That’s like calling stealing from shops essential for my existence and it would be “over” for me if they stop me.

What’s really fucked up is that for some people this is not far from their reality at all

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Calyx is not as degoogled as it claims to be (at least it wasn’t 2 years ago, see below). I know this is a bold claim, but the only ROM comparable with Graphene was DivestOS, which was a one human project and was dicontinued last year. And even Divest had the problem where updates were delayed by a few days or weeks.

Obligatory eylenburg link, and there’s this blogpost I like to link to. It’s written in German, but I’m sure it’s a good read if you put it through a translator.

Take this with a grain of salt since it’s been two years since this blogpost was published.

Here I deleted a whole paragraph in which I sounded like a Graphene elitist haha. I would say using CalyxOS is a lot better than stock Android or Lineage. Please don’t choose your OS based on vibes. If you need any of the features Graphene offers that others don’t, please use it (edit: like the protester mentioned in the article). If you don’t, don’t.

I agree, Graphene is not for everyone, and what you wrote is a perfectly fine opinion when it comes to privacy- and security-focused daily driver OS’s for smartphones. If you’re a protester or a journalist though, it’s all or nothing. There are no alternatives, no compromises that can be made. If you use a smartphone you are at risk, even if it’s a Pixel with GrapheneOS.

Graphene has decided to instead frame everything that isn’t a Pixel running Graphene as universally bad.

They did say on several occasions that they would support other phones if they weren’t locked down (Samsung) and commended the security of upcoming Mediatek and Qualcomm chips.

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A seam ripper from my ex’s mother, if that counts. I’ve kept it in my little sewing box for a little over 10 years now.

Loving the jpeg artifacts in this. They add a lot to the experience.

This is great! There seem to be quite some tricks out there, one I learned is to focus on the temperature of your breath and where exactly you feel it while breathing. In the beginning it’s just little moments of thoughtlessness, but you can make them last longer with practice.

There’s also this reply I read on /x/ like ten years ago that has stuck with me, to the question someone asked, “how to meditate” – “Notice the space between 2 thoughts? Enter it.”

I just don’t like the premise of a market where one has to sell their artistic labor in order to survive, or thrive. I’m on board with noncommercial licenses and everything because the reality looks different, but that was not my point. And neither was it the point of the original comment you replied to.

The problem with copyright/data ownership is that it’s useless if you’re unable to enforce it. Data is replicable, doesn’t matter if you call it “work” or “ideas”. Do you think you own the text you just wrote? Let me show you something.

There. I just stole your text. I stole it. I own it now. It’s mine now. What are you gonna do about it?

Instead there is no stealing when it comes to information, there’s only replication, there’s only copying.

I agree with you, corpos shouldn’t have this amount of power. But you won’t get there by trying to protect the work of artists writers etc with the exact same scheme corpos pulled to protect their power and interests. Like, it didn’t work, did it? No copyright for me, thanks

If it’s really just pictures and contacts, do it manually. Contacts app should have an export function. Pictures you can just copy via USB.

Messages are usually cloud-stored nowadays right? Do you have more than idk 5 different messaging apps? If you don’t, and one or some of them for some reason don’t store messages on some server, find out if you can do it manually, most apps should have export/import functionality (not just messaging apps btw). For standard SMS though, no idea.

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Wait I had a similar idea once! Youre right that would be cool af, but very difficult to get right. In open world games you usually get away with “isolated” side quests, in a dense cube this is difficult – which might be a good thing, it forces interconnectivity.

Horizontally I’m fine with how big games are. They should grow vertically, and I wouldn’t mind 6 times the depth.

What do I mean by that? I have no idea. Maybe you people have

Oh it’s been a year already?!? Time flies when you have a good time I guess. Thank you!

I edited my comment I forgot the conclusion as always lol you might wanna check it again

AI is a tool that’s used as a disinfo machine primarily, at least LLMs are in praxis, and they get better much faster at that in particular with such amounts of data. But I would argue that this kind of data (acquired without user consent) isn’t necessary for them to get better edit: at anything else that’s actually useful.

I would be much more okay with corpos or states invading my privacy if anything actually useful would come of it, but it kinda doesn’t. I left corpo social media behind not because it was hungry for what data I could provide it, but because it used mine and others user data to make itself worse. And the desire to drop my smartphone and go full dumb tech or no tech at all grows with every passing day. But the paranoia every privacy-concious person experiences sooner or later, some more intense than others, was not something initial for me.

edit: … as was privacy-burnout. I always keep that in mind, I try ro remember, that the reason privacy bothers me is not (only) to protect myself. It’s not a futile fight for independence of anything, it’s tied to a vision I have of the world.and the future

Hope this makes sense I have the feeling what I write often doesn’t

The writer and group analyst Farhad Dalal questions the socio-political assumptions behind the introduction of CBT. According to one reviewer, Dalal connects the rise of CBT with "the parallel rise of neoliberalism, with its focus on marketization, efficiency, quantification and managerialism, and he questions the scientific basis of CBT, suggesting that “the ‘science’ of psychological treatment is often less a scientific than a political contest”. In his book, Dalal also questions the ethical basis of CBT.

From the Wikipedia article on CBT – link