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Erik

@ DelightfullyDivisive @discuss.online

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  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • Corrected to MMS.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • I'm an experienced technologist (a software engineer for over 30 years), I used to regularly install CyanogenMod on my phones. While I didn't find the graphene OS installation to be particularly difficult, I did find actually using it to be too much of a challenge to live with every day. The biggest single problem I can recall is that I could not do any group SMS MMS texts. Many searches and attempts at fixes later, I realized that it was a known bug that for reasons unknown did not seem to affect all users. There were a number of minor annoyances in addition to that bug.

    That may reflect more on how Google has locked down things on the pixel phones, or other stuff they've done to keep things as proprietary as possible in their software and devices. I switched back because it wasn't worth the hassle to me.

  • Unredacted files reveal Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world'

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  • I came here looking for this.

  • Operation Sovereignty - Germany plans a breakthrough from M$

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  • A break, not a breakthrough.

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • Trigger warning: I use a lot of big-tech services from Google for work and non-work purposes.

    YouTube family subscription. It's YouTube Music (equivalent to Spotify for how I use it), and ad-free YouTube (which I watch regularly for long-form science content) for 6 people at $20/month. The price hasn't changed in several years.

    Claude Code API account. I use it to keep my Obsidian notes organized, generate summaries, occasionally code, etc. I spend $15-30 / month on it, paid by my work.

    Google1 subscription. 2TB of cloud storage for $20/month that I share with my son. Gemini Pro included (for now), which is useful for general queries and text processing, code analysis, etc. NotebookLM is better for some things, and is also included.

    Work supplies a ChatGPT subscription that is good for some niche uses, but I could live without it. Once investor subsidies dry up, I'll probably keep the Claude and Gemini API connections, since their prices probably won't change.

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • For those (like me) who didn't know what it was, Nebula is a creator-owned and operated video streaming service.

  • My spirit animal is a duck

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  • Came here to say this.

    Well, maybe not exactly what you said, but similar...

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    What causes chronic pain? A new study identifies a key culprit

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  • It's a rat study. Mildly interesting, but not remotely conclusive.

  • Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now.

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  • I've been scrolling through these trying to figure out if this applies to the paid version or just the free one. Have you tried it to see if the paid version actually pops up ads?

  • Billion-times more efficient nuclear fusion could be unlocked with low-frequency lasers

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  • I think...$5,500 in 2005? Probably not relevant to today's prices. I would imagine the equipment has made things a bit safer and easier, which would probably ... Well I'm sure it wouldn't drop the price because who ever does that? But it probably kept it from rising too much.

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Side Projects

  • The 1st full moon of 2026 rises tonight! Here's what to expect from January's supermoon Wolf Moon

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  • Here is a non-ai generated summary:

    Absolutely nothing. It will look like the full moon does any other time of the year.

  • Why do you need, want and/or have a gun/guns?

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  • No question that banning guns reduces all of those things. In Germany it also made it easier to round up Jews, homosexuals and other undesirables in the middle of the last century. I don't think that human nature has changed since then. Is civilian gun ownership the only thing preventing similar behavior in the US? Or is it irrelevant as I infer that you believe? I don't think that there is a definitive answer.

    There is merit in many of the different points of view on the subject. Unfortunately, most arguments around gun ownership and bans are fear-based. That makes rational discussion very difficult. It also makes it easy to demonize people who don't agree with you.

  • Why do you need, want and/or have a gun/guns?

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  • I noticed that you aren't arguing with the "idiots" part. We have a lot more than a handful of those...

  • Why do you need, want and/or have a gun/guns?

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  • I wish that was the case here (Michigan, USA). We have had two in recent memory.

    What are your thoughts on firearms ownership in the US, given what has happened to our government lately? Do you see merit in the idea of civilian ownership of small arms in our current circumstances?

  • A post about substituting "street drugs"?

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  • Based on my deep knowledge of the methamphetamine trade (which comes entirely from watching "Breaking Bad" ), I'm sure you're right.

  • A post about substituting "street drugs"?

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  • That is an interesting and I think very valid point.

    Many people here in the US have absorbed decades of messaging from various war on drugs campaigns that imply anything not manufactured by a drug company his toxic. There's also been a lot of messaging that self-medicating is only for losers. I think there is a large grain of truth around the concept of self-medicating, but the stigma attached to mental health issues makes it difficult for a lot of people to seek out the help they need.

  • A post about substituting "street drugs"?

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  • I am quite familiar with the effects as well. 🙂 Nonetheless, it did sound like several people were discussing marijuana in particular and claimed that a low dose would help them focus. That's certainly would not work for me.

  • A post about substituting "street drugs"?

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  • That depends on the admins of a particular community, I think. In this case it was just strongly implied by a couple of people making comments that they would be banned if they mentioned whatever the drug was.

  • A post about substituting "street drugs"?

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  • Based on all of the comments here, I'm pretty sure they were talking about meth. I never knew that it was actually sold as an ADHD med.

    I guess that explains why the Reddit mods ban discussion of it, though. People can be so desperate for a "cure" that they'd risk it. I know what an idiot I was about drugs when I was a teen and early twenty-something.

  • ADHD memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A post about substituting "street drugs"?

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    Co-conspirators

  • 50501 General @50501.chat
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    Downtown Detroit today I don't know what the count will end up being. The march was over 3 miles long with a continuous stream of people.

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    New community for CCW

    discuss.online /c/CCW