True that…
Happens too fucking often as well

I’m currently hunting a bug that happens like every 1000 iteration of the thing happening.
Like, I’m telling the hardware to do something and it works pretty much all the time, but over the day, the errors add up
I have no clue why it happens, but can’t really turn up the debug logs that much, because with so many things happening, I’d produce like a shitload of data.
But I can’t really narrow it down otherwise

And it seems we’re in the same kind of shit business ;⁠-⁠)
Real time processes and automation, with customers having problems at night shift, because the maintenance guys during that shift are usually not as good - or it’s just bad luck

At one of my last business trips I was already at the airport on my happily way home, when I’ve got call.
Needed to get my luggage back, new rental car and get a place at the hotel.
Just to discover, that after 15 years the hardware acted up in a way it never did before.
At least I could now include a warning message, if this weird situation ever happens again, but that was a tough one to swallow…

Best things are, when you throw in some debug output and that changes the timings just as much to not make the bug happen anymore

I’ve lost more hair to that, than my age…

We seemingly have a different opinion, what we regard as ‘fun’ ;⁠-⁠)

Stuff that can’t be reproduced and “only” comes up because of some timing issue/race condition is often the most shit to hunt for

I’m currently in such an adventure - and I thought I had it…but the statistics show, that it only got better, but didn’t catch all of the occurrences…

I was 100% sure this is an onion article

Well, ok, maybe I got it wrong

Am…I don’t have to?
also no other Linux user has to do either

Just because one systemd dev prepared something to be optionally used for a stupid law, doesn’t mean anyone using Linux is forced to do that
Seems you don’t know how anything on Linux, and it’s ecosystem, works, if you believe that

And the relation to that news is also a mystery to me

I’m always with those poor people needing to eat dirt, when the people thinking being in power can bring death to them

But there is currently just not much else I can do…

It’s really sad, that the Iranian regime is a fundamentalist pile of shit as well

So now, I’m just getting popcorn, while I still can afford it, and watch 2 sides battling a senseless war, which I don’t want any side to win

Ah, damnit
Just looked up the video and wanted to post it…

Well, have an upvote

How should that work?
My GrapheneOS Android doesn’t look any different than any other Android - and they’d need to look at my screen while walking by or something.

They can’t even see the exact Android version without trying to access it - or having me show them explicitly my “About phone” screen or something

I really don’t see how that should work in practice

If they pick me out and want to scan my phone, then it could be used against me, that they can’t access my data.
But hey, that’s what GrapheneOS is here for, to don’t allow anyone access to my data, who shouldn’t have access

So, in practice this is not really relevant or do I misunderstand something?

Currently GrapheneOS is only supporting Pixel phones - and not sure about the oldest ones, that get supported

But here is their FAQ with the current list of supported devices:
https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

Yep, “they” can just pull out a comment of context and put you into some kind of group

As you said, stupid it is

I’m using my banking apps (business and private) without issues

It’s not about GrapheneOS adding those apps, it’s about the bank allowing their apps to run on that Android device/version.
(Or someone correct me here, but that also makes more sense to me, than a whitelist on GrapheneOS side)

You don’t know, in what list you maybe already show up
Just because police hasn’t knocked on your door, doesn’t mean, that in case all that shit will be held up against you

Who knows, who is already monitored, because just of a drunken or honest comment, that icks someone the wrong way

Thanks for that input!
Just came back from a business trip in Spain.

Maybe I missed it in the article, but do you know, how they do it?
I guess on the phone network level, my phone isn’t shouting “GrapheneOS here!!”.
So how do they profile me?
Only after they already control me somehow or…?

Still, this is getting more and more Orwellian

Hopefully my Jolla will be to exotic in the first period, but on the long term, this all is a really worrying development with the aim of mass surveillance

How can they control that I’m accessing my own Wireguard or company VPN?
Or does this only affect commercial (or free) VPN services one could use?

The technical illiteracy of politicians is still astounding to me

Edit: and how would they control TOR?
I could potentially use a TOR to VPN chain. Albeit slow, it would still work.
Registering with ID for TOR would be the most annoying amusing thing I’ve heard in a long time…
(Don’t know why autocorrect didn’t like the word ‘amusing’. Had to finally type it out. Seems not much fun stuff happening in my life ;⁠-⁠))

Brave girl, shit world

At least in Europe, there is often a slot in which you need to put in the key card the hotel provided (or often any card, because it’s just a switch and doesn’t check the card), so you don’t waste energy, while you’re not in the room
Said slot for the card is just at the wall after you open the door. So you usually have power, before you’re even really inside, because you just reach in and out the card in place.
It’s a bit annoying, but that’s pretty much it.

As the room should be empty, when there is no card in the slot, I’m not sure how that makes it worse for shy people though o⁠:⁠-⁠)

Needing to install an app and trusting my phone to be charged and functioning, when I want to enter my room, seems much more stressful for me ;⁠-⁠)

I somehow also get a lower resolution Google maps, when using Google Auto.
That was the reason I don’t really use it.

For music and stuff, I just use Bluetooth

But good luck having Google add something as NewPipe to be allowed with Android Auto ;⁠-⁠)

I have never used those - didn’t even know those exist

Usually I need the key card anyway to active the power in the room… Which sucks

So, can’t say anything about that, but it’s just usual Android, so I don’t see much issues here.
Banking apps are usually just more strict with which system they support, so that was my primary worry

Edit: but as I don’t really know about those hotel keys apps, does this mean I have to install an app per hotel (chain), which probably tries to grab some personal data again, or is this just some key, I can use in some FOSS app?