Trying to summarise my thoughts on what it takes to build an alternative mobile OS. There's some very important and imho rarely discussed reasons why using anything that depends on AOSP is fundamentally a bad idea.

It basically boils down to culture and politics. The way Android is built and maintained is so fundamentally anti-free-software and anti-community.
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Stale GitHub issue bots can go fuck themselves

mrgrnfs, new vegan alternative to btrfs

#pmosleaks #postmarketOS on mars when??

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Nasa_Ingenuity_(nasa-ingenuity)

Are you having arrestable thoughts..?

Whomever made this did a convincing job.

a little present for the reader this weekend

websocat wss://certstream.calidog.io/ | jq '.data.leaf_cert.subject.CN'

hours of fun for the whole polycule

TIL that fish can commit credit card fraud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_neon_tetra#Credit_card_fraud

Friends and enemies, I would like to show you the best blue screen of death I've ever seen. I pulled over with two hyperactive dogs in the car just to take the picture.

This flight will be boarded via slide. Passengers are required to say "weeeee" for the duration of the slide.

man, safety is through the roof this release. memory space too

Otters - a mother with her new cub, about to spend some time grooming on the shore of a tidal loch.

She was very attentive, grooming its fur and keeping it warm and dry, and allowing it to suckle from her too.

A treat to see.

#otter #mull #wildlife #nature #workshop

TIL that twice a year Hawaii looks badly rendered for astrophysical reasons.

good example on how to make something that is neither a legible sentence nor a legible diagram, but rather an unholy refusal to commit to either

(source is, alas, Common Criteria)

lgbtqia.space changed the way they geoblock the UK and now my method of bypassing it doesn't fully work.
I was adding individual routes for each website I found that blocked the UK to route it via a VPN (and hoping that they never change IP addresses, so this method was already quite fragile), but now the CDN they use (cdn2.miau.pub) blocks the UK via GeoDNS so that doesn't work any more.
I could bypass this by running a DNS server outside the UK (or using another non-UK-based DNS provider that also doesn't do anycast in the UK, but I don't know of any good ones), but that would increase the latency of DNS lookups by at least ~25ms (latency to my VPS in Germany, which itself has ~3ms higher latency to 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 than my home connection). Would I even notice the difference? I'm not sure

postmarketOS will never ask for your ID to let users install your app!

if you’re bored: consider irc://irc.libera.chat/#werewolf

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