Pretty sure the beeper app is just a fork of element with added ui for interacting with different bridges.

It means that there was a sudden increase from several thousand users over a year or so to 2 million users in a month. Doesn't mean lemmy started 2 months ago. Just became more popular.

There's an android app. I think you have to download it from their website rather than the play store cos it is in beta.

Its currently available through the artemis.camp instance. I'm writing this with the Artemis app using the API. I believe Ernest had some personal stuff happening so the process to merge into the main instance is still ongoing.

What happens if you just send the example selfie instead of your own? Do they actually check it?

Shooting someone is not the only harm that can happen. There are countless assaults (domestic, sexual, verbal, etc) every year that occur due to extremism such as being an "incel". Also you sound paranoid and have offered no evidence what you say is true. If you really are being spied on by the government the only way to stop that is to destroy your electronic devices (drill holes in the harddrives), move as far as you can (preferably russia or china), and never post publicly on the internet again.

And even if you had the source code it may not necessarily qualify as open source.

Yeah nah, the US president makes 400k USD a year + benefits. That should be more than enough for any person.

If not, how much would you counteroffer?

If someone attempted to bribe me I would automatically assume their proposal was a bad idea.

It works, I've been using the bridge linked for about a month no issues so far.

It was an april fools joke that they left up for a couple of months. Don't think there was ever any explict content there.

Woah jetpacks are actually a thing now? Where do I get one?

Because someone can just host a CP instance and now that instance even if defederated from other instances still provides a safe space for pedophiles to share content and other illegal stuff.

If someone it stupid enough to publicly host CP on their own instance then I very much doubt they would be able to hide from the cops. If they are privately hosting illegal content then I don't think it really matters what software they are using.

Cool, so different smithing techniques wouldn't make much of a difference. It comes down to weight and thickness etc.

Well yes obviously in a fight the better trained soldier is more likely to win. My question was more aimed at whether the the smithing techniques used for a katana would result in a noticeable difference if using the same materials.

European swords outclass katanas due to steel quality but how would a katana made with modern high quality steel hold up?

Fdroid requires apps to be open source right? I believe Hariette has said they're open to that but there's still some work to do to clean it up etc. Also if you're on the discord server then there are links to 0.2.0 versions of the apk.

The API for kbin is currently under code review. When the review is finished other instances will update and become available.

How about hamsters and elderberries.

You can get prepaid sims which don't renew automatically. You can also find carrier's that allow you to cancel whenever no extra charge.

The cheapest option would be to just buy a cheap sim and verify the number with discord then throw the sim in the bin.