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Why does the effectiveness of the protest be contingent on stealing the glasses?

I'd guess because buying the meta glasses to use them is in a way helping it succeed.

The story starts with a German man, John Boepple, in his button shop in Germany. He immigrates to the US with the resolve to search for more freshwater mussels. So yes, it is relevant if you're interested in telling a story of the events that transpired.


I think it's just meant to be a fun experiment, not your next enterprise backup site


Stegonagraphic backup with crappy ai transmogrified reaction videos. Free backup for openclaw agents so they can take over the internet lol


What would be an alternative that conveys the same thing, in your opinion?


That was my experience too. Up and running in 30 minutes, I was quite surprised


Exactly


The smarter way to comment online: Read the article before commenting on how to best understand it. As the other reader mentioned, that's not what the article says.


So be complicit in the article's false paradigm?

That is, the medication doesn't improve anything per se. The problem is obesity and diabetes. The medication does not perform better than these not being present at all.

The presume diabetes - sans T1 - is a norm is false if not dangerous. In other words, "Sure just throw more meds at it" is not a narrative anyone should be comfortable with.


Not universally true, I use banking apps on my Pixel running the latest GrapheneOS. There is literally nothing I cannot do on my phone. I think it's possible that no US banks have apps that can be used as it seems a universal experience among Americans.


Do Android Auto and VoLTE / VoWiFi work on Graphene these days? I also remember Google Maps and Uber being extremely problematic


Android Auto is supported on GrapheneOS:

https://grapheneos.org/usage#android-auto

VoLTE and VoWiFi are supported if your carrier supports it.

Google Maps and Uber work fine, provided you install sandboxed Google Play.


Uber, Google Maps, VoLTE, VoWiFi, and eSIM work. You may need to install the sandboxed Google Play Services from the Apps app.

Android Auto is completely disabled as an opinionated security measure.

Google Pay and some banking apps (ones that require Google's Play Integrity API) will not run. GrapheneOS doesn't attempt to spoof these APIs because they are moving towards cryptographic verification [0]. Most apps don't require this check but if they do you are out of luck unless you can get the app developers to trust GrapheneOS's keys.

[0]: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...


Note that Android Auto has been supported in GrapheneOS for a while:

https://grapheneos.org/usage#android-auto


Ya kept wanting to try Android Auto but when they released I failed to find the toggle xD

Nowadays it's the Google's Find My Tag network which will be unsupported.


I think they work if you install Google Play Services (as a sandboxed app). What doesn't work for me is contactless payments with Google Pay however Google Wallet itself works. But I think that is actually intended and for security reasons.


Google Wallet is usable on GrapheneOS, but Google artificially restricts contactless payment functionality to Google-certified OSes.

It's not a real security check that they're doing, but rather just checking for certification, which is very unfortunate.


Yea it's probably to have a catchy name and get some attention. Although it's technically accurate to call it 4D since it includes time, I think 3D video recording would probably get the point across to more people in a less sensationalist way.


Is it technically accurate? Seems like its actually 6Dof view angles + time. The paper mentions 4D view, 4D point cloud, dynamic 3D scene and 4D feature grid.


That's probably the most self-aggrandizing interpretation. Could it be that other people have other priorities or interests rather than spending their time figuring out how to obtain digital privacy without compromising in the areas they care about? No surely it's their low "cognitive capital" /s


You are very fortunate to never had the displeasure of having to interact with profoundly stupid people. Not ignorant, not uneducated, but genuinely stupid and slow people.

E.g., People for whom significant, immediate, unexpected mechanical feedback in operating something simple, like window blinds, wouldn't cause them to consider whether they might be doing something wrong, and instead continue operariting the blinds in the wrong direction until they snap and break, genuinely being unaware that they were doing it wrong.

People who are genuinely lacking the common sense you'd expect a human to have, not even with any cognitive disability or learning disorder of any kind - just genuinely stupid but otherwise ordinary people.


What are you talking about? How does this relate to anything in the discussion? Besides, you were denigrating the intelligence of the average person, as though that's the reason they don't acquire all the skills necessary to have digital privacy.

Ironically, that's a stupid assumption to have. You might be in your own bubble, but I know many very intelligent people who do not have the time or interest in gaining digital privacy. It's not as easy or without compromise as you seem to think.


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