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- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 4 days ago:
I’m gonna be that “acktually…” guy for a sec here. Oil & gas (mostly) are not dinosaurs… the vast majority of petrochemicals are from compressed dead algae, planktom and plant matter long pre-dating the dinosaurs: chevron.com/…/explainer-where-do-oil-and-gas-come…
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 6 days ago:
Ah. That’s nasty, what a pain.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
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).
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
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.
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 hope GrapheneOS spreads to other phone models. And I’m sure Google has a team planning on how to strangle it before it does…
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- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. Like the COBOL coders around Y2K did.
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 2 weeks ago:
Solidarity, brothers and sisters! If you or your co-workers find yourselves in this situation make sure you hold out for higher pay, better hours, more vacation – anything – if you accept a return offer. Make them (the C-class, the billionaires who did this) pay in at least some way.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep 2 weeks ago:
In a link from the main article – I know it’s not a trilobite, but dang does that look like a trilobite!
- Comment on Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting 3 weeks ago:
Of all segments of the software industry, games seem to be the most exploitative. So sad, for what should be fun. Business execs taking advantage of those who cannot resist working on their passion. Unions need to get in that industry so very badly.
- Comment on Pseudohyndnum gelatinosum 1 month ago:
These are edible. I put some in a bowl of sugar to dehydrate them and they end up like gummy bears.
- Comment on Best offline resource for mushroom identification? 1 month ago:
All That The Rain Promises is a fun and accessible book to start with.
- Comment on DOdodo DODO DOdodo DODO Dodododo DODO DODOOOOO🎶🎵🎶 2 months ago:
I used to see swarms of grasshoppers every summer as a kid (80s), now a single one is a rare sight.
- Comment on Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA 2 months ago:
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).
- Comment on Mushrooms I found in a walk 2 months ago:
Boletes!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
A wild ‘D’ suddenly appears! (that’s about all I know about Pokemon…)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
“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
- Comment on Is there a music thing that handles single tracks 2 months ago:
Search for v2.79 (if memory serves) on oldversion.com for the last ‘good’ version of classic winamp, and the streamripper plugin is still floating around somewhere on the 'net…
- Comment on Is there a music thing that handles single tracks 2 months ago:
An absolutely ancient tool I used to use was WinAmp (v2.x) with the Streamripper plugin. It would save out each song from a shoutcast or icecast station to a file with the artist/album/title/track like a champ. Maybe not quite what you want (won’t do youtube) but there are a ton of great indie stations on the vorbis icecast network…
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 2 months ago:
Perhaps someone could write an ‘adb loopback’ app – get that into the official app store, and said app would then squirt other .apk files through adb on the phone to itself, thus sideloading it.
- Comment on The future of Vim builds for Windows 2 months ago:
Couldn’t they just use a Windows VM on Linux to run the build tests?
Not that I care, the only vim I use occasionally is under MSYS64 (I think… maybe it’s just plain vi).
- Comment on The Bog 2 months ago:
Great idea! Float out some ‘life rafts’ for the critters to gather on first, then tow them to shore before sending the workers in.
- Comment on redwoods 2 months ago:
/c/dadjokes
- Comment on The Bog 2 months ago:
Why don’t they put sone long planks leading up and out of the bog for a day or so before the harvesters go in? Give the spiders a time window to migrate to the shore…
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 3 months ago:
Related, but kale blooms look similar and I like the florets a lot in pasta (esp. mac & cheese).
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 3 months ago:
We already pay with all of the personal data they steal from us (adblocks or no), and all the lifetimes wasted watching ads for those who don’t or can’t block them (and the ad revenue paid to them by corps who buy those ads) so no, Google doesn’t deserve our money for Premium.
Same thing as when cable TV was new, they said paying for it was to require fewer ads… how long did that last?
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 3 months ago:
WTF kill this with fire.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 4 months ago:
And ‘Lie detectors’. Don’t forget those frauds.
