While I agree with this, saddling a teenager with a potentially life-crippling $120k millstone of debt that can’t be discharged in bankruptcy and a criminal conviction that may make his employment prospects extremely difficult int he future for making a 1 on 1 snapchat joke via private message seems inordinately harsh?

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Nord did a thing about this a while back. Snapchat images/videos are e2e encrypted, but text isn’t.

https://people.com/gassy-passenger-farted-removed-from-flight-airplane-8548108

I would have thought that Snapchat would use SSL/end-to-end encryption for messaging, no? Does Snapchat send data in plain text that can be intercepted over Wifi?

Am I the only one who thinks this is really fucked up? The Lawyer is right, he didn’t make a public announcement, he didn’t cause a “public disorder”, they did that themselves by not taking context into account. Sure a message like this should maybe raise an alarm bell but quickly doing a background on the kid should…

“I’m on my way to blow up the plane (with farts)" would have landed better.

Came here to say this. I live in Maryland and my county has had a bag tax for over a decade, and I cannot remember the last time I saw a plastic bag dangling from a tree branch. Thanks to this article, now i know there’s at least 18 states I can visit if I really want to see that sight again. 

I organize annual cleanups of our local park and it’s incredible how few plastic bags we now pull out of the river or woods compared with the days before my state’s plastic bag ban. Now we need to address single-use plastic bottles and styrofoam cups, which seem to be everywhere :-(

Then AT&T locked in the iPhone into a 5 year exclusive. It took the jailbreakers to “free” the iphone, and create the first App store.  Which of course inspired Apple.

Only NFTs could make this thing less cool. 

If they carry their pone and this thing, then it didn’t fail. What people are likely to do is decide they don’t want to carry two things, and NOT carry this thing.

No one is going to use their phone less, they’re just going to end up carry their phone and this useless thing.  This is bound to fail.

So it makes using a phone less of a hassle by requiring you to carry yet another ‘phone’?

I call bullshit on them not storing user credentials. I bet that’s their marketing speak for “we won’t store your passwords.” But they are absolutely going to store access credentials (oauth keys etc) to make this system work. And therefore, your privacy will only be viable if you trust them to manage all your apps on…

this looks absolutely miserable.

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To actively make the change to something new, it needs to be *better* than what it is replacing.

it seems hilarious and unnecessary to carry TWO smart devices all the time. i already have a smart watch. so i now have to charge and carry three things with me?

To each their own I suppose, but this seems like a big answer for a problem that doesn’t exist. Are people really spending too much time on their phones ordering Ubers and making dinner reservations?

‘’ The R1 intends to work as a standalone device that lets you cut down on your phone usage’’