[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago

Is that like a single giant lady finger?

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

Even in the US if you grew up in a rural area, power outages were a part of life and being a distance from a city meant you kept what you needed on hand.

I spent many summer nights playing board games by candle light.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Suburban, etc.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Get the Universal Android Debloat Utility, it's pretty good at letting you know what can be disabled.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Unlocked boot definitely costs more.

There's also swappa, but I've had best luck on ebay. Some sellers are very clear about unlocked bootloader.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Why would manufacturers "stand up" to them?

They sold the phone to them. End of story.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago

This is old news.

Verizon devices have been bootlocked since about 2011.

The OG Droid was unlocked, everything after that was bootloader locked.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Eartha Kitt... Damn, she knew how to sing that song!

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

The Jersey drone story is a great example.

The FAA posted a a security update for the Picatinny area a few weeks ago. Now where did that come from? Some governmental org that wanted to do testing.

But the rest of government was unaware, so could honestly say they didn't know anything about the drone activity.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

This can already be done with a tiny camera and a pocket computer, and we don't have regs around it.

Glasses would make that simpler, but the cat's out of the bag.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

That movie was so much better than I gave it credit for at the time.

Rewatched it recently, a B movie that had more depth than appeared at first (and yes, the irony isn't list on me).

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago

And they won't work anymore with the retirement of analog years ago, 2G years ago, and now 3G for consumer use (I'm assuming that phone was analog/2G).

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Cross-posted from Health

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Project Liberty (www.projectliberty.io)
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From their About page:

Project Liberty is stitching together an ecosystem of technologists, academics, policymakers and citizens committed to building a people-powered internet—where the data is ours to manage, the platforms are ours to govern, and the power is ours to reclaim.

I just heard Frank McCourt on a podcast plugging his book "Our Biggest Fight".

It was great to hear someone with a voice talking about the problems we see with user data and social media, especially the problem of the Social Graph (the map of all your social connections, which includes weights and values).

Their solution to this problem was to develop a social networking protocol that enables any compliant app to use (think how email works - a standard protocol, SMTP), but encrypted and user data controlled by the user. They call it DSNP - Decentralized Social Networking Protocol.

I see both sides of their approach, I'm kind of ambivalent, lots of concern here long-term.

They've already acquired MeWe and have converted some users to this protocol. He wants to buy the US side of TikTok (if it becomes available) and convert it to DSNP, which would encrypt about 30 million US accounts.

I'm always cynical about stuff that sounds promising, but I don't have the tech background to really dissect what they're doing. Anyone understand this better?

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I have no idea where to even start to combat such things. Healthcare professionals must appease the masses of their peers.

I've seen this first hand in the corporate world, where it's called a 360 review. It's a popularity contest.

While there's value in the idea of such reviews, they're ripe for abuse. It codifies an environment of dishonesty - where people who are good at masking (err, sociopaths anyone) excel.

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