oh i do see that in the subtitle now. My mistake there.

I did read the article, but unlike you I have reading comprehension.

More recently, Harmel gave the victim a new phone without cellular data. However, the teenager was able to connect to Wi-Fi via the phone and used it to access the online game Among Us. The victim then seemingly used Among Us’ in-game chat function to contact another teenager in a lobby. The two exchanged social media details.

She contacted them in a lobby. It does not state that is where they met. They used the lobby chat to talk and exchange social media handles. She likely had to make new ones on this new phone to use. Nowhere does it state they did not know eachother before, but the fact that the teenager was able to contact her mother, as the article also states, implies to me that they had some sort of connection to her prior to the kidnapping. Perhaps I am wrong about that but nowhere does the article say otherwise.

You are very much crashing out right now btw. You don’t seem to even realize that @isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone is not me. And your reaction to me saying not to assume a kid in this situation would react logically is to get offended that I’m accusing you of “victim blaming”. When all I’m doing is pointing out that kids don’t always do things the way we might expect since they don’t have the life experience we do.

Take a breath.

If I had a nickel for every Where’s Waldo meme I saw today… well I’d have 2 nickels. But it’s weird that it happened twice!

ive only ever seen it called a game of telephone idk where the racial part came from

Personally I think those terms are still kinda weird. Like “developed” isn’t a binary. You never stop developing as a nation. Sometimes you backslide too.

Your friend on Among Us obviously wtf are u even asking for

Honestly I think you just need to stop assuming a kid in this situation is going to react logically. I guarantee she just wanted to contact someone she knew and she had an old friend from school on among us and used that. Also, for the people suggesting email, it’s actually a lot harder to make an email these days than you’d think. Especially on the services that most people know about.

It depends what you mean. Will open source software be less safe comparatively to closed source because of AI? No. Will it be less safe? yes. All software is less safe because of AI. Has nothing to do with open source.

Yeah like I said your in your phase of socialist development where you’ve accepted that the west is evil, but you have yet to deprogram yourself from the propaganda about its adversaries. So you see both the west, and its enemies, as the problem. Which is incoherent. I do not think anyone exists who thinks a government is perfect, but China is very clearly much better in many ways than any western government, and that is the very reason most of the global south looks to China in friendship.

It’s a common mindset to go through. I hope you can get through it in a productive way.

check out Lemmygrad.ml

Edit: Read your other comments nevermind. I realize you are like in some sort of weird transitionary phase where you don’t like anyone. Try it out in a few years when you realize the axis of resistance is the only way forward.

so they can sell a 2nd cab to the other 2 people

Idk about Obscura VPN personally. Made a post about it here: https://lemmy.ml/post/53749507

Edit: I also find it weird that you include Obscura when you didn’t include Mullvad because Obscura is built on Mullvad lol. It uses Mullvad servers.

it does yeah but I’ve got one personally and intend to keep using it regardless.

Well you realize there are two sides to a partnership right? Motorola is a for profit company. They want to make money. They’re not gonna subsidize our security. Graphene likely will support their cheaper phones in the future, but part of the deal was this phone being first I’m sure.

You can get Pixel 6 for 195$ refurbished on Amazon.

Pixel 8 renewed is lik 260$ and runs Graphene and has software support thru like 2030 fyi

Well I don’t think Graphene OS devs chose the price of the phone lol. This is just the Motorola phone that has the hardware Graphene requires. Like a security chip. Give it a few years and this phone will be on the used market for 400$.

Probably. I dont feel the need for a word for it tho. It’s not something I think about much. I just do whatever I feel like doing. I hear people talk about things like dysphoria and it just doesn’t compute to me. I’ve never been shot but I can imagine what being shot would be like, right? I can’t imagine what dysphoria would be like. If I imagine myself as the opposite biological sex its just like a logistical challenge. How do I use the bathroom. I need different hygeine products. Stuff like that. It doesn’t bother me.

Honestly i’d just get a renewed pixel 8

Honestly I’ll probably get downvoted for this but I think AI in mods can be justifiable. Like say you were modding an old game and used AI to upscale the textures of some stuff. People already use AI upscaling as like a setting in the game itself sometimes. I’m not in favor of like “Claude make a mod that does X for Elden Ring” sorta stuff, but if it can help modders, who already release all their hard work for free anyway, not have to do tedious things? I’m all for that. And a label makes it so people can choose if they want to use AI mods or not. So I think it’s a good way to handle it. Anyone that uses AI and doesn’t label it should be banned immediately tho.