My unhinged thoughts and opinions, heavily biased by Linux.
988: services as a common good/public good are targets for surveillance tech
In the U.S., the National Hotline number 988, as a story from The Markup explores.
This is how I deduced that 50 characters is the longest length for a password on WeVideo.
Here are some random snippets of writing from when I was researching the Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable: the closest we ever got to a repairable designed competitor to the Surface Pro line.
(This post is from November 6, 2022.)
There is a bit of random writing on the flashlight on the Mudita Pure and the short film documentary on Andrew Huang.
(This is from October 16, 2022.)
“Can't Think” is a subtly red-pilled emotional prose piece on internet addiction. It doesn't scream at you to wake up right now, like the “Wake Up Right Now!” spray from Omega Mart's Halloween Special commercial.
Of course, nothing about this issue is as simple as taking the red-pill and waking up... well, that's not even what happens in the 1999 film The Matrix, but forget about the plot. “Plot doesn't matter”, as Sam Esmail has said.
(This is from October 14, 2022.)
Note: I meant to write FSF Foundation wherever I wrote “GNU Foundation” below. I wanted to correct this mistake below, though I also didn't want to go and correct every instance of this with a Git-synced copy. However, the rest of my ideas still stand (along with the executive decision for this post to refuse becoming distracted with excessive journalistic/Markdown hyperlinking).
Such experts, like in the GOS team, are not too different from institutional Buddhists from Thailand or mediocre physicists at underfunded universities: they all have the mental disease of acute nationalist sentiments of other experts (even fellow experts).
Some ideas from the GrapheneOS account on Twitter were interesting to look at (whenever it's not Daniel Micay railing against CalyxOS, F-Droid, and anyone else related to CalyxOS).
Here are some scattered background ideas for my future work.
So the developer of musl was being socialized again on Twitter (because he's friends with Daniel Micay of GrapheneOS on Twitter) and retweeted this story about how Google's ranks, which are full of Indians with Brahmin heritage, probably want to forget that their cultural heritage perpetuates the caste system.
(I don't think this story is paywalled, but the Washington Post's article made my laptop's fans turn on when I opened this page in Brave.)
If you spend any time reading GrapheneOS's CLI instructions, then you may have noticed the insistence of using “the high quality standards compliant USB-C cable packaged with the device” as a sharp reader.