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User benefits are assets, code is a liability.
Code is free to produce and hard to validate: technical debt can easily snowball. PRs are cheap, humans who understand them are not.
Yet again, proof of work is the answer.
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If you think you *own* an iOS device, think again.
Insane story.
"After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer, authoring technical books on Appleβs own programming languages (Objective-C and Swift), and spending tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of dollars on devices, apps, conferences, and services, I have been locked out of my personal and professional digital life with no explanation and no recourse."


Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectivel...
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I often hear people unable to use Graphene because (bank app) and this never made sense to me.
I won't question why you still use a bank, but why the app?
Access that crap via web? Use a plastic card and thats it?
The checkpoint was always the point
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Dream workflow for @Zapstore some day:
- fork open source app
- vibe changes
- rebuild APK signed with own pubkey
- publish and share
This should make competition between forks more dynamic.
Downside: abandonware will skyrocket
Because trimming videos on iOS is awesome and on Graphene it sucks, I created this:
Video Razor β A minimal Android video trimmer with nondestructive editing, precision zoom for frame-accurate trimming, and instant sharing

Video Razor - Zapstore
A minimal Android video trimmer with nondestructive editing, precision zoom for frame-accurate trimming, and instant sharing.
One may have all the freedom in the world but still be mind's slave
Enjoying the new Satellite, well thought out details @Stuart Bowman
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