The fact there’s no double-jeopardy (triple? quadruple? Something not infinite at least?!) for indictments astounds me.

Then again it shouldn’t surprise any more – the US system seems to have a billion holes, like swiss-cheese, only left unexploited up until recently because those in power had, maybe, some small shred of shame and decency. All those loopholes must be absolutely sewn shut, and ‘conventions’ and ‘gentlemenly guardrails’ need to be made hard, fast, and most importantly ENFORCED laws if the country is to ever recover. I’m not hopeful.

I don’t know how far we should/need to go … but all I do know is that the current state of mergers, consolidations and cartels in a lot of industries is, well ‘too much’. I don’t pretend to know what the proper balance is but it certainly ain’t what we have today.

Take the recent news of RAM price explosions and Micron just stopping sales to retail for their RAM products. RAM is such a critical item in today’s world there almost should be some guarantee enforced by governments that it remains affordable for people; we can’t live in modern society without affordable computing devices.

Yay, more consolidation! /s

Good. The more projects that move off of github, the better. It’s a dangerous dependency-sinkhole at this point, and has been for some time. De-centralize!

At some point we’ll just have to tunnel IP over DNS, and then they can’t block traffic without destroying the entire internet. Not that it’ll dissuade them.

Yeah, hard pass. Don’t let an OS which has a walled-garden by default for apps get a toe in the door. Android is based in Linux, use that instead.

Ah. That’s nasty, what a pain.

Forgive me but what is intune? I did a quick search and just found some Microsoft endpoint protection thingie – there is mention of a Managed Google Play but I have no idea what that would mean.

I haven’t yet tried – planning to do that in the next day or so when I get the time.

Others already replied with promising results, I sure hope they work for me as well (Scotiabank in Canada is particularly annoying in this respect in my experience, with LineageOS I had to use Magisk and define stealth rules specifically for their banking app).

Edit: As for camera, I’ve only tried the GrapheneOS builtin/default camera app. It’s pretty basic, but I should see if I can get the Pixel9 official camera app on there, it would be nicer to use if possible but the basic one is probably good enough for my purposes.

I took the jump and installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 9 this weekend. Easiest alternate OS load I’ve ever done, didn’t even need to see a command line. (I’ve put LineageOS on many a phone and GrapheneOS’s web-based installer is amazing).

Loving it so far. I have three profiles, the main ‘Owner’ with NO google services/app store at all; and two more ‘Personal’ and ‘Work’ profiles that have Google stuff that I alone chose to install.

Amazingly GrapheneOS even lets you deny Google App Store itself permissions to install from untrusted sources (in this case, Google App Store itself) – I was suprised to see installing just App Store triggered attempts to then load: My Pixel, Google Photos, Fitbit(!!? WTF), and a few others, without any confirmation first. Was able to shut that shit down immediately. (I had never, ever installed Fitbit on my previous phones, so there’s no excuse to install it “from my previous device” or whatever…)

I hope GrapheneOS spreads to other phone models. And I’m sure Google has a team planning on how to strangle it before it does…

Colombia’s next… someone snapped a photo of one of the admin’s goons with an open folder and pics of both Venezuela’s and Colombia’s leaders on the same page. I don’t have the link but it was posted a few days ago.

…and she apparently (allegedly) is musing a run for President in the future. So she has to take on a new mask … for now.

Indeed, just to prove the point they should be pressing for perjury charges.

“Lather, rinse. Repeat.”

That last word by itself ballooned profits immensely when added to the label on bottles.

Think about the typical toothpaste picture on the box, a big long snake of paste, too long in fact to fit on the brush, it has to curl up and back a bit. That much makes one look like a rabid animal overflowing with froth, and is just excessive.

That last one was a Sumatran Rat Monkey. :o

Rogers in Canada has pixels that allow unlocking the bootloader (just got a pixel 9, and once I have some time I’m going to try putting a custom build on it).

I understood that reference

A wild ‘D’ suddenly appears! (that’s about all I know about Pokemon…)

“AI” hallucinations are not a problem that can be fixed in LLMs. They are an inherent aspect of the process and an inevitable result of the fact that LLMs are mostly probabilistic engines, with no supervisory or introspective capability, which actual sentient beings possess and use to fact-check their output. So there. :p