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> Imagine MS doing the same for Windows.

It will happen. We've been the frogs boiled in the pot for years, accepting forced attestation. Eventually they'll close off running unsigned code, and the PCs will probably have bootloaders locked to Windows as well, so you can't escape.

Disgusting, horrifying, but utterly predictable. A dark day indeed, once no major mobile platform allows running whatever code you wish. Sideloading isn't really sideloading if the app has to be signed by the gatekeeper.

Isn't this a death knell for F-Droid, at least for running on most hardware? Since they require their own builds/attestation?

The Overton Window for computing keeps inching towards gatekeepers having total control over devices. I can't help but imagine myself lurching along on the last somewhat open hardware I can cobble together in a couple of decades, because I refuse to drink the verification can to continue...

This inspired me to finally grab a Sony Clie SL-10 on eBay to play around with. Been watching that model on and off for a while because it was the last AAA-powered model. No ancient rechargeable cell to deal with.

(Sigh) I really miss tech that wasn’t actively trying to exploit my brain, empty my wallet, or both.

> Garmin's UX is also very disjointed between devices for how expensive they are.

Yeah... I bought an Instinct 2S hoping it would scratch the same itch as Pebble, but the UX is really awful.

The Pebble OS UX is really something special because it's so... obviously correct. Vertical menus just a few layers deep. You can set shortcuts on long-press but they aren't required to do the basic functions. It boggles my mind that Garmin cannot make an interface that doesn't require a lot of memorization in remembering all the right buttons to press/hold.

Does anyone else find it amusing that the AI generated image for this post is physically impossible? And blatantly rips off the Studio Ghibli look?

Could you be more specific? What are some examples of the leftward shift? I hear this bandied about often but with little specificity.

I read this post, the letter, and the accusations.

I have an easy guide for avoiding an avenue for cancellation: if you find yourself influential in a community, and find yourself rooming with someone junior in the community (probably do not do this), treat the shared quarters like a professional work environment, and behave accordingly.

The byline is below the title, and this is at the end:

> David Bridie is an independent musician, producer and installation artist. Across four decades as a band member, solo artist and composer of film and TV soundtracks, he has released more than 30 albums. He is also the founder and artistic director of Wantok Musik Foundation, a not-for-profit music label that records, releases and promotes culturally infused music from Indigenous Australia, Melanesia and Oceania

Just because things have been horrific up to this point, does not mean that we should want them to continue to be horrific.

Advocating for change against the violent factions of the world, is indeed, a good thing to do.

Login walled. Onavo was the name of the service, for those who wanted to know just that.

https://twittethread.com/thread/1950927585845948600

Perhaps not every form of media needs to be engagement-driven?

The beautiful thing about public media is that it can broadcast things that don't have a profit-motive for being broadcast.

> I think public broadcasting will be stronger when it stands on its own without interference from politicians.

What does the "public" in "public broadcasting" mean to you?

What's really horrifying here is that, even if the appetite for funding CPB were to come back in 2026, 2028, or whenever, you can't just spin it up again; those people have moved on, those assets are liquidated. You would have to start up again pretty much from scratch.

That's why this careless crusade against governmental institutions is so horrific. Institutions with decades of history are being destroyed, and it would take years to decades to spin up something even close to equivalent, in an insane political environment where every public institution is framed as horrible socialism.

The length of time it takes for media to enter the public domain is absolutely absurd. It if didn't take over a century for works to enter the PD, we could say, "Eh, just wait a few years." But instead we hold these works of art captive for no reason, other than a few multi-billion-dollar conglomerates want to keep milking art for money again and again.

If we had a more reasonable period like a decade, it would be a driver for creating new art, and prevent works from being locked away arbitrarily until our great-grandchildren can enjoy them (unless the art was just... lost to time).

> countries with more surveillance and more poverty have less crime like home invasions (CCCP).

I am eager to learn more if you have some data/links on this

WRT home invasions, I'm sure the ubiquity of guns in the US is another relevant dimension.

As the person you replied to said:

> We increasingly put people in bad situations and then blame them when they lash out.

They are not _justifying_ it, they are calling out a cause/effect relationship. When people are desperate, they do destructive things. And our society is doing things that increase the number of desperate people.

Once the SE third gen is available, I could finally have a TouchID iPhone with USB-C! Really wish Apple had done a final fourth gen of the SE with these features...

The government is not a company. It is ludicrous to expect it to operate like one.

…sell food to Gaza? The people of Gaza have little way to buy food right now. Gaza does not possess a hoard of wealth to trade to private companies for food et al, just lying in wait for Israel’s violence to cease.

I agree that the American government is complicit but private industry is no less complicit.

Capital wants to remove the population of Gaza and turn it into beachside real estate. This much has been said out loud by the very people who are acting to hollow out the government.

What do you propose to replace those institutions? The needs thereof do not go away. For-profits in the private sector? Are they going to be feeding Gazans?

You don’t fix a house’s plumbing by detonating a bomb under the foundation.

These statements about DAUs are the most Silicon-Valley-brained statements I've heard this month... As if features only have value when a plurality of people use them. "We need engagement!"

Killing off their one active product in order to copy everyone else in chasing AI... In "doing something new and different!" they are doing the same thing as the herd, and losing all loyalty and good will they built over the years in the process. Wow.

Why would anyone trust The Browser Company after this? Who's to say Dia won't be dead in a few years in favor of the next trend?

And they won't even open-source Arc because of some "secret sauce" libraries they think are special. Shameful.

> But if the people had the will, they could just see it through already.

How does this work in the context of this discussion?

I know this is intended to be a one-off thing, but also holding onto a sliver of hope that this is successful, and RePebble goes on to make more devices in the future.

But even if that doesn't happen, having a new Pebble that will hopefully last a few years or more will be a victory! All my original Pebbles are quite beat up or have hardware issues (failing P2 buttons :'( )

The idea of crypto as a force for plurality is baffling. Crypto is just as controlled by the “sourcerers” of round world as state controlled fiat currency. Distributed ledgers make no difference here. It’s still just “chosen ones” projecting their power. And the jab at “wokism” is pretty ironic, as the right has been making a very overt push for rendering culture into a grey goo, by quashing diversity.

So excited for this! No other smartwatch comes close to the UX of pebble OS. Tiny touchscreens are demonstrably a bad idea.

Garmin and Casio have plenty of button-only devices, but they seem to not really understand how to make a UI flow well. They all feel kludgy and arcane to use. Whereas pebble was a very simple layered menu system without any over-complication.

Look, I don't usually make a habit of engaging with throwaways so this will be my last reply. Feel free to take whatever internet victory points you like.

I would ask, when denying people their self-determination, does it start and end with trans people, or is there more? If someone is raised as a Muslim and converts to Christianity, do you deny them that? Who is the arbiter of who gets to decide who gets self-determination and who doesn't? I doubt billionaires, nor politicians, are the best authority for that.

Also, keep in mind that you're railing against one of the smallest, and most persecuted, minorities on the planet. Why do this? Were you harmed by a trans person in some way, or were you just told to do this by someone on social media? Have you met a trans person and talked to them about their experiences?

Let me put it another way. If you start a new job and introduce yourself as "Bob" and someone says, "haha no you're Herman. Hi Herman" and they continue to call you "Herman" at work from then on, then they're being an juvenile asshole to you. They're denying you your identity as Bob. Gender identity (including one's chosen name) is the same way.

Being trans is identity, but being transphobic is ideology. Being a transphobe does not alter your identity in any way, nor change how you are referred to in society. Denying someone their identity and disrespecting someone in a professional setting is toxic and hostile.

If you want to be an asshole at home, you're free to do so insofar that it is legal. But if you want to be an asshole at work, that should not be enshrined in the same way as religious belief as pg suggests.

Unless you think it should be allowed, but what level of assholery is allowed? Is assholery against trans people the only assholery allowed? Is it okay to be an asshole to disabled people too? To women? To someone of a different color?

> Yes, of course. If you believe that false claims of an opposite-sex identity constitute a harmful lie, why should you be compelled to endorse it?

Because such behavior is a direct and targeted attack on an individual or individuals, not the concept of gender identity, transness, etc.