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I discovered it when I found it was shipped with CalyxOS and honestly it’s way better than anything else I’ve found.

When a country does war crimes, the entirety of its populace is not to blame, the systems, power structures and people in charge are.

Most people in a country are not for wars or other attacking other countries. This is true for America and Russia alike, to the best of my knowledge (which granted, is anecdotal).

More people should be engaged in activism and should push back against the inhumane actions of their state, and people should be less gullible to the promises of their leaders.

Both America and Russia are overdue for major reform. Their systems are broken and many of their people brainwashed. Wishing harm on them does not help and imo is not a constructive approach. If anything, hate just begets more hate, making things worse.

If you are going to have hate, it should be more focused on the people in power.

Splitting hairs. If you think a group of people are intrinsically worse than others, you are effectively racist.

We can come up with new names, but ultimately it’s all the same. If you think racism means black vs white then your understanding is kindergarten level.

If you prefer, we can use the term bigoted. That term also covers other intrinsic groups like trans, gay and disabled people among others.

I’ve seen both in the UK. Personally, I’m a shoes off guy. Means less cleaning needed.

Shoes off means you don’t wear shoes inside your house. The reverse the opposite.

My brother got an ear tattoo to match the start pattern on his cat’s ear.

Is this sort of thing not protected by labour laws?

But WHERE’S THE PROFIT INCENTIVE.

• Capitalists, when their wives ask them to have sex with them.

“Don’t protect yourself or others, even peacefully. You’re obstructing the oppression.”

Has anyone here actually read the article? As far as I can tell, facial recognition is being increased in availability, but it was already in use.

Every police force in the country will be able to use live facial recognition vans, with the number of vans set to rise from ten to 50.

It’s also worth noting that in the UK for a very long time now any data that is not E2EE can be seized by the government from companies without the consent of their users if a warrant is issued. That’s obviously bad but nothing new.

It sounds like what’s actually new here is that the police is becoming more centralised and organised. Instead of a lot of smaller departments in local areas with lack of expertise, more centralised organisations will do the policing.

The article covers some pros and cons from different people’s perspectives.

• There might end up being more policing in cities and less in rural areas.
• There might be some downsizing of policies forces
• Police forces may be less accountable as they grow.
• Police forces believe they will be better equipped to tackle cybercrime.

Overall, to me, this seems like a generally negative move. I don’t want the police to spy on people, and I want them to be more knowledgeable about their local area and more accountable to their people. It does look like there might be more surveillance, and that’s bad too.

Please read don’t take headlines for granted.

Just binged the whole thing and it’s pretty funny, though a bit objectifying.

When you log into Windows with a Microsoft account, your recovery key is often automatically uploaded to Microsoft’s servers as a backup in case you forget your password. Legally, this means Microsoft owns the key and must surrender it under the U.S. CLOUD Act.

I find that really quite shocking, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Given the legal and technical risks, the advice for business travelers is clear: do not carry data.

The US really is a hostile surveillance state.

It’s not certain this is true, but it’s somewhat likely. At least, that’s what I’m getting from the Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_(tortoise)

She was not kept as a pet by Darwin, but she may have been collected by him on a journey, then kept at a museum(?)

My friends keep telling me to get Instagram so they can send me memes.

No, thanks.

Yeah, that’s why I’d like them to build more social housing.

The lifecycle of social housing projects like these, as I understand them, is meant to be that you continue to build them, and as the old ones reach the end of their lifetime (around 60 years?) you demolish them and move the people into the new ones.

In practice, most places are not continuously building them as they should, so many of them are reaching the end of their lives without a plan for where to move people afterwards. This shows a lack of foresight and long-term planning.

Of course, politics are a fickle thing so the latest government can choose to decide that actually, poor people should be punished for the failures of the system and long-term initiatives fail.

For me I found out when I wanted them to fix something and they refused to honour the warranty because of the blown fuse.

As far as I know, this is illegal, btw. They have to prove that the error you are reporting is caused by user action. If your battery craps out, they can’t blame it on you rooting your phone.

Can I have the, uh, 2010 sketching timelapse video with a Nightcore anime song playing in the background.

Samsung has been blowing fuses in your phone when you root since at least 2015. I know because it happened to me. Never bought one again after that.

Social housing typically doesn’t look as good as high-end apartments, but it doesn’t have to look terrible. Here’s some pretty neat looking social housing in south Paris.

It’s kind of the China Town of Paris.

It’s right next to an accessible tram station, has green spaces and social areas spread around, a couple of malls with great independent restaurants right next door. There are cycle lanes all around the place.

If you’re curious, here it is on Google Maps

I’d live here. I only wish there were more neighbourhoods like this.

This is obvious. It’s literally trained off of English-speaking people’s online comments / posts and designed to give the most likely answer to a question.