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ex-Apple, ex-Yahoo, ex-Digg, ex-NASA(JPL & Ames), “i like pop music”

Previously @Bryan

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Honolulu, Hawaii

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Bryan :tng_badge: , @bryan
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Boost of @yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
Yining Karl Li , @yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Apple has been posting short little ads explaining Mac features starring their new lil Finder guy character. Lil Finder guy is such a great bit of character design; super fun and expressive! I hope we see more of Lil Finder guy in the 27 OS releases; he'd be a great desktop buddy! (1/3)

Hello Pirates, so can I #bittorrent all I want now without using a stupid VPN? #piracy

From link: In a statement shared with Variety, Cox Communications said, “The Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion is a decisive victory for the broadband industry and for the American people who depend on reliable internet service. This opinion affirms that Internet service providers are not copyright police and should not be held liable for the actions of their customers — and after years of battling in the trial and appellate courts, we have definitively shut down the music industry’s aspirations of mass evictions from the internet.

“Internet service providers provide the critical communications infrastructure for millions of Americans [...] Today’s decision allows us to focus on our goals of preserving open internet access, protecting consumers’ privacy, and ensuring that broadband remains a reliable resource for the families and businesses in the communities we serve.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/supreme-court-rules-against-record-163512175.html

Was in ER Sunday for some terrible pain they couldn’t diagnose. Anyway, I have to schedule a bunch of follow up appointments. This means turning off the “straight to voicemail” setting in my #iPhone for all strangers.

So I’m answering all these #spam calls now and they are just dead air? No one is talking or anything? Just I answer say, “hello” and about 5 seconds of dead air later the call ends?

I’m scheduled all my appointments so setting is back on. Sorry dead air spam callers! Next time! 🙄

A number of airports (including SFO) opted out of federally run TSA agents when Homeland Security started the program in 2004. They pay screening agents directly. I’m greatly annoyed more airports don’t opt into this solution…

http://archive.today/8A5QT

Still so much rain in #Hawaii. Was going to go out for some dinner, and then there was a sudden downpour. 😑

Bryan :tng_badge: , @bryan
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Boost of @cas@treehouse.systems
kcxt @ home , @cas@treehouse.systems
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people on reddit are doing a whole lot of yapping about age verification in Linux

I would generally agree that the whole approach of these laws is total dogshit and clearly a wedge issue to enable stricter surveillance laws in the future

at the same time though, the actual implementation and potentially having a portal which exposes the users age bracket seems totally reasonable as a way to implement parental controls... I'm also not totally against holding service providers to higher standards for data processing when it comes to minors, and hey if they're doing that why shouldn't adults get the same treatment?

what im totally miffed about though is why the fuck would you get mad at systemd for adding a birthDate field to userdb, what would you have them do? Would you rather every desktop environment had its own way to store this data??

An XDG portal for this also means you can *trivially* write a stub that always identifies you as an adult or even lets you pick per-app (heck maybe per website! that might be the new cursed way of avoiding trackers under late stage capitalism)

and yeah it sure would be shit if we get real-id laws in a few years, but systemd or XDG standing on "principle" and refusing to implement this API is absolutely not going to lead to better outcomes for anyone. The last thing we want is for users in certain regions to wind up relying on implementations maintained by distros or random individuals, if we need to have this crap the least we could ask is that it's maintained by established and trusted people in the open source community!

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Boost of @grote@chaos.social
Torsten Grote , @grote@chaos.social
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Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

goo.gle/advance-flow

 image version of the information from https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html

#Spectrum decided to upgrade our building network equipment without notice. No internet for the next 4+ hours. I hope this means we get better speeds when they are done. 😮‍💨