does VoLTE work? Basically all carriers in the us use this and we knocked down all of the old tech towers. My understanding is the EU still has all the old towers up for just voice calls and don’t need VoLTE to work.

Quick web search suggests it is a “beta” feature at best currently :(

Won’t be surprised if the ISP provided hardware is going to be the only allowed stuff. For you and me, not for the gov’t or companies though. They specifically only mentioned “consumer grade” and also specifically state that products sold to or used by the federal gov’t are not restricted at all. Seems like that carve-out is backwards if these things are such big “security risks”…

Well there’s no arguing with that…

within??

It’s like 7 different states at varying stages of “passed” and Meta’s lobby is working on more for sure, wouldn’t be surprised if they were also work on a federal version too.

Glad to hear it didn’t turn your macbook soft or even, god forbid, liquid.

I think it is absolutely delusional to assume any of this actually has anything to do with security or safety of users. Google just wants more power and control over, well, everything they can get.

I’d believe that if most Pig Butchering scams weren’t using apps from Google Play already.

I think the issue there is the data doesn’t tell anyone “why”, it only tells “what”.

And yet, if you walk into any discussion about LLM use in coding, devs come out in droves to defend and even champion its use…

I wrote one of my representatives once to tell him I disagreed with his stance on some tech-related bill or another several years ago, and urged him to reconsider. I got a canned response from his office thanking me for “my support” and basically “agreeing” with me that the rep’s original stance is correct and good and just, with a little sprinkle of obviously not understanding the bill at all dusted throughout. He is still my representative like 12 years later. I still get his newsletter in my e-mail regularly because his “unsubscribe” link doesn’t work (never mind that I never subscribed to a newsletter, I e-mailed my representative…).

Our system is far more broken than anyone wants to admit.

I think this is exactly why several states are trying to pass laws to basically kill the 3d printer market… It’s never about safety, it’s about right to repair.

I like Jello! My favorite flavor is Lime, how about you? 😃

Also, 4G was the dominant mobile technology for over 10 years, there are probably close to 10 BILLION 4G phones on the planet, WOW! 🤯 It sure seems like someone was able to make a phone with such hardware!

but it is about software, not hardware.

Hey Bestie! Sorry, but you are absolutely wrong here. 😊

There are several options for free and open source software for mobile applications, and it only works with a teeny tiny sliver of the available hardware because almost none of the hardware is even remotely open. 😭

At this stage, it is absolutely about hardware that actually supports the Open Source community, because all the software imaginable is useless if it can’t run on any available hardware! 😁

Kthx, Lots of Love! 🤩

Oh good, so when AOSP is dead in the water, at least GrapheneOS can release hardware without an OS on it?

I guess there is logic to it, the most secure mobile device you can have is none…

Not sure why everyone seems to think GrapheneOS is going to be immune and unaffected by Google actively trying to fuck AOSP to death.

I’m not sure I’m mentally prepared to replay it. The first time through nearly kicked off an early mid-life crisis. I was waking up in cold sweats having an existential crisis for like a week. Such a good game, but at least in my case, absolutely zero replay-ability. lol

Oh, yea, like in the game’s present you are right. I was meaning in the game’s past; where all the humans went and what info you get through the like audio logs or whatever.

Guess it should be wrapped in spoiler tags just in case…

he would need to leave his physical body to join her in the metaverse through a process called “transference.”

Wait a minute, isn’t that the plot to the game Soma? People sending their “soul” to the digital world through “transference”, and act of immediate suicide after a brain scan.

The text of the bill doesn’t mention anything about being able to “alter or disable the binary blob that performs the age verification”. You are adding a lot of interpretation that is not written, and would have to be decided by courts. The bill only says “person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.” They don’t define “control” anywhere to mean having anything to do with code or development. It could just mean administering accounts. Yes, it is a poorly written hack-job of a bill, but nothing about it is specifically carving out special treatment for servers or closed source OS’s.