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gist.github.com/mar-v-in/c8254

Well, this is unfortunate. One of (or the sole?) developer of MicroG for LineageOS is having financial problems which is slowing down development, or might even stop it altogether. I haven't read it as "I can't do it anymore", but it reminds me of the story of how OpenSSL almost stopped.

I wish there were a way where people could eat and we could also keep these projects alive. No, that's not sarcasm. Donations only go so far, and only so many times. After that, then what?

But anyway, there are ways to donate, if anyone is able:

Liberapay: liberapay.com/microG/
Bountysource: bountysource.com/teams/microg
Further reading/additional links: reddit.com/r/MicroG/comments/g

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I was gonna go update my phone, I figured it was because of the new major version release. Turns out it's just one person who is busy trying to keep afloat.

#foss #opensource #android

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lighting a candle  
just think of some crap and put it on wall street, no biggie
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read-only account (Rain 🚱)  

no, having 8 gigs of RAM doesn't change my policy on web / Electron apps.

which is: screw Electron.

note: i will not be taking suggestions about Electron in the replies. i've heard every Electron apologist argument.

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@Alter@social.linux.pizza

ZeroHedge writing *about* conspiracy theories is unusual, usually they just spread them 🤮

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Groosha  

t.me/elkincartoon/1316

Уже даже как-то не смешно :(

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🏳️‍🌈 Robin Hood 🏳️‍🌈  

In Warsaw and Katowice, the water treatment pipes are guarded by eight freshwater mussels.

They stand as silent sentinels against contamination

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Nate Cull  

Web browser designers:

Well CERTAINLY nobody will EVER need to run web applications from the local machine, ha ha, the very thought, such a security risk. Glad we closed that hole!

Desktop application designers:

Well this COULD have been a 15 kilobyte Javascript, but (points to web browser designers), so, here's a 300 megabyte package of a custom browser plus Node.js plus my 15 kilobyte javascript. Which you run as an EXE with full rights. But it's 'secure'!

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@feld @thor

Wow, this one looks really interesting. I was always stuck with Dovecot for IMAP but certainly going to give it a try.

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Privacy International  

Amazon’s refusal to listen to their employees and employ basic protections for them is undoubtably part of why they've decided to buy thermal cameras to temperature check their employees from a company accused of helping China persecute Uighur muslims

privacyinternational.org/case- nitter.net/privacyint/status/1

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@marek

The choice is obvious: tribe over rules! 😂

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"Inside soviet military intelligence", Viktor Suvorov, 1984

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@yogthos

> You can usually work from home about once a week

Now, this is GENEROUS! 😂

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☆ Dmitri ☭  

a former developer details the horrors of Amazon work culture gist.github.com/bricker/cb811b

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Hypolite Petovan  
♲ @MarkLevineNYC@twitter.com:

Instead of just saying “avoid all social contact”, we need to start giving people the tools to understand the spectrum of risk from different interactions.

Here's how Japan is doing it.

Good way of emphasizing where risk is highest. (h/t @JapanIntercult)

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Wetrix  

How to Spot a Conspiracy Theory vitals.lifehacker.com/how-to-s

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Wetrix  

The next Mad Max movie will be a prequel about Furiosa - Polygon - polygon.com/2020/5/14/21259276

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@freemo

There is also the factor of diminishing returns in social terms: people get used to the normal. Perhaps you need more public education on how the situation looks like *outside* of NL and what you did well, and need to reiterate that periodically.

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@freemo

Each policy has *some* disadvantages and people get tired with them, without really understanding how the situation looked before or looks elsewhere.

Growing demand for changes is natural, each policy needs to be periodically reviewed and maintained. If you just leave it be, it no longer serves its purpose and increasingly contradicts the reality.

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@thor

Sorry if it sounded like I "presume you don't know what you're doing" but I didn't. If you post a design publicly, on a social platform, and I comment, how this is "unsolicited"? And I do comment because I've just struggled with exactly the same subject a couple of months ago.

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@freemo

Gotta love science and evidence-based policy. Same happened for opiates and harm reduction.

They did the science and just applied it as a policy, even though it was counterintuitive and in opposition to the popular beliefs. This actually requires some confidence and courage.

I'm sorry for countries who are still entrapped in dysfunctional quo and misconceptions simply because they lack the courage to even pick up the debate...

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