I remember doing work experience at school in the computer lab. Thought I was gonna learn fun stuff on the servers, ended up cleaning gunk from the rollers if every mouse in the entire school (And cleaning every PC out, and flashing entire labs one by one with updates OS…)

And from my reading, helps secure against a situation where an police officer (AKA attacker in the US apparently…) coerces you to unlock the phone (or perhaps even just takes it off you in a locked, but active state), and stores it in a faraday bag with a charger. They do that to keep it ‘alive’ so their experts can break in - a dead-mans reboot can help circumvent even that (as it will just reboot and restore itself to an encrypted rest state, which is much harder to attack)

Yeah, seems like its a move to follow apple after custom ROMS offering it as a security feature (Im on GrapheneOS and had it set for a while)

Thanks for the clarification, I forgot that (somehow)

After a reboot all the data is encrypted and needs a pin/fingerprint to unlock. So if it’s stolen (or feds get it) a planned reboot resets it to a highly secure state that is much more difficult to hack into than when it’s just locked from timeout. Edit: removed fingerprint, corrected below.

Very exhausting, especially when your stupid brain makes you roleplay possible future conversations with people in your head all day. Difficult to focus and so exhausting

Good work supporting foss

Ongoing case here in Australia with a lady accused of murdering her ex and ex-inlaws. Invites them to lunch of beef Wellington and death cap mushrooms.

3 died fairly awful deaths in the following days/weeks, 1 survived after intensive care.

Accused of trying to murder the ex 4 prior times too.

The “Mushroom lady” case absolutely captivated us for weeks

Read Anathema last year, really enjoyed it!

Haven’t had any rate limiting issues on my private instance. I really thought it’d stop working honestly.

Not sure why you’d be quickly rate limited as a single user, from the GH issues I read they expected we’d have no issues keeping under API limits

Only for niche topics, and using a self-hosted private front end (redlib) I deleted my account at the API death, so it’s only for researching things usually.

God I miss this time on the web

I may have to go back to IRC, hell even running my own fucking server

This is the way. I resisted doing a custom ROM based on past experience, but GrapheneOS is absolutely worth it. The day I saw Gemini in the text messaging app is the day I bit the bullet. Wish I did it sooner

Smith

Great app, been using it for years

Also checkout orpheus alongside redacted. Smaller site but significant overlap with redacted, many have accounts with both. You can ‘crosspost’ your music torrents to both.

I could go more science written like this

I can read and write the standard galactic alphabet from commander keen

Tbh I tire of society and it’s insurance of putting things in labelled boxes.

It means different things to different people based on their age and experiences growing up.

For me it’s PS2 backwards.