Motorola plans to ship phones with GrapheneOS (Google-free, security-hardened Android)

GrapheneOS is an open source, Android-based operating system that puts an emphasis on privacy and security features. It’s been stripped of Google apps and services and includes replacements including a web browser that provides process and site sandboxing and blocks ads and trackers, a camera app that automatically strips metadata from pictures, and a bunch of additional security features.

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During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab.

https://news.agu.org/press-release/thunderstorms-conjure-ghostly-coronae-in-treetops-observed-outdoors-for-the-first-time/ #science #nature

RE: https://mastodon.art/@petrikas/116125821528139989

Middle class kids like me can get one throw every decade maybe. I’m about to throw a dart again.

I’m aware lots of things had to have happened for me to even be able to do this. Primarily that my parents without college degrees experienced a once in a lifetime economic growth story in a country that suddenly became rich in their lifetimes. And that I have a passport that lets me go anywhere i want.