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- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 1 hour ago:
Are there any instance administrators in Nepal to jail?
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 11 hours ago:
The problem is that if you can access one, you can access all of them. It doesn’t even matter how you access the one. Even if you access it over tor, as long as you can get to one instance, you’re in the Federation.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 12 hours ago:
They’re still tor.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 14 hours ago:
I’m betting GitHub is not the only place that the code repo is mirrored. Sure, it might be there, but something tells me it’s on a bunch of people’s computers as well, for people who work on it, or have just forked the repository. And there’s probably even copies of it on other mirrors, such as Code Bird, etc. in private repositories.
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 14 hours ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 14 hours ago:
And as we all know, that would not ban it entirely. They’d have to block every instance, every new instance that comes online, the main web page, the code repository, etc., to even have a hope of banning it.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 15 hours ago:
I wish them luck banning Mastodon, Lemmy, and Nostr… Oh wait, they cant
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 15 hours ago:
Can’t have sex with an AI though… Yet…
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 19 hours ago:
Yeah, I was just using Sidewalk as an example of something a smart TV could use something like that.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 22 hours ago:
Actually, it’s true. Amazon’s sidewalk works in a similar way, where if the sensor is not connected to the internet, it will talk to local Echo devices like your speakers that are connected to the internet and pass the data to Amazon through your device’s network.
TVs will look for open Wi-Fi networks. And failing that, they could very well do this exact same thing.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 22 hours ago:
I’ve hit that same wall. I’m perfectly happy with a $300 smartphone, because it does absolutely everything I need to do, fast enough to not make me want to throw it across the room, and well enough that I don’t notice the difference between it and a high-end device.
Do I notice the difference after three or four years of having the device and finally upgrading it to a new device in that price range? Sure, I notice it. But day to day use, I don’t notice it and that’s what matters.
- Comment on The frightening world without the dollar 3 days ago:
I have begun measuring my net worth in Monero, and the dollar is just a currency I use in small amounts in order to get the things I need day to day, but I do not hold dollars in any significant quantity. I don’t want them. When I receive dollars, I keep just enough around to pay for my normal expenses and get rid of the rest into Monero as fast as possible. It’s somewhat difficult to do right now, but I can even do some expenses in my head directly in Monero without thinking of the dollar at all for what an item would cost. And that mental shift is a big step away from the dollar.
Just as a quick example of what I mean is that I absolutely would not pay more than four Monero for a phone, no matter what phone it was, and I would much rather pay closer to one Monero for a decent mid-range device.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 3 days ago:
Mainly goal setting and tracking. You could say, for example, that your goal is to raise 50 Monero, and each donation to that address will show up on the site as adding to it, and the donor can leave you a message if they wish.
It allows everybody to see exactly how close you are to your 50 Monero goal, etc.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 3 days ago:
Ah, yeah. Kuno is Monero only
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 3 days ago:
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 3 days ago:
You could also set up a page on kuno.anne.media.
It’s a Monero donation platform, so even if they were to remove your page, the donation wallet you set up for it would still be able to receive donations even without them.
- Comment on The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding" 3 days ago:
Hosts proprietary apps, no thank you, and does not allow for third party repositories, so if they are told to take down an app, there is no recourse.
F-Droid FTW
- Comment on The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding" 3 days ago:
Fuck all.
It also brings several downsides. The strong focus on security at all costs means there are no third party app repositories, so if a government entity tells them to take an app down, it’s just gone with no repercussions or recourse. Gov tells F-Droid to drop an app and its gone until the dev launches a tor onion repo and then its like nothing happened.
Play centralized games when centralized prices.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 6 days ago:
I don’t think you understand how decentralization works if you think these laws could possibly be applied to the global internet.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 6 days ago:
Nostr and fediverse: hold my beer
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 week ago:
You cannot do so on Samsung devices. They have disabled the ability to unlock the bootloader on their devices and therefore you cannot install custom operating systems on them anymore.
If you want to install custom software like that, you always have to do your research beforehand and choose a device that will allow you to do so.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 1 week ago:
Place on center rack of oven, bake at 350 for four years.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 week ago:
Even after the software update a battery caught fire.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 1 week ago:
GrapheneOS
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m not sure just how low of a device you can get and get Lineage OS on it. I know that I generally don’t pay less than about 300 for devices because otherwise they get too slow for my use case.
I definitely don’t need a $700 device or above, but 300 to about 400 is my sweet spot.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 1 week ago:
When I purchased my device in 2023, I purchased the OnePlus Nord N200 5G, which was released in 2021, brand new in the box, because it supported Lineage OS, and I’m still using it today.
It’s because I only charge my phone between 30 and 80%. It still has less than 400 charge cycles on the battery. And so I’m basically using a 4-year-old device as a 2-year-old device and it still works fine with lineage OS.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 week ago:
Be careful. I’ve read reports of at least two Pixel 6a devices bursting into flames.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 week ago:
You really should have thought about that before buying the device. You cannot install a custom ROM on my Samsung device anymore.
You always have to look at what devices custom ROMs support BEFORE buying them.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 week ago:
The substitutes for banking apps are banking websites. If your bank does not allow you to use your bank from a website, you should switch banks. I did.
- Comment on Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day - Kyodo News 1 week ago:
Next, they’re going to tell you who you can have sex with and who you cannot.