https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s/

It’s a Linux phone on Debian that uses Android drivers, so all the normal functions (calls, SMS, etc.) work perfectly. Battery life is a full day.

Oh good, I’m glad we’re finding time for this as the global economy collapses.

Hard to imagine how anything could be worse than the current state of things.

“No way to prevent this, says only nation where this regularly happens”

At least we have our guns to stop a tyrannical government, amirite?

Ah, thankfully the Ministry of Truth is here to set the record straight.

Kicking the tires, so to speak. If the tires were people.

PebbleOS was awesome, though. Such a well thought out system for end-users, and it already has tons of apps. Developing for it (in C!) is also super easy because it has an amazing SDK.

TIL 😣

But not used for Americans and legal US residents to my knowledge. Yet……

It’s funny a Portuguese person just told me the same story happened in PT to justify anti-trans positions. So it’s the same bullshit story, localized, and repeated.

It’s not stealing when billionaires do it.

Lovely. I’ve always wished for more lead in my air.

Art of the Deal

Polish scrabble’s worst nightmare

K-9 mail is literally Thunderbird. It’s been rebranded and taken over by Mozilla. They’re keeping the k-9 branding as its own (otherwise identical) app as a nostalgia token for the people that have used it for a long time.

Firefox automatically updates to install new privacy-abusing features like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974112. So getting all the settings right once isn’t enough—you need to be constantly vigilant.

Like you said, a fork is a much better option, since they take care of stripping out the user-hostile nonsense for you. I like Librewolf.

I’m switching to Librewolf. I don’t want ads in my browser.

YouTube for Nazis

The color ones have lower resolution screens and less contrast+brightness than black and white. If you read comics it’s a big step up, but if you read mostly black and white text, it’s a downgrade.

I’m not sure of the specific case numbers but searching brings up many sources, e.g. https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/ (2006)