Adam Powell

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Still dreaming of electric sheep. I make Android API things, dad jokes, and play video games. He/him.
githubhttps://github.com/adamp

#UploadFilter #ResponsibleEncryption - politicians today use euphemisms when they want to break encryption. 🤯

We must keep fighting for our right to privacy! đź’Ş

Learn here why #backdoors to #encryption must never be allowed: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk

Let's fight encryption backdoors on Global Encryption Day! | Tuta

61% of all Tuta emails are sent e2e encrypted - a huge success for privacy. But the authorities want to weaken encryption. We must stop them!

Tuta

My dad was a child refugee in Nazi-occupied France from age 7-10 before immigrating to the U.S. I'm grateful for the kindness, generosity and courage of all those who helped him and enabled our family's survival.

Today, World Refugee Day, millions of people are striving to reach safe haven. Whatever your religion, ethnicity, nationality, or politics, the experience of being a refugee is universal. Let's greet them with empathy, kindness and generosity. They're not the other. They are us.

15 years of Android memories

For Android’s 15-year anniversary, let’s look back at memories from a decade and a half, from meaningful connections to bugdroid superheroes.

Google
I wrote about #KOSA, the very bad internet censorship bill making its way through the Senate, and what you can do to help stop it. Please share/subscribe/etc. https://www.readtpa.com/p/congress-is-about-to-pass-a-very
Congress is About to Pass a Very Bad Internet Bill. Here's How You Can Stop It.

The misleadingly named Kids Online Safety Act will censor the internet, not protect kids.

The Present Age

For anyone wanting to build their own, all the Apple II VGA PCB files are now available on github:
https://github.com/swetland/appleii-vga

#projects #appleiie #appleiivga

GitHub - swetland/appleii-vga: Apple II VGA PCB

Apple II VGA PCB. Contribute to swetland/appleii-vga development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

@earthlingusa Thanks.

People like simple stories but life isn’t simple. Covid was thought by science to not be contagious before a positive test. This was probably correct.

Unsurprisingly however evolution, a logic process hasn’t stopped, and a strain that IS contagious before positive signs has spread faster and is now dominant. Science was best efforts correct and still is best efforts correct but things have literally evolved.

The only plus side going for us is that we do have an immune response so one strain has an inoculation effect against similar strains. What this means is that evolution pressures for virulence over severity. So a faster spreading less damaging version takes over the opposite. This is how we move to endemic.

However, you are not a statistical average and you CAN do things that help. Listening to @mekkaokereke is one of those things.

Annoying but true

Folks, get off Twitter. I don’t care where you go, be it Bluesky or the Fediverse, but leave Twitter.

Your continued involvement on Twitter supports this.

With Android 14's API 34 being finalized, ~all new Jetpack library releases have started to compile with API 34. That means your app is also going to need to compile with API 34. Note that targetSdk is a whole different thing that you can do much later!
https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/picking-your-compilesdkversion-minsdkversion-targetsdkversion-a098a0341ebd
“All successes are zero; each failure is a different number.” —Tolstoy