Bare in mind that the government requires a warrant to obtain data against you, the barrier in which to get a warrant requires probable cause.

Obtaining data about you from a company only requires a subpoena if the company doesn’t cooperate.

BUYING data about you from the same company is completely allowed.

Until we get privacy laws, we are truly fucked.

I wanted to like lawn chair and gave them an honest try but so many features I have come to rely on weren’t quite there.

I realize that they were designed as a replacement of pixel’s launcher but still… I would have loved to keep using them.

I am now using a paid version of Smart Launcher and praying to God that they won’t do what Nova did.

ACAB

But also…police have qualified immunity. If the police get charged and convicted, it would be the one positive thing that this administration will have done.

“I’m so fucking pissed that you didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize that I’m going to go to war with you to teach you a lesson.”

take accountability

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As we push more average Windows users to Linux, we need to be prepared for these users to download and run completely untrusted code.

1000 single family homes is a lot. That doesn’t include multi-unit buildings like apartments.

Corporations shouldn’t own any single family homes.

I don’t want to make perfection the enemy of good here so if say this is a step in the right direction to introduce some level of control. But it needs to go much further than simply restricting the totally number of houses they can own.

Honestly, civil forfeiture has as much legal protection as qualified immunity.

I want to see democratic AGs actually do this.

A lot of GOP guys that want to bang AOC are thinking that as a conquest and not out any feelings that sex would require.

In other words, if given the opportunity to assault her, they would.

It goes perfect with the conservative mindset: I get what I want and get to suppress and treat you like shit.

Do not confuse “useful idiot” as “faith”.

I’m going to push back a bit here. Because people say a lot that there is no resistance and, to your point, there isn’t any impactful resistance where it matters.

There is a world of difference between people who want to fight for what is right and people who are willing to die for what is right.

The reason we are here is because we have plenty of the former and very very little of the latter.

I do not say this lightly because I fear we are reaching a point that unless people are willing to risk their lives, we will lose our lives to fascism.

The problem isn’t necessarily standing.

The problem is that she got arrested in the first place. So now she has to pay an attorney to represent her, defend her from the shit charges, then countersue the police and the government, appeal it as necessary. It might be years before she sees a penny of any lawsuit.

Meanwhile the officer continues to be an officer. Politicians involved are usually gone.

This is a situation where justice is denied not once, not twice, but many times over.

I’m proud I made it to day 8 I think

Nations can’t ignore the fact that the US has one of the most active militaries in the world. Our Navy is more of less second to none and we have nukes. In the hands of a normal president, we might be fine but you sure as heck know that Trump and his Project 2025 people are just itching to launch one.

This is a situation where there are no good options. The best you can do is continue political pressure, get other nations to rally behind you in the hopes of creating a strong economic resistance.

But the real answer is that we, the US citizens, need to fucking take this country back. I hate to say it but protests simply aren’t enough anymore.

Million dollar scam idea: sell MAGA hand makeup.

Along with cankle socks.

I’ve been a developer for decades. I’ve contributed to FOSS code and do a lot of my own development.

I just want a desktop that works. No fuss.

Yes I could compile my own x11 (and have) but I would rather spend my time doing my own shit than trying to stand up a new VM for some edge issue I’m having.

Just…just give me a UI I can use.

It’s why I use Ubuntu.

I feel like you’re just here to piss into the wind.

Do you hear people screaming to disable the extension frame work or devtools?

No?

If you don’t want those features you can compile your own version of Firefox and remove them.

But lots of people are anti-AI. And there are people willing to provide a browser that keeps it out.

If you want it, have at it. But don’t piss on people just because they don’t.

But…I can hate gays and trans people right? Because that’s why I voted for him.

Oh and because I want to be openly racist.

If there is one force you can always count on is democrats snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism; they will abandon democracy.”