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No way. iPhones don’t exactly allow bootloader unlocking to begin with, but even if you could, it would be in no better state than Asahi on the M1 Apple computers. Every driver would have to be written from scratch.

Pixels are a good platform for custom ROMs because until the recent drama, you could literally just build AOSP as-is and use it. So the GrapheneOS team only really need to focus on their changes to the OS and their apps and none of the drivers and modem interface and all that. That’s also why GrapheneOS runs so well on it: Google provided everything, it just works.

iPhones would be the absolute worst phone to develop for: zero support from Apple, no drivers no documentation, no nothing. Not even a Linux kernel! At least for Android, the Linux license forces manufacturers to publish the source code, so at minimum you start with something that should boot and contain all the stuff to talk to the hardware already, just need to wire it in with userspace drivers. CPU manufacturers like Qualcomm also provide a fair chunk of the userspace drivers open-source too, so you can just pull that and have audio and video working.

Not impossible, but definitely really hard and impractical.

PieFed seems to have taken the spot as well, mostly delivering on what Sublinks wanted to be but faster and better. Python is more attractive than Java even for the Rust haters.

It’s not the size, it’s a size to content/quality ratio. I’ll happily download a 500GB game if it’s got the content to match.

Uncompressed assets doesn’t bring higher quality visuals or content, it’s merely pure laziness or a scam to make people feel like they’re getting more for the outrageous price games have gotten.

No, I would simply give them a box of condoms or whatever.

If they’re gonna do it, they’re gonna do it, and as a parent, you’re way better off with your kids comfortable not hiding it because if there’s complications you can intervene quickly. If the condom broke, you want the kid to come to you so you can get plan B and not have to deal with an abortion a couple weeks or even months later. It’s also way better they get caught doing it at home vs in a car and now be on the sex offender registry.

What you’re describing is abstinance and is common in religious families, and well know for being ineffective. Plus as you’ve described, it completely falls apart when bisexuality is involved, and it makes even less sense if it’s physically impossible to even get pregnant.

The same extends to alcohol, drugs, porn, whatever evil vice people are worried. If your kid’s gonna do drugs, you want them to feel comfortable calling you if they have a bad trip, and also feel comfortable giving you the drugs so you can get them to the hospital and they can quickly identify what you’re on and give the necessary medications.

They’re gonna learn about all that eventually, better they learn it from you. Punishment and “you’ll understand when you’re grown up” doesn’t work. If they’re old enough to ask, they’re old enough for the answers too.

Free speech includes respecting speech you disagree with and speech that makes you uncomfortable.

If the roles were reversed and you were lined up to be banned because you’re not siding with the “correct” side, you’d be crying abusive censorship.

That’s what the downvote and block buttons are for.

Yes, a lot safer. Even bugs in the renderer or media player would typically be triggered by JavaScript by say, moving elements around really fast or whatever.

Without JavaScript, the browser renders that page and that’s it, there’s no JS to modify it or open popups, nothing to dynamically load/refresh content. The most you can do without JS is animations and responding to simple events like changing the color of a button when the mouse is over it. So your only shot to attack this is the renderer during initial page load, once.

Also worth noting that the computations don’t have to be expensive either, it’s only there in cryptocurrencies to artificially limit the number of blocks generated on a public system and tie it into the reward system.

So for a bank, that could be a plain single iteration of a sha256 hash, and once share everyone agrees those were the transactions and you can’t go back and change one without having to change the whole chain.

Make it sha1 and you basically have git.

A blockchain is more or less just an append-only database. Or even an append-only replication log with built-in checksums.

That’s what the off-site backups are for.

It helps hackers sure, but it also help the community in general also vet the overall quality of the software and tell the others to not use it. When it’s closed source you have no choice but to trust the company behind it.

There’s several FOSS apps I’ve encountered, looked at the code and passed on it because it’s horrible. Someone will inevitably write a blog post about how bad the code is warning people to not use the project.

That said, the code being public for everyone to see also inherently puts a bit of pressure to write good code because the community will roast you if it’s bad. And FOSS projects are usually either backed by a company or individuals with a passion: the former there’s the incentive of having a good image because no company wants to expose themselves cutting corners publicly, and the passion project is well, passion driven so usually also written reasonably well too.

But the key point really is, as a user you have the option to look at it and make your own judgement, and take measures to protect yourself if you must run it.

Most closed source projects are vulnerable because of pressure to deliver fast, and nobody will know until it gets exploited. This leads to really bad code that piles up over time. Try to sneak some bullshit into the Linux kernel and there will be dozens of news article and YouTube videos about Linus’ latest rant about the guilty. That doesn’t happen in private projects, you get a lgtm because the sprint is ending and sales already sold the feature to a customer next week.

Probably some FOSS projects. There’s a few things bugging me and I have a custom DSL/programming language idea I’ve been dreaming about for the last ~2-3 years that’s like if Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes and Nix had a baby together. It’s 2025, how come is it that I can’t just “one Lemmy instance at lemmy.max-p.me please” and get a worldwide multi-cloud multi-million user capacity instance in 10 minutes.

Next on my list would be a filesystem, because for some reason I find myself wanting something that’s LVM, ZFS, Ceph and PostgreSQL all in one. It’s 2025, how come I can’t just be “here’s all my drives, and the drives on my NAS, and the drives on my remote server, figure out some nice unified filesystem for all of this shit”.

Wouldn’t it be effective to convince followers of legitimacy if a religion could accurately predict a scientific phenomenon before its followers have the means of discovering it?

No, those were called witches and they burned them out of fear.

That was also just never the purpose of religion. Religion fills gaps in our knowledge and addresses the existential crisis by promising us some form of afterlife because humans really struggle to accept that they’re random and meaningless and that their consciousness just dies with the body.

There’s theories that the talking burning tree was probably a weed tree and they were just tripping balls, and that wouldn’t be the first religion spawned from accidental or intentional use of psychedelics.

It’s also very likely the origin stories are just that, stories. Most likely because storytelling was just how language worked: like the Darmok episode of StarTrek TNG. Or just kids: we don’t infodump on kids, we tell them stories because stories bring context and narrative.

My belief is that at least all the judaic religions are just a metaphor so far detached its true meaning is lost to time, and interpreting any of those further is a complete waste of time. Any scientific prediction is equally likely to just be a coincidence than evidence of divine knowledge.

Unfortunately yes. And even then, just having friends is still a privacy liability. Early on the Facebook app for Android would straight up just upload your contacts without asking, so they knew about me well before I caved in and made an account. Or, I’d give my number to someone and suddenly Facebook knows and asks me to friend them.

Not that it’s a new threat: even pre-industrialization, you’d tell a friend a secret and before you knew it the whole village knew.

People are mostly incapable of caring for anyone’s privacy but themselves.

but really would feel bad for any packager maintainers.

It’s already unpackageable because of the license anyway.

The only “legit” way to get the emulator is their provided AppImage bundle, and nothing else. The author also has a rant about Flatpak being broken and unreliable and refusing to support that, so…

I find mostly complaints around Wayland not working like Xorg, like complaining they can’t just get the absolute cursor position and things like that.

Sounds very much like parroted points from probonopb’s rants, like claims of “broken by design”.

You can’t fork it or redistribute it… but you can distribute patches for users to apply, and those are easy to add in a PKGBUILD. That’s how a lot of game/ROM patches are distributed and they appear to be legal.

It’s an emulator, lets be real, the majority of the users couldn’t give a shit about license terms anyway.

ArchLinux users can be a pain sometimes, but we’re also often right when calling out someone’s broken software.

Given other drama around that project and the developer clearly being a Windows fanboy, they’re probably doing a lot wrong and blaming the Linux fragmentation for it instead of doing things properly, getting called out on it, and then being pissed at the users for it.

Makes me want to write an intentionally buggy PKGBUILD with wildly unsupported patches out of spite.

I cringe everytime someone’s like “subscribe to my Substack”. No, fuck off with your substack, everyone knows they’re nazi supporters, you’re complicit.

What’s crazy about it is literally nobody’s pressured to become trans, like, at all. Nobody wishes anyone to be trans because gender disphoria sucks.

It’s literally just “feel free to express your gender however the fuck you want, you do you, and we’ll still respect you as-is”.

Despite that, I never once thought about transitioning or being trans or fantasizing about growing a pair of boobs. As a cis man, looking like a women would just make me feel disphoric and want to be a man again ASAP. I never once felt pressured to transition either, and I hang out with a lot of very fruity people.

This idea that it’s contagious and gives bad thoughts to people is just plain wrong, nobody becomes trans that weren’t trans already.

Oh no, what a terrible thing to believe in live and let live and minding our own business. How dare we suggest we should treat everyone as equals and keep the government out of people’s private lives. The horror.

If you think about it, it kinda makes sense. The fediverse is not a safe place for women especially not the average normie women, due to the fediverse’s very public nature of things and general inability to really delete anything.

Reddit can detect and deal with stalkers, you can make your profile more private. Lemmy can’t do a whole lot when every instance is firehosing all the data in realtime to everyone’s servers. It’s a scary amount of data I have in my local Postgres database: everyone’s every vote, comments, tied to a profile, with accurate timestamps and all.

If they use an instance without the image proxying, I can also potentially trick them into loading an image from my server and collect IP addresses and correlate to a user via vote timing, and then use GeoIP to get a location.

Lemmy’s also very appealing to those that can’t stop getting themselves banned from elsewhere as some instances are very friendly to unlimited free speech and gross behaviour. I don’t have data to back this claim, but I feel like there’s definitely a correlation with those kinds of people and women not feeling safe around them.