this sounds more interesting ☞ https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2025/may/22/the-extraordinary-promise-of-gene-editing-podcast

Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in early infancy. Ian Sample explains to Madeleine Finlay how this new therapy works and how it paves the way for even more complex gene editing techniques. David Liu, a professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the inventor of these therapies, also describes the barriers that could prevent them reaching patients, and how he thinks they can be overcome.

I’d just like to have to trim my nails less frequently

i used to think like you, then i started (ab)using my hands for activities that wear them out. Now i’m glad that they’re growing sufficiently fast to replace/renew

There’s nothing uncontroversial about human genetic modification.
It’s a pandora’s box that just shouldn’t be opened.

writes the person who isn’t suffering because of a genetic disorder or met anybody suffering from a genetic disorder

☞ “unless you want to really learn to “self host”.”

apart from syncthing not being a backup solution, the question revolves around seldhosting im general, not purely on photo backup.

☞ “Mainly for photo storage backup.”

also, this is from syncthing-fork tips

for “photo storage backup”, you can simply use syncthing.

unless you want to really learn to “self host”

easiest way is to use the convert option in VLC

source?

not that i care about alien finger numbers but i care about that person who is so obsessive that they made this list

👆

install netGuard and lockdown both wifi and mobile data.

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/

https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.netguard

yes, it reboots without play services. You may need to execute the code again after an update (when not only disabled bloat is reinstalled but often new bloatware too is pushed without your consent)

the other comment above mine covers your other questions

i used this on many phones from different brands. It may break some apps (that can be replaced with foss alternatives) but it never bricked any phone. 🤷

there are communities on xdaforums.com or xda-developers.com for specific models where you can find more detailed information

afaik, yes. this disables play services, as well as store (vending)

easiest way to stop that ☞

pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gsf
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.ims
pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.vending

http://duck.ai/ maybe?

waterfox seems to have a partnership with ecosia which shares your information with microsoft

maybe it “is not publicly accessible” for browsers and fDroid or droid-ify has permissions to connect to it as a repository.

did you try “add repository”?

you can also add https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox to obtainium.

works for me 🤔

you can give sites some slack from settings > ironfox settings

more info ☞ https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/blob/dev/docs/FAQ.md

ironfox + ublock
fDroid repository = https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo

firefox klar
for sites that i don’t visit regularly which need java & cookies
fDroid guardianProject repository = https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo