“If Aramark can afford to pay you $18.7 million in compensation and provide nearly $100 million in dividends for your wealthy shareholders,” Sanders wrote to Zillmer, “it can afford to pay all of your workers a living wage and not threaten to take away their jobs and their income with faceless Mashgin touchscreen computers.”

We need to get scientific about this.

Relevant XKCD: The Difference

Relevant XKCD: The Difference

“Hospitality/ Nevada”

I see we’re still playing along with that euphemism. Haha.

Yes. I’m not sure what else has gone on, but NAFTA and the US China Relations Act sweaping all of the manufacturing out of the country could account for the whole change between the two maps.

I imagine that Brennan Lee Mulligan walks a fine line as a public figure.

He still plays D&D often enough to (seemingly) not alienate people at Wizards whose work helped launch his career.

But he also plays significant amounts of other games, including some that I think are Indie developers, like Kids on Bikes.

I’m sure he’s aware of the issues and concerns in the community around D&D under Wizards - and probably shares many of those same concerns, as a fellow player and DM.

But, yes, the idea that Brennan secretly hates anything sounds pretty silly. Brennan has been pretty direct with his epic rants about things he really hates.

While you can setup a second profile to put the Google services into, I don’t recommend it.

The version of Google Services on GrapheneOS thinks it has root, but it does not.

So there’s no dramatic need to setup a second profile, unless you want it for other reasons.

I personally think the second profile feature is one of the things people think they want/need from GrapheneOS, but really are happier without.

(Sure it’s safer, but GrapheneOS is already so much better than other mobile OSes - and I hate to see someone quit GrapheneOS just because they didn’t like the optional profiles.)

An exception I have seen is for apps mandated for a job. I’m happy to bury that stuff deep.

In addition to what else was shared: GrapheneOS now has fairly nuanced options for running apps.

Things that previously would not run at all, now often run fine - if granted additional permissions, such as the permission for the developer to be lousy at their job (various settings under “Exploit Protection”).

Many apps run afowl of “Exploit Protections”, but if you trust the app author, those settings can be disabled just for that app. Just realize that needing these settings generally means the app developer is bad at their job. If that’s for an Indie Game - oh well. But when t’s my bank…maybe I should reconsider who I trust with my money.)

This allows deciding how much to trust each app author.

I find it creepy that Google hasn’t back-ported more of these privacy features into stock Android.

Specifically regarding the two app types you mention:

Regarding authenticators: I have yet to encounter one that fails on GrapheneOS. I have found some that only allow backups via Google services, which feels insane to me, anyway.

I wish someone had pointed me to Aegis sooner. Aegis is compatible with every MFA service I have tried it with, fully open source, available on F-Droid, and supports backing up to an encrypted file.

Regarding finance management apps: These have gotten super invasive, recently. Mine all work fine on GrapheneOS, but don’t play nice with routine VPN usage, or with ever having location services disabled even for a minute.

The saving grace is that all the finance apps I use have had perfectly functional websites, which cannot be made invasive, the way an app can.

nobody just breaks out in song when they get dumped, for example.

You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!

That amused me, too.

I think it plays fine for the intended audience, though.

For the folks looking into Anubis, that line plays well - because hosting costs are driven up by the kinds of spam bot visits that Anubis slows down.

The rule of cool helps with honesty too.

My team knew well in advance that we would be short-staffed on the day the Switch 2 released.

I like the sound of “EmptyPromisesAboutTheWrongTopicsSocial” or maybe “StatusQuoKeepersSocial”.

But when a mid-tier or entry level dev can do 60% of what a senior can do, it’ll be a great way to cut costs.

Same as how an entry level architect can build a building 60% as tall, and that’ll last 60% as long, right?

Edit: And an entry level aerospace engineer with AI assistance will build a plane that’s 60% as good at not crashing.

I’m not looking forward to the world I believe is coming…

I have good news!?

…This isn’t a particularly gendered problem.

Well shoot. We were aiming to create an impression of a big group of us - like if there were 40 or more of us.

That looks promising. I wonder if it will be friends with me?

I’m a problems-oriented consultant. Whatever your problem is, I can help you split it into two barely smaller problems.

Sure, like NFTs were here to stay, and the gazillion different shitcoins that were popping up everywhere some years ago.

I bet you’re just angry that you didn’t hold onto your ape NFTs. They’re going to skyrocket back soon. (I hope my sarcasm here is obvious, of course.)

The Who is this for? is amazing.