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  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • Sure, but we are talking about the US here.

    Or are you all busy building tunnels and bunkers over there? Organise in your neighborhood and build local groups?

    Pretty sure that if the media starts calling these guerrillas terrorists, anti-american, instigators of violence, Communists, Antifa, and so on, they will loose public support and without broad local support in the population, guerilla fighting will not work.

    Afganistán and Vietnam fought guerilla against a foreign invasion. US would have to fight 'guerilla' against their neighbors and other Americans, against people like them... I don't think this is comparable.

  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • In an all out war, (which I doubt will happen) all these guns in the population don't matter against drones, aircrafts, tanks and trained snipers or other soldiers. If the military and all other agencies decides to support Trump, all these weapons will be useless. The pentagon surely has plans for a civil uprising in their own country.

    I don't think the US has enough ordinary citizen that would actually risk their lives for democracy, to make a difference. Media and social media is controlled by the oligarchy, and even the progressives don't seem to want to cut themselves loose of twitter, Facebook/Whatsapp, google, bluesky, discord and so on. Where would they even organize?

  • Power bricks and wall warts for EU market must include detachable USB-C cables by 2028 — New legislation also adds power rating labels for cables

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  • True. As aren't USB-C extension cables.

    But, AFAIK, the issue is about the power rating. I buy these adapters that are rated for 120W, on devices that use 65W max, and hope for the best.

  • Power bricks and wall warts for EU market must include detachable USB-C cables by 2028 — New legislation also adds power rating labels for cables

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  • Yeah... I started using magnetic USB C adapters, because I fear that I accidentally damage them, or that I just wear it down. But those are a bit flacky...

  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • If it would run a open source firmware or be open source hardware, it would be nice. But they are using a non-OSI/non-FSF license, so it is not open source.

  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • I would argue that it depends a lot on what kind of beginner you have. If you have someone that only uses basic desktop PC functions, like browser, email and maybe stuff like video, photos and documents. You can set it up once, and then have a system that updates itself reliably and has minimal maintenance overhead and isn't easy to break.

    In my experience that system is more robust and gets updated than a generic Debian system.

    Of course there are downsides, and those include issues caused by apps running inside flatpak, like system themes are disrespected, opening files in one app, doesn't respect the xdg-mime settings for the file type and open them in unexpected apps, printer does not work... But those are just bugs, and they need to get reported and fixed.

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • Well, good to know.

    I was thinking more about the way of Android security models, and that it would make sense for GOS to restrict available storefronts to stay consistent with their way to implement them. But good to know that it will not automatically happen just by updating the google services.

    And I would also think that people would likely complain if they where to implement it in a different way.

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • Well... The Android security model, as it is implemented in stock android and GOS, is about top down control, the full trust is given to the system vendors, not the end users. No rooting for instance. From this perspective not allowing installation of apps that cannot be blocked by the system vendor, fits well with that model.

    TBH, I am not a fan of that security model. And this is my critique of GOS. It doesn't allow the user full access to their device, so that they can check and control what each application is storing or sending to third-party servers. Instead it is on full security and allows apps to store and transfer information to which the user has no access to.

    But the system vendor/developers would have that access, because they control the whole base system.

    The focus of the Android security model and in turn of GOS is on security, at the cost of privacy or freedom.

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • TBH I would actually expect GrapheneOS not to disable these checks. GrapheneOS devs pride themselves to have the best implementation of the official Android security model, and enforcing signature checks is likely part of that...

    They might add additional certificates I guess, to allow their own apps, and maybe a selected few others.

  • Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

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  • Probably all of them... I mostly play single player games, which I either mod, and/or edit memory/save games to skip grindy parts. I am there for the story, exploration and puzzles.

    By the most different way I play, would be Beyond All Reason, where I mostly just spectate public matches, since I am pretty sure I would be stomped, and to get good at it, might be out of my abilities. But watching is fun.

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • Once it passes inspection, the F-Droid build service compiles and packages the app to make it ready for distribution. The package is then signed either with F-Droid’s cryptographic key, or, if the build is reproducible, enables distribution using the original developer’s private key. In this way, users can trust that any app distributed through F-Droid is the one that was built from the specified source code and has not been tampered with.

    https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • The issue there AFAIK is that some app builds aren't fully reproducible, because if they were the developer signature would still apply and be used. In the reproducible case the security of the build infra wouldn't matter, because the same app would be produced the same regardless were they are build.

    Without reproducible builds, you cannot really trust the software anyway, because the Dev could hook some hidden code only for the released binary app and sign that.

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • Na... The likelyhood of installing some bad or fake app from google play store is much higher than on fdroid.

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • The 'availability' is misleading. If they offer OpenVPN or Wireguard then they are available pretty much anywhere.

    Using just plain Wireguard or OpenVPN configs would also be much better than installing random VPN provider apps.

  • Well well well.

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  • Hmm... I am using git for maybe 15 years... Maybe I'm just too familiar with it... and have forgotten my initial struggles... To me using git comes natural... And I normally pay a lot of attention to every single commit, since I started working on patches for the Linux kernel. I often rebase and reorder commits many times, before pushing/merging them into a branch where continuity matters.

  • Well well well.

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  • Sure, I sometimes messed up with git, but a git reset , checkout, rebase or filter-branch (In the extreme cases) normally fixes it, but real issues are very rare. And I use git a lot... But only the CLI, maybe people have issues with GUIs?

  • Well well well.

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  • Isn't it the exact opposite?

    I learned that you can never make a mistake if you aren't using git, or any other way for having access to old versions.

    With git it is really easy to get back to an old version, or bisect commits to figure out what exact change was the mistake.

    The only way I understand this joke is more about not wanting to be caught making a mistake, because that is pretty easy. In other methods figuring out who did the mistake might be impossible.

  • Unified Theory of American Reality

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  • I think humanity is really slowly being replaced by LLMs.

    Presentation and simple, but stupid and wrong ideas, are preferred over actually researching and understanding situations, isolating the underlying issues and working on ways to resolve or at least lessen them.

    Just like LLMs, fewer and fewer people seems to care about a deeper understanding, and more about if the stream of words look 'good'.

  • Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed

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  • Maybe, but in the Kimmel case there could have been other reasons too. Like Hollywood people not wanting to make business with a company that would just cancel contacts when they have opinions on public. Disney needs those people, arguable more than subscribers.

    IMO, consumer boycotts don't really work in general, here it might have worked, but it is also possible it worked for other reasons.