Iconic lines from Cartman in South Park (S14E3)

Billy: Do you wanna do it?

Cartman: Do I wanna do it? Does the pope help pedophiles get away with their crime?

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Billy: Is that something you would want to do?

Cartman: Is that something I would want to do? Is the pope Catholic…and making the world safe for pedophiles?

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Billy: You wouldn’t do that.

Cartman: Does a bear crap in the woods? And does the pope crap on the broken lives and dreams of 200 deaf boys?

I honestly don’t like Gwent. Maybe never got into it enough.

For the android users, just gonna put this here

https://gadgetbridge.org/

Don’t have a good rec to add to the discussion of hardware, but I would love to give a shoutout to GadgetBridge, which is an Open Source Android app that is a vendorless alternative to controlling lots of smart wearables (and other gadgets). It doesn’t currently have Polar support, but seems that might be fairly easy to implement, since polar publishes their SDK online (and presumably the protocol with which it communicates).

Why would it make sense? Currently on Android, RCS isn’t a system level thing like SMS is. So Signal won’t easily be able to pull it in. Unless they implement their own implementation of RCS and the Universal Profile.

Define “a minute”. I normally get things from Usenet within minutes of it finishing airing

It’s very sweet. Gonna through DrunkenSlug in as well. I’ve used geek, eweka, slug, and abnzb. I currently use geek and slug. Eweka is also great, just didn’t re-up. Abnzb is meh.

Quick question, what would federation provide? How would they have anything to do with a search engine?

Do you mean just not centralized/run by big tech? If so, that wouldn’t necessarily be “federated”, but just self hostable. That way you can host it yourself, if you have the know how/equipment, or you can access someone else’s hosted version (probably for a price).

While I’m all for having local services like search engines. I don’t think we need more “messaging platform” services. At least not new complete platforms. I’d argue something like a Canadian popularized Matrix host or something.

Full disclosure, I’m American but fully support not depending on us. We fucking suck.

GrapheneOS

When I search for it on stock android on my P7, it says it’s in Google Play Services. So my guess is it isn’t part of AOSP, therefore GrapheneOS wouldn’t have it, unless they make their own implementation

Matrix is a new-ish decentralized, private, E2EE encryption protocol. It’s pretty neat. It still has some issues (at least that I experience. Mainly the Android app is constantly being super slow to receive messages), but it’s super promising.

They also have some goals to improve email infrastructure by integrating the matrix protocol, but not sure if that will go anywhere. I remember reading this off hand remark on their blog. Can’t find the source.

As the original comment said, there’s the concept ifa “bridge” which allows you to bridge other services to a matrix chat. So you could have a discord channel and matrix room bridged, as an example. A ready to go option with bridges is Beeper. But you can also setup your own stuff, as they said.