“If there were enough people who cared about trans lives to actually change the outcome of the election, you wouldn’t need the law to protect them – you could just make them do it.”

Please God tell me I’m misreading this. People in Texas can just get fucked I guess?

so suppose you let trump win to spite the dnc. then what? what are you going to tell all the people whose rights are being taken away?

Huzzah! A Linux phone with specs that wouldn’t have looked pathetic five years ago!

Actually, those specs are comparable to the Pixel 7a I’m writing this on at a slightly cheaper price! Has the era of the Linux phone begun?

Come on, man, AVR chips aren’t SoCs except in the technical sense.

Aren’t those metallophones? Last I checked glockenspiels were a different (and much smaller) critter

ah yes because all americans are rednecks

I cannot help but notice that Elijah just outed himself as a brony

For now. If Google succeeds at doing this it won’t be.

I use GrapheneOS. What’s it to you?

Almost like mobile operating systems that are open source so I can check for myself that they’re not spying on me exist or something.

ootl-- what happened in 2020?

Go ad-free for free! Just give us your credit card number so we can charge it when you’re not looking!

Seriously, why isn’t this illegal yet? Why has this fallen to the private sector? WHY DO I HAVE TO GIVE A COMPANY MONEY IN ORDER TO STOP GIVING MONEY TO COMPANIES WHOSE SERVICES I’M NOT USING?

Comcast has finally gotten around to giving hosts inside the firewall publicly routable IPv6 addresses, but port forwarding (which, by the way, can only be done through Xfinity’s website or mobile app which then connect to and configure the router through the ISP interface – if you go to the port forward configuration in the router’s webui, all you’ll see is a message that it’s now “easier than ever” to configure port forwards) can only happen on IPv4. Want to open a hole in the IPv6 firewall? Well that’s just too fucken bad.

…please tell me it’s one of those apps that stores the identity on the device.

love the mission and the message, but if i know anything about how things like this go, what it is, is about to die

EDIT: yeah, their about page says they “filter out generative AI images” without even mentioning how. never mind that with the rate the AI field is advancing, no algorithm for doing that works for more than a couple of months. no word at all on how or even if the photos users upload are going to be protected from scraping.

i hate to be a cynic, i do, and i can’t wait for this to age poorly but $20 says the website won’t even last a year

I’m definitely not here to defend hexbear but have you scrolled their front page for even 10 seconds

I don’t hate change, I hate Putin apologism from a space that claims to be left wing.

More to the point I hate brain dead takes like “voting is not harm reduction and if you don’t go 3rd party in 2024 you’re no better than a fascist”

Bluetooth’s digital too, my guy. You need a digital-analog converter either way. It’s just that when you use the Lightning port for audio you don’t also need a Bluetooth radio. Besides, USB DAC chips are like a dollar.

Also you just proved my point that they only did this to avoid licensing fees.

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Why do they need Bluetooth at all though? Why not pull the audio through the Lightning plug like official Apple accessories do?

If I had to take a guess, it’s because the audio signal coming out of the Lightning port is encrypted because Apple hates everyone who isn’t them

As horrified as I was to read this, it is a little exciting to think that I live in a world where Bluetooth radios are so inexpensive that building it that way is cheaper