This might work for consumer markets, but they’ve got b2b partners with deep pockets and expensive lawyers that are not happy. Also, the problem is widespread enough that a class action suit would be a pretty big deal. I don’t think this’ll just blow over.

IMO intell is scrambling to solve a hardware problem with software so they don’t have to do a massive and very, very costly recall.

Until they unequivocally show this not to be the, just hang tight.

I think Smith would hate a lot of what’s going on in modern capitalism, TBH.

bug *ubg

Shocking. Absolutely shocking, I say. It’s almost like we’ve seen this exact pattern a hundred times before.

Yeah, the high end 9 series are (were) great. I’m still using my S9+ and just don’t have any good reason to “upgrade”. I don’t intend to get a phone that doesn’t have a headphone jack and memory card slot.

I do kinda miss having a stylus, though, having come from the Note 4 previously.

FOSS apps are generally more secure due to auditability of the source. Many eyes, and all that. Although I’m sure there’s also reduced interest from attackers on smaller platforms.

Also, malware devs would have the additional constraint of having to either open source their malware, which they probably don’t want to do, or sideload their payload, which is more work for them.

From the picture, yes, Google Play is indeed malware. F-Droid is the way.

Hear me out: inbreeding.

I’d highly recommend hydrus network for that sort of thing. It’s exactly what it’s designed for, and is quite mature but still very actively developed.

https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus

Or shot him as well as 2 bystanders and another cop, and then claimed he had a knife, but that it was subsequently stolen.

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime.
That’s why I use this app to normalize time.

And you can’t out yourself because, in many workplace cultures, the appearance of knowing is more important than actually knowing. :/

Their bones are actually inert. Your bones just want to join their bones doing fuck all all day long. Their bones are doing your bones’ bidding.

I’ve noticed a pattern with this sort of thing, that when people are complicit in systems that they benefit from, they’ll put forward arguments they don’t really believe in because they’re obligated to by their own cognitive dissonance. I was first introduced to a term for this pattern of behavior by PhilosophyTube: a phantasm.

It’s a way of organizing feelings, selective observations and misrepresentations. A way of intepreting the world that also does things to the person using it.

Okay, that’s a bit vague. The video essay goes on to provide some cohesive examples, but if I could try to summarize it:

A phantasm is a self propagating system of incoherent beliefs that a person generates to willingly deceive themselves about their own complicity in systemic oppression of others in order to alleviate cognitive dissonance and maintain the belief that they are a “good” person.

I’ve seen this behavior most notably in alt-right, anti-vax, and conspiracy theorist types, but I’ve also seen it a lot with anti-vegans.

One of the main symptoms of this self deception is to blindly parrot bad arguments that perpetuate their own deception, even when they don’t believe their own arguments are coherent.

I think, sometimes, depending on the severity of the phantasm, this behavior can also be a search for a refutation. Part of them might want to reject the phantasm, and given sufficiently well gounded arguments and/or evidence, some people are capable of rejecting the phantasm.

In any case, I think there’s a lot more going on psychologically than simple willful bad faith. Phantasms are incredibly hard to dislodge when people are emotionally invested in maintaining them, and I don’t have a good answer about the correct approach, or even if there is any sort of generalized right way. It may well be that every single instance requires a unique solution.

New BD toy just dropped.

That seems like a very backwards way to talk about “rights”. They don’t have the right to infringe upon the rights of others, which is the reason they face legal consequences for doing so.

It’d be like me saying “I have the right to kill indiscriminately, and the state has the right to punish me for it,” instead of simply “I don’t have the right to kill indiscriminately.”

Cynical take: Presumably to protect corporations from whistleblowers.

I think what stands out to me is the growing use of legislative power to stop strikes and remove negotiating power from unions. The most recent major example being the then pending rail strike back in 2022.

Sure Trump will be 10x worse, but the Dems really haven’t done enough to address the health and safety of these people, and to protect them from growing corporate exploitation.

Not to underplay the craziness of this, but I’d assumed from the headline it meant annually, but it’s actually current active deals over the period of 2011-2030:

the study highlighted 205 active deals over a period starting in 2011 — with some deals scheduled to last until 2030

Of course that leaves out any future deal that’ll be made in the that period.

It definitely would’ve been nice if they’d given us what they’re spending in an average year.