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   Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 11:19:23 JST Eleanor Saitta

   I guess it's a nice distraction from everything else being shit to get an Android security update that completely breaks my house audio distribution system in a way that's going to require hardware purchases to fix.

   Phones were an even bigger mistake than the web was.

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     Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 11:19:42 JST Eleanor Saitta

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     Context: you used to be able to cast the full screen on Android and when you locked the phone, it would just keep sending audio. Power usage was surprisingly low, and on a closed network, it's not really a big worry otherwise. Originally I used the Chromecast audio, and then a regular Chromecast with an audio extractor or a Wiim box. Now, when you lock your phone it stops casting. There are other options to get some individual apps to send audio data to the Chromecast with big caveats (Spotify loses track volume normalization, for instance), but nothing if you want everything without having to switch things manually. SonoBus will probably work, but now I need to buy new hardware to run it on if I want it independent of my laptop and running straight into the mixer.

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     Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 13:55:20 JST Dan Gillmor

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     The only reason Gabbard -- a horrendously bad choice to run intelligence -- is in trouble with (some) Republicans is that she correctly refuses to call Snowden a traitor.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 13:55:20 JST Rich Felker

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     @dangillmor Snowden wasn't a traitor for his whistleblowing but he kinda is for subsequently aiding Putin & Trump.