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Cake day: March 7th, 2025

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  • Before I had my own car, I used car sharing. No provider worked with a rooted phone. “visa secure” for paying online, requires a banking app usually. And sadly I can’t invest days per product researching feasible alternatives.

    I’m on GrapheneOS now, and the stuff works. But google is actively fighting it, and it only works by finding loopholes and setting up sandboxes to pretend to be google… microg-services (did I get the name right?) might also solve those issues, but it’s a constant fight and might stop working at any time. And this is horrible, and that’s why I applaud the fact, that bigger players are directing their attention to this problem.











  • I really have no idea how COPS Hiring Program is connected to ICE.(edit: i really have no idea. that’s not meant to mean its not connected, it just means I don’t know! My comment is not political, its about suspicious design decisions) But what sticks out:

    2017-2021 shows the budget/funds

    2022 show a request

    I’m not saying this is misleading, it might just be mislabeled. But if I would try to to make defend-able bullshit claims, this would look like a sound route to take.

    Possibly requests before 2022 were even higher, but eventually the lower number was agreed on? Maybe it’s always “request 3x to get 1x”… as I said, no clue but looks fishy.





  • Listening to podcasts also helps me immensely to fall asleep. But it’s difficult to find content that is not too boring and not too interesting.

    My favorites are (and I doubt it would work for you looking at your preferred content)

    • behind the bastard
    • imaginary worlds
    • darknet diaries
    • build for tomorrow

    Can only judge for the first 10 minutes of each episode because success.

    I’m more low-tech, i set my mobile to minimum volume and use some equalizer app to reduce volume even more. Then i put the speaker right next to my ear… need to upgrade on this :-)