Was this Stephen Miller? Bedbug excreta formed into a golem of deceit and avarice.

wait… is this a real specific thing I missed?

Huh, we still almost always have SMS as a validation method for 2FA here, so any SMS to web method works.

ah, two factor authentication is the issue then?

For all of those following, I emailed Rob and he confirmed that the focus of the project to start is reverse engineering binary blobs on existing android devices, but he is currently only at the discovery phase of picking which phones to start with. He is first checking LineageOS compatible phones using his toolset here: https://codeberg.org/rsavoye/librephone/src/branch/main/doc/index.md

Huh, they still work for all my banks here in the US. Not sure how you’re supposed to access your bank account on your PC otherwise. Some banks you’ll have to use the “use Desktop version of the site” option in a mobile browser to get it to work, but it will still work.

That said, didn’t hird basically die because Linux gained critical mass faster and peeled off the core developers? It would be nice to imagine another bottom-up mobile OS emerging and stealing the thunder of this one, but it seems like the hope here is that Libre Phone will gravitate in some of the devs from the existing top-down open phone projects. Who knows if that will work.

One thing I wouldn’t count out right now though: China is very much in favor of getting software and hardware monopolies out from the control of US companies. Free/open(ish) LLMs are the big example, maybe they will jump on this to try and break Google’s stranglehold on the mobile market.

It isn’t encouraging that they “launched” the initiative bit have no dedicated webpage or git for it yet. Seems like going off half-cocked

The project just launched and is a software-first project. We won’t see a Libre Phone available for a while yet.

That’s fair

I looked around a bit more, seems to be regional which is growing faster. UK Meshcore is growing fast, which makes sense since core devs are there. I haven’t found a good statistics source for node numbers, probably for the best given the network goals. Meshtastic of course is older so has the inertia lead, but the security and routing of Meshcore definitely is appealing to me and seems better for emergency situations where text messaging reliability is top priority.

Meshcore is currently considered superior in most respects to Meshtastic, and as a result has a faster growing user base.

https://meshcore.co.uk/

Windat

If only I were the king of the world!

I think what you are arguing for is hardcoding requitement for signatures with an “age appropriateness” ranking into the OS. How does this change the current situation where adult sites and apps are legally required to have an age verification popup/warning? Whether signature based or graphically based, what is at issue here is age verification which means referring to some “repository of truth” outside the will of the user. The problem is that the effect of this is to link government ID directly to web traffick, as to truly verify age requires verifying identity meaning abolishing anonymity on the web and enabling complete tracking of dissent.

I could see a version of what you are describing akin to the way physical cryptographic keys are used to manage DRM on high end enterprise software, where identity/age verification would need to be done by the hardware vendor and not the software/site, the problem with that however is the aftermarket and multiple-user devices. You could say that the “age key” would be a hardware device sold to adults using physical ID akin to spirits or tobacco, something like a SIM Card but preferably with NFC rather than having to be installed in the device. “Adult Access” would then be enabled on sign-in by scanning the “age key”, enabling onboard software to serve software and sites that don’t have an “all ages signature”.

Honestly as I write this, it isn’t the worst solution, the main thing would be keeping the Age Key as an interchangeable, replaceable device that only interacts with the OS and isn’t referenced by other software, so it doesnt just become another Digital ID proxie.

Nice, shame the assistant isn’t on Windows.

Don’t go giving them ideas. That way leads to Digital ID at birth, which should be avoided at all costs.

Glad to share. Basic income is becoming an increasingly important issue for our time.

A great video essay on the topic from an American fan: Why disney wants to erase this beloved cartoonist from history

https://youtu.be/qhDge_uZHTQ?si=frx2nto1hbyatBMm

Simple difference: spiders chemically synthesize long chain fibers not amorphous filament, the fibers are self supporting with tension, whereas hot printed plastics deform under gravity.

You could theoretically print this way with a printer that had a flow reactor nozzle that mixed the reagents for fiber formation on demand instead of a hot extruder, I have yet to see this but it seems likely the textiles industry is working on it somewhere.

But how do you then reply to those posts back into the platform of origination from the outside platform?