CNN asked Johnson why he wouldn’t consider moving money around to fund SNAP. He responded, “Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire government, Chuck Schumer and the radicals over there will continue to play games."
It's pretty clear who's playing games with people’s livelihoods. trib.al/2xXpjBZ
Mike Johnson Accidentally Lets Slip Why He Won’t Fund Food Stamps
Mike Johnson accidentally gave away his whole game.The New Republic
The International Criminal Court will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a open source alternative
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Die Office-Suite für die Öffentliche Verwaltung
openDesk bietet kollaborative Office-Anwendungen für die Öffentliche Verwaltung: Textverarbeitung, Chat, Dateifreigabe, Videokonferenzen und Projektmanagement.openDesk
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Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone
Link: github.com/itsfrank/MinecraftH…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
GitHub - itsfrank/MinecraftHDL: A Verilog synthesis flow for Minecraft redstone circuits
A Verilog synthesis flow for Minecraft redstone circuits - itsfrank/MinecraftHDLGitHub
GrapheneOS is great and I recommend it all the time for Android users who are concerned about spying by governments and law enforcement.
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Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
Cellebrite can apparently extract data from most Pixel phones, unless they’re running GrapheneOS.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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EMERGENCY 🆘
POWER SHUT OFF in home with disabled adult and two small autistic children. we paid on time but they shut if off anyways and now there's a bunch of unexplained fees. please help! 🙇♀️ total $689.11
PayPal.me/londonshine
Cashapp: $glamorshark
Venmo: @londonshine
Pm for Zelle
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest
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We partnered with @labornotes.bsky.social for a symposium on unions in the Trump era. What can unions do over the next few years to help stop the MAGA agenda and best position the labor movement for the future? All the stories in this symposium are at this link:prospect.org/2025/10/30/h...
How Can Unions Defend Worker P...
How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0?
A Labor Notes RoundtableLuis Feliz Leon (The American Prospect)
Magpie and Decorative Green Pattern 🌿🌿🌿
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Wildlife-inspired art to brighten your decor. Ideal for bird lovers and interior stylists and designers.
#magpie #bird #BirdArt #JanMatsonArt #australianwildlife #DecorativeArt #InteriorDesignArt #birds #artist #painting #BirdsOfMastodon #CreativeToots
Foot note in the outfield: Toronto's Davis Schneider skips shoes a day before playing for title
https://apnews.com/article/world-series-dodgers-blue-jays-1dd45ad0a5b9ab30de37a9d189e28e44?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Heritage Foundation Defends Tucker Carlson Over His Interview With Holocaust Denier
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes_n_6903d68ae4b0b48d8a1bc37c?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News & Politics @news-politics-huffingtonpost
Heritage Foundation Defends Tucker Carlson Over His Interview With Holocaust Denier
The group's president denounced "attacking our friends on the right."Lydia O'Connor (HuffPost)
In an admission of guilt by Buckingham Palace, 'Plain' Andrew has been stripped of all titles and evicted from the royal residence..
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#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #RemoveTrump #UKPol #USPol #News #HumanRights #Activism #NoKings
Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge
King’s brother will become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says, in latest fallout from Epstein scandalCaroline Davies (The Guardian)
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The second guy, I think he shows up in this video sequence. It’s got pretty effective way of confronting these guys by saying you know you do what you’re doing to your own children something to that effect.
They get really upset. The federal official who apparently ejaculated into his own pants as he shot a pepper ball into the face of a clergy man in Oakland or Alameda.
This is them and they should be made to look at it. It’s what gets them out of bed.
Colombia, chiuso il cerchio sui killer del biologo italiano - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/10/31/colombia-chiuso-il-cerchio-sui-killer-del-biologo-italiano_69852b0b-44dc-4a61-aedd-7655454eeb0b.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa
Colombia, chiuso il cerchio sui killer del biologo italiano - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
La Polizia e la Procura della città colombiana di Santa Marta, con la collaborazione degli investigatori italiani, hanno arrestato il giovane che secondo le indagini ha adescato e ingannato il biologo italiano Alessandro Coatti conducendolo in una tr…Agenzia ANSA
Denmark surprisingly abandons plans for chat control
Surprising turn: the Council Presidency has buried its plans to oblige WhatsApp & Co. to search for depictions of abuse
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#Chatkontrolle #Datenschutz #EU #Netzpolitik #WhatsApp #news
Denmark surprisingly abandons plans for chat control
Surprising turn: the Council Presidency has buried its plans to oblige WhatsApp & Co. to search for depictions of abuseFalk Steiner (heise online)
Microsoft’s agent platform play
https://www.theverge.com/tech/809889/github-agent-hq-platform-play-microsoft-jared-palmer-jay-parikh?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Microsoft’s agent platform play
GitHub is trying to become the center of the agentic coding universe. The platform’s leaders tell us why.Alex Heath (The Verge)
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CT food aid groups ask for support ahead of possible SNAP benefit stoppage
https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-10-30/ct-food-aid-groups-ask-for-support-ahead-of-possible-snap-benefit-stoppage?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Connecticut Public Radio @connecticut-public-radio-wnpr
CT food aid groups ask for support ahead of possible SNAP benefit stoppage
The head of Connecticut Foodshare calls the potential end of SNAP payments a “catastrophe.”Chris Polansky (WNPR)
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Durrell Trust finally ends blood sports tourism on its Scottish estate
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT) has finally bowed to pressure from its supporters and ended pay-to-shoot deer stalking on the Dalnacardoch Estate in Scotland’s Cairngorms where the Trust runs a rewilding project.Protect the Wild
Did you know you can get married in The Shire in NZ? and that Frodo may just crash it?
On #Colbert last night as he is a well known #LOTR megafan. He thought this was great, just too bad that after the wedding, Elija Wood threw their rings into an active volcano.
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'Lord of the Rings' star Elijah Wood crashes couple's Hobbit-themed wedding — in the Shire!
It was their precious. “Lord of the Rings” star Elijah Wood surprised and delighted a couple of fans who were getting married on the Shire set, which is still standing in New Zealand. “We wer…Lauren Sarner (New York Post)
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I have tried many many clients but have arrived at: IceCubes on iOS and Moshidon on Android!
Both have hashtag group timelines, displays which hashtag you're following when a post shows up on your timeline (from following said hashtag) and the UX & UI is very well thought out for both as well.
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Gas companies are raking in high profits while our household bills go up. I've had enough, haven't you? Let's make the UK Government reign in greedy gas for good.action.greenpeace.org.uk
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100-Year Old Wagon Wheel Becomes Dynamometer
If you want to dyno test your tuner car, you can probably find a couple of good facilities in any nearby major city. If you want to do similar testing at a smaller scale, though, you might find it’s easier to build your own rig, like [Lou] did.
[Lou’s] dynamometer is every bit a DIY project, relying on a 100-year-old wagon wheel as the flywheel installed in a simple frame cobbled together from 6×6 timber beams. As you might imagine, a rusty old wagon wheel probably wouldn’t be in great condition, and that was entirely true here. [Lou] put in the work to balance it up with some added weights, before measuring its inertia with a simple falling weight test. The wheel is driven via a chain with a 7:1 gear reduction to avoid spinning it too quickly. Logging the data is a unit from BlackBoxDyno, which uses hall effect sensors to measure engine RPM and flywheel RPM. With this data and a simple calibration, it’s possible to calculate the torque and horsepower of a small engine hooked up to the flywheel.
Few of us are bench testing our lawnmowers for the ultimate performance, but if you are, a build like this could really come in handy. We’ve seen other dyno builds before, too. Video after the break.
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‘Fancy tool’: how China cut chip defects by 99% for near-perfect lithography
In a major leap for the global semiconductor industry, a joint Chinese research team has developed a method that can slash defects in lithography – a critical step in chipmaking – by up to 99 per cent.
The researchers achieved unprecedented clarity by using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to pinpoint, for the first time, the minute sources of common manufacturing flaws.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications on September 30, by Professor Peng Hailin from Peking University in collaboration with researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of Hong Kong, were hailed by reviewers as a “fancy tool” that “would benefit peer researchers and industrial users quite a lot”.
“The team has proposed a solution compatible with existing semiconductor production lines,” Peng said in an interview with Beijing-based Science and Technology Daily published on Monday. “It can reduce lithography defects on 12-inch (30cm) wafers by 99 per cent,” he added, indicating substantial cost benefits to the market.
Lithography is one of the most critical steps in chip manufacturing. “It can be understood as ‘printing circuits’ onto semiconductor wafers such as silicon,” Peng said. “Essentially, an ultra-precise ‘projector’ shrinks and transfers pre-designed circuit patterns onto a special film coating the wafer, which is then developed and fixed.”
How China’s ‘fancy tool’ cut chip defects by 99% for near-perfect lithography
Cryo-ET process pinpoints source of manufacturing flaws to achieve unprecedented clarity and a pathway to major industry cost cuts.Zhang Tong (South China Morning Post)
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Lebanese president calls on army to ‘confront Israeli incursions’ after deadly raid
Israeli troops stormed the southern town of Blida and attacked a municipal building, killing an employee who was sleeping insidethecradle.co
Overheard at the bar,
“You would never call what he’s packing by its proper anatomical name. He has a cock. You hear me? A C-O-C-K. It’s large, girthy, and magnificent … and he knows how to use it.”
Nice
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#Zeteo #SaikatChakrabarti #MehdiHasan
Meet the Multimillionaire Leftist Primarying Nancy Pelosi
AOC’s former chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti tells Mehdi why he’s primarying the ex-house speaker – and Gaza is one of his top issues.Mehdi Hasan (Zeteo)
We Tested 41 Baby Formulas for Lead and Arsenic
CR tested over 40 baby formulas for heavy metals as well as lead, arsenic, BPA, and other potentially harmful contaminants. Here's what you should know.Lauren Kirchner (Consumer Reports)
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Amazon juggernaut continues hauling in more cash despite recent bad news
: The spending will continue until AI revenue improvesThomas Claburn (The Register)
A Chinese research team has achieved a potential breakthrough in chipmaking, developing a method that reduces lithography defects by up to 99%.
Using cryo-electron tomography, they pinpointed the sources of manufacturing flaws. The solution is compatible with existing production lines for 12-inch wafers, promising significant cost savings for the global semiconductor industry.
scmp.com/news/china/science/ar…
How China’s ‘fancy tool’ cut chip defects by 99% for near-perfect lithography
Cryo-ET process pinpoints source of manufacturing flaws to achieve unprecedented clarity and a pathway to major industry cost cuts.Zhang Tong (South China Morning Post)
Thursday Afternoon News Updates - 10/30/25
There's a lot going on. Catch up with me.Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)
Should I filter the name "Andrew"? Do i follow any Andrews that are good people?
Oh shiiii... Are all Andrew's bad?... Luigidammit I can't remember ever meeting a good Andrew! Is it now just a cursed name?
PS: This is a joke post. I'm sure there's at least one...
Right?
RIGHT!!??!!
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Edit: I did filter "andrew" as soon as I hit publish on this.
I'm sorry, Andrew Garfield, but I also could care less about B-list celebs... or any other celebs.
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Right?
"hi, my name is Andrew..."
internal voice... hrm, are they a bit pretentious? Can I escape quickly?
"hi, my name is Drew..."
Internal voice... this person could be cool... I will have more conversation...
Half-good new Danish Chat Control proposal
Denmark, currently presiding over the EU Council, proposes a major change to the much-criticised EU chat control proposal to search all private chats for suspicious content, even at the cost of destroying secure end-to-end encryption: Instead of mandating the general monitoring of private chats (“detection orders”), the searches would remain voluntary for providers to implement or not, as is the status quo. The presidency circulated a discussion paper with EU country representatives today, aiming to gather countries’ views on the updated (softened) proposal. The previous Chat Control proposal had even lost the support of Denmark’s own government.
“The new approach is a triumph for the digital freedom movement and a major leap forward when it comes to saving our fundamental right to confidentiality of our digital correspondence”, comments Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party), a former Member of the European Parliament and digital freedom fighter. “It would protect secure encryption and thus keep our smartphones safe. However, three fundamental problems remain unsolved:
1) Mass surveillance: Even where voluntarily implemented by communications service providers such as currently Meta, Microsoft or Google, chat control is still totally untargeted and results in indiscriminate mass surveillance of all private messages on these services. According to the EU Commission, about 75% of the millions of private chats, photos and videos leaked every year by the industry’s unreliable chat control algorithms are not criminally relevant and place our intimate communication in unsafe hands where it doesn’t belong. A former judge of the European Court of Justice, Ninon Colneric (p. 34-35), and the European Data Protection Supervisor (par. 11) have warned that this indiscriminate monitoring violates fundamental rights even when implemented at providers’ discretion, and a lawsuit against the practice is already pending in Germany.
The European Parliament proposes a different approach: allowing for court orders mandating the targeted scanning of communications, limited to persons or groups connected to child sexual abuse. The Danish proposal lacks this targeting of suspects.
2) Digital house arrest: According to Article 6, users under 16 would no longer be able to install commonplace apps from app stores to “protect them from grooming”, including messenger apps such as WhatsApp, Snapchat, Telegram or Twitter, social media apps such as Instagram, TikTok or Facebook, games such as FIFA, Minecraft, GTA, Call of Duty, and Roblox, dating apps, video conferencing apps such as Zoom, Skype, and FaceTime. This minimum age would be easy to circumvent and would disempower as well as isolate teens instead of making them stronger.
3) Anonymous communications ban: According to Article 4 (3), users would no longer be able to set up anonymous e-mail or messenger accounts or chat anonymously as they would need to present an ID or their face, making them identifiable and risking data leaks. This would inhibit, for instance, sensitive chats related to sexuality, anonymous media communications with sources (e.g. whistleblowers), and political activity.
All things considered, the new Danish proposal represents major progress in terms of keeping us safe online, but it requires substantially more work. However, the proposal likely already goes too far already for the hardliner majority of EU governments and the EU Commission, whose positions are so extreme that they will rather let down victims altogether than accept a proportionate, court-proof and politically viable approach.”
好难回答的有趣问题，我感觉我都能猜到是谁提的wwww
不过要我讲清楚我的看法还挺难的，尤其是其实在我对两者都还没有搞得特别清楚的前提下。我最早对联邦宇宙 vs 蓝天的理解来自我这里提到的这篇文章 hub.moon.moe/@s/11077298434878… （居然已经两年过去了呀……）光是看这里面的对比，会觉得 ActivityPub 的设计有很多难以解决的历史遗留问题，不知道该不该说是设计之初就没想清楚，还是因为以 Mastodon 为代表的“成熟”平台定义了一些习惯法则。ATProto 直接从头试图解决这些问题，光是这样想的话给我的感觉类似于 C# 相对于 Java 的感觉（？）
（如果我理解错了请指正）ATProto 在设计上似乎有很多优势，尤其是我觉得它对于内容发现做了设计，还可以自定义 feeds 的算法，这些对于“社交网络”来说其实是有点必要的。而且它本质上也是为了更好的社交网络而设计出来的，我相信作者们都是带着善意在进行这样的项目的。
不过还是……现在 ATProto 连一个完全独立于 Bluesky 的项目都没有吧？想自己像长毛象实例一样搭建一个站点估计会麻烦得一塌糊涂。顶多能做一个 PDS 但是跟一个完整的社交网络节点差别太大了。不过 Bluesky 用户也许还是蛮多的？
相比之下 Fediverse 其实发展了很多年了人气还是比较一般。但是说实话我已经比较满意了，每天上象也都挺开心的。
我自己有一些脑洞项目用的是 ActivityPub。可以用来参考的现成代码比起 ATProto 肯定是多多了，但说实话也都并没有想象中那么成熟。不知道为什么，可能就还是因为这个领域没有那么多人来关注？也有可能我主要参考的 Mastodon 和 Misskey 的代码质量就是太烂了（其实这两年越来越好了，毕竟都是老项目了也不能要求那么高。。Lemmy 好像就还蛮好的我个人觉得）总之 ActivityPub 就是蛮难用的。比如说 JSON-LD 真的是个有点奇怪的选择，给通信增加了很不必要的复杂度。好多软件比如 Mastodon 都给标准加了一些自己的东西，这种感觉其实很糟糕……有时候会想“既然都已经加入 W3C 标准了，如果大家都能按照标准来就好了”，但很明显标准是满足不了很多需求的，只能希望标准变得越来越完善吧……然后又回到之前那个问题，如果不像 ATProto 一样推倒重来可能很难完善到哪里去。这么说又有点像是大家都讨厌 Python 又不得不用它的感觉（）好吧除了我以为还有谁讨厌 Python 呢其实
我也不知道，毕竟我目前也并没有积极参与任何 ActivityPub 的项目。每次想稍微关注一下都感觉有好多信息看不过来，可能还是我太菜了没法很好调整自己的思考……（你看这条嘟文里也是东扯西扯了一堆。。（无所谓啦
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In a farce of transatlantic subservience, the Netherlands booted a Chinese CEO via a 1952 Cold War law, bowing to US pressure over dishwasher chips. Europe’s “independence” peaked when it traded industrial autonomy for American nodding, triggering Chinese retaliation and European carmakers’ meltdowns. All while leaders hailed the chaos as strategic alignment. If this is sovereignty, no wonder Europe’s a punchline.
asiatimes.com/2025/10/europes-…
#eu #usa #geopolitics
Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order - Asia Times
A Chinese CEO was recently ousted by a Dutch court for alleged governance and financial misconduct. The company? Nexperia, which designs semiconductors.Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa (Asia Times)
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DOJ tried to subpoena an online trans health care provider. A judge quashed it.
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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No.
Americans are completely retarded now.
Those who say North America was uninhabited in 1491 are wrong.
Those who say the US did not have churches in 1776 are mistaken.
Those who think the USA had food stamps in 1880 are incorrect.
Those who say that the Vietnam War never happened are stupid.
Those who think that the USA doesn't have any racists are dumb.
Those who say the World Trade Center is still standing are insane.
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Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order
Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order - Asia Times
A Chinese CEO was recently ousted by a Dutch court for alleged governance and financial misconduct. The company? Nexperia, which designs semiconductors.Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa (Asia Times)
Character.AI cuts off teens from their companions
It's the first big developer to say AI companions aren't safe for under-18s. Will others follow?Casey Newton (Platformer)
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •@GrapheneOS As someone with some security background but well out of the loop on phone OSes... what's the mechanism for this rejection?
Like, is it closer to useragent sniffing or to some kind of signature chain?
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •@varx We have our Auditor app and attestation service for using the hardware attestation API with pinning-based security to provide security monitoring of devices:
github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor
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Look at github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor/… and you'll quickly get the idea of what it can do. We use the secure element keystore (StrongBox). OS verified boot metadata is provided to it by the boot firmware and the OS provides the app package name + signing key fingerprints + version to it too.
GitHub - GrapheneOS/Auditor: Hardware-based attestation / intrusion detection app for Android devices. It provides both local verification with another Android device via QR codes and optional scheduled server-based verification with support for alert ema
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •@varx Ingress uses it to try to stop people cheating by faking their location.
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We aren't sure if Pokemon Go currently enforces it, but it probably will. We've talked to a couple people there on X and tried to convince them to do grapheneos.org/articles/attest…. We know one of the main security people at Block (Square, Cash App, etc.) and are trying to get things solved for those apps. Several banks including Swissquote did specifically implement GrapheneOS hardware attestation.
Updating our Google Play Integrity API settings — Ingress
Ingresseddy
in reply to GrapheneOS • • •But I have a gripe with the AGOV app (swiss govt ID app) which refuses to run on an up to date GrapheneOS, because it finds non stock OSs insecure but runs on a Note 10 that Samsung didn't bother patching since 2023.
All UBS apps run seamlessly though.
Strypey
in reply to evacide • • •> GrapheneOS is great and I recommend it all the time for Android users
I'm definitely keen to try custom ROMs like GrapheneOS, but the main obstacles for me are;
* getting hold of a device that definitely supports one
* figuring out how to install it without bricking the device
* mobile carriers here are getting very fussy about what devices they'll support
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •On that last point, NZ probably needs a comprehensive Right to Repair law that obliges carriers to keep supporting the devices people had when we set up our contracts until EoL. I suspect they'd quickly find a way to patch old devices to work properly without the 3G network, if their only alternative was providing a free replacement ; )
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Kay
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> It may resurface in a smaller form in another term of government
Hopefully it will resurface in a more comprehensive form under the next government ; )
Kay
in reply to Strypey • • •Fingers crossed. I submitted for a broader law including open sourcing software when a company could no longer provide updates, as has happened with some medical devices.
I am however realistic when it comes to NZ government understanding the issues let alone acting on addressing problems in a sensible way.
The Great Llama
in reply to Strypey • • •Your second point is almost a non-issue with Graphene. Having been through the process with other custom ROMs, the steps always felt somewhat fraught. With Graphene, once you've managed to unlock the bootloader (which is trivial if you've bought a bootloader-unlocked phone), you basically plug it into a computer with Graphene's website loaded and hit the button. It does most of the process automatically, and the parts it doesn't do, it walks you through.
Strypey
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> which is trivial if you've bought a bootloader-unlocked phone
Buying exactly the right version of the right device does seem to make it easier. But you know what would be even better? Being able to buy a device with a non-spying OS as the default OS, from a retailer in my country, guaranteed to work with our cell carriers.
@evacide
EloPup
in reply to evacide • • •@GrapheneOS
The only thing that bugs me is that I have to give G00gl3 of all companies money to get a smartphone I can run without G00gl3.
Ough 😞
GrapheneOS
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I‘m fully aware that you guys made a conscious and well thought-through decision with regard to the hardware, there was no criticism implied 😀.
Was just pointing out the irony 😅.
But fully appreciate what you guys are doing, it’s important in many many ways!
Thx for that, and also for the answer here 😀.
Cheers!