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Sorry, but do you have a source for this at all?

As far as I can tell, they have added some Play Integrity checks (with root detection being part of that), but the reason was cited as spam prevention, and I can’t find anything claiming they had any sort of agreement with Apple to do so.

They kept pushing for Apple to implement it, but I don’t know of any cases of them making any promises about what they’d do on their own platform in order to convince Apple or anything like that.

In what way does this have anything to do with RCS or Apple lmao

The petition is only one part of the puzzle.

Keep Android Open also says to contact your regulators and fill out Google’s developer verification survey, both of which either directly affect Google by influencing internal processes, or put regulatory pressure on them to back off.

The Change.org petition is moreso just a way to count overall total supporters, and add one more lever of pressure that can be leveled against them. (e.g. instead of “we’ve had a lot of people contact regulators” it’s “218,000 people are actively taking the time to tell you they don’t like this”, can be cited by lawmakers, advocacy groups, etc)

That said though, I do agree that a change.org petition on its own is… generally ineffective most of the time.

35 or over is clinically considered geriatric in women

“geriatric” was an old, now antiquated term for just “if you’re past this age, you’re at a higher risk of complications with pregnancy”. It’s not used anymore. (as the article you linked states)

“geriatric” is a loose term with no defined age range, but I can assure you 99.99% of people would not call you even remotely close to geriatric because you’re in your 30’s.

I’ve seen lots of doctors and had every hormone, vitamin, blood test etc under the sun and they’re all normal.

Then that should probably indicate to you that something else is the problem. For example, those tests don’t indicate if you’re getting enough physical activity, if you’re eating too many ‘processed’ ingredients known to cause complications in high quantities without directly affecting vitamin levels, if you have a sleep disorder, if you’re having too much caffeine, if you’re breathing in air pollutants, if you have any number of genetic disorders, if you have certain damage to your organs, etc.

Stimulants are good.

Talk to a psychiatrist. If they think it would be good for your situation, then it is probably good. Until you do that, you have no clue if it will help you or hurt you. It could improve your situation, or it could make you forget to eat, make your sleeping worse, give you worse brain fog, withdrawal symptoms, extreme anxiety, or even a heart attack.

Stimulants are controlled substances for a reason. Please, talk to a health professional qualified to issue prescriptions for stimulants, specifically about the possibility of stimulants for your particular issues. (i.e. don’t just ask for tests, suggest the option. Doctors are willing to consider options when presented with them by the patient saying they want it, especially since a big barrier to people improving their health is often unwillingness to participate in a given habit or schedule of meds)

Oh, and consider a sleep study. That can catch many things that won’t show up on things like blood tests, and is very, very, VERY relevant to your specific symptoms.

Many conditions are never identifiable through blood, nutrient, or physical analysis of your body via scans and tests, and are only identified through symptoms, trial and error with different medications and known coping techniques, identifying changes after altering behaviors, etc.

The symptoms you are having are not normal or to be expected, they are clearly very impactful to your life, and the fact more basic tests like blood/vitamin tests haven’t identified an obvious cause signals you could possibly have a major underlying condition that could potentially be extremely serious.

Please, talk to a psychiatrist if you want to see if alternative stimulants could help, and get a sleep study done to understand how your body handles it and provide actual insight to your doctors.

How often do you go on outings? When did the symptoms generally start? Was it around a time you started taking caffeine or taking more of it than before? Are you on other psychoactive medications that could affect your brain?

Regardless, if you’re taking such a large dose of caffeine even occasionally, it could drastically affect your adenosine receptors, and that’s only going to cause tiredness, speech slurring, brain fog, etc to continue EVERY day until you’ve been without caffeine long enough for them to return to a baseline.

Personally, I’d suggest slowly decreasing your caffeine intake. Most people say “just quit taking it” but that can lead to some really annoying crash and withdrawal symptoms, so I’d say slowly reduce by maybe ~50mg per dose, each week or so, until you’re around 100-200mg max on any given day. If it doesn’t work out, you can always go back to your current caffeine intake, but if it does work out, you’ve just saved yourself a big headache and potential medical problems.

I can promise you, this is not a normal bodily reaction to have at your age, and you’re already hitting the recommended safe human limit if you ever take 400mg. To be clear, I’m not here to judge you. Just like most other people here, I think we’re all just quite concerned for your health and safety.

One thousand percent this. I even find it hard to fall sleep with an estimated 25-50mg of caffeine left in my system sometimes, even if I still feel tired at the same time. 100mg left by that point would almost certainly cause sleep problems.

Isn’t that no different than the millions of open source projects that have few authors, little interest and are abandoned for the next shiny thing?

The end result isn’t inherently different, but the basis is.

Someone who programs a FOSS project with their own programming skill is, by definition, more invested, and more willing to spend time making that project exist. Someone who is mostly just willing to tell the LLM to do it for them is, by definition, less invested in the project.

It is more likely that someone less invested in a project will abandon it.

At least in my mind with the current state of LLMs, if there is an open source project that you want to update for yourself, you should be able to do that pretty easily.

Sure, that’s possible, but the main concern is that most people either don’t have access to more capable models (which will otherwise require them spending money for their software to keep getting things like security patches, vs projects that have maintainers that are more invested in them that aren’t abandoned in the first place which are effectively free unless you choose to donate), and you get forks in development path. It might fit one user’s goals, but now you have, say, 100 people who all tried reviving abandonware with their own LLMs, all with different features, security, import/export mechanisms, etc.

That’s not to say it’s bad that people can use LLMs to “revive” abandonware, but I don’t think we should be encouraging people to create and publish software that’s highly likely to be abandoned in the first place.

This is the main reason why vibe coding, even if it produces good code, is still a major problem. It encourages people with the goal of making software, but without the actual will and motivation to keep supporting that software to pump out software and publish it.

It’s like all the faceless AI-automated YouTube channels we have now. It’s not that these people had no way of doing it before, it’s just that it’s easy and might make them some money, or make them feel like they accomplished something until they get bored and move on.

There’s something to be said for convenient and easy to use things, but they’re a double edged sword, because they also directly target people with the least emotional investment to use them, as a side effect of that convenience.

link that doesn’t appear to be dead: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/we-follow-through/flock-cameras-are-still-on-in-cleveland-even-though-the-contract-expired

It’s not really a “you need to bypass TCP” and more of a “TCP traffic could be censored”… just like UDP, DNS, or really any other kind of networked traffic.

Reticulum isn’t necessarily immune to this, it just supports a variety of protocols as a mesh network, so TCP isn’t something who’s failure would make the network impossible to use (but good luck accessing any traditional website without TCP).

For example, you might be able to communicate from your Android phone running a Reticulum-compatible app to a separate nearby device over Bluetooth, then that device broadcasts a signal over LoRa, which hits someone else’s LoRa-compatible radio, which then connects over a USB-C cable to their laptop, which is plugged into their router, which can then send the traffic over TCP, where it’s picked up by someone elsewhere using the internet. If TCP traffic is blocked, say, by their local government, maybe their LoRa radio just broadcasts to another LoRa radio, and another, and another, etc, until enough of them chained together is able to reach the recipient. Hence, TCP wouldn’t strictly be required, thus preventing censorship of Reticulum through blocking TCP connections. (though this would still reduce how many ways you could theoretically get to people, as if that person ONLY has access to TCP as the start of their connection to the mesh, they’d be cut off)

Of course, the government could also try jamming radio signals, then making LoRa useless, but if they do that and don’t block TCP traffic, then you still have options.

Unfortunately, I wouldn’t call Reticulum an internet replacement, nor do I think it could ever be without still relying on the kind of large-scale, high-throughput infrastructure we have for the internet today. It just doesn’t have enough bandwidth, and it’s difficult to run anything requiring low latency if every connection requires hopping through a thousand peers to get to someone on the other side of the planet who, say, wants to play the same online game as you.