A good idea? There's always risk, no matter if you're an expert with a 100% success rate. My heart pounds every time I flash a device, new BIOS update, install Linux, etc., despite having done those things many times.

That said, I flashed Graphene on an older Pixel, and they make the entire process stupid easy, provided you can read. They have a web installer where you just install a couple of prerequisites on the host computer, put your phone in recovery mode, plug in your device, and click buttons in order via your browser. No need to transfer image files, muck around in TWRP recovery, or anything like that. It uses some Google API to facilitate everything.

But if you can't afford the loss of the device to the unlikely but still possible event of a bad flash, either because of cost or loss of utility, you should at least take a moment to consider your backup plans before proceeding. Only you can decide if you think the risk is worth it and sufficiently low.

And the 9a is speculated to be released around March, so Graphene is sure to be close behind whenever it drops (if they need to adjust anything at all).

The other twist is, unlike Xitter, you don't have to create an account on Mastodon to be able to read their feed. You can access it like any other website. So nobody is getting shut out. They're just posting elsewhere, where anyone can read it.

The ADHD brain works in mysterious ways.

While the calls from Moolenaar could be the first inkling of a possible congressional crackdown, Ross Burley — a co-founder of the nonprofit Centre for Information Resilience — warned that DeepSeek's emergence in the U.S. raises data security and privacy issues for users.

Yeah, because it's just soooo much better to have American plutocrats slurping up our data without consent and getting to do whatever they want with impunity. /s

"What they'll use it for is behavior change campaigns, disinformation campaigns, for really targeted messaging as to what Western audiences like, what they do," he added.

Yeah, because it's just soooo much better to have American plutocrats doing every single one of those things and more in the name of Profit. /s

Our leaders are hilariously tone-deaf.

Because he's a perpetual 14yo kid of 90s that never grew out of the Xtreme consumerism, and now he's having a midlife crisis for which we all must suffer.

Not that the author is necessarily off-base, but that blog post is almost three years old. Tech and software evolve fast, and I would hazard a guess that at least a few of their gripes have been addressed by now. Additionally, due partly to the success of the Steam Deck, Valve has officially partnered with Arch and it's throwing some of their considerable resources into Linux development.

I also noticed that they barely mentioned SELinux or AppArmor, and they probably didn't know about immutable distros (which didn't really exist, yet). It's fair to say that Linux isn't the gold standard of good security, but the post reads like someone with a beef and not someone trying to inform by presenting a skeptic's take (indeed, they seem to gush over Windows and MacOS).

They finish by name-dropping a few people with a vested interest in security, and they're practically begging the question in doing so. If the facts don't stand on their own as the author has presented, why should I listen to strangers who allegedly share the same opinion? That's not how consensus is formed.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, an old article about the state of Linux Security should be assessed within a modern context if we're to apply it to current software.

Similar. Downvotes get dropped before they ever hit my instance's database.

If the Deepseek reveal is any indication, I don't think the plutocrats are prepared. They've been wasting money buying politicians and strangling the rest of us for so long that unlike the late 1940s, there's no base to the economy anymore and no protective structure to invigorate it. The middle class is all but hollowed out, and the majority of people are a financial crisis away from bankruptcy.

If people can band together as communities, though, they'll make it. If others keep up with this "us" and "them" bullshit, they'll crumble.

I mean, if they're forcing 2FA at all, that's a good thing, but they still have the usual TOTP and hardware key options.

Anyway, I understand why people would want to host their own vault file. Just remember that obfuscation (i.e. being the only one who knows where your vault is) isn't a viable security method. Removing access to potential thieves is.

The error seems to say that it can't find the source file on whatever repo you're using. Are you sure it exists there?

Yeah, and like I said, it's not impossible.

At the cynical end, there's still business owners that recognize that having a slew of sick employees is bad for their bottom line, so even if the federal government does nothing, various businesses alongside the humanitarian groups will flex whatever influence they have to ensure governors, etc. do what needs to be done.

Still a promising development. It might not directly translate to humans, but it's closer to a human cure than not.

This is true, but it's worth recognizing that a lot of the states, nonprofits, and local agencies rely on government studies and reports to make their own assessments.

With the government staying silent, it's going to be more difficult to get a sense of what's happening and what to do as a result. Not impossible, but the infrastructure isn't necessarily in place, because nobody prepared for the federal government to be this adversarial to public health and safety.

And if that thought doesn't come out right now, it will be lost forever. Or I can try to hold onto it, but I will not hear anything you've said, due to the mental effort required to hold onto a single thought.

I'm not going to pretend to understand Spain's politics or economy, but it would behoove a lot of countries' governments to start acting in the interests of their citizens vis a vis the looming disasters caused by climate change, rather than capitulating to wealthy special interests.

The main reason the far right is having a moment across the globe is because they're tapping into that simmering fear and frustration as people watch their allegedly democratic institutions fail them, one by one, over and over. And the existing institutions are acting like everything is fine—business as usual.

It's not fine. Most people can't just buy a new home when theirs gets destroyed by flooding, fires, storms, etc. They can't just move. The far right is only going to make things worse, but they're promising people some kind of change (and hoping people don't look too hard), whereas current institutions are promising more of the same and expecting people to just be patient as we pass each climate-disaster milestone.

You're not missing much. The author rambles for many, many paragraphs, and I don't use that word lightly. It reads like a college essay, where the goal is to produce an X-page paper, so they just cram as many quotes, attributions, and subjects as they can to pad the length.

It feels like they're trying to go for a Pulitzer, but it's just reactionary garbage that rambles on and on, jumping from topic to topic, taking quotes from scientists and philosophers from antiquity—as if their ideas were still valid today simply because they once existed. The author appears to have a lack of attention, methinks...

Also they appear to be an ADHD denialist, so fuck them.

And the rest can't be bothered to learn what fascism is and why they should care. They have some vague sense that their relative privilege (erroneously) is enough to weather anything.

Ironically, so is Gnome (unlike I used to think). I've been toying with setting up an OSX-like experience in both via VMs, and they each have pros and cons, as it turns out.

Never heard of it, but now I'ma add it to my watchlist