It is because of the copper mine there. It used to be controlled by a US company called Freeport McMoRan that used Indonesian military to oppress the indigenous population.

because of the bad vibes there…

I started winding down when Alexis Ohanian fired the AMA subreddit’s organizer; lied to her face; and blamed Ellen Pao (CEO at the time).
I started going there only when desperate after the API scandal.
The only thing that I miss is the ability to see just the subreddits I specify in the url (i.e. r/news+technology+worldnews+etc+etc)

This will be the new America. A country who backs Israel no matter what, even war crimes.

If US puts tariffs on many countries, that many countries can just trade with each other. US is just self excluding itself

They can form their own Blackwater and charge gazilion dollars to operate in the same places as they were before

This should be fantastic for hackers, there’s new target(s) beside SWIFT.
If Swift could still be hacked, this payment needs to really ramp up their security processes pretty quick before some hacker steals money from it

GrapheOS now officially supports…

[please… something other than Pixel…]

Pixel 9

FYI for those thinking of migrating to pixel watch: Big oof: The Google Pixel Watch 3 can’t be repaired, only replaced

Glad I moved to Garmin a while back. I preferred Fitbit’s Dashboard over Garmin
When I heard Google’s buying it, I got a Garmin for my next smartwatch just to check the UI. I was thinking of moving back, but I guess I won’t.
Garmin seems to be embracing smartwatches with a number of different series

Wish Graphene suports more than just Google Pixel