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Burger King will teach your grandmother to suck eggs!

I’m a programmer who’s never used AI. Instead of spending my time correcting and confirming the correctness of generated code, I’d rather figure it out for myself. I think this helps me reinforce my skills and understanding in the long term. Plus it’s one less thing to rely on/maintain/pay for.

People with “nothing to hide” typically still have blinds on their windows and locks on their doors, so you know that statement isn’t true.

Maybe you think you have nothing to hide now, but what if you need to take sensitive photos to send to you or your kid’s doctor? There’s been at least one case where Google decided to delete a father’s entire account for that.

My current setup isn’t available outside my house so I was planning on hosting something like WireGuard. What’s the advantage of Headscale over a more traditional VPN?

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This makes the emoji movie look like Citizen Kane

I know this is a meme and not GitHub, but I thought some people might like to learn that if you do please shutdown && thanks it won’t say you’re welcome if the shutdown failed

I use Pay Respects now

I suspect I’m at least a little bit autistic and I’ve been obsessed with NixOS since I installed it on my primary computer over a year ago.

Before that, I always appreciated the concept of making a lot of tweaks and customizations to one’s computer, but I never did it much because it was never as easy to review and document those changes as it is with NixOS + git.

I suspect they came up with a process for doing the conversions / redactions that worked for the documents they tested it with, and then applied the process to documents in a slightly different format and just didn’t notice. The Verge looked into it and couldn’t get a more specific answer than this:

With MIME, the “=” is used to signal either that a string of text should be broken for transmission and rejoined — a “soft line break” — or, when followed by two other characters, that it should be converted to a particular non-ASCII mark.

it doesn’t fully explain why the “=” sometimes replaces letters, like the “J” in “Jeffrey.” No one I spoke to could definitively answer this question, except to say that email is hard and converting it to PDF is harder, and the DoJ was converting a lot of documents in a hurry.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/879016/epstein-files-emails-text-errors-encoding

postmarketOS, Mobian, Ubuntu Touch, and Mobile NixOS all seem to have recent activity.

As for hardware, although the PinePhone Pro got lukewarm reviews, maybe they’ll iterate and get better or at least prove to other companies that there’s a demand for Linux phones.

I’m hopeful there’ll be at least one usable option within 5 years or so. And if not, I’ll be sticking with GrapheneOS.

For my next phone, I’m planning on getting a used Pixel or possibly something from whatever OEM they’ve partnered with

Typing this out using HeliBoard now. So far so good, thanks!🔥

What model do you have? Does it support any open source firmware such as DD-WRT, OpenWrt, or FreshTomato?

GrapheneOS doesn’t support Motorola phones

Here’s what I’ve done:

• Delete your advertising ID in the system settings
• Disable the other ad-related settings
• Disable tracking in the keyboard app (long-press , to get to settings, then click “Privacy”) or switch to HeliBoard
• Avoid the Google Play store when possible
• Use F-Droid and Obtainium instead
• Install the DuckDuckGo browser and enable DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection (I only use the DDG app for app tracking protection and email protection; I don’t browse the web with it)
• Install Firefox with uBlock Origin
• Set DuckDuckGo as your search engine in Firefox
• Make sure your next phone supports GrapheneOS and install that instead of normal Android
• Wait for real Linux phones to become viable and use that in a couple years

Stuff I haven’t done yet but probably will eventually:

• Replace the default home screen app (your home screen is an app, btw)
• Replace the Google keyboard app

I haven’t looked for good alternatives for these yet so if anyone has suggestions, I’m listening!

Great question! No, I can’t.

Not even worth pirating

Ahh, thanks 🙃