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successfully clipped a gravel as big as 5 millimeters

Okay

(2 inches)

...what?

the size of a tiny granola bit

...what??

There is a workaround for this, which is to use a service like JMP.chat to redirect SMS to XMPP, at which point you only need to ensure internet which is a bit of a lower requirement than specific networks (but of course may still become more limiting over time)

It's too early to be certain, but I've got high hopes for the future of the SHIFT 6mq.

I believe it has mainline linux support, or it is being worked on, which will be important for ongoing OS upgrades. Otherwise they have a similar philosophy to Fairphone with an important difference; SHIFT wants you to be able to upgrade their phones, not just repair them. I don't think this has been realistically tested yet, but the successor SHIFTPHONE 8 is coming out imminently, and I think we should start to see pretty soon if any of the new modules can be installed on the older model.

I've actually got the SHIFTPHONE 8 coming myself, because I got spooked by places turning off 3G already and wanted to "future proof" with 5G, but otherwise would have preferred the 6mq.

The one caveat is that SHIFT is a very small company, which could mean risk for long term support.

He's not naked, he's wearing glasses

No parliamentarians have been referred so we already know the architects are off scott-free

I reckon that requires a legislative solution, not just a technological one.

I'm not very familiar with consumer co-ops beyond "the thing that keeps popping up when I try to look into worker co-ops". What do you get out of a multi-stakeholder co-op that's better than a pure worker's co-op?

What do the exclamation points mean?

Am I missing something or does the article not make sense?

Police formed a line to separate the far-right group from a group of around 300 asylum seeker demonstrators and were forced to use capsicum spray.

Victoria Police said there were no arrests and no reports of injury and they are reviewing footage of the incident.

So did they choose not to arrest neo-nazis breaking the law or did they deploy chemical weapons on people that weren't breaking the law?

(Possibly hollow)

Two of the "questions" are just statements

Unpaid Open Source developers will have trouble fulfilling increasing government requirements, for example the EU Cyber Security Act.

Emerging companies like Tidelift, which pay developers, will solve the current problems of Open Source.

Open Source Software follows the Open Source Definition, while Free Software follows the Free Software Definition.

They have heavy overlap, one is not a subset of the other, and they are similarly restrictive, just shepherded by different groups. I'm sure there are licences that satisfy one but not the other, but they would have to be few and far between; just reading through each it's not obvious how one could satisfy only one definition.