There's no place in the rent-seeking apparatus for young men, which is why they'll inevitably become people who add value.

Bad times make for strong men, indeed.

Most phone conversations with family barely go beyond smalltalk. Whenever I try to address anything outside of these parameters they stick their heads in the sand.

I don't know how long I can sustain this. I don't ever want to end up like that. It's like they've all given up on anything. I can't really fault them but then again, I do.

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I’m going to trust actual climate scientists on this subject 🤷‍♂️

It really is wild to me that the propaganda has been so strong that people literally think CO2 is bad for the environment. Even people trying to counter the idea, tacitly frame their position in this direction (like but methane is even worse!) to not cause outrage.

CO2 is literally the only reason an environment exists. It is the literal life creator.

It's like demonizing language itself as being "bad for communication."

Significant moves in either direction could have a huge impact on human life. Like ok you may have had events in the past at very high levels of co2 that resulted in an increase of life on the planet, but going back to those levels may not be good for humanity specifically. Increasing global temperatures 5C+ or whatever the number is would be extremely risky for us. To me it seems desirable to limit the amount to what it has been when humanity has been healthiest.

TLDR?

Running other distros in the VM manager other than Debian would be desirable and something we'd like to work on when we are less ambushed with major update porting. Unsure how broad OS support will be yet.

This is how the Desktop Mode looks in #GrapheneOS. Here you can see how some apps look. Below is a screenshot of me typing this post in Amethyst and two instances of Vanadium on different profiles (Private Spaces) demonstrating unique VPN connections to the same applications on the same workspace.

Here is how the apps resize.

This will continue to be improved in the Android 16 QPR2 based release of GrapheneOS on the way and possibly be available outside of a developer option in Android 17.

If dieticians studied anthropology then they would know that it is ignorant to say “our ancestors ate lots of vegetables.”

Wild plants were seasonal, sparse, fibrous, and low-calorie; meat provided the bulk of nutrition.

White Noise v0.2.1 is out!

Notifications behave better, images are smoother, and the app gets out of your way a bit more.

SO. What’s new?

✨New Features

Notifications & navigation

- Deep linking for notifications: tapping a notification now takes you directly to the correct chat or invite screen

- Automatic notification clearing: notifications for messages and invites disappear when you open the related chat

- Unread counts: added unread message counts for both DMs and groups.

- Notification translations: added proper localization support in notifications.

🖼 Images & Media

- Automatic image downloads: images in messages now download automatically.

- Image zoom: added zoom functionality for images in messages.

- Media icons in previews: message previews in the chat list now show a media icon when images are present.

👣 User Experience

- Identicons: replaced single-letter avatars with unique identicons for better visual identification.

- Unsaved changes dialog: added protection against accidental back navigation on the edit profile screen.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Chat Experience

- Scroll behavior improvements: chat now jumps instantly to the bottom when opened, does not auto-scroll for incoming messages, and only scrolls when you send a message.

- Fixed disappearing messages: messages no longer temporarily disappear after being sent

- Better hit-box: the chat bubble hit-box now spans the entire width for easier interaction

- Scrollable group details: chat details during the creation flow are now properly scrollable

🔔 Notifications

- Missing notifications fix: fixed an issue where multiple messages arriving in the same polling window could miss notifications.

- Inactive account navigation: fixed notification navigation for inactive accounts.

💅 UI Polish

- Developer settings: fixed content going under the three-button bottom navigation on GrapheneOS and some Android devices.

- Keypackage buttons: fixed the loading state displaying incorrectly on keypackage operation buttons.

- Chat screen padding: reduced unnecessary bottom padding in the chat screen.

- Avatar colors: refactored avatar color handling for consistency.

💪 Performance Improvements

- Optimized group metadata: improved group metadata loading and caching.

Non-blocking user fetch: switched several areas to use non-blocking user fetch for better responsiveness.

- Smarter data loading: added digests and improvements to avoid reloading everything on every update.

- Notification efficiency: avoided fetching all groups unnecessarily for notification details.

- Background sync optimization: increased the foreground task repeat interval from 1 second to 60 seconds for better battery life.

🛠 Technical Improvements

- Better error messages: improved error messaging throughout the app.

- Updated Rust crate: updated the underlying Rust crate with various improvements.

- Added get_group method : new bridge method for better group data access.

This release sharpens notifications, makes images easier to work with, and cleans up a bunch of UI/UX issues reported by the community. The performance work under the hood should make White Noise feel smoother and more responsive in everyday use.

Thank you for the support 🖤

⚡️🇪🇺🇺🇦 NEW - The Telegraph leaks Europe’s peace plan: Brussels offers its own version instead of Washington’s

The Telegraph has published a draft of the European “peace plan” for Ukraine — an alternative to the U.S. proposal. It includes 24 points, and many of them look tougher in Kyiv’s favor compared to the American version.

Key points:

➥ Full ceasefire and international monitoring (U.S. + Europe, satellites, drones, on-the-ground inspections).

➥ Russia must return all deported Ukrainian children and all detained civilians.

➥ Exchange of all prisoners of war under the “all for all” formula.

➥ Ukraine receives legally binding security guarantees from the U.S. — effectively a version of Article 5.

➥ No restrictions on the Ukrainian Armed Forces or the defense industry.

➥ Ukraine retains the right to invite allied troops and choose its own weapons.

➥ EU membership is guaranteed. NATO membership depends on Alliance consensus, but the door remains open.

➥ Ukraine regains control over the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and the Kakhovka Dam, obtains free navigation on the Dnipro, and control over the Kinburn Spit.

➥ Territorial issues are discussed only after a full ceasefire and from the current line of control — no forced concessions.

➥ Russia must pay reparations using its frozen sovereign assets.

➥ Sanctions on Russia may be eased partially and gradually, with an instant snapback mechanism.

Agree, but the problem is that they will hate the productive for it! Because it's never their fault.

typ så.. 😘

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I haven't dug particularly deep into this one, but my gut tells me Epstein is alive and well chilling on a beach somewhere

System76 Darter Pro 🥹

Yes, lightning today already works on millisats. So you'll be fine.

So, Zuck's plan is basically to "get rid of ads" and replace them with custom ai-generated ads for each user with a single prompt from the adverser. Facebook's AI ad engine will generate, run AB tests, improve and repeat, millions of times.

"In general, we’re going to get to a point where you’re a business, you come to us, you tell us what your objective is, you connect to your bank account, you don’t need any creative, you don’t need any targeting demographic, you don’t need any measurement, except to be able to read the results that we spit out"

We are so fucked.