Can you use all the normal android apps?
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all apps work 
well some dont work cause they need some shady access that google play store with certification offers…
Please stop polluting this thread with excessive political squabble when we already have dedicated topics for you to vent in #off-topic.
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Wow! A democrat calling for accountability in the FTX scandal want’s an investigation into the SEC’s Gary Gensler … Either this is part of a cover-up or I’m living in the twilight zone.
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Apps mostly works on GrapheneOS. There are some that don’t work, but GrapheneOS is at least better than LineageOS in this regard. You can use it with no Google Play services at all, but then tons of stuff don’t work, so it’s best to use the sandboxed Google Play services. There can be some features in some apps that doesn’t work properly
GrapheneOS sandboxes Google Play Service, while LineageOS has an open source re-implementation called microG. That’s nice in theory, but unfortunately it’s a game of playing catch up and there will always be lots of things not working, just like with Wine in Linux. Each time a new version of Wine is out, they’re still catching up to features on the last version of Windows. Some things works well, but many don’t.
Absurdist technocrats do not see problems…
Blackouts are an opportunity for digital everything…
but what is ‘certificate for network access’?.. big brother allows access to internet??.. if only you had that power…
( @neo this is not about Ukraine)
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@davidpbrown Sorry about that. It seemed to have been part of the Ukraine discussions here and I got it wrong.
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In an hour-long talk as a virtual guest at Camp Decrypt in Napa, California, Edward Snowden, the famed computer intelligence consultant, gave his take on the state of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and crypto in general, primarily from a privacy perspective. And in this regard, in Snowden’s opinion, crypto as a whole is moving in the wrong direction. Snowden expressed his concern that a few centralized players, such as Coinbase, will give concede to the regulators, and once that happens, it’s over. “Don’t Trust, Verify” is the Bitcoin mantra, but from Snowden’s perspective, although he has a love for Bitcoin, Snowden was critical of Bitcoin and its lack of anonymity on transactions. He fears that the mass adoption and onboarding process of billions of people to use crypto will kill the spirit and purpose of crypto, similar to that of the original web. In the end, the regulators will have their CBDC and the major centralized players will have KYC and start scanning your face in order to buy.
Edward Joseph Snowden is an American and naturalized Russian former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 when he was an employee and subcontractor. His illegal disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments, and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.
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BREAKING: Safe Network forum much happier when testnet. 
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The cock’s return calms troubled minds
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IF, and probably unlikely IMO, SCOTUS strikes down section 230, it would be a huge driver for Safe Network adoption – and all truly decentralized platforms.
I can’t wait for them to tell us they are finally finding all the pop 3 stars that the BB-theory predicts must be there.
This could get interesting.
BTW, in another recent paper a very nearby galaxy was found that had lots of pop-3 stars … so if they don’t find any in these distant galaxies … well, as they say, Houston, we have a problem.
Oh, I should mention, that pop-3 stars are low-metalicity - mostly hydrogen and helium and very little heavier elements (created by supernovae of older stars).
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WhatsApp raises threat of UK shutdown in encryption row
Messaging app chief says he is prepared to see app blocked rather than weaken security
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Georgi Gerganov has created a lightweight open source port of OpenAI’s Whisper model that can run locally on your CPU. It’s fast, fast enough to do real-time transcription of audio. I’ve tried it out on an old conference talk video from FDG 2021 and the results are impressive.
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How did I miss this?! Murdoch’s operations and their role in fermenting the January 6 insurrection are being uncovered in a court case which has forced testimony from Fox news staff and has finally reached Rupert Murdoch.
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You can also just use the python version pip install whisper, and it works really well.
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Qatar implicated in bribing MEPs to influence EU legislation.