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Software dev with (clearly) too much time on his hands

  • You need to rebuild that trust that was destroyed by the cheating and the breakup. You should also have a long talk with your boyfriend about any unhealed wounds from that time. If you're going to make it work, a lot of communication needs to happen and keep happening. It sounds like you made a good first step by identifying part of the reason you cheated and fixing it!

    So we are getting back together I remember how much I love him and miss him the past 9 months without him and he is missing me to

    I'm a bit concerned about this. These are natural parts of a breakup and really aren't good reasons to get back together, since it could just as easily be an inability to get over each other. Also seeing your comment in reply to another

    Also we don’t want to break up. I have been through so much with him and he has done so much for me. He likewise knows that dating is hard especially where we live it’s not like he has girls sliding into his dms to replace me.

    It gets more concerning. It sounds like both of you want to stay together because you don't want to be alone. A healthy relationship is one that all parties can leave at any moment but choose to stay because they want to. You don't want it to be like an addiction where you say you can quit anytime but really you can't because you won't be able to handle the withdrawal.

    I think a healthy mindset for this is that being single is ok. Breaking up will be ok, eventually. I'm not saying you should break up and be single, but just you should be aware that if you're wondering why you're putting up with your boyfriend, it's because he's adding more than being single (with friends and maybe casual sex) can to your life. If that's ever not true, run.

  • It might be time to boycott Egypt too

  • Preface: I don't dislike the King, I dislike the monarchy. Hate is too strong of a word -- I think it's not worth the effort to completely remove the monarchy from the Canadian constitution (it opens a can of worms), but I think next time the constitution gets changed it should be done.

    Canada doesn’t pay anything towards the Royal family except the cost of visits

    That seems like a great reason to not like the guy. He takes our money whenever he visits. If I visit another country they don't pay for anything.

    He has no power, and he uses his influence

    "Soft power" is another term for influence, so the king still has power.

    campaign on the same things people on here like climate activism and access to healthcare.

    That's great! Except he's doing it on private jets and with enough money to pay for many people's healthcare.

    Honestly, I think Elon Musk has more credentials for political influence (he did at least run a few moderately successful companies with his parents' money). And I'm under no illusions that Elon Musk is a good influence. What are the king's credentials? Being heir to dictators responsible for colonialism, many wars, etc.? Sounds like a really bad case of nepotism. The king is doing good work now, but there's nothing stopping him from using his influence for something incredibly destructive in the next five seconds.

  • Good point (I shouldn't drop words). The Z2 A, which is in the lower-end Xbox Ally X, is basically the Steam Deck's chip. AMD naming is so strange.

  • It's mostly an iteration on existing handhelds with extra Microsoft changes on top. It's exciting if you don't want to leave the comfort of Windows. Unfortunately, it's just as much of a nightmare for privacy and other ethical reasons as other Windows handhelds. It also seems like it's going to be power hungry and not aimed at directly competing with the Steam Deck, which is still the industry standard right now. Handhelds need more efficiency, not more performance.

    Also it's Z2 Extreme, not Zen 2 Extreme. The Steam Deck's APU is based on Zen 2, the Z2 is based on Zen 5.

  • Repeating misogyny is still harmful even if it isn't your own thoughts that are misogynistic

  • First post by user, user is 2 weeks old, website contains no other products or information.

    Any way to confirm this is legit?

  • If you're a bit forgiving with the definition of "Robin Hood", large open source projects that are sponsored by big corporations.

    The money they get from companies is given to (usually underpaid) contributors and to keep the project going, to the benefit of everyone.

  • You say you're open source but don't link to the open source code. Nothing more

  • Their source code: https://github.com/silexlabs

    there's a lot of mention about being FOSS but they never actually prove it, which is funny to me

  • Thanks for letting us know to delete Telegram!

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  • Is Revolt federated? I thought it was only FOSS

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  • If you're going to misinterpret the scope of "whatever they want" at least be creative about it. I think they meant they wanted to be able to install tractors on their iPhone. Bonus points if it made cool transformer noises.

    Clearly they actually meant any iPhone program/app.

  • That's quite compelling but I still can't find any official confirmation of that information. The BashSquare website doesn't mention any employees but does mention the app (and their website is on the G Play store). IMO the information you've provided is enough to confirm it uses some of the public boycott list, but could still be omitting things (though very unlikely; that would be a wild Israeli misinformation campaign).

    The boycott website doesn't provide barcode prefixes for companies to boycott, which means there is still some information that isn't verifiable, and it's one of the more crucial parts of the app's functionality (if you're not scanning barcodes you could just use the website). I did manage to find a way to look up barcode prefixes but there was no mention of a public API so it makes me think that either they're part of the app (see qualms about open/verifiable dataset) or the app is using some proprietary API/scraper to get that info.

    Thanks for the info!

  • Unfortunately that has no bearing on whether the tracking is active

  • I'd be inclined to agree if it wasn't broken down into more detail than what I actually shared. The app includes ads and one of the trackers is Google AdMob, so that's definitely not anonymous tracking. It's also impossible* to be sure whether the other two trackers, Google Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics, are anonymous.

    *without reading the source code, at least

    Edit to add the report that Aurora Store used

  • Depends on what you define as "meaningful", but lots of things have already reached that threshold in my opinion. Travel into the US has dropped by up to 50% in some cases, which severely hurts their tourism industry, especially in northern parts of the USA. US politicians are talking about it, claiming outrageous things like "Canada has banned US goods". Canadians stores are struggling to sell some USA products, being forced to put discounts on them and stopping or postponing the order of replacement stock.

    Anyway, symbols are only worth something if they mean something.

  • The Canadian movement to not buy from the USA is already showing some economic impact (though it's hard to see through all of the other self-inflicted economic problems the USA has caused). It doesn't even take that much time to have a real economic impact.

  • This is the sort of app that really needs to be open source or at least open dataset. Right now there's no way to see if their data is reliable. Aurora Store tells me that app has tracking in it (minor, but still, ewww), which is also concerning, so I'm not going to install it to find out if that information is at least provided in-app.

    Oh also it's developed by this super generic-looking company BashSquare. Overall not very confidence-inspiring.

  • Being against your work supporting genocide seems pretty work-related to me. At best, it'll just destroy their company culture (not that I'm convinced it's good to start with). Optimistically, I hope everyone who's hard to replace quits and finds a better job somewhere that cares about more than infinite financial growth.