People are taking this democracy thing further than the Dem Party is comfortable with.

https://truthout.org/articles/petition-urging-dems-to-reject-jeffries-as-house-speaker-passes-1m-signatures/

Should I continue with merephone, what hardware would I need/want?

* SAMD21 microcontroller
* cellular modem e.g. u-blox SARA-R410M-02B
* SD card & slot
* battery
* USB port (type B or C)
* solar panel (avoid a need to charge)

* buttons
* nav-switch
* 4-gray epaper display

* front-facing LEDs (in place of backlight, for nighttime use)
* ArduCam
* camera-flash LED
* NFC

* near-ear speakers
* louder speakers
* microphone
* headphone jack
* buzzer
And I hard someone wanted radio?

1/2

As I'm building the hardware I'm finding that I'm a total novice making novice mistakes. But I know enough to push through!

Regarding that sound system... I know that such cellular modems can stream phone calls on a I2S digital audio bus. Which I'd want to wire up near-directly to a selection of speakers/mics! I'd probably need a suitable DAC & ADC?

But how to choose good speakers for this project? Can I wire volume controls directly up to an amp? Can I get cheap radio?

2/2 Fin!

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/117577834322042484

I'm seeing people who should know better claim that opposition to #HakeemJeffries and #ChuckSchumer is fanciful or just a social media phenomenon. WRONG. The Dem base wants leaders with guts and integrity, and groups with big constituencies like Sunrise Movement and @indivisibleteam are on the case.

I still often think about the fact that Aaron Swartz was only 14 years old when he helped develop RSS..

Imagine what he could give us when given the chance 🙏

RIP Aaron♥️

https://disobey.net/@yawnbox/117577346350075263

Tim Snyder on billionaires leaving the US if taxed: "If they're not paying taxes anyway, it doesn't matter, right? Let them go plague some other country... if they're not going to pay taxes here, let them not pay taxes somewhere else, because it is actually no loss."

#eattherich #TaxTheRich

This seem to stem from a misunderstanding. Lemmy and Mastodon have different goals. Users of each generally don’t want the other’s content generally showing up en masse.

If you want to see something from Mastodon, you can usually get it on Lemmy, and vice versa. I don’t often see Mastodon posts either, but that’s because I only follow Lemmy communities, so I only see them when someone on Mastodon tags a Lemmy community in their post. If you want to see more Mastodon content, see if you can follow some users or hashtags from Lemmy.

But that might not be supported; I haven’t tried. If you prefer Mastodon, I’m pretty sure that you can follow Lemmy communities from there.

@lumiworx Motorola published an announcement for the Signature 27. It isn't an announcement about the specific details of GrapheneOS on the Signature 27. It covers it being the first official device with GrapheneOS support and says there will be more details published about it.

It was never said that the only option would be people installing it themselves. It isn't said in any of our posts about it or the announcement from Motorola. It says details will be provided about GrapheneOS support.

@mastodonmigration

The Times is an institution, owned by billionaires, millionaires and other vested interests in maintaining the inequality, graft and favor system that keeps New York and beyond outside the American Dream for most Americans and immigrants. And yes, an institution is a tool.

lemmy and mastodon are more than just activitypub frontends. mastodon is for microblogging where you follow users while lemmy and other threadiverse software is a discussion forum and news aggregator where you follow communities. it’s cool you can share some posts across these platforms but there is a reason you don’t see the same posts everywhere and that’s a good thing.

> A ballistic test performed in 1961 suggested that the pistol found on Sacco was used to commit the murders,[7] though later commentators have questioned its reliability and conclusiveness, given questions about the chain of custody and possible manipulation of evidence.[8]

they found one guy who disputed it, and the author convincingly refutes it immediately in the same article. yet another wikipedia citation that when I read it suggests the opposite of what wikipedia implies. nearly every time.

@QuestForTori I also got kind of confused by Puffy AmiYumi versus Panty and Stocking for a while there. I didn't have cable during the period those two shows aired and was confused about whether they were one show or two shows.

@c0dec0dec0de @sundew Now, what I don't quite understand is why ALL THREE of "BeforeTargets", "AfterTargets", and "DependsOnTargets" exist. I am struggling to understand why they couldn't collapse.

The choice to use a real band is especially weird, given the cartoon designs don't look much like the real musicians, and the plots are all unrelated standard cartoon hijinks. It's really jarring when the live-action promo videos play, because the difference between Ounuki-san and Yoshimura-san's cartoon personas and real life selves is so drastic.

@stux esp consider what AI companies are allowed to get away with today...