Why isn't there an Android app to easily change the preferred network type?

Ie, what if i wanna be stingray secure in the city but if im in the woods without 5G.... You know???

Also why does Android call LTE "5G"??

this is my favorite (almost) haiku

Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people. 💕

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gean-grey-blog, a social media post "One time I was leaving a friend's place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go. I got there and her daughter or granddaughter came out and was like omg her phone died we were worried And then the older lady said something and the younger lady translated. "She knew she could trust you because you have pink hair" I thought it was funny at the time. But when I think back on it I think she was basically saying "you had a visible sign of not vibing with the system I was afraid of" Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people."

It's been around 6 years that I've started my work and research on Serene's #language and #compiler. One of the big mental challenges that I had, is that I keep rewriting the compiler occasionally due to a new turning point in my understanding. It bugged me a lot and every so often I feel lost. Yesterday, I had a chance to talk to a few devs of Clasp lang. I felt much better when I learned they had the same experience and rewrote the compiler many times. So it's all natural to feel lost.

🖼️ Darktable 5.4 RAW Photography Software Reaches Parity Between X11 & Wayland // Phoronix

"Many GNU/Linux distributions have dropped support for X11 leaving only Wayland. Darktable has received many fixes to work properly on Wayland including display ICC profiles. This version 5.4 should work on Wayland as good as it was on X11."

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Darktable-5.4

#Darktable #wayland #opensource #photography

One reason you should care about problems that don’t affect you personally is because, actually, they do.

I hereby declare that the term "smart" in combination with a device such as a TV or phone is short for "surveillance machines are really tedious". Now you know.

Twenty five years ago this month I was diagnosed with cancer. First of all I just want to say, look at me, still here. I'm pretty happy about that.

But twenty five years ago, for a year my and my family's life revolved around surgery, chemo and radiation. And then the best part of a decade of medications with with their 'tolerated' side effects. And still the sneaky little blighter tried to stage a comeback a few years in, but we evicted it.

Twenty five years is a while, so my medical experiences are not current but there are a few things I learnt in that year and the ones after and I'd like to say them out loud -

Cancer did not make me a better person. It did not make me re-evaluate my life and see the world in a new perspective. It might for some people, but it just made me tired and grumpy. And intolerant of people's bullshit.

It was not a blessing in disguise. Having people tell me there had to be a silver lining or that everything happens for a reason was not helpful.

Everyone has their own approach. Mine was evidenced based western medicine. Random strangers (no friends, I'm glad to say), telling me I was poisoning myself was not helpful. I was poisoning *it*, the side effects on me were necessary collateral damage

The most important thing my friends did for me was to be normal. Doing stuff we usually did - grabbing a coffee, going out for a meal, seeing a movie. I was thinking about cancer every waking minute, respite from that was what I needed

The other day someone reminded me I told them this - One of the women in my support group talked about how hard it was not to cry in front of her kids. The facilitator asked, what message are you sending to your kids if, when something this bad happens, it's not okay to cry? This is one of the most important things I've ever learnt. Hiding your feeling doesn't let people in and it's not a viable strategy for longer than half a second. 1/2

#cancer #science #luck #ReflectionOnLife #HappyToBeHere

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The garden that I grew over the last twenty five years. Also grown - two small humans to independence and four novels

p.s. except MS Windows, it keeps getting more unusable every month

Oh my god well done Quanta magazine, amazing article.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-ice-slippery-a-new-hypothesis-slides-into-the-chat-20251208/

#physics #science

🙌

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"I can't wait until the day I never need to hear his voice or see his face ever again."

“Together”??? Don't blame your shit on us #mozilla. There is no “together” here.
Time to move on from #Firefox, i guess.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/m-p/110271

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

bweh. awawakeness. it does not want to!

😎

This website is fantastic and fun and huh I love it

https://replaceyourboss.ai/

It seems #Atlassian is terminating free and abandoned accounts in #BitBucket based on the email I got. Good thing that I moved all my repos to @Codeberg last year. Not only #Codeberg aligns more with my values, but they are way more transparent.

If you have an account on Bitbucket, perhaps it is time to move away your repos. Codeberg has a nice migation tool that automatically and cleanly imports your repo and wiki.

CMYK colour matches.

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A photo of four matches, one cyan one magenta one yellow and one black. As in fire-lighting matches, with different colour heads, closeup, sitting on a table.

Elephant in the room

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elephant in the room

انتظار داشتم اونایی که با علم به خصوص پزشکی مشکل دارن رو انتخاب طبیعی خودش حذف کنه، ولی متاسفانه سرعت تولید مثلشون زیادتره!

So many people are going through a very difficult time right now, but they still have to show up for work or school like it's any other Monday.

Please be kind to each other, and give each other a little extra space today. If someone is a little quick to over-react, please respond with kindness.

I’m not sure but if you go to urgent care and lie flat on the floor instead of sitting in a chair they may see you sooner. 😫

This omarchy thing is funny. People call it a #Linux 🤦‍♂️

It's a premade configuration of a few tools that work together. Almost every dev I know have something like that. They just lack the marketing skills to make other people believe that it's the next generation of operating system or something.

Ok, I am settling in to meditation. Join me whenever you read this toot, whether a full meditation, taking a restful moment, or just stopping to take a single mindful breath.
#sitTogether
#readThisTootThenBreathe

RE: https://kompektiva.org/@milo/115716553651614702

وقایع زندگی عجیبی هم داشته تیکو براهه.
می‌گن تو دوران جوانی سر این‌که کی ریاضی‌دان بهتریه با یکی بحثش می‌شه، بعد با شمشیر دوئل می‌کنن و بینیش رو اون‌جا از دست می‌ده!
مرگش هم سر این بوده که توی مهمونی دستشوییش می‌گیره به‌خاطر خوردن زیاد شراب، بعد به نظرش کار بی‌ادبانه‌ای بوده که پاشه بره دستشویی! مثانه‌ش انگار سر همون قضیه پاره می‌شه و عفونت می‌کنه و چند روز بعدش می‌میره!

Mohammad | محمد boosted

Milo 🍉 » 🌐 2025-12-14
@milo@kompektiva.org

#امروز تولد تیکو براهه (۱۵۴۶-۱۶۰۱) اخترشناس دانمارکی و یکی از گنده‌های تاریخ نجومه. مطالعاتش در توسعهٔ ابزارهای نجومی و اندازه‌گیری موقعیت اجرام سماوی، راهی به سوی اکتشافات بعدی باز کرد. براهه آخرین اخترشناس بزرگ پیش از اختراع تلسکوپ بود. نواختر ۱۵۷۲، معروف به ستارهٔ تیکو رو مطالعه کرد و نشون داد که از ثوابته (ثوابت در برابر سیارات). در ۱۵۷۷، براهه به رصدخانه‌ای که شاه فردریک دوم براش ساخته بود نقل مکان می‌کنه. در ۱۵۹۹، با دستیارش یوهانس کپلر که بعداً معروف شد به پراگ نقل مکان می‌کنه.

تیکو براهه بیست سال صرف داده‌برداری می‌کنه؛ اما این داده‌ها رو با کسی شریک نمی‌شه. پس از مرگش، کپلر به این داده‌ها دسترس پیدا می‌کنه و بیست سال زحمت می‌کشه تا از این داده‌ها، قوانین سیاره‌ای کپلر رو استخراج کنه. شاید اگر کامپیوتر داشت، کارش از چند ماه بیشتر طول نمی‌کشید.

تیکو براهه، خیلی شراب می‌خورد. :)

https://nautil.us/how-we-changed-cat-sounds-forever-1254172/

Inspired by a conversation with a friend...

Can internet/online relationships* be as good and fulfilling as in real life relationships?

*for the purpose of this poll, internet/online relationship defined as casual friendships formed and maintained through digital platforms, may expand to personal phone calls, mail/email, but involves physical distance vs. traditionally formed friendships via close proximity of school, work, etc.

You could be doing sex wrong, you don't know. It's a user feedback based system. They said they liked how you did it, they may not know how to do it either.

Anyway, this is how lots of stuff is run.

📚 18th–19th c. – Novel reading panic
🗞️ Early 1900s – Dime novels & pulp fiction
🦸 1950s – Comic books & juvenile delinquency
🎸 1950s–60s – Rock ’n’ roll
📺 1960s–70s – Television addiction
🎲 1970s–80s – Dungeons & Dragons
🤘 1980s – Heavy metal & Satanic Panic
🎮 1990s – Video game violence and VHS nasties
🌐 2000s – Internet & online danger
📱 2010s–2020s – Social media & smartphone addiction

#moralpanics #timeline #onlinesafety

RE: https://wandering.shop/@kagan/115708086731540857

I am once again asking you not to help the Nazis make money. Here are some resources about finding a non-Substack home for your content.

https://creativerly.com/the-best-substack-alternatives/
https://leavesubstack.com/

Kagan MacTane (he/him) » 🌐 2025-12-12
@kagan@wandering.shop

I've seen an uptick in links to Substack lately, so here's yet another reminder:

Substack is a transphobic, pro-Nazi platform. Many of will not follow links to it. We are not giving that place any eyeballs or clicks.

Publishing there, or linking to it, helps the Nazi site owners. Please don't do it.

#Substack #SubstackIsTransphobic #SubstackIsRunByNazis #NaziSubstack #NaziShit #BoycottSubstack