Battery Draining by Private Service App on My Phone, Why?
Just because it "Works For Me!" does not mean it will work.
Beeper very much does not currently allow new users to access the functioning legacy iMessage infrastructure; and Apple itself is making it impractical as well.
From the Beeper Community chatroom on Matrix:
[iMessage] Important Notice.
Beeper no longer provides support for iMessage-related issues.
It has become known that Apple has targeted users of legitimate Mac computers for using Beeper to generate iMessage registration data. Beeper has commented about this situation on Twitter/X here and coverage of this issue has been reported in the New York Times here.
As a result of this media pressure, many of those affected have been successful in having their hardware bans lifted. If you are still affected by a ban that you believe is related to generating a registration code on a Mac computer to use iMessage through Beeper please report it to Beeper Help here and please contact Apple Support as well.
As of this time Beeper has removed support for iMessage from Beeper Cloud due to Apple's actions. It is suggested that those still using registration data generated from a Mac computer to access iMessage through Beeper delete their existing iMessage bridge in Beeper Cloud.
For any further questions related to iMessage please visit our helpful Discord community.
Ah. This smells like a classic Russian poisoning.
Officially; No.
Informally; there's a few mods of the stock Discord client; however they're all closed source because they cannot possibly be fully open source as the stock Discord client is Closed Source.
Basically; alternatives exist; However they are not FOSS, FLOSS, OS or even fully Source Available.
Beeper exists but this is not strictly a Discord-only client and it is not fully Open Source; as some client/server code is only "Source Available". Beeper is also not fully "Free"; unless you self-host it. Furthermore access to Beeper is heavily join-gated. You will have to source an invitation code from someone you know. (No, I will not provide one.)
If you do get invited to Beeper; use Beeper Cloud, and be aware that iMessage integration does not work.
They absolutely are political prisoners! By strict technical definition.
However, the fact of the matter remains that they committed crimes knowingly, knowing fully well that their political beliefs do not pardon their insurrection or their crimes.
You know, when you try to pull off an insurrection and you absolutely and utterly fail at it, you gotta expect there to be some consequences. Thank goodness America isn't an absolute dictatorship which would put dissidents to death. The punishment at least fits the crimes of each one of them. They get a fair trial and everything. What more could a criminal reasonably ask for?
I don't feel sorry for the yahoos who gathered on Jan 6th and caused mass chaos. I feel like if the feds rounded them up; they probably did something undeniably stupid.
Plenty of people who "Showed up" for the January 6th protest who actually stayed out of the way and did not engage in the rioting and such actually don't happen to be in jail...they were released at least 3 months later after nobody could find anything to charge them with. It's part of how the justice system works.
They had to know they would all have to be rounded up after the chaos and be sorted out. Hell; if they were smart, they left when things got hot and heavy and didn't get arrested at all, and at worst only had to speak to the FBI or the cops a little bit to prove they didn't join in the chaos.
It's not a crime for them to have been there protesting. The crimes were all the people breaking into the building(s) and trying to interfere with the process. Trying to terrorize and intimidate chosen people who were working to certify the election; which by the way; Trump lost. Unfortunately the protestors do not get to decide who our president is. The election does. It's democracy.
Unfortunately a small group of people got a little too salty about losing.
I mean...Why the hell are we sparing 1.5 Trillion dollars of our future income on jet fighters when we won't spare even 10% of that on our own fucking people at home without a god damned 3 ring circus about how much we're already spending?
Do you not see the hypocrisy here?
Low key though; taping a fish to a cop car isn't very classy and it only invites the cops to come after you instead of looking the other way.
At the risk of sounding like an old dragon;
The world just ain't like it used to be...these days you can't get away with half of what you could 10, 20 or even 30 years ago...even if what you did was largely completely harmless.
As for damages...what damages? Maybe a little cleanup would be necessary, but I doubt any of these ATMs were actually physically harmed by the prank(s). I will admit that it's a little bit irresponsible for the child to have actually done this internationally; but I suspect it wasn't the same kid. I doubt one kid could've traveled the world to fish-tape ATMs thousands of miles away; and instead this is a rather large "group" of kids doing this for the lulz, and they only caught the one kid and are trying to make an example of him. >_>
No, there's other problems we need to address too. Dealing with racism isn't a quick fix, it's something everyone has to work together to stamp out.
You didn't convert a hex number into Base64, you Base64 encoded the hex string.
TL;DR, you used the wrong tool.
Ah; but did you forget you pay income tax on top of capital gains taxes?
On the other hand; would you personally make that choice if you were in their situation? I am willing to bet you, nor any other reader, would not. While that doesn't excuse the greed aspect of it; it does cast at least some light upon why they are refusing to sell and take a loss on it.
If you only paid $100,000 and you made $1,000,000; you'd have $900,000 profit; of which you'd probably only see ~60% to ~40% of, if Capital Gains taxes are anything near what I think they are. If we assume a "worst case", where the Federal Government takes 40% and the State takes about 20% more, that means your tidy profit is only about $390,000. That means you've probably got to secure another $140,000 in financing on average to pick up a more modest $500,000 home (in today's market) to retire in.
But villainizing the boomers isn't going to solve the housing crisis easier either. We legitimately need more homes. We. Need. Them. Yesterday. So maybe the policy needs to lean towards bigger developments that cost less. We did it during WW2; where massive amounts of homes were built cheaply. We probably need to achieve that again, and do better than we did during a war that was diverting supplies away from the effort.
How do we achieve that? I don't know.
You fail to see that we want the same outcome; only that we disagree on how to do it. Do you truly care about abolishing racism, or are you just caring about what benefits one race? That's racist in and of itself.
I hardly think doing the exact opposite of what only blacks consider racism is better either though.
College Admissions should be based on grades alone. Not race. Not gender. Not who had better "extracurriculars". Not arbitrary test scores. Not disciplinary records. Not anything we find to be biased to one group or another.
If you don't make the cut, it should purely be an Academic Skill Issue. Furthermore; we need more colleges too. More colleges that actually do what they supposed to do and help students into productively becoming employed and successful. Colleges that teach every student in a more one on one way so that their needs are met completely and they don't struggle when compared to another graduate. Colleges that create students that are of all colors, who are impossible to discriminate against, as their skills are truly equal.
Yeah you can always take a hex hash output and convert it to Base64...which does conpress it significantly. Apply LZ Compression and boom.
I hear there's a fork of Signal that doesn't remove SMS, but idk what it's called.
Hold it there Privacy Enthusiasts!
Read this first, it explains the learning technology: https://federated.withgoogle.com/
Read the article! The change isn't live yet...and you can likely disable it once it drops.
“While an exact date is still unknown,” Bard says, “all signs point towards Bard's arrival in Google Messages sometime in 2024. It could be a matter of weeks or months, but it's definitely coming.” Meanwhile, what we’ve seen thus far remains buried deep inside a beta release and subject to change before release.
No. Just No. Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt is sufficient.
Don't try to diminish or weaken the necessity of the death penalty in a first-degree-multiple-murder scenario. The death penalty is always absolutely warranted.
Out of the few kinds of crimes that I feel qualify for a Death Sentence...this is absolutely One Of Them.
The source(s) you heard these things from are blatant misinformation. They fail to correctly understand the technology; which is "Federated Learning". Basically it's a form of AI training that obscures the data from the operator(s) so that it cannot be read, but the AI can learn from it privately. Bits and pieces of work are assigned to devices to "train" the AI privately, on the device using it's AI focused hardware. Your device never allows your data to leave the device; even if your data is used to train the AI.
This is a core system component of Android and you cannot disable it. It is the core function of Android System Intelligence module. The Private Compute Services is what is allowed to read your data; and if you've not opted out, can train bits of AI on your data without revealing or sharing that data to anyone. I repeat, your data does not leave the device, it is only used as training material. Yes, that has some privacy implications that they do try to address.
Please see this comic first: https://federated.withgoogle.com/
and then feel free to read up on Wikipedia about it to learn more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_learning
In Android 14, at least on a Pixel, it's possible to opt out of these functions easily in
Settings > Security & Privacy > More Security & Privacy. Similarly this menu can also "forget" everything your device has "learned" locally about your data and habits...which might help you with battery drain issues.