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Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers
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Using GrapheneOS.
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Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers
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Using GrapheneOS.
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Android is making it harder to install unverified APKs
PSA: GrapheneOS is not affected by this, one of many good reasons to use it.
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Why is privacy important? Be specific.
Because knowledge is power and most people don’t like giving whomever power over them for no reason. Also, it shouldn’t matter why privacy is important to people, the fact that it is should suffice to protect it.
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I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing
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GrapheneOS has been working flawlessly for me for years. Highly recommend!
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Copilot can't exit vim
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Vim is actually highly ergonomic; you can do everything with a minimum of keystrokes without moving a hand away to a mouse or touchpad or oven the arrow keys. If that's worth the time investment to learn it, is a highly subjective question. But I’d say it's a lot easier than many people think.
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It depends. The artist being a bad person doesn't automatically make the art bad. But I also don’t want to support bad people. So, relevant questions to me are: Is the artist still alive? Do they profit from my consuming their work? Do I promote them perhaps indirectly? The answers will be different for e.g. Lovecraft vs. Rowling, or rereading a book I already own vs. convincing my book club to buy new copies.
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Similar to the German “can’t complain”.
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What is your favorite TV show of all time?
Babylon 5 — just the perfect scifi show for me with a five-season story arc that was planned from the beginning.
Others: Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark, The West Wing, Community, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
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What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing?
I can understand that many people find reaction videos useless and low-effort content. Personally, I enjoy rewatching a lot of shows and it adds to my enjoyment doing so with somebody else. I have nobody in my life who is interested in that, so reaction videos work as a parasocial substitute. I can still see people I like (as little as I really know them) sharing the experience and sometimes having interestingly different reactions and observations.
BTW: For those who think reaction videos are a sensible way to not pay for the original content, may I introduce you to BitTorrent?
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Do people actually call their parents by their name (as in First-name basis)? Have you ever done that? Or witnessed someone doing that?
I'm German and switched from Mama/Papa (mom/dad) to their first names sometime in my early teens as did my sister. I couldn't say how exactly it happened—just felt too old to use the former. But that's not universal here; I know people who still use the nicknames in their forties.
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Next level Wehraboo
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Owning firearms in Germany isn’t really that difficult although you must invest considerably more time and money than in countries like the US. Legally carrying them in public is a whole other story. Unless you work as something like a judge or prosecutor or have some serious death threats against you, the chance of getting a license approved is extremely low.
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Recommendations for shows to watch with my daughter
The other kid-friendly animation shows besides Avatar that I can recommend are The Owl House and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer could be a good pick or she might be a bit young for it (it's rated TV-14).
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PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA [OC] (Yes it tastes good xD)
Pineapple on pizza is great once in a while. I like to pair it with jalapeños.
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Linux question: I like to browse using ls. Than when I find what I'm looking for, I would like to directly move there with cd without having to retype the path. Is there an elegant solution for that?
The way I solve this problem is to use nnn instead of ls. It's a full file manager for the terminal but so light and quickly started that it's as convenient as ls (a lot more so actually). You can navigate around your file system with vim-like key bindings and then have the option to exit either to the directory you started from or the one currently displayed.
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What show do you recommend to watch?
Perhaps a bit out of left field: Heated Rivalry, a Canadian romance about gay, closeted hockey players. I usually don't care about that genre at all but started watching the show on a whim after seeing much hype online. It's really good—acting, dialog, cinematography, sound design, … Just be aware that the sex scenes are quite explicit—not porn but up there in what can be shown on TV (well done though and always relevant for the story).
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What is a TV adaptation considered better than its book or comic source material?
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BtVS was not an adaptation but created by Joss Whedon for the 1992 movie and 1997 series. Any comics or other media came later.
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Do you read books on your phone?
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I’ve been using the pro version, Moon+ Reader Pro, for years. It’s great for reading EPUBs, which I either buy DRM-free or, if that’s not possible, in any format and then download a “liberated” copy from Anna’s Archive.
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Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers
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Do you mean the Pixel Camera app? You can install that like a normal app from the Play Store. I'm using Open Camera instead though.
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Getting downvoted in a What’s your most controversial opinion? thread is just funny.
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If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
Without reading the article first because it probably covers similar ground, here are my thoughts after hearing of this thought experiment somewhere else recently: The relevant question is the likelihood of a blue majority. I consider group A, the people who will press red in any case to save themselves. That’s probably a large percentage but might not be 50 %. But then I have to add group B, people who might have pressed blue but believe A to be over 50 % and because of this press red. Next is group C following the same thoughts, believing A + B to be over 50 % and because of that press red, and so on. All of this makes a win for blue almost impossible, leading to almost everyone pressing red. There will probably some remain who press blue either because they're not thinking it through or because they, falsely in my opinion, would have taken on moral responsibility for “blues” dying and want to avoid that.
While this is an interesting experiment, I don’t think it can be used as direct analogy for anything like elections in real life because those are rarely life-and-death decisions, so trying for a better but less likely outcome is viable. More importantly communication is possible.
Edit: I just noticed that here it's not stated that people cannot communicate. With communication it’s actually less interesting. You can try to convince everyone to press blue or everyone to press red. Both would have the same outcome if perfectly successful but with red people are more likely to do it and there’s no catastrophic failure if 50 % isn’t reached.