Posts by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
(DIR) Post #1462096 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-24T22:33:10.613126Z
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@lynnesbian I am wise to your ways 👀
(DIR) Post #1462195 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-24T22:36:51.911466Z
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@lynnesbian i mean its android what do you expect
(DIR) Post #1462399 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-24T22:32:05.915481Z
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mods are asleep, literally go fucking nuts...ok, controlled nuts
(DIR) Post #1463903 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-24T23:30:08.379478Z
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"is the solution to global climate change {-planting an emergency forest in Australia-seeding the ocean with algal-bloom-inducing chemicals-clouding the upper atmosphere-building a sunshade in space-increasing the albedo of the ice caps-artificial carbon sequestration}?"Nope! There is no solution to global climate change. We already fucked it.The best way to make it eventually stop getting worse is to confiscate the assets of all billionaires, jail them, and stop using fossil fuels.Yes, and crash the economies of oil-exporting nations (maybe we can use the billionaire money to help them rebuild).Yes, and suffer technological regression as electric power becomes scarce and transportation becomes difficult.Yes, and put the lives of people highly dependent on the current system at risk.Yes, and probably dissolve the United States as our decadent way of life becomes impossible.We *must* restructure or we will all die. This is a choice that will be made for us if we continue as we are currently doing.
(DIR) Post #1464140 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T00:02:28.157396Z
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thinkin about the time someone on the Freenode linux channel told me I would never get anywhere in life because of my preference for olde laptops over custom-built desktops for my lifestyle and needs. Because "if your processor isn't fast enough you'll get left behind"I told him that if his processor speed is the main bottleneck for getting work done in his position, then he has a job that's going to get automated out of existence in five years.He told me I was an idiot and wasn't smart enough to use computers.
(DIR) Post #1471498 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T01:46:36.752120Z
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@oct2pus well shit
(DIR) Post #1473050 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T04:19:28.490398Z
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ME[learning about fuchsia for the first time]: oh god I hope that's not horribleME [hearing about fuchsia again a few months later]: it's gonna be horrible isn't itME [hearing more about fuchsia about a year later]: fucking bury it in the desert, holy shit
(DIR) Post #1473051 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T04:28:14.632815Z
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How I would be looking ahead if I were Google:- The biggest flaw in Android is that it's hackable and contains privacy features that make it possible to cripple the spyware in it- The "look but don't touch" open-source model works great, let's clamp down even harder on it- Why don't we try packaging most of the system in nice modular binary blobs, so that things like OEM drivers, platform-specific UIs, and apps are easy to install but impossible to modify- Also how about it tracks all of its activity at the kernel level and reports it directly to us, and you can't disable that without refusing network access to the kernel altogether- Sure, folks will try to fork it, but that won't go well for them if the OEM driver blobs are illegal to distribute and will only work with official signed kernels
(DIR) Post #1473057 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T04:40:14.019020Z
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And better yet, they don't even need to hire any copyright police to make sure you don't accidentally try to hack the driver blobs into working on an unapproved kernel - the current Android communities will handle that for them, for free.
(DIR) Post #1473058 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T04:45:25.968591Z
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Presumably there will be a few "community firmware blobs" available for purchase for $25-$50 to allow you to use a hacked phone, meaning thatA) no one will bother buying those, meaning that Google will be happyB) anyone producing free versions of those will be labeled as an evil pirate and summarily exiled
(DIR) Post #1473059 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T04:55:04.003400Z
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seriously though, we're absolutely fucked regarding OEM drivers and Fuchsia. - Zircon is MIT licensed, meaning nobody has to open-source their modifications (e.g. kernel drivers!) like they do for Linux- Vendors love to keep their firmware and drivers as locked down as possible because semiconductor IP is fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck- Zircon is being marketed as a "microkernel" meaning that it will probably contain few or no generic drivers of its own- We'll still have a little luck with RE, but RE is much harder than just working with published sourceBasically I kinda feel like we have until whenever Fuchsia takes over the market to get FOSS hardware going, because we're really going to need it after that
(DIR) Post #1480627 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T17:06:29.111437Z
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@lynnesbian remember how iOS used to crash if it ever tried to display a particular Telugu unicode sequence? That was the best thing I ever saw
(DIR) Post #1480854 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T17:17:10.243939Z
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@lynnesbian That was amazing too but జ్ఞా was honestly funnier to me because iOS is so eurocentric that just a little bit of text from an Indian language is effectively a cursed rune to it
(DIR) Post #1480865 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T17:18:18.347997Z
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@lynnesbian if this post crashes anyone's phone, I'm not sorry and will accept my censure with pride and grace
(DIR) Post #1480902 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2018-11-25T17:21:11.995767Z
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@lynnesbian yeah this was like, last yearish?I sent it to my boyfriend and it completely nuked his WhatsApp and he had to reinstall it
(DIR) Post #3345881 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2019-01-25T03:02:22.747708Z
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Are you there, Fediverse? It's me, Ellie.
(DIR) Post #3346024 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2019-01-25T03:12:02.651222Z
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huh, everyone's avatar federated fine except for kaniini's
(DIR) Post #3572667 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2019-01-31T03:54:56.827423Z
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@shadow8t4 uhhhhuhis this "install" or "graphical install" and have you tried whichever one this isn't?
(DIR) Post #3572716 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2019-01-31T04:00:42.112984Z
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@shadow8t4 dang.not sure what to do next, then? if this is a system with a weird GPU, you might look into the images that include proprietary firmware? it's at least something to tryhttps://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
(DIR) Post #3572888 by diodelass@pleroma.ellied.net
2019-01-31T04:06:33.203580Z
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@shadow8t4 oh jeeze that should be fine thenI've got no idea what is going on here tbh, you're probably better off trying the freenode/#debian IRC channels or somesuch if you can stomach that