a contingent of protesters, many of whom appeared to be on their way home from work,

So not protesters at all. Just residents who are sick of these thugs.

Also from the article:

An Associated Press reporter observed dozens of agents detaining a street vendor selling bedazzled smartphone cases, one of a number of arrests in the area.

A true concern for anyone right now: counterfeit phone cases. Won’t someone think of the poor domestic bedazzled phone case manufacturers?

It’s good to have a forum to discuss the issue from a political angle. You can wedge politics into everything if you try hard enough but then for other stories, you don’t really have to try at all. This one seems like the latter.

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Advocating for immigrants to resist is advocating for them to put themselves in real danger. So yeah, no one can do that in good conscience.

However, there’s a very rational argument to be against deportation, especially as it’s being done right now: Unrestricted deportation makes this country objectively worse, not better. Deporting employed, law abiding people who have lived here since they were 3 is a stupid idea. Our immigration policy is not good policy and before we irreparably ruin lives and tear families apart, we should fix it.

I’d say the protest I was at was at least twice as big as what’s listed in that sheet. It wasn’t a major city so it’s not that hard to count either.

I get your point with the rest but…

Vote right? Transphobic.

Yeah, it kinda is? That’s a core plank of the MAGA platform; it’s practically inseparable. Unless you’re talking non-USA parties but then there’s still a better chance than none it’s a yes.

Apple is the trend setter. The avant garde. If Apple does it, soon everyone will be doing it. If you see Apple doing something shitty, you need to nip that in the bud right quick.

They had no problem standing up to the FBI when they knew the Constitution still worked. It’s not bravery when it doesn’t cost you anything and there’s nothing to be afraid of. But now things are different and regular every day people don’t want to say it out. The implications make them uncomfortable.

Apple’s market share outside of the US is pretty pitiful. Even with their piles of money, it would hurt.

On a mobile device? It’s more likely that only OSS drivers work and the binary blob driver only worked with a pre-Pandemic aged kernel. Or it needed a very specific userspace library that doesn’t work with a minimal libc.

“Free software enough” usually means “has a snowball’s chance of actually working”.

It’s a significant factor for sure. However, this year Reddit has accelerated its enshittification since the API schism and is far too risky to continue use anyway. The only viable alternative to Lemmy that I see is Mastodon and I never really got into the Twitter format.

Plain AOSP is already pretty brutal. An alternate OS is practically a non-starter. Phones aren’t just web browsers and SMS.

• Tap-to-pay
  • Including transit fares
• Bank apps
• RCS messaging
• MFA and security apps
• Work profiles
• Streaming media that’s not 480p

Not to mention that the camera is going to suuuuuuuuck.

Forking or improving AOSP is more viable but none of the more mainstream ROMs want to piss off Google. That’s why most LineageOS forums forbid talking about defeating Play Integrity.

I believe F-Droid signs the packages it distributes so that creates a painful choke point. Revoke F-Droid’s key and it will break all of F-Droid instantaneously. The only exception for F-Droid’s signing is if the build is reproducible, which is a high bar for a lot of projects, and then F-Droid will use the upstream signature.

Also, they’re trying to close the ADB loophole.

trunk was the common name before git anyway. Why the move away? I’ve heard it’s because git is more of a weird graph than the trunk+branch model of CVS. But if that’s the reasoning, master is still a stupid name because it implies the same primacy as trunk. Why not just default or start or something?

It’s awesome until you want to put the cursor in a specific spot of a previous command.

$ rm -f delete-me.txt
ctrl-r "me", ctrl-b, ctrl-k
$ rm -f delete

But I still use fzf because while I used to do the above, fzf offered more advantage that made switching worth it.

Obviously the first step is an equal doxxing site targeting Truth Social, etc.

Pretty soon all that will be left are the apathetic centrists.

The insane MAGA cult is Trump; they’re inseparable. After he dies, Trump’s gonna be pickled and put on display like Lenin on the National Mall. They can’t let him go.

Wouldn’t it be nice if MAGA followed the same rules? Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone acted like civilized human beings? Let me know when that happens.

What I would wish for right now is for my state to not speak for me. I do not want my state’s flag lowered for someone who promoted hate and violence. I will not celebrate his death, that’s kinda sick, but I will definitely not celebrate his life either.

If you think this is actually about antisemitism, you’re crazy. It’s about attacking and weakening left leaning universities, which are seen as a real threat to MAGA (grads loyal to alma mater, lawyers, respected institutions, etc). Throwing a bone to fellow authoritarians like Netanyahu is a huge bonus.