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That was awesome

The Android tablet makes it a deal-breaker. You cannot use a Signal account from multiple Android or iOS devices without using a 3rd-party client like Molly.

Only people who are okay with being monsters are allowed to take and keep those roles. That’s capitalism, baby.

I think you answered your own question. To expect them to do anything other than what will increase their wealth is naïve. Anything that seemed like a “moral” thing that they did in the past simply happened to be more convenient.

I don’t do code reviews on vibecoded projects. It’s a waste of time.

Another vibecode slop project.

Pretty sure the “CET” in the title is for Central European Time

Also, it’s illegal to send encrypted messages over mestastic.

In the US at least, this is almost never true. It is only true for devices set up as licensed HAM radios. Normal Meshtastic devices fall under the transmit power threshold to be subject to 47 CFR 97.313(j)

from a previous now-deleted post by OP in another community

Full disclosure. This was created with the help of many different models over the past month two months!

There are plenty of outlets that specifically do not use AI in their writing. Those are what I fill my feed reader with.

It’s not like I’m going to boycott them, but it’s important to always push because they CAN do better. Any “risk” that they are not handling, they are offloading to the workers themselves. It doesn’t just disappear. I’m not saying they should be only hiring full-time devs at competitive silicon valley salaries, but part time on a living wage with worker protections is an important bar to clear for all entities that seek paid labor.

Yeah, this is such an anti-labor thing for them to do. I hate seeing stuff like this in general, but from open-source projects it hurts way more.

Because of who decides how such verification gets built. Just look at what is happening with Android apps to know how big tech companies will handle it. https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

Whatever Apple, Microsoft, and Google decide it does.

This would require “verified” operating systems: No alternative Android-based OSes. No Linux phone. Hell, no Linux desktop, or at least we would be stuck with a big-tech-built proprietary web browser.

This is a terrible idea.

The one OP mentioned is the 2nd-gen model that came out in 2019

Yeah, F-Droid works. I decided to go with Obtainium. The GPS signal is good enough in my city. The maps app itself is serviceable. It’s essentially a UI for OSM data.

I have the same phone. It’s fine. I keep my Pixel phone with GrapheneOS on it at home for banking apps, Briar, and a couple other things. A few things to note:

1. The slider on the side doesn’t turn off the GPS antenna, so you can still navigate with the GSM module unpowered using the default maps application or another offline-capable app, which is nice.
2. The company advertises the slider as a tool to protect you from “harmful 4G waves”, which is a bit concerning for their direction as a company.
3. Mudita decided to completely abandon releasing their software under an open-source license for this phone, which sucks.
4. InkOS is an open-source launcher that was designed for the phone and it’s great.
5. Software features that were advertised even before the launch of the phone are still not available not planned to be available (certain stock launcher customizations in particular)
6. Not the phone’s fault, but you can’t have Signal installed on multiple phones for the same account, so I have to turn on the slider on my phone to make a Signal call at home instead of being able to use my WiFi-only Pixel, which is a bit annoying from a privacy perspective. EDIT: I can also use my computer as a workaround, it’s just a bit of a clunky solution.

mineral aerosols.

here is a recent paper trying to figure out the composition from ice core samples for a given age range and location

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37061058/

You’re correct! It is Cherenkov Radiation; specifically from the muon (or electron or tau) that is a result of the neutrino interacting with the nucleus of an atom because Cherenkov Radiation happens with charged particles.