame them for wanting a machine that can play a game they want to play.
I think it's good to shame the developer and platform that make it so locked-in to the Microsoft ecosystem in the first place.
But if the Steam Machine works for you, as it will for my uses, then I think it's good to support it as an alternative.
So incredibly often. I've found a good strategy is to deliberately bundle in tiny, easy to do tasks that then make actually picking it apart task by task easier.
For example, I'll have a task to do laundry, but also one to just move a few things off my desk to keep it clean. Once I do that, it's a lot easier to just stand up and grab my laundry to go do that, too.
Hell, one of the tasks can literally just be "finish writing the list of tasks"
Why would we abolish a system that exists so everyone gets a level of knowledge that ensures they can both be productive for society, but also productive in their own endeavors, whatever they may be, while better understanding the world and history that led to where they and society is now?
Education is very clearly a beneficial thing, and schools are a good system to efficiently and equitably distribute an education.
No problem, glad I could help! I'd like to think I'm pretty knowledgeable about GrapheneOS since I'm kind of a big privacy nerd, (though I could never match the nerd-iness of the actual GrapheneOS developers, they're on another level with this kind of thing) so if you or anyone else has any questions about GrapheneOS, feel free to ask me those too!
To address the rest of your comment, I'm not sure I'd personally go so far as to say it's because of any kind of "power clash" or government needs. It just boils down to PR and profit. I get being cynical, and I'm sure there's an extent to which it could be true, but I just doubt it given the other reasons they have. After all, I think we both know Google cares more about profit than they do any kind of morals or government feud
For example, GrapheneOS has memory tagging enabled by default, because it's a feature that's possible with some of the newer Pixel processing units. Google does not enable this on regular Pixels... unless you go to Developer Options > Memory Tagging Extension, and change it.
It's there not necessarily because Google really just cares so much about it for the reasons you mentioned, but just because it can allow developers to prevent certain vulnerabilities without too much additional work on their part, and that means it's both easier to develop apps, and there's less vulnerabilities Google has to worry about being reported.
Google doesn't have to add these features for any reason other than protecting themselves from bad press if their phones are hacked, and developer purposes. It's one thing for a company like Samsung, Motorola, LG, etc to have a vulnerability exposed in their phones, but they also don't develop Android.
So if you have the headline "Hundreds of Motorola phones vulnerable to [exploit most people will never understand]", it'll blow over easy. But if you have "All Google Pixel phones vulnerable to [exploit most people will also never understand]", and the article is also saying things about how it raises concerns about Android security as a whole, then it's just a bigger PR deal.
Not to mention that most developers are working on Pixels when they make apps, which means if they want to test any possible security features available from any Android vendor, they can kind of just rely on Pixels to have all of them in one place.
Like if you want to test how your app could use a phone's TPM module, you don't need to go out and pick a specific model of Samsung that happens to have it, you just use a Pixel.
If you need to test for memory leaks, you use a Pixel with memory tagging.
If you need to test accessory compatibility with a USB-C port that suddenly disables all connections, you use a Pixel with a hardware-disable-able port.
If you need to develop an app that can rely on separate phone hardware to externalize random number generation, you use a Pixel with a TPM component.
Essentially to just shorten all that down into what I suppose I probably could have just said from the beginning: Google adds all of these security features because it's good for press (when they prevent vulnerabilities from happening), and it's good for profit. (when developers turn to their phones to make apps, and thus make apps for the whole Android ecosystem faster & safer, and make apps that conveniently work best on Pixels)
GrapheneOS supports Pixels specifically because they have the most hardware security features out of any OEM, which guarantees a lot of security compared to other flagship vendors, because GrapheneOS can utilize them to provide certain security benefits that even Google themselves chooses not to implement on stock Pixel Android.
For example, Pixels support memory tagging (protects the integrity of apps and the OS), have the hardware required for a solid verified boot integration (which allows the whole OS to be encrypted), randomizable MAC address, ability to disable USB at the hardware level, debugging features not being available when the device is locked, and a metric ton of other things.
GrapheneOS's team was not able to find a single other manufacturer that met these standards, which is why they're now working with an unnamed large OEM vendor to create a phone that will meet those specs, to be released "soon."
Pixel phones also have pretty fast and easy AOSP and security patch releases, because since Google develops Android, they also develop public builds for their phones first, which means stock android will work best on a Pixel, whereas it might take a little extra work to function on a Samsung. This means GrapheneOS can push feature and security patches fastest compared to ROMs that support other phone models.
A good example of this in action would be the leaked docs from Cellebrite, which is the company that provides the U.S. government with the hardware and software necessary to break into phones.
For Pixels with GrapheneOS installed, Cellebrite can't break into them:
- Before first unlock (if your GrapheneOS patches are up-to-date, which they should be)
- After first unlock (also if your patches are up-to-date)
- With a PIN brute-force
Contrast that with phones from other vendors, or Pixels with stock android, and...
Cellebrite can break into the vast majority of them, even before first unlock. LineageOS doesn't support most of the software or hardware security features that GrapheneOS does, and as far as I know, still doesn't even support verified boot, which means that extracting all user data from a LineageOS phone before first unlock would be fairly easy, whereas doing so from a GrapheneOS phone before first unlock would be near-impossible.
It all depends on your threat model.
As far as I'm aware, LineageOS still doesn't support verified boot, meaning the system remains unencrypted and is more at risk of tampering. GrapheneOS does encrypt many parts of the system, as well as implementing other security and privacy features. This means if your phone was to be taken by police at a protest, or stolen by a thief with some technical knowledge, the LineageOS phone could be easily broken into, whereas the GrapheneOS one wouldn't.
GrapheneOS adds many additional features to prevent apps from exploiting your system, allows you to disable app network access the moment it's installed rather than digging around settings menus or using ADB like LineageOS can need, and it's considered essentially the most secure and private, yet feature complete Android ROM you can get nowadays.
Pixels simply have many more hardware security features than essentially every other OEM, and supporting only Pixels means Graphene's team can focus on making those work the best. By contrast, LineageOS essentially has to support most phone models, which means sacrificing some stability and security improvements.
From the perspective of privacy, irrespective of security, GrapheneOS will still be better. It's an OS built with the purpose being privacy at its core, with everything built around that. LineageOS is primarily built to extend the lifetime of devices, with the added benefit that Google Play isn't pre-installed and given full privileged access by default.
If your threat model is just to reduce data being collected about you by large corporations, LineageOS will probably do an okay job at that. If you want to maximize the amount of your privacy that you protect from both corporations, and any given actor, whether that be someone shoulder surfing to get your pin, or police cracking your phone with a Cellebrite machine, GrapheneOS will always be a better bet, even if it's just you trying to protect your data from corporate entities.
I will point out, while Pixels don't have expandable storage, you can always use a dual-port adapter for your phone's USB-C port to get both charging and audio jack ports at the same time, and you can add multiple SIMs, as long as it's an eSIM. I've had 2 eSIMs on my GrapheneOS-flashed Pixel phones at the same time, and it's worked fine so far.
In the end, I'd just say, if you just want Google to have less data on you, and you just want less bloatware, and you refuse to get a Pixel because of the aforementioned tradeoffs for you, then just use LineageOS. It's better than stock. If you care about your privacy all around, and want more hardware and software security features, faster security patches, and more assurances of your privacy, go with GrapheneOS.
Never had anyone download from any IA torrents I've hosted. I'd say only do it if it's something you have a reason to believe will be taken down at some point. Whether that be from government censorship, for copyright reasons, etc.
Took me a second to realize how it was meant to be interpreted.
The fact that we could plausibly interpret it as trump calling him correct about something in some way though is still immensely disappointing about our reality.