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Moving from iOS to GrapheneOS, need guidance
  • Defo go for F-droid! Dunno if it's baked into Graphene but I use it almost exclusively on Android.

    I also recommend Firefox/Fennec with the Web Archives add-on for viewing paywalled articles. You will be depending on others archiving the full version to read them, but with most larger outlets they will.

  • Moving from iOS to GrapheneOS, need guidance
  • Context? Graphene related advice?

  • Moving from iOS to GrapheneOS, need guidance
  • For Youtube w/o ads just use Newpipe, an open source, privacy aware, third party app. You'll never need to log into Youtube again. And it's not even piracy, even if Google might think differently 🙂

  • Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
  • Bleakly optimistic at best, yeah? 😬

  • Christmas Special Trailer | Joy to the World | Doctor Who
  • On a sidenote, "The rebel flesh"/" The almost people" were directed by Julian Simpson who has been developing a swathe of weird and very good audio dramas with the BBC over the past decade or so.

    The tone of this interconnected "Pleasant Green universe" is very early-oughts Warren Ellis/Grant Morrison, with some fairly mind-boggling concepts that might appeal to Who fans.

    For an easy gateway, look up "The Lovecraft investigations" in your podcast player 🙂

  • Christmas Special Trailer | Joy to the World | Doctor Who
  • I only watched the deleted scenes from this year's season now, and although it's brief there is also a Bill & Ted moment where Climax Ncuti literally hands Second Act Ncuti the preprogrammed referee whistle.

    Not quite to the same level as in this trailer, but mostly a note that some of those deleted scenes are really good, and sometimes actually make more sense of the story...

  • When discussing the plural name for the group of beings with different faces that are The Doctor, is it proper to say "The Doctors", "Doctors Who" or...?
  • "The faculty board"?

    Edit: I found a (probably "AI" authored) source for my suggestion, which also suggests "staff", "panel" and "team", but those all sound so humdrum.

  • Russell T Davies On 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special & BBC-Disney Deal
  • There are too many streamers, too much money and not everyone is watching so it can’t be financially viable

    Don't bury the lede, Rusty. Tell us what you really think!

    This, along with his acknowledgment a while back that Disney are dragging their feet renewing their distribution deal, sounds like quite the U-turn from this time last year.

    I'm curious what other avenues of support the BBC and Bad Wolf could mine to keep even the current brief season productions coming?

  • Christmas Special Trailer | Joy to the World | Doctor Who
  • You're right of course, any multi-Doctor episode is pretty good evidence that the Doctor isn't exactly their own biggest fan...

  • Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon
  • Oh, do educate me on my life choices based on an unrelated online comment, internet stranger 🙄

    FWIW, I'm living my best life, rejecting influencers and enjoying a low- to no-drama fediverse. Anybody feeling bad for a Youtuber failing to peddle their bullshit to Mastodon can kindly get in the sea.

    Have a nice day

  • Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon
  • Good, mission accomplished 👍

  • Christmas Special Trailer | Joy to the World | Doctor Who
  • We haven't had a lot of that in 60+ years, have we? They met their former incarnations on several occasions, but not the same actor to the same degree.

    OTOH I can only recall the Third Doctor trying to fix the TARDIS when Jo and his future self appeared in the doorway all of a sudden?

  • Christmas Special Trailer | Joy to the World | Doctor Who
  • Ooh, that looks like a proper holiday romp. I'm still a little vague on who Joy is, so am expecting her to be a key to the plot somehow.

    But the Doctor lassoing stuff from a moving train? Silurians and other dinosaurs? Keep it coming!

  • Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon
  • "Ghost town" = Not driven to oversharing by algorithms.

    "getting shit" = nobody wanting to listen to a youtuber's outrage bait.

    It must be confusing to log into the fediverse straight off of Youtube, though. "Why aren't people compulsively clicking and subscribing to everything? How am I not being recommended radicalising posts by conspiracy theorists and terror organisations within five clicks?"

    "Honey, this is Mastodon"

    <switches to Blooskie>

    "Ah, much better!"

  • Them: "Stop being nerds;" Us:

    > > > It’s really important to point out that our own interaction with tech may have changed to be extremely controlled, and seem like we have a dependency on corporations… but the original underlying structure still exists. We have power to exist independently, and create our own alternatives too. > > > > At the core of it, we can participate our own way, if we know where to look. > You can still create websites, your own tools, distribute your own software… and how to do that is a very important understanding to cultivate. > > > > Tech literacy is an imperative, especially in the era that we are in right now. > >

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    Doctor Who's Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat preview "emotional" Christmas special

    > > > what are Davies and Moffat’s secrets to telling a great Yuletide yarn? And what do they get up to at Christmas themselves? In [Radio Times'] exclusive fireside chat, they reveal all. Are you sitting comfortably? Then they’ll begin… > >

    In which the writers of christmas episodes past and present discuss

    • each other's christmas specials;
    • how Joy to the world came about;
    • why the Doctor doesn't just solve everything by going in the TARDIS;
    • writing, and why AI won't steal creative writers' jobs; and
    • what comes next on Doctor Who?
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    Apple Stealth Piracy App Trio, Combined Age 215 Years, Face $18.5m Damages Claim
  • Interesting piece, didn't know about iOS stealth apps, and the ages of the accused certainly makes the news stand out —

    — but can we talk about that hilariously bad "AI" generated picture they chose to illustrate it? That disembodied hand left of centre holding up the "iPhone"?

    WHO WAS PHONE? 😄

  • LibreWeb: 🌍 Decentralized Internet
  • I do love markdown files myself, so a browser-side parser is very interesting. Definitely skips some Jekyll/Hugo exports 🙂

    Limiting that feature to IPFS is sort of one sided for my taste, though.

  • Eurocops red pill the Matrix 'secure' criminal chat systems • The Register
  • I mean, I get the joke of using that expression in the context of a chat named after The matrix, but it's an in-group jargon that mostly the terminally online will get.

  • Eurocops red pill the Matrix 'secure' criminal chat systems • The Register
  • LOL, you completely lost me at "rozzers"!

  • Some very much extremely sane thoughts on chess.
  • This whole argument seems to be constructed as a buildup to the strenuous pun about masons bricking stuff. Get it? Masons are bricklayers?

    Even if it's an elaborate joke and not a psychiatric issue — man, it needs work.

  • Eurocops red pill the Matrix 'secure' criminal chat systems • The Register
  • The Register failed in their due diligence by not clarifying from the beginning that this is a different Matrix chat than the open standard. They amended the mistake with an update to the post (quoted here in OP), but that is placed at the end of an article that not everybody is going to read all the way through.

    IMHO this needs a rewrite to make clear from the outset that the Matrix protocol and matrix.org are not affiliated with the criminal chat service. As it stands, even with the correction, it looks like character assassination of a perfectly legal open source project.

  • Colourised "War games" special will feature actual regeneration, plus "recovered footage"?!
    www.radiotimes.com New Doctor Who colourisation of classic story to reveal 'lost' regeneration

    The special edition will also feature recovered footage not seen since the original broadcast.

    New Doctor Who colourisation of classic story to reveal 'lost' regeneration

    According to Radio Times,

    > > > this new version of the serial will feature a 'lost' piece of Doctor Who history – while the Second Doctor's regeneration into the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) originally took place off-screen, the special edition of The War Games will depict the changeover on-screen. > >

    and

    > > > We're also promised the new release – which will air on BBC Four and be available on BBC iPlayer – will feature "recovered footage not seen since the original broadcast". > >

    !I see you've done up the TARDIS a bit — I don't like it

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    Threadiverse communities and magazines about contemporary art and/or art theory.

    First of all, yes: I'm an art snob. I'm not interested in some rando's drawings of dragons, their "badass" OC, crying airbrushed wolves or whatever. Unfortunately, that is pretty much the limits of art communities that I've been able to find on here.

    I've been looking for communities here on art theory, art history and movements, contemporary artists and exhibitions, but to no avail. Don't people go to galleries and art museums, or have their own, conceptual or more hands-on art practice?

    Or is it just that the threadiverse has inherited so many Reddit neckbeards that it's basically hostile to any form of aesthetic intellectualism?

    To preempt suggestions of "just start your own" — yeah, but I'm looking for a community more than just me going on about my preferences.

    So I'm hoping somebody can tell me I just suck at searching and there are several communities just like I've been looking for. Second best result would be a handful of other art snobs going "YES! I'D LOVE THAT TOO," so we can at least co-mod a new community together.

    Thanks in advance!

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    Threadiverse communities and magazines about contemporary art and/or art theory.

    First of all, yes: I'm an art snob. I'm not interested in some rando's drawings of dragons, their "badass" OC, crying airbrushed wolves or whatever. Unfortunately, that is pretty much the limits of art communities that I've been able to find on here.

    I've been looking for communities here on art theory, art history and movements, contemporary artists and exhibitions, but to no avail. Don't people go to galleries and art museums, or have their own, conceptual or more hands-on art practice?

    Or is it just that the threadiverse has inherited so many Reddit neckbeards that it's basically hostile to any form of aesthetic intellectualism?

    To preempt suggestions of "just start your own" — yeah, but I'm looking for a community more than just me going on about my preferences.

    So I'm hoping somebody can tell me I just suck at searching and there are several communities just like I've been looking for. Second best result would be a handful of other art snobs going "YES! I'D LOVE THAT TOO," so we can at least co-mod a new community together.

    Thanks in advance!

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    haverholm haverholm @kbin.earth

    I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:

    — that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket; — when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount; — eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;

    every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant "You should make a comic about that!"

    Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren't going to buy it, and I'd smile politely, "Yeah, sure. Someday."

    "Don't try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it," they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.

    Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.

    I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.

    Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don't make comics any longer after all.

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