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I am so angry at my cellular phone right now
There are actual things Android could change that would make legitimate, noticeable positive difference in my life. Not just my computer usage, my life overall. Actually these are things which *I* could change, if Android were real open source instead of fake open source. But instead Google focuses on making the OS progressively uglier year-on-year and trying to trick me in new ways into using "AI". And it's not really open source.
@pre I remember someone tried to use an AI to manage a shop and they heamorraged money because it went to any lengths to keep the customers happy. There might have been a second iteration that did better.
@econads Yeah. But then also most human-run businesses fail too. Often for that reason. Or the one of not making the customers happy enough.
And almost all the early internet businesses are well dead.
Others with a Debian-based distro: are you having issues with updates?
I have two ongoing issues for some weeks now:
[1] Whatever primary and secondary repositories I select will work once, then fail at the next update. After selecting different repositories and rebuilding the cache, the update will work again ... but only once.
[2] Flatpak runtime package org.freedesktop.Platform sits in the Update Manager and never updates. If it's the only package when I click Install Updates, the utility thinks for a moment, and then ignores it.
After tweaking the repositories and ignoring the above package, other updates work without issue.
I'm on Linux Mint 22.3 with kernel 6.8.0-147-generic.
Any advice?
@leighelse I've recently had the issue that my local Debian/Ubuntu mirror (ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz) seems to have been frozen... it caused the sort of annoyance you've experienced. I've ended up switching all my systems to a different local mirror, which has fixed all the issues... not sure if that's your situation... but hope you find a solution soon! It's mighty annoying when updates don't work.
I hate that in English media, it's largely only right wing sources that cover antisemitism....
@serge The rest of them seem to see it as a non-issue at best or as whining Jews at worst. But I find it ironic that no one seems to accuse anyone of 'weaponizing Islamophobia to silence criticism'.
He doesn't even know where he is. https://www.comicsands.com/mcconnell-midterm-election-reaction?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
@georgetakei He doesn't even know who he is.
It took southerners over 8 years to build London Bridge, but it only took me and my son about 45 minutes.
There's methods which defer to the Fb2 object's, if any, getters. Possibly reformatting results into common datastructures.
And there's a method which concatenates together the filepath to a cached section.
That Fb2 class is defined in a support library. Its constructor concatenates together the path to the file's cache & extracts the basename as a title. Its destructor finalizes its Expat XML parser if any.
Then there's that load method...
2/?
Its load method verifies the file exists, attempts to deserialize cached metadata via a helper & if successful immediately precedes to split the ebook into cached sections, opens the file or errors out long enough to retrieve its filesize, clears the author property, reopens the file via a helper detecting the text encoding & feeding it through Expat with callbacks, does similar to validate extracted section offsets, extracts (via a helper) the hierarchy from those nested sections, ...
3/?
Kalshi ends the advisory contract it signed with Donald Trump Jr. in January 2025, after his VC firm 1789 Capital increased its stake in Polymarket (Anirban Sen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/kalshi-ends-donald-trump-jrs-advisory-contract-due-polymarket-conflict-2026-11-12/
http://www.techmeme.com/261112/p50#a261112p50
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Telling their employees to use more AI.
Telling their employees not using AI is loser thinking.
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They’ve become very political, siding with the far right, actively ignoring community concerns (see the recent petition deletions) and still, while they E2EE your email contents, they do not encrypt headers and a lot of other metadata. It’s been long a concern among the funny hat communities that they are a possible honeypot as well.
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There’s one in yemen that’s unexpected
Seems to be run by houthis
that’s where big tech’s headquarters is located /s
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What’s the point of proton mail? You don’t own the keys, you are stuck with their app because they don’t support open protocols, they basically lock you in because of no open protocols, and it’s run by a fascist asshole. Basically any mail provider with encryption on arrival with your own public key is a better alternative.
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Almost anything that’s not owned by big corporations. Tutanota for example.
@chillybot A dude's gotta do what a dude's gotta do for free RAM. Hope the people on thecanadian.social appreciate it.
@mike @chillybot We do! 🤣
I reserve a special bottle of aftershave for whenever my wife pisses me off. I wear it after she's annoyed me because - as she knows - it's my ex-wife's favourite.
@fesshole Women everywhere are thankful this one is off the market
If your MS Outlook is down, that wasn't me.
Today.
@Mrfunkedude My outlook on Microsoft is always down.
I am so angry at my cellular phone right now
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