The pigtailed girl

thepigtailedgirl@friendica.world

Trans nerd atheist.

Sometimes I anime

We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld

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Jackie ☭

3 months ago

Jackie ☭
3 months ago

The group chats contained NEO-NAZI and PRO-SLAVERY messages.

That isn't just "stupid kid" behavior. I wasn't a fucking Nazi when I was a stupid kid.

pbs.org/newshour/politics/jd-v…

JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed from or resign their positions.

^{PBS News}

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HazelCakes

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wtf how is this still a show

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myrmepropagandist

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@HazelCakes
The dead never die.

@HazelCakes

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Transgender World

3 months ago

Transgender World
3 months ago

Cass Review full of ‘stigma and misinformation’ and should not guide trans youth care, say experts www.thepinknews.com/...#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Cass Review full of 'stigma' a...

Cass Review full of ‘stigma and misinformation’ and should not guide trans youth care, say experts

A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.

^{Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)}

#trans #transgender #LGBTQ #lgbtqia

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ava (touch starved kitty)

3 months ago

ava (touch starved kitty)
3 months ago

please boost this kitty for federation ->

(she has no idea what she's doing)

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Matthew Sheffield

4 months ago

Matthew Sheffield
4 months ago

Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones.

But don't worry Pam, we saved it for you! web.archive.org/web/2025091116…

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@lawyersgunsnmoney @beachcomber It has a number of data centers all over the world to prevent that sort of thing.

@DB @Lee 🏖️

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DB

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@beachcomber If they know what it is or figure it out, yes they absolutely will. Not any different than the Nazis burning books to erase knowledge and history

@Lee 🏖️

The pigtailed girl

4 months ago from Relatica

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4 months ago from Relatica

Critically appraising the cass report: methodological flaws and unsupported claims

bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentra…

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Prism & Pen

5 months ago

Prism & Pen
5 months ago

Born in the 1940s, Edmund knew he was gay from a young age, and thanks to attitudes of the time, believed he had to be cured in order to be a successful writer.
medium.com/prismnpen/the-most-…

#LGBTQ #QueerBooks #QueerWriters #GayWriters #EdmundWhite

#LGBTQ #queerbooks #queerwriters #GayWriters #edmundwhite

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Laura Manach

5 months ago

Laura Manach
5 months ago

Boys can be scary too 👀

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LJ

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What is written on the sheet
"You live at home"

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Evan Urquhart

5 months ago

Evan Urquhart
5 months ago

Almost used the Assigned Media account to weigh in, but I'm going to do it here, in my capacity as Founding Editor of Assigned. It is important for freelance writers to understand the landscape of freelancing and use that understanding to push for decent rates.
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Evan Urquhart

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I'm proud that Assigned Media offers opportunities to writers seeking a first professional byline, including those with no journalism background. Just today we had a first time writer on Assigned! We want to be an entry point. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

An Inside look at Georgia’s Cr...

No Hormones, No Help

Georgia’s long running abuse of transgender inmates continues, with a May 2025 bill prohibiting access to gender affirming care for inmates being used to deny them these life-saving treatments.

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Evan Urquhart

in reply to Evan Urquhart 5 months ago

Journalism as a whole is beyond dire straights. I hope there are better things ahead, but for the moment I wouldn't recommend people expect more than a bit of extra money here and there. It's all quite fucked I'm afraid. Maybe there'll be a boom after this bust? We'll see.

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Anna Cats 🐱

5 months ago

Anna Cats 🐱
5 months ago

Jode would love to know how your day is going ?
#cats

#cats

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PinkNews

5 months ago

PinkNews
5 months ago

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s party facing controversy over Adnan Hussein’s trans comments
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/01/adnan-hussein-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana-your-party-trans/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s party facing controversy over Adnan Hussein’s trans comments

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new left-wing party is under pressure to address MP Adnan Hussain's recent comments about trans women.

^{Emily Maskell (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)}

@Politics

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Chuck Darwin

5 months ago

Chuck Darwin
5 months ago

A jury has awarded at least $2.2m to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020.

In the verdict last week, the jury found LA county liable for the injuries sustained by the man,
Cellin Gluck, and determined that he suffered $3.5m in damages.
They also awarded his daughter, who was there with him that day, an additional $300,000 for emotional distress
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

Jury awards $2.2m to LA protester shot in face with less-lethal projectile in 2020

Cellin Gluck alleged in lawsuit that he was subject to excessive force during protest against police brutality

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Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.

in reply to Chuck Darwin 5 months ago

They should be awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages, against the City, the Mayor, the Department, the Police Union, the officer, and whatever they just got awarded against the County. And all their crowd control devices, vehicles and technology should be locked away until their policies change.

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myrmepropagandist

5 months ago

myrmepropagandist
5 months ago

There is an ongoing low-grade crisis of political manipulation on twitch, X, and youTube.

Here are three stories:

Rightwing twitch streamers were "botting"
forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/…

MAGA bot network on X
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/maga…

Secret Payments For Centrist Dems on YouTube (some conditions may apply)
wired.com/story/dark-money-gro…

MAGA AI bot network divided on Trump-Epstein backlash

A network of hundreds of accounts on X is using AI to reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, researchers say.

^{Kevin Collier (NBC News)}

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@magicalthinking

@🌈Magical Thinking

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@magicalthinking

the heck is a "trumpo" sounds like the worst pokemon ever

@🌈Magical Thinking

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

5 months ago

Qasim Rashid, Esq.
5 months ago

DNC Chair Ken Martin killed the resolution stop arms to Israel claiming, "The party is deeply divided, we need time for dialogue."

The party is not deeply divided, Ken. You're deeply disconnected.

When 92% of Democratic Party voters are telling you that we want to STOP arming Israel, and you refuse to act, there's no division, there's only complicity.

There's nothing left to debate. Muster the courage. Show that we are the anti-war, pro justice, pro humanity party. Stop Funding Genocide.

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Coach Spore Diesel

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Oh there is definitely division. The voters say yes. The funders say no.

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Pratik Patel

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This all depends on what they consider the party to be.

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(LRRR FTW)

5 months ago

(LRRR FTW)
5 months ago

SPRING ROLLS ARE SALAD SAUSAGE.

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Michael Gemar

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But are they a sandwich?

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(LRRR FTW)

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@michaelgemar

NOBODY KNOWS. I DON'T THINK SO, BUT WHO THE HELL AM I?

@Michael Gemar

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Alba 🌸

5 months ago

Alba 🌸
5 months ago

in case you want to skip all the corporate bullshit, this explains the process you'll have to go through in order to be able to sideload an app on your own fucking Android device

developer.android.com/develope…

you have to provide legal ID that Google will verify, and PAY $25 unless you're a "hobbyist or student"

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mcc

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trying to figure out if this is more or less restrictive than ios. one ios dev i talked to this morning say the process has now liberalized to the point they only ask for a name and phone number, not a per se id verification

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Alba 🌸

in reply to Alba 🌸 5 months ago

you'll also have to agree to some terms of service that are not yet public AFAIK, give them an email + phone number, verify them, then give them your public key and sign a challenge using the key (to prove you have the private part) and only then you may be given ownership of a package name.

you don't have to give google

your private key
the APK you'll be distributing

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ssdrive

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lmao, grapheneOS for the win.

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🌸 lumi-nhac 🔜fosdem

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sadly graphene openly supports drm 🙁

they may be against google play integrity, but they still openly embrace hardware attestation drm

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GrapheneOS

in reply to 🌸 lumi-nhac 🔜fosdem 5 months ago

We don't approve of DRM but rather we document how apps implementing it can still support GrapheneOS. We push app developers to stop using it and if they won't do that push them to use a system where they can permit specific alternate operating systems and alternate hardware based on allowlists instead of only allowing Google Mobile Services devices. It results in GrapheneOS users being able to use apps which would otherwise ban it. Some users need those apps to work.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

Pinning-based hardware attestation is a security feature and not usable for DRM. Only root-based hardware attestation is available that way. If you want to stop apps using it, you need to talk to the app developers. GrapheneOS has no part in apps adopting it in the first place, only pressuring apps to use the standard Android API for where they can permit other operating systems and hardware instead of the Play Integrity API which uses it but doesn't offer it.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

We've successfully convinced around a dozen apps which have adopted the Play Integrity API to allow GrapheneOS by permitting it via an open API not depending on a Google service where other hardware and operating systems can be permitted. We've also convinced a couple apps to stop doing any of this because it doesn't add security. There are government or industry requirements for some types of apps to verify device/OS integrity so some can't be convinced to drop it.

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Alba 🌸

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

good to know. that's certainly not the impression I got when someone from grapheneos reacted to the EU wallet prototype using Play Integrity by basically asking them to instead use the standard Android API, though... my memory isn't the best but I don't think the message was pushing back against attestation at all. but i can chalk that as a one off

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GrapheneOS

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EU regulations require banking apps to implement attestation but don't specify exactly how it has to be done. That issue tracker isn't the place to argue about laws they already passed. We were pushing back against them specifically requiring the Play Integrity API which is within the control of the people working on that standard. The people working on that standard don't have control over the regulations which require attestation in the EU now.

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Alba 🌸

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does grapheneos allow users to disable apps access to root-based attestation?

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GrapheneOS

in reply to Alba 🌸 5 months ago

If a service implements mandatory attestation, not allowing it to be done prevents using the service in the same way that a result not conforming to their requirements prevents it. GrapheneOS does have a toggle for blocking the Play Integrity API for temporarily using apps which have not yet fully integrated it into their service but rather are phasing in support and still permit not providing the result. This can only work before they've fully implemented it.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

You can't simply block using it and avoid the requirements. It would defeat the entire purpose. The whole point is that there's no way to spoof or bypass hardware attestation beyond leaked keys. Leaked keys can be detected and revoked. Discontinued SafetyNet Attestation API initially only had software emulation of what would later be implemented via hardware and Play Integrity API device integrity level is still doing a transitional phase in of hardware attestation.

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Alba 🌸

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yes, i know blocking access to DRM features will make many apps cease to work. still as a user I want to at least know when an app is attempting to use it and be able to control access. you know, like Firefox does with EME by default

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GrapheneOS

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GrapheneOS intercepts apps talking to the Play Integrity API in Play services and provides a notification about it. Users can choose to use a toggle to block it. This rarely helps with anything and it's not at all a privacy issue for apps to be allowed to use it. Hardly anything directly uses hardware attestation in practice beyond Play services for the Play Integrity API and a few apps which provided it as an alternative to Play Integrity based on our push for it.

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Alba 🌸

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nice. but what about the standard attestation API? do I get to know when applications fetch the attestation certificate chain? I imagine the root is in the project's control?

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GrapheneOS

in reply to Alba 🌸 5 months ago

Not beyond the logs visible in our log viewer feature. We added the Play Integrity API notification and control due to apps banning GrapheneOS with it. We aren't aware of an app using the hardware attestation API to ban using GrapheneOS so we didn't prioritize showing users when that was why they can't use the app. It was done for the Play Integrity API so users know why an app isn't working and can leave a review, make a customer support request, etc.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

Being able to block it for the Play Integrity API also turned out to be useful for at least a few cases of apps in the process of adopting it. Blocking it will break some apps which require providing it but don't disallow an alternate OS with it (yet) so blocking it for any app using it will reduce app compatibility, significantly in fact. A lot of apps just use the basic level which allows an OS like GrapheneOS which it thinks looks reasonable.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

Blocking it will only improve compatibility if an app's service disallows having an alternate OS but permits not successfully providing a Play Integrity API response at all. This is never supposed to be the case, but it sometimes happens as part of a transition where they shipped it in the app but aren't ready to enforce it in the service. They may not yet want to block using old app versions and happened to implement it in a way that blocking it is treated that way.

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Alba 🌸

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

you seem to be very focused on making apps work over making them DRM free... DRM is still DRM even if the service provider has allowlisted your OS and the app works there. if an app is only working because I'm using your particular signed builds of your particular OS, that's IMO just as important to know as when the app doesn't work. it's why Firefox notifies/asks even when the website's DRM is compatible with it

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GrapheneOS

in reply to Alba 🌸 5 months ago

Many apps implement checks for which OS is allowed without attestation. It can often be easily bypassed. There's no way to detect it happening in general since it's not knowable why the app is doing stuff. Using root-based hardware attestation does not imply disallowing anything about the OS. The original purpose of the API was to verify that a generated hardware-backed key is truly in a hardware-backed keystore. It's the hardware key attestation API.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

The metadata the API provides about the OS and app is usable for hardware attestation of those but it's actually a secondary purpose of the API. The reason that an app is using key attestation is usually not going to be checking the OS integrity since in practice nearly all apps doing that are using the Play Integrity API for it. Nearly all apps using key attestation just want to check if keys are hardware backed, not the OS integrity they'd check via Play Integrity.

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GrapheneOS

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This is the relevant API:

developer.android.com/privacy-…

This is the metadata which can be provided as part of the public key certificate of the attested key:

source.android.com/docs/securi…

Note some of the features are limited to privileged system components and in practice exist for enterprise device management. Only privileged OS components can do attestation for any of the hardware identifiers since those aren't accessible to regular apps.

Can see it's mostly about keys.

Verify hardware-backed key pairs with key attestation

A tool for verifying security properties of hardware-backed key pairs.

^{Android Developers}

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

It provides some metadata for the app (package name, version code, signing key fingerprints) and OS (verified boot state, verified boot key, major version, patch levels).

Privileged system components with the privileges to access hardware IDs can use it to verify the hardware IDs they can access to make sure a device really has the serial number it appears to have. This is there for device management to provide assurance what's registering matches what was shipped.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

The main purpose of the API is verifying that a hardware backed key is really hardware backed and has the properties which were supposed to be set. It exists so that an attacker with existing access from exploiting can't easily intercept generating the key and then pretend there's a hardware backed key generated. That was the main purpose of this API, but they also used it as the hardware attestation API for the OS and app. Play Integrity API uses it for that.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

It's useful for it to be the same API since you end up with a key you can use for signing messages where the key would stop being usable if the hardware keystore didn't receive what it expected from the boot chain. There isn't any real reason to have a separate non-key-related hardware attestation API, so instead the OS / app hardware attestation exists as a secondary feature of the key attestation API. Could we warn about it? Sure, definitely not by default though.

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Alba 🌸

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

...but you're pushing apps to do their OS integrity checks using the standard attestation API instead of Play Integrity. if that's what you prefer, wouldn't it be good to act consequently? is it at least planned for the future?

(also I'd argue that even the original uses of attestation, where you only get to check that the key is in a genuine keystore, are DRM. as a user I should be able to control how I store my keys. that a service can refuse to operate unless I store my session key in a place that prevents me from migrating it to another device is an antifeature)

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GrapheneOS

in reply to Alba 🌸 5 months ago

We only added the Play Integrity API notification and toggle because it was useful to figure out why apps are not working and in very rare cases to trick them into working (likely only temporarily). We aren't aware of a case of banning GrapheneOS via the standard API. It's highly unlikely blocking using it would accomplish anything since using the standard API largely implies being less clueless and therefore far less likely to set it up where blocking it works.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

The only cases we know of apps using the hardware attestation API to permit GrapheneOS are alongside using the Play Integrity API to permit stock OS GMS devices.

We have limited resources to implement features. There are literally around 800 or so planned features and they get implemented very slowly. It means little for a feature to be planned without it being a high priority or becoming one at some point.

Nice to have in theory doesn't mean it would get added.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

We not only have limited resources to implement features but limited resources to maintain them. All changes to AOSP need to be ported to new major versions 4 times a year. That is a huge ordeal and we do not have enough development resources to deal with it well enough already. The more we add, the more overloaded we're going to get. We do not add features involving aOSP changes which are not very important. Everything we add to AOSP much be very important.

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GrapheneOS

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

Adding a feature involving any change to either AOSP or Chromium must be justified by significant impact. Adding niche frills is not something we do as a general rule. We do not have the resources to port unimportant stuff to each new major Android release, which is a time sensitive port required for continued full privacy/security patches. Wanting something if we didn't have to worry about that doesn't mean we can provide it in practice.

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0x4d6165 (Julie or Mae)

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needing to pay money and show ID to install programs on my own fucking device?!?!?!! Fuck google so much

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Principia

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@cuddlebug Oh this will be a complete disaster. There are three signing keys in circulation for the Android app com.bithack.principia, commonly known as Principia:

- Bithack's signing key used when the game was proprietary and distributed on Google Play, the status of the keystore is unknown but there are almost definitively still active installs lying around somewhere
- My own signing key which I had been using for signing unofficial mods for the game before the open source release happened, now I use it for the Android releases we distribute independently
- F-Droid's signing key used for releases distributed through F-Droid, they're probably not going to go through this process but there is likely a substantial installbase for the F-Droid version

I only have access to the private key for one of these. How in the world will Google determine that I may be the rightful entity that will be allowed to distribute com.bithack.principia on Android going forward? How

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NilaTheDragon@srv-01:~

in reply to Alba 🌸 5 months ago

Yeah nah Android has lost all its edges over iOS for me. The only thing they got left that I find interesting is quirky hardware form-factors like foldables.

But its been going on for a while now with Play Integrity, its recent changes, Pairip and Key Attestation (specifically around the inclusion of bootloader status, the rest seems fine and useful) and policy changes like this in general. I loved custom roms, rooting and all the freedom you had with Androi

Verify hardware-backed key pairs with key attestation

A tool for verifying security properties of hardware-backed key pairs.

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Kevin Karhan

in reply to NilaTheDragon@srv-01:~ 5 months ago

@nila I guess now is the time #Androidbneeds to be salvaged by a #HardFork!

#hardfork #androidbneeds @NilaTheDragon@srv-01:~

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Raito Bezarius

in reply to Alba 🌸 5 months ago

hot take: i'm not shocked by these changes, annoying true, but very fair

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tef

in reply to Raito Bezarius 5 months ago

how on earth is this "fair"

i own the device, i transitively own the sum total of capability in the physical object. this is an affront against my ownership

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Raito Bezarius

in reply to tef 5 months ago

@slowfallinward google didn't say "ok pixel unlocking is now removed", it said "if you use vendor OS, you are under developer checks for random APKs"

@tef

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Alba 🌸

in reply to Raito Bezarius 5 months ago

@raito @slowfallinward i think you're being too generous to Google here, nowhere in the announcement did I see "we'll push vendors to ensure advanced users can always unlock the bootloader if they want to opt out of this check"

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Raito Bezarius

in reply to Alba 🌸 5 months ago

@slowfallinward i never said Google planned to do that i think?

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tef

in reply to Raito Bezarius 5 months ago

then you're condoning a significant proportion of users being unable to sideload

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dazinism

in reply to tef 5 months ago

@slowfallinward @raito
Let me start by saying Im no fan of Google keeping a register of every dev who wants to have their apps work on the majority of Android devices!

However, think this will be enforced by Play Protect, which IIUC (in 15 years of using android devices Ive never run a device with Play Services) can easily be turned off. No need to flash a different OS to avoid this.

@Raito Bezarius @tef

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dazinism

in reply to dazinism 5 months ago

@slowfallinward @raito
I do very much think it should be possible to run a different OS on all consumer smartphones.

They should support yellow state - relocking the bootloader & getting full verified boot - by flashing the signing keys for the OS onto the device. Its not good that many devices only offer running something else with bootloader unlocked. Shouldnt have to accept this huge downgrade in security against local & remote exploitation, in order to run something else

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

5 months ago

Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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Emmett Till would've been 84 today. He was only 14 when white supremacist terrorists horrifically murdered him.

The white woman Carolyn Bryant Donham who accused him of harassing her later confessed she lied. The warrant for her arrest was never enforced. She died only 2 years ago in 2023 at the age of 88.

White supremacy terrorism isn't ancient history. It's not even history. It's contemporary reality.

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Carl

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I am so angry that Emmett Till was killed and she got to live!

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ineffective altruist

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she also published a book where she lied even more anyway

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

5 months ago

Gwen Snyder is uncivil
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It's such a ludicrous notion, too. Nazi spaces these days function almost entirely as places that fetishize & offer explicit instruction in violent masculinity. They are structured around a desire to achieve a very specific vision of white manhood. That's so obviously not a draw for trans femmes.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
6 months ago (Received 5 months ago)

Without explanation, YouTube has removed my interview about Israel's genocide on Palestine with globally renowned Palestinian-Canadian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu. We are appealing.

Here's the full interview on my human rights newsletter. Share widely: qasimrashid.com/p/youtube-remo…

YouTube Removed My Interview on Gaza With A Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer

Watch the full interview with globally renowned Palestinian-Canadian lawyer Diana Buttu — a former lead negotiator between Palestine and Israel

^{Qasim Rashid, Esq. (Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid)}

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Charles-Édouard Coste

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Join peertube 😀 joinpeertube.org/en_US

What is PeerTube? | JoinPeerTube

A free software to take back control of your videos! With more than 600,000 hosted videos, viewed more than 70 millions times and 150,000 users, PeerTube is the decentralized free software alternative to videos platforms developed by Framasoft

^JoinPeerTube

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Laukidh

in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq. 6 months ago

are you planning to move off substack at some point?

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Fedilab Apps

5 months ago

Fedilab Apps
5 months ago

#Google is making it necessary for #Android app developers to disclose their personal information to Google. This includes legal name, address, email, and phone number.¹

Here is the timeline given by Google.²

1. October 2025
Start as invite-only

2. March 2026
All developers can disclose their identity to Google

3. September 2026
"Regional enforcement begins" in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand

4. 2027 and beyond
"Global enforcement"

We will explain more in next posts.

(1/3)

#google #android

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TeflonTrout he/him

in reply to GrapheneOS 5 months ago

@GrapheneOS @globcoco @christian_freiherr_von_wolff
Yay, thank you for the time again!

@Coralie Renée @GrapheneOS @christian_freiherr_von_wolff

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Coralie Renée

in reply to Fedilab Apps 5 months ago

@christian_freiherr_von_wolff

Good to know...
👍

@christian_freiherr_von_wolff

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nixCraft 🐧

5 months ago

nixCraft 🐧
5 months ago

💯

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Robert Garrigós

in reply to nixCraft 🐧 5 months ago

mentrestant, la gent que es dedica al camp necessita cada vegada més la tecnologia per fer rendible el seu estil de vida.

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lifts

in reply to nixCraft 🐧 4 months ago

There’s a pipeline from computer science to anchorite somewhere. If you’re not careful, you — yes, you, the person reading this — will fall into it.

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Nonilex

5 months ago

Nonilex
5 months ago

#Trump has terminated #SecretService protection for fmr VP #KamalaHarris. Trump signed a memorandum Thursday that will end Harris’s protection as of Monday.

The Secret Service usually protects a former VP for 6 months after they leave office, but President #Biden had signed an order extending Harris’s protection beyond that, due to increased threats.

#RevengePolitics #StochasticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence
reuters.com/legal/government/t…

#Trump #kamalaharris #biden #secretservice #stochasticterrorism #revengepolitics #politicalviolence

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Nonilex

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The end of #KamalaHarris’s protection comes just before she is set to embark on a nationwide tour to promote her new book about her presidential campaign. The book, titled “107 Days,” will be published Sept 23.

#Trump #RevengePolitics #StochasticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence

#Trump #kamalaharris #stochasticterrorism #revengepolitics #politicalviolence

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PG19582🇺🇸🇹🇩🇺🇦🇵🇸

in reply to Nonilex 5 months ago

he is such a child and evil incarnate...

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AaronDavid

7 months ago (Received 5 months ago)

AaronDavid
7 months ago (Received 5 months ago)

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amalia

in reply to AaronDavid 5 months ago

Is that Space-Karen?

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Lstn2urmama 🇨🇦

in reply to AaronDavid 5 months ago

So much easier to remember the location ...

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Ericka Simone

5 months ago

Ericka Simone
5 months ago

Happy #Skynet Day!

#skynet

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Zoidberg For President

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WTH is "a geometric rate" ?

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Ericka Simone

in reply to Zoidberg For President 5 months ago

@ZoidbergForPresident exponential and infinite as someone explained in the thread loooool

@Zoidberg For President

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Dakki Reads

5 months ago

Dakki Reads
5 months ago

#flower #photo

#photo #flower

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Dakki Reads

5 months ago

Dakki Reads
5 months ago

#flower #photo #macro

#photo #macro #flower

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Dakki Reads

5 months ago

Dakki Reads
5 months ago

#photo #macro #flower

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5 months ago

Dakki Reads
5 months ago

#flower #macro #photo

#photo #macro #flower

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Dakki Reads

5 months ago

Dakki Reads
5 months ago

#flower #photo

#photo #flower

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Dakki Reads

5 months ago

Dakki Reads
5 months ago

image by @assignedmale

@Serious trans vibes Comics

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Dakki Reads

5 months ago

Dakki Reads
5 months ago

not OC

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Tusky

5 months ago

Tusky
5 months ago

We have released Tusky 30 🥳 Highlights:

* New reporting flow
* Improved image editor
* Support for onion services
* Dialog to not lose poll that's being created
* New UnifiedPush connector
* Technical improvements (16KB page size)

Fixes:
* Sometimes wrong thread would open
* Layout tweaks
* Harder to lose a draft when switching apps

See changelog here:
codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/src/b…

#tusky #tuskyapp

Tusky/CHANGELOG.md at develop

Tusky - An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon

^Codeberg.org

#tusky #tuskyapp

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Andy Piper

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adding this to my list for the community round-up in next month's Trunk & Tidbits!

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Ben Zanin

in reply to Tusky 5 months ago

thank you!!

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Fread

5 months ago

Fread
5 months ago

Fread 1.6.0 version has been updated:
- Fresh new logo 🎨
- Material You dynamic theming 🚀
- Set your default timeline view 📍
- Smoother content add flow ✨
- Now supports RDF documents 📄
- UI polish & improvements 💫
- Bug fixes and performance updates 🐛

#Mastodon #fediverse #Opensource
#RSS #FOSS #Freesoftware #fdroid

github.com/0xZhangKe/Fread/rel…

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Release 1.6.0 · 0xZhangKe/Fread

Fresh new logo 🎨 Material You dynamic theming 🚀 Set your default timeline view 📍 Smoother content add flow ✨ Now supports RDF documents 📄 UI polish & improvements 💫 Bug fixes and performance updates 🐛

^GitHub

#mastodon #fediverse #rss #foss #opensource #FDroid #freesoftware

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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀

5 months ago

Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀
5 months ago

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Kagan MacTane (he/him)

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I'd like to agree with this, but I can't help but notice...

1) The y-axis has no units labeled
2) There's no methodology describing how the data was gathered.

Things like that always make me suspect the truth isn't so cut-and-dried as the graph makes it look.

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Dave Muth

in reply to Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀 5 months ago

@stevewfolds Very close fit to my History of Science graph.

@@stevewfolds

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Antifa International

5 months ago

Antifa International
5 months ago

Sometimes resisting fascism looks like a Mexican flag bumper sticker on a white woman's Tacoma.

#antifa, #chingalamigra, #abolishice, #fuckice, #nooneisillegal, #YourBordersKill, #refugeeswelcome

#antifa #refugeeswelcome #nooneisillegal #yourborderskill #AbolishICE #chingalamigra #fuckice

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derZeitreiser 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇯🇵🇬🇧

in reply to Antifa International 5 months ago

In the near future she will be arrested for an unpatriotic sticker on her car. That's how Fascism works.

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Random Participation

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She should’ve actually said San Antonio used to be part of Mexico.

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Sunshine (she/her)

5 months ago

Sunshine (she/her)
5 months ago

Kiwix For IOS / MacOS Has Been Released And Brings The Hotspot Feature To Your Device

Kiwix for iOS / macOS has been released and brings the Hotspot feature to your device - Kiwix

There is a new release for Kiwix on iOS/macOS, and it allows you to use your device as a beacon to broadcast ZIM files!

^{The other Kiwix guy (Kiwix)}

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Kevin Beaumont

5 months ago

Kevin Beaumont
5 months ago

New by me: Citrix forgot to tell you there was a zero day RCE vulnerability used widely since at least May in Netscaler.

Nobody released any technical information until now.

It has been used to pop "critical" organisations in the Netherlands and worldwide.

What to do:

doublepulsar.com/citrix-forgot…

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lolcat

in reply to Kevin Beaumont 5 months ago

Until the suits do hard time, beatings of the plebs will continue.

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Sena

in reply to Kevin Beaumont 5 months ago

How is the Citrix Netscaler business unit still alive? I would imagine there’s some smart people out there figuring out a “here’s a way to dump and import your complicated network rules to something else…anything else” tool somewhere? Or is this a “we signed an enterprise contract with Citrix and are stuck with them till the end of time” deal? Like getting stuck with Teams if you’re a large O365 shop?

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Laura Manach

5 months ago

Laura Manach
5 months ago

Romantic Encounter, by Mihály von Zichy (1864)

#Art #Painting

#art #painting

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don

in reply to Laura Manach 5 months ago

reminds me of 'The Revolt of the Angels' by Anatole France.

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Laura Manach

5 months ago

Laura Manach
5 months ago

Artist:
thelittleworldofliz.com/
lizclimo.tumblr.com/

Hi, I'm Liz

© Liz Climo 2011

^Tumblr

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Galbinus Caeli

in reply to Laura Manach 5 months ago

They need to make friends with a Pillar Snail

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binchicken

in reply to Laura Manach 5 months ago

this might be the most whimsically poignant image I've ever seen

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Church of Jeff

7 months ago (Received 5 months ago)

Church of Jeff
7 months ago (Received 5 months ago)

#ReligionIsPoison

#religionispoison

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H. Sunrize

in reply to Church of Jeff 7 months ago

say it louder for the people in the back📣

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Audrey Winter

in reply to Church of Jeff 7 months ago

Louder, please.

For those of you offended by me boosting this with no CW: sorry not sorry. Huff some copium.

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feliks✨

6 months ago (Received 5 months ago)

feliks✨
6 months ago (Received 5 months ago)

quack!

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David Chisnall (Now with 50% more sarcasm!)

in reply to feliks✨ 6 months ago

As I’ve said before, the difference between an LLM and a rubber duck is that the duck is smart enough to shut up when it has nothing useful to say.

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WildEnte

in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) 6 months ago

@david_chisnall sometimes at least.

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The Agender Kiwi

in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) 6 months ago

That's because LLMs aren't intelligent. They're billed as "Artificial Intelligence" but what they actually are is word prediction algorithms.

It's why they suck at math and produce hallucinations. They don't actually know anything. Sure, they have datasets they can draw from, but the LLM doesn't actually know the difference between "banana" and "iron" only that "I eat a banana" makes sense while "I eat iron" doesn't.

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michel v

in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) 6 months ago

@david_chisnall in my experience, the rubber duck method can lead you to think out the box; the LLM will happily devise more ways to keep you in the box forever.

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