hashferret

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[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Yes, this is a tragic and complex way to have averted a mass shooting but that appears to be what happened. After being shot non-critically it appears the shooter lost their nerve, threw their rifle in a bag and tried to run/rejoin the crowd.

I've been bracing myself for the disgusting politics to hit. Like I can feel right wing pundits hand wringing to show the armed protesters 'have no idea how to handle guns.'

Adding fuel to the fire, we had a shooting last night at a multicultural festival where three were killed, one being 8 months old.

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm afraid it's just the same as lack of concern over digital privacy. I don't want to diminish the bravery but I'm sure a lot of them aren't considering how easy it would be for trump co. to use pictures months down the line to identify protesters.

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Talking with friends today I expressed that someone or more will die tomorrow during this. I feel guilty to hope that it's heat exhaustion/dehydration. I'm not against strategic escalation but I'm terrified that indiscriminate violence will play into fascist's hands. Now is the time to be paranoid about digital habits. We must show our strength without losing the public's support.

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah. The linked Mastodon thread by GrapheneOS mentions them potentially making a phone themselves. I'd love if they partnered with fairphone to build it. Though it sounds like we'd need to accept a higher price than a standard fairphone.

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anark video on Lemmy? Fuck yeah.

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

MFW I'm on my 3rd vodka redbull of the night but "I'm not an alcoholic."

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

I was actually told "you should get a car. Be a man." by an angry driver. I was just stunned to hear something so stupid and cringy said.

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I bet the frame rate is fine. Response time is the potential issue. I bet it'd reel like frequently pausing an audiobook with old bluetooth earbuds, which is to say vaguely usable.

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Aurora store and Fdroid on it. Funny considering direct play store is a selling point of theirs. I mostly use it as an ereader but it's also my work phone since intune doesn't play nice with grapheneos. Being able to fit my ereader in a pocket has been amazing. I rarely leave home without it

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Nah. I love my palma 2 and can do plenty with it if you accept no cell phone capabilities it's great. I don't see the appeal of a device with worse refresh rate, a keyboard that needlessly eats screen space, and UI that doesn't trust you as a user.

Edit: I suspect people are reacting without knowing wtf a palma 2 is, lol.

[–] hashferret@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Even if they do this, I wouldn't be averse to a less on demand version of youtube. 3rd party apps will let you load a number of videos for later viewing. Would probably help me consume media more responsibly and youtube has to deal with the additional resources needed to serve all the videos I didn't wind up watching after all.

 
 

I've been loving my hard scifi recently. But I feel like it's begun to demonstrate how much easier it is to imagine all the ways things could go wrong. If fiction is how we lay an outline for the future, I wonder if anyone can recommend some more uplifting stories to me? Rather than a cautionary tale I would appreciate a story with a setting where the author dares to risk being wrong about what's right for us. Naturally this may simply be the setting for a somewhat unrelated story, but I'm curious what sorts of literature comes to mind that falls into this category.

 
 
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